The 32-year-old MC’s story begins in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he and his sister were born and then smuggled up through Mexico by their mother, eventually settling in Koreatown, California. Jonathan Park aka Dumbfoundead quickly took to the freestyle element of the hip-hop culture through workshops and nights like Project Blowed, which was founded by […]
King Los has long teased the idea of jumping back into the battle rap arena but not until now has anything substantial come from it. On Sunday, King Los and Rare Breed Ent. revealed that the former Bad Boy Records MC will be getting back in his bag and battle an unknown opponent at RBE’s […]
The Philippines is an unlikely location for the world’s most popular rap battle league, but Fliptop Battles has been steadily growing since its inception in 2010. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information As of today, their YouTube channel has nearly 1.1 Billion views — no, that’s not a typo — with their highest viewed battle being […]
The month of March has certainly lived up to expectations for battle rap fans after SMACK proclaimed it to be SMACK Madness, with another stack of quality battles dropping over the last couple of weeks. The best battle to drop on SMACK/ URLTV since the JC vs. Nu Jerzey Twork from the SMACK Volume 1 event […]
Widely discussed as the battle of the night from King Of The Dot’s Gully vs. Ganik 2 event held early last month in Toronto, the full battle between Brooklyn’s Cortez and Kansas City’s A.Ward dropped this week. The battle speaks for itself as to why it was so widely talked up over the last seven […]
Don’t Flop rap battle league out of the UK recently dropped videos to four of their major battles from last year, featuring Serius Jones, Detroit’s Calicoe, Harlem’s Charlie Clips and New Jersey’s Arsonal Da Rebel. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The remaining matchups from the checkpoint 4 event in London held in April 2017 were […]
Battle Rap has another marquee event on the horizon. King Of The Dot battle league recently released the flyer promoting their upcoming Massacre 4 card. The Massacre series has quickly become one of the most anticipated battle events of the year and if this year is anything like the past three, fans are in for […]
Much more than one of the best multi-syllable rhymers in battle rap over the last decade, Canada’s Bender helped to position King Of The Dot as one of the premiere battle rap leagues in the world. Often utilizing some of the rhyming techniques which made Big Pun the legend that he is today, the creative […]
Juice Crew’s Craig G, as heard as one of the legendary voices on Marley Marl’s 1988 classic single “The Symphony” (along with Masta Ace, Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane) on Cold Chillin’ Records is coming back onto the stage of battle rap. Now 24 years after his infamous battle with Indiana’s MC Supernatural, the legendary […]
Smack White has recently announced that, in celebration of the upcoming URL “SMACK Volume 2” event going down on March 31st, The Ultimate Rap League will be releasing all unreleased battles that have been vaulted, tucked away and stored for a rainy day this month deemed “SMACK Madness”. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Battles announced […]
The fourth battle announcement for the upcoming SMACK Vol. 2 event to be held on March 31st on URL was unveiled earlier this week with Arizona’s Rum Nitty set to face John John Da Don. The exclusive event is invite only on a small stage, geared towards providing the best possible Pay-Per-View experience for fans of battle […]
SMACK/URL veteran battle rapper and recording artists Tay Roc of Baltimore, MD has established himself as one of the premiere battle rappers in the world at the moment and the battle emcee to match up with on SMACK/URL. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Recording music and battling for well over a decade, the Gun Bar […]
Battle Rapper Bigg K is making his long awaited return to the Ultimate Rap League for the Smack Volume 2 event in March. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information His surprise return was announced on the Smack/URL YouTube channel early on Monday morning in the third announcement teaser for the event. Bigg K is scheduled to […]
Russian rapper Oxxxymiron has taken the battle rap world by storm over the last four years. He has amassed more battle views than anyone else on the planet with over 120 million views and five of his battles have reached over 10 million views each. Oxxxymiron came to the increased international exposure through his recent battle […]
Bronx Battle Rapper Goodz got into an altercation in his battle with Jimz. Rare Breed Entertainment hosted their “Lift His Soul 4” event on Saturday at Club Drom in Manhattan. The footage was reposted on Instagram of Goodz landing a punch on Jimz following what was said to be a bar about Goodz’ daughter. The […]
While the Super Bowl buzz is at an all time high pitch, battle rap fans may have struck a chord that’s frequency may have reached an equitable screech. Rare Breed Entertainment offered up their Lift His Soul series for its fourth time. And it was truly something to behold. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information As […]
Words by Roman White Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information New Jersey Battle Rapper Tsu Surf is finally out of jail after being locked up last year for what is believed to be aggravated assault charges. The Gun Titles rapper is known throughout battle rap for already having two gun charges prior to his most recent […]
Boston’s own Chilla Jones traveled down under to take on one of Australia’s best battlers in Vega on the country’s leading battle rap platform, Real Talk Battles. The highly entertaining, close battle in Vega’s home city has most calling it a split 2 – 1 either way with the experienced Chilla probably just edging it and was […]
At the top of the year, The Source received a great deal of push back from the battle rap world, when we released our Top 20 Battle Rappers of 2017. While many argued that the list did not include any women, that it was too URL-centric and that it had an unfair share of old school vets, […]
Brooklyn’s own Cortez of the infamous Murda Ave crew recently traveled to Melbourne to take on Australia’s current #1 battler Dunn D on the country’s leading battle rap platform – Real Talk Battles at Laundry Bar. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The highly entertaining, close battle had many calling it a split 2 – 1 either way. […]
