j4remi wrote:SpReEfOrAlL wrote:I was luke warm on the canadian battle scene at first. But its grown on me. They have so many good battlers now. Charron is a beast with the free's man. Some of the best rebuttals I've heard.
I agree with you on Arcane though. The guy is garbage. He didnt deserve to beat Thesaurus. Pete bodied him. Arcane has such a vanilla flow. He is the Okwerdz of canada. But a lot less successful.
Bender IS a problem though. That was a classic performance put on by him. He just crushed Arcane. Though i do feel he robbed 24/7. Who is slept on big time by the way, but thats a different argument.
My favorite from Canada is Pat Stay. Dude is just nice. Too bad Arsonal got turned back at the border, because he was gonna get crushed. Again.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkTCXS0l0U[/youtube]
One of the best battles I've ever seen.
Right now KODT >>>> GT imho. GT hasn't been able to get the good match-ups and the good ones have been mainly pretty disappointing. KODT gets battles up at reasonable time lapses instead making us sit waiting forever, much less drama behind the scenes and they aren't losing their stars to URL...URL's guys are making moves toward KODT (Arsonal, Tez and Rex for instance). Plus the top notch KODT cats look like they're sticking around. Dumb is taking a break, Hollow/Con go both leagues, DNA/Tez are shaky with GT, Khan is taking a break, Saurus demands big bills to battle, Ok to URL next, DBD travelling the leagues of the world and ****...it's just a lot of these dudes disappearing. Rone seems to be getting a push with that 360 battle and Dirt is getting hype too...not many other up and comers in my eyes except maybe John John.Pat Stay has huge hype right now and I still haven't checked for him much. I'll peep that video next but honestly, I can't stand Hollohan aka Canadian Diz. Jack Schitt, Sketch and Bender are all pretty nice. Kid Twist is no joke. Loe has bars when he can remember 'em. Charron is really the truth with rebuttals. Look up Amzilla vs Charron for their battle in the back of BOLA...that ish is crazy. Random freestyle battle out of the blue that just keeps going on and on while our favorite battle cats wander over to watch. Love that sorta ish.
24/7 is nice...not great...but really solid.
I think there are a couple reasons the battle scene is struggling right now.
One is that everyone is protecting their records majorly. Look at Conceited. Couple months ago he was making noise about how he wanted to battle Okwerdz. Now he won't because it will make him look bad for turning down Soul Khan and Hollow. And he won't accept Soul Khan and Hollow because they would both body him. Guys are turning down battles left and right because they don't want to talk an L. Even promo battles because its all about public perception.
Obviously another is that you eventually need a break from battles to focus on music. Nocando is on tour, Illmaculate is focusing on music, Soul Khan is also as you mentioned, Dumb is focusing on music, Locksmith is focusing on music, Hollow battles in both URL and GT but that doesnt really matter, I dont care where he battles as long as he does basically. But its like that saying in baseball, "No one grows up wanting to be a reliever." All of these cats want to make music, so they use GT and other leagues to get their name up and then drop CDs. Which is cool, Drect even admitted that that is what GT is for in the first place.
The last thing is no one wants to be on these lower tier events. There are what? 3 - 4 major events? MOB, BOLA, and Grizzlemania? NYC events are poorly put together sadly. Most of the time it looks like amateur hour. I mean hell, when was the last NYC event Hollow main evented? He only wants to be on the major events. Same with conceited, did he ever even headline a NYC event? Look at all the cats outside of GT that come to battle, what events are they on? Arsonal, T-Rex, Aye Verb, 360, Anecdote etc. etc. ALL they dudes went to a west coast event or Grizzlemania. You arent going to see a big name headline a GTGA event, and if you do it will be the only big name there. Same goes for all these other divisions. Everyone wants to be on the big events. So the rest of these other events are average at best. When BOLA4 happens, the battle scene will more than likely look good again for awhile. Then it will most likely fall off till the next KOTD event or the next URL event.
And yeah I agree 24/7 is nice. Not great, though his performance against QP is almost legendary. And he got robbed by both Caustic and Bender imo. And even 24/7 is on break, focusing on music.