DJ OBI – Take Me Away ft. Ayanfe & Bien [Mp3 Download]
DJ OBI – Take Me Away ft. Ayanfe & Bien Mp3 Download
Alex Harris, known by his stage name Otherwize, is a rapper from Los Angeles, California affiliated with Project Blowed and Blak Forest. Otherwize is most notable for defeating Eminem in a battle rap tournament at the ’97 Rap Olympics.
== Battle Rap ==
MC Juice and Otherwize are the only two battle rappers to defeat Eminem in official tournaments. Otherwize placed third at Scribble Jam ’99, losing to the winner of the tournament, Eyedea. His reign as battle champion at Club Elements in Los Angeles was covered in the documentary Where We’re From: The Elements Documentary. In Where We’re From, rapper Seefor Yourself stated, “Otherwize was that top dude in LA… One of the illest, if not the illest, battle MCs of all time.”
== Film ==
Otherwize was featured in the documentaries Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme and Where We’re From: The Elements Documentary.
== Publications ==
Riddlore’s book Born a Villain has an oral history of the ’97 Rap Olympics which features quotes from an interview with Otherwize. Otherwize’s battle skills and time as a member of Hip Hop Kclan is discussed in Rifleman’s book King Khule.
Wendy Day discusses the ’97 Rap Olympics in Dan Charnas’s book The Big Payback and The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip Hop.
Artist: DJ OBI
Featuring: Ayanfe and Bien
Producer: Felix Joseph and AoD
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:04
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