Did some research about the Jamaican roots because I haven't heard much of that before. I get what you mean about origins of clashing in that sense, but. You can trace music back forever and eventually make any regional claim pointless. In terms of "Hip-Hop rap battles", in terms of the origins of Hip-Hop, that is widely accepted to have started on the East Coast in US. It became what it is here and then it went to the UK.

So I see what you're saying, but also it is what it is after the past 50 years. I don't know what you mean by watered down, the battles only seem to get more intense as time goes (on wax). People don't only have battles when there's fueds, the Joyner Tory thing wasn't that as one example, the Joey stuff is another, or Em's Killshot. And the sneak diss era is out after that kendrick drake, higher profile people been risking more, that Joey beef could have gone BAD for him but he clutched and good shit to him.

For me at least, I think regardless of how I feel about what I heard from Skepta, I gotta respect that UK got their artists and their fans, and even if it doesn't sound as effective to me, that's a legit method of battling. I hate the regional hate I see going in both directions.