MC

Lupe took some time out from the road to pen a few bars in response to the request for a battle between him and Jay Electronica on the Okayplayer message boards yesterday.  While not a battle verse, some fans are already reading between the lines on this one:
Coexist,
the devils in the dealer, the poltergiest is [...]

After much heated fan debate over who’s the better rapper, I think it’s only right that Jay Electronica and Lupe Fiasco settle this like real MC’s.  No beef just battle.  It ain’t personal as I sincerely hope they have a mutual respect for each other, but that shouldn’t prevent them from being able to go [...]

So back in July I worked with the folk over at GtP to develop the prototype for a game, SHOWDOWN, to simulate an MC battle.  Our test case was the classic Jay-Z vs. Nas battle using the lyrics from “The Takeover” and “Ether”.  We broke the songs up line by line and gave them rankings [...]