As amusing as performance based battlers are, they are nothing more than a mirage. That’s it. Diet battlers if you want a definitive label. Men who may as well have on a clown suit and a barrel to hide in when they get bullied. As captivating as these battlers are, they bring very little to the table lyrically. Maybe a few choice lines, but that about sums it up. I like performance. I like being entertained, but when the main strength of a battler is something that can keep my attention as much as Katt Williams tackling a fucking stool, I tend to feel robbed. I’m more entertained in the concepts battlers concoct with their pen and pad/ blackberry/iphone/android. This element takes away from what I came to hear and almost brought the “it’s the views I care about.” Motif these niggas rely on.
to an amazing 3 rounds of material went out the window and shot itself in the fucking face on the way down. The mentality became “why bother giving my best shit when I have a demand?” And we as a whole kind of let it get to this point. We allowed this. We settled and compromised when we had no choice in the matter. Here’s an example. Lets say you build computers. You did a little extra for less and created a demand. Then you just started doing the bare minimum. Sure people are upset, but that number is far less than the ones who deal and give you praise in hopes for change. Tsu Surf was quoted in his battle with hollow to say “I don’t care about a win, just the check!” And that had me pissed...at first. Then I actually clapped at that line. Because he basically stated the movement the pros have already started. With the glitz and glamour and press conferences and celebrities who cosign these battlers yet never sign them or put them on features, the bars have been watered down. There’s a select few who still battle with that same fire they had years ago but they’re overshadowed in a world where a bigger stage, a “bang bang bang” and a don demarco determine the course of a battle to a mainstream that never invested in the past and foundation in the first damn place. I’m majin, and I’m out. Peace. ~Majin
The lack of hunger.
Notice these new battlers are putting on far more of a match of wits and angles then these “legends”? I’ve been debating more battles about the pg’s than the main stage. This new breed actually reminds me of the url of old. Smaller audience, more bars and not 1 goddamn Don Demarco to be found. We see lions attempting to...be actual fucking lions. It’s a bloodbath that we all enjoy. It’s driven by a desire to be the best. And the rookies are proving to be on par (if not better) than the pros. And that’s evident in the way the pros are denying matchups with them. It’s almost as if they’re scared that they’ll *gasps* have to write bars! As long as this denial exists, we’ll keep seeing matchups the fans couldn’t give a 747 flying fuck about, and the dreaded “rematch”
And lastly, money.
Hoooooly fuck, is this a huge benefactor to this problem. Back in 2010, there was a point where battlers weren’t getting CLOSE to what they get now. Remember iron vs eness? The battle rap world was shocked that gt paid eness 2200 for his battle with iron. Now? These guys can get that for a kotd match. When the money changed, the battles changed. Once these battlers started getting 3-7k for a battle, the need to write something somewhat close
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