young yeesh
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Battlers and leagues are making more than ever, but somehow battle rap is declining
Essential The Official Battle Rap Random Thoughts Thread (URL, KOTD, UW etc...)
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Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
That's true, good pointI mean, to be fair, that's LEGITIMATELY the way people should negotiate. It's just that theirs was more public. You don't come in with a number that's "reasonable" to you, because chances are the other party was willing to pay you more anyway. When you have leverage, you come in with a number that you're sure they're going to say no to, in hopes that they'll likely come back with a number higher than what you were willing to take in the first place.It's not about being "fair" breh, it's about getting to the bag.
Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
I said I used to watch that shyt, I know that eventually his videos and shyt stopped and 15 minutes of fame ain't popping anymore. I was just mentioning him to kind of time stamp the convo. To me around that time was when battle rap was fire but a little after that there is decline. I mean compare that era to now, shyt aint the same.
Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
As far as anticipation for battles and viewership I would say yeah it is on a decline.
I aint gonna argue with you but look at the views of battles from the time I speak of and the views now. They may be making money but shyt ain't popping as it was before as far as viewership and the attention it draws.
Also look at what you said, no event would be as big as that ever. Logically speaking that means its been on a decline ever since then and that was the peak
Also them lil events URL do don't really count. Nome and Summer Madness are the real events, all the other events they have only have a good one or two battles I want to watch.
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SpacelySprockets
Veteran
faceoff streaming live
young yeesh
All Star
you keep metioning viewership. Are you basing that off of YouTube? You know about PPV, right? In your era, the first time the general public saw a battle was on YouTube (if they weren't in the building). Now we have PPV and VOD. I didnt even click on Twork vs Suge when it dropped on YT because I saw it 3 times before the URL channel dropped it on YT.As far as anticipation for battles and viewership I would say yeah it is on a decline.
I aint gonna argue with you but look at the views of battles from the time I speak of and the views now. They may be making money but shyt ain't popping as it was before as far as viewership and the attention it draws.
Also look at what you said, no event would be as big as that ever. Logically speaking that means its been on a decline ever since then and that was the peak
Yapdatfool
Superstar
Qb vs Shooney best battle on the RBE card IMO... should be a good disrespectful back and forth?
Winter Madness 1 better come correct, RBE kinda doing they thing this year and most of URL and KOTD events were aight.
Everybody too buddy buddy and cookie cutter to stand out. Few new guys are unique or have consistency but overall a whole lotta meh.
Winter Madness 1 better come correct, RBE kinda doing they thing this year and most of URL and KOTD events were aight.
Everybody too buddy buddy and cookie cutter to stand out. Few new guys are unique or have consistency but overall a whole lotta meh.
Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
Alright bro, I ain't know the PPV was that big. Do you know how many people bought it? Were people bootlegging them?
I guess that brings in more money for them which is good but Im saying that the numbers don't seem as big from the youtube views and also from what I see on social media these days too. Maybe I'm wrong though.
It's crazy we never really saw Head Ice in his prime. His whole hood was already on his d!ck by the time we saw him on Lionz Den. That old Rex footage is so crucial, we can SEE that the NH battle was the blueprint for small room battles.
Damn that NH battle was crazy, it was TABOO to battle face to face like this. Rex's composure was unbelievable, at least until I found out they battled somewhere uptown. My dumb ass thought they were in Philly for like the first year of watching this battle. There were legendary battlers that flat out refused to battle this way at the time. Math punched Dose because he told him beforehand that he didn't want to battle that way, and Dose still pressed up on him. WeGoHard couldn't have existed back then, cause no one was trying to embrace the performance art aspect of this thing. nikkas would be getting stomped out mid battle, Steams might have gotten steamed for all that wiggling.
But yeah, I wish Ice had some footage like this. The greats bow to him still, but it just doesn't sound 100% believable. Mook doesn't even have anything like this.
Damn that NH battle was crazy, it was TABOO to battle face to face like this. Rex's composure was unbelievable, at least until I found out they battled somewhere uptown. My dumb ass thought they were in Philly for like the first year of watching this battle. There were legendary battlers that flat out refused to battle this way at the time. Math punched Dose because he told him beforehand that he didn't want to battle that way, and Dose still pressed up on him. WeGoHard couldn't have existed back then, cause no one was trying to embrace the performance art aspect of this thing. nikkas would be getting stomped out mid battle, Steams might have gotten steamed for all that wiggling.
But yeah, I wish Ice had some footage like this. The greats bow to him still, but it just doesn't sound 100% believable. Mook doesn't even have anything like this.
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
Respect fam but this just shows you’re arguing way outta your depth with people who are very much in...depth (?
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As far as anticipation for battles and viewership I would say yeah it is on a decline.
I aint gonna argue with you but look at the views of battles from the time I speak of and the views now. They may be making money but shyt ain't popping as it was before as far as viewership and the attention it draws.
Also look at what you said, no event would be as big as that ever. Logically speaking that means its been on a decline ever since then and that was the peak
We're done man.
Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
How many dope to classic battles do they usually have? They got a lot of whack events man.
ReasonableMatic
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I’mma just leave this here for nikkas..
I don’t believe a LOTTA nikkas, but I most definitely believe Lux.
And Lux said this when the mere mention of his name had nikkas SHOOK.
Every time somebody mentions that Ars and Twork are battling Summer Madness I keep wondering why the hell Smack is booking battles a year in advance. Then I remember that SM8 is gonna be in damn near the winter. 
