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

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shyt doesn't have anything to do with battle rap but I thought it was dope he did this blog. Talking about life shyt and etc.

EDIT: looks like he got rid of ole girl, talking about full custody of his daughter and etc.
 
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Ardamus said:
Aight I finished Bodied.
So here's what I'll say.

The good: The shyt is well shot and the added graphics give it a nice touch. The actual actors in it were on point and it was dope they gave a lot of names in the battle community cameos in it. It definitely made me realize if Lux and Hollow were a 2 on 2 team, they would be sick with it. Didn't mind the plot too much. The messages of race, politics, gender, and etc. constantly throughout the film, I appreciated (whoever played Ben Grym's wife had the best rounds of the whole movie, lol).
The bad: Some cringeworthy moments, the main character not knowing how to rap but utilizing slam poetry to be able to battle rap was not something I was into. And also, climbing up the ranks in battle rap like that doesn't reflect the reality completely. A big exaggerated. I feel like it the ending was way too open-ended as well. Some of the acting from some of the battle rap personalities was pretty forced, too, and sometimes it seemed like it was just extra awkward.

Overall: I give it a 3 out of 5. I know a lot of y'all complained because it was more so from the perspective of the GT/KOTD/Scribble Jam/white demographic of battle rap and would prefer to see a film from the perspective of the SMACK DVD era based style. I agree....I want to see that, too, because it would be nice to have a battle rap film kind of like "Juice" and etc. But I like that its a start and quite a few of the greats, especially SMACK, got to be a part of this project in some form to pay homage in a way. I would have had more of a problem with that if they didn't do that. I thought it was cool and happy that it was based around battle rap but as a film overall...a tad overhyped. Gave me that indie film feel but I needed a bit more from the plot in the end.
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You forgot to shout out the OG super killa Billy Pistolz:bustback:
 
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I’m curious about y’all thoughts on RBE this year. I personally prefer when they throw multiple events, as opposed to the 3 events they had this year.
 
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theflyest said:
Why not have both?

KOTD’s cards don’t really cater to the urban crowd anyway.

I’m looking at the responses and wondering what do y’all really expect from a KOTD card? This is just like any of there other cards.
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I guess after being somewhat quiet for the year folks expected something big for their 10 year anniversary card, the card doesn't really do that, hence the negative feedback.
 
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theflyest said:
I’m curious about y’all thoughts on RBE this year. I personally prefer when they throw multiple events, as opposed to the 3 events they had this year.
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I've been rocking with RBE for a while now so I'm glad to see them come up. However, that last event felt like it wasn't as good as end result at the Mook vs Verb event.
I say at this point, I hope they continue to keep putting together these cars and not do like UDUBB with their events.
 
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