Jay Z, Busta Rhymes och Notorious B.I.G. – vad har de alla gemensamt? Jo, förutom att ha satt sina spår i hiphophistorien har de alla gått i samma skola; Brooklyn’s George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School. Medan Busta och Biggie föddes med bara en dag emellan har vi ”Hov” som är 2 år äldre än sina rap-kollegor. Han besökte nyligen ”Jimmy Kimmel Live” och berättade om den gången när han mötte Busta Rhymes i skolkafeterian för lite rap-battle – och vann.

Det är dock inte första gången vi får höra om mötet. Rhymes berättade om förlusten redan för några år sedan för MTV. Då lät det såhär:

“One day, somebody came up to me and was like, ’Yo, Hov is in the cafeteria.’ They weren’t calling him Hov at the time; they were calling him Jay. ’Do you want to step to him on some rhyme sh–?’ So I go. At the time, when we were rhyming, it was speed rap. That was the thing to do. I knew how to freak it, and he knew how to freak it. And at the time, he was so ill, ’cause of the people he was with at the time, Jaz-O and them, it was their thing [that style]. He kind of got the best of the situation. I got to give it up. He was so ill and his arsenal was so long that he had more than what I did. I spit my one rap, and my tank was empty real fast. He came with two or three after that, and I was like, ’Here we go.’ But I gave it my best.”

“That was probably the fist time that I lost a battle that mattered. Jay-Z] always exemplified greatness as an MC. He was a scientist with it.”

Se Jay Z i ”Jimmy Kimmel Live” där Jigga även går närmare in på battlet mot Busta:

// Leah Deriba