Essential The Official Battle Rap Random Thoughts Thread (URL, KOTD, UW etc...)
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put the weed down shun
Guess we was laughin also when Lux got 3 zipped vs Mook.. n this is comin from a big Lux fan n want to see him kill Arsonal etc.. but he gonna have to switch his style or something cuz that clips performance aint gonna cut it..
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That Clips battle was one of the nastiest bodybags ever, I don't know what battle you were watching
Clips' shenanigans hurt the flow/replay value of that battle
That Clips performance would bag Ars
Ars is a legend and all that but he's ass
Mook is light on bars but a heavy angler, Ars is not. He's a disrespectful battler with bad punchlines and great delivery and performance
To beat Lux you need a good angle of attack. He can't bar with him, so he's gonna have to angle him and that's not his skill set
Ars has two ways of winning: Lux chokes or he brings up some crazy stuff nobody knows and wins by shock factor in the building
At the end, Lux is gonna win once it comes out and you watch it because his rhymes are gonna be super layered and we're in the bar era so even if Ars wins live he's gonna lose on camera badly.
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Now I have no illusions that Lux isn't incredibly skilled with layering his bars etc. But I've been wondering when he reaches a point where it's too much. His battles are already basically the types of disses that belong on wax. I have to listen to his shyt like 5 times, and I'm not a slouch with the pickup.
Does Lux get a pass for his lyrical miracle style, or is he that good?
To be honest, If you listened to OfficiallyIce on PSA (Joe Budden friend/Ars brother) he was saying he don't want to watch Lux battle anymore because he's like Lupe where the bars are just so super intricate they're impossible to catch live and most people need in the room performances
The thing with Lux is I think he just needs to not necessarily dumb down the lyrics but he needs to use some lines that are able to be caught right away and slow down his delivery. At times he has a tendacy to get in his rap bag where he completely ignores there's a live crowd and raps to the point where it just sounds like random words until you get to watch it online and break them down.
The thing that separates Lux from the other bar nikkas is he has a shiit ton of charisma and a legendary presence on stage which is why people react to bars they probably don't even get right away.
JuvenileHell
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Oh Ars' brother isn't speaking highly of Lux atm? I wonder why
But seriously though, like you said Lux does have performance to go along with his bars. Ill Will opened up a round doing a Lux impression and the shyt hit.
Good points.
People might not like me saying this, but Lux can benefit from the "B-Dot version of Lux" approach, where he has smart but obvious punches throughout. My guess is that due to the presence and other things you mentioned, Lux's punches would cause the battle to be 2 hours.
Another thing -- would Lux have the legendary presence if he battled two times a year regular?
Can't front. I don't feel like Ars has put together a good battle in years. Like maybe longer (but not as bad) than Rex.
Hand out his tax return from being a bus driver and shyt then be like"you the one ashamed, but I understand, as a man it aint p*ssy to get a job though/so I can't clown you fully, but you was Otto"If Clips Lux shows up
If Ars was really a bus driver
The entendres with Ars' bus number and when we figure out that's what 357 really meant
I guess I'm a bit bothered by the idea that Lux is getting "a pass". This is his gift, no one else is coming at their opponent like him. That's what makes the extra listens worthwhile.
Dude writes really well, it's not that disjointed bullshyt that Daylyt spits. It's really just Lux and Quantum Physics at that level of depth, most of these other "over the head" battlers are butchering the english language. And Quantum's disses just don't have the bite that Lux's have.
JuvenileHell
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Sure he would, as long as the battles were dope and had the kind of high profile that he wants. If Clips did this after he bagged Rex, he'd be looked at in a similar light.