Essential The Official Battle Rap Random Thoughts Thread (URL, KOTD, UW etc...)

[Rasille]

From how it was presented, even by shine. They in the right imo. Basically they paid his full money for battles, but the battles didnt happen due to the opponents(lyt, jackboy iirc). They straight up said if Shine paid the money back, they would let him go. Or he could do the battles he owes. Shine said Remy and other celebs offered to pay URL what he owed, but he wouldnt let them. Shine believes that since he not the reason the battles didnt happen, he doesnt owe URL anything.

What also muddies the waters is Shine called smack a bytch and threatened to put hands on him. That's when smack said shine banned from all URL events.

They booked Daylyt? They should’ve known better. But I remember the Jakkboy shyt. Neither of those were Shine’s fault. He showed up and was prepared. Usually when a battle rapper shows up and their opponent no shows. The other battler gets their bread regardless.

 

[EzekelRAGE]

They booked Daylyt? They should’ve known better. But I remember the Jakkboy shyt. Neither of those were Shine’s fault. He showed up and was prepared. Usually when a battle rapper shows up and their opponent no shows. The other battler gets their bread regardless.

Ehh, seems like that's not the case with the long term contracts like shine signed. Actually you know what. I may have messed up one detail about the payment, Shine's shyt was set up weird and a special case. He was getting paid monthly, not per battle. iirc he said it was for 5 battles. Lyt was pose to be his first opponents and the other names were blank. For those 5 battles he was gonna get like 150. He either got half up front and the rest spread over monthly payments for the duration of the contract or all of it spread over monthly payments for the duration. I'll try to find the vid.

 

[Rasille]

Ehh, seems like that's not the case with the long term contracts like shine signed. Actually you know what. I may have messed up one detail about the payment, Shine's shyt was set up weird and a special case. He was getting paid monthly, not per battle. iirc he said it was for 5 battles. Lyt was pose to be his first opponents and the other names were blank. For those 5 battles he was gonna get like 150. He either got half up front and the rest spread over monthly payments for the duration of the contract or all of it spread over monthly payments for the duration. I'll try to find the vid.

He got his money, spent the bread then basically had to show up and battle for free (technically not free but you get my point)

 

[EzekelRAGE]

He got his money, spent the bread then basically had to show up and battle for free (technically not free but you get my point)

Yea basically. Here's the video where he breaks it down what he can.
The part where he says he got paid monthly after a lump sum is at 1:35. He talks about almost everything. 5 battle contract, took a chunk upfront while having the rest paid monthly. He basically set it up this way because he didnt trust himself with that much money at one time. Says Lyt was first battle and didnt happen. Also they offered him battles, he refused them. If he wanted a sayso on who he battled, he shouldnt have signed the long term deal with 4 blanks in there.


"Im in texas they not fukking with me" You went into one of the biggest states/cities known for lean drinking and shyt on lean drinkers.
That's like Rock whining about the crowd in NC/SC when he battled Swamp and talked shyt about country ppl/eating racc00n

 

[lyrical professor]

Nitty is battling Saynt in 3 days, how you battle Lux 2 weeks ago, and still taking lil nyggas



That reminds me.... @Reptile

JC will never battle Lux at this point, it's too late. Not because he doesn't deserve it, he's literally battled just about everybody already. Its only Eazy, Hollow, maybe Verb left out of the big names to get the Lux campaign going again. He shouldn't even bring it up anymore, but here we are lmao.

 

[MicIsGod]

Need proof that jc shows up vs someone on that level before him and lux is interesting for a reason other than seeing him get killed.

 

[superchoops]

got an email that Caffeine is shutting down

nice knowin ya

 

[EzekelRAGE]

got an email that Caffeine is shutting down

nice knowin ya

Yea, site goes to a shutting down msg.

 

[T-K-G]

got an email that Caffeine is shutting down

nice knowin ya

twitch is undefeated, these dummies fell for the "new video streaming service" scam that comes around every 2 years

You got regular ass people literally making over a mil on twitch but nah they wanted URL be all over the front page so they had to work with some no name business instead that ended up folding anyway


When will these nikkas learn to stop posturing tryna be bigger than what they are, battlers coulda went way farther with twitch pages than some fukking caffeine

 

[T-K-G]

Nitty is battling Saynt in 3 days, how you battle Lux 2 weeks ago, and still taking lil nyggas



That reminds me.... @Reptile

JC will never battle Lux at this point, it's too late. Not because he doesn't deserve it, he's literally battled just about everybody already. Its only Eazy, Hollow, maybe Verb left out of the big names to get the Lux campaign going again. He shouldn't even bring it up anymore, but here we are lmao.

At this point I think these nikkas just want Lux to write 3 rounds about them, it's not about winning or losing they're just super fans of this nikka

 

[EzekelRAGE]

When will these nikkas learn to stop posturing tryna be bigger than what they are, battlers coulda went way farther with twitch pages than some fukking caffeine

tbf, apparently caffeine was paying them to be on there, they wasnt doing it for free. IIRC it was a nice lil grip of change. Ez brought it up when he had his issue with URL. Said thats how battlers like Ace etc were eating when they werent booked.

 

[superchoops]

twitch is undefeated, these dummies fell for the "new video streaming service" scam that comes around every 2 years

You got regular ass people literally making over a mil on twitch but nah they wanted URL be all over the front page so they had to work with some no name business instead that ended up folding anyway


When will these nikkas learn to stop posturing tryna be bigger than what they are, battlers coulda went way farther with twitch pages than some fukking caffeine

nah this whole thing happened because Drake seemingly brokered a deal between Caffeine and URL. They were throwing money at the battlers, too for what it's worth

it was unsustainable, but it was a good lil bag while it lasted for the battlers. They were even paying battlers for content

 

[FreshAIG]

got an email that Caffeine is shutting down

nice knowin ya

 

[T-K-G]

nah this whole thing happened because Drake seemingly brokered a deal between Caffeine and URL. They were throwing money at the battlers, too for what it's worth

it was unsustainable, but it was a good lil bag while it lasted for the battlers. They were even paying battlers for content

tbf, apparently caffeine was paying them to be on there, they wasnt doing it for free. IIRC it was a nice lil grip of change. Ez brought it up when he had his issue with URL. Said thats how battlers like Ace etc were eating when they werent booked.

It's not worth anything because anyone with any internet sense knew caffeine wasn't beating twitch at nothin, they were losing money tryna buy content, meanwhile twitch is still there and you had access to WAY more people, who was logging into caffeine casually besides battle rap fans? Nobody thinks long term in battle rap for some reason

Random idea: Them nikkas coulda made bank running a GTA roleplay situation like tee grizzly, the game literally has everything battle rap fans think about anyway, could've had 1 round battles right before a shootout amongst other fukkery

shyt tbf a blogger or someone with the time to set it up could still do that now, all these nikkas just be sitting there on the phone anyway for hours doing nothing.


Another example of short sightedness in battle rap

 

[EzekelRAGE]

It's not worth anything because anyone with any internet sense knew caffeine wasn't beating twitch at nothin, they were losing money tryna buy content, meanwhile twitch is still there and you had access to WAY more people, who was logging into caffeine casually besides battle rap fans? Nobody thinks long term in battle rap for some reason

Random idea: Them nikkas coulda made bank running a GTA roleplay situation like tee grizzly, the game literally has everything battle rap fans think about anyway, could've had 1 round battles right before a shootout amongst other fukkery

shyt tbf a blogger or someone with the time to set it up could still do that now, all these nikkas just be sitting there on the phone anyway for hours doing nothing.


Another example of short sightedness in battle rap

The stuff you talking about takes grinding though. You just dont get the subs/donations/ad revenue just from being on there day 1. Caffeine was offering like salaried shyt for the streaming. It didnt matter if they had 10 viewers on caffeine, they were getting paid just to stream. They wasnt passionate about streaming so they wouldnt have been with the grind of a twitch. They just saw caffeine as an easy bag. It was a nice bag too cuz Eazy was bytching about URL telling caffeine to take it from him when they split.

You right there is an avenue for them with twitch though. All of them gun bars and shyt will hit on GTA where they can actually show them. Imagine somebody getting cooked in a battle and start a shootout cuz he losing.
Tay rock may actually fight in a GTA server