Welcome to the 2018 Summer Text Tournament, and congrats on making it in. Round 1 Submission Deadline: August 9 at 5pm PST (GMT -7). Good luck gents!

Votes in..

Fv. One particular punch was da *shit*

Will be back 

HMMM...... CAKED's OPENER WOZ OK, THA 'HOLD YOUR TONGUE' PART WOZ ACTUALLY WELL WORDED, WORLD WAR 2 PART WOZ OK, NEXT FEW BARS THO I FELT THA RHYMIN WOZ REALLY FORCED IF IM HONEST, SOME OF THA LIL BITCHSLAPS WERE OK TOWARDS THA END BUT THA RHYMIN WAS QUITE BASIC, YOU DEFINATELY STARTED BETTER THAN YOU FINISHED IMO, WAS AN OK READ THO...... MELO HAD SOME NICE PARTS, OPENER WOZ OK, LIKED THA WORDIN FOR THA 'CHAIN SMOKE EM' PART, LIKED THA 'VAGIN ILL' PART ALSO, WAS A LIL INCONSISTANT AT TIMES THO...... THIS IS FAIRLY CLOSE, BOTH VERSES WERE UP N DOWN AN BOTH STAYED IN THA 3/4 MULTI COUNT THROUGHOUT, I FELT ONE DELIVERED A FEW OF THEIR HITS BETTER THO SO IM LEANIN IN THAT DIRECTION, GL TO BOTH..... FAIR IS DROPPED!

One took it with an overall better verse IMO. Better Punches & multies shined..

This one was very close. Felt it came down to cleanliness and structure. My winner here had slightly better punches/multies

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K-melo vs the CHOSEN ONE..y’all KNOW HE DONE, cause I don’t have to LOAD THE DRUM feel a blade if you keep talking dumb, that’s how I “HOLD YOUR TONGUE”!

So a little basic here with the 3 syllables but not a bad punch at all. Ok set up. 

Your homies will want revenge but I’ll TELL YOUR DUDES since you was rushing to die, I’m bringing ya WORLD WAR 2! I’ll take his NUGGETS and whatever he got in THE POCKETS, for those KNICKS..okc how melo trade with THESE ROCKETS!

Honestly this just seemed all over the place. Nuggets 2 syl, the pockets 3, knicks 1, these rockets 3. Was hard to understand the flow here tbh. Not a bad punch but I would be inclined to point out that Melo wasn’t traded to/with the rockets he went to the hawks got waived and signed with Houston.

I can k.o him from a write or LEFT WITH THE FIST cause punch for punch he never been a THREAT WITH THE PEN lol talking bout you’ll bring DEATH TO THE KID..bro wouldn’t wipe souls unless this hoe STEPPED IN SOME SHIT

Pretty good punch dude. The issue recurring to me here is that it took you 4 lines to get here without any jabbing going on in the build up. Nor is the buildup super smooth/relevant or the final payoff a haymake.

, you CATCHING MY DRIFT how I can turn STEPHEN IN THIS run up with the 30, BEST OF A SWISH’! kill him without looking through the NET I DONT MISS!

Not bad, net/internet a little played. 

I’ll wait til he’s cruising than I’m TAILING HIS WHIP on the TRAIL OF THIS BITCH to SET UP DEATH wait til he’s at a red light than I SPED-UP-NEXT how shells busted out his windows like a FED UP EX!

Nice work here man, set up was relevant all the way and good punch. Again though it’s only 1 punch here in 3/4 lines and not really a haymaker. Honestly taking 4 lines for one punch only really works in 32s or if the punch is a barn burner world ender.

You can’t ROCK WITH THE BEST how my homies send SHOTS THRU YA VEST, if I give out the signal to leave ya TOP IN A MESS? I just rub my hair! that mean put ‘FIVE TO HIS HEAD’!

Sigh, hand = five ?

We on the same team so don’t take this WRITE TO YA CHEST but loyalty is what we live by and you just DIED FOR RESPECT...

ok ok I like the real talk here but a little weak of a closer, this coupled with five to his head kind of halted ur momentum.

cont’d

Bet, is what I said when the CALL CAME ROUND! I keep 'good hands', on the ALLSTATE ROUTE you FALL FACE DOWN from a TALL SHAPED HOUSE you took the WRONG WAY, BOUNCE ice sing on em until we ALL CAKED OUT!

Super awkward wording to lead off. Like, who speaks like that? Lol. And what is a tall shaped house? Tall isn’t really a shape. All state and cakes out punches were pretty good though dude. 

I shine an eye socket and SNATCH THOSE PEARLS push me to the edge I straight WAX YO CURLS you caked out in a place where CASTRO EARLED if I tear you down, I turn Houston to ASTROWORLD

Seems a bit repetitive using caked out again back to back. Nice punch here tho with a relevant reference. Little lomg  to get to the point here tho.

my STRAIN POTENT everyone in ya pack I CHAIN SMOKE EM how could you PRAY FOCUS when I TRAIN POETS? call the exterminator, wanna deal with a MANGED RODENT

Aggression is nice here and multis work although 3 count is very simple. Not overly clever lines but they work. 

the maximal, aim to MAX IN MILLS Don't fuck with pussies unless they VAGIN ILL usually more prepared, this out of TACTIC, KILL but my macs ill, eh? Yeah, down in ya MANDIBLE!

Dude wtf lol? Vagin ill? I dunno man wasn’t feeling this section. Mandible is ok but could have had a far greater set up yo.

against a broke street rat, it's SADDER YOU SPENT smokin the piece, coerced the LAMP FOR A WISH money, fortune, or fame, it's the LADDER YOU GET got a diamond in the rough, turn a LAD INTO PRINTS

This ain’t bad at all , not super aggressive but good writing.

but my real beef with you, you should CHANGE YO NAME DAWG I call you a fruit cake, you gotta MAKE IT PLAYED OFF I'm telling you it's light if I AIM AT YOU bless you up, Cake now you ANGEL FOOD

Nice. Tasteful play on cake. 

couldn't help but laugh when the POUND OR THE TRAYBAKE push him in heater, silent SOUND AS YOU LAY WAKE

meh, pretty lifeless closer honestly. 

I got my winner here here with less forced concepts and more coherent rhyming. Both took a long time to arrive at payoff lines so in this  battle it kind of cancelled out. My winner just seemed more natural and wasn’t reaching while delivering clean yet unspectacular rhymes and punches. FV.

CakedOut simply hid a higher quantity of punches whereas K-Melo was mostly coming with direct jabs. I didn't really like CO's material but it got the job done. Fair's in.

It was hard to drop a vote for this battle because it's so close when it comes to the jabs. I read both twice and gave the slight edge to one opponent. The fair is in. Respect. And good luck.

this felt like a clash of multies.. my winner had more imagination and punched better.. flow and structure was also on his side.. my loser felt like he was really just throwing multie rhymes together and not making much sense to me.. so since the other was more direct and better with punchs I went with him... gl fv!

one here was clean but had lots of issues in his execution, w hich led to his punches havin less sting... tha other had better execution and was a bit more complex so had a higher punch count imo ... fair's in

This was a pretty close one. Both brought similar concepts, but one had a little more variety and that made his verse slightly more dangerous. I just felt one edged it slightly. Fairs.