Gavin Bain

And that was it.

We were a rap group.

So we created a game called Porcupine, and that was a way for us to battle rap each other, but then also throw each other words, and then we'd just start freestyling off the word.

Because some people think that's a hard word to rhyme with.

But when someone throws a hard word like porcupine, it can make the game funner.

But also, we would use it as, like, that would be the last word to try beat the other person with.

You couldn't win the game unless you ended with something to do with a porcupine.

I mean, the internet was kind of early days, so he just randomly found this thing that was on a website called undergroundhiphop.com.

And it was just this kind of flyer, this poster for Are You the Next Eminem?

And as soon as we saw it, we thought, yeah, of course we are.

it was quite apparent there's just no way we're going to get in because there's far too many people here.

And so what we decided to do was to go and ask if we could battle people for their spot.

So knowing hip-hop people, once you get challenged to battle...

You can't say no.

If you say no, you essentially step aside and let us just take your spot.

So at first, most people would say yes.

And then we started battling.

And eventually after you beat like 10, 15, 20 people, the seas part, you know.

And by the time we got to the front, there was so many people behind us kind of rooting for us.

Like, oh my God, these guys actually are like eminent.