[Geno]

Lexicon: The Life of I.

So what's the point of life?
A code as old as sanskrit ..
Probed and molded - candid
Prose and poems; semantics
Told when Job was banished,
Roamed in Moses absence
Only those who brandished
.. Holy scrolls for answers,
If you haven’t read this piece, then go read it now. Seriously. The writing in this piece is brilliant, but something that actually sets this piece apart from the rest of the pack is that it is easily the most aesthetically appealing verse I’ve ever seen. Things like formatting and coloring of a verse usually doesn’t seem truly important, but in this case Lexicon made it an integral part of the piece which really propelled it to a HOF nomination. I say that, but let’s not forget the writing of this. The writing here was just as prominent and just as good, but in the end the panel felt it wasn’t enough.

Zenland: ZenLand Part II.

Each day is harder gettin slain by Karma wondering when I became a martyr?
Che Guevara. Things best change tomorrow or I'll leave in a flash of bullets,
Blake, relax and cool it. "Fuck that them bastards blew it,
You're an avid shootist, Couple magazines, gasoline and a match'll do it,
Face it mate this path you're cruisin is a disaster brewin,
You wanna nine to five til the time you die? Then collapse into ruin,
But if you're the Master...Prove it."
yooo, if you havnt read this piece in whole -your definitely missing out. the piece was dope as fuck but just didnt have what it took to make the qualifying cut to becoming HOF. zenland killed the flow and told a dope ass story in this verse. go peep it, the dood has talent

Matriarch: Feminism.

An art. A system. Arguments of vague and passive words
Plato’s philosophy to Kratos crazed vernacular
Strange - spectacular engaged in feudal warring state
of mind - knowledge. Power pending play of swords and blades
Lilith longing for equality’s a coarse display
deemed a demon just for reasoning the Lord’s way
Matriarch is easily one of the dopest female writers I've ever had the pleasure to come accross. Possibly even THEE dopest imho. She's got the raw ability to capture any readers full attention with her abstract style and choices of vocab. Very dope artist as seen with this nomination

Namix: The Opposite Problem.

without a winter would a summer even be a thing?
if I never had a fall, would ya ever see me spring?
it’s sink or swim; but what’s a swim without a sink?
I think that I know – therefore I am, I think.
we peak then plateau, and we gradually shrink
no matter how far ya go, ya always on the brink.
Namix’s piece The Opposite Problem absolutely appealed to my inner Buddhist (R.I.P. Buddha?) with quotes like the one above. This piece wasn’t flashy, there were no complex rhyme schemes, but what it did have was a complex idea that he ran with and made it into a fantastic piece. The idea behind this was the interconnectivity among all things. Without light, there’s no dark, no summer, and there’s no winter, etc. and Namix succeeded in making this an enjoyable piece.