Why don't you watch and support battle rap?

[Rawster]

If you love the art of hip hop and care about lyrics then you probably watch battle rap too, as that's the purest form of rap.

If you just want to shake your ass, turn up or put on something to provide a soundtrack while you cook or clean your house then you listen to partynextdoor, young thug, drake etc

I love both and remember watching the boys battle since grade school days. when if you said you rap people said let me hear something! I can't even imagine asking one of these mumbling non-singing fools to rap me a verse today

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

I watch it hear and there but I don't keep up with it like I did when mook, Rex, and lux was running it.

plus some of those battles are lopsided from the start because most of them are in nyc and that's when certain dudes have a home field advantage as far as the crowd.

none of those nikkas outside of surf can do anything outside of battle rap though.

 

[ReasonableMatic]

I watch it hear and there but I don't keep up with it like I did when mook, Rex, and lux was running it.

plus some of those battles are lopsided from the start because most of them are in nyc and that's when certain dudes have a home field advantage as far as the crowd.

none of those nikkas outside of surf can do anything outside of battle rap though.

I feel you but my nikka.

Why does it matter if they can do something outside of battlerap tho?

You never hear a nikka say " yo son, that new kid Jay Elec is FIRE, can he battle tho?"

What does it matter?

They're two different skills.

Most of the legend we grew up listening to in the 90s just happen to do both.

Jay Z, DMX, Kiss, Styles, Big L, etc

Canabis was GARBAGE in a battle.
Does that mean his run in the 90s didn't matter?

Battling and making music are two SEPERATE skills that should be appreciated equally.

I'll fukk around and bump Liquid Swords and turn around and bump Codiene Crazy.

Both rappers could never do what the other one does. But does that mean they're not great at what they do?

To not acknowledge battlerap as as it's own entity and seeing it as inferior to music is the problem and reason why nikkas are out of the loop.

But like I posted earlier, to those that are stuck in this whole "where the beat at, where the music at" mentality

All y'all fav rappers are in the loop
why y'all not

 

[Ghost Utmost]

fukk taking weeks to research your opponent and write a novela about them.

fukk rhyming over no beat.

I want to see a freestyle battle over beats. That's where the real skill lies. nikkas done even spit in a cadence as if there would possibly be a beat. They do slam poetry dissing each other.

It's cool here and there but I run out of gas with it after about 5 minutes.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

The fact that battle rappers make wack songs is another sticking point.

Hip Hop is about music at it's core. Being a better rapper means you sound dope. Sounding dope extends to the product (tracks).

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Nobody was coming with punchlines and multisyllable rhymes off the top

If Im not mistaken, Supernatural (at the time) is one of the true few who I believe can do this.

 

[JuvenileHell]

Lmao @ folks talking about "Where are the beats"

Ever since they took out beats, and made written battle raps a staple, the artform has been taken to new heights in terms of creativity and popularity. Not to mention, like the OP said, the core rules of Rap are obeyed to the highest degree. Modern acapella battle rap >>>> rambling over a beat at scribble jam

 

[George's Dilemma]

I respect it, but its not my cup of tea. I will say though, I wish the same hunger present in battle rapping existed within the artistry of album making. Chasing hits destroyed any semblence of creativity within album making processes. Another thing I respect about battle rap is that the weight falls upon individual emcees. The average album today has a ton of guest artists, or as you fakkets who support that bullsh!t call it, features. Rappers cant hold the full weight of an album for dolo any more, putting out compilations instead of solo albums.

The more I think about it, battle rapping might be the last aspect of Hip Hop that isnt tainted and commercialized. I suppose an argument can be made for graffiti, as rappers dont even have DJ's anymore sad to say. And emceeing as a signed artist is sh!t to me. Absolute trash.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

The fact that battle rappers make wack songs is another sticking point.

Hip Hop is about music at it's core. Being a better rapper means you sound dope. Sounding dope extends to the product (tracks).

Do rappers that don't battle make shytty music? Yes or no.

Battle rap in 2016 is not about music. That's what your not understanding man. Battling to bests in 2016 is like someone trying to convince you that beepers/pagers are what's hot in the streets fam.

You have a huge disconnect from the current culture

 

[JuvenileHell]

You have a huge disconnect from the current culture

Big time. We're almost halfway into the year and the battle rap culture has been lit with dope battles, and a few classics. Brehs are missing out.

 

[Goat poster]

Big time. We're almost halfway into the year and the battle rap culture has been lit with dope battles, and a few classics. Brehs are missing out.

TRUTH!!!
B.Dot Vs Danny Myers is CLASSIC!!


Battle rappers actually have to BE NICE and not say dumb shyt over a beat.
Both these dudes spazzed.

 

[yardman]

I mean I want nikkas to get money but the lights, camera, action shyt don't got them on they A game. Prime example was that Total Slaughter shyt when they gave them nikkas a couple hours to write and memorize their bars and the majority of em kept choking. It's losing the grime and grit. It's a little to Hollywood for me now. This is coming from someone who's been watching Smack battles in the barbershop.

 

[Mac Casper]

Same reason I don't watch street ball

 

[The God Poster]

saw one few months back, had 2 dudes battling 2 females..

that format was actually dope.. rest, I can't fukk with..

link?

@ISOMELO of course battle rappers sell bullshyt in their bars. But what rapper doesn't

he a drake Stan complaining bout authenticity

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Kiss gotta use the scale they weigh the wales with, but when it's battlerap it's a problem FOH

The same nikkas go back to arguably the GOAT beef Kiss vs Beans like this aint happen


I give all of y'all a few to the dome
So when you see me, think about a funeral home
A lotta nikkas get fed to the crabs
And yeah I'm a boss 4 hoes give me head in the bath
A pound of weed is like a medicine bag
I look at my son different Guns spittin head and ya back
Stand over the body Fire again
Send Sigel a wire, I'm ridin' again
We gettin' it on
Throw ya man leg on the lawn, He can't walk
Put ya brother tongue in the mail, He can't talk

Acapella BATTLERAP bars, but since it's Kiss it's dope right?




But since it's Beans it's dope right?

A nikka said "But do mainstream rappers post about battlerap since they're into it?"

Jay Z did, is that good enough?

A nikka said "since they're so into it, do show support?"

The LOX goin crazy for T Top at a battle on National Tv is that good enough?

A nikka said "they're repetitive and they're always reaching"

Lupe Fiasco co-signing battlerappers to have the best verses is that good enough?

nikkas who downplay battlerap are out the loop, FACTS

since you quoting me the whole time, i'll respond


first off i said i listen to battle rap.... i was giving reasons why MOST rap fans don't give two fukks about it... y'all saying they outdated, but numbers don't lie... if the shyt was popular, some tv network would be pimping it for all it's worth, and they'd have some nationwide battle rap tour going on


yes people like it... yes famous rappers have tweeted... yes they have showed up... but what i said was ARE THEY PUTTING IN MONEY??? not 10k for a winner.. are they financing a league? you know... cause it's so hot and profitable.. are they signing these battle rappers to their labels? are they managing them? are they asking them to pen their rhymes? are they putting money behind this support? or are they accepting free tickets/flights to be there and doing 10 free tweets out of 500k tweets they post?




yes you get hot bars... yes famous people reach... but again.... jada is reaching over a beat, with a hook, that's playing for people bobbing their head, and then the next song might be about a bytch, featuring mariah carey



i will turn on a battle rap, listen and like, and move on... it's too over saturated.. just go into the battle forum on the coli.. it's 100 different battlers... 10 different leagues... 50 different battles... and out of all that... you might find 5 hot battles



and what's the content of 49 out of those 50 battles? gun bars... drug bars.... from nikkas not doing a fukking thing.. it gets repetitive... you sitting there listening to the same flow (y'all know its true), same mannerisms, same acting (pick up gun, cock back gun, two arms going up and down to show you shooting a gun, smacking/punching hands together)



how do i know this? i'm a fan... but i'm not going to fool myself into thinking the majority of people going to sit around watching 30 mins of this shyt... and that's just one battle





squeeze this shyt to 1 league... cut off the bullshyt bottom tier rappers... have less battles so each one is an event.. and have some sort of ranking system so you get to know the cream of the crop

that's why nikkas saying over beats.... you get originality... personal jokes... on the fly disses... you don't need to know who got beat up 5 years ago and what happened and who is in who crew and what's your signature ending line and props and all this dumb shyt