AYE VERB ERUPTS: HOW BATTLE RAP DROVE ITS BIGGEST STARS INSANE!

[00:00:00]iced tea. He's like, "Yo, man." It's just how he talk. Yo, man. He was like, "Man, listen, man. We I ain't" He said, "You see out there, man, I got the Grape Street Watts, man. I got the He's like, "Yo, man." He's He's naming all that.

[00:00:13]He's naming all of them. They all in They all out there. He's like, "Listen, man. I ain't got no beep at y'all, man.

[00:00:19]You Let's go kill some cops." He says that.

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[00:00:25]I don't serve a dime in my flow. It's all [music] bricks bricks. segment is taken from a live space within the battle rap community. This discussion is part of an ongoing conversation and reaction [music] surrounding current events in the culture. We're presenting this with added context for reporting commentary and cultural documentation.

[00:00:45]Now, here's what was said. The stories we tell y'all, like from the way this [ __ ] started, the authentic feel when I tell y'all you could smell the pressure in the air at these battles. Like it wasn't like that [ __ ] wasn't like this though. It was like you could you could walk in a room. The air was tight.

[00:01:07]You was literally in a pit and you had to prove yourself right then and there.

[00:01:12]You did not have long there. If you made a mistake, it cost you everything. So the our blood pressure was running so high, man. We are up from it. The first generation URL rapper is up from that [ __ ] and nobody's going to care. He is up.

[00:01:35]It's your fault, Beasley. It's your fault, Beasley. The first gener all the first generation, we all up. If you think about it, who ain't crazy? Who mother hoes who in the ain't crazy from the first generation?

[00:01:55]Should we not break that down?

[00:01:59]The first generation class of URL.

[00:02:03]Everybody is batshit crazy.

[00:02:07]Okay, let's start then.

[00:02:10]Wait a minute. Let me get let me get Rex right quick. Let me let me get Rex right quick.

[00:02:15]Hold on.

[00:02:17]I'mma show y'all the difference, right?

[00:02:19]And anybody tag a first generation guy, right?

[00:02:24]All of us are insanely dope because we saw the game on a stress setting that none of these have seen that on. Bro, y'all don't get it. We thought that the We thought they money we thought they money was their money out their pockets. So we treated it like that cuz we thinking we thinking [clears throat] all these come from where we come from. That's what we thinking. We we literally thinking these like us.

[00:02:55]So when so when they pay you we we performed at a higher clip because where we come from we know how hard it is to be like dishing out money and [ __ ] like that. That's how we started it. The pressure setting was too was way too high. Okay, let's let's start about it.

[00:03:14]Let's start.

[00:03:16]Let's think about it. First generation URL, guys. Y'all don't think Cortez up.

[00:03:24]Cortez is for show up. Cortez doesn't even speak that much. Do you notice that Cortez is sold up now? He don't even speak that much.

[00:03:34]Hollow is up.

[00:03:39]Arsenal is up.

[00:03:44]Verb.

[00:03:46]Let's continue.

[00:03:49]Sue Surf is up.

[00:03:54]Think y'all think. Think think. The people that walk that stage earlier mentally are up.

[00:04:01]All of us.

[00:04:05]Every last one of us DNA is up. K Shine is up. Miss Hustle is up. Jazz didn't even give up no [ __ ] till 24. She's stuck.

[00:04:20]She's stuck. Who can keep their legs closed that long? She's stuck.

[00:04:26]Shotgun Suge is up. He just got that skinny out of nowhere. That ain't all of us. Calico is up. Calico walks around in his own distorted world.

[00:04:36]Calico lives in his mind where he's this goddamn sultan in his mind. All of us is up.

[00:04:45]The non ain't up.

[00:04:48]Them news ain't up, man. Ain't nothing wrong with them.

[00:04:55]All of So, let's go through the list.

[00:05:00]Every one of us got a glitch because we we saw the game on a stress that was so unrealistic.

[00:05:11]MOO is up.

[00:05:13]Lux is up. Math is up. Who Who have I missed on?

[00:05:20]Who out of everybody I just named, who have I missed on? Big T is up.

[00:05:29]Am I lying?

[00:05:32]Every one of those guys has something wrong with them from that [ __ ] We don't even know what the side we don't we don't know. All of us are blown gaskets in our head because we thought we thought this [ __ ] was realer than what it was. We was we was actually thinking this was some [ __ ] that everybody was growing out the ground and that wasn't the case. We was we was tricked. And some of these can still be tricked because they they fighting for survival. It became like, man, all of us need medicine, man. Them we need ain't nothing wrong with you, non man.

[00:06:13]You That's up Beasley.

[00:06:15]You You That's up Beasley. It was you.

[00:06:19]You That's up man.

[00:06:21]The The pressure, the stress, the the the mental gymnastics, the the lies, the back doors, the the setups, all of playing youth. That's up Beasley.

[00:06:36]Every one of us is gone in the mind.

[00:06:39]Ain't none of them functioning like who the who is, man. That [ __ ] will queue up. And you new that's doing it. You aspiring [ __ ] you ain't going to never get there anyway. It's going to f up. Tag doc. It's gonna you up. Nothing you can do about it. Ain't nothing even wrong with you, man.

[00:07:01]It's something wrong with all of us because of that [ __ ] man. We need medicine, man, man. Bro, mentally, our thoughts are are man, I was talking to Rex recently and he felt this the sorry in my voice and I felt it in his like, damn, this [ __ ] got mine up. Yes. Why wouldn't it? Okay, if we was boxers, right, and we've been boxing 20 years on a high level, guess what? Our hands will be up. We might speak with with slurred speeches.

[00:07:38]The [ __ ] that we did is unrealistic, man. You You should never have that much anxiety and pressure and carry it. We learned to walk and carry that [ __ ] and it cost us in the end. Lux don't seem like he's strange to y'all. Why all this from the first? We all We all strange, man. Man, Beasley, what's up, man?

[00:08:03]What's up, man? You man, [snorts and clears throat] man. What's up, man?

[00:08:12]Can't nobody argue nothing I just said.

[00:08:14]So then our minds is so warped, right? We start to think it's war with each other because they set you on war. So what they do is they mentally set your mind to dislike somebody.

[00:08:30]For seven for 20 years of our lives, we've been nothing but machines getting operated the way that they need you to operate them. Cuz quite naturally, if you steady with somebody, he is going to flip out or something.

[00:08:44]Like they knew the whole time they tap danced in your mind, man.

[00:08:50]You knew that. That's why y'all could have two jobs, work at Walmart and and all [ __ ] like that, man. We couldn't do our minds wouldn't even let us think outside of that [ __ ] Y'all got so much convenience, man. Y'all ain't even up, man. When y'all when y'all do it this long, man, you your your mind will shut down, man.

[00:09:13]Everybody I named is still up, man.

[00:09:16]These are most of these are 40 year old gang bangers, man. Most of them. Think about that. They still are the minds are trapped into who they was 20 years ago.

[00:09:26]And you can't come out that [ __ ] You can't Man, that [ __ ] is Man, you crazy.

[00:09:30]Ain't no Ain't no way. So the side effect from that [ __ ] causes more problems cuz everybody handles Everybody handles pressure in the mind differently. You know what I'm saying?

[00:09:41]So certain people can function with a bunch of chaos until you can't no more.

[00:09:46]Then then you're going to blow a gasket.

[00:09:47]It's your brain is the motor of your body. We burn our brain down. We smash that. We take our we step on the gas in our minds. We should not have to remember that much [ __ ] with that much pressure, with that much anxiety and that much stress. Hey, y'all can show y'all face cuz guess what? This ain't applying to you [ __ ] You you talentless thumbs. You ain't even writing. You just thumbs. That's all you is. You ain't Y'all ain't gonna have no problem. This This don't This [ __ ] don't apply to y'all. It Why everybody is short triggered. All of us are. I'm not I'm not excluding.

[00:10:24]If you walk that first line of URL right now, present day, you are mentally up. And we can go all the way down the list. There is some kind of mental exchange that's off with every last one of us. And then they can set you to hate somebody forever. Your mind is up, man.

[00:10:47]Everybody has a side effect from their mind blowing the gasket. Like, okay.

[00:10:52]Like when Arsenal mind blow a gasket, he starts selling plates outside. That's a gasket blow, man. That's a That's when your mind says, "All right, you know what? I'm f to do." That's not normal [ __ ] We all have abnormal thought patterns that run through our mind. Like I used to think before like good [ __ ] start happening like back to back for me. I used to have very graphic thoughts about skinning you [ __ ] like camels [snorts] skinning you hoes. Like I had so many thoughts y'all. I used to have so many thoughts of doing drastic [ __ ] to you [ __ ] and you like I had thoughts of taking one of y'all and hanging them upside down and skinning them live on kick like skinning them.

[00:11:37]Skin him dead. Just skin him. Skin him all the way down bald. Skin him. I felt like that before.

[00:11:45]I felt like that for real. I I really did. For real. Like danger. I had a thought of chaining you up in the chair and making you watch children's cartoons for like seven months straight. Starving you like just in your mind the whole [ __ ] just going through your mind for seven.

[00:12:06]I have vivid imaginations like that. We became hottempered. People fight on stage. It's anger. It's beef. It's screaming. Bees leave us up man. It was Beasley.

[00:12:19]He got the DNA is up right now. You don't see. [laughter] [laughter] All right. All right, y'all. Let's get interactive. All right. In the chat, you have a thumbs up and you have a thumbs down. Let's play a game. I'm going to say a name. Thumbs up the name if you if you think they crazy and thumbs down it if you think they not crazy. We're going to go through the URL error. Are y'all ready? Okay, here we go. The first person is Sue Surf crazy. Thumbs up or thumbs down?

[00:13:01]What do you think? Arsenal, is he crazy? Thumbs up, thumbs down.

[00:13:13]Hollow the Don, is he crazy?

[00:13:17]DNA, is he crazy?

[00:13:21]Cortez, is he crazy?

[00:13:24]A Verb, is he crazy?

[00:13:28]Hitman, is he crazy? Big T, is he crazy?

[00:13:33]Calico, is he crazy? Miss Hustle, is Miss Hustle crazy? These people are bat [ __ ] crazy. They're bat [ __ ] Like so so the the when you start bringing up these new ain't nothing wrong with them.

[00:13:49]Ain't [ __ ] wrong. The new guys have nothing wrong with them. It ain't no they don't have no no blown fuses. They don't have nothing. The new guys have nothing wrong with them cuz they didn't really play the game for real. No. Cuz after what they did to us, they just figured out to make a uh synthetic version of