Expos & WP: Obituary, Dashiki is a female character from the movie: Don't Be A Menace To Society While Drinking Their Juice In The Hood. Tabs = Tabloids. Roman, Colosseum, Rai24 is an Italian news station channel. #DedSec

Welcome to the semi-finals of the "2019 Summer Throwdown". This round you will have until 10/3/19 @11:59 est to drop your verse. Any verses submitted after the deadline will be an automatic disqualification. If needed, a one time extension will be granted (if you havent used it already). Good Luck, gentlemen.

Well well

TALK THAT GOAT TALK! #DedSec

Expo for those who have never heard of Xanax. Xanax are a depression medication. The ones I'm referencing are called Xanax bars. Bars/ladders are street slang for the drug. Ladder as in the Xanax bar, ladder as in the LBT ladder.

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Opener - Rai

Bar 2 & 3 - Fuel

Bar 4 & 5 - Tie

Bar 6 - Rai

Bar 7 - Fuel

Closer - Fuel

Overall - Rai started off strong while Fuel ended strong.

I've excused myself from writing up too much of an explaination here coz there was way too many which is why it took me quite a while to vote here and after 5 fucking reads this is what i felt about it.

BOTB - 

When X said he needed a new team of mods? I expected PUNK AS STAFF AND RULE OR SOMETHING So when he said he "needed FUEL in moderation?..." I thought he was "CUTTING BACK ON FOOD CONSUMPTION!!"

Hmm one needs to ease up on the scheming and focus more on bar quality. Rhyme schemes are cool but if you can be more impactful with a different multi set then switch that shit up. Other seemed rusty and didnt have anything too fresh conceptually. Vote goes to my fave bar of the lot. Fairs in. 

This was a good ass battle Rai your opener was pretty sick bro I think that was my favorite bar by u. Fuel that bikini mags bar was I'll as well. This was a close battle I feel Rai was more creative but fuel came with a pretty good style to I'm giving this to the flow and the verse that went together more nicely. Good battle fellas this was a very close one 

I've got to be honest with you two. This is one of the worst battles that I've ever had the displeasure of reading from two supposedly "good" textcees. I don't expect flawless verses from either of you, but the amount of unforgivable beginner mistakes was just mind-boggling. I'll break these down bar-by-bar to better make my points.

Rai. I know I love to eviscerate you in my expos, but I really thought that you knew better than to drop absolute trash by now and could limit yourself to subtle mistakes like punches that you can see coming from a mile away. But nah. First off, we have some nonsense about fuel being food. Who calls food fuel? Do you know people who drink kerosene? I have no idea what diving in a tavern means; I assume you meant "cavern" but I want to believe you were talking about the AA 12-step program because that's more laughably stupid. The adolescents and slackers line was ok but you still need to have your bottom hit for what came in front of me.

And then... a LITERAL broken multi. TRY-TO-PRETEND YOU'RE A RAPPER / TIME TO EDIT YOUR GRAMMAR. And you did this RIGHT AFTER ACCUSING 2FUEL OF HAVING FORCED MULTIES. If I didn't know better, I'd think you were starting to develop self-awareness. The ropes line was ok. The xanax closer was too long and I needed an expo for it. This verse didn't have any punches that were memorable for the right ones, with the best ones being adolescents and slackers, and the amount of outright bad bars more than offsets whatever you did right.

Moving onto 2FUEL... I went out of Rai's verse thinking, "At least 2FUEL can't disappoint me worse than this," but boy was I wrong, and I wasn't expecting much. To start us off, the amount of cleverness required to write a holmes / homes bar is precisely the opposite of however much cleverness Sherlock Holmes had, and nobody had ever called a pen a "point tip" before you did. And then you dropped the fucking wordplay Oh Bitch You Weary / Obituary? Did nobody tell you that Oh Bitch You Airy / Obituary has already been done by Reggin, my TROLL MULTI ACCOUNT WHICH I USE FOR POSTING DELIBERATELY BAD BARS? And you apparently had the combination of stupidity and audacity to think it was good... My brain hurts.

Rabies topped / Rai be stopped? Say it out loud, does that really sound the same to you? Maybe it's close, but I think not quite there. Dashiki bar was probably okay if you ignore the fact that it was incredibly pauseworthy, like rainbows coming out of my screen tier pauseworthy. After that up to grafitti tags was alright, and like Rai had only 1 good punch, the grafitti tag punch was pretty solid. Then you had to end with some shit about roam in / Roman and call or see him / Colosseum. You know, as though these wordplays haven't already been used by so many different people that I can't even accuse you of biting them. Also, there is no way in hell anybody is going to know Rai24 is an Italian news channel without an expo, and there is no way in hell that YOU knew Rai24 is an Italian news channel until you navigated to Google.com and used your pint-covered fingers to slowly punch in "Rai" and hit the Enter key.

All in all, this was a horrid battle, and far below what so-called LB "veterans" should be willing to have their names attached to. But I do think Rai's fuck-ups were overall less severe and his punches were more clever, and that's why I have him winning. Fair's in.