Rudge1 is the goat at his peak.

Coming up, Frac was like a God. Alot of the shit he wrote won't translate generically, but personal wise his style was hard to beat. Resin was imo the best conceptually, he basically emphasized what Rudge did and expanded onto it. Butler was alot like Frac, his style was just nasty, hard to explain. Not cookie cutter technique.

So many good guys. From what I've seen(which is very little), the best of the last 5-10 years is Blue, Neighbor, Cashius, and Orc absolutely needs some spek on his name.

Hard to compare the eras.

Yeah once you old guys made easy concepts played the new generation had to actually be creative

No comparison indeed

Pretty much

Blue is trash tho

My favorite has always been Neighbor
I probably already said it
Close second is hush when he’s not lazy

A lot of us were still considered great during those 'eras' tho , just in a diff style at the time

My answer remains Dominate and Resin conceptually .. and Hens for multi site dominance, longevity and consistency

Aeros the GOAT tho

Man I wish I could delete posts in this section

Hahahhaha
you know I love you, raspberry cruller

Apple Fritter or get fucked bud..

Love you too

Hush was pretty good for sure.

The best ever, in my opinion, is still Rudge1. He so rarely posted that it’s hard to give him that credit, but when he did, it was the best I’ve ever read. He’s the only guy who I’ve read and actually looked up to, writing-wise.

Didn’t he go by “Severity” in the RBL?

Always thought Oneduh wrote a lot like him

As far as I know, he never went by any name other than Rudge1 and Diss Kabob as a weird alias in one of the March Madnesses. I forget which one. It was a long time ago.

He and Oneduh aren’t in the same league, at least from what I remember. But, again... it was a long time ago.

Pedigree


a name none of you will know, but if you ever saw your name against him in a match you knew you were fucked. he knew how to take bars, remove half the words, make them still work and the flow was sick.

you guys really like flow

flow is literally the reason all of us are here on sites like this, if we didnt give a damn about rhyming then we would find other avenues to insult each other.

cmon bruh

E2 was good at one point, way back like 2002.

I almost mentioned Pedigree. He’s pretty much as good as there’s ever been. There are a few others from back then that I’d put up with him. Bladerunner. Kory Calico. E2. Kno, before he was part of the Cunninlynguists. Etc.

You guys are all spelling Blue Bayou wrong

it hasn't been a respected aspect of voting since I started when I was 15 lol

our text battling isn't yours

that's fine yours just isn't good

glad to know i suck. thanks bro.


can you link me to a dope verse that doesnt rhyme? would love to read that

if rhyming is your criteria every battle passes the test? you mentioned flow not rhyming. this is BATTLE rap not slam poetry that shit is just the bones of it, rhyming and staying within a reasonable syllable limit. It isn't a skill it's just the framework. The BARS are what matters and makes it worth existing. The concepts. Not how well it flows lol.

Rudge1
Phair English
Storm G

Dominate and resin are the greatest


/thread

ur welcome

@Dominate always Top 5

i went and read some of your battles and i can now see why you think this, good shit.


stay up homie.

I’m the GOAT glad you got to be blessed by my work

@Aero

Austin knows I control the room

Giant Hand Jones to thread

Add Hens, Hades and maybe Hush
#5 is a chore, top 4 for sure tho

Storm g was unique . I forgot about him . Had a weird sense of humor with it too .

Buttt uhhh niggas forget about USER

Back when I was teen I liked Adonis’ shit.. umm hens during the RM/ bboy era obv cause he recruited me n took me under his wing pretty much . Fed more verses than anyone . I pity that man for all the PMs I’ve sent him Lmaoo.Hush had a short & compact style that became somewhat of a thing early on in this sites blossoming .. it caused a lot of us to tighten up our wording .. myself included cause up to that point I was all concepts & no wording . Big influence

And as much as I hate to say it .. I really liked bags approach . Like a smegma stained wife beater version of ODB .. but text . I say that affectionately

It terms of just dominance everywhere? Model of consistency

Hens , undoubtedly

Boy HoF everywhere I’ve participated .. and I’ve been everywhere ( only champed) this dude was going into enemy territory and just dominating league after league

<3. Sup Muff. Long time no see man.

Also, to answer the question - my personal favs are Rudge1, and long long long ago the young gawd Epimetheus from RM. RIP.

Koala-perate with me here man, The kangeroo danger dude will make text great again.

So I know Brayn Lord won it, but all of Resin's verses in the last summer classic were sick to me. He seemed to be a step above his peers.

I was drunk when I made that post, I forgot a few && would def. substitute a cpl

Lol @ me using Hades instead of Orc...or even Burden
Dumb

1. Iran Pasteurize
2. Kevin T-L-C
3. skeleton bob
4. Fudge1
5. Bad Brian aka Da Magician
6. Giant Hand Jones
7. Flaccid_Fascist420
8. Josh Handley aka J. Hand
9. home0wner
10. Shhh

From the info I'd gathered he did come back and battle under that name... but I've never had it fully confirmed and it could be wrong