Cassidy sat down with VladTV and started out the conversation talking about how his battle with Freeway impacted the battle rap culture and how Jay-Z is the reason he ’embarrassed’ Freeway in that battle:
“Well, it was just me, him, and Swizz in the studio. The Mary J. Blige session. Swizz did the beat. Hov was rapping on it. They wanted to update the song. So, it was me, Swizz, and Jay Z in the studio. After they just got off Hot97 cyphering and all that. So, Swizz introduced me as like the hottest nigga in the street. Hov like ‘What? You ain’t just hear my niggas on the radio? I got the hottest niggas. What is you talking about?’ Then he looking at me. ‘Nigga, you don’t even look big enough for Beans. You don’t look old enough for Free. What you want me to put you up against Chris, my 16-year-old?’ And he started talking crazy. And at the time, this before I was polished in the industry. I was right from the street. So, I was a little more hot-headed. I was getting a little aggravated. Swizz seen it. So, I’m like ‘Nigga, I don’t give a fuck who you call. You can call all them niggas. I’ll crush any of them niggas. I don’t give a fuck who you call.'”
He also shed light on how he alone set the standard for the newer generation of battle rappers and how they do these battles today. It’s only right that he spoke on what he does best, being that he has a rap battle with Dizaster coming soon which will earn him $250,000. Sheesh.
Check the infamous Cassidy vs. Freeway battle as well as the interview with VladTV below.
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