[Verse 1]

Sorrow DNA, hollow breeds decay

Halloween, it follows me today, Swallowing the rage

Gotta be insane, but I never chase, the bank deposits from Akashic Records

Logic severs bonds, radiation waves,

Stereo. (The voices) There we go, (Avoiding)

Like the Microphone, coded to attack every opponent

poet never moves a millimeter, Word to Senku

Burn the pen too, Rejuvinated wounds without the Senzu...

Compare the pen, they'll never win like Vacuums

My weather bends the pad, I beautify with better stab wounds

Psilocybin gasoline, killing titans rapping schemes,

Will of Tyson bashing like a psychopathic master chief

Wrathful heat, crafting a masterpiece

the rap elite, slaughte

I am debating removing this aspect from the subreddit and instituting extremely strict guardrails to this situation as it seems all this has done the last 2 months is make engagement to this subreddit the worst it's been in years. I'm discussing it first because I want to see if my read is actually accurate or if I'm overreacting.

Personally I wouldn't want to see them go, but it feels like the right course of action to me. What do you all think?

After about 2 years on and off (I took 3+ month long breaks in between) I finally got to level 50 and defeated the Ultima weapon!!! This led me to think... Why the FUCK did it take so long for the fights to become enjoyable?! I feel like this wall of bureaucracy probably prohibits a good portion of the player base to never reach this point lol but that could just be me coping about it.

I'm just saying that this was extremely boring until suddenly it wasn't. Glad I finally got through it but... Damn.

Been dealing with a lot of stuff on my end personally so I haven't really been on here much but I will get those submissions rated for those who participated.

You can freely choose whichever topic you want from the list. Realized it's better that way. You have until next Thursday to submit your 32 bar verse. I will be meticulously evaluating every submission.

Your comments count as votes. Voting closes at Noon tomorrow!

1.) The Extended Metaphor Gauntlet

Choose one ordinary object, such as a mirror, key, clock, staircase, blade, or candle, and sustain it as the central metaphor for the entire verse.

Constraint: Every four bars must reveal a new property of the object without breaking the metaphor.

Tests: Conceptual discipline, literary devices, progression, vocabulary, and coherence.

2.) One Scene, No Escape

Write an entire verse inside one physical location during one continuous moment.

Examples: an elevator stopping, a hospital hallway, a train platform, a locked studio, or a rooftop at dawn.

Constraint: No flashbac

THE SEVEN-PRONGED JUDGMENT CRUCIBLE:

A Doctrine for the Adjudication of Competitive Rap Writing;

Every week we will vote on specific topics submitted by the community, and whichever topic wins, this scorecard will be used to analyze and dissect. Whoever wins, is crowned as the Champion for that specific week. I personally will not be participating. I will be judging. 2 other judges may volunteer.

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A verse shall not be crowned because it is loud.

It shall not be crowned because its author is known, feared, popular, controversial, decorat

The world changes every day

Yet I stay the same

Playing in the rain, memorized the shade

Identify with shame

Never found a way to drown disdain

Used a pound of flesh to summon the reaper

It's been a thousand days

Since I gave up suicidal chains

It's been awhile since the slave redefined his fate

Shedded skin like a snake

Devil's whims got erased

Never been venomous

For the sake of being venomous

Identity of negligence

Heaviness left when I gave the wheel to God

Now I never miss

Weather in my ribs from a storm to a calm abyss

Message in my glass like a bottled ship

Swallowed consciousness

Till it filled me

It almost killed me

Merging with my shadow, chiaroscuro

Open

Announcing this so everybody knows. This is for the best as 98% of the time it's just spam.

I don't react to your acidity, my spirit is gold

Persnickety words hitting me

And dwindle on their own

Mythological tone Apollo knows in the soul

Symphony 38, famous even when I Decompose.

(Auspicious) Demon code

(off limits?) Sequence poems

Senku knows, my green will power beam

Leaving stone

Carve an epitaph on every statue, then leave alone

Heathen grows, deeper than the rumors

That I eat my foes

Fear drives, when you see my eyes

You feel the camera shake

So much paralyzing fear

Your boots can cause an earthquake

I haven't seen an answer

to my magazines of cancer, spreading gasoline

And acid screens the caste and eats the masters

See, my battle schemes like James Webb

T

[Introduction]

Lately, my body is writhing, and I've been

lightning striking the same damn page..

(La, la la la, la la la, la la...)

Hopefully, life will get better, despite

the ache I impose with a 12 inch blade...

(Sorrow is real and it stains my face...)

Blue in the veins like cobalt, hole in the chest

was exposed to dispose of the waste

(Heart with the chambers of darkness, erased...)

Cold like a blizzard blowing the winds of change

And my body never chose to obey...

(Holiness fades...

Holiness fades.)

[Verse 1]

Brain isn't stuffed, it erupts as a mine field

Diamond in the rough, bloody rocks with divine chills

Smile, despite the disaster my mind feels

Eyes on the p

I'm Top tear like I'm crying in Olympus, impetus of rhyme, elite

incredible, divine, discrete

Syllables aligned like vocals quantized when I design the grid inside the mind

the rhythm lives in science speech

son of Sam with guns,

So many punches giving in the verses,

like a hundred hands become the stanzas from the golden tongue

who the fuck is gonna flow like this

Psychedelics scream, enveloped being

engulfed inside inverted flames

shadow burns away

waving red flags like a matador

never need a rap award, I know I'm sick,

Metaphors grow inside the skull, a Chia pet of bars

reinvented star

That seems content to spar with Leonidas

We invented code

Compressed the imagery to spa

The world would rather end me than let me empty my memories

Identity ephemeral like melodies

blowing beneath the Locrian trees

Bloviating hatred, potent ache and ennui

Soulless Zombie,

Won't embrace the sugar coated suicidal proxies

can't escape my conscience

dive deep inside the process

swallow up the trauma just to have a self to esteem

Jealousy is everything to selfishness

Seeping envy like the gangrene is suffocating health again

I want to pour my heart out

Gorgeous how the blood spills and makes a Rorschach test

Watch the war draft this

Infernal paladin, deriving pounds of flesh from all of them

A charlatan, winning over hearts of men

Harlequin performing for an ounce of

[Introduction]

Raising a sword in a sordid state

Abhorrence absorbed in a gorgeous blade

Sorcerer stone on the hilt, Okay.

Torture is laced on the corpses I make

Morgue getting filled by the cost of mistakes

Orifice of anguish exposing the hate.

Morbid disguise, see the snake on my face

War is alive in the syncopated pace...

Okay..

Okay..

[Verse 1]

Mentally unwell, mage with a gun spell.

Minister of dark arts, The offspring of Kal-El

Law bleeds over the mic, cost of the light that flows well

The eight is sideways on my own scale.....

Copacetic skill, and raw will

encoded chromosomes glowing indigo, strong build

Poetic pulse like a cold chill

Coldly manifest, scriptin