politics & battle rap
illustration by @rzilla
“TOP TIER”
I can talk all day on this right here but I’ll just do
portions for now….
Let’s start it off with something we all know and hear
about.
“Tiers” Top Mid Bottom
Tiers are supposed to be levels you can reach on a
platform from displaying skill. The more skill you
show you posses should always determine your tier
placement. That means it’s always upgrading and
updating based off recent showings. A Bad showing
should lead to a stuck or lower tier drop while the
good showings keep moving you up and keeps your
spot secure. But It seems tiers is nothing more than
an illusion nowadays to keep certain artist ahead of
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others with no actual ranking system or stat sheet to
go upon. The tier system looks as if it goes off your
best battle within your first couple. Some people
came in as top tier, some come in as mid tier, and
most are low tiers or unranked. Unranked artist are
amongst the smaller leagues who aren’t seen as much
as big stage artist. Tiers seem to go up but if your at
the top do you ever fall, it looks not. Most these new
age DIVAS don’t drop a tier because of what they
did in the past, but the past has nothing to do with
what’s being produced now. Tiers are nothing more
than a word that keeps the Hollywood at the top
and Hollywood safely away from the killing animal
lurking thru the underground leagues of battling.
Politics is what makes us see these washed up watered
down performances while the best things to touch a
stage have never been seen yet. Why have they never
been seen?? Because these solidified tier holders don’t
know when it’s time to give it up, sit down and make
way for the new to pass through. So a lot of the best
out are still unheard of because of what we’re basing
rankings off of.