For those of you that haven’t heard of Grind Time, or didn’t see our previous post on them, it’s The World’s #1 Rap Battle League started by emcee’s for emcee’s. I’ve been a huge fan of Grind Time, and a lot of the rappers involved for as long as I’ve known about the league, and certain battlers based on performances prior to the league’s formation. When I first heard about Battle Of LA 3, I knew I had to be there, and I waited impatiently for a few months till that day finally came. The event, better known as “BOLA 3” was held on New Years Eve at The Airliner, in Los Angeles, and I couldn’t think of a better way for me to have brought in 2010 than being at this event. It was my first time at a Grind Time event, and it was easily one of the funnest nights of my life, a jam packed night of entertainment from start to finish! Grind Time has single-handedly taken the battle scene to new heights, and I look forward to another big year from them. Much love to @LushOne, and everyone else involved in making this event happen! I hope they hold more events in Los Angeles, cause I will definitely be there every time!

To stay updated with their events, and latest battles visit the following links:
GrindTimeNow.com | Youtube.com/Drect (SUBSCRIBE!) | TWITTER | Myspace

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I will keep this post updated with links to each battle as they come out, stay tuned!

Okwerdz gave us a shoutout in one of his video updates on his Youtube Channel and to my surprise he also gave a shoutout later in the night during a freestyle cypher he did during his set with Dizaster, Sahtyre, Cadalack Ron, etc when I decided to pull out the video camera. I will post that footage later. Big ups to Okwerdz for showing love!

BOLA 3 Release Schedule (all dates subject to change) (VIA Coconuts Ent.)

GRIND TIME NOW PRESENTS: BATTLE OF LA 3 (PROMO VIDEO)

1/20/10 Dizaster vs Vision
1/26/10 NoCanDo vs DirtBag Dan
1/29/10 Cadalack Ron vs Absyrd
2/2/10 Okwerdz vs Hollow the Don (1st battle with 100K views in 1 week, support below!)
Okwerdz – The Off Season Mixtape on Itunes | Amazon | Physical Copy
Hollow Da Don – “Money Changes, Loyalty Don’t” street album
2/5/10 Fox vs QuDawg
2/9/10 Fredo vs Kronic Plague
2/12/10 Reverse Live vs Pariah
2/19/10 Sahtyre vs Real Deal
2/26/10 Marvwon vs Madness
3/1/10 Rheteric vs Tiger Ty
3/8/10 Detective Blacksmith vs Everybody Knows
3/13/10 Ghambit vs Cobra Ky
3/18/10 Vokab vs Celestial
3/23/10 Lucky Luch vs Absyrd
3/28/10 Taz vs ET