100 BARS MAGAZINE 002 Oct/Nov 2013 | Page 13

100 Bars: Where are you from? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Boston 100 Bars: How did you get your name? 40 B.A.R.R.S: My favorite number is 40 and I came up with b.a.r.r.s. I love acronyms. I used to be 40 Cal which are my initials until I decided to seriously rap and had to come up with something different cause of 40 Cal from the dip set 100 Bars: When did you start rapping? 40 B.A.R.R.S: I started to rap like 10 years ago,I can sing so I would make hooks for my people then I realized I was kinda nice lyrically when I applied myself. The past five years is when I decided to make a career of it tho. 100 Bars: Where there any female emcees or emcees period that you looked up to or that inspired you to start rapping? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Eminem made me wanna rap lml 100 Bars: Before you started battling were you a fan of battle rap?? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Nope. Its ironic my favorite emcee happened to come from it tho. I jus got hip to battles like 2 years ago and I jumped in immediately 100 Bars: Did you ever battle off camera? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Playing around n the hood a couple times Lol 100 Bars: Your first battle was on Grindtime now with Moroney. Did you feel any kind of way with your first battle being with a Male.? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Nope. Opponents the same to me. Someone to beat. It don’t matter the sex 100 Bars: Did you feel pressure battling in front of the Boston Legend ED.O.G? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Nahh. Ed o is extremely down to earth and cool as fuck. I was just nervous overall 100 Bars: How did the opportunity at queen of the ring come about? 40 B.A.R.R.S: After doing a few Grindtime battles, Debo reached out to me 100 Bars: Who else did you battle in grind time? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Gatman Jones, menace, and Precyse. Precyse was after I sparred tho 100 Bars: Is that footage out?? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Not against Precyse n Gatman Lol my two judged bodies lml 100 Bars: Your first battle in sparring session was with Imah X, how did you feel you did?? 40 B.A.R.R.S: I lost..I let her bars surprise n affect me..I choked twice 40 b.a.r.r.s murder she wrote 100 Bars: You called out Precyse in that battle, is that what led to the battle on Grindtime that never surfaced? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Nah we were already scheduled to battle Lol 100 Bars: When you hopped in the ring with Star Smilez did you feel like you had to prove yourself for the QOTR crowd?? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Hell yea I was fresh off the loss with Imah 100 Bars: What did you do different? 40 B.A.R.R.S: I beat Star lmao 100 Bars: When you battled Norma Bayts you were extra aggressive was there tension between you both? 40 B.A.R.R.S: Yes Lol she was being disrespectful when I was rapping. It was pissing me off 100 Bars: How do you think you did? Alot of people say that was norma’s best performance 40 B.A.R.R.S: They always bring they best against me,Imah,Star,Norma. It don’t be enough though 100 Bars: Your next battle was with Tori Doe. Alot of people think you over did talking about her alleged abortion angle. How do you feel about that? 40 B.A.R.R.S: It was an angle..*Shrugs*..and apparently as effective as I hoped. People cant play me. I got bars,if I took a personal angle, it was cause I wanted too, its not like I didn’t bring bars 12