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VI | Got Life's Breakdowns

With Jook’s departure the league was looking a little unstable, but with the addition of the wonderful and all mighty Got Life? hounding you fucks things look back to normal. This week in particular I was quite impressed with the battles that went down and how many truly quality verses caught my eyes. If anyone thinks holding the crown will be easy or even attaining it, they have another thing coming. But with that I bring you the breakdowns from this past week.


1. Lucifa 13-4 vs 2. Insanevillian 3-0

Well these two certainly did not disappoint and pulled out a match worthy of two beasts that are competing to try for that first title shot. As predicted though Lucifa is allergic to police badges, I say this because while his story had character development, a creative subject, and smooth progression the ending never really hit home and left readers disappointed with the content. On the other hand IV honed his proverbial missles in and didn’t disappoint the crowds as he picked poor Lucifa off. He did it by using creativity, a flow like hot lava, and a story that just kept everyone entertained with it’s comedic value. At the end of the day the votes don’t show how close this was because if Lucifa pulled out a good finish to his verse I think this would have gone either way, but as it stands the self proclaimed diety continues to make quick work of the RSTL in his climb towards the top of the mountain.


3. Pain 2-0 vs 4. MetaSin 1-0

In another great match this week we saw two entirely different styles of writing clash. On one side we had veteran favorite pain who ran with a more topical based style that favored his natural rhyme scheme and flow while producing a story that really drew in the reader and played off the pictures he used pretty well. On the other hand though MetaSin demonstrated what we’ve all come to find. That point being, that topicals really don’t hold much weight in the league anymore as more people favorite a good story over a good topical. That was definitely the case here as both writers shined in what they wrote, although MetaSin’s piece about a soldier and his mental state after what he’s been through definitely was able to capture readers due to the emotional impact of the writing and of course the main factor in it all. The reader’s ability to relate it all back to their lives. I think Q was definitely on point in picking MetaSin as one of his favorite up and coming writers as he is definitely opening more and more eyes with each week.


5. Got Life? 12-4 vs 6. Dougie G 2-1

A lot of people said that this battle was close, personally I don’t see it, I guess it’s a matter that I didn’t go out of my way to blow Dougie G out of the water more than I needed to. At the end of the day I know I did more than enough by writing a piece that slightly reflected about my life, but stemmed into how reflecting on my life allows me to get over writers block. Whether or not I have writer’s block right now is a secret I’ll keep to myself, so don’t get to excited IV ;). Dougie G on the other hand actually had a pretty good comedic value present in his verse when relating to the topic of A.I.D.S. and I’m glad to see that he continues to struggle it out and progress more and more with each week. Keep at it, you’re an inspiration to midgets and cripples world wide.


9. BaySick 0-0 vs 10. Daht Calm 0-0

Well, not that many people knew what to expect out of Daht Calm other than me and my boy did not disappoint. Q was left crying at the end of everything as he saw another TMU prospect decide that their blood boils heron and cooks crack and in truth Daht was always meant to be a Hooligan. And as a hooligan in typical fashion Daht made very quick work of BaySick writing one of the better verses I saw last week which progressed from the picture of the boy playing a saxophone into a piece about how youth corrupts and turns to turmoil and war and how as a child he loved jazz, but now his expression is found through his gun as he is a soldier. Baysick on the other hand wrote a rather simple and seemingly incomplete piece about a black presidential candidate who gets assassinated. Something that might catch the eye of the patriot act, in which case if we are now being monitored I will kick Baysick in the throat because that stops me from drug trafficking through this league and a motherfucker’s gotta eat…but yea…moving along.


15. inkwell (chris) 2-1 vs 16. Stars€reen 0-1

I think Star is definitely the new Dougie G of the league or maybe it’s Dougie G just giving us double the trouble in disguise. I say this because their talent is virtually on the same level so when you pit him against Inkwell, no one expected much to come of it. As it stood Inkwell wrote a pretty good emo piece that captured enough of the readers attention to win this week, but at the end of this battle I was left with a taste in my mouth that resonated of a Second rate TheReturn vs a second rate Dougie G with Inkwell being the victor.


19. Craccer_Jacc 0-1 vs 20. Blackanese 0-1 vs 21. Rymaholik 0-1

This battle actually had a lot of turmoil behind what was going on, the biggest issue being with the whole extensions scenario, which is why I’m encouraging people to post early and get things out of the way. Waiting till the last minute is not always the way to go. As far as the verses go, Black wrote a quick 16 that needed work on just about every element of writing you could think of other than some decent imagery and a little shred of emotion that was spotted. Craccer wrote a pretty good verse that showed much better consistency than his verse last week and with the addition of a better structure I expect to see him finally acquire some success in the weeks to come. But at the end of the day the dark horse Rymaholik aka Bodian turned out to be Baron Mynd. One of the more controversial but at the same time extremely successful writers all time in the RSTL. Baron made quick work of the competition with a verse that hit harder as far as all elements of writing are concerned. Only time will tell which Baron has returned and what will come of it. For now though I will believe that he is genuinely back and desires to compete.


And with that I leave you fuckers to ponder over what happened last week and looking forward to the week ahead of us.


*Ghost*