By Ingrid Garcia
Staff Writer
On Thursday night, April 8th, Bartleby and SEB cosponsored a ‘Rap Battle’ in the Commons Sports Zone. Three empty mikes held the stage for about twenty minutes as one of the Commons staff members announced that only one person had signed up to compete.
The winner would get two free WALE tickets. People waited patiently until another person signed up and the ‘rap’ battle finally began, at almost 8:25pm.
Sophomore Chris Coleman, and graduate student O’Smith grabbed the mikes and began to spit lines. Each contestant was granted one minute to freestyle to three different beats, each more creative than the next.
Best crowd pleasing lines: Coleman: “I’ve got more lines than Chinese got rice.” O’Smith: “steady like a boat.”
O’Smith won the WALE tickets. The low turnout came to a surprise since it had been advertised that the winner would receive TWO free tickets to the long-sold out WALE show. Enough people roaming the UMBC campus brag about their rapping skills, some even freestyle around the dormitories, so where were all the rappers on Thursday night?
Maybe next year there will be a larger turnout and make the performance more entertaining, but in the meantime, maybe just come up with a couple of lines or so, and start practicing. You never know when the next ‘battle’ will be.
