Following comments last month that he would he would likely disregard any opportunities of returning to the ring, Cassidy spoke with VladTV and offered the possibility that once the industry has grown to a certain point he would change his mind.
When asked if he thinks Battle Rap has the potential to grow as big as mainstream Hip Hop more generally, Cassidy said he thinks “it should.”
“It’s gon’ definitely keep growing,” he said. “People like competition man. That’s why the UFC just came out of nowhere and just popped off. People like to see people being competitive. That’s why sports is so big. I feel as though that’s what battle rapping bring to the table just in a different form. So it’s gonna continue to grow. It’s gon’ get bigger and bigger. Once it do get bigger, once it is on Pay-Per-View and there’s a lot of money in it that’s when I might think about jumping back in the ring when you got more people that’s on willing to do it ‘cause it’s gonna be more worth their while. It’s already going in that direction, like you said, you got Joe Budden ready to battle. It should be only a matter time before more people wanna jump in that ring and get it popping. That’s when I might feel motivated to start biting heads off again.”
Seguing into a discussion of what would pull him back into the scene, Cassidy said he would want to battle someone who has a history of making music outside of Battle Rap.
“I just want somebody that’s doing music,” he said. “Somebody that got a fanbase. That got hit records out or had hit records out at one point in time. It gotta be something like that. It gotta be an even match. Like even if a nigga win the Gold medal in the Olympics and he the nicest nigga in the Olympics, he not gon’ be able to fight Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather. You gotta turn pro. You gotta have a whole lot of fights and maybe you could work your way up to fighting one of them dudes. Just because you one of the nicest dudes in the Olympics don’t mean you gonna be able to fight one of them. I feel as though that’s the same thing. They’re trying to make it seem like they’re trying to take it into—like you just asked me if it’s gon’ get popular like sports and all that other shit. If ya’ll wanna treat it like that then you gotta have it a certain way [so] that everybody can’t match up against everybody. That ain’t fair. I feel as though I’ve got too much of an advantage over regular battle niggas because if it wasn’t for me they wouldn't even be in the predicament they in. They wouldn’t even be talking the talk or even saying the shit they saying like how they say it if it wasn’t for me. I don’t feel as though I’m gonna backtrack and go battle a battle rapper. But, I respect what they doing and they just need to keep it up, pick the perfect matches. That’s what they do in wrestling, boxing, UFC. They pick the perfect matches for that time. I feel as though they just need to keep doing that.”
At the end of the interview, Cassidy went on to take partial credit for the growth of Battle Rap and the style of lyricism used in the ring specifically.
“I’m definitely a big part of it,” he said when asked about his own perceived influence on the culture. “Definitely. There’s other people that played a part at different periods of time. I played a major part in it. I’m one of the only dudes that started off like that was able to elevate to making music and separate itself from the battle shit. A lot of dudes can’t do that. So I definitely played a big part. Even what I did when I was on, the type of talk I talk, them bars I was bringing to the table is what a lot of dudes incorporate into what they’re doing now. You could hear it. Niggas shout me out in their battles. Niggas say shit that’s similar to something I already said. That’s love. It is what it is.
"Niggas don’t want me to get back in that bag," he continued. "It’s too easy. To talk that battle shit especially when I got time to prepare for niggas, it’s gonna be too easy for me. So you’re gonna have to bring something to the table that’s gon’ be worth my while, so after I cook a nigga I’m gonna get something out of it, not just to cook a nigga so niggas could get entertained. That shit is a business. Now back in the day, before it was a business, before I was making money, that’s what I was doing all the time ‘cause that’s where I was at in the game. But now everything I do I get paid for. I’m not gonna go battle some nigga and fuck with this permanent money that I’m gonna be able to get forever to just please a couple niggas. That shit gon’ have to make perfect sense. The nigga I battle gotta be a perfect nigga so after I do it—I know the outcome, what it’s gonna be. He gon’ get destroyed. But after I destroy him I’ll be able to bring shit to the table for Mayhem Music, my family, my team and not just no 30 [or] 40 grand. That shit ain’t about nothing. That shit ain’t about nothing.”
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