The Crows Nest

Battlerap is anonymous to the average person in the world of hip hop.
Outside interference in Battlerap been largly nonexistent till this year. 
KOTD been playing host to certain hip hop guest for a while now.
The U.R.L on the other hand was given a opportunity @ mainstream television.
On 7/12 of different type of inclusion happened.
The type that will potentially bring new found attention that Battlerap has never seen up until this point. Even if u hadn't heard of Battlerap, I'm going go ahead and assume u heard of Eminem. 
The combination of Eminem status within the mainstream world. 
The uncertainty of his 1st event will guarantee a memorable entrance in this thing we all call Battlerap...........

As in life there are GOOD times
There are BAD times
With Daylyt having a mental breakdown while taking a mock s*** on stage
U just knew s*** was bound to get UGLY......


THE GOOD

SHOUT OUTS
-Eminem, Paul Rosenburg, the entire Slaughter house, Sway, Ebro, and Shady house records.
-Every battlerapper on the card and in the building.
-All the guest who was in the building
Fab 5 Freddie,Victor Cruz, Uriah Hall, Starr, Mz.Gracie @Drect,Poison Pen,Ebro and any others I missed.
-James Roosevelt and everyone @ 100 bars magazine
-The 5 boroughs of NYC
-Every poster on OTBVA.com and all the other Battlerap related forums

-ROAD TO TOTAL SLAUGHTER
Yeah even if the actual show felt like a pilot after just 4 episodes.
I thought it did a good job @ showing the battlerappers in a different light.
For that 1 reason the show was GOOD

-SMOOTH SAILING
This event wasn't the best in terms of actual highlights IMO.
The strongest trait of the event was its presentation.
Despite only 4 battles on the card the event was smooth in terms of time management. Laser shows and No 40 mins between battles is always a GOOD look.

-CLEAN STAGE
Only entourage allowed was Luxs , besides that no 1 was allowed to have a entourage on stage. This is GOOD considering the never ending problem of a cluttered stage in Battlerap.

-ENTER SPAWN
The full body Spawn costume was pretty bad ass IMO.
It added a extra layer of uncertainty to the battle.

-ROUND ONE AND 1 LINERS 
Mook vs Luxs 1st was incredible (ESP live)
Both Mook and Luxs had the crowd in their hands 
Joe with his 1 liners was entertaining to the point , where u actually thought he could win.

-THE RETURN OF THE DURAG
Murda Mook from the smack days return last night.
It wasn't no 5 star affair but he settles the ongoing issues of the other legend in Harlem by the name Loaded Luxs.

-WILDCARD VICTOR
Props to Hollow who attempted 2 showed the world every aspect of Battlerap.

-PERSONALS>>
Which is by far the most devastating weapon in Battlerap. 
Hollow accusation of Joe beating his ex was front and center on Worldstarr the same night. 
Even Mook onslaught of personals changed the way many viewed Luxs.
Even Hollow standing up for the ladies was entertaining 

-POSITIVE GROUPON EFFECTS
The cheapest tickets I saw for this event was like 90 bucks @ 1st.
I thought about it and decided not to attend.
Then I got word of this groupon thing and saw tickets were 33 bucks. 
I quickly dropped every plan I had on 7/12/14



THE BAD

-NEGATIVE GROUPON EFFECTS
(Back to the groupon thing)
Now either 2 things happened here
1-they didn't sell enough tickets to fill up the audience.
2-They lowered the tickets , so Joe's fan base could afford it.
Either way must have sucked to pay 90 bucks , when most of the crowd got a discount.

-DAY FOLLOWING ORDERS
When Day blacked out due to him missing his meds. 
He was still on the floor while the judges was deliberating.
Ebro who was judging told Day to get up.
Day finally broke character and got up

-THAT HOUSE CHOKE RATE
The Total Slaughter house Choke rate was somewhere in the 90% bracket. 
So it was BAD to see it follow Big T during his battle.

-UNDERWHELMING SLAUGHTER
Tho the event was smooth , it never really felt like a Battlerap event. 
It was more similar to a mini concert or a major broadway play type of thing. The 2 main events trailers were better than the actual battles tbh.

-JUDGING BUDDEN
Word is Joe switched the judges due to quote unquote bias tendencies. 
This is laughable at best and wouldn't have made a slight difference.
ESP considering the new judges who still choose Hollow.

-THE WIN
Even tho Hollow won , he didn't get the love he should have SMH 
Infact when Hollow retreats back in2 the Battlerap realm , this W will be used as a weapon against him

THE UGLY

-OFF THE MEDS
Daylyt didn't get here due to his mental breakdown
(it was predictable but funny tbh)
That Spawn suit didn't deserve to get tore up like that lol.
(Seriously)
Days 3rd round will become as infamous as the nut incident.

-THE BEAST RETURNS
Whenever u have a large enough crowd , u can expect fierce animalistic traits to be present. 
The ruff crowds from the past was on full display @ Total Slaughter. 
Lots of people were booed 
SMH 

-THE TALE OF 2 MICS
Hollow wasn't even mic'd up when the 1st round of his battle with Joe started. Budden gave Hollow his hands free mic , while he used Sway typical concert mic. There were a deep distinction in performance areas during the battles. 
1 man had to hold a mic , the other was free to perform.

-THE DISCONTINUED 3RD ROUND
Near the end of Joe's 3rd round , he dropped the mic due to the crowd. 
It was UGLY as f*** to see somebody who performed in front of large crowds to react this way.
Hollow picked up the fallen mic and started rapping again lol
They cut him off but allowed Joe 2 continue.
By this point the damage was already done.

-REJECTED FAN BASE
As soon as it was announced Hollow had won. 
Many people in the crowd began to get angry. 
I heard people say Joe bodied hollow and things like "wow they robbed Joe" "how did the judges let this happen".

I died on my way back uptown thinking about these people.................................