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Old 07-27-2013, 01:24 AM   #8
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I really liked how all of your styles sort of clashed but worked together. This is one of those things that could make for a fascinating recording because everything about each verse was so different.

KICH brought a lot of emotion to his verse. He certainly focused the most on the vague topic at hand, which makes sense because he was going first and had to set the stage. It took me a while to pick up his flow, and I'm not sure I ever did completely. But the writing was interesting.

Zygote came in with some really hard shit. From the opening line, this verse was enormous. It had the show-stopper appeal of Busta Rhymes' verse to close the "Simon Says" remix. The Frodo Baggins line was the best of the entire thing, and I think the verse as a whole might have been as well.

Mr. UnIque then flipped the whole thing, but I really enjoyed the whimsy of his verse. It was by far the most casual but had incredible swagger to it. The comparison I might make is, if you dig the back-in-the-day underground scene, when Rise would come on a Demigodz posse cut, all sardonic and punchline-heavy, fully aware of his skill and fine with being the jokester.

Brob's verse definitely had the difficulty factor covered. It was all over the place in the way these sorts of verses are supposed to be. The flow, rhyme schemes, writer's voice and topic all switched up a few times within the verse.

Enigma finished it off with just a ridiculous flow. I wish more people on these boards had as firm a grasp of sound as you have shown in the two verses I've read from you. Flow is more than end rhymes, and you showed it with alliteration, consonance and multiple-syllable and internal rhyming. And you wrapped it up well, pulling off the flow pedal just enough to get in a nice punchline, then put a cap on it all.

There was a lot of really impressive stuff here.
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