“I think I had him so rattled,” joked Scott Moore, aka Scomo, when talking to Daily Star Sport. “He was saying all these things about me because he was that rattled!”
Moore, who’s a battle rapper, had been engaged in a confrontation on social media with UFC royalty Conor McGregor. The ex-UFC star has made no secret of his want to run for Irish presidency in latest weeks – and Moore had taken problem with a few of his strategies.
He despatched out a tweet to McGregor, and to his shock, the Notorious One replied. “I’m a Twitter user, if there’s someone on my mind, or if there’s someone I see, and I have something to say about it, I’ll say it!
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However, Moore admitted he was shocked when McGregor responded: “You know, if you tweet about a celebrity, you don’t expect them to respond!” McGregor had fired again with private insults – and Moore noticed the right alternative to have interaction in a battle rap with the star.
In now deleted tweets seen by Daily Star Sport, McGregor takes intention at Moore’s pores and skin. The battle rapper admitted he suffers from a psychological well being situation that causes him to select at his pores and skin.
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“He insulted my pores and skin, calling me scabby or no matter. And he insulted me like, as a result of I had battle rapper within the bio, like, I do rap battles – I’m a battle rapper. That’s an curiosity of mine.” The pair started to exchange verses – before McGregor abruptly stopped, uploading a video of him speaking to the camera.
Moore added: “It ended up attending to the purpose the place he was insulting me then, however he wasn’t rhyming. He wasn’t rapping, he was simply insulting me.” Moore said there’s a difference between a celebrity doing that on social media and a casual citizen.
The video was swiftly deleted by McGregor, but Moore said the insults might have crossed a line: “I’ve a psychological well being situation, which suggests I’ve compulsion to select at my pores and skin. I am unable to assist that, like, I’ve pores and skin choosing dysfunction, like it’s a type of self hurt.
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“I think if you’re gonna say like that, you should be able to stand over what you say… And it’s not stand over what he’s saying, it’s that he is deleting tweets, he’s blocking me.”
McGregor had challenged Moore to a struggle, with Moore asking him to ship his location. The ex-UFC champion had one other thought, his entrance backyard – however he then blocked the battle rapper.
Instead, Moore is now seeking to face McGregor on stage so the pair can have a battle rap.
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“I’m a battle rapper. So, like, I’m very steeped within the artwork of trash discuss, you already know, rhyming trash discuss, however trash discuss nonetheless, I’m excellent at insulting folks in a really suave means.
“In a means that has a really a lot the craft Conor McGregor is understood for, he’s one of many prime so referred to as trash talkers within the MMA, however each time he speaks with an precise trash talker, any person that basically does this, he blocks them!”
Moore also looks to use his platform for change, and he hit back at the ableist slurs used by McGregor in one of his Twitter videos. He added: “I’m autistic, and I’ve used battle rap to stay up for disabled folks and form of communicate out towards ableism.”
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However, Moore was eager to convey he did not wish to play the sufferer, he needs to face McGregor on stage for all of his followers to see.
“This isn’t about me saying, ‘Oh, Conor McGregor has insulted me’, it’s not about saying, ‘Oh, you can’t insult me, I’m autistic’. It’s about saying that he’s insulted me, for my skin, and if he wants to insult me for my skin, why won’t he face me? Like to battle me? You know, why?”
Moore is keen to face on stage and on camera for the world to see – “that supply nonetheless stands,” he concluded.
Daily Star Sport have contacted Conor McGregor’s representatives for comment.You can view their war of words on Twitter right here