Battle Rap

[kingmicahde]

Hey every one so I have been working on trying to become a big battle rapper and if you are familiar with the style this is for you. I want to start a poetry battle rap game on here just for fun. I hope we get a few people interested. If you do not know what battle rap is and interested in what it is youtube Ultimate Rap League they are pretty predominate in the scene. Other good examples are King Of The Dot and Don't Flop. But anyways here are the "rules" (more like guild lines)

There will be a 1v1 post with your opponent and you 16 bar rhyming poem that uses aggressive or passive agressive attacks or defense against the other.

Limit profanity if at all possibly

We will let the people judge the winner

If we lots of interest in it we may have round 2 or 3 until we "claim a champ" or untill we start over.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns

[Voker101]

Haha, I remember reading this a few days before I was a member.I was actually shocked to see that it got no replies. I think this could actually be a revolutionary thread. Poets would have to focus more on rhyme scheme, rhythm, and the use of clever devices which is something that I love about rap. I'm definitely down.

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Even though this was posted like...10 fucking months ago XD

[Leanne]

Poets would have to focus more on rhyme scheme, rhythm, and the use of clever devices...

... more than what, exactly? More than it's focussed on in a sonnet, perhaps? Or a villanelle? Or one of a thousand other forms, spanning millions of poems, that focus on rhyme scheme, rhythm (correctly called meter in structured poetry) and the use of "clever devices" like alliteration, assonance, consonance, metaphor, allegory and so forth, ad infinitum?

I mean, of course it's only rap that rhymes, and a "rap battle" is a far superior kind of poetry to anything else that has ever existed -- otherwise it wouldn't be revolutionary, would it?

[Voker101]

Eh good point lol. I should've just said that it would be pretty interesting and would keep poets on their toes. Oh and revolutionary was probably an exaggeration but it would be something, as far as I know, unprecedented in this website. Just for fun.

[ellajam]

Welcome, Voker. If you poke around the site there are many great threads where posters trade poems, much more complex than the OP described. Some are in Poetry Practice, some in the Pig's Arse (if you haven't been there yet UserCP/Groups/Join) and I'm sure other places. No need to declare a winner but they are great reading

[Voker101]

Oh, so I might find a poetry battle?

[ellajam]

There have been plenty, even a chess game. You can start what you like in the Fun forum or the arse. The OP didn't do a decent job of getting anything started here, not even a start or example. Some things take off, some don't.

But just because members like poems there are often spontaneous exchanges, no framework necessary.

[milo]

Oh, so I might find a poetry battle?

I believe we have had a number of sonnet "battles". Search "something about a mistress" for starters. There may even be a villanelle battle hidden in the villanelle practice thread as well as a classic forms battle  . . . somewhere.

[ellajam]

Oh, so I might find a poetry battle?

I believe we have had a number of sonnet "battles". Search "something about a mistress" for starters. There may even be a villanelle battle hidden in the villanelle practice thread as well as a classic forms battle  . . . somewhere.

I just reread that one, and the dactyl thread, I didn't post the links but I know there are many more.

[milo]

Poets would have to focus more on rhyme scheme, rhythm, and the use of clever devices...

... more than what, exactly?  More than it's focussed on in a sonnet, perhaps?  Or a villanelle?  Or one of a thousand other forms, spanning millions of poems, that focus on rhyme scheme, rhythm (correctly called meter in structured poetry) and the use of "clever devices" like alliteration, assonance, consonance, metaphor, allegory and so forth, ad infinitum?  

I mean, of course it's only rap that rhymes, and a "rap battle" is a far superior kind of poetry to anything else that has ever existed -- otherwise it wouldn't be revolutionary, would it?

> For subject matter, IAMBOS 
> included pretty well anything that caught the iambographer's eye or 
> ear, but complicatedly obscene insults directed at named enemies were 
> especially popular. 
> 
> What all the various species of IAMBOS tended to have in common was 
> that they were personal, non-heroic, non-didactic, subversive and 
> funny. It ought not to be beyond the capacity of modern writers to 
> produce verse that is personal, non-heroic, non-didactic, subversive 
> and funny. 


Rap- 700BC Greece just called and they want their poems back.

[brandontoh]

I've watched a few rap battles before. From what I can gather, it's all about insulting the other person. The good ones can do it in a classy way, but most just fall back on profanities for rhythm, stereotypes, and elementary school insults. It's really entertaining actually, I mean, it's insults as a sport! What's not to like? However from what I know the whole battle rap thing is verbal in nature. So yeah, the OP would have to give concrete examples for us to know what he has in mind.

ellajam: I remember the second chess game being unfinished. Gah!!! Those were great fun. Any chess players willing to have a go at a game?

[Leanne]

I'm sure I know some jokes about your mama
and plenty more that criticise your dick
so no doubt we could have some smackdown drama
but how to keep it real? Well, that's a trick.
You see, I don't know much of your position
except you think of rap as something great
while I feel it's contrived, lacks erudition,
is cliched, shallow, base and second-rate.
So how can I do tailor-made insulting
when all I have are phrases stock and weak,
generic bigotry and some revolting
remarks about your parents' large physique?
There's no need for a battle -- no opponent
will ever touch me or my pen. I own it.

[Leanne]

Oh yeah. Sonnets, bitches.

[Leanne]

One of the most entertaining assignments ever handed in by one of my students started with:

"Biggy Smalls was a famous raper. He learned all about raping in jail."

That may forever colour for me the mentality of the average rap fan.

[brandontoh]

One of the most entertaining assignments ever handed in by one of my students started with:

"Biggy Smalls was a famous raper. He learned all about raping in jail."

That may forever colour for me the mentality of the average rap fan.

What? Is it a misspelling?

[Leanne]

erm, yes, I hope so