Last night I attended the “Brawl For It All” and I must say it was the most entertaining show I saw this past week, and that’s saying a lot. I saw 7L & Esoteric perform on Saturday and KRS-One (with Sage Francis and Crew) on Sunday. This event …Â This BRAWL FOR IT ALL” was by far the most entertaining event I have attended in a while, but what I found entertaining is not necessarily what the promoter had intended.
No disrespect but … this shit was straight comedy. From the first time I saw the flyer. To the 3 hours I spent outside the venue after the event, bullshitting and reliving the live action abortion I had just witnessed. I had a smile plastered to my face. Maybe it was the two dollar beers. Maybe it was the poetic justice of the universe. All I know is I got my $5 worth.
So lets get going. It all started with an Internet flyer posted on this site. The flyer was a clear slap in the face to Marshall Law and to me indirectly (or maybe directly). The flyer was calling Raise the RI Battle Champion. We all know the Marshall Law beat him at The Battle Royal at the Living Room. The promotional campaign ued to promote the battle went on to claim that the battle at the Living Room was not official and the judges were biased or it was fixed. Like somehow Raise… or anyone in the battle … didn’t get a fair one. As tho this battle, this Brawl For It All would set the record straight and be the battle to model all future battles after. As tho this young upstart in the game of promotions would come and re-invent the game and thumb his nose at all those who have come before him …
He actually tried to post this comment on my myspace page:
AUDIO LIQUOR PRESENTS “THE BRAWL FOR IT ALL” WHO IS REALLY THE BEST EMCEE ALIVE???
The war of words has been flying for awhile now
The MC’s have been going back and forth about who can beat who and who won at ‘The Living Room’ battle a month ago
Words have been exchanged and doubts cast
There was NO clear winner
Come on. Really? So CasUno, Storm Davis, Al Bums and the audience were all in on a big conspiracy. I love to create hype to promote a show and all, but that’s homo.
So the marketing was horrible, there was like 25 people in the building. Lets get to the actual battle. It was just as horrible as the promotions.
First off, there was no DJ and no turntables. Everything was done from a CD Player at the sound booth. How can you have a hip hop event with no DJ and no turntables? I almost threw up I was so disgusted. The flyer promised 12 emcees. Guess how many emcees were actually in the battle. Go ahead guess. While you think about your answer I will continue with my diatribe.
Sneaky Pete was on stage when Marshall Law showed up. The event screeched to a halt. When everyone was sure that fisticuffs were not about to ensue the event continued. Marshal was there with his crew and his boy Marcellino entered the battle.
In the First battle it was Marcellino vs Danny Defstar. Each battle was supposed to be three rounds each. First round was freestyle, second round was for writtens. third round was acapella. It was a funny battle but the judges stopped it after the second round due to a 2 round knock out. Marcellino beat Danny the first two rounds so the judges felt there was no point to go to a third round. That was a bad move in my opinion, and you will see how the judges broke this rule later on for their friends.
Then Marcellino had to battle J5. I was like why does this dude have to battle again? He just battled. WTF is going on here? Then I realized. This was The answer. There was only THREE emcees register to battle. This was the final round. Funny shit. It’s a good thing Marshall showed up with his boy Marcellino. If he didn’t the battle would have been just one round. J5 vs Danny Defstar. And Danny would have been crowned champ.
So it’s J5 vs Marcellino. J5 is clearly down with the promoter. He was choosing his own beats by calling out the track numbers. A bit of a home field advantage if you ask me. Then they changed the beat for Marcellino and gave him a crazy up tempo beat to spit over. He still killed it and took round one. Round two was also won by Marcellino, yet the judges went to a round three. Why did J5 get to go to round three when Danny didn’t? Again, home field advantage. Marcellino wins and is crowned champ.
So now The main event was supposed to happen. Raise vs Marshall 2. But Raise wants to go thru Marcellino to get to Marshall. So now its Marcellino’s third battle. Raise goes first and he basically battles Marshall, who was standing in the front row. The crowd was like “doesnt he know who he is battling?” Raise must have some pent up frustrations towards Mr. Law. But the battle went four rounds. Raise’s best punchline was calling Marcellino a Beastie Boy, but during the forth round acapella Marcellino killed it and even the judges had to give it to him.
Now it was Raise vs Marshall. Raise used up all his punchlines on Marcellino and it was over pretty quick. It was obvious from the first round that Marshall had it in the bag. It was painful to watch Raise loose eight rounds in a row.
I reached out to Challz but he refused to comment on the event. So to re-cap. The turn out was horrible. Not having a DJ is always a bad idea. The original beats they were having the emcees battle over were wack. There was only 3 emcees in the battle. The big ambush they had planned for Marshall back fired. I saw Sneaky Pete up on stage trying to sway the judges opinion towards Raise. Looked real funny to me. Shame on you Sneaky for letting your beef with Marshall cloud your opinion.
Tags: Marshall Law, raise, Sneaky Pete
May 14, 2008 at 3:17 pm
The Mic Monsta says:
I where tHe Durag Cause I got Long Hair not cause I think Im Black.And Your Rite I do Like Cassidy And I do like 50 So What’s your Point That Doesnt Make Me Any Less Of An emcee.I Still Get it In Watch Friday Aint no Artist Gonna Have Our Energy,My Squad Is A Squad Of Wild Mic Monsta’s No pun Intended…Come On Find Another Way To Hate.That Subliminal Shit Corney.O well I got open Mic At COPPERS BAR IN FALLRIVER ON SOUTH MAIN ST NEAR THE TIVERTON LINE.So UNTIL THE NEXT TIME RAP BLOGGERS…KUM BY YA..
May 14, 2008 at 3:28 pm
janks says:
no doubt, my intention was never to start shit, obviously you got skill, and your camp has energy, i got respect for that, the best will prevail. ALL IM SAYIN is there isn’t a need to get so excentric, and cause a scene, (in my opinion), but you do you, and you do it well, much respect. i just feel that there are too many kids today that treat hip hop like the WWF(thats rightF), acting hard, like they hustle, pop guns, fuck bitches, etc, and THAT is why hip hop is in the rut it is in, because most battles(not to mention alblums) have turned into who can talk tougher, not about lyrical skill, NOT because of you and your camp. marcellino was dope point blank, you got skill too, and thats what this is about being the best, but we also have to remember where it came from, there are rules to this thing called hip hop. the du rag comment may have been harsh, but i had long hair too and i aint never put on a du rag…. M.L. don’ t take constructive critisism as mis directed beef, i am too old for internet beef, or beef in general. when you project yourself a certain way, people percieve it that way.
May 14, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Mortal says:
people are sensative. I guess people just can’t take some freindly critism. I have taken advise from tons of people I respect and don’t respect. the truth is the truth. It shouldn’t hurt your feelings.
I agree with Janks that Marshall could chill out a bit. I told him in person, to his face that he needs to relax a bit. He is getting buzz from the battles and this site … but don’t get all vexed when dudes are trying to give you decent advice.
Also obviously Challz is all vexed as well. Mad that I expressed my opinions. More mad that what i said is so on point. The difference between me and challz is what he says to stir up controversy is a lie (No Clear Winner … anyone who was at the battle saw there was a clear winner) what I say to stir up controversy is true. Three emcees where in the battle and there was no DJ. Don’t be mad at me cuz I held up a mirror to ur event. Some times the shows go well, sometimes no one shows up. thats the nature of the promotions game.
May 14, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Mortal says:
Oh … Challz … this is the second of your events that this site has reviewed.
May 14, 2008 at 4:28 pm
hw says:
I would just like to say that this is the 53 comment.
May 14, 2008 at 4:29 pm
hw says:
whoops i mean 55 and 56
May 14, 2008 at 4:59 pm
The Mic Monsta says:
All Im Sayin Is I Am Me Take It or Leave It Yo I got Alot Energy And I Might Be A Lil More Hyper But I Do What I Do And Do It Well Im Just Confident.Whats Wrong With That….I deserve IT I Earned It.Dont hate Take Notes My Energy Is What HIP HOP NEEDS No More Laid back Shows like Your To Cool, To Enjoy Your Music.I Get It In No Disrespect But When I leave An Event Im Always Remembered For Some Ill Crazy shit I did…This Aint A Game To My camp…Thier Is No “GAME” This Is A Culture Baggy Cloths,Durags,Slang,What Ever it All comes With The “Culture” Just Get Ready for Backwards Productions Cause We’re Gonna Leave ur Mark.
May 14, 2008 at 5:49 pm
janks says:
blah blah blah BACKWARDS PRODUCTIONS? yea you are certainly moving backwards alright. peace
May 14, 2008 at 6:36 pm
The Mic Monsta says:
See Blah Blah Blah thats what Im talking About You Dont Know Me from A Whole In The Wall Janks I got nothin But respect FOR YOU Listen Chill With The Disses Im Doing What i do Hate It or love It.I Got Mad Local records Sold
In My CITY ALONG WITH MARCELLINO..Who Got It Like That Go To The C Rays Show you Will See..Ib DONT PLAY I LOVE RAP MUSIC THE Zulu Nation Got ME On Point So Chill Hater. I Got Respect For Raise If He Wants To Do A Track I got Him On The BEat I do What I Do And So Does Marcellino Either Get In or Keep Hatin Its About Hip Hop Not beef Its “Hiphop” In Mass Its Diffrent It’s Guns And Drugs Around Here Thats it i Got Respect Fuck How I Dress Im Me Marcellino Is Marcellino Were A group But Were Mad Diffrent Either Way Go To Our Show ANd You’ll See Support Local Hip Hop We Do..We Bump Kozz ONe, Jots One,PDP,Every One Who Gets It In Even Sneaky Pete (Its just Some People Gotta Learn The Hard Way)Ya Dig
May 14, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Tony Backwards says:
“blah blah blah BACKWARDS PRODUCTIONS? yea you are certainly moving backwards alright. peace”
Listen…. Marshall does get ahead of himself, but this is his passion and thats what makes him good. As far as Backwards Productions, watch what you say, this label is way deeper than marshall and Marcellino, again its a label, so that means that they are just one group on the label.
May 15, 2008 at 2:38 am
sneakypete says:
Wooooooooow. All this chatter w/o Sneaky…I feel like a proud father.
and what is this? Others telling Marshall he’s not quite ready to have a big head… FASCINATING.
May 15, 2008 at 2:52 am
janks says:
aight, for the record… i never tried to dis credit marshall, marcellino or ne one from wha ever production camp whatever. MY POINT WAS, BE HUMBLE MARSHALL, LET CATS MAKE THIER OWN BUZZ ABOUT YOU, PLAY OFF OF THAT AND SMASH THEM IN THE FACE. YES YOU DO WHAT YOU DO WELL, KEEP DOING IT, BUT TONE IT DOWN A NOTCH, DONT LET YOUR INSECURITIES GET THE BEST OF YOU DOG.
May 15, 2008 at 3:23 am
Tony Backwards says:
Fair enough..can we just keep it at that now? I think all this bickering is getting played. We originally just wanted to build with all the ri cats cuz the hip hop scene is way better in ri than where we are at, we arnt all for battleing, it just so happens that we saw the flyer for a battle at the living room and went, it was dope, we chilled outside for a while and everyone was cool at the end of the show. Then we kinda got sucked into all this. NOT OUR ORIGINAL PLAN. So with that said, respect to everyone on here and if anyone wants to make music with us, cool hit me up, I really just want to make conects and build outside of my city. peace to all of you and lets all stay civil? that means you too Marshall
May 15, 2008 at 10:46 am
BIG CITY BUMPUS says:
shit is mad WWF right now.
shout out to everybody that posts on 401hiphop. EVERYBODY!
You may not have love and respect for me.
But I got it for you.
Big City-Battle Champ of PLANET EARTH
May 15, 2008 at 11:35 am
janks says:
that sounds like a plan to me. we should be building not bickering. big up to B.C. BUMPUS! and everyone else as well