got respect of J. hens...I had 5 no-show victories to put me in champ match against him...dude went in

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also think Hush is dope

Wow, didn't realize BB was here

officially back .. how r ya bud?

ppl need reminding

Hens
Butler
Kung
RekLuse
Gryme
Gods City
Haste
Corey

USER and Butler.

Idol is a bad word to use tho.

I just thought they was the nicest and kinda combined their styles. Funny and grimey.

I always looked to hush, gow, Orc, arch and king for battling.

For oms it was black and cry, later on guys like vulgar, fice, pent and 3pa. Whys and dullhaha for sheer rhyming/flex stuff.

word i dont idolize none of these niggas they was just ill... like butler and hens always had some crazy shit... it was a nigga named Cronus last time i was here that was nice too

No idols but I read TYSON'S battles and felt my name was represented well.

U def pushed me to stay on top

I'd name u as motivation if anything

Hush - probably the funniest textee I've read. I still remember reading his verse against Beyond, those eye liners had me rolling. lol @ "ya eyesite like ya phone book - one contact". Dude is witty and funny af.

Alien - Brutal delivery. I always imagined Alien with the voice of authority (or some shit). Dude was sick, verses were always heavy.

Beyond - most technically complex, but has bars that are flawless when he drops 100%.

All time though, I'd say olorun from HF. His creativity was bar none. Reading his verse just makes you wonder where the fuck he gets his ideas from.

Cimmerian amazed me back in the day.

You pushed me duke ...

You prob the only one on the real

Who's pushin dook?

Nawkout aka count rapula

Little Steve & Giant Hand Jones also influenced me to elevate my pen game

What's up, bud?

How's things?

Seriously

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S-Nova from Rapworld was good.

My text crush is Aero

Back in the day, it was Ill explicit and center sight who were the shit on planetrap. Akshun too.

I always liked dominate too

Also back in the day I was a big fan of Clark grizzy

Anyone in Unholy Mercenaries

Aloe, John Dough, Resin, Calefaction, User, G.O.A.T, there's quite a few others.

The only motherfucker that could ever fuck with what Cimmerian did is SacriFICE. Cimm was the fuckin man.

this is a good thread idea. mine would be butler. always wished i could battle him again. too clever w/ it. blows my wording out the water ha. hush and alien, when i first joined NC they were untouchable. kung too.. his wording was something i tried emulate

you don't say. on the real tho, u've come pretty close to him wording-wise by now. props on that forreal.

SHUT IT

huh?

I don't idolize any battlers. But writing wise, probably @dull boy and @BWHAHA. But a crush or idolization wouldn't be ideal phrasing.
@Neighbor/ Manhattan ( @Beretta ) are also good writers; and yes what dull said they watch too much Miami Vice/Scarface/WWE Pay-Per-Views.
@Zombie 's pretty good, too.

I know certain names are just credited to being thrown out there just cause of their name sake, but some of @zygote 's drops are very intriguing, but just like that other drops are just what I expect, not to say they were bad, though.

Anything from here on out is just listed as good writers, not particularly I look up to, or try to emulate. There's really 1-2 people I try to learn from because they excel (or have excelled) in places I do not (particularly well as they do) but then again everybody says I'm them, so there's that.

That whole psychological deep withered space babble that gets elected in OM's isn't fulfilling or 'dope' in my opinion. It's good writing but, I feel everythings the same, the same monotone bearing that just won't get out of it's comfort zone.

I thought that when I said that, but I stopped paying attention after a while. Battling is largely political. Rep+style divided by manipulation X skill = wins. People win battles based off persona. Not to knock battling, but wins and losses don't mean much, imo. Sometimes I lost on purpose just because I wanted to try a new style, when I knew ol' faithful would have gotten me the W.

Sounds cocky. So you weren't just trying to break out of a zone to better yourself, it was just to 'try' a new style? Gay.

Damn no fucking way @oats you are the same one from PlanetRap.net

<---use to run with Aplha Mega, Bar Buryin, Crewsader, Kop!ed Stylez, Jimmy Neutron, Hades..

i always wanted to ask if you where the same head.

Dominate was also really impressive to me for a long time and still remains pretty much the only battler besides glock I get excited to read a verse from. I could see myself at one point trying to emulate his style, especially back on IHH when he was dominating. Obv no pun intended but yea.

Better yourself? Sounds like caring. I don't care. That's why I'm replying to you.

@Hush is my text idol

@God Of War?

Butler was always my favorite battler. Hens was right there with him

Shake-zula was cool to and a few others from around '05-'06 era

who were you on PR?

Will Barrell @oats. only battled few times, i know Bar Burryin, Genocide, Platini, Jimmy Neutron, CrewSader all in person.

Platini was dope
Arsenal was dope
Lockz was dope

right on. I'm friends Josun and Ryan on fb lol