Boom!!! Yesterday I was in the Broad Ripple Music Festival's Beat Battle that was sponsored by Heavygunblog. Indy has some serious heatmakers and they all brought it for this battle. The night before I was up till 1am working on some beats to throw in the mix. One of them was a sample challenge beat for the battle using theme songs from the 80s. I went through some 80s soundtracks I had and came across this.
It wasn't until the day before that I realized that the battle started at 1:30pm and went all the way till 9:00pm. The moment I found that out I honestly couldn't help but think, "damn... phawk braggin' rights, let me get eliminated." HAHA Don't think I "booby trapped" myself, but when I didn't advance I called up my wife and was ready for a sandwich and a nap. HAHAHA No joke I was eliminated by a cat that goes by JP. He looked like a "hippie'd out/Yoko'd" John Lennon with a green leisure suit. He played some dope stuff, but in my opinion they were more on some DJ Cam/Krush chill beats than some battle joints.
This is the 1st joint I played and the beat that I actually did at 1am before the battle.
Unlike most beat battles I've been in there was no back and forth, they just had me play my 2 beats and then JP played his. The judges made their decision and that was that. Also, the sample challenge beats weren't played until the 3rd round, so unless you made it to the 3rd round, nobody got to hear it. However, J. Brookinz and Heavgunblog is putting a comp together of all the sample challenge beats with some local emcees over them.
Here's the 2nd joint I threw in the mix. Looking back I would have picked something else, but that's what I picked because I had no idea what JP was going to come with. So, BLAAAM!!!!
All in all it was dope and after taking a "disco nap" I was recharged and met up with Joe Harvey, Longevity, Blake Ali, Rusty and a bunch of the cats from the show earlier at Locals Only. It was kind of an after party for the joint.
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