I'll be back to vote. Serious clash in styles here.

CLASSICK u BASTIDS!

I'm not really sure what to say about this one, so I'll take this step by step. 

Rai: 

EtH. You've been a "dagger in my side for the longest, chief" so I'll pull a BLUNT BLADE THE CHEROKEE'S CRAFTED You couldn't "weave your way out of this one" as a "YOUNG NATIVE CARRYING BASKETS!"

I really like this concept, I won't lie, but I hate the setup line to it. "You've been a dagger in my side" is something I don't ever recall hearing from anyone. I've heard "thorn in my side" multiple times, but never dagger. That alone almost wrecked the entire bar, but the punchline was solid enough to where you got away with it. 7/10

I'll plant a small axe in your chest so far, that your LUNGS CAVE FROM VARIOUS SLASHES So fuck "putting the past behind us" there's "more than ONE WAY TO BURY THE HATCHET!!!!"/

This was easily the best line you had in your verse, imo. I'm not gonna be nitpicky about anything cause nothing was really wrong with this bar. Just a very solid line, solid concept, good execution. 8/10

You abandoned your own damn crew. Said "SO MAY THE AC'S SPLIT" n it had Dirty "pulling all of the dead weight" tryna "ROPE TRAIN IN HADES GYM!!"/

This is BATS, tbh. Like the concept is so far-fetched and goofy that it just really does you more harm than good to try to use it. First multi is forced to fuck all, as well. Imagine EtH actually saying "So may the AC's split" in a conversation. Can you? Cause I can't cause it sounds completely off base from proper English that it hurts to read. 5/10

"Don't believe what I'm putting out, oh god" just PROCLAIM YOUR ATHEIST… ILLMANIA 5 was a flop, & since you "weren't w/ the groove of that movement" then "GO PLAY SOME 80'S HITS!"/

This is one of those that could've been really solid if you'd fact-checked it. EtH was the one who came up with the idea of ILL5 in the first place, so saying he wasn't in the groove for it is pretty much wrong. Setup line was a nice little jab, so it bumped your score up a little bit. 6/10

Pugz was supposed to flip the fake personals you gave me, you never THOUGHT THE DUDE WOULD LEAVE W/A LOSS cuz it "led to a bigger stink when it backfired on ya" than "PROBLEMS YOU RECEIVE ON THE JOHN!!"/

I'm gonna be real with you: it would take an absolute HAYMAKER of a punchline to make a concept about shitting to work. This was not one of them. The concept in itself (the deliberately fake personals) was a smart angle, but you could've chosen so many other concepts to try to make this work. I mean a car backfires, as well. Coulda used that one. Just no poop concepts, man. 5/10

You n Punk tagged together, OFTEN YOU ARE PEAS OF A POD But said "your stuff was too basic for his liking" like some CHRONIC USERS 'BEEFIN W/ CHONG! 

Probably shoulda stopped using the rhyme scheme a bar ago, tbh. This bar suffered quite a bit from trying to fit a concept in to an unnecessary scheme and it hurt the punch strength. The concept flip was ok'ish, but this had a lot more potential. 6/10

Even reworked the concepts ya SQUAD WAS USING, PIECED IN THE DROPS Otherwise? Y'all would've been "running off of the bare essentials" w/out "PROSTITUTES RETREATING FROM COPS!!"

Wording wise I felt this was a bit of a reach. Are you calling clothes "bare essentials" here? Are you calling them bare as in naked? There's a lot to the wording that I don't necessarily understand here and it's not good that I'm having to ask this question. Also, where do the cops come from in this? It looks like you just added cops at the end just to fit the rhyme scheme cause there's no other clue in the rest of the bar to really tie in the idea of cops chasing prostitutes. Not a good closer, man. 5/10

EtH:

Biting comedians? That’s as SHITE AS IT GETS so now he wouldn’t be ‘on a run’ if he was HIDING FROM FEDS! Everyone shat on the dude, he had no TYPE OF DEFENCE if I said he should “stand up”, he’d end up BITING AGAIN! 

The concept was too good to have wording issue you had at the end. You could've said something like "if I said he was a "stand up guy" he'd just end up BITING AGAIN!" and it would've been a lot more effective. Setup jab was too straightforward, as well. "He wouldn't be on a run as someone actively running from a federal agency". See what I mean? Not a bad bar, but below your level. 6/10

What’s the excuse to why this MAN ISN’T NO BITER? “Honestly guys, listen, my DAD IS MY GHOSTWRITER”! So LB is fair? How you PRETEND THAT IT’S TRUE when there’s no way to get punished if you’re BENDING A ‘RULE’? 

Solid stuff here, stuck to your normal style of a comedic effect with personals tied in and I feel it was fairly effective here. The whole RULE/punishment this has been done to death already, so that's kinda why your bar isn't scored higher. 7/10

He was the top dog, now his STUNNING CRIME SPELL IS COMING TO A STOP cause he’s STUCK BEHIND CEL AND STRUGGLES WITH THE LOCK!

I like the punch overall here. It might have been better served to have a bit of a buildup to it, but I also understand why it didn't cause of the long multi sets. 7/10

Run away from his actions? He’s alREADY TRIED THAT always fighting his past self like it’s GEMINI MAN! Is it Alkatraz or Rai? It’s so SPLIT IT HURT’S ME cause the way he pick accs to rock it’s like PRISON WORK SCHEMES!

Ok so the Gemini Man punch was very solid and probably your best punch in this whole verse. If it wasn't for what followed it I'd score this whole section higher. The whole pick axe/pick accs wordplay is a SERIOUS reach here. I've never heard anyone call an account an "acc" cause it just seems incredibly awkward to call it that. This is exactly why. The Gemini Man punch was 8/10 level, the accs/axe wordplay was 4/10 level, so I'll meet it in the middle with this one. 6/10

See it was sink or swim, would he be RAISING HIS TALENTS FAST? Unfortunately Rai, there’s no ESCAPING FROM ALKATRAZ! 

Really? Could there be a more obvious nameplay for AlkatraZ than that? I honestly don't think so. You're better and more creative than this and I'd say this is the low point of your verse. 5/10

When you’re given a fake title you should REJECT THE OFFER instead if pretending to be a King like you were JERRY LAWLER!

This bar's a whole lot of just "meh", tbh. Nothing wrong with the wording or anything. Just the concept is so dull that it just doesn't really do anything. "You're pretending to be the King like someone pretending to be the King". You could use this for anyone given the moniker of the King, which is prob'ly why I'm just "meh" on it. 6/10

Six outta Seven, it HAS TO BE ADDRESSED, I’d be ACTUALLY DEPRESSED so I don’t mean jumping pawns as a STRATEGY IN CHESS when I say we’ll be removing the king because he’s LACKING IN DEFENCE!

It's incredibly hard to make a chess concept hit effectively cause of how many chess bars have been used before, and you almost pulled it off. The whole removing king/chess thing was alright. Minor wording slip-up here, though. If you'd have said lacking A defense instead of lacking THE defense I woulda probably fucked with it a little more. Call me an asshole for it it's ok lmao, but it does make a difference. 7/10

Overall, I had EtH barely squeaking by with this one, although I could easily see this going either way. Rai had the best bar of the battle, but EtH was SLIGHTLY more consistent than Rai was here and got the W due to that. Fair's in.

Damn. This was a good battle. Rai kept it pretty personal almost from start to finish. Really enjoyed the hatchet line. EtH also had some personals as well. There were two lines I was fuckin with, the Cel & Lock reference, although somewhat played in today's standards but the way it was used, I thought it had some impact. I also enjoyed the closer, chess references. Overal both were similar on a lot of levels. I feel one had the better concepts though which gets my vote. Good stuff from both. 

Fire matchup here im judging based on skill and not true statements because theres truth on both sides. I really appreciated the reads and was entertained. Im going with rai on this due his exceptional approach with clever set ups and haymaker punches. Eth was good but fell short in the style department it was basically cut and dry and for me the fact that what he was saying is true.....imo its not enough for a win here. RESPECT to both artists its never hate always fair 💯

Felt like Rais first bar was nice with a great punch. Maybe a tad played but it worked for me. From there I felt it went downhill. The rope training with hades bit was nice but other than that never matched the vibe of that first bar. Eth had some nice personals to work with. The stand up bar was funny. And I liked the no escape from Alcatraz bar quite a bit. Eth just had the more entertaining verse with more hits so I'm voting his way.

This was a really dope battle. This was alot closer then I thought it would be, with Rai starting to wreck havoc on dudes the last year - year in a half. Anyways the loser kept this close, seemed as if he had some personals and lots to say. Punches were better then I expected and the multis were creative as hell. Winner was all that and then some, I wouldn't say he just squeeked by, he won by a decent margin. Fairs in fellas I wish there were more heaters like this one that actually motivate a person to leave a long expo. SALUTE

first verse i was digging the first few lines. the whole burying the hatches bit was dope but the rest of the verse i felt had big reaches, second verse was simple and more straight to the point but the punches were connecting more due to funny material with a simpler approach and less reaches

Nice one. Both had pretty much a full verse of personals. I think both had some real fire here. EtHs dad ghostwriter line actually made me laugh. Also Rai with the bury the hatchet and EtH with the jerry lawler followed by the chess one. I got EtH here because he had a couple higher highs and not as many lows. There was just a few lines with Rai that threw me off (hades gym, the prostitutes). Rai still made it really close by having solid schemework but I think EtHs rhyming was still good enough to the point where his punches made up for it. good one and could see it going either way since th styles were so different and both had heat in here. Fairs in.

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