Uh... Did Eye-Cue say something about Alphabet Soup? Was that supposed to be a Scuare reference or did he say that completely on accident?
Jakobe's pedophile line in his second verse was so good I had to relisten to the track just to catch the rest of the bars.
Overall a pretty strong battle. Eye-Cue had some decent flips in his second verse but Jakobe flipped him HARD. Jakobe to advance.
I'm genuinely surprised - your second verse was solid as hell, much better than your battle with MadFlex. Vox definitely came hard, a big improvement over last year, but overall I'm impressed that after your (admittedly lame) first verse it was a slugfest. Really would have liked to see this battle finished.
Not one of my favorite battles. Neither Cynic nor Self came as hard as they could have, and it doesn't have anything to do with the beat. The name disses were rampant and lines such as "I'm immune to puny goons, I'll move the moon and prove to you" are examples of just how much filler there is in this battle. I do like that Cynic used the slow beat to sound condescending with "You should really practice rapping on beat". The personals I did hear were relevant but not biting. Steve came really hard with "You write articles about yourself on rap sites" - no punches in this battle even came close to that.
Overall I think Self won this one, but neither were at their best. I don't think the tempo has much to do with it; there's always a way to change up your style.
Q-Sik, you can stop name dropping now. Waka Flocka, Eminem, Papa Doc, Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Ludacris, then Broken Needles, MickeyMao and Nimbus. Instead of just listing names you could actually try, you know, attacking? Also I'm impressed that you stayed on beat with "you belong in Alice's wonderland" but you delivered that line FASTER, not SLOWER. Not a good finisher.
Glitch came with a lot of filler but has really nice flow (black and blue your lips/move on to the fist). A few nice flips in the first verse (Eminem/many men, south n***as lip-locked). Second flow was the same - not many personals but sick flow and a lot more power than Q-Sik could bring in either verse.
Oh, and this beat is fucking amazing. I've been looking for the instrumental and can't find it. I'm assuming Q-Sik picked it out? Props, you picked a good one.
Dark and brooding, I like it. Could stand to have a little more variety.
Gasmasq has some clever lines but amazingly Wyze takes it for content. Seems like he could barely fit all of his personals into his first verse, then Gasmasq doesn't really flip any of it.
Gets a little confusing having four MCs on the beat at once. Lots of filler but still saw some clever lines and a few good personals. Honestly I don't think 3v1 is a disadvantage to Gasmasq since he still has (about) as many bars and all he has to do is take his opponents on one at a time.
Senator's first verse was actually pretty good - he doesn't have much dirt on Scuare but still makes a lot of personals even though they're not as hard-hitting as they could be. Obviously he has a disadvantage from going first. The Atmosphere line is decent but KillBill played it better in the last battle. The Obama line isn't bad but you really set yourself up for Scuare's flip. How did you not see that coming?
Scuare's first verse has a lot of venom in it - not sure if these two really have beef but he flips a lot and his personals are downright cruel, whereas Senator's personals were relevant at best. A little weird how Senator ends his verse saying obvious TWICE and Scuare opens by saying it two MORE times. Given Senator's tendency to contradict himself, the 'your flow's shortsighted' line is incredibly strong - he's flipping a line that Senator hasn't even delivered yet! Worse, Senator goes right ahead and walks right into it. Ouch.
Senator's second verse is the weakest in the whole battle. He gets in a few mediocre flips and has a lot of filler. Honestly I feel like he buried himself with this verse. Kind of disappointing since his first verse shows he could really come a lot harder.
Scuare's second... Holy shit. Flips and personals galore, a smooth flow from one subject into another, and no filler. The "no, I dissed you 'cause you suck at it" line is easily the best flip in the song. I don't have much to say about this, Scuare killed it.
I can definitely tell that the are parts of improvisation stuck together. With all of the drums and bass it still sounds like one big solo. I really did like this but ti seems like there are parts that just kind of fall into a leisurely 'chugging along'.
Heh, yeah. There are definitely a lot of bits that I would rewrite or "punch-up" to make this less, 'chuggy'? Now that I'm thinking about it, there's a lot I would change. I'd actually put a piano in there for fucking starters >_>
I'm glad you enjoyed what you heard overall at least man, thanks for stopping by!
Once upon a time, water taught itself how to feel pain.
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United States
Joined on 7/24/07
MCI - Eye Cue vs Jakobe 
CLAB - Senator vs Scuare 
B7 - How I Would Do It 
