Vote - Sral
Both had pretty good pieces, jes was more on a content type of poetic thing than the metrics of world class hip-hop lyrics, so it's sort of hard to judge.
Whereas I felt Sral had such a real ass authentic life lesson piece, riddle with perfect cadence and multis, at times the perfection became too perfect and the wording format was stretched to a point where the realism lost the foreground to the rhythm I was reading... Jes had a spectacular philosophical piece that was somewhat mundanely generic, but in a good way. I wasn't feeling the odd capitalization of (in assuming) intended cadence expression, as it tended to take me away from the mental content and flicked my eyes back to the line before last to figure out where the capitalization match was supposed to land, and then still sometimes not even finding it.
Both great pieces, had this been strict poetry and no set topic Jes would've taken it imo, but with the topic being pages of *my* mind, and it being more rap lyric oriented, Sral is the clear winner for me
|