The Warlock said
it was a written battle but bringing a notepad was unheard of, let alone frowned upon.. he was doing terrible before he basically said “fuck it, i dont remember the rest” and pulled the pad out.. he disappeared, as he should of.. he may of earned mc’s respect on wax but he rightfully lost it after that atrocious PUBLIC display.. it’s a lot easier to be dope when you can do 10000 takes.. he proved there’s a new breed of emcees that dominates the old school..

smh @ “the greatest mc to bless the pen”.. clearly you stopped listening to hip hop in the 90’s, haha..  

Nonsense. Indeed that shit was bizarre and sad in many ways. But the other dude, while having some straight genius lines at times, mostly relied on FUCKING YELLING. Dude straight up pissed me off. He slugged that other emcee because he couldn’t take a few disses and felt itnimidated. That shit is so lame, a disgrace to the art that happens all the time. The other guy did the same thing later down the road.

Canibus deserves legacy respect regardless of that moment. People who say an emcee ain’t an emcee if they don’t freestyle, man that’s stupid as hell.

Canibus didn’t go anywhere. That battle was in 2012. After that he has released a solo album, a collaboration album, a group album and a group EP. Just check wiki or discogs. His last bigger album was released in 2015. That’s not that long ago.

Regarding the battle itself, it only showed us that he is not a good freestyler (plus he was obviously either ill prepared or he blanked). He took a loss there and what he did afterwards was a bit weird and embarassing. But this is being blown way out of proportion. He tried something different and he failed miserably, but that shouldn’t affect what his main craft is. And that is carefully crafting rhymes and then recording them. Nothing wrong with that.

Old Mr Dangerous said

Better said than what I said. Canibus is a fucking master. Poet Laureate II is so dope. Plus “Channel Zero”.. he is a brave motherfucker to rap about that kind of shit. He deserves respect for that alone.

Totally. I think there is some other shit that one could critisize about canibus. Like, sometimes he doesn’t pick good beats, and often he seems to only care about the lyrics instead of actually making a good song all around. But that battle was just a short period of time where canibus wasn’t at his best. Where he fucked up. It should have been relatively insignificant, but obviously that’s not how the internet works.

He’s still a dope rapper to me, there was some good shit on Time flys..

And yeah, PL II is great, that whole album is amazing. I wish Stoupe would have produced more for him. Also includes my favorite Canibus song, No Return. That song is just so creative to me. Really unique.

Yes, the beats are highly undeserving of his talent. That’s a pretty well-discussed critique.

Put Canibus on some Dre shit, entire album. That would be dope.

Old Mr Dangerous said
Here you go Warlock. Diz couldn’t take it any more.

  

yeah im well aware of that battle rap incident as well.. I still have no clue what Diz’s actions in another battle have to do with the canibus one tho..

T.O. said
Regarding the battle itself, it only showed us that he is not a good freestyler (plus he was obviously either ill prepared or he blanked). He took a loss there and what he did afterwards was a bit weird and embarassing. But this is being blown way out of proportion. He tried something different and he failed miserably, but that shouldn’t affect what his main craft is. And that is carefully crafting rhymes and then recording them. Nothing wrong with that.  

cmon, his main craft is being a rapper, apparently arguably one of the best.. that battle really proved otherwise even tho he did seem super under-prepared.. again, it was a written battle not a freestyle.. this is a standout moment, especially for people like me who didnt grow up listening to canibus and mainly looked him up due to this being a huge battle in the scene at the time.. this was like mayweather vs mcgregor and mayweather lost, haha.. while standing without guarding and receiving haymakers every round..