Moral Dilemmas as a writer

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Originally Posted by Certain

If you have more punches in your live battle verse than your text verses, you're doing one of them wrong.

Nobody uses a punch in every other line for live battles. 1 minute and 30 seconds is somewhere around 30 bars (text definition of bar, meaning 60 lines), depending on how fast you spit. You're writing 3 rounds of material, that's 90 bars a battle, 180 lines.

Compare that to a text battle where people complain if they have to do more than 6 or 7 bars.

Some people like Dizaster have an insane amount of filler in between every punch, but he also does longer rounds. Personally, I just have jokes in between my primary punches

but what I was really saying is that in text, people don't *usually* rhyme more than 2 lines together. You write your set-up, your punch, and then move onto the next punch and use a completely different rhyme. Whereas in audio and live battling, most people stay with the same rhyme scheme and use 2, 3, or more punches off the same multi.

anyway, I'm just gonna spit my verse the way it is. I'll have some extra lines prepared if needed, but it is what it is