Good Thread.
It's hard to pinpoint exactly one person who changed the game.
Me, LEFT FIELD, Conceited, Statz and Brixx all came to this site from Myspace at about the same time, and we definitely inspired a lot of people to up their games, but Real Talk and Bobby Milk were both here a lil before that and goin' just as ham as us. But the more talented folks that are around each other, the more they try to top what the other dude did.
Ellahmeno was slept on for a long ass time so his influence isn't as obvious, however, Meta4, ESPECIALLY on his So Amazin account really raised the bar and drew a line in the sand between forced schemes and swaggerific schemes. He made it necessary to have FLOW in your text verses, which brings me to this...
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Originally Posted by Jack-Lantern
How can you have flow in a text battle? I mean, schemes, and readability, sure. But how can you determine how a person is flowing that verse when it's typed. :S
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Bro.. words were AUDIBLE before they were WRITTEN. Communication is verbal, so therefore once something is transcribed from spoken to written, it will not lose it's rhythm.
Do you know what "iambic pentameter" is? it is the name for one specific rhythm that words can fall into, often used in poetry.
think about musical notes. you hear them. they have flow, they have rhythm. Once you translate the music onto a sheet of paper by writing the notes into a staff, do they suddenly lose their rythm?? nah. truth is if somebody doesn't know how to play the music on the sheet, that doesn't mean the music on the page has no rhythm or flow, they just can't play very well
so therefore, you can write something with flow, like a text verse... but that doesn't mean you can rap tho... so you're only kinda right, Jack.