Murda Mook and Loaded Lux appear on “Drink Champs”, talks Eminem and more.
The legendary battle rapper Murda Mook and Loaded Lux were the latest guests on N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN’s show “Drink Champs” on Revolt TV. In the show, they talk about their respective pasts, their plans for 2021, battling each other, Loaded Lux’s rivalry with Hollow Da Don, the origin of DOT MOB, and much more. Things got heated in the interview when the hosts talk about battle rappers not achieving success as mainstream artists. Murda Mook argues with the statement and uses the likes of Eminem and Jay-Z as an example.
Mook and Lux, both Harlem locals, rose to prominence after appearing on the SMACK DVD series, with Mook standing out as one of the series’ stalwarts, earning him a big label deal with Ruff Ryders. Murda He Wrote, his debut album, was released later that year.
“I just wanna say this, Eminem had the setting of a Dr. Dre,” Says Murda. “So, his mind in the frame or the architect work of a battle, I know what I need to set up to make a hot battle rhyme. Now, I can take that same genius and that mind, and program it over here to make a record, so I’m gonna give you the variables to make a song. C’mon, JAY-Z, all them ni**as come up raw battling. You came up raw battling, then you got in the studio and the ni**a told you to, ‘Go like this,’ so you can make a record now.”
N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN teamed up with battle rap icons Murda Mook, Loaded Lux, and Math Hoffa in the most recent edition of Drink Champs. They talked about historical Hip-Hop battles, battle rap’s evolution, the art of battle rap, and much more! They also mentioned Eminem throughout the conversation. Take a look at the following:
N.O.R.E: “I can’t give Eminem, I can’t give Busta Rhymes and I can’t give Jay Z the level of battle rap respect that I give you all (Murda Mook and Loaded Lux). Let me tell you why. I’m not saying they are not battle rappers. What I mean is, I’m not taking anything away from Busta, Jay Z, and Eminem but the level of disrespect they didn’t go through that. They didn’t go to training camps.”
DJ EFN: “I feel like Eminem comes from that. That’s where he comes from! That’s what he was doing in Detroit back in the days. Em was doing battling!… Em was in that league. Em was the part of all of that.”
N.O.R.E: “But that was not Eminem.”
DJ EFN: “Of course it was Eminem, what hell you talking about?! That’s exactly where he came from. Eminem was the part of that. He had all those.”
Loaded Lux: “I’m with you, I’m without on that [DJ EFN]”
N.O.R.E: “I’m with you too but they didn’t do the level of disrespect.”
Mook is set to release his debut studio album, which he confidently promotes as an immediate classic, after conquering the combat rap field with a record as perfect as they come. “I’m about to have a classic album, bro,” he declares. “Yeah, I Said It, Murda Mook, Yeah I Said It, it’s about to be — f**k a classic, everybody uses classic. My sh*t is gonna to turn me from a legend into a myth.’”
Mook is regarded as an exceptional performer in the area of battle rap, with N.O.R.E. equating his raw skill and precision to that of Floyd Mayweather, yet he still feels underappreciated for the depth of his abilities. “That observation that you made is literally what I struggle with and it hurts so bad,” he says of N.O.R.E.’s Mayweather analogy. “You wanna display your greatness, you try to put on the best show possible, or you prepare and train harder than everybody so people can recognize that. But then, the flip side is, so when you do that, now it’s like, ‘There’s no way in the world somebody could do that without the other person being off,’ right? But then, when another person is off and then I do the same thing, well, when does it become me?”
Watch the interview below.
