jilti: In a five-punch verse, you used three no/Know lines, plus another in a setup. You seemed to be hell-bent on jamming this verse with as much wordplay as possible, and the result was a lot of awkward delivery. The Johnnie Walker line is pretty old, and the American Forces line was worded wrong because American Forces isn't a thing, at least not a charity organization. The closer didn't work because blue-nosed worms aren't parasites and because the layers of wordplay there were just overly dense. I think you need to pull back and remember the goal is insult your opponent, not be as complex as possible. This wasn't a bad verse, but it just felt sort of out of breath in the figurative sense, like you were pushing everything too hard and too far. I almost never say this, but a generic line or two would have helped if you weren't going to go at him for his RapBattles moderating and whatnot.
KnowP: I liked the opener. It was simple and effective. From that point, it started slipping. Meth name plays are tough, but yours was particularly basic. Jay Feely isn't retired, just a free agent. Also, you should have used "kicker" instead of "nigga" if he had been retired. The "Anaconda" line may have had potential but was worded for little impact. The same was definitely true for the Floyd Mayweather line, which stumbled mostly because you had him reading "verses" which was weird and probably not something Mayweather would be doing if he could read. I do like that you had a lot of new lines in your verse, and your verse wasn't as redundant or overwrought as jilti's. Switch a few word choices around and you would have been the clear winner, which I think is enough to get you my vote in a close one.
Vote: KnowP
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