Cassidy, a battle rapper competing since the 1990s, thinks that nobody can pose a threat to him anymore, only Eminem. Cassidy recently sat down with hiphopisreal where he talks about why he isn’t interested in a battle rap with other known faces and would give a shot to some new artists that just came out. They also ask him about the one artist he would love to battle rap, to which he named the Detroit rapper Eminem.
Eminem is known for his rapid-fire delivery, clever wordplay, and ability to create complex and intricate rhymes, making him a formidable opponent in a rap battle. It is not uncommon for rappers to seek out challenges and competition in order to prove their own skills and to push their artistry to new heights. The prospect of going up against someone as skilled as Eminem in a rap battle would surely be a thrilling and potentially career-defining moment for Cassidy.
Cassidy asserted that he is impossible to beat during a long conversation between him and Danny Myers regarding the current condition of battle rap, which was taped in Atlanta and uploaded on HipHopIsReal. Cassidy claims it’s because he can do everything. He has a great command of all battle rap tools, whilst his opponents usually only have one or two. As a result, Cassidy believes that the battle rap scene isn’t demanding enough for him. There is, however, one exception:
“The only artists that I would get excited about are those that accomplished more than me in this world,” says Cassidy. “Any battle rapper that you will bring up I’m not gonna feel, like not taking anything away from battle rappers but I just felt like I accomplished more than any other battle rapper. I would get excited about somebody like Eminem, definitely, I want that.”
Recently, “Da Wiseman,” Cassidy’s latest album, has been released. This freestyle rapper is kicking off 2021 with a bang, demonstrating his ability to switch up his approach to appeal to fans who aren’t just into rap and hip-hop.
This new album is a mix of old school freestyle rap and new school gangster rap. Cassidy reflects on his past experiences and sheds light on issues that we still face today. When Cassidy hits listeners with lyrics that have significant meaning in our ever-changing world, the confrontational tone and approach abruptly changes.
Dizaster discussed the content he has prepared for the fight and how the Shady CXVPHER, which was made available last month, was so crucial to his preparation. “The s**t that I wrote for this battle, I’ll crush Eminem with it,” Dizaster explains. “I wrote most of it after I heard [his] verse [from the SHADY CXVPHER]. The reason I wrote it is because everyone went nuts to Eminem’s s**t and they went nuts to Crooked [I]’s s**t but mainly to Em’s s**t. So when I listened to it, I had to outwrite all of it. I’m telling you right now, when you guys hear this section of my verse that I have for Cassidy, I outwrote the f**k out of both [Eminem and Crooked I]. I look up to them, that’s why I outwrote them. It’s not like me trying to be bigger or anything but I literally did it and I didn’t stop until I did.”
Around a year ago, Cassidy reacted to Nick Cannon’s diss towards Eminem and said, “I heard Nick Cannon’s verse and I was a little disappointed. Especially with all these battle rappers’ so-called lyricists he has. When you coming at somebody like Eminem, you should’ve came way way crazier than that. Especially with other dudes who are supposed to be lyricists. At least they could give you some kind of bar that you could have said.”
Cassidy also thinks that Eminem has the science of rap, unlike other rappers. To please even the most discriminating rap listener, Cassidy might listen to Eminem’s more recent work, which features 10-syllable patterns and intricate rhyming systems that are rather enjoyable for him. Eminem understood exactly what he was doing when he exchanged intricacy for assertiveness in “My Name Is,” as Cassidy’s apparent pleasure of the simple beat shows.
Cassidy rose to prominence as a battle rapper in the late 1990s because to his freestyles and contests. Swizz Beatz, an American song producer, discovered Cassidy in 2002 and signed him to his Full Surface Records label, which was distributed by Ruff Ryders Entertainment and J Records, allowing Cassidy to attain considerable exposure. Split Personality, his debut studio album, was released in March 2004 and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 list in the United States.
Cassidy released the single “I’m a Hustla” on April 15, 2005. Swizz Beatz’s vocals and production are used on his following song, “B-Boy Stance.” Cassidy released his second studio album, I’m a Hustla, on June 28, 2005. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 list in the United States, selling 93,000 copies in its first week.
Cassidy told Math Hoffa of My Expert Opinion that many rappers don’t care to rhyme more than the line’s final syllable, and that this is a bad practise that shouldn’t be considered acceptable: In 2021 it has to [rhyme]! The thing that goes before the one syllable has to rhyme!
It’s automatic. There is no sacrificing that. [Otherwise] you lose so many points. [Eminem] is not always technical all the time. Sometimes he rhymes one syllable. It’s just y’all think he’s piecing up all these syllables. He do rhyme more syllables than other rappers, but a lot of times he just don’t even be piecing up, it’s just a lot of rhymes, and you think that he’s killing it.
Cassidy’s debut studio album is titled Split Personality. Full Surface debuted on March 16, 2004, with J. Walter Thompson handling production and marketing. The album opened at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States, selling 118,000 copies in its first week. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has certified the album gold for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States.
Cassidy had a release party for his mixtape Mayhem Music on May 21, 2012. He released the mixtape Mayhem Music: AP3 on July 8, 2012. Meek Mill, a fellow Philadelphia rapper, stated he would fight Cassidy, which Cassidy subsequently indicated he would accept if the money was right. They engaged in a “twitter feud,” following which Cassidy released “The Diary of a Hustla,” which was initially assumed to be a dig at Meek. Cassidy later rejected this claim. They were both asking for $100,000 apiece in order for the fight to go place. However, after Meek Mill slammed Cassidy’s song “Condom Style” (a copy of Psy’s “Gangnam Style”), Cassidy responded with a song named “Me, Myself & iPhone” in which he mocked Meek Mill.
With his latest tune, ‘Catch a Body (Meek Mill Diss),’ the Philadelphia rapper is out for payback. After Meek published his own diss, ‘Kendrick You Next,’ which targets Cassidy, Cassidy takes lyrical punches at him, as mentioned in the title. Using the instrumental from Canibus’ ‘Second Round K.O.,’ he slams not just the fellow Philadelphia rapper, but also his mother, girlfriend, and just about anybody linked with him.
After RBE published the match to YouTube over the weekend, the duel between Cassidy and Hitman Holla was once again in high demand. While early reports indicated that Cassidy had defeated his opponent in Hitman Holla, the battle was far tighter than observers had anticipated. Cassidy appeared to get under Hitman Holla’s nerve in their dramatic face-off, displaying the bad blood between the two battle rap contenders. The Philadelphia veteran continued to poke his St. Louis opponent until the game was called off due to heightened emotions. It was at this point that viewers realized the actual clash between the two would be spectacular.
In his recent interview, Cassidy declined the idea of a rap battle with Meek Mill, stating his fellow Philadelphia native is not a battle rapper.
“Salute to Meek, but, he ain’t battle rap,” he said. “Like, maybe he battled back in the day to try to get on, like to try to get people familiar with what he do. There’s a bunch of people that did that. But still, they wouldn’t consider themselves battle rappers.”
He continued, “Maybe that’s the cloth he was cut from back then, but it’s been so much time, and him doing other shit, and on music, and then a different bag, that I’m not even sure if he’s interested in battle rapping. We kinda already had our own little battle, but I’m not interested in battling nobody. Long as the business is right, they could pick whoever I battle.”
