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Originally Posted by Azul El Chivo
You're thinking of back in 2010 or so and back then that was what was dope for the time. There were still members with integrity and legit skill then. Once they're all gone it's a castle made of sand. You need good people to have a good community and thus a good site. People fuck with SMACK and want to be on there because of all the talent there and the way it's ran professionally and treated with the proper respect. Same with any other successful battle rap league / promotion. The bums hang around bums and stay in bum leagues that are ran by bums until they step it up and want / do better. The big fish want to go swim with other big fish and do big fish shit.
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I'm not sure if you were ever around LB back when it was good but there were two entire sections. You had the forum guys. Those were the guys who could write punches and actually battle. Then you had everyone else. A wasteland of cheating and nonsense. The latter was easily more fun. The excitement of having a battle coming to close was so much more intense. Shit was so much more fub when you just wrote shit. I'm someone that breaks shit down to really technical levels but at the same time I don't wanna spend 3 weeks on a verse, and no one wins titles with half an hours work.
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Originally Posted by BizNasty
I never called anyone out. I was giving a simple solution to the problem. Its funny how your comparing me to others when i'm just being real with y'all. but yet your getting defensive about me saying you went ghost, but didnt you say something about me going ghost? I went ghost because i had life problems to deal with. I never gave up on hip hop/rap and i never gave up on LB. I'm going to carry on tradition just like you and punk should as well. All your years of hard work is great and i know you and punk are vets. The point is to promote but y'all are going about this the wrong way. You think i'm attacking you guys but i'm not. I'm trying to make people realize that we need to make moves as a unit.
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LB isn't "hip hop/rap". Its dorky text and audio battling.
Anyways, we all go inactive for whatever reason. But this isn't just a situation where some cunt goes inactive. Maybe 5 years ago if everyone did everything I said, sure, maybe. Now, there is NOTHING you or I can do to change this shit. Go ahead and prove me wrong but realistically odds say you'll just get fed up and ghost again Within 2 months.
I compared you yo other people because your opinion is so overwhelming generic. Every dude whos came back after years away feels like their new found activity in a month is gonna move the earth, and they for some reason ALWAYS decide to call out the guys that got Lb to this stage in the process. If you wanna completely ignore advice from people who clearly have a more extensive perspective and experience, go ahead. Do whatever it is you want to do. But we got it to this point and you can't get sand in your vagina because we decide for a week not to play ball anymore.
Me and Punk, within the last two months, completely took over the site and added some of the best content in years. Before you start calling lads like us out, ask yourself, what the fuck have you done full stop?
You're talking about "proper promotion" as if we haven't been there done that. Be it trying to connect the large Facebook group, spamming Youtube instrumentals, spamming other websites...you name it we've tried it. You forget man, this shit essentially went un-updated (or very minimally) for about 12 years. After those first few when we all noticed shit started to drop, we all did exactly what you're calling for. We promoted the site, we ran tournaments, leagues, events. We made development crews. We made our own Hall of Fame.
This shit is like a fucking minecraft server. We had a building block of a world and we fucking made one. We built this shit to have legends and histories. From MJ to Edgeworth, this shit was all us.
Now? There's nothing more we can do man. We've exhausted every option. It's on X and completely out of our hands.