ITT: Ask somebody who knows way too much about the history of text anything - Lets Beef

**Baron Mynd** · #1 08-20-2012, 11:31 AM

and i'll reply as best I know.

**Baron Mynd** · 08-20-2012, 11:31 AM

and i'll reply as best I know.

**J u s T C** · #2 08-20-2012, 11:38 AM

Who had the first ever text battle?
What site was it on?
Who won?
What year?

**J u s T C** · 08-20-2012, 11:38 AM

Who had the first ever text battle?
What site was it on?
Who won?
What year?

**Teek** · #3 08-20-2012, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Just C

Who had the first ever text battle?
What site was it on?
Who won?
What year?

I was going to be a smartass and reply with some Shakespearian poetry duel as the first text battles... but the moment passed.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by pULSe

Shit wasnt poppin off on IRC, trust that. I tried to bring rap battlin to IRC when I was like 12

Maybe on a server I never knew about, on a chat I never knew about. But that shit couldnt have had more than like 20 active niggas

I'd like to know which IRC server you was on because Dalnet and Effnet had thousands of users on at any given time.

Unless you was talking about the channel you went in.

I wasn't into rap battles back then so I didn't pay much attention. I know my scriptz and warez channels I opped had a couple hundred or so.

I was just assuming chat rap battles were around in early IRC days before AOL, because that and BBS's were what people had to communicate.

**Teek** · 08-20-2012, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Just C

Who had the first ever text battle?
What site was it on?
Who won?
What year?

I was going to be a smartass and reply with some Shakespearian poetry duel as the first text battles... but the moment passed.

---------- Post added at 05:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:36 PM ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by pULSe

Shit wasnt poppin off on IRC, trust that. I tried to bring rap battlin to IRC when I was like 12

Maybe on a server I never knew about, on a chat I never knew about. But that shit couldnt have had more than like 20 active niggas

I'd like to know which IRC server you was on because Dalnet and Effnet had thousands of users on at any given time.

Unless you was talking about the channel you went in.

I wasn't into rap battles back then so I didn't pay much attention. I know my scriptz and warez channels I opped had a couple hundred or so.

I was just assuming chat rap battles were around in early IRC days before AOL, because that and BBS's were what people had to communicate.

**Baron Mynd** · #4 08-20-2012, 11:51 AM

Before there were actually forums, we used to battle in AOL chatrooms, the old Freestyle rooms were the best.

Napster originally had a freestyle chatroom where a lot of them happened. Often the other members of the chat would throw up words for the emcees to then incorporate into their verses to prove they weren't biting or hadn't pre-wrote their stuff. The other members of the chatroom then judged.

The earliest text battles as we now know them would have been around 1995/1996 with the likes of Jamies Crackhouse, Sethros etc

**Baron Mynd** · 08-20-2012, 11:51 AM

Before there were actually forums, we used to battle in AOL chatrooms, the old Freestyle rooms were the best.

Napster originally had a freestyle chatroom where a lot of them happened. Often the other members of the chat would throw up words for the emcees to then incorporate into their verses to prove they weren't biting or hadn't pre-wrote their stuff. The other members of the chatroom then judged.

The earliest text battles as we now know them would have been around 1995/1996 with the likes of Jamies Crackhouse, Sethros etc

Streetz De Hood · #5 08-20-2012, 11:54 AM

Who are the top 5 textcees outside of LB?

Streetz De Hood · 08-20-2012, 11:54 AM

Who are the top 5 textcees outside of LB?

**Phil Banks** · #6 08-20-2012, 11:59 AM

what nationality was resin mic rly tho?

**Phil Banks** · 08-20-2012, 11:59 AM

what nationality was resin mic rly tho?

**Baron Mynd** · #7 08-20-2012, 12:02 PM

Ahhhhh, this question so soon.

These things are always subjective depending on where you started out, whether the preference there was long bar or short bar, which era you came up in etc. There are far too many to name but some that always seem to make the list for the relevant new schoolers and I think a lot would agree with are: John Hensley, Resin M-I-C, Blue Bayou, Kungfugrip, Butler

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Phil Banks

what nationality was resin mic rly tho?

This is Resin / Aaron:

**Baron Mynd** · 08-20-2012, 12:02 PM

Ahhhhh, this question so soon.

These things are always subjective depending on where you started out, whether the preference there was long bar or short bar, which era you came up in etc. There are far too many to name but some that always seem to make the list for the relevant new schoolers and I think a lot would agree with are: John Hensley, Resin M-I-C, Blue Bayou, Kungfugrip, Butler

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Phil Banks

what nationality was resin mic rly tho?

This is Resin / Aaron: