by 4D » Aug 16th, '07, 17:01
Structure: Tash
Flow: OBB, had a smoother flow than Tash's.
Punches: Tie, Both had a few but neither were nails in the coffin imo
Multis: tash just edged it, OBB had the first 2 lines, but Tash a had a few more
Rhymes: tash
Wordplay: tash, had one or two nice metaphor's.
Vocab: Tie, both had average vocab, nothing really impressive.
Nameplay: Tash, OBB didn't have any in my eyes.
I really like the flow of OBB's verse, it just flies by, so when I was reading it, it was tempting to think it was better than Tash's. But, because there are Categories, we have to be technical. And to be honest Tash won it in most areas. @ Mc-Itty, I see what you're saying, but The whitey ford, and Niagra Falls multies are fine. The California one does not work, and is not a multi, that would not even work in audio. The point to text battles is to write rap lyrics and battle with the lyrics. So technically they should be multi's in audio and text. If you're relying on an accent to pull off the multi, don't do it, that won't work. I don't think that has been done in this one, cos that Californian multi doesn't work in any conceivable way. But, Tash still took it on multi's cos of OBB's one and only multi attempt, and yes OBB you got it right, keep it up. Tash you are still improving with the wordplay and metaphor's keep it up man. But, don't sacrifice flow for wordplay or complexity, flow is the single most important category, even though they all only count as one each. If any category would count as 2, it would be flow.
Vote: Tash.