BILLERS! 

ROOD GUCK, LIEPER!

Deadline to post: April 17th, Midnight PST

Round closes: April 19th, Midnight PST

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KILLERS

Battle of the KILLER Mods.

Reminder: Deadline to post is tomorrow, April 17th, Midnight PST

The Reaper is a huge annoying bug in Resident Evil 5. Bug as in eavesdropping/ tapping. Reaper bug in/Rieper bugging. 

Reipers first verse was lil more structure stood like stonerock statue raps and was enough for a w,in this battle second verse was lil ducking wasn't"t awful buht wash"t enough for a victory ftw,gb

one had good flow but the other i could understand the wordplay abit more and had a bit better delivery, but both were nice ...good luck to u both. fairs in..

Lol good shit from both thought one barley took it fair is tossed fellas

Damn, this one was close. I feel like Rieper was ahead on concepts and Edge was ahead in their execution.

Rieper's personal punch was well made and very specific. I was initially worried it might just be a reframing of Lock's original punch which it referenced, but it was entirely different, flipped the original punch's meaning on its head and hit well.

Edge, your punch and wordplay was really great as well conceptually, its just that Rieper had more involved in his setup which put him in the lead conceptually. However, the fact you were able to use a multi equally long and complex as Rieper's three times to his two, including a bit where it was used basically twice in a row, put you ahead of him in terms of flow and rhyming, giving you a much slicker execution.

Basically what my voting decision came down to was whether the gap between the two bars' concepts was greater or lesser than the difference in their execution. Again, when I say difference I basically mean in a quantity sense, not quality. I spotted few flaws in concepts or execution in either bar, its just that Riep packed more ideas into his and Edge packed more multis into his.

One final bit of feedback, which affected both bars equally so it didn't weigh into my vote, regards the type of punches you were bringing. I don't know if this is just me being unfamiliar with one-bar battles, but both of your bars felt like they weren't really standalone punches. For instance, when Edge wrote about how Rieper lets the police wiretap his friends, other than it being a cool pun I wasn't quite sure why I should care. In a longer verse it might have built into a larger narrative about how he is some kind of flaky, cowardly fake gangsta, but on its own I didn't think it was too hard hitting. Same with Rieper's punch; I couldn't find an instance of Edge moaning about losing to you so other than pointing out that you beat him once I didn't really think your punch hurt him too badly. If this feedback is legitimate and not just me being unfamiliar with the format, try to bring more standalone-type bars that don't just feel like a highlight pulled from a bigger verse but actually go somewhere in and of themselves.

...the winner took this by an edge. Worth stating that the loser had concepts that didn't make his punches hit as hard as the winner's. Fv,F no hate

Rieper: Good bar here, needed the expo to get the personal but it works either way, rhyming was proficient and maybe I'm reading into it too much but it's not really a good insult at your opponent to say that he says it was a robbery imo.

Edgeworth: Impressive use of 7-syllables here in 2 lines, unexpected nameplay here but the punch landed. Good personal here too, considering he just joined staff.

Overall: Felt like my winner took this with a cleaner bar here, loser had a good personal flip but I felt like he underestimated his opponent here, good-close battle here. Fair's in KILLERS.

I am leaning with edgeworth here his bar just more effective and personal instead of the generic one that rieper had.

My choice had better wordplay and a better overall diss

This is a tough one.. I liked ones concepts a bit more but my choice hit a little harder..

This was close feeling both bars but the lunch just edged it for me based on content and delivery of it ... BOTR right here .... .:X:. 

Both stared at their names in the face on this one, very close, gb