DDO rap battles should be more professional

In my opinion, there's not a lot of great rap battlers. Many don't understand how battles work. Rap battles seem to be held more as a social aspect rather than art. People don't take it seriously, so they probably don't recognize the impact of actual battle lyrics. Whenever I read raps, I see people rapping about how the other person sucks and how they have lots of skills, money, cars, etc. But I hear no disses, rebuttals, wordplay, metaphors, similes, clever rhyme schemes, multis, etc. I mean no offense to Christian rappers (as i am a Christian myself) but you can't really be preaching all the time during a rap battle or otherwise it's not a battle, it's freestyling. A rap battle is like a boxing match where your supposed to give it all you got. Here's what rap battles should have : 1. Disses - saying "you suck " is not a very good diss. To diss your opponent, you should focus on targeting their looks, race, nationality, religion, beliefs, flaws, style, clothes, way they talk, act, sound, etc. using creative lyrics with metaphors and other things. I typically see people diss other rapper's lyrics, but very rarely do I see tons of various disses in one round. 2. Personals - Basically dissing something really bad about someone's character. If you know the person well whether personally or you did your research then you know their weaknesses better than anyone else and can totally demolish them on the spot. 3. Aggression - Intimidating your opponent in your lyrics as you boast about yourself and make threats or simply just talk about how bad they are in rap. 4. Rebuttals - Taking an opponent's punchlines and using it against them. 5. Wordplay - Using puns or playing with the meaning of words 6. Rhyme schemes - Raps have grown increasingly complex over the years. Rappers now use multi syllable rhymes rather than simple end rhymes. When i'm really feeling it, I like to use internal rhymes, multi syllable rhymes, alliteration, sometimes sonnets, around 4-6 bars that have the same rhymes rather than just 2, rhyming with similar sounding words and slant rhymes, onamonapia, list goes on. There are raps which i have to admit are poorly structured such as raps like: "I have to go to the bathroom, cuz i'm crappin' like vroom, N' i go boom boom, then i.." The bars are too short and it's not considered very creative. There are also those raps which spend more time boasting about themselves but absolutely don't battle rap: "I'm so gangsta! You see me ridin' a Sudan I got Asian chicks all on me, even Mulan!" That has no effect on a rap battle. I only know very few rappers on DDO who i consider the best: Shadowkingstudios, Danielle, BladeofTruth, and that's it. Even then, only Danielle and Shadow have solid lyrics and hard disses. I'll illustrate with an example: When i rap battled Danielle, she came up with this line that completely turned the battle to her favor http://www.debate.org... "A closet case, a mental case so here's a basket Oh sorry Morticia (1) Addams - did you prefer a casket?" I had a profile pic which clearly fit the description (2). She said i was mentally depressed, isolated, called me a female, said that i'm dead both psychologically and lyrically. It was then that i came back with a few rebuttals: "You got wit, t!ts and charisma of all ladies, pfft when was that? back in the eighties? Your outdated at that time makin' babies, you so old, you haven't had a shot for rabies" She said she had "wit, t!ts and charisma" and i basically implied that because of her seemingly old fashioned shades, pic, etc. Her style, appearance, ways of life are retro and not with the 21st century. That being said, almost no one save a few on DDO has made these kinds of deliveries in rap battles. 1. http://upload.wikimedia.org... 2. http://www.debate.org...