Stevens student Joshua Negron wants to host a rap battle on campus, in the style of “Epic Rap Battles of History” on YouTube. So far, he’s sent out a survey asking students how they would want the event to be set up. I asked him some questions about how the idea came to him, how he envisions the structure of the event, and where people who are interested can go for more information.
What made you want to organize a rap battle here at Stevens?
One of my fraternity brothers, Christopher Melendrez, had initially come up with the idea of having an event very similar to the videos that are made on YouTube. With the help of the source of the initial idea, I decided to take charge of organizing the event.
There was a survey sent out a few weeks ago, did you get good feedback from it?
The survey that was sent out was mainly to gain an idea of who would be interested in going to an event like this and also to see how many people would be interested in actually performing in the event. The feedback we got was extremely positive. From the responses, my fraternity and I were extremely excited to start!
Are you expecting a lot of attendees and competitors?
As of now there are a handful of people who are interested, according to the survey, but a much larger number of people that heard of the event by word of mouth. So at this moment, the interest pool is large and growing every day.
How will the event be structured?
The idea so far for the event would be to have single performers facing each other in a tournament-like battle and in the end, there will be a winner. Also, we plan to have large group performances as an intermission show or something of that sort.
Will people actually be reading from their phones/sheets of paper?
There were only a few people interested in using sheets of paper, so we would like to limit the performances to memorization. The reason for this is so that the performers do not have anything restricting them from walking around the stage and being interactive with the audiences, however, this aspect of the event is still up in the air.
Will there be pre-selected beats or will you allow competitors to choose their own?
We would like all the performers to put together beats that they will perform with and they will be able to use those for their performances.
When and where can students watch or get involved?
Right now, we have the event scheduled for the first week of April, so if there is a student who is interested, I would tell them to email jnegron@stevens.edu. This way, emails are being collected as early as possible and those interested can be contacted when more details come.
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