King Of The Dot's Vengeance 2

Toronto’s Guvernment was once again transformed into a battleground as King Of The Dot set up camp with its Vengeance 2 event as part of Canadian Music Week. The full day of intense live battles once again proved that anything could happen at a KOTD event.
After wins from Lax Luther, Aftershock and Real Deal and an awkward and humiliating battle from Tony D, who flew in all the way from the UK just to choke horribly numerous times in the ring, it was announced that the main event between Hollohan and Charlie Clips would be cancelled as Hollohan had breached his probation and was being detained for the weekend. KOTD apologized to everyone in attendance and promised that the organization had done everything in its power to get him out.
Along with the fans, Charlie Clips was also disappointed about not being able to battle, but not for egotistical reasons, solely because he didn’t want to let his fans down. To give them what they paid for, he gave the crowd a preview of the work he was about to give the no-show, which received the approval of his fans.
“They said ‘you scared of Hollohan’ in Canada then Charlie Clips popped up so that showed you who’s really scared, ‘cause on the day we’re supposed to battle, Hollohan got locked up. That was a freestyle right there, off the top, but it was for real,” Clips joked. “God bless him though.”
The New York battle beast said he feels like he owes his fans, and that he’ll be back out to a KOTD event soon.
The event continued as the TheSaurus and DNA battle was replaced as the main event, and the two renowned rappers did not disappoint. All three rounds were close as the two displayed their lyrical skill as respected emcees and champions in their own right. It will be a battle that fans will be debating over for a long time, for purely personal preference as opposed to a definite winner.
“It’s a battle that people can watch over and over. That’s my key thing when I battle, because you don’t want a bad performance from both or a bad performance for one and a good one for the other, when both people are going at it, saying some good stuff then it has a lot of replay value,” DNA said after his battle.
It was a day of many surprises and unfinished business that will only add greater anticipation for what’s to come for the battlers and the King Of The Dot movement.

Arcane Preps for KOTD Title Match

Renowned battle rapper Arcane will face Dizaster in a title match for the name of King Of The Dot (KOTD) champion at the upcoming Blackout 3 on January 26. This comes after winning the KOTD Grand Prix championship for the second time, this year against Chedda Cheese. The innovative artist is ready for the main event, but his first concern is to propel the culture forward.
WHAT ARE YOUR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS AS A BATTLE RAPPER SO FAR? I’ve had a lot of achievements in King Of The Dot. I’ve won the Grand Prix tournament, which is probably my most esteemed achievement, just because of the difficulty level of the competition… The competition level now in today’s battle world is so much more vicious and you really have to be on point and show different aspects of your game so to be able to win that tournament twice in a row and be undefeated in that format is probably one of my greatest accomplishments in battle rap right now. Also, winning the King Of The Dot chain in 2010 is up there too and I’m hoping to win the chain back.
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR MOST RECENT GRAND PRIX WIN? The Grand Prix final, to be honest, was one of my best performances so far. I think I’ve come a long way. The new era of battle rap is a lot different than how I got started and the era that I came from, the freestyle of battle rap was all about one or two punch lines and more simple raps but something that would get the crowd responding. Nowadays, it’s a lot more technical and people are doing a lot more multi-syllable word play, schemes and all new elements to the game that you have to master. In this Grand Prix, what I tried to do was prove that I can do anybody else’s style better than them and that all culminated in the last battle.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE PART OF BATTLING? The crowd reaction and the atmosphere. In this day and age, the battles are all written, who you will be battling months before you’re battling the person so it’s a lot different from the freestyle era when you never knew who you were going to battle next. Now, with so much put into it, so much time invested going into the battle, the payoff is the day when you perform your stuff. You are basically writing specific material that you can only spit one time. It’s not like writing a song, where you’re going to go in the studio and record it and tour around and perform that same song at a bunch of different locations. You are writing the best material that you can possibly write and you only get one chance to deliver that material and you have to do it properly. You can’t have any slip-ups. So the real payoff at the end of the day is to be in front of the crowd and everything culminating in that one moment. When those punch lines start to hit and you see the crowd reaction, it is the payoff.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE OF BATTLING? I’m very versatile. I can do everything it takes to make a good battle rap. To be a good battle rapper, you have to be able to do comedy, you have to be funny, you have to have charisma, you have to have personality, but you also have to have serious wordplay and bars that make the crowd go “oooh, that’s just mean.” You have to have the ability to get personal… I think that is a quality that’s lost in some of the bigger names in battle rap. A lot of stuff is too generic. You have to be able to switch into different cadences with your flow, you have to use multi-syllabics to your advantage, but not overused. I think a lot of rappers use that as a crutch. I think that what battle rappers need to have is a blend of all those qualities and that’s what I would consider my style. I guess I would call my style the full package.