It’s interesting what people will choose to attend. I attended my first Lethbridge rap battleground, Battleground 6, which featured several MCS rapping and insulting each other to a beat at Henotic, Nov. 20. It was completely packed as the audience was responsible for which MC was to move on while DJ Booda spun the discs.
“T
here were a lot of people, but I’ve seen way more,” said Booda.
“A lot of people like to come to the battles because people like to see a bloodbath. Because they get so personal,” he continued.
“People like to see other people get burned and embarrassed and see how they react to it.
“Very few people write it down (beforehand). It’s all off the top of their heads,” he said.
Simultaneously, at the Slice, Rob Szabo was back in Lethbridge. While he sold out the past couple times he performed at the Slice, there were a lot of empty seats this time. It didn‘t bother him as he beamed ear to ear while a good chunk of the audience sang along with Szabo favourites including “Good Son”, his ‘blues song’ “ Good For You,” and of course,“Jonestown Kids which ended his set. He even had a couple waltzing to another one his songs.
— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
