Yea everyone's game is rough at times, regardless of the generation. I agree with you Schnerch, I also accept that my perspective on the text arena might be a bit different as well. I read these verses expecting them to sound good as a vocalization. Textcee's been getting visually poetic which I often find corny or forced. I think a more narrative frame of mind would help a lot of battler's verses. Every bar should somewhat be cohesive, there's a lot of jumping around and trying to fill in as much wordplay, metaphors, etc. as possible. It's important to be creative, but the overall verse should be wholesome.

UA was dope. Daddio was nice with it. Some of the other ones I've seen mentioned in this thread were overrated as fuck imo. And how come when there's discussion of the greats, the conversation is heavily skewed toward texters? When I think of LB greats, I think of Real Talk, Conceited SIXX-SHOTT, Swavy and Swisha.

I wasn't around for the old old head eras but as far as battling goes the dopest I've crossed paths with is definitely Stricc.

So everyones straight up not even reading the op?

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Read some nawkout or jacoby for wordplay hilarity haha.

That concept has obly really been verbalized recently for sure. I remember I used to have big arguments with rican about it anf people rarely got what I meant.