Paying $7.99 for an app isn’t why fans complain.
If you’re going to blame the fans or question whether we appreciate battle rap, let’s have the full conversation.
Events starting five hours late.
An hour or more between battles.
Standing for 12+ hours with little to no seating, food, or sometimes even water.
Then the cancellations. Finding out the day of, or even the night of, after fans have already paid for flights, hotels, rental cars, and event tickets.
Rappers showing up unprepared, choking, stumbling, throwing up (I had to 🤭), and not even finishing their rounds.
Booking the same artists over and over despite them repeatedly showing up unprepared or not showing up at all.
Fans are expected to keep showing up, spending money, and staying loyal while our time and money continue to be treated like they don’t matter.
There’s little to no accountability for the leagues or the battlers.
But somehow… the fans are the problem?
They chose their cheating mum and her partner over their own father, the father was right to leave them with nothing. They should go and meet their mum’s partner to pay the debt for them.
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