this was a tight battle- definitely agree with most of what heads is saying ^^^up there but for me nuke took this one

like everybody's said nuke had the better flow, but for me lif's punchlines just didnt land as hard as they did for others

it started off pretty sick

>i spit for furious thirsts! was that a serious verse?/
>dawg, u fresh outta' school - u need experience first!!/
>gimme' tha' mic back!! i'mma' slay u on ya' sig/
>cause' i ain't mike jack., so i'ont play wit' no kids!/

but in the second bunch it seemed forced- what you mean "slay you on ya sig" that one just didnt register for me

this right here was sick:

>u a bygone! - so much for showing up and advancing!/
>this dude's a fluke! i'm 'bout to trash ya' luck sessions/
>how u a nuke? can't find ya mass destruct weapons!/

but this is where it got weak for me- seems like lif is just throwing up generic insults and not paying attention

>aiyo, i'm 'bout to end tha' lie that stay up in ya' mouf'/
>how u claimming N-Y, but u stay up in tha' house!?/
>aint never seen a gun! that's fiction brutality!/
>so u a grad AND a thug?! c'mon, lets stick to reality!/

nuke never put up fake gangsta rhymes-- in fact he's always talking about how whack that shit is-- in this very battle he said:

>Fighting the dawn with my pen, suckas and bustas pretend/
>My friends unlikely to bend under the pressure they fend/
>Stressing the lessons of life undressing grin the lexuses spin
>gold chains faker than tin/

now maybe other folks dont know nuke like i do so this didnt stick out as much for them but to me it seems like this line is just a generic punch- i cant even begin to count how many rhymes i've seen on here where somebody criticizes someone for being a fake thug-- now granted for a lot of folks on here the jab mos def applies- but in this case it comes across tired

it also seems silly to throw out "college grad" as an insult- doesnt he get props for that??

in this next part the flow/rhyme scheme gets weak, versatile doesnt seem to fit in with searchable, virtual, and personal

>o, u aint think i'd find out? son, that b.s. is searchable/
>only battle u ever won was on a PS2 virtual!!/
>understand i'm iller - and my spits a lil' versatile/
>calling u out Stan Miller! - yeah i get a lil' personal!!/

this first punchline in this is funny but in the last two bars nuke's name is posted as if it's a diss

you calling him HIS name not A name- and it's not like it's hard to discover- shit's right there in his profile- shit comes across as filler

this next punch seems like another generic joke:

>click ya' cursor wit' aggression, cause u asking for Lif'/
>and don't make me post that message where u was' asking for
>tips!!/

i mean seriously- how many times have we all heard that same inbox joke on here??

even tho the middle of lif's rhyme came across weak to me the end was strong- the atom line was pretty good and the rwanda shit was sick

as far as nuke's goes to me he had two major weaknesses- first off the spelling errors- i know heads think its ridiculous that i bring spelling up- it's not hard to use a spellcheck- it just takes a second and it leaves the rhyme more polished

sometimes deciphering more serious errors takes the reader a second and they lose the intended flow

secondly- this verse is obviously more about flow than punchlines as everybody said- if this was an audio battle that would be sick but nuke needs to be making us laugh more for these written clashes-- still the flow was ill it's just a matter of trying to incorporate both that sick flow and the wittiness

still there were some hot lines in here too
i like the start:

>Microphone cypher ripper spitting the ridiculous rhythms/
>Beyond the O.K. im a player of prolific divisions/
>Spit lyricisms that critically condition your wisdom/
>Spitting so many bars im building you a lyrical prison/
>When compositions sex your writtens your feeling my friction/
>tearing up pussy lines with dick rhymes for lyrical kittens/

one gripe i have is that you say "lyrical" far too many times

for me the next bit was mostly filler but it did flow real well- and then these lines:

>Emancipation proclamation begin with a win and end statments
>of standing ovation/
>Leave the track Bassing/...
>Prolif will fall in amazement, holding aces thats spaded
>bringing the pain to the jaded/.
>Need not provoke ya/...
>But if rap was poker I'd smoke her with aces and jokers/
>Control culture as if my name was Sosa/.
>Fighting the dawn with my pen, suckas and bustas pretend/
>My friends unlikely to bend under the pressure they fend/
>Stressing the lessons of life undressing grin the lexuses spin
>gold chains faker than tin/


this shit was sick- using metaphor and also making points-- plus in the context of lif's verse the end of this section was just killer

then after the killer some more flowing filler- on audio i think a lot of this would sound great and hit hard but im looking for lines like these:

>Ill like soar throats broken tight language from quotes/
>Confuse her like a crack head to soap/
>Public Speakers on Coke/..
>A Reefa head with out his smokes/
>Prolif will never be hard she's only clever to odds and the
>odds are gonna be against her when her mic is on/
>Brittle bones in my palm, beats take the form of bombs, crush
>the mic, then evaporate her automatic arms/
>Her weapons are gone her fear turns on she sobbs, the
>beginning is the end but the beggining was gone/
>Im King of The Ring your a queen I'll send you a ticket/
>Put on the stroll of Hunts Point and rename you Pro-Lick-it.
>

ending real strong with these- the confusion part was my favorite in this section

so- nuke gets this one cause of better flow and cause the punchlines he did have were stronger- there was a lot of filler here and it definitely detracted from the strength of this verse tho this could have been a much stronger verse for nuke if it was shorter just including those sections i've highlighted

prolif came nice but needs to work more on getting sick patterns into the flow-- the punchlines in this one also seemed uninspired- in other shit ive seen from lif there were more unique punchlines like that rwanda shit<----by far the best line of this match

more of that and less of the same old "you's a wanksta" type shit and lif would have had me breaking ranks

feel free not to count this since me and nuke are admittedly peoples- but i couldnt resist throwing my 2 cents in

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