Nice spar here. Both had some decent concepts though only one executed his properly. Both had some issues though one's punching power and creativity was above the others. Pretty one sided imo. Fairs in, i'm out. Good luck to who ever goes through.

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TM did ok, probably better than his usual stuff. I just found some of his wording and Multis to be a bit forced and he definitely had some strange concepts. REZN got this for me despite being a bit more basic and direct than usual, he still had a more structured drop with smoother rhyming and concepts that made for decent punches. 

Seen better from one and worse from the other. Basically, one stepped up a little here and the other took a step down from his normal. While one had the better concepts, I didn't feel much impact as a reader. The other had a concept or two that was solid while the rest sort of felt flat. I have REZN winning this with consistency. Felt pretty basic but just enough consistent to get my vote. 

This was a pretty clean dub for Rant. One of the cleaner verses I've seen out of him in a while. Wording of the setups was concise, good use of idioms and strong concept punches. Trademarked had some humorous points but there were broken rhymes in a few spots and the punches weren't on par with his opponent creatively or from an execution standpoint

REZN was up-and-down here, but didn't have any really low lows, whereas TradeMarked lacked any really strong punches and was making beginner mistakes like broken multis. That alone would have been enough to seal the battle, and great concepts from REZN like Chinese Foreign Policies (bar of the battle) and Reading Braille just made the margin even wider. Fair's in.

Rezn came with pretty basic multies with a broken one slipped. You started off really good. But quickly fell off. 

Trade had the more killer verse here. Good multies with good setups and punches. Fairs in. Gb

CLASSICK!

Rezn was nice got some nice wp i think Trademark had that hard flow n was consistent....rezn fav bar was the Uzis out n Trade was the dancing money line that was funny. but i know who im voting for so thats that. GL guys

Expo - 

REZ FAILING ACADEMICALLY couldn't get a passing grade with a LEZ MAILING AN AUTHENTIC D*** - I used the word D (not the full word) i just added**** so you would understand its Dick. and a D is a barley passing grade. Those are not broken, your just reading them wrong.

One surprised me here, i didn't expect to like his verse lol this was a good battle, enjoyed both verses. The winner was more creative and had better set ups to the punches. I felt the loser was aggressive and going at his opponent but lacked creativity so the punches he did have didn't hit as hard for me. I liked the closer from both the most i think (at least on first read) got my winner. votes in. 

Both had a lot of punches here, a lot of played concepts as well. Can't say that they had any amazing lines tbh we saw a lot of simple go to dissing, Overall the winner here was better structured imo, and that's why they take it.

I thought this was a reasonably clear battle, my winner's rhyming wasn't broken at any points (even if the tremendous difference between our accents made it a struggle to follow at several points) and he had several creative and clear punches that landed harder than anything his opposition could bring.

REZN your verse in general stayed pretty consistent. Your closer had a bit of an issue. I didn't see how someone would plausibly "see trading punches in the same sentence" at a boxing match, and in a "You wouldnt see ABC if you XYZ" punch, all of ABC has to be something you'd reasonably expect to see at XYZ.

Trademarked your biggest problem here was that often your multis had different numbers of syllables. The biggest example of this to me was "EASY ON YOUR DANCING MONKEY (8)/SLEAZY HOMES FOR AN ADVANCING JUNKY (10)". Make sure you always keep the same number of syllables between multis, or the punchlines you think of will lose their impact because the rhymes won't fit.

Fair vote is in, good luck fellas

Nice battle fellas. Both came correct, I had one winning by the punch count. Both were creative but my winner had good set ups and execution.

My favorite lines from both were

He'll see the hands go up before he's out like WAVING GOODBYe

cause Marks "hardware" will SPRAY DOWN TILL THE "SOUND CLICK".../

Fire. Good job guys