Spoke with former 1Outs Battle Rap Champion Traser about his battle against Allenzo, the battle rap scene, his writing process as well as Hamilton and things around the area.
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00:22 - How Traser Got Into Battle Rap
01:17 - Trasers Audition Rap
02:08 - Trasers First Battle In Front Of A 1Outs Crowd
03:04 - Driving Up To Auckland For Each Battle
04:41 - Organising A Battle Rap Event In Hamilton
05:52 - How Traser Writes His Bars
08:16 - Battle Rap Being A Performance
09:19 - Memory
09:50 - Traser Choking With Raw Thawt
12:11 - PFAK Being So Good
13:59 - Trasers Battle With Allenzo
15:31 - Evolution Of 1Outs
16:36 - Damasgus
17:13 - Trasers Battle With Stash/Writing For A Title Vs Non Title Battle
19:32 - Battle Rap & Rapping On Beats Are A Different Art Form
21:09 - Trasers Favourite Battle
22:11 - Dr Apocalypse
23:49 - Trying To Write Complex Material Without It Going Over Peoples Heads
24:35 - Writing A Punchline You Think Will Pop And Then It Doesn’t
25:43 - How The Crowd Affects A Battle
26:25 - Having More Than The Christian Angle Is Hard Against B Team
27:05 - JP80’s Body Of VIV
28:09 - JP80
29:32 - How The B Team Prep
31:32 - The B Team Are The Top 3 Battle Rappers
32:05 - Traser Wants To Battle JP80, Clue & Billz
33:30 - Traser Getting Into The Zone Before A Battle
34:11 - Billz Had Line Of The Night At STFU2
35:04 - Going Between Music & Battle Rap
36:17 - Big Boozy
36:54 - Ryan Lovins/T13
37:28 - Not Much Of A Hip Hop Scene In Hamilton
37:52 - Reece Learning About Politics From Political Guests
39:04 - Hamilton Is A Good Central Location
39:26 - Hamilton To Auckland Train
41:16 - Integrated Rail Network
41:37 - The Busyness Of Reece Doing Kiwi Talks
42:34 - Why Reece Started Kiwi Talkz
44:35 - Reece Trying To Get Dlar On
45:18 - Kelvyn Eglinton
46:05 - Reece Contacting People To Get On
47:16 - Kiwi Talkz A Great Platform For Politicians/Being Objective
49:02 - Your Views Are Shaped By Your Environment
49:51 - India
51:22 - How White People Are Viewed In India
52:30 - Different Cultures Dating Each Other Is Hard
53:39 - Auckland Vs Hamilton
56:03 - Hamilton Will Change A lot Over The Next Decade
56:54 - Ruakura Inland Port
58:13 - Some Battle Rappers Are Extremely Intelligent
58:45 - Reece Wants To Help Out Dlar & 1Outs
59:33 - 1Outs Is Still Underground
1:00:37 - B Team Don’t Use Cuss Words
1:01:02 - Reeces Marketing Tip For 1Outs
1:01:43 - TVNZ’s advertising Of 1Outs
1:02:41 - Xceed
1:03:50 - Xceed Rubbing Stormforce’s Sister Pic On His Balls
1:06:21 - On Camera Not Being What A Person Is Really Like
1:07:55 - Dlar When He’s Online Is Different To How He Is In Real Life
1:09:26 - Dlars Beefs
1:11:13 - How To Contact Traser
1:11:52 - Traser Spits A Verse