Rapper Jin Tha MC was defeated by Serius Jones in a stacked contest with Jones using pre-written material and some seriously racist rhymes. Jin, the champion from BET’s 106 & Park Freestyle Friday, got shot down during Allhiphop’s exclusive Fight Klub emcee battle in New York City last month.
Jin has defied industry standards, using his lyrics to aggressively fight racist radio parodies like New York radio station Hot 97’s “Tsunami Song” earlier this year.
Jin flew into battle with knockout lines like, “He couldn’t milk the game for what it’s worth if he was playing with cows.” Jones threw sand in his eyes, calling out: “You ain’t a Ruff Ryder, you on the back like one of them broads/DMX tried to kill him for trying to cook one of his dogs.”
The crowd further erupted after Jones spit, “You’ve been whack your whole career/Ain’t there two billion people in China, you can’t even go platinum over there?”
In his rhyme, Jin retorted that he would be “assassinated” if he spit out bigoted raps about black Americans. But Jones’ racially charged insults appeared to flummox the Chinese American rapper.
“As soon as Serius Jones started spitting with the racist jokes, I felt like he was reaching out to the lowest common denominator,” said Miss Info, who said she had seen Jones successfully battle before without having to resort to such tactics.
“I think it took Jin out of his stride. … He is usually able to take that and brush it right off. When Serius Jones came with straight fire in the sudden death round, and colorblind fire, then I knew he won the battle. They both had daggers, Serius’ were just sharper.”
Host International P agreed. “There was one winner. That boy Serius is serious. He’s the new champ of Fight Klub.”
However, the panel of judges —Just Blaze, D-Block CEO Sheek Louch and Hot 97 radio jock Miss Info — admitted they had to order the sudden death round because they were troubled by the race-related slams.
As for his pre-fab freestyle, Jones told allhiphop.com: “It’s ten thousand dollars. I’d be a fool to not have some thoughts prepared for the battle. Jin definitely has thoughts prepared and he has written raps, but he just disguises by adding freestyle punchlines at the right time. I use the same technique. This isn’t about an original freestyle, this is about ten thousand dollars.”
