Kwing's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[HDC: Axtekk vs. Mao]

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.

MaoDaMighty responds:

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...

[CLAB - Maverick vs Pachillis]

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.

[CLAB - Teqneek vs Lil C]

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.

[SkyFrom D vs. Vinstigator]

I really can't vote on this. Sky comes with a lot of filler, but the only real personals from Vinstigator are flips or references to Sky's verse without much outside research being done. So yes, this battle leans in Vinstigator's favor, but that leads me to believe that Sky might be in the same position if he had gone second instead. This battle suffers greatly from only having one verse for each contestant.

I'll also say that I liked Sky's rhymes a lot more. Vince rhymes "dickwad" with "dicksquad" or "fucking track" with "fucking ass", and doesn't switch up his flow much either. Overall I think that shows Sky to be the superior MC, but once again, he didn't come with many personals and suffered heavily from not being able to respond to any of Vince's lines.

This beat is really incredible though. I can hear a lot of prog metal influence in it - King Crimson, Dream Theater, Planet X, etc. Points off of Vince for dissing it - the beat was superior to both verses. Haven't been able to find this track on Sky's Newgrounds or Bandcamp page but I'd really want to give it a download.

[MCI14: Systematic vs VAMO]

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.

[Yun - Serotonin]

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.

[CLAB - suddle vs Richard]

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.

[CLAB - Jakobe vs Teqneek]

Very close. If I were to go by the numbers I'd hand it to Jakobe - he was consistently good throughout both verses. Teqneek was more of a wild card, he was totally on fire on his first verse but dropped the ball on the second.

After a few listens I'm going to have to give this to Jakobe. I really, really liked Teqneek's first verse but Jakobe actually did a great job flipping it. Jakobe's disadvantage is that even though I prefer his flow and mic presence, he's a little slower and ultimately it interferes with his ability to land quite as many punches as Teqneek does.

Also, Teqneek's line about being a veteran was underhanded as hell. Some might disagree, but I think saying something deceptive to bait a flip and then retort with another flip is really weak.

Teqneek responds:

Like 11 years later I'm reading this and WHAAAAT? That deceptive bait line was fucking awesome and like one of my favorite shits I ever did lol. OK love y'all

[NGHH KO2 - Steve vs Murdaa]

I happen to like both of the MCs here, but they both made a lot of improvement if the 2011 competition is anything to go by. Very few personals here but I do like how they flow. Steve's second verse was a tad forced but he also had some really clever rhymes. Steve is the better rapper but I think they're tied for this battle.