The Origins of Rap Battles

I was afraid to go into any clubs or anything like that, to say my raps because I felt like I wasn't good enough yet. And one day I got a call from my boy, Proof, and he was like, yo, you need to come up to the hip hop shop. So I went there, I said to rap, I got some people jumping around and shit. And then that's when we start having battles at the hip Hop Shop. From there I met Wendy Day and she put me on her battle team. She had this battle team that was, it was an event in LA called the Rap Olympics. Went all the way to the end and lost again but