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TOPIC - The Nexus Of Power

Check... I Remember Seeing Rogan Say Somewhere That He's Out Of Town Or Something, So I Wouldn't Count On Him Showing :(...

Nope, you're out of luck. I'm here.

Im posting for Flatline because he cannot get on RW...This is his verse...I hate you all...bye

"The Nexus of Power"

...The Uterus Of Sin...

Eight Months In An Irate Thrust Begins
To Negate Trust Within And In Place Bust The Skin
Incision Cuts Dig In, Like A Robust Form Of Sin
To Remove The Form Of Kin And Watch A Gust Of The Mourned Swarm In...
The Thought Is Warmin', But The Heat's Arising From A Depth Of Hell
Yet It's Written To The Sound Of Happiness, And You'll Need A Clef To Tell
Indeed Stressed As Well, The Pitch Heightened, Silent But Eerie
As He's Removed From The Host Who's Now Violent And Weary
Extended Arms, That Feeling, Crying, Excited And Teary
The Birth Of A Ruler, Was Now Portrayed A Tyrant By Theory...
Visualize The Internal Searing, Style, Deep Emotions Welded Shut
As I Gazed Far Into His Eyes, Smiled, And Held Him Up...

...The Building Blocks Of Chaos...

Each Day Was A Challenge, The Child So Full Of Anguish
In A State Of Languish, Similar To A Cleansed Mind Since The Brain Was Stainless
And Like Blank Pictorials, The Frame Was Nameless, Untitled
Aimless, Yet Vital, "He Shall Take My Place... He's Entitled"

"Ready, He Is Not..."

You May Be Right, But Time Is Crucially Grim
Profusely Slim, I'll Take Command And Make A Twosome With Him
But Now It's Gruesomely Dim, Minutes Merging To War
After His First Taste Of Blood, He'll Be Surging The Shore
Splurging For More, Wreaking Havoc, Purging The Score
Converging Through Lore, On Top Of It, Emerging Victor

......

Years Later My Foot Steps Would Be Followed
It's An Honor, Filling What Was Once Hollowed
No Bunce Swallowed, Just Sight Of The Flames
Watching Them Rise To The Right Of Their Names
Passing By My Disclaims, This Is The Future
Removing Of Stitched Souls, Like Reverse Suture

...The Exodus...

"The Wage Of War Is Upon Us...
...Demons To The Front Line"

The Gates Opened, Winged Assassins Been Deployed
Clinged Has Beens,Their Strength, 'Peter' - Seen? ...Avoid
Don't Be Keen, Destroy!, Until That Lights Extinguished
Engage In Battle, Show Them This Fights Distinguished

"Don't Fire Till You See The Whites Of Their Glow"

Steady At Hand, Nows My Sons Chance To Succeed
An Army Out Front, Proof, Advance And Exceed
A Stray Breed, Where Darkness Prevails Nightly
As Damiens Fire Burns Toxins, They Inhale Slightly
The Light Now Gets Dimmer, As They Only Fail Brightly
And Lucifer Reigns Again Forthrightly
No More Sprightly, Retreat Now Apostles
This Kingdom's Now Yours Damien, Just For Being Docile...

The Drug "War" is nothing but a power struggle...

The outer layer of the nexus, lies in the fields
Where ancient Incan warriors rest with their shields
Now, moving beneath the surface like an orange we peeled
Into the leaves of the plant and the power it yields
Some call it crazy, others simply call it loco
In the fields where it's hazy, workers chewing on coco
Leaves, shoot the breeze as they work in the trees
Can't get enough so they're stuffin their sleeves, uh oh
They return to the camp, the second step in the process
The cartel's soldiers shootin thieving workers to ensure it's losses
Are like a category one hurricane, barely minimal
Money's all that counts in the world to this criminal
And if you're not dead, at the least it's laceration
To make sure every last leaf goes through maceration
Where they're thrown into a vat with acid and watter
Similar to making wine, but the temperature's hotter
It sits and it cooks, and not a drop goes to waste
Til it's paste, then the cartel has himself a taste
His face curls up like he caught a whiff of manure
That means it's acidic, and the cocaine is pure
The rumor, coke off the line's as white as rice
But it's yellow from the acid until it's dried and sliced
And wrapped and packaged, with the proper equipment
Resources tapped and managed, no stopping the shipment
It's loaded in the ship that says "Oil For Texaco"
But it's from the dirt in Bogota, not the soil from Mexico
Not from an oil rig, but from Colombian ranches
Owned and operated by a one Mr. Sanchez...


...the cargo ship with the crates of cocaine
make their way across the Carribbean, and
into the Florida Straights...

...upon entering US waters, the ship is seized
by the US Coast Guard.


The news reports, it's the biggest bust in history
Off the Florida shore, fiends watch in misery
The Coast Guard and the DEA pose for the media
At the runners the Judge throws the encyclopedia
The governor hails this as a monumentous occasion
The teachers in the schools document this invasion
Of drugs, and all you hear everyday on the radio station
Is politicians climbing their way up the ranks like a high elevation
Gee thanks, where's the drugs they're supposedly blazing?
What really happens to them is something amazing!
They're sitting in a warehouse, whereabouts unknown
They could be next to your job, or even next to your home
And up in DC all alone on his throne...this fellow
Picks up the phone and says "Mr. Sanchez, yes? Hello."

...a week later the confiscated cocaine
is on it's way back Colombia in an cargo ship
registered in the United States.


...A month later, it finds it's way into the streets
of Miami, and eventually the rest of the country.

Votes... No More Freeposting... No Need To Up This Rogan...

Yeah this battle was pretty ill both told their sotries vividly and kept me engaged throughout...

ON TOPIC - Rogan
DEPTH - flatline
IMAGERY - Rogan
ORIGINALITY - Tie
FLOW - Tie
MULTIS - flatline
VOCAB - Both used vocab adequately

Overall- TIE

Rationale: Flatline had good depth to his verse, although at times it seemed to meander off course into the realm of supposition, I could still view it from my own perspective and take a personal view. I felt I could picture Rogan's verse more vividly, and it was written in more of a story-like fashion, which appealed to me. Overall, niether outshined the other. Good battle.

On Topic-Rogan (I feel that flatline had a better setup in his structure how, he broke everything up into sections, but his kinda fell from topic slightly
Depth-Flatline(Flatlines depth was pretty precise)
Imagery-Rogan(Flat had imagery, but Rogans imagery edged this)
Originality-Tie(both were original peices)
Flow-Tie
Multis-Flatline
Vocab-Tie

This battle came exactly the same was EZ's n NYC's did. Both were tied, but however I can not conclude a winner on this one. Flats depth equaled up for the imagery lacked. And rogan gave a tremendous ammount of Imagery but not enough to edge the win in my eyes.

Tie

.2-2.

ON TOPIC - Tie, Both approached the topic in an equally appropriate fashion.
DEPTH - flatline, he really gave a much better insight into the backround of his character, including the birth.
IMAGERY - Flat, rogan did indeed have some imagery but flat eclipsed it by just how vivid his verse was.
ORIGINALITY - Tie, both were original in their own ways.
FLOW - Flat, rogan didnt really have that many multies which harboured his flow, Flats rolled off the tongue.
MULTIS - flatline, as said.. rogan hadnt got that many multi syllable multies whereas thats what Flat specialises in.
VOCAB - Flat, rogan was a little too simple in places. flat tried to make his of high calibre throughout.


Vote: Flat
his verse was bette rin almost every category with his depth providing us with a fantastic view of the background of his story, i felt sometimes rogan steered of his desired course and that affected the way he wrote, his verse was just a little too simple at times with no multies in bars.

3-2 to Flat.

ON TOPIC: Both
DEPTH: Flat Line
IMAGERY: Tie
ORIGINALITY: Rogan
FLOW: Tie
MULTIS: Flat
VOCAB: Flat

According to the categories above, Flat Line should probably win this battle. But unfortunately, I can't say that he did. Rogan brought a nice twist to the topic, a lot less expected than Flat's, and it even had an entertaining end. Flat had killer multis, killer flow, and a killer story, but I don't think that in truly outshined Rogan's verse. At the same time, both of you came ill, and I'd say this is definitely one of the better battles of the tourney. I'll have to vote a tie.

4-3 to Flat.

45 minutes . . .

Good Battle Rogan...

4-3 Flat wins. Good battle.