Clash at Richards on Richards
Today, I went to this DJ, MC, beatbox and b-boy battle event at Richards on Richards.
Frankly I don't know much about the other 4 pillars of hip hop (DJing, Beat boxing, B-boy stuff and Graffiti), so I tried to enjoy things the best I could.
All the B-boys seemed to be really good although many of them didn’t really seem to know how to battle. The B-boy champ was the only one who understood the concept of battling. It’s hard to explain, but he usually involved some maneuver to diss his opponent (ie, kicking while handstand walking over towards his opponent).
The beat box champ was really good at emulating turn table sounds.
Only four people showed up for the DJ battle. The winner, out of the four contestants, then faced and lost to some national DJ champ. Frankly, I was getting kind of bored (probably cuz I hadn’t eaten in 4.5 hours at this point).
It takes a lot of guts to enter a MC battle. With that said, some the MCs were really wack and the crowd really let them hear it since the crowd was the sole determinant of who stayed (“STAY!”) and who left (“GO HOME!”). For whatever reason, myself and the crowd became really amped at this point, so we weren’t shy about letting our feelings be known. The crowd actually had good taste as I only disagreed with one of the selections/rejections. Pre memorized lines usually got a good response, but the lines made up on the spot (ie, about the MC’s appearance/attire, people in the crowd) got the greatest responses. Overall, there was some funny ass shit that was dropped. The winner kind of sounded like Eminem.
Jin, who was hosting the MC battle, then performed a song or two. Then some skinny ass white kid in the front row decided to challenge Jin to a battle. Unfortunately for the kid, he was really wack and promptly got served.
posted by Edward @ 2:19 AM
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