Ok, so I've been back for around a month now, and I've read a heap of battles in that period, some really crack ones too, but something's been seriously bugging me: The reccurence of gunplay.
Now I'm not saying that nobody on the site is a 'real thug' or whatever the fuck you wanna call it, and I've been dumb enough to fall into the trap before too, but
does gunplay dumb down text battling?
Every day, every battle; I see new guys spitting real flames and then - predictably and shamelessly - I see a "put teccs to..." or "raise arms like..." and actually feel physically embarrassed reading it. These lines are often coming from 16/17 year old kids and not just that, but from members who - without naming names and like myself - have never shot an enemy on the streets or held someone up for their cash in their entire lives.
To me, more importantly, I feel it really dumbs down the battles. I'm pretty sure I've seen every gunplay line there is to be written in 10+ different form, and it's taking away from the real wow factor. Creativity vanishes or is traded so people can claim to be 'thug' because it's how EVERY rapper has to be, especially in a battle..... NAT. If I wanted to hear every single punchline about guns ever written I'd go and watch a few videos of Conceited on YouTube.
Don't get me wrong, I use gunplay as a flip for people who claim to shoot but I'm 100% certain they don't. A little hypocritical yes, but I use it in a personal attack and don't claim to be something I'm not, as opposed to boasting about my 5's and 9's and shottys and bla bla bla.
What do you guys think? I for one would like to see a damn site less gunplay around here, I feel it'd really help people improve, stop people getting complacent and bring a lot fresher concepts.
