[Lars]

Fuck!

This was a dope match up, Vulg really stepped it up a notch or three from his last round, this one was far more developed and polished. I hate to be a nitpicking fuckwit but that's honestly how I'm going to have to go about this one, there wasn't really one approach I enjoyed over the other, Vulg pulled me right into his fantasy right up until the 'green intoxication' line, awesome opening, some might not like the three-bar style or broken bar style he used because the line was so long but personally it's not that big a deal.

I loved this line on its own:

hard work pays bills, but pyramid slaves? Don't romanticize labor

I wasn't so keen on the setup to it though, the rhymes just seemed a bit crowbarred in to fit around it rather than it building naturally as the story progressed. Maybe it's just me? I dunno.

I LOL'd at the making him watch television line too, thought it added some dry wit to the piece without being overboard.

This line was dope too:

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon didn't require pesticides

I don't think this was up there with some of your epics, but you were definately bringing it back to the Vulg of old we all loved. Great showing, a marked improvement from last round.

Oats - Again here, a marked improvement from you last round also, I think this take on the topic suited you and played to your strengths allowing you to expound on what you came up with greatly. It wasn't just name-dropping, you have knowledge on the subject and could work that into what you put down, and you did it well again without going too in depth so as to lose the reader or sight of what was going down. I think your character development did a job, even if i didn't find myself caring for the guy enough to find out what happened to him in the aftermath. This read almost like a Day Of the Triffids style piece to me haha! With the plants and forestation taking over, loved this section:

Oppenheimer, Bartram, and Tesla’s endeavors
shared a pedestal with Lenin, ELF and Nebuchadnezzar
every lesson he attended beckoned general lectures
from Mensa’s resident members and academic professors

I thought that was really well penned nearer the beginning.

This was dope also:

once the screams evaporated, stood a man and his art:
he turned Babylon to a Promised Land, hanged by its gardens

It read to me almost like he had grabbed the world by the balls, not sure if that was how you intended it, but for the point you were making - it worked, and worked well.

It arguably started greater than it ended, but then i had the same feeling about Vulgar's here. Both stepped it up, both had negatives to cancel each others out, so going by which take I personally preferred on this one I'm going to hand it to Oats - I just felt I could relate to it a bit more, it was the slightly more quirky storyline and reminded me of Day of the Triffids to an extent which was a leftfield take to approach this, but I'm a stickler for creativity. Oats by a DJFlame facial hair me thinks. Great battle.