Sway and Tech present the 100K Battle
MTV’s Sway and King Tech of the “Wake Up Show” are looking for the dopest MC. They have joined forces with some of hip hop’s biggest producers, including The Alchemist and the late J. Dilla, for a $100,000 beat battle. As part of the “100K Battle” offered by Sway and King Tech of the “Wake Up Show,” aspiring artists get a chance to download beats for free from a host of producers like The Alchemist, 9th Wonder, DJ Khalil and J Dilla on their new social networking music site, urSESSION.com The premise of the 100K Battle is that contestants sign up to urSESSION.com and then download a beat from any of the mentioned producers.
Contestants can then rap/sing over the given track and upload it back to the site. Each contestants only gets three attempts to up load their best song. The winner will be chosen by fan votes and will receive $5,000, a trip to Hollywood to appear on the “Wake Up Show” and will have his/her track played nationwide. Grammy award winning System of A Down’s artist Shavo Odajian and internet entrepreneur Narb Avedissian are also co-founders of the urSESSION site, which also doubles as a digital record label. The 100K Battle begins April 2nd on urSESSION.com.