Imagine, first, freestyle rapping at all. If you can wrap your head around the art of spitting rhymes and punchlines on the fly, imagine doing it for more than eleven hours straight.Then, imagine doing all the above while facing off against 250 competitors in 200 freestyle battles, and losing just three of them.On 7 November, 24-year-old Spanish MC Gazir, who moonlights as a physics student at the University of Oviedo, set a Guinness World Record by completing 200 freestyle battles in under 12 hours – an effort that seems to defy the very subject he studies in his spare time.When Gazir - born Gabriel Sánchez Poyal - speaks with Euronews Culture four days later, the first thing he does is apologise for his voice. It still hadn’t fully recovered.“Every part of my body, my mind and even my soul was involved to make this possible,” he says.In an ordinary freestyle competition, he explains, he might have three or four battles in a day. At Red Bull Gazir Contra Todos, held in his hometown of Gijón, he performed 50 times as many.To complete the challenge, he had to finish within 12 hours and lose no more than 10 battles. He needed 11 hours, 23 minutes and 14 seconds, and he won 197 of them.By the end of the event, he says…
200 battles in 11 hours: Inside the record-setting freestyle feat of Spanish rapper Gazir
The rapper, who set a Guinness World Record for freestyle rapping in early November, says he "trained like an athlete" and burned around 3,000 calories during the event.
In brief
Imagine, first, freestyle rapping at all. It still hadn’t fully recovered.“Every part of my body, my mind and even my soul was involved to make this possible,” he says.In an ordinary freestyle competition, he explains, he might have three or four battles in a day. At Red Bull Gazir Contra Todos, held in his hometown of Gijón, he performed 50 times as many.To complete the challenge, he had to finish within 12 hours and lose no more than 10 battles.
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