Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track But the best stuff is a wonder unto itself, as it transplants the unique personas of these artists into a completely new sonic space.”īelow, you’ll find some of the best work from battle rappers available on Bandcamp. “To be honest,” Kwei admits, “it mostly is.
That said, an unfortunate cliché persists in the battling community, one that holds that battlers’ music is terrible. Both Rag’n’Bone Man and Rizzle (Rizzle Kicks) made pre-fame appearances on Don’t Flop, the U.K.’s largest battle rap league where Ed Sheeran once participated as a judge. Nowhere is this clearer than in the U.K., which has a history of industry rappers who have risen through the battle rap format to transition into the music industry proper. “This profound commitment from each engenders a fervent passion, which unsurprisingly has led to battle rap continuing to spread like wildfire.”Īside from this, the scene is producing a host of musicians who play festivals and headline tours. “I feel that battle rap’s mind-bogglingly deep culture derives partly from the level of dedication demanded of both participant and fan alike,” he says. Tom Kwei, founder of Battle Rap Resume, has been following and chronicling this phenomenon.
The culture has both an infrastructure and a following that belies its niche nature-there are hundreds of battle rap leagues in more than 50 countries, several feature-length films and documentaries dedicated to the subject, and wrestling-style commentary media (including the excellent Battle Rap Resume and Sarcasm City).
Nowadays, battle rap has become its own entity on an international scale.
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Battling is often seen as a stepping stone for up-and-coming MCs, a necessary trial by fire to test their mettle before they go into the recording studio. Busy Bee often cited as the earliest example. Needless to say, its history goes much deeper than Eminem in 8 Mile while that film was set in Detroit’s gritty slums circa 1995, the origins of the rap battle stretch back over a decade prior, with Kool Moe Dee vs. Call it what you will, but battle rap has grown into a wildly popular form of live entertainment worldwide.
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