Hot 97’s EBro Criticizes Battle Rap, Battle Rap Responds

Oh EBro. You musta forget. Hot 97 is not about ignoring the street and New York hip hop scene anymore. (Well, OK, I still think they are, but they’re pretending to care these days.) Anyway, he musta forgot, because he went ahead an launched a blanket criticism against a niche of hip hop music, battle rap.

battle rap is boring and for children @NathanielsWords

— IG: Ebroski (@oldmanebro) July 5, 2013

He later dialed back from his criticism:

shhhh @3letterman i like battle rap just wanted to see how easily they’d go ham

— IG: Ebroski (@oldmanebro) July 8, 2013

But not before the following response from URLTV’s STREET STAR NORBES.

Diplomatic response. We’ll be curious to see if the old man shows.