That dry NYC mixtape delivery will not translate well outside of NY...and I liked the bars...I'm just not an NYcentric nikka and I know all about that "real life netcee" style that both JR and Don Q use.
That shyt was born from chatroom nikkas who listened to the lox and watched smack dvd back in the day.
Y'all remember when EVERYBODY from Harlem had that 3-bar Posta Boy style...and if the 3 syllables didn't match, they would force them to.
That being said, Tory doesn't have bars like that...but calling having rap patterns "using Eminem" tricks when nikkas been doing crazy flows, is kinda weak. You can't downplay somebody's strongpoint because you don't have the mental elasticity to do the same.
It's like comparing Royce and Redman to Jadakiss/Banks/Fab/Cassidy.
The latter group of nikkas' style is contained WITHIN the Royce and Redman level of rap. It's not different, it's just a lower level of having "bars".
Tory camouflages an EVEN LOWER level of having bars with the flow style of somebody like Royce...but that's not exactly wack to me...and I don't think breh writes all of his shyt anyway.