Essential The Official Battle Rap Random Thoughts Thread (URL, KOTD, UW etc...)

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Prompts another question. Y'all who went to shows--who had a whole different vibe live? Good or bad?

Mook's 3 rounds against Lux were live as hell at Total Slaughter

Clips was killing it in the building against Hollow at NOME

Those stick out to me as being better in person than people thought they were on cam. Actually the entire Total Slaughter event was fun as hell. even though yall said the PPV was trash.

On the other hand I might say Official vs Jaz came out better on cam than it did live. They were right in the middle of the card and it went on too long
 

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Prompts another question. Y'all who went to shows--who had a whole different vibe live? Good or bad?
Bigg K. He's actually a nice guy in real life. He was the first person who spoke to me when I pulled up at the venue. That whole "Bigg K doesn't fukk with the fans" thing is facade.
 
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Good responses from the legit TBZ posters..

So let me ask this.. Am I the only one who can't even imagine any of the current bubbling dudes (Top, Brizz type) having THAT performance. Like, I have a hard time even imagining those guys putting on undeniable classics on stage. And I like Top, Brizz just fine, but I think there's something missing? Charisma? Command? Is it just their cadence? Or just lack of history?

The wild thing is, when I think objectively (not stan shyt).. the most likely dude I can see having that performance/match/moment that shakes battle rap ...is Chess. Something about his energy and how he pretty much 100% commits makes me think he's the most likely to really blow up. For a while I thought it'd be Brizz, but he seems to have hit a ceiling, or at least entered a zone that doesn't have that "epic" feel.

I think Top has pretty much hit his ceiling...he's shown every time he belongs on a big stage, doin something epic is a far reach for what he does though.

Brizz is still finding his way getting comfortable on a big stage, he's missing three critical components to make him have an "epic" or "room shaking" moment

1. Haymakers - he brought them effortlessly in small rooms, that's what made every vet we can name give him a certified co-sign along with all the other shyt he brings in a battle.

2. Timing - He gotta work on figuring out what lines to give breathing room, and deliver a certain way

3. Removing filler - Brizz say shyt sometimes that don't go anywhere, not shyt the crowd sleep on, but flat out lazy writing. He needs to create material leading up to the punch.

Chess can do everything they do and his unique flow is like stop and go but its clean...to be 16 as long as he holla at the vets behind the scenes and soak.up as much game as he can....he can have those moments at the drop of a dime. Imagine Chess having crowd control like a hitman or stop the room.every time like Verb

:wow:
 

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Brizz is still finding his way getting comfortable on a big stage, he's missing three critical components to make him have an "epic" or "room shaking" moment


2. Timing - He gotta work on figuring out what lines to give breathing room, and deliver a certain way

QP voice
He gotta lay back and let his rhymes get breathing room

But instead he struggles breathing in the room
 

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I think filler is really brizz only problem. He has aloooot of filler at times.
His haymakers seem to be missing something though. Like, he'll drop a haymaker and it'll get my reaction, but it doesn't get that reaction, not as often as I expect from his style anyway.

I guess if his filler wasn't so weak, the haymaker setups would be stronger.
 

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Thread is :snooze:

Release some ducking battles!! You nikkas realize that gw, black ice and smack are sitting on like 10+ recent battles?? :why:

Release the content!
Thank you! It isn't just Smack. It's all those leagues that fukk with CrapGrid doing it too now.

We haven't seen like 30 battles.
 

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Thank you! It isn't just Smack. It's all those leagues that fukk with CrapGrid doing it too now.

We haven't seen like 30 battles.

I know I wasn't bugging out.. What the fukk are these nikkas doing? Where the fukk are the rest of the GW battles? Where is Saga va Chilla? Suge vs Clips?

Either release the content or give me an option to purchase the content(not shiity rapgrid cell phone footage quality either). This is why battlerap will never be shyt.
 

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I think filler is really brizz only problem. He has aloooot of filler at times.
i fukk with brizz, he's like a manic angry ass country preacher just screaming at everyone

he'd improve a lot if he stopped trying to creatively call dudes gay and just at least add more gun bars or something :yeshrug:
 
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