How Battle Rap Took Over the Internet

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Arthur "L.A." Buckner and Linda Diaz explore the rich history of battle rap and the birth of the Ultimate Rap League (URL). Featuring special guests Smack White, DNA, and Arsonal, we dive deep into the roots of this art form and its cultural significance.
Starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s, we explore the evolution of rap battles from Harlem parties to worldwide competitions, culminating in the formation of the Ultimate Rap League in 2009. Smack White, the founder of URL, shares his journey and vision for the league, while DNA and Arsonal, two of the most respected and talented battle rappers in the game, give us a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to succeed in this highly competitive art form.
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00:00 The world of battle rap
01:46 The predecessors to battle rap
02:24 The origins of rap battles
03:47 Famous Hip Hop beefs
04:30 The rise of Hip Hop festivals like Scribble Jam
05:00 The start of Smack DVDs
07:26 Battle rap makes it to streaming and RU-vid
09:20 The rules of battle rap
11:20 Battle rap's misconceptions
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16 июн 2024

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@mattlobo13 Год назад

was scrolling tiktok live the other day and came across a stream of a huge battle in Brazil. didn't understand a word but they were going hard and the portuguese flow is so slick

@williedynamyte Год назад

Kool Moe Dee is one of the Godfather of battle rap. Salute!

@Jayblac1615 Год назад

Hi. Dope interview and salute to the gawd Smack. I'm actually the creator of Champion Of The Year, and it's not specifically just for URL. Geechi is The 3x Champion of Battle Rap in it's entirety. 8:28 Just a slight correction.

@traplover6357 Год назад

PBS featuring Takeover vs Ether like an academic history lesson is both surreal but also needed 😂👍

@voxextremos22 Год назад

Aesop Rock and El P were battle rappers. So we’re other underground rappers like Slug, Sage Francis and Brother Ali

@BlackIndigenousPosse Год назад

And Eyedea, shown in the video at 4:40. He was god-tier and absolutely smoked everyone at Scribble Jam in 1999, then did the same thing at the Blaze Battle in 2000. Same label as Brother Ali, and Brother Ali knocked him out of Scribble Jam in 2000.

@ktbecstasy Год назад

So is me

@Chandasouk Год назад

Smack DVD was my gateway to it. Then we had Grind time on RU-vid and Rare Breed was good too.

@swujawn7463 Год назад

one of the best series on youtube

@cubicle7535 Год назад

That seatbelt line will stay legendary for years to come!

@therealturph948 2 месяца назад

Facts!! Tay Roc is a certified legend 🔥🔥🔥

@ChiefRifa Год назад

This channel was made for me 🔥🔥🔥

@ktbecstasy Год назад

Fr bro, just discovered it tonight

@WAKN___ Год назад

Awesome! I love this channel!

@madenda9972 Год назад

Man, I was really looking forward to LA and Linda battling at the end.

@johnchiu Год назад

My name is J and I’m here to say, I love to watch Sound Field, ev-ery-day. Ha-HAH-ha-HAH-HA

@chiptoothtech4937 Год назад

AWESOME EPISODE !!!!!

@TaliaOutwrong Год назад

I love every episode you make!

@frofoodie7763 Год назад

No rap battle between the hosts??

@barzguitarz1039 11 месяцев назад

I think you all did a great job covering the bullet points of the evolution of battle rap. For added context (and in some ways the bridge between url and kotd) I would suggest watching “Minnesota Luke’s” “rise and fall of grind time”…grind time being a league predating kotd.

@c-wordplay Год назад

Glad to see battle rap getting talked about like this 👏🏾

@deJanglez Год назад

i love this show

@TIENxSHINHAN 11 месяцев назад

1:46 when she "ancient times", I was half expecting her to talk about European spoken word traditions. A lot of the time, people try to shoehorn European culture into hip hop's history even though it's almost completely unrelated. It was a pleasant surprise to see that hip hop's African history was centered and not the vague, nearly nonexistent connections it has to European poetic traditions.

@QNPMEDIA Год назад

Great episode! But how y'all didn't mention LL?! He had some crazy battles

@Beryllahawk Год назад

Fantastic video! I am very much a nerd, so hearing y'all mention Epic Rap Battles of History made me really excited. It's so great to understand just how these battles developed from the "dozens" to what it is now. My own experiences with this kind of thing are extremely white (and nerdy) - DLA and a couple other British artists. But the examples you show in here are every bit as exciting and funny-vicious as what I've heard before! I think my own favorite sorts of battles are the ones where clearly everyone is having a good time, but I can see where the appeal is in the more aggressive performance style. People really yelling at each other, real life arguing, is horrendously upsetting for me, I can't stand it, so watching that kind of battle would be a little TOO intense, but I have a ton of respect for all the men and women who can take that heat AND dish out as good as they get. It's a talent and a gift, and they are simply amazing!

@BantuOtaku Год назад

Aye 💖💖💖 back again with another banger!

@justindyra1360 Год назад

Such a great video! In Battle Rap you need to know the lore. I always tell people to really understand one battle you have have seen at least ten more to really get the full context of just the one battle. Great video for getting your feet wet, now jump in.

@collins_channel8643 Год назад

Great episode

@therealturph948 2 месяца назад

As an upcoming battle rapper, I had to tap into the history out of respect for the art and culture 💪🏿💯

@BrianGlaze Год назад

Dope history

@socialmatrix8752 Год назад

Great video

@sadiesonntag1610 Год назад

You all are at the FRONT. Keep it coming!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@gabriellesudal9004 Год назад

Another dope vid🔥 Would luh to see yall do a vid on the pioneers of female hiphop n interviewin em. Or better yet, since there's so many- a series focused on female hiphop would b dope! Mc Sha Rock, Roxanne Shante, The Sequence, Lady B, Sparky D, The Real Roxanne, Sweet Tee, Finesse & Synquis, Wee Papa Girls, Antoinette, Ms.Melodie, Monie Love, Ladybug Mecca, Gangsta Boo, Eve, Yoyo, Foxy, etc. etc. the list goes on.. AND then u could also talk bout female battle rap actually, n more in depth! Ur female audience would luh the representation, education, n insight!

@Merlincat007 Год назад

This is great! I learned a lot! Just a quick note: the audio levels are pretty different between some of the recordings of you guys and the rest of the video

@thenopasslook Год назад

love battle rap

@thomp9054 Год назад

I like how this show has some Bill Nye the science guy vibes

@TheNROofficial Год назад

So glad to see Scribble Jam getting recognized, but I really wish they talked about Eyedea instead of just showing pictures. Still great to see though.

@sundeeppathak8346 Год назад

Love this bro. But I'd argue that there have been more successful haymakers earlier than Tay's seatbelt line (although that was legendary)

@rillloudmother Год назад

linda diaz = pure fire.

@ghostlightning Год назад

Nice shout out to Flip Top~

@ktbecstasy Год назад

That Crocodile bar underrated fr👏👏

@Koedean Год назад

Very well put together, i learnt alot. Ive watched a fair few Australian battles but its always good to know the origins of why things exist.

@LuckyNice19 Год назад

what aussie battles you like?

@Koedean Год назад

@@LuckyNice19this one is really good. Kogz is a beast with all music he does. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6KO-dQ5GB5k.html

@thedeeprot Год назад

👍👍👍

@socialmatrix8752 Год назад

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@girlsnotblue3804 Год назад

.the scene is really weird now because of how youtube is, smack took his league from youtube to the app, kotd is primarily on twitch so alot of my friends and casual fans are still commin here confused waiting for the latest drop and eventually just fallin off with watching all together

@V.O.Y.S. Год назад

Shout out to elements league and grind time. RIP to Pat Stay.

@homieverbs Год назад

Do a study where yahll get good rappers to rap in a MRI machine let’s see what’s going on onna brain synapse level with these word associations and sentence construction and all that …I wanna see THAT data yo

@MooImABunny Год назад

In Israel we have a theater group called The Incubator, some of their most famous productions are their rap musicals. They have a rap musical, תיכון מגשימים (Magshimim highschool*) which is pretty much Karate Kid, but with battle rap instead of karate. It's really great. the main character, Yoav gets bullied by the popular kid with battle raps, the training montages with the old master are about getting better diction and mastering wordplay, he wins over the popular girl by battle rapping a robber away. I'm just outlining the hooks of the show, but the plot is great and well written, and the music is all rap with a little bit of rock. love it * you could translate it as "fulfilling" highschool, but it's just a place name, so it's better to call it Magshimim.

@QNPMEDIA Год назад

So no original ideas... yikes

@gamlerik1 Год назад

SkeezTV!

@homieverbs Год назад

The hosts people did a good job but hire some rappers to do there parts….but it’s a beautiful piece all in all tho kudos PBS !

@exaucemayunga22 Год назад

I wonder why most battle raps today don't use beats anymore

@glenforde.bridgeton-wood8875 Год назад

👍🏿

@8teenOfficial Год назад

Fliptop should have been added here too

@blackice3395 Год назад

Brizz Rawsteen was my favorite!

@noeldoesthings Год назад

2:28 G E K O L O N I S E E R D

@m3vm3 11 месяцев назад

Battle rapper ar the best lyricist

@ReinaldoCrespo Год назад

No mention of Grindtime. SMH!

@johnykilroy5521 Год назад

I just wrote that. Grindtime was the beginning in 2006, when smack was still seeking CDs at Subzero.... Straight disrespect

@rhunt12 Год назад

Never one word about Flyting which is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often conducted in verse. This was practiced from the 5th -16th centuries in Modern Celtic, Old English, Middle English and Norse literature.

@MatthewHiltner Год назад

Hey.... aren't you the same guy who did the bar breakdowns? I watched most if not all of them quite some time ago, but it was the Aesop Rock one that introduced me to your(?) channel.

@Darth_Man_X Год назад

Sage francis and Brother Ali

@derrickhatten597 Год назад

No mention of "Grind Time"?

@johnykilroy5521 Год назад

How do you mention battle rap, mention URL but don't mention Grindtime? Grindtime was the medium before URL starting large booking. C'mon Son

@DjNikGnashers Год назад

Love battle rap. but it should always be live and freestyle. When it's on wax it's pre-written and loses it's cleverness.

@ktbecstasy Год назад

Fax bro

@Aih_0 Год назад

That seatbelt line was tough. But I think people sleep on that Tori Doe “when the remote not working” line.

@tyizzle80 Год назад

You kind of look like Future Bro

@ktbecstasy Год назад

Future's past

@MIXPRO68 Год назад

ENJOYED THIS BUT U LEFT OUT A WELL KNOWN AND ANNUAL BATTLE THAT OCURRED AS A PART OF THE NEW MUSIC SEMINAR GATHERING DURING THE MID 80'S TO THE EARLY 90'S-THERE WAS A TOURNAMENT WHERE THEY HAD AN MC/DJ BATTLE FOR WORLD SUPREMACY AND THOSE THAT WON WOULD TAKE HOME A GOLD TITLE BELT.I WENT TO THE 1988 TO 1990 BATTLES.YOU HAVE RAPPERS LIKE MELLE MEL,LORD FINESSE AND EVEN TREACH(NAUGHTY BY NATURE) THAT ENTERED THESE BATTLES

@goldenlion8123 Год назад

NO MENTION OF MC SHAN AND KRS ONE IS BLASPHEMOUS..

@ktbecstasy Год назад

Fr, The bridge is Over is top 5 diss tracks of all time imo

@jameskelton6579 Год назад

There was no on wax battle between BIG and Pac. At least not on BIGs end.

@ktbecstasy Год назад

Big had some sneak disses here n there And also what started the whole debacle was Biggie's Who shot Ya

@PhatLvis Год назад

Rap became popular because of flow, and - more important - Beats. WHAT was being said was almost irrelevant in the Golden Age - it was about HOW you said it, and how dope your beat was. To focus exclusively on so-called battle rap - abstracted from any music behind the rhymes - is something Other Than hip-hop. Was the Sugar Hill Gang saying something really explosive and revolutionary? No. But their Song, Rapper's Delight, was. Battle rappers have lost touch with flow and rhythm - the hallmarks of all great rap; just as words to a melodic song should be heard as simply another instrument going toward making up the Music of the song, rappers' rhymes should complement/emphasize/enhance the beat. Anything else might as well be slam poetry Open Mic night. The modern focus on rhymes over music in rap has wrought catastrophic effects, mostly in the form of lame/cookie-cutter/uninspiring tracks.

@TheDutchVegaShow Год назад

This is completely false.. 1000% false.. grandmaster flash and the furious five had the message which was literally about what was being SAID vs the beat driving it.. hiphop moves wit the times.. u haven’t and that’s fine but don’t ask ppl who love the culture and push it FORWARD that WE doing something wrong.. that’s incorrect.. YOU the stagnant listener who refuses to move with the times is in the wrong sir