June 2nd, 2008
Local Rapper Threatens Life Of Blogger
Byron Crawford (pictured, left), your favorite rapper’s least favorite blogger, can add another name to the long list of hip hoppers and their friends that would like to do him bodily harm, a list that already includes Pimp C, Bun B and Kanye West’s cousin. The current beef is with local rapper Dice Raw, an associate of the Roots who, according to Crawford, “dropped one good verse way the fuck back on the Roots’ first major label album Do You Want More?!!? and hasn’t done anything worthwhile since.”
The threat from Dice comes in the form of a track, “Battlefield,” released to the Internet a few months back, but just now coming to light. Dice is joined on the track by someone you’ve never heard of, Truck North, and someone you have, Nikki Jean, his bandmate in Nouveau Riche, a group I’ve tried to get into on the recommendation of countless friends, but just can’t seem to.
The offending line goes like this:
Niggas wanna play till I show ‘em who the boss is/ Send a couple thugs down to Byron Crawford’s residence/ Leave no evidence, criminal intelligence./Life loss without no wevalence(?)/ Raw like black get, pure excellence, nigga!
The emphasis on Dice’s enunciation of the word “relevance” is Crawford’s, but he’s right—Dice does seem to flub the word. Like I mentioned, the song is called “Battlefield,” and yes, it includes the unfortunate sample of Pat Benetar’s “Love Is A Battlefield,” which was and remains one of the least hip hop songs since, er, Dido’s “Thank You.”
Judge for yourself. [zSHARE]
Read more about Byron Crawford’s long list of enemies here. [River Front Times]
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