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This battle was absolute fire from both sides imo, some really great standout punches through either verse. Esso's first 4 punches were his strongest imo which got him off to a very good start. GG by contrast stayed at a consistent level through the whole verse. Ultimately I thought this battle will largely come down to personal preference, for my taste I have Esso winning it for two reasons. Firstly, I thought GG relied on Ess nameplay, and secondly, he had a few more references I didn't get on first read. Very little in this one, but on style and content choice preference I have Esso taking this one slightly. Low 9/high 8.

Esso: 9 / GOOD GRIEF: 8

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Esso: Smooth reading piece. Nice bars too. Nothing overly complex but punches were nice and hit well. 

Grief: Smooth reading piece. Bars were nice, wp was cool too. Punches hit nicely. 

This ones close enough, I’ve GG taking the win though with the slight more creativity to his piece. 

#Classick bitches !!!

Esso..wasnr feeling the opener.. wording seemed awkward. Though you were pretty consistent after that. The closer and the punch preceding it were HAYMAYKERS.

GG: verse seemed rushed imo..creativity wasn't up to par as per your usual verses. The essence wp was stretched and you had 2 puns based off of Covid. 

Chalking this up to Esso for being more consistent. 

I felt like GG said some awkward things here and had some attempts that didn't make sense. for Example 'sorry "Ess, Class Is Far Superior"..." Sounds like you are saying Ess's class is far superior. + it is just awkward, No one would say someone's class is superior in real life. Some wordplay that didn't work both ways - Example " - Ess Since Magazines Came Out. "Essence Magazines came out" doesn't make sense. I didn't like GG"s opening half of his verse so had to edge this to Esso for being more consistent and having less misses

This battle was fucking fireeee!! Esso style was slicker than oil pipes. Esso just edged this one out, his personals were hard. GG had some creative lines, and the triple entendre at the end was cold. Good shit yall

nice battle here boys..

ESSO- i enjoyed how personal you got with him thruout your 16, your opener i wasnt a huge fan of, the second bar felt a bit long winded and run on for my taste too many words in between multis, kinda took away from the flow .. try and get to your point in fewer words, eliminate unnecessary vocab and itll work alot better, also, the punch was ok,felt your verse took off afterwards when you started to focus more directly with personals in to punches, i liked the relevance of your setups to your end which is a plus in my book, highs include the muscular dystrophy line, and touchless delivery, lows -jeffery epstein, and the bleu choked.. and the first two bars.

GOOD GRIEF- on first read, some of the typos caught my eye.. which took a little away but not much, what i liked was you also , maintained relavence in your setups leading up to your punches, my fav was the essence, black magazine bar, nice incorporation of the references, and tying it in to a gun bar concept. one of the key differences between you and ess, is you dont use as much words in  between multis, inmore of your bars, less run on, which i prefer more, although you could actually use even less words in a few to keep it even closer to 14 syllable lines counts.. again its my preference, and to each their own.. your highlights-ess, class far superior,the black magazine bar was dope imo, although probably didnt quite work exactly both entrendes, "noone seen essence magazines came  out'', reads more naturally as 'noone see essence magazines come out'... but its very miniscule and dudes get away with that in live battles all the time.  probable the battle mask line , the lows- the naruto line, wasnt really feeling, and the corona bar, analogy, was a bit weak ..

damn this was hella close, for me i felt, esso, slightly gets the edge, only because he got a little bit more deeper wit the personals,and managed to integrate punches to accomadate them.  wasnt a fan of the runon, tho, good grief, had a bit more wordplay, but the nameflips of ess became a bit redundant after the first one, i wouldve omitted the ess class name flip, while keeping the superior essence bar, and opted for a different personal angle. the other lines couldve been thrown at anyone..with the exeption of the bar of him copying styles.but even that kinda could be fairly universal with other battlers.. great effort on both, and both had strenghts and weaknesses,but in this particular battle, esso prevailed.ever so slightly.. . 

Esso I like your style.. the build up to the punch is dam near spot on every time, the set-ups are good as well... nuthin to bad to say except for a couple wordin issues 

Grief your verse was dope for the most part..it wasn't consistent in terms of hard hitting punches, the Essence Magazine concept was nice but I felt it didn't as hard as it could've...I liked the Corona line..legs spread ..yea that was dope

Great clash! but I gotta give to Esso

jeez..I feel like I prolly shouldnt vote on this but I do honestly like Good Greifs just a bit more, the wordplay was just carzy,

Fantasticcbattle.

Very very close

Thots, Thots, Thots. I think that Esso definitley had a very strong verse. For me it generally checked all of the boxes and I don't have a ton of criticism for it. I don't think any of the bars were exceptional and I also thought that some of his rhymes were spaced futher apart that I would have preferred, but that's endemic to the site so I can't deduct too much for it. For Good Grief...first off just as a general rule I'm not a huge fan of the word flips. I don't think any of them were aggressively bad in your verse, but they have a tendency to not really make sense and aso overword the verse so that it doesn't flow. Fundamentally it was okay but not great, there were were a few rhymes towards the start that I didn't think matched up very well, and IDK, it just lacked a bit of punch to me. There was nothing wrong with the ideas, just none of them really stood out to me. IDK, maybe that's a shitty explanation, but I just didn't think any of your ideas were super strong or creative, just consistently solid.