Whoa. Lots of unusual rhymes here, especially for a freestyle. Smooth, confident. This is crazy.
Whoa. Lots of unusual rhymes here, especially for a freestyle. Smooth, confident. This is crazy.
Flow and delivery are strong, Rainey could stand to improve breath control. Subject matter is pretty vanilla though. Chill beat is chill.
Content is important though, and that's lacking.
Not my favorite battle - nothing really jumped out at me during the first three verses but Mao totally MOPPED IT UP with his last verse. Nice personals about Ax's beats, and the the hair clipping line had me roaring.
I disagree. This is the greatest rap battle in Hip Hop history. In my humblest opinion.
Those hair clippings are coming in handy with operation Resurrection Axe.
RIP Alex <3
maybe my opinion of this battle is a bit biased...
This is a really fun battle since each verse gets progressively better. First verse is okay, second verse is good, third verse is great... Although I feel like Maverick fell off just a tiny bit on his second verse. Really nice beat and I feel like both MCs were really engaged in the battle. I'd give it to Pachillis due to Maverick's weaker second verse.
For whatever reason Teqneek sounds really good in this battle, and it's not just because Lil C's verse was a freestyle with no real personals (entertaining as it was). As is usual, Teq doesn't have a whole lot of personals, but I like how his last four were all flips and personals since he had to condense his content. Also his last four had really great delivery and brought better presence than is usual for him. I'm not sure if that's because the beat is really ambient and almost absent for most of the track, or if it was because he was trying not to laugh as he was recording, but I felt like he put a little more emotion into those than he usually does.
Systemic 1: Flow is too sporadic, no real hard hits, very few rhymes...? Opening was really awkward since you were talking over a sample.
VAMO (Butsaay?) 1: "And when you don't rhyme, that's great" Hell yes. Lots of little punches, nice flow. He probably could have used more emotion but otherwise pretty good. Take it easy on the mixing, you don't have to double everything.
Systematic 2: Weak cock joke, sounds almost like Blest back when he was an amateur. And no, you don't have to pretend that you're the best but for fuck's sake don't call your own flow awkward, and if you do, incorporate it in a better line than just saying "at least I admit it".
VAMOS 2: Pretty strong but I'm not sure if I'm impressed or if Systematic just makes you look better in comparison. Weak finisher.
Giving this one to VAMOS by a landslide.
I can definitely hear some Nujabes influence here, although the dark piano thing going on here is completely original. Really amazing beat. Dark, brooding, serious, mature. It'd be pretty hard to spit a sex joke or a punchline over this.
Suddle sounds a lot better on this beat but that's not because Richard has bad mic presence, it's just an issue with how his voice compares to the beat.
Strong hits both ways but Richard mopped up Suddle in his last verse. I would have liked to see more disses aimed at the work these guys did - a lot of the disses were about the brackets or physical appearance.
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