[sral]

Pulse is old, really old. He's been around at this since I want to say at least 2004... probably earlier too... around 2002 is when I would have ventured to all sorts of other boards by Mental Stamina and whatnot, and I remember him from HipHopHeads even back around that time. He was dope even in those days, and part of the reason I remember it is that back then being able to be really good at both topicals and text battles was more of a thing. Infinitely more so than it has been respected since. You tend to find (especially in lets say the past 10-15 years) people excelled at one or the other, but aren't generally considered to be good at both. Back then you would try to be good at both. You'll notice a lot of the older heads (Richard Corey, Ill Nik-A, Pulse, SacriFICE, lets throw me in there too perhaps since I'm their era) are often capable of competing in both fields - at least to a sort of upper-midtier level.