Nick Cannon
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Podcast Appearances
And then you even got to, like, whose line is it anyway?
You know what I mean?
How they was killing it.
Because we was all doing the same thing.
And I don't even...
That, to think about it, because even if you think about Wild N' Out, inspired a lot, and a lot of those cats tell me, like, inspired that visual battle rap.
And the real freestyling, you know, mixed with the preparation stuff, because before that, like, before smacking all that, it was us.
it was you know on impromptu but that and i got to give props to the lyricist lounge too because the lyricist lounge was on mtv before uh while and out and it you know shots out to def jeff and all of them like because what they would do they would write these hip-hop musical like scenes and scenarios and like if you look it up you know all the youngsters out there like
Lyricist Lounge was just like, it wasn't a hit, but the culture rock was all about storytelling right there on the spot.
So I was like, ooh, if we did
something like that but it was more about battling and capping and roasting on each other I was like that's gonna go crazy because Lyricist Lounge would like literally rap and do a whole story and then it'd be like a scene and it'd be kind of funny it'd be a punchline at the end but when we did it we was like yo we gonna do this on some like battle rap stuff cause even you know back then battle rap was like
Something we used to do at lunchtime at the school and like you had your joint prepared.
And then some people would have that gift to be able to freestyle while you spitting your written.
And then I think the world, once the battle rap arenas and the scenes kind of got caught up.
They always say like, yo, that stuff was inspired by the early days of Wild N Out.
And now to get into this space and of like the streaming and the streamers and to be doing a Netflix is a joke and all that.
It's going to a different space because we just been able to adapt and navigate as television has changed.