#SVOXO

yeah in some way text is harder then audio because in audio all you have to do is jot up a verse get on your mic and go in on a nigga with text you have to follow a certain pattern your multies have to be capped, everything spelled right or it throws the whole thing off, all your bars have to end with a / or some people will vote against you smh im sure there are lots more rules you text guys abide by but those are just the ones i seen my brief time in the text scene

Edit: Fill in the box heard that so many times in text

I've been gone over Christmas/New Year, only just saw I got mentioned in here but really, how are people in here saying text is harder than 'audio'?

I actually dislike calling it 'audio', it's such a textcee term IMHO, but for the purpose of this thread I'm willing to use it so everyone knows what we're talking about.

LOL @ dude who said it takes him wayyyy longer than ten minutes to come up with a text sixteen though.

Step your keyboard game up, son haha!

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This is right unless you write your verses to an instrumental, as someone like J. Keeps, IGLOS etc would do.

true statement man. and i also feel that acapella is harder than rapping on a beat.. when acapella, EVERY word counts, any fuck up is heard. whereas hoping on a beat, depending on the beat it gives you more fuel on this diss, more impact. where as you can say a ton of filler that leads up to a punch and will keep the track going dope. acapella, no. you have to produce line for line, while controlling ya breathing.

i hate the word ''audio'' too.. i never heard of it til i started text battling.

yea i've been trying to say that lol

no

Yeah after sittin here trying to master the art of mixing songs n shit the last month, not to mention im trying to learn how to make beats n shit, audio is deff harder... plus to top it off you gotta write the shit along with all the other shit haha 100

^ this

night and day imo because they each have their own hardships...personally, writing came easier than rapping...for me, it was easier to grasp, and its easier to teach...try explaining the concept of 'flow' to a first time rapper...now try explaining the concept of writing/counting bars

The thing about audio is that a flow and delivery can change what your audience thinks about you. You can play on the audience's emotions through the inflections in your voice. In this aspect you don't really have to worry about complete total hard hitting lines if you have good speaking skills. For example (and ironically), your battle with Verity (@Phil Banks) you had some dope lines especially that dope name play opener, BUT what really sold me was your delivery. You had a good battle presence that just was raw. Verity had some dope lines in there too no doubt cuz she's a good writer BUT (no offense) I really wasn't diggin that British/English accent. Te same thing with JamJar who is also good with text BUT in audio battles it sounds out of place. In the end the whole point of a text battle is to sort of exaggerate our skills with wordplay, concepts, and punches. Think about this. More than half of his are no doubt better than every single member of Young Money but look who's famous cuz they have the right connections and know how to appeal To audiences . Some of the shit wee come up with is doper than any shit other mainstream rappers could dream. But the point is flow and delivery plays a bigger part in audio which means you can downplay the essentials of text.

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Shit I wrote alot. My bad. You don't have to read that all. Just Ike the first half.