Essential The Official Battle Rap Random Thoughts Thread (URL, KOTD, UW etc...)
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superchoops
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two things:
1. ufc is a league that has exclusivity. to my knowledge, boxing and tennis just don't have professional leagues like that. (i know boxing has shyt like WBA and WBO but i dont view those as just exclusive leagues)
2. boxing, ufc, tennis all got an exorbitant amount of money around (sponsors, tv deals, etc etc) and outside of boxing with the influx of streamers/celebs doin it, don't really have a threat of stagnation to its operation/"culture"to my knowledge. there's no real reason to do it for those anyways. Australian Open had a prize pool of ~53m USD.
Battle Rap aint scratchin that shyt, so i dont think the incentive to NOT battle for money against smaller names is really there outside of some top tiers/people that call themselves top tier thinking their brand gets diluted if they interacted with those who battled often.
Danny becomes a big battle every time he hits a super high level in my opinion. it aint like when Danny vs Roc got announced, nikkas just glossed over it
With the exposure comes risk, sure, but all it takes is one bad battle/mid performance for these mfs to act like they too good to battle
also, Lux set a pinnacle that I dont think he can hit anymore. He could battle once or 4 times a year, he's still up against himself in an uphill battle.
The issue with ranking workhorses like Danny is, they have such a lack of impact. If you're judging off body of work and amount of blood and sweat he put into the culture, sure. But if Danny never exists, nothing really changes in battle rap. We'd be short a few dope battles/performances, but that's really it. He never shifted the culture or has any monumental moments that transcend battle rap. Same can't be said for Diz or the other legacy acts.
I mean he got all kinds of battle rappers using parallel universe bars
Brehs. Look at the replies. nikkas is delusional lol.
I don’t think Mook is wrong here.
Hes not. As we've all said multiple times here (to an extent), Rum is too sporadic and surface level. His lines are great, but thats all he has; lines. His set ups are generic as shyt and he has absolutely no structure, you can take all the sequences in his rounds and scramble them shyts and they'd sound the same, hell you can do with rounds of his as a whole. Take 1st, make it 2nd, take his 2nd, make it 3rd, etc. Dude doesnt know to how to write at all. He just comes up with bars. On top of that Rum doesnt say anything. No underlying context, just some clever shyt. Mook will incinerate that nikka.
He is directly involved in the West's rise in BR. They ALL salute Danny for giving them shots and helping them put on.
I don’t see Calicoe or Goodz interested in those battles. They only take big battles or battles that make sense .
JuvenileHell
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