Rap Battles on DDO Should Employ Vocals Since Vocals are the Meaning in Rap

1. Con mentioned "Some people don't have mics, so that prevents them from participating."- All modern computers have built-in microphones. Your argument is dead.2. Con cannot either read, failed to read correctly, or assumed things not in the evidence.- Wiki states "Freestyle is a style of rap, with or without instrumental beats, in which rap lyrics are improvised, i.e. performed with no previously composed lyrics, and "off the top of the head". Your argument is erroneous.3. Con cannot read because the allegorical descriptions about sodomy & hacked into pieces pertained to voters apprehension to take Con's lyrics as worthy of their time. The hyperbole did not imply the opponent's POV.4. Con failed to realize the two links depict his statement. The first link, though he won the battle, was to reveal the visualization of his lyrics in LINK #1where asymmetrical. LINK #2, he lost to Blade, was to reveal additional evidence of Con's discombobulated lyrics vs. tightly woven rhymes.- So my statement about voters voting "hell naw" stands as valid.5. Con ask are my lyrics not raps. - Nearly everybody who participated in Rap Battles, except TWG-Rorschach & myself, has provided lyrics (written words) and not raps (spoken words). The lyrics to my rap "Coward" can be heard here: http://www.debate.org...Now...ChosenWolff supplies very short bars in his lyrics which can actually be rapped easily.Blade of Truth employs medium length bars that frequently employs multi-syllable words, which means he must be testing out the vocal flow before committing them to final print.9 SpaceKing similarly does the same thing but on a smaller level than Blade. Though many of his lyrics can be rapped, some have bars lengths that vary and aren't rhythmically coherent.TWG lyrics have complexity in them that most people would not understand but when he spits them the meaning becomes more clearer.Mikal has most of lyrics in a formatted only suitable for reading not rapping. Very few of his lyrics can be vocally flowed with balance. Adam2 even has good bars that can be flowed smoothly.The crux of the matter here isn't whether a person's lyrics are packed venomous insults & linguistic mastery but more that they can actually be vocalized evenly. Even if a few bars are off rhythm, the totality of them adhere to vocalized practicality.DemonstrationI will use the last 8 bars in Mikal's R2 verse & my R1 verse as an analysis that vocal delivery sets a definable standard of quality by which voters can fairly judge the strength of the lyrics.http://www.debate.org...Last 8 bars (Mine):Youse a busta and a coward with no back bone, no spine like mineBet you 300 Bens on a vocal Battle, you cried, bitched, & whinedEat this proof bittch you can't defeat this elite solo barricadeNeed a teammate? Better take the Truth that comes with a Blade-When reading these set of bars you will likely being reading them in a monotonic way since you do not know the rhythm I would use, nor the melody I crafted the lyrics to, and neither do you know what I sound like. Thus all those factors diminish the overall power of the words.-The first two bars are vocally pitched different than all the other bars in the song. I pitched low to delivery them because, (AND I CHALLENGE YOU-ALL TO SIMPLY TRY THIS TECHNIQUE WITH YOUR OWN VOICE--YOU WILL BE AWED BY THE SOUND) of the multi-syllables & alliteration in the bars. Pitching your voice low with multis & alliteration 1.) gives your delivery more control over smoothness of sound; 2.) with more control of sound you can emphasis the letters & words for maximum thump. Listen to those bars and take notice how the highlighted words bounce off the beat nicely.-I discovered that "s" sounds (this, his, shitt, etc) phonetically link rhyming words together better than any other word used as a conjunction. The 3rd bar phonetically sets your ear to perk up. I used this to maximize the following single bar diss with a cool metaphor that also alludes to a DDO member. Are you listenin' femboyYou can't avoid the noise, of the Shadow, you have been destroyed nowAnd bittch, that chick with a dick, that you call yo finance, ain't no Beyonce dimeIt's a crime when you rhyme, my punchlines will slap you in the face every time-These bars "look" mediocre. But they pack a vocalize punch behind the beat they are riding. Listen for clarity. Multis are every where is those bars which elevate the phonology of the my vocal delivery.Reading them you can visualize them being rapped. Hearing them heightens their meaning & intended purpose.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Lat 8 bars (Mikal's):The reason you don't have a spine is because I ripped it out, and watched you shout Slashed your neck till your blood spewed out like a spout, this aint even a bout This is like a fishing trip to me and you're a trout, going to poison you and give you gout By the time this battle is over i'm going to beat you so bad that no one will have any doubt. -These bars serve the sole purpose of being read, not rapped. The bold words indicate him explaining not rapping. The underlined word indicate words or wording not found in professional raps. Emcees do not employ "the" at the beginning of their bars unless it is the lead bar of the verse, this one isn't. "This is like" is prose, explaining rather than describing, example: "I'm on a fishing trip, you're the trout, going to poison you, give you fhuckin' gout." As you can see the rewrite mimics vocal rapping and gets to the point faster. His version is prose. Also he uses way too many conjunctions, which if you audibly heard would sound very amateurish. My nigga I just want to let you know that you actually look like a bisexual ostrich How much concentration does it take to realize you"re about to die in this camp, it"s Just like Auschwitz[2] Concentration Camp, Auschwtiz, Die, I don't know if you just caught that but I just called you a jew We can compare this battle to the holocaust, because just like all those lives that were lost this battle is through.-Bold, again this is prose, him explaining not telling not describing. He repeats the same words again for the same explanation. Really? Is that musically rapping or simply speaking? Cut off "we can" and just say "Comparin' this battle" it's a better vocal delivery scheme. The underline indicated a bar too long to match it corresponding partner. Unless this is rapped Chopper-style, it won't sound smoothly delivered vocally. If he was to vocally rap these bars he would lose because he would sound like he's stumbling to fit grammar together properly. ADDED BONUS:-His use of "My nigga" proves he doesn't know its intended purpose. It is only used with friendly purposes or to alleviate a tense situation where you really don't want any beef. Really? Why is he using this in a heated rapping battle against his foe? A bit stupid, I say. It's a black term, I'm black, I know what I'm talking about. Ask another black purpose the only 2 times "my nigga" is ever used. Either he's being friendly or he's scared.I showed much evidence that words in these Rap Battles (except for TWG & myself) are nothing more than lyrics not raps. Through simplicity, it's easy to record your lyrics into raps with the built-in mics on your computer through Sound Recorder. Through analyzing you've seen that most lyrics would fail horribly as raps thus eliminating them from being called raps. Through demonstration & commentary you've seen only about six DDO members bearing lyrics that can be rapped with smooth intense. BofT, C.Wolff, 9S.King, TWG, Adam2, & myself. Through Con's own admission, he established he can't rap his lyrics and will stick to "text drop".Rap Battles on DDO will begin to lose flair unless we save them by employing vocals as a criteria.Thank you.