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When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

"No Small Change". Interview with George Wayne, www.vanityfair.com. February 14, 2013.
When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called battling. All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a