Sonic the Loserhog?
January 29, 2009 • Artists, Events, Questionable Marketing • Comments
Charles Hamilton
Up and coming rap cat Charles Hamilton, a rapidly rising blip on the rap radar (sorry Elliott Wilson), known to anyone due to his very effective internet marketing prowess, stumbled a bit the other night at NY club SOBs, when he voluntarily, and largely “for fun”, challenged battle-rap veteran Serius Jones to a bit of hip-hop verbal sparring. It was widely reported amongst internet murmuring, that Hamilton lost pretty badly.
My good friend, and obviously, my Favorite White Boy, broke down his declaration of victory for Charles Hamilton that night, backed by a solid argument. Part of his reasoning:
Serius Jones is known primarily as a battle rapper. Most heads saw him kill Jin on the mic a few years back. This dude is comfortable in a battle going off the top. And its not like Charles Hamilton doesn’t provide ample amounts of material to mock. So, Serius in a battle is nothing new. Oh, and he has an album to promote.
Charles on the other hand has been widely dismissed as a “rapper/blogger” who really shouldn’t be taken seriously as a hip-hop artist. He wears pink and talks about air conditioners and God. Its no small feat that this dude stepped up and went toe-to-toe with a battle vet and left standing. And if you watch the video, he held his own.
Serius Jones
Ok, fair enough. However, I then conducted a quick, non-scientific poll. I twitter searched “Hamilton” and “Serius” and counted the responses that were more than just someone sharing a link. I counted any tweet that had an opinion. 11/11 declared that Serius “murked”, “killed”, “got in that a**”, or otherwise affirmed what I have felt is a general consensus that Hamilton lost this semi-friendly battle.
