Here's how it happened. Note: the flash is an optical slave. The assistant is lovely.

Ice-9, also known as Macy Pruitt, rap battles Ayvee at the Hair Hole on Saturday night. No Coast Battles, a Columbia based rap battle league of which Pruitt is member, organized the event. Ayvee, a visiting rapper from Rockford Ill, says the hip-hop scene in Columbia is, "more chill," because people are concerned with having fun rather than being tough.