Let's Talk Battle Rap

Ryan O'Leary. Author of #Bars Battle Rap History book, joins the show again to continue to talk about the book and the first few chapters. We discuss multiple eras, Greatest battles, culture shifting moments, Freestyle Era vs Written, Impact of DVD scene and much moreGet yourself of a copy of this amazing book !Aye Big Gerald(10:00) Freestyle vs Written(24:00) Reflecting on Jin's Legacy(36:00) Battle Rap Mount Rushmore(47:00) Arsonal Ranking(1:10) Urban Battles vs Back pack(1:35) Documenting History & Casual fans(1:55) The risk of Freestyling(2:17)

France & Program V review the total leaderboards for a brief discussion on Total Views/Highest Averaged Views & Most Battles.We discuss Over & Under for most million view battles. Major shoutouts to the Battle Rap Index for providing this data.

The First edition of the Deconstruct series began with dissecting Iron Solomon's rounds for Rum Nitty. His return to URL after 5 years, in a small room environment, put Iron in a position to succeed. The level of writing in this battle brought our attention to dig a little deeper within the content.

Cortez welcomes back to the show to do a deconstruction of his lyrics for some of his favorite rounds. The Battle Rap Transcriber from Genius, has joined the show to discuss what it was like to transcribe these lyrics and decipher them. Bridging the gap between the Battle Rap Lyrics Transcriber & The Lyricist.

The team gets to catch up with JB from the URL/WarReport Battle Cast. He is the sound man and responsible for the audio for a lot of the URL events. We speak about his background in battle rap, the rehearsal process of setting up events, Battle Rap in 2018, The emergence of new stars, The end of the Youtube Era. And much more !

France caught up with Top Ten at the RBE Press Conference and got the opportunity to talk with him about his early battle career, the eras of battle rap, the struggles of being an upcoming battler and the longevity of battling. 

We get the opportunity to interview the writer from the source who wrote the article "Aye Verb Takes it to Murda Mook on RBE" The Source released an article covering the RBE event with a very misleading title, and different writer decides to take a stand and write a new article for the event which was more suiting. The writer is from The Lesson an Australian Hip-hop outlet. Find out all the details behind this article ! and The source's coverage of battle rap. ReplyReply AllForwardEdit as new

Coach Bad Money joins France to draw some Plays for each battle.We go over the X's & O's for the keys to victory for each match, on the Money Talks Card from the Close Combat Battle League. All Battles being Judged by Champion & Jaz the Rapper. Danja Zone vs Nu Jerzey TworkBorn vs Chilla JonesMr Mill$ vs Payne

Program V gets to chop it up and chat with a few of the emcees that performed at the Brick by Brick event to get some of their feed back and thoughts on the night. Fresh off of the event being over. 

France, Program V & Bad Money in studio, Fresh off the RBE Brick by Brick Event. And give a Plus minus about the entire event and all of the battles that went down in the 2nd part of the Recap. Part 2 gives the Plus/Minuses of the rest of the card/Event

 France, Program V & Bad Money, Fresh off the RBE Brick by Brick Event. And give a recap, and Plus minus and talk about the entire event and the Return of Murda Mook. This is part 1 of the RecapPart 2 gives the Plus/Minuses of the rest of the card/Event 

The Let's Talk Battle Rap Team Is live a the RBE Brick by Brick Battler & Media Press Conference and they get to catch up with some of the emcees for quick questions and discussions for a live effect recap of the Press Conference. Talks with Murda Mook, Drect, King Los, & Spanish Harlem.

In light of E-hart battle coming up with Ms. Miami, We have decided to start emptying out the vault of throwback interviews we have tucked away. E-hart was the first female to be interviewed for the show A Female Battle rap Pioneer talks about her performances, her resume, the state of female battle rap, The Ms hustle battle and much more

Coach Bad Money joins Coach France & Coach V to draw some Plays, and go over the X's and O's for the keys to victory for every battle on the Brick By Brick RBE Card headlining Murda Mook vs Aye Verb 

In the Middle of Recording We get the Breaking news that Geechi Gotti Has won his third Champion Of the Night. The first Emcee to win COTN 3XGeechi Gotti Resembling the 2000/20001/2002 Lakers. 

Friend of the show Bad Money Joins in to discuss to give a round of Pluses and Minus regarding all of the Performances of Summer Madness, biggest takeaways, in-depth detail break down, and much more. Red and Will(3:00) Geechi vs Suge(19:00) DNA vs Twork(27:00)Tay Roc vs Hitman(37:00)

The Lets Talk Battle Rap Team has a friend of the show, Melodic who is a street poet and author join the show.In the Deconstruction series we print out Battle Round Lyrics Kudos to Tim Nelson from Genius.com for the transcription. Twork's Third round vs Verb is one of the best rounds this year. We dive into what made this round so special. We break down Battles/Rounds line for line with the Rounds transcribed and printed out in front of us. And Read through it.

The League owner of Bar Fight Battle League Hunnit K joins the show to talk about his past event with Award vs Geechi Gotti. Gives a brief +/- of the battle, and his background in setting up battles and organizing events, his affiliation with URL. And Much more.

Coach Bad Money joins Coach France & Coach V to draw some Plays, and go over the X's and O's for the keys to victory for every battle on Summer Madness 7.

France, Program V & Bad Money Discuss who are their picks to win Champion of the Night/ Who is Favored to win Champion and who is a dark horse pick. & Predicts who will wear the Al Capone Shirt.