FUSE TV - Combatant Profile: Arsonal's Full Clip

Throughout the course of our interviews with participants of Road to Total Slaughter, one name has consistently popped up in conversation: Arsonal. The New Jersey battle rapper who’s known for never needing homefield advantage is without a doubt one of the most well-respected battle rappers of all time. People either want to face him, or already have—and lost. In a game of heated rivalries, he’s public enemy number one.

His resumé is deep and he’s battled in almost every league known to man, but if you want to see how ferocious Arsonal can get, watch his ten minute battle with Hollow Da Don at Fight Klub.

Hollow had been on a roll at the time, devouring 10 straight opponents at the New York venue. As legend has it, Holllow claims he freestyled each verse against Arsonal, but perhaps that was more crisis management than pure truth.

Facing each other across a pool table, Arsonal and Hollow each had 60 seconds to get their rhymes off. Hollow starts off strong, making “Men In Black” jokes and cracking on Arsonal’s supposed gang affiliation, but everything changes when Ars starts spitting. When he says, “You dope head, you line sniffer, reefer groupie/Type of nigga can’t fuck unless you eat the coochie,” the crowd goes wild, and by the end of his first round, it feels like he’s already blown the roof off the place.

But it gets better.