Okay,
first and foremost, I grew up in the 90s and aside from a few lines, I don't remember any of that shit, haha! I feel bad, like I was listening to the wrong stuff or something.
Whatever the case, Bags' piece is fine. If it was his goal to create a patchwork of lines and weave them together to create a cohesive and new piece, that's perfectly fine. It's no different than what DJs do. It would be a problem if he took someone's idea and tried to pass it off as his own, but this (at least to me) appears to be an entirely new piece that has never existed before.
That being said, did his piece accomplish this? I'm going to say no.
It was nice and had some bright spots, but it seemed to be written quickly and I honestly don't have enough experience with Bags to know if this is his style or an experiment.
Like I said, it wasn't bad or horrible, I just don't think it accomplished what it set out to, because without reading about the controversy, i probably wouldn't have known what the piece was about.
Cimm's piece was damn near pure poetry. It was concise, to the point and existed wonderfully without a lot of the flowery, over exaggerated elements that come with hip hop writing in general.
The February burial and the last note about how winter had past, but was also approaching was wonderfully hopeful and morose. The piece seemed to be about death and life, life and death, and the cycle of it all.
Really hard impact for a piece so short.
vote: Cimm
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