Rappers square off like prize fighters at the Clash of the Multiverse Battle.

LARNACA, Cyprus -- Lyrical duelists in Cyprus spit rhymes in head-to-head contests, keeping alive a tradition known as “tsiattista” that emerged centuries before the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Drake.

The influence of Trick Williams over TNA is not only as the world champion. His rhymes have encouraged others to follow suit. Matt Hardy got in the game with a battle rap. Hardy delivered his verse on ...

In this Battle of the Rappers Challenge, Joe Black and Youngs Teflon go head-to-head in a high-level lyrical showcase filled with punchlines, flows, and wordplay.

When the dust settled the next morning (sort of), RuPaul Charles coincidentally announced a mash-up maxi challenge where the queens would perform in a rap battle fashioned as a roast of each other ...

The challenge, West teaches, ... So what do The Iliad and battle rap have in common? Both art forms encourage us, the listeners, to react, reflect and ultimately select with which speaker to side.

The challenge, West teaches, is to learn to keep these “gangster elements” in check so that we can still live with decency and integrity in an often violent and unjust world. This struggle, I contend, ...

The challenge, West teaches, is to learn to keep these “gangster elements” in check so that we can still live with decency and integrity in an often violent and unjust world. ... In a battle rap, the ...

The challenge, West teaches, ... This struggle, I contend, is at the heart of both Homer’s Iliad and the art of battle rap. This article is part of Rethinking the Classics.

The challenge, West teaches, is to learn to keep these “gangster elements” in check so that we can still live with decency and integrity in an often violent and unjust world. ... In a battle rap, the ...

Chicago MC Rhymefest recently recalled going toe-to-toe against Eminem in a rap battle before either one of them made it big, claiming that Em called him the N-Word in the heat of battle, but that ...