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Originally Posted by God Of War
I think it goes with a matter of taste because I find most topical heads boring and trying to be way more abstract then they should be. art is how the viewer/listener perceives it. but I think alot of the writers people claim is top 5 is boring and try so hard to be abstract that half the time they dont know what there saying and they get sheep that go in there and because they dont really understand it they think it is some miracle. I do not think any writng eludes me I have seen thousands upon thousands of rhymes ive seen dudes that can write a battle and rip apart an open mic piece. topicals used to be much more story based andnow its much more visualization and comparative. "as the water trickled down the side of a mountain like the urine on a goats leg" rofl but thats my opinion and not every one elses, and I also think being able to write in a paragraph may leave u open to more things them things is done out of laziness, anything done in a paragraph can be done in a structured verse its just harder to do. its easier to point to a field and sa drive because all they got to do is get in a car and go it dont matter where they drive there just riving, but pointing to a one lane road and saying thats all u can drive on, is harder
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I def disagree.
Going w/ ur comparison.. yes, its easy to drive in a field. A lot easier than on a track or road. But, you can be incredibly dope at burnouts, j-turns, other shit that isn't applicable on a track-- and its just different.
Yeah its more free. But you can't put Mario Andretti in Ken Block's shoes and vice versa and claim one is better than the other because of how they do..... cause that's not what they're about to begin with
Also disagree about the visual shit. One of the most annoying things ppl say about topicals. "Butterflies and unicorns and Rawntamano Bay" nigga pls if I open an OM and its about incest/ fairy tale shit/ emotions I close that shit right away
OM for me, versus topical leagues, focuses a lot more on delivery... rhyming mechanics and the technical delivery of a story... the legit Art of writing and not telling stories
...look how Storyteller did on site
Nigga I don't wanna read 100 double syllable rhymed couplets about the OPs time in the Korean War. I don't even enjoy the story cause its like a storybook nursery rhyme
I like walking out of a piece with a quote or idea or image on my mind. like a dope line from a rap song off your friends iPod
Also I am pretty sure rap is closer to the bull shit Dull Boy posts than battle verses... I have never met anyone that watches rap battles and I'd say less than 1% of the USA watches that stuff