Thing is this, this was extremely generic and predictable on many halves from both sides. The opener of nik-a seemed pretty forced and was mainly buttoned on humor and some sort of personal umph. It didn't really have any creative class to it, other than the fact that was it some sort of personal, I assume. Spilling the beans, was ok I guess but seem rather forced. I just can't bring myself to think that's actually some sort of crazy line. It isn't. It's just seamingly stretched but put together well structurally -thats it. Tienanmen was weak to me cause my compatriots have used that line a few in their OM's. I didn't find it enlightening, or fresh.
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"I'm a tank placed in tienanmen square."
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The gut of the verse was ok, dope like cain was alright, didnt really have much substance after that. If anybody else wrote it, it'd be consider lackluster. If I'm reading lines for what they are, I'll use the rubric everyone seems to be using when they judge me or others - which is harsh. All these lines are just okay/alright. Nothing wowed me. The funniest and best bar you possessed was the meth one, it wasn't fresh in term of a generic field, but it had that nameplay humoristic effect that I look for. IT was your best line by far. State Farm, Joan Of Arc, Crushed cans all followed the same template and it became repetitive. Formulaic to the point it was just predictable. Like I already know the lines are coming when I read the set-up. That's just offsetting.
Never really understood fake battle internet rap or the method its written but lol. Broke wasn't that much greater, but he did have humor and the research thing where nik-a said it backfired - it didn't. I don't even see where nik-a researched anything, other than the first opening lines, so that, on behalf of nik was also a miss in my eyes. Or if it landed it wasnt significant enough to make any real damage. Always nice to see my name dropped in lines here and there. That upset was purely simple, but the humor - which ive' mentioned is key is cool. I liked it. That was a pretty good meltdown. Wads of cash was cool, simple, but funny. I don't see much of a difference in these lines and the other ones people write, lol. Baffling. Funny to me. on both ends, I'm just re-reading. Nik's set ups also pale just a bit in comparison to broke. That's where I think he's a bit more polished. Nik has this knack for just doing enough with the set-ups. IT always connects and transitions well, but it's never really funny or atleast a bit witty in wording. Brokes aren't either, but they have a bit more sting to them.
Though I saw many instances in which his became lazy i.e "never sweat" lol. Some lines were full of humor, the twitter one was less likened by humor and had a more aggressive tact. One thing that bothered me was the eery fucking length of each bar was exactly the same and followed the same protocol. So it sounds hypocritical of me when I accuse nik of being repetitive. Wow. It's like a fucking binary coding. It's all the same length. Nothing made longer or shorter to fit anything. It's formulaic - my problem with internet battling. Lame. It follows a code. It makes me fall asleep, almost. Go crazy, do whatever you want. Just rhyme. Go at their necks. Make fun of them. Fuck generics. Just kill them. The wording here wascool. It seemed you stepped off the gas in the finals. I liked your other verses more, broke. Nik-a seemed up to par to his usual standard. Nothing was mismatched here in terms of skill. Both seemed pretty even. It's more of a likeness to who appealed to you more. Both had their fair share of misses imo, but I'd definitely give it to broke by a hair. Re-read both a few times, and if I had to read either, one more time because I had too, because I liked it? I'd have to give it to broke.