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10/10/2006 What's up? I'm doing well. I've just been busy working getting the tournament situated and adding some new features for LetsBeef. Can you give us some history of LetsBeef? We started LetsBeef in November of 2005. We were just looking for a way to let people freestyle battle over the internet. We figured out a way we could do it and we offered it up for free. Since then, we've done a lot more. We've added some new things and we just relaunched our site which includes our Exclusive Membership and our tournament featuring Lil Flip. There are also other options you can do on the site like put crews together, and battle other crews. Are you satisfied with how the site's been growing? We're definitely satisfied. We've seen some real growth. We're the only site on the internet that has what we have to offer and LetsBeef is a site that is geared towards MC's and hip-hop fans. We have over 35,000 members right now. What's going on with the tournament featuring Lil' Flip? It starts in November. It's a 64 person tournament and it's run in elimination style. The 64 MC's will battle each other until there is a winner. The winner will drop a freestyle verse and it will be compared to Lil Flip's verse. If the person has a better verse than Flip, they get $2000. This is courtesy of 845 Entertainment and is also a promotion for the new Flip DVD scheduled for January, 2007 titled What it Do. Who's judging the tournament? We have a membership for $5 a month. Anybody that pays for the membership is allowed to vote and is able to qualify for the tournament. The staff as well as 845 Entertainment will vote on the final freestyle verse. Have you been able to find a lot of talent? There are some good and talented MC's and there are some kids who like rap music but they're not serious-minded MC's. We have over 35,000 and there are hundreds of talented MC's. The ones who will make it into the tournament definitely have some skills. What's the most popular feature on LetsBeef.com? When we started off it was just the freestyle battle section. We want serious-minded MC's to get a chance to work with each other. It's hard to get recognized out there even if you do have talent. Because we are focused on building the ultimate community for MC's they can now upload tracks to their profile and get feedback from other MC's. We're just trying to promote the underground MC's and get them noticed. In September we also added the video section where you can battle using a webcam. You can also form your crews and then battle other crews. The crews and the tracks have feature has actually been a really good way of networking for everyone. What are you guys doing with Rockwilder? We work on RocBattle.com with Rockwilder. It's a site for music producers to network, battle, sell beats and they have tournaments there as well. Rockwilder has helped out LetsBeef because he's giving us some beats for the MC's to battle on and he's giving the winner of this tournament a beat for whatever project they're working on. Where do you see LetsBeef going in the future? We want it to be a platform for people around the world to show themselves to legitimate record companies. That's the direction we're going for. It is a site that anybody can use, but our focus is for the serious-minded MC's who can make it and really need a chance. Right now, we're really focusing on making LetsBeef the breeding ground for MC's on the internet. What do you want to say to everybody? I just want them to know that the tournament is starting November 1. You can sign up at Let's Beef and you need to start battling. You need to grab the premium membership which is $5 a month. There are lots of features that you'll get with that including crews, tracks, tournaments for cash and more. You also get a chance to win up to $2,000 and get a beat from Rockwilder. There's not a price you can put on that. http://www.LetsBeef.com http://www.RocBattle.com

By Brian Kayser

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