Overall the Team Homi guys are actually the coolest in real life. My main knock on them, is they weren't doing enough to help each other refine their battle rap talents. But otherwise I see how battlers gravitate towards them. Plus if you come to NYC to battle and you don't need a hotel, I can imagine you can negotiate a couple more dollars, no?
If you clique up with Surf, he will constantly remind people that you are under him. Not sure if he does that in behind closed door interactions, but he sure as hell does it whenever he knows there is a camera or a mic present.
Well, you gotta think though, they never get the looks they should overall get in battle rap yet they are one of the original teams in it. I feel like they did get kind of left out of a lot of conversations in battle rap when they are the truest team around aside from SONS.
I don't think you're getting it. I think the St. Louis dudes are super talented as well, at their best, I prefer them to at least half your list. But the fact that all of the talent in St. Louis is simultaneously on the shaky grounds within the battle rap culture is unprecedented.
You can't say that about Detroit, Marv, Quest & Cal are all on the upswing right now. Miles is kinda washed, but he's getting looks and people are saying he beat Verb in their rematch.
Can't say that about Harlem, Head Ice & Swave on the upswing. Rex and Shine are getting talked about a lot, because they may battle.
Can't say that about Jersey, Surf might have humbled himself a little over the course of this year, but Arsonal, Serius Jones, Suge and possibly Jai are on the upswing. Plus people are raving about this Nu Jersey Twork dude.
As far as Cali talent, Daylyt and B. Dot are on the upswing.
But look at the St. Louis guys, Hitman is trending up in real life, but all those guys are trending down within battle rap.
I left Detroit out of the convo because of that. Not too many of them have some mishaps except for a few.
Head ICE and Swave are two of my favorites so of course I can't say them. Rex and Shine battling? Yes. But have they both been on their A-game? Eh, give or take now this year.
Arsonal is about to retire it seems. Serius is redeeming himself more. Suge is still on his shyt but he took some debatable losses, imo, but not as bad as he did before. Jai is definitely on the come up I give you that
B. Dot is the homie so nothing but love for that man. Daylyt is really rapping so I give you that.
I guess my thing is, we have had nikkas fukking up if not long before or right at the same along with these guys from different regions; and I'm not even from STL but they did put the fukk on for their region. If anything, I wouldn't be surprised if Hitman made a major move with Verb and some big things happened. Who knows what'll happen.
They're not innocent but they're right to block the battle in this case. The grudge match was born on URL, so why would they let another league book it and ruin it. They're not low balling Hitman, he's just overvaluing himself.
If they didn't book it right when they blocked it, they're still wrong. Matter of fact, there should be a clause for leagues blocking battles with a certain amount of days to book the battle, imo. Hitman knows what he brings to the table. Should he meet SMACK URL in the middle with what they want? Of course. But if cooler heads can't put the battle together, Hitman went and got it damn near done by himself.
And the man's name is SMACK.
nobody is scared of a Jersey dude gettin gassed in NY