Week 2 Predictions and Chat/Discussion

This week has had a lot of strife lol

[Spoken]

Eh.... I'm done for now or in many eyes I never started to begin with

Story r u Goin sign out?

I encourage u not to
u can only get better tbh

[Spoken]

I may need a break idk... Been writing left to write for overa month now 5 different sites running two of them it takes its toll plus trying to get into texting again... Eh...

Ill see how I feel with next week...

Running two sites?
I know of fg but......?
U need to prioritize
spreading urself to thin
Prolly adds to ur frustration n explains ur little 'tantrum' for lack of better word lol

[Adonis]

@Mike Wrecka @zygote

You know what would be great?

Having due dates posted somewhere

That would be swell...Thanks


Will be voting tomorrow, probly drop one or two tonight though im sure

Dead tired. The kid just worked a 13 hour shift of manual labor and is supposed to be back at before the sun wakes up.

Fuck that side job, I need 24 hour movie in bed day, anyone wanna join? @Rawn M.D. ??

[Adonis]

Also...WTF did I miss?

I see Gazzete's picture and a DQ in a Pent battle but shockingly Pent was not at fault this time.

lol theres like 4 pages of it @Adonis
basically swaying/freeposting

and i just got a job today = D
now i just gotta get the okay from my PO and im money (and he will approve bc its a REAL JOB - radiologist liaison tbe)
so i gotta pass on the offer
sry bro bro
thnx tho
= D

@Storyteller - aim man

[Spoken]

Lol frustration is key word

[Adonis]

Don't think I won't call your PO and sully your name for my own selfish reasons

well gee golly gosh guy
that wouldnt be very nice now would it?

[PancakeBrah]

Story don't be so emotional. All tied up like dominatix. lol. oh jeez, she has a cucumber.

[Certain]

I was all proud of my 600-word vote on Adonis vs. Flo Real, then I see PancakeBrah dropping 1,200 words on oats vs. Mr. J, one of the shortest battles of the week.

[Spoken]

yup @PancakeBrah

[Mike Wrecka]

@NYCSPITZ

one word votes wont count. a sentence saying why you like one verse more than the other is good enough though. edit it up my dude

[Spoken]

Yup

[Spoken]

Lol eh... Sure thing

[Certain]

Originally Posted by Split Eight

If you read the votes you'll see, though. That's why votes are there.

70% of the time, the entire league will think I wrote a story about something I didn't intend lol

Clarity is a bitch

It's happened to all of us, and I think it brings to light a few things that are worth discussing:

1. You're writing verses to the topic of someone else's choosing with the hopes of being voted a winner. You can no longer claim to be doing this just for yourself at this point. So the audience must become an important factor, right? If no one gets it, you didn't do your job as well as you could have.

2. When you go back through rap history and look at storytelling tracks, they often stand out among a rapper's catalog. For one, most don't have many. Usually one story track on an album suffices. But it's interesting to look at the way these tracks tend to be written. Whether it's Canibus or Jay-Z, 2Pac or Aesop Rock, rappers tend to pull back on their personal styles and flourishes when they're telling a story. Now, we demand a higher level of complexity from text, in part because it's easier to reread than to relisten. But maybe that sort of stripped-down approach makes more sense for storytelling.

3. Wouldn't it be great if we could force voters to read every verse twice? I try to whenever I have any lingering doubts about a battle. That still doesn't ensure I fully grasped what the writer was intending, but I'm a literate-enough person that if two or three reads doesn't accomplish the job, then what will?

Again, this has happened to me several times. But I think of it as an opportunity to grow and get a better sense of what I need to do as a writer and what I need to do as a topical battle competitor.

[Split]

I try to vote the way I hope my battles will be voted on

Doesn't always happen though, and sometimes people just arent feeling my verse. Or style. Or anything about my rhyming and never will.

Shit happens


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