A Netcees Collab Mixtape...
 

Would probably save the site.

Or at least make enough money to get the https fixed. This shit is in a sorry state right now.

We can throw a livestream to perform cuts from the record and get donations from middle aged hip hop fans with angst about the times passing them by. It's a marketing goldmine.

some of us have started doing more audio work recently and doing collabs. hit up @Master Rock

I'd buy it.

Let’s do this

I think you should also chat with @Objective - maybe not totally aligned but similar in the "how to fix" state of it all

yea a mixtape would def revive a dead text battle site, yep. if you build it they will come.

It would be nice to see this place thriving again but I don't think it's possible. I think it's dead and I think it will stay dead.

Most of the people who used to care are in their 40's (Not me, I'm 34 and handsome af) and they're too old and tired, and I don't see any realistic way of attracting a new generation.

Forums are deemed to be outdated. I actually disagree, I think a forum is still the best platform for hobbies like this but I'm in the minority in that regard.

I hope I'm wrong. @PancakeBrah seems to be planning a revolution. Talk to him.

Kendrick Lamar could start posting here and it wouldn’t revive the site

Netcees Discord was the final nail in the coffin for this place as everyone flocked there because it was the “new” thing to do

There were 4 AI battlers in the last tourney held ffs

I've mean meaning to explain topical to chatgpt and ask it to write one just to see if AI got bars.

I'll do it some day. If it's wack I'll post it here and laugh at it. If it's dope I'll post it here and say I wrote it.

Honestly though, if chatgpt is better than me I'll probably kill myself.

that was deliberately bc only 4 people signed up

Exactly my point about the site being dead

Don’t know what kind of gotcha moment you were looking for

if you think people look for gotcha moments when responding to something that sounds like a you world-view

I don’t think that at all

Way to ignore my first point though

do you need acknowledgement of a point that is correct? what if I need ack of that ack? when does it end?

What is ack what are you talking about?

I never once listened to a mixtape and said, well damn I gotta go join a text battle forum now.

also all it takes is someone willing to put the money out for advertising and promotion, and what are you doing that for when it comes to a text battle site? I'm going to do a $500 campaign to get people trolling and posting whakc bars and shit.

Lost cause

I reckon if enough of us took the time to train chatgpt it could end up writing stuff good enough for us to sell.

I'm doing it with or without you cunts.

Gonna be so rich.

Fuck you guys.

Can I get a cut?

Witty which Summer Classic did you champ?

That wasn't it, it killed disc. a bit but not the site. What killed the activity on site the most is toxicity, "500 word essays" and bullying of people. Not caring about boundaries etc. and having tons of fun with that. Not singling anyone out, I've been part of a couple mishaps as well, just not to the same degree. I tried to talk about it when it first started happening and I did my best to make new members stay, but no one was listening. We lost at least 2-3 new active members willing to learn in the span of a few weeks, one of which just quit music altogether. Where's the positive in that? That coupled with vetoing no to a merge between RB and NCs was the final nail in the coffin.

You can get a donation thing up, the HTTPS stuff and server costs ain't that huge. If you want activity you need to do a proper rehaul of the site in terms of the way shit is run. Stuff like mixtapes (there's more and more audioheads now) is great for both networking, good shit to listen to and a sense of community. I still listen to a few of my fav tracks from the CC mixtapes Vol.1-5 (or however many they made) from time to time

Same thing here btw, but only through something like PayPal.

Facebook killed forums.

Facebook has been around the entire time the site was active and thriving

We will rise.

Many people tell me "a socialist revolution is antiquated it will never happen" or "incremental change is the only way".

You know in your hearts that is not true. Thus it's the same with Netcees. The mixtape is key.

thhat in the last part you said doesn't really matter at this point, if all that is fixed nobody will know about it, you got to promote.

also it's also not only the toxicity it was mainly the admins that killed all forums like these, because if they was met with the same energy the admins would ban them on sight, then talk shit. I aam one of the only other admins that allowed shit talk and never banned anyone even if they asked for it, I mean tthere was tthat one time on here way back in the day, and I never hear the end of it, but it was cheered if one of the other admins banned someone LOL, the two way street bs ruined forums.

fb groups aren't really active tho anymore really, the whole battle rap niche is pretty dead aside from watching rap battles, nobody cares about getting on a forum and doing it.

problem is anybody can run a website and it's so cheap, if it was more exclusive owners would care more about what content was on it.

I'll contribute a guitar solo

I don't fucking know.

It was some topical tournament. I remember that I won it for two reasons.

Reason 1. My verse was dope as fuck.

Reason 2. Lars decided to write a cryptic diss to NYCspitz in the final of a topical tournament. Which was an amazing thing to do

My boy does not give even the slightest fuck, never has, love that dude.

You ain’t packin the Mack in the back of the ack?

"I'm the spectacular battle rap manufacturer
Stole your momma's Acura, wrecked it and sold it back to her"

The love I have for you is so specific and obscure I am almost entirely certain there are no group of words in our language capable of explaining or describing it.

I keep my Mac in the backpack right by the Macbook

Clack clack. Don't snap back, just backtrack, even when I'm spittin half assed I'll leave you fags cooked.

<3

I think Witty is right, we all came on here what, 10-15 years ago? Our join dates aren’t even accurate bc the site went down for a second before it turned to .org or something right? I vaguely remember. Point is, at least for me, we had more time back then. Less social media distractions, less responsibility. I haven’t had real time to write since Covid.

When I wrote this I was slightly drunk. I have since become fully drunk and I sincerely apologise.

You were cookin tho