I'll break this down to you even though you've bitched about it and haven't been smart enough to troll with some good facts yet. Yes, sponsors come through with money for these vids because of the views certain battle league channels. Google pays these battle leagues an understandable amount each month for battles that get a certain number of views. People that want to advertise whatever their products are at the events and also with ads when footage comes out. Also, battlers that may have music coming out, they advertise their music as well in case someone watches it thinks "oh I like battle rapper A" and wants to check out their music. Case in point: its a growing scene and if you don't like it, don't fuck with it.GrimeyHippy wrote:They're working to turn it into big business too hard already, their youtube vids are 20min of overproduced gfx/sfx sponsorship bs and about 10 min of mild entertainment
Tsu Surf sounds better on record than he does battling. Him and Shotgun Suge are that way. I could see that. Me, personally, I think Hitman Holla could based on his mixtape stuff I've heard him do. Maybe even Hollow Da Don as well.Magneto wrote:I, personally, think battle rappers that try to make it in the industry are stupid. They should just focus on turning battle rap into big business, but nobody actually wants to work at doing things. So they rather try to make music, a few will get signed (some have already), get a 360 deal, get fucked in the ass, and be broke with no album to ever see a release date. Unless you're established, you're not making any money in music right now, except for live shows. And the average rapper who doesn't have a hit makes less than 500 a show (In the states). The big time battlers in URL make 7 K for mainevents. It'll take 14 shows and hours and hours of performing to equal what they'd make for one URL battle, that'll be 9 minutes of their time.Philaflava wrote:I'm not talking about watching them. What I said do any of these people further their careers or have one?
Only one right now that I think has a real shot of being more than a run-of-the-mill-signed-to-a-major-rapper is Tsu Surf. Who is generating a pretty decent buzz with his music. I can actually see him turning to a Kendrick Lamar type (Not in terms of rapping style/music wise, I just mean in terms of having a nice cult following in both the underground and some mainstream)
Another problem with some of these dudes that make music is that some of them still battle on a beat constantly. Its like they don't let up from battling and focus on concepts and other things in a song. But the best music, IMO, has been from Bender of Flight Distance, O.G. Hindu Kush (Loe Pesci and Osa), Soul Khan, Knamelis, Marv Won, Phranchyze, Ness Lee, Rheteric Ramirez, Dumbfoundead, Arcane, and Tantrum.
