Great verse Rieper, GL!

You too, brodie. GL.

KILLERS

Only expo I'll do: A Kiwi's a bird from New Zealand. If something's "for the birds", it's either useless or meaningless.

I only call myself Lock because everyone else does @Sub lmao

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i dunno man this was a good battle and way too evenly matched for me.  i had both at a tie with their openers, kiwi leading sencond bars onwards while riep caught up in the third one with the bird punch but i felt kiwi had a pretty god one there too so that was a draw again and then the closer i felt riep had a very very slight upper hand with. this shit could go either way man. i think imma lean towards kiwi here for better consistency.

Extra love for making it to the finals btw !! :D

fkn amazing battle that is not only hard to vote on but im not sure if i qualify for it yo but from my seat both came hard and wit intent to erase the opponent but for me kiwi delivered the better verse in not a big way but his 10 was hard matched in this exciting beef

I got Kiwi winning this one. i think top to bottom his punches were just more consistent. The closer was a little obvious, but I felt that Lock was just quite a bit basic by comparison overall here. I think the opener from Kiwi was BOTB, and the Bleu personal was fairly strong as well. Whereas Lock had the kind of funny X bj angle but the pee body and the bird line fell really flat for me. God my votes are pretty rusty, this is kind of just thought diarhea. Anyway, Kiwi gets my vote for the stronger 8 lines as a whole with more creative punches and strong enough exeuction. f.

KILLERS.

Kiwi as usual this is a good verse, and I will always praise you for how clean everything you write reads. I'll be honest I felt this verse took a while to warm up, and I wasn't feeling it too much, but your last 3 lines are all fantastic, leading to a really explosive finish. 

Nice to see Rieper is able to do some normal, easy name flips after his reaching against me ;) This is a good verse, and I thought you kept consistent hard punches all the way through. Again, nothing blew me away... until that closer. Absolutely fire. Anyone reading this take notes, thats how you do a scheme, a direct personal, a double meaning and a hard punch all in one.

Rieper takes the W for a more consistent verse, more of a direct verse, and the closer. But Kiwi you would have won most battles with this. 

SQUAMMY

Kiwi this is actually one of the first full battles I've read by you and damn I must say I've been sleep. That opener was crazy. 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Anyways, to keep it short, I feel like in 8 lined battles, it's best to keep your bars in 2 line setups which both kindve explored 3 line setups at times. Lock had 1 compared to kiwis 3. Might also add that some lines from both were SLIGHTYLY stretched. Not too bad though. Overall. This was dope lol lots of people dont get to be entertained by verses anymore which they should. This would be a great example to show someone because yall were creative here.

One had more heavy hits. Kiwi's best line was Microsoft Word imo, Rieper's was his closer, although I was conflicted a bit that you are still referencing yourself as Lock when you have had Rieper forever.. I didn't like Kiwi's dinosaur bar that much and thought all Rieper's bars were above that caliber so that was the tipping point

Think Kiwi got this one, his punches hit a lot cleaner and what not. Liked Riep's ideas but thought some lacked execution (i.e the "for the birds" bar but it was a dope battle regardless fellas

Interesting battle here, Kiwi i feel that your first bars fell flat with set ups that didnt connect to well to the rhyme scheme. Then you started to pick it up with the Microsoft word bar and the dinosaurs bar. The ending was decent but not as great as the other 2. 

As for Rieper, dude came out punching in the first bars which is always expected from him. There was one part in the verse that kinda seem to drag on but still paid off with a decent punch. Overall, Rieper had better setups that connected well with his Rhyme schemes. Fairs in and Good battle Yo!

Surprisingly I have KP winning here with some clever punches whereas Rieper was clearly not putting in maximum effort here. I liked every bar KP had whereas with Riep, we had ki stroke / keyboard (sounds terribly redundant), Pee body (alright but not that great imo), for the birds (somewhat clever but not super hard hitting), and the closer, which was the best bar in your verse but not enough to take this here. Fair's in.

Nice battle here and also very close. I've picked my winner based off the consistency of punch strength—loser could've had it, IMO, if he started off stronger. I'd like to see a rematch, fun read!

Well

its too for me to vpte but pretty dope drops from both...congrats Kiwi.