ROT | Finding Snipes: The World's Most Famous Rap Battler, Playing GTA VI Is Cheating On Your Partner, Schemes: VIRGIN SCHEME PATCHED, Say Something Heroes, Google Reviews, & A MAJOR Vlog Update.

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What is the opening premise and who are the hosts of ROT?

Bruno Satin 0:03
Forward, we kicking forward, who ain't get that far away.
Josh Gard 0:10
Hello, welcome to Rot. It's that time of the week. M actually a massive programme coming up today on Rot.
Bruno Satin 0:16
It's big.
Josh Gard 0:17
Thirteen ten sixty. What's your biggest poo? Times Apparently. Oh we sh I wanna do we should do radio, it'd be so much fun.
Wade Spaulding 0:27
Would it?
Josh Gard 0:27
Yeah, it'd be so much fun. In what way? Yeah, because you just like do um talk for four minutes and have eight hours of maths.
Johnny Smacks 0:35
And then a three month campaign on trying to break a Guinness World record.
Josh Gard 0:38
That's fun. That's fun. No, that's silly.
Johnny Smacks 0:40
What Guinness World record would you break? Um shittest radio show.
Josh Gard 0:43
My speer drink. Oh, I already did. Whoops. Okay. Uh Rot Sound Effect. Hello Kickerfall Club dot com. Sent in something for the soundboard and um Lochlan Hodge Now this is one that we heard in sport the other day. Now, um from it was this is a quick grab from the Geelong super fan Muffy that was basically crying on the Channel Seven news report by um Kate Massey. I won't play the whole entire report, but at one point.
Unknown 1:09
Really, really good people.
Wade Spaulding 1:16
I've got one later on. But Let me just say this. I think
Josh Gard 1:21
Personal games about Yes.
Wade Spaulding 1:25
Should we get under it today? Like we should think we should we start with a headline today? Oh,
Josh Gard 1:28
you wanna
Wade Spaulding 1:28
do a headline? The snipes?
Josh Gard 1:30
Yeah, yeah. So let's headline that.
Wade Spaulding 1:32
I've been working on it for a while.
Josh Gard 1:33
Yeah. Nah.
Wade Spaulding 1:35
If there wasn't if there wasn't a vlog that was taking so long that then I would feel worse. What's that got to do with it? Well I just know the Yeah, yeah, in comparison. Um guys, can you play the searching for snipes thing or whatever it's called?
Unknown 1:50
But let me just
Johnny Smacks 1:52
say this. Oh see how time to make his steam.
Wade Spaulding 1:55
We played it every way.
Johnny Smacks 1:56
Yeah. I just think that Tana could have gone into the um
Josh Gard 2:00
Uh also vlog shirts will not be race docked. Despite
Wade Spaulding 2:04
the demand. Um, thanks everyone there with the interest and ripping on me and uh a very special guest also ripping on me in person on s on Friday. Um we put the word out, we put together something we think is a little bit special, it goes a bit longer, um, and we I wanted to sort of go into how this guy snipes came to be. of international fame with potentially not even, you know, wanting it in the first place. You know, it was a very particular time. Aussie hip hop at the time was very big. Aussie rap battles were quite big. Um and I really wanted to get right into it. We got some very special guests and 360 all day PES. And then of course One very, very special man who told me he would let me say this.
Johnny Smacks 2:48
Reload, snipe the tape. Let me just play the tape. Let me just play the tape.
Wade Spaulding 2:55
Those are the same for us?
Unknown 2:56
Uh probably Biggie, Kanye, Lil Wayne. Growing up it would have been Eminem. Anyone else? Snipes, snipes, and snipes. I'm sorry little kids, but I'm a killer clown today. I could say bullets are gonna spray. I'm from Brooklyn. That's alright.
Wade Spaulding 3:11
Things can go viral for heaps of reasons. Talent, shock value, boobs, or sometimes it's a bit harder to pinpoint.
Unknown 3:18
But let me just say this.
Wade Spaulding 3:20
This was snipes. At the height of the Aussie Hippo craze in early 2010.
Unknown 3:24
The cover of Rolling Stone Flux that were like four times platinum, over 20,000 people singing every song. It was mind-blowing man. It got played once, 40,000 people have downloaded your song, like we think you should probably try and sell it.
Wade Spaulding 3:37
At the same time there were thousands of cringe rap battles popping up online.
Unknown 3:41
It's online, Michael Jordan, final quarter.
Wade Spaulding 3:43
360 was the face of rap battles in Australia.

Who is Snipes and why is his rap‑battle documentary important?

Wade Spaulding 3:45
His face-off with Sydney rapper Cursa was the country's biggest ever.
Unknown 3:49
It was very underground before. And then when 8 Mile came out, it was like it was a big deal. Everyone wanted to do it from then.
Wade Spaulding 3:57
Every capital city had their own organized rap battles. Snipe's rap battle was the feature for one of the main events called One Ounce. They were low budget in a park or an alleyway and everyone was gay.
Unknown 4:07
Touche, you're too great at being too gay. Doesn't he look German or gay? He fucking sucked this bloke's ass bag. Look a swig a few minches. He waited to gay sticks. I'm ripping this bag. And
Wade Spaulding 4:16
in the sunny suburb of sunshine on a day just like today, one of the greatest cultural moments in Australian history would take place in this very park.

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