Mos Def Still Wants To Battle Jay-Z Or Kanye
June 9, 2009 @ 8:46 PM EDT
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I think we ignored this story when it first broke. But thankfully, Mos Def still wants to battle rap’s big dawgs. But as he tells Angie Martinez, it ain’t that simple.
At around 7:30 mark:
He explains he wants this to happen in New Orleans Dec 30-31 for charity:
2 Marching Bands (Morgan State vs. Grambling)
2 DJs (Kid Capri vs Biz Markie)
2 Breaker Crew (Korea vs. France)
2 Battles of The Beats (Kanye vs Swizz)
5 Man Rap Team Battle
Captain: Mos Def & his partners: Black Thought, MF Doom, Jay Electronica and Nas
Vs.
Captain: Jay-Z or Kanye and either one’s four.
For rap supremacy!
Yup this dude has lost his mind.
10 Million Pot. 5 Mil To Charity.
Link 2 (More shouts-out to Dame)
Sidebar: Recent interview with Interview.
hov nor ye will be down for that shit but id pay top dollar to see it if it does happen
YN, you’re dick-riding jay or something? why has mos lost his mind? i thought he made perfect sense about cats claiming they’re the greatest to ever do it when that’s not challenged. fuck outta here – i say put em to the test
MOS DEF IS SPEAKING TRUTH!!!!
DO IT UP HIP HOP NEEDS THIS MANGGGGG!!!
Yn you are a great journalist …but wtf makes u think mos can’t fuck with jay ???we talking skills not album sales . Don’t sleep on dante or black thought …kanye ain’t even in them niggas league …again skill not sales homie …I thought u was hip hop ??
mos def will tear kanyes ass…and have a close one with jayz and mos def will win..mos def is a better lyricist than jay
Im surprised about previous posts…theres actually smart people out there!
Mos & Black Thought should pretty much always join eminem and jay in the top 5 lyrically.Other peeps that nobody talks about lyrically is talib, elzhi(from slum village), & krs which always makes me wonder…
You really think Mos Def is out of his mind? He could hang with Jay-Z any day.
People fall into propaganda made by rappers that their the best. No1 was feeling wayne so heavy until he started to capitalize on his last name and jay’s false retirement. Jay-Z been forever capitalizing on the death of big. Dudes should really have to prove themselves when they make statements like this and they should do this like every 4 or 5 years. Jay is a chump in my mind (always has been but further will be) if he doesn’t accept this battle. He better take himself kanye, beanie, young chris, and wale or whoever the hell in his team he wanna take.
So You Seriously Think Mos Couldnt Kill Jay Or Kanye? Jay-z Is WAAYYY PAst His Prime. Kanye Could Probably Hang More Than JAy Could. But Either Way This Actually Sounds Like A Good Idea.
THAT 5 ON 5 BATTLE WOULD BE SICK…I AGREE MOS MIGHT BE BETTER LYRICALLY THAN JAY BUT TO ME IT WOULD BE A TOSS UP…MY 5 JAY-Z(CAP), EMINEM, REDMAN, DRAKE, AND EITHER WEEZY, JEEZY, OR FAB FOR THE LAST SPOT…
I think everything he said makes sense and he was a polite as can be. Skill vs. skill. Joe Buddens can now PROVE his point. He can bring all of Slaughterhouse, Someone NEEDs to have Supernatural on thier team – easy win.
needs to go down.
did someone suggest both DRAKE and FABO?
top 7 lyrically
1)rakim
20eminem
3?mos def
4)nas
5)biggie
6j)ay
7)krs-1
honorable mention:redman
i would fly from GA to NY to see that. the marching bands would set it off. who wouldn’t wanna be a part of that? it would make history. i want TI in there somewhere tho.
Hey, i think it’s a nice idea – in fact they should up the charity pot. And remember that “beef is real life happenin’ everyday”
Y’all just record this and put it on the net or dvd so I, over here in Jo’burg, can see it and be blown away!
cuz automatically the fact that he 1) didn’t include eminem, redman, joe budden who is a great battle rapper and a slew of other dudes who love to battle in his top 5 just meant they are offended. they would align with Jay in a heartbeat. His crew would be murdered hands down. and if he is so fond of slick rick and rakim why didn’t hey include them in his crew get outta here. this is a publicity stunt for his album and he been shoutin out dame so much lately its obvious he has caught feelings for dame and now gotta defend him against jay. Jay, em, andre 3000 and redman and i’ll just pick joell ortiz will kill his crew swap out redman and throw in royce 5’9 murdered again. wow i’m still coppin the album but i’m ashamed truly ashamed of Mos
lol at putting Rakim as #1 lyrically.
Even his greatest songs dont hold a candle to half the stuff in the mid 90’s, let alone the insane shit cats are spitting nowadays.
Why wouldn’t mos pick Kweli for his team?
Man that would be what hip hop needs. Its started out in the park with crews getting at eachother. so lets take it back. and did you forget mos and kweli taught kanye how to rap…jay has respect for both brooklyn and those emcees (from brooklyn). do it in New Orleans and this coudl be the biggest event in hip hop culture history, too bad narrow minded folks are so quick to call mos out of his mind. i say you claim hip hop as your life, put it to the test, werd up.
we need battles like this to finally get real hiphop back on the radio and out in the public eye. if theres a massive EVENT where us w/ our 3rd eyes open can finally SHOW a large crowd what this music is really supposed to be like, we can start to take it back, or @ least keep havin these event every yr w/ diff capts and diff teams, diff dj battles (bc who really cares who better between ye and swizz???? if this takes off, next yr could be pete rock vs premo, or marco polo vs madlib or somethin fuckin monumental)
What the fuck is your dumb ass ashamed of. are we a culture so involved with beef that anyone dares say someone ( who actually isnt) the best is smokin crack? and yes YN is riding jay. Moslos his mind. what a fucking absurd thing to say. I’m not saying jays not top 5. But dont front on Mos like he isnt either.
Let us not forget that Nas already bodied your God.
Elliot Wilson (YN) is not a fan of hip hop culture. He is a pop-hop dick riding, half-ass’d journalist (lack of a better term). His career would already be over, but he happens to be fucking the editor-in-chief of a magazine that has always been irrelevant to Hip Hop culture and will soon cease to exist (hopefully this blog will as well). His views on Hip Hop, or anything Hip Hop related, should be taken with a grain of salt.
Peace,
T.B.I.I.
it’d be sweet. Jay is so far past his prime though he’d have to pick four other guys to really hold him up probably. Jay is in my top 5 all time, but right now I think his flow is pretty garbage. He went from the flow of all flows to slow, dumb, and boring, like lil wayne.
Jay would have to bring Em for sure, probably Joe Budden, maybe his crew too…not sure you can find enough talent, nas is still going strong, it’d be rough.
If Jay and Em were still in their prime, forget about it. They were a HUGE deal for a reason. But they’re not, they’d probably get murdered.