Lets go back in time to a place when battle rap was at the height of greatness in the year 2012. Lets take a look at a great matchup between Pg Skillet vs Logic. At the time they were two of the best emcees from their region. Pg skillet coming from the Baltimore, Maryland area and logic coming from the Hampton roads/east Virginia area. At this time Logic was considered one of the top 5 in Virginia and a fan favorite. Pg skillet was a household name in the battle rap world with a resume that showed he had a high position in the Maryland battle rap scene. At this time many battle rappers were only on there home leagues and traveling to other leagues wasn’t as common as it is today in 2025.
This battle wasn’t the first battle that Virginia had with someone from another city, but it was major at the time considering Pg skillet position in battle rap overall. He had Tay roc on his resume in which at that time was major in so many ways being that Url rappers never battled on any other league then. At this time Virginia and Maryland had established a relationship among the battle rap leagues that existed and the back and forth war with words became a competition that also unified each side. This also kick started the pinnacle of Virginia battle rap in many ways. If you ask people in the battle rap community what the best year of battle rap, they will often say 2012. Even Nuthouse battle league devoted an event to revitalize the energy that happed back in 2012 and named it “2012.” Check out this battle and enjoy the different elements of how it helped cultivate Virginias relationship with Pit fights battle league and also URL as Malc received the URL stamp of approval being one of a few selected battle leagues to become a subdivision of URL. Check out PG Skillet vs Logic
