^^ fk me i had to book a day off work to read that ^^ 

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It's KILLERS. Even if I am ghostwriting for both here anyway.

Multiville Horror.

Hitmen #excellenceofexecution

Expo:

Allen wrenches have 6 sides.

Ambulances are allowed to pass people on the shoulder (the extra lane on the side of the road, which you normally aren't supposed to use).

Good luck, Riep.

Man this is close. I feel like boths openers were long and low impact for me. Lock the keyin the car was dope. & Corona virus. Sho the amblance concept was tight & lunar bars. Also noticed the scheme work for 16 which is always impressive if not limiting. Feel like this was super fuckin even but i think Lock just had more consistant impact. Stickin with the scheme probably led to more filelr than you could afford here. 8-8 Lock. 

Sorry for the length it makes it easier for me to vote fairly bar by bar if I copy paste.

Y'all gon' see this "kid dead LAYIN' IN HIS CRIB" no BABY W/ THE SIDS! If Sho "step-to-the-plate? He'll get met-w-a-K" like Nolan Ryan 80 PITCHES IN while the other team can't find a WAY TO GET A HIT! 

Solid bar. Decent 2 punch combo, w a light jab to hook—smooth mutli mmm,m. Think you could've stopped at "80 pitches in", extra filler threw my flow off but that's just me. I empathize w ppl not finding the flows, its tough I get it. (2)

After that L his girl left 'em for Peewee: Him 'n his ex-BAE IS IN THE WHIP, "she got the homie Ki in his car" but there's no aBRASIONS 'N SOME NICKS for bein' unFAITHFUL W/ HIS BITCH!

Read the expo, seent Shodan's last battle vs whoever tf Kiwi is. I mean, the wordplay works but this punch didn't hit as hard for me. Still a creative personal jab. (3) Pee-wee is a baseball league for kids & a HOFer's name, feel like you had potential to go somewhere harder w this—but I won't count that against you I'm js lol.

Ya not the brains-w/in-the-clique. Bar wise? "Mine control the narrative" - you can SAY THAT IT'S TELEPATHY, he's "gettin' jumped on my way to bein' King" - I'm reNAMIN' HIM THE "CHECKERS PIECE"!

The jab-hook again, love that setup. Only giving you one punch here tho (4) Idk if the Mine/Mind wordplay was on purpose or not but I read it that way so fuck it, it works. Subtle style points there. Good punch. 

That forum post? GAY-AS-SHIT, it's clear as DAY THIS KID'S A DESPERATE WEEB, ironic how he "put it on his tab": he shoulda known he would "PAY FOR THIS EVENTUALLY"!

Pls tell me homie kept that tab up to be funny hahaha tab concept works nice though, solid creative punch carrying the flow well. (5) Think this following the last bar is the climax of your verse. 

If he take shots at my fam I'm "hackin up a lung", the knife I'm CLEAVIN' W/ IS DULL. If it's Sho-I'm-fightin? "Coronavirus" cause for tryna mess w/ the beasts I'm makin' BREATHIN' DIFFICULT!

Solid punch, relevant to the times. Keeping the flow consistent. (6)

He wants to be DaDDiO, yet he always gets BEATEN TO A PULP, so I guess that "dream of his was to die for" like he's the LEADER OF A CULT 'n sacrifices his beLIEVERS IN A CULL!

Eh. Felt fillery to keep the scheme going. I see the concept, just feels a bit lazy. (7)

Kiwi killed ya corny bars 'n had ya limbs HACKED 'N TOSSED IN A HARBOR, funny you were "clumsy w/ Liptons", cause he had ya "BAG GET DROPPED IN THE WATER"! KILLERS.

I see the flip—but felt the closer could've been harder tbh. Neverless, a solid creative punch. Hitting the personals. I count (8) connecting punches. Kept flow & creativity consistent throughout. Dope entry my man. 

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He'd ruin-his-whole-life by choosing-to-throw-dice, tossing CUBES AND CHANCING IT! He's currently "on top of the house" but the FUTURE'S CANCEROUS for that STUPID GAMBLING SHIT you wouldn't see "six-sided objects get 'em more turned around" unless I USED AN ALLEN WRENCH to SCREW A RAFTER IN!!!

Roofer has entered the chat. Feel like the set up was pretty lengthy for a decent concept w a decent punch. If he's on the house... wouldn't you want to unscrew the Rafter so he topples??? Think you could've pushed the concept deeper maybe (1) 

I'll beat you like a slave on some KUNTA'S MASTER SHIT, you can get "whipped around on the shoulder" without a CRUISING AMBULANCE! - and with this public curbstomp "I'll get more fame for stepping on that body" than the LUNAR LANDING DID!!!

Felt the two-punch combo hit pretty well here. Solid concepts & execution, especially the ambulance/shoulder one. (3) 

If someone didn't surrender on my terms my missiles probly BLEW THE MAN TO BITS! He knows "Negotiating conditions will lead to a strike being called" like a UNION PLANNED TO QUIT!!!

Solid creative jap-hook bar here. I like the concept; well executed. Keeping the scheme flowing nicely (4) Think this following your last bar was the climax of your verse. 

This dumb-fucker begs gun-runners to give him RUGERS, GATS, & SMITHS because he thinks it puts him in the COOLEST CLASS TO SPIT! This white boy's got more "hand-outs to raise arms for sport" than a saLUTING CLASS OF KIDS in MUNICH AT THE GYM if the FUHRER'S BACK AGAIN!!!

Eh I feel like you lost the flow a little here. Concept probably could've been executed better, punch felt a little hollow for the lengthy set up. (5)

He begged me for a spot in Fire Nation, but the deLUSION THAT YOU'D GET into my CREW IS STAGERRING, which had this "kid getting left in a different group," it's like you MOVED FROM "MAGA, BITCH!" to a YOUTH-FOR-SANDERS GIG!!! / The Fire Nation.

Solid attempt at a personal. I see the relevant concept. Still don't think it translated hard enough for a creative closing punch. Plus going from MAGA to Sanders feels like an improvement imo. I count (6) connecting punches. Flowed well throughout though. 

*Overall, I think Rieper came with a more effective verse. Edged with creativity, personals, and had more/harder hitting punches. Good battle. Fair is in. 

Shit I hope voters can't see my comment right? lol

Rieper: overall dope drop my dude. The Tab bar and the Kiwi bars were highlights. Personally I like narratives in rap verses. No glaring issues, solid. This ones difficult to judge so the winner might come down to punch preference.

Sho: for some reason I really dug the ambulance bar especially. probably cause I was driving earlier and a few past me by. Lol dope. Union bar was fresh and I like the screw driver punch.

my decisions based on who had a few harder punches and made a tiny bit fewer mistakes. I hate when people comment about battles being close when they're not *cough* *cough* but I'd definitely say this could fall in that category because you guys both brought heat with somewhat similar styles. Good luck to the winner fairs in

I definitely got Rieper taking this one. Key the car and tab lines were riepers highlights, with the daddio bit holding a bit more weight after Shodan schemed his drop, as well. What's important though is that the rest of riepers punches were atleast "pretty good".

And ultimately that's where he won the battle, because while Shodan had the ambulance and union lines which I felt were good, he had some serious WTF moments. These were bars that were of a quality I don't think would normally make it into a Shodan verse (especially when he's battling Lockhart), but they did here and I believe it's because he constrained himself by the scheme. The biggest culprit is that whole opening sequence. Which, really isn't a great concept to begin with but the execution on top is super awful. Six sided objects get em turned around = using an Allen wrench? Fuck no. Trying to just replace the name of an object with the number of sides it has is almost, maybe as bad, as a ROUNDs bar and definitely shouldn't be used in serious context. I also thought the closer was a weaker concept and definitely presented in a strange way, from "getting left" to using the word bitch to address him in the middle of the line. It looked like that was supposed to be the punch but then the line just kept going.

Now, Most of these mistakes by Shodan were things that might not always costs him but in this case, Ultimately I just felt like both had a couple highlights but Lock didn't have anything that made me want to punch him in the face whereas I can't say the same for Shodan. Fairs in

Clicked comment only by accident so just have to fill the box here so that I can leave my vote on this baaaaaaattttttlllleeeee

first verse was good i liked the personal attacks and the clean wording second verse also executed his bars well but didn't have the same sting for me 1

Thought Rieper, from start to finish, had more consistent hits. Sho, the schemework was sick af, and cant say it hindered the creativity of the verse either.  If I had one thing to nit pick about? I'd be the filler in a few of your punches. 

All in all, this is a solid, heavyweight, matchup. Nothing was ti be desired from either verse. As I said I feel Lock had little to no filler, and is ultimately what got my vote here. Although, imo, Sho had botb w/ "I'll beat you like a slave on some KUNTA'S MASTER SHIT, you can get "whipped around on the shoulder" without a CRUISING AMBULANCE!" Super dope punch. Fair is in. 8-8. Damn good read. 

That was a tough one to choose from I think I'm going to have to give it to the one with the best closer so I'm going to have to go with Rieper

Hollup..... do I see P-P-P-P-Personals!?! 

Automatic loss

Both delivered here. I got Rieper winning cuz i thought he not only had the BOTB for me but i thought he had the more creative punches. Shodan your verse was structured really well especially the rhyming was dope and flowed smoothly but i thought you didn't have as many moments here as Rieper. 

I swear to God voting on text battles is such a fucking pain in my ass but I have to contribute to the voting of tournament battles as well. I owe these two a fair vote anyways. 

Rieper's opener was very creative metaphorically. I feel like though that it could've been setup a lot better. The multi didn't rhyme too well but the punchlines itself was rather hard-hitting. So, although definitely not his best opener that I've seen from him, it was still p fire. I liked that second bar of his although for some reason I just didn't enjoy the setup as much. I feel like his multi's are a lot less forced though within this particular bar and therefore allowed the overal punchline to hit harder as it was pretty clever. Third bar had to be his lighter. The way it was set up was clever, had this best multi-syllable incorporation compared to the rest of his verse and hit super hard. DESPERATE WEEB BAR bar was a lot longer but the build-up here was honestly worth it because that shit was some fucking fire. Obviously Shodan was trolling with that shit in the forums lmao but it's still funny as fuck. This bar axiomatically had the strongest multi as well which was nicely thought out. The fourth line what clever metaphorically, however, just didn't hit too good for me. I'm not sure if it's because of the concept itself or if it's because it's rather self-hype'ish in nature but he could've used a different punchline in this battle and saved that one for something else. His DaDDiO bar was probably his weakest one. It wasn't even bad the slightest bit but it was just nothing compared to the rest of his content, especially his closer which ended up making up for his opener. That shit was super hard-hitting and probably my second favorite punch that he presented here. I'm feeling that his highlighting punchline within his entire verse was either the Mine Control bar or the Desperate Weeb bar. 

I liked the cadence of the beginning of Shodan's opener a lot and even though it was an overall build up, metaphorically speaking, it was all set up very nicely. I felt like that it hit a lot harder compared to Rieper's opener as well. The responder stuck to the rhyme scheme and all the rhymes were pretty solid but his opponent did have a bar that had a multi which assisted in that bar; syllable wise was just superior to anything Sho displayed here. But the responder still continued to remain just as heavy-hitting with his punchlines as they progressed after the opener. The second punchline was pretty nice actually. Although compared to the rest of his verse I felt like he could've done better along with his closer. That third punchline had a ever-so-slightly stretched metaphor but ultimately the way it hit for me was fucking FIRE! Super creative the way he flipped that shit, the double meaning there I caught was also very unexpected yet not only very clever but easy to follow through with. So not expo here needed, obviously. The following bar I had to reread twice, didn't get why he had to use the term white boy but it ended up making sense considering the punch itself and the consistence of multi-syllable incorporation made the overal bar hit heavily. The only thing I feel like Rieper's got on Shodan in this case was his closer that out-did Sho's but I feel like the responder just slightly edges this for the reasons I've stated here.

Also I would just like to say real quick that the way S T O Y detailed his vote for this battle here was really cool.