RAP - Rythm And Poetry.

I will give points for:
1. Originality
2. Rythm (syllables and morphemes)
e.g. It's the en|-oh| - tee| - oh |- ar |- ah - |oh
                    U |- S |  You |just  |lay  |down |slow

3. Flow and Relativity i.e. if lines go off target, they must converge at a point and bring out the intention(s) of the rapper
4. Ability to convince
5. Clarity of points
6. Intro and conclusion
7. Creativity and Rhyme scheme (dumb, numb, score, bore, mean, seen, e.t.c usually aa bb that is line one rhymes with line two, line three with line four, and so on but you can invent your style so long as you stick with it.)
8. Free styling (where your rhymes don't seem to go in, you find an alternative phrase that quite agrees with it and find a way around it, or bend it)
9. Suspense


I will not give points for:
1. Excessive comparison
2. Excessive use of names of places
3. Excessive use of names of celebrities
4. Lengthy lines that refuse to correspond after at most 8 lines
5. Excessive encoding of points
6. Chorus


The winner may, not surprisingly though, not agree with this format, and I hope you guys do your best. You are who you think you are, and you are the best whether you win or not.

I'll be online from 12hrs GMT - I gat places 2 go. C yall tomorrow.

Christino:

RAP - Rythm And Poetry.

I will give points for:
1. Originality
2. Rythm (syllables and morphemes)
e.g. It's the en|-oh| - tee| - oh |- ar |- ah - |oh
                    U |- S |  You |just  |lay  |down |slow

3. Flow and Relativity i.e. if lines go off target, they must converge at a point and bring out the intention(s) of the rapper
4. Ability to convince
5. Clarity of points
6. Intro and conclusion
7. Creativity and Rhyme scheme (dumb, numb, score, bore, mean, seen, e.t.c usually aa bb that is line one rhymes with line two, line three with line four, and so on but you can invent your style so long as you stick with it.)
8. Free styling (where your rhymes don't seem to go in, you find an alternative phrase that quite agrees with it and find a way around it, or bend it)
9. Suspense


I will not give points for:
1. Excessive comparison
2. Excessive use of names of places
3. Excessive use of names of celebrities
4. Lengthy lines that refuse to correspond after at most 8 lines
5. Excessive encoding of points
6. Chorus


The winner may, not surprisingly though, not agree with this format, and I hope you guys do your best. You are who you think you are, and you are the best whether you win or not.

well i agree with chris
you guys must not call no other names except that of your opponent
no mummy or daddy too
no copy n paste rhymes be original, remember Nairaland has lot of people who know a lot about rap so the moment anyone copy n paste you'll be disqualified.

lmao.
very cute menike.

whenever the real tourney starts I'm in.

Da flow back Menike U whack
try to talk junk well ima talk back
Time to attack poised in position
rymes what u lack learn by whta im spittin
Learned from my bro da Nairaland champ
My rymes kill and cramp
get real u gay tramp
coz I do what I do kll when I come through
why u talkin junk chew u and ya crew like gum fool
man I aint even gotta try hard
coz Da flow Hold da show da flow my hard

Sign up for the real Tourney here NOW

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-19846.0.html

THE judges are waitin' already

The Jackal is up for this one.

@ Mukina2,
Are u really up for this kizzack?
I think i will get ma kicks dissing the bit*h outta u when the war starts properly.
Watch out for me on the battlefield.

hey ya'll shud set me up against someone else not jduck jst yet i battled him already i wana take on someone else i've not battled,

@jackal
sorry to burst your bubble but am a judge here and i am not involved in it
you know i can whup ur a$$ any day but let keep that for later

@hoodboi i think you have a host of opponents to choose from, choose anyone ,



@ chris dont you think an official start date has to be indicated

@menike produce the names of all willing participants so we can get this show on the road

hi mukina, wud have loved ta see ya burst someone, yeah a start date shud be indicated nd you judges shud decide who battles who,

hoddboi maybe you can produce all the names of all thw willing paritcipants and we'll fix you up

@ Judges, We really need to discuss, meanwhile for a start, let's analyse the lyrics of the following tracks:

1. Running. Tupac Feat. B.I.G.
2. Favor for Favour Nas Feat Scarface
3. Renegade Jay-Z feat Eminem

and rate each rapper according to our metrics, then we form our metrics for judging the contestants. NO BIAS.

ok chris but dont you think you aught to go online on yim now?
cuz there something you need to know and be fast bout it plz

ok, i'll see woa i can do about that,

jduck
hoodboi
menike
jackal
daflow
shishi
those re d peeps i know re down, i dunno if ma hommie bizzle is aware though i'd want him to come in nd show ya'll some quality rappin

thanx hoodboi
is dere no lady among?
i thot dere was bout four
dachosen1
2fine4u
eve
hot angel

2fine -- i don't think she's interested
eve- not comin to nairaland aymore

i dunno about d rest.

was eve banned?

well we need at least two more guys

no she was not, some peeps provoked her, they wuz like she nd janet gurl re dsame and so many other stuff

ok hoodboi
wat bout playboy and ope

dunno bout em too, but playboy wuz down for d last tournament, nd i think dbizzle too might b in, i'll call him in a few mins ta ask

ok do that i also think playboy will want to be in

My advice:
Keep it open and always save the best for the last, you'd never know when the heat'll burn you up!

why am i not on the list?I need someone to battle, I wanna battle

Muks,
Consider Toosyno in. More? The deadline is fast approaching.

ok so now we have 7

guys keep em comin


@jackal
where is reyes4ever?

@ christino,


no disrespect but a free style battle is won by, this aint a poetry competition, gotta keep it real cos I battle on other forums (strictly freestyle battles )

wittiness
word play
punchlines
concept

shishi its ok
most people use freestyle to copy n paste tho
i guess thats why chris is being specific

Its da boy big shish and I'm still on da set
I'm in ATL now, but soon going to have ta jet off da deck
took a lil time out ta letchu know how i be doin my thang
when I say Clara, y'all know she's da one
if u don't believe me , gat her name tatooed on ma gut
Lil clara, she kool because i'm comin home soon
Roxanne, my lil shawty thats my pimped out coupe
I don't mean ta front but da girl gat six flip down screens
plus I gat two fifteens in da trunk , i dont front
plus neon glo wire lights on da dash dat read out Clara
Yeah she gone, but i'm still in luv wit her and i'm in love wit ma self
if y'all don't believe, i could post anotha pic
plus I say sippn on all them guiness stouts
da name is Shishi but my peoples call me Crayola
this aint copy and pasted, this my life I stated
seen a lotta folks, talkn a lotta joke
bout they better than Shish, but how he better than Shish
how she betterr than Shish, because Shish is da best
and Crayola da rest

word up yall.
whose the punk thats bein sayin am hoodboi
hoodboi s ma blood and thats that . u touch him all burry u
besides we live in the same hood.

@ judges

Like they do on battle forums, i think ya'all have to specify how many lines folks spit, so folks have the same number of lines e.g. 16 lines each and when picking a winner, u DEFINITELY have to state why you picked the folks as winner.

MY QUESTIONS


1. There will be 3 judges, so i'm assuming in a battle between Crayola and Shishi , 2 out of the 3 judges pick Crayola, Crayola wins??
2. Will there be a uniform criteria adopted by judges in picking a winner i.e. If mukina thinks Crayola won because of a
punchline, will it be logical to think christino has also picked a winner for same reason
, I think these points need to be clarified!

Good one there,

We'll come out with our metrics, I mean you can estimate how many points you have as against your opponents without much stress.
And your questions, we'll answer in a little while.