Arcane's comments about caustic.
Here's the truth about the Caustic situation...
Throughout the GP, We spoke often about our ideas for upcoming opponents, a friendship that was initiated by Caustic. He didn’t have much insight into the Canadian roster so I helped him with ideas for all of his GP opponents, including Chedda. This is a very common occurrence when battlers are preparing for battles at around the same time. I actually shot him several ideas for his battle with Chedda. Still, he built his own rounds, just as I build all my own rounds.
After Caustic got stopped at the border, Being that he was my boy, I felt genuinely bad for him, considering he was virtually guaranteed to come through his side of the bracket. Once he knew he wasn’t going to be battling Chedda, he offered to shoot me a few bars, some of which were based on my ideas and angles. It should also be noted that Caustic did not contribute one bar/angle for any of my previous GP battles. The only battle he contributed ideas to was against Chedda and even that was very minimal.
Caustic didn’t ask for anything in return. In fact, it was me who offered to shoot him a couple bills if I won. I felt compelled to break off a little bread not so much for the couple bars, but more because I felt circumstances screwed him over. My biggest mistake was offering Caustic anything at all. At the end of the day i regret it and tbh i really didnt even need his help at all. It's a lesson learned.
To all those battle rap fans whose innocence has been shattered… welcome to reality.
Battlers collabo ALL THE TIME, and to far greater extremes than what went on me and Caustic.
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Fast forward to Blackout 3… At a time when I felt virtually unstoppable, and didn’t think Diz could come up with enough hard hitting angles to beat me. Instead I got ambushed by Diz and his secretary 100 Bulletz with hard evidence confirming my arrangement with Caustic. I was mortified, betrayed and enraged all at once. Brilliantly played… at first. We all laughed in the hotel after, but in the moment it was tough to handle. But I dug in and delivered what I knew was better material. Was it the dream matchup I envisioned? Not at all. But it is my proudest moment as a battle emcee, because of what I had to deal with. Once Diz felt the weight of my bars, and once the fans could see I wasn’t going to wither away, he crumbled… In fact he did everything he could to destroy the battle. Fuck it...I’ll let everyone else be their own judge and jury as to who really won.
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