Bowks Talking Bouts #29: The Saurus

I spoke with battle rap legend The Saurus and we discussed quite a few things.

 

How did Saurus get into battling off of freestyling, early influences like Gift of Gab and Big Pun (2:02), the local hip hop record store spots growing up (3:06), his history making Grind Time battle with Madness at the first Battle of the Bay (4:59), trolling Mad Illz with his hot air balloon battle with Laugh n' Stalk (7:42), the situation behind why he isn't booked on World Domination this year (11:19), getting offered P nut for World Dom and the accompanying issues with that (14:17), hitting up Montreal soon for Loe vs Krome (19:37), his efforts in BOTZ against TOPR and Reverse Live (20:55), prepping the Missy Elliot singalong against Reverse Live (21:40), the story behind The Bunker closing (23:08), battling QP after a long day of filming for his role in Bodied (24:57), the reaction to Bodied and how non-battle rap fans are being drawn into the culture (26:05), the future of monetizing battle rap being in subscription services (29:27), using WWE references in battles and how WWE is doing rap battles these days (31:28), thoughts on the Scott Hall and T-Top beef (33:23), if he's going to put out another album of original recorded music (34:10), recording music with Chase Moore and the two being featured on the Ruin Your Day Watch series (35:26), having around three years left as a battler (36:45), Future battle plans (40:53), and more!