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Originally Posted by God Of War
its simple and leaves much more room to get away with things then having structure, of course people like it because it is lazy. no one likes lazy less then work....
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Not why I like it, though.
As a reader, it's enjoyable because the internal rhymes and soft rhymes kind of catch you off guard. You can read through a couple 'sentences' and you'll catch something dope and rereard it.
As a writer, it prevents people from lazy criticism. When you write an open mic or topical and the lines of a typically formed verse don't match up people automatically assume your 'flow' is off. Especially if the second line in a couplet is shorter than the first. It's easier to skim and ignore internals, in my opinion. Plus, whenever you write in paragraph form it's easier to just go off on tangents and strings of rhymes, in my opinion. That's just a personal anecdote, though, and might not apply to everyone.
Also, I still think you don't give enough credit to the users who almost exclusively write topicals or open mics. There really is an art to it, just like battling. Wording, economy of words, and knowledge of what's done before is huge when you want to write something original and truly dope. I think a lot of battlers write open mics or topicals that the top tier writers would have written years ago. There is definitely a progression of collective thought, and I don't think a battler can drop in on some random day and just capture the zeitgeist of what's truly going on in the art form. There are, of course, exceptions, but they're few and far in between. I'm talking about truly top level writing, of course.