Battling one of the first chilly nights of the year, emcees came out in force to Hip-Hop Nation’s Pit Spit to test each other’s chops. A crowd had already assembled in anticipation by the time the event started at a little past 6 p.m., and many of those hanging around proved to be there as participants, not spectators. With the delivery man from Jimmy Johns kicking off the cypher, several students and members of Hip-Hop Nation followed suit and kept the rhymes going until guests of honor M1 Platoon arrived, albeit late. Although Kaze couldn’t catch a flight back from LA in time for the cypher and the Mighty Arms of Atlas breakdancers also couldn’t make it, Charlie Smarts and Tab-One of Kooley High did make it out with some CDs and flows. Accounted for at the Spit that I knew, besides the big names, were Lexicon, Dekory Rashad, J Swiss, Rhetoric and several others whose names escape me at the second.
Click above to view video of the Pit Spit.
- Photos by Jordan Lawrence, video by Benn Wineka
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