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Re: Jay-Z v. Nas revisited November 26, 2012 08:04PM |
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UptownKid
you can't have a battle without beef. Noone battles for the fun of it....unless it's staged - which some battles have been (past and present)...but who takes those things seriously. Yeah, folks may battle to see who's skill is better (whether on a b-ball court, on NBA LIve or on a microphone)...but the beef come into play when shit gets' personal, for whatever reason.
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Re: Jay-Z v. Nas revisited November 26, 2012 09:11PM |
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BM31
I know that you remember snappin Uptown.remember that s**t.
It was funny as hell unless you was on the other side.It was big in the 70s before Hip Hop.People before me called it playing the dozens.Now that s**t led to fights left and right haha.Because there were some guys that were really good at it...But for early Hip Hop,battling was only a way to win a spot and if you battled another crew,you probably ended up hanging out later that night as to most of us was from the same areas anyway.I would say that rap during and after the golden era that battling and beef became two of the same.Spinning it back to the timeline itself being the reference I used for feeling that it was two separate things.
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Re: Jay-Z v. Nas revisited November 28, 2012 08:48AM |
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UptownKid
no doubt...playing the dozens..snappin'. it was a rule, in the hood/around the way/in the cut - or, however you describe where you grew up, to know how to snap (or play the dozens), 'cause that's how it went down. if you couldn't, or souldn't do it well, then you've pretty much labelled yourself a sucka. it was mostly out of fun...in alot of cases, it started out just playin', then would turn into an all-out brawl 9depending on what lines got crossed. Like talking about someone moms...that's when it got real - a straight up no-no, in most circles.LOL