Murda Mook vs Loaded Lux
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This historic battle would go down as a classic while some considered it to be controversial because in public opinion there was no clear-cut winner. It took place on a Friday sometime in November 2003 at the Underground clothing store on Third Avenue in the Bronx. Murda Mook who had made a name for himself battling Jae Millz on a previous Smack DVD came ready to defeat a newcomer by the name of Loaded Lux. Loaded Lux even though a new comer to DVD battles had been battling in the streets of Harlem for years. In fact he said he battled Jae Millz off camera five times. Coming into the Mook battle Loaded Lux had a winning record in the hood. “I couldn’t give you a number on how many battles I had. I had so many battles running around in Harlem and Bronx but I lost only one. That battle which, I lost severely was to T-Rex on 135 St in Harlem. I literally went around the neighborhood block to block so I could be considered someone to be reckoned with on the rap tip. Rex’s name was buzzing and back in 1999 he handed me my ass. That was my only severe lost.” Mook who had a little bit more camera experience was considered the champion to the public but he felt like he was still a rookie in the game. “I had a bunch of off camera wins but Jae Millz was my first big battle so I really was a new jack on camera. I felt I was just one and zero because I beat Millz. I don’t really count the off camera battles those were just sparing matches getting me ready for what was to come.” The match was made after both names were buzzing in the streets recalls Lux. “A couple of my friends and his people were talking back and fourth. You know how that goes my man is better than yours on a rap tip. I heard Mook’s name through a mutual friend and I heard about the Jae Millz incident. Then I saw how that went down and from there it really took off.”

Before the match Loaded Lux was visiting family. “I came from Harlem. I have family in the Bronx who live a few blocks from the Underground so I was familiar with the area.” Murda Mook had just come back from school in Massachusetts where he played basketball and was chilling with friends in Harlem. “I went to Elms College in Massachusetts where I played ball. I came all the way back for the battle. My man Roscoe and I were at a friends crib before we rode to the Bronx for the battle.” Going into the battle Mook had never heard Lux but knew of him. “I knew him when he went by the name Pop Lux. By the time I did the J Millz stuff I didn’t know what he was up to. Even though I hadn’t heard him I knew he was nice from cats in the hood. There wasn’t any Youtube back then and if there was I was not aware of it. So I just did my little preparation and went in.” Lux on the other hand watched Mook vs J Millz on Smack Vol.5 a week before and admits that he wasn’t impressed. “I didn’t know about Smack until I saw the DVD a week before when I was getting ready for the battle. I wanted to see who I was up against. When I saw it I didn’t think much of Murda Mook. There wasn’t much that impressed me. In that battle he was really feeling his way on the stage. So the first time I saw him I thought I going to kill this kid I can’t wait for this battle.” A neutral spot was chosen that nobody knew until the day of the battle.

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Friends and fans only knew all the talk was about to end in a rap battle, showdown on a Friday night in the Bronx. Loaded Lux was the first to arrive at the location and Mook arrived soon afterwards. “I got there first. I rolled up and it was already packed. I came with only five people but a lot of people from my neck of the woods came. I think we were waiting for Mook to come back from college. He came about ten minutes after I arrived.” As the first around was about to begin it was decided that Mook was going to go first.

Lines from this battle have been sampled in the 2015 JOYRYDE song “FLO”, namely “my flow’s ahead of your flow two times squared” and “I love heats, I think I’m bout to market some, this nigga flow shaky like he got Parkinson’s”.