Calicoe battle rapper biography
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XXL: How sincere you pick up into battling?
Calicoe: Proof was doing these battles Downtown, him paramount Bizarre depart from D-12. Intimation, him abstruse my pop were admissible friends. They were doing battles downtown in Port and I went crucial entered a battle, teenaged as acheron, 15, 16 years pillar. They threw me refuse to comply grown dudes. I went in presentday and held my minister, and it’s been hoodwink ever since.
Do you about who paying attention faced stand for your chief battle?
I battled in kindergarten
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Detroit battle rap legend Calicoe has recently sat down with Kid L where they talked about his come up in the battle scene, and even being named by Proof. He tells a story of D12‘s Bizarre, making safety a priority during a rap battle that almost went left. They also talked about the Ultimate Rap League and his relationship with Smack.
“Bizarre is my dawg. If I would never told nobody that Bizarre helped me a lot in my situation and put me in position to win, nobody would know cause he never tells nobody. He would never tell nobody. Proof never tell nobody.” – said Calicoe.
Then he continued: “Proof was getting behind me before he passed. The night Proof died, I was downtown at his studio, whole night, waiting for him to come back from a bar cause I was too young I could not even get in to the bar. So, I could not go with him to the bar. I was doing a mixtape at his studio. He was going to push whole mixtape for me. He died that night, I went to school next morning seeing it on the news and they were like ‘D12 member has been shot.’ They didn’t even release the name. My blood cousin is Kuniva and everybody around me calling, making sure he okay and then we found out it was Proof.”
“That was some crazy s–t for me. I’m young as hell and somebody saying to me they gonna do thi
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Ultimate Rap League
American battle rap league
| Industry | Battle rap |
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| Founded | October 26, 2009 |
| Founders | Norbes, Troy "Smack" Mitchell, Eric Beasley, Jean "Cheeko" French, |
| Headquarters | NYC, New York, United States |
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| Brands | SMACK/URL, PG |
| Divisions | East Coast, Midwest, West Coast |
| Website | urltv.tv |
The Ultimate Rap League (commonly referred to as SMACK/URL) is a battle rap league based out of New York City owned by acclaimed hip hop promoter Troy "Smack White" Mitchell, Eric Beasley, and Jean "Cheeko" French from Queens, New York City, United States.[1]
Rappers, music executives, DJs and athletes such as Kendrick Lamar, Sean Combs, Busta Rhymes, Drake, Q-Tip, Joe Budden, Cassidy, King Los, Beanie Sigel, Jay-Z, Funkmaster Flex, Kid Capri, Bow Wow, Jadakiss, Lupe Fiasco, Adrien Broner, Kevin Durant, Nick Cannon, Lloyd Banks, French Montana, D.C. Young Fly, Mos Def, and Method Man have shown support towards the league.[2][3]
About
[edit]The league originally grew out of the popular series of street DVDs known as S.M.