“I was actually not a part of founding it, it was founded by Kelly Betz (then known as Dr. UGZ) and his brother Matt Betz (known as Mantra) about three years ago, and back then, it was just a few local kids getting together in a park in front of a camera. Pretty humble beginning.”
“Over the years, I wouldn’t be surprised if we had maybe 100, even close to 150 different competitors.”
“Currently, I am the president. I’m basically the head of operations with a staff of about eight people that work with me very hard. I make most of the executive decisions. I came into the position about a year and a half ago.”
“This is the second installment of the Valentine’s Day Massacre. We did one exactly a year before this one. This year only one-third of it was at the Berlin.”
“Most of the Christians who participate are from the same rap group. There’s a quartet of rappers called King’s Offspring who come up here. There’s a large Christian population in our organization, but it’s not an official stance of our organization.”
“XQZ probably had one of his best performances on that one. He’s had a couple cold performances lately whenever he’s uninspired, but I could tell with the title on the line he was hungry and he definitely brought his A-game. Hindu Rock didn’t have the winning angles that he needed to attack, and he had one line where he wished he’d killed Jesus, I don’t really know where he was coming with that except for the fact that XQZ was Jewish. That didn’t hit very well, I think it got nothing but boos. XQZ knew what angle to take and Hindu Rock did not, and that has a lot to do with it.”
“XQZ beat me for it (the title) back about a year and a half ago. That was the first rap that I ran. Actually, this is the only time he had to defend it.”
“We had 22 battles go down, 30 out-of-state performers from 14 different states. 30 weren’t from Missouri.”
“We had 22 battles with 30 out-of-state rappers from 14 states, three different venues: CAT TV, Berlin Theater and Kampai Sushi.”