Before I get into this, I want to say I'm really glad that both contestants went all in for the finale. I mean, damn, look at these verses!
Y'ALL READY FOR THIS?
FINAL MATCH:
DAVETHEGRAVE
VS.
LORDBUCKET
WE GON' HAVE ONE HELL OF A TIIIIMMMMMEEEEE-
RIGHT NOW!
Oh shit its lord bucket, fuck it.
Make this little bitch go and suck it.
He thinks he's big like the rest, but she's just watered down.
Im the underdog, coming out nowhere, taking over this town.
If you gonna dump your contents on me, take a step back.
I got body armor, I can take all of your flak.
If you increase your power, you still cant penetrate me.
Its not my fault all the bucket bitches wanna hate me.
If your gonna step into my domain, take a seat kid.
After you read this, the bucket'll lose its lid.
You imbecile, I'll fill you up with lyricism and pure hate.
Maybe one day you'll get a date.
Use you and abuse you, make you a slave state.
Too bad your not made of stainless.
Cus this is a permanent record of how i'm painless.
I'll gut you of anything clever you had to say.
Your illogical rhymes will only come off as "Gay".
Good opening, I like it. Nothing stunning but just some hard attacks and establishment of character.
Second verse
goddamn son. Look at that wordplay.
Third verse, bloaw!
Fourth verse has a great finish. I love it.
Final verse has a suburb ending, but the last two are the weakest of any. If you're going to do a gay insult in 2013, it better be a damn good one. Not the best way to end a series of great lines by
turning it into this.
The rhyme
Here's round three: kobold vs goddess.
Chilly little lizard? See her holy hotness.
I'm not sold 'bout you bein' a mage.
I'm thousands years old. What's your age?
Get offstage, you teenage page.
I read your rhymes and enter 'sage'
Dave's so grave, but I gots the groove,
Be my kobold slave while I bust a move!
I'll pave your grave, then remove...
Your headstone with my hardened hoove!
I'll dance on your name like a rowdy rave,
Can't ditch 'dis dame, or her rhyming shockwave.
I'll prance through this game, while you hide in your cave.
Put you to shame, while I live in fame
You can't match my claim, or the heat of my flame.
Game's all done, thanks sucker, for your visit.
See this sun on my flank? Pucker up and kiss it.
Analysis
Word count: 136
Words involved in rhymes: 42
Rhyme density: .308
Here's round three: kobold vs goddess
Chilly little lizard? See her holy hotness[1]
Rhyme scheme
AB (three, goddess)
AB (See, hotness)
Onomatopoeia
chiLLy LittLe Lizard
Her Holy Hotness
Notes
[1] There's both a metaphor and a pun here. Kobolds are biped lizards. Lizards are cold blooded. I'm calling him "chilly" to point out that he's cold, while comparing his coldness to my hotness, which brings us to the pun: I'm saying I'm hot as in sexy...but as Goddess of the Sun Celestia can also claim to literally be hot.
I'm not sold 'bout you bein' a mage.
I'm thousands years old. What's your age?
Get offstage, you teenage page[1].
I read your rhymes and enter 'sage'[2]
Rhyme scheme
AB (sold, mage)
AB (old, age)
AAA (offstage, teenage, page)
-A (sage)
Onomatopoeia
'Bout you Bein'
Read your Rhymes
Notes
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_(occupation)
Page as in young male servant. The general theme of this verse is that while I'm an immortal goddess, he's basically just a kid and doesn't have the experience to keep up.
[2] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sage
A somewhat common statement (also written as “Sage goes in all fields”) in reply to particularly horrible threads, in which “sage” is placed not only in the email field, but also the name, subject, and body of the post. This of course has no additional effect compared to including “sage” only in the email field; it is used purely to express extreme disgust in the thread in question.
Dave's so grave[1], but I gots the groove,
Be my kobold slave while I bust a move!
I'll pave your grave, then remove...[2]
Your headstone with my hardened hoove![3]
Rhyme scheme
AAB (Dave, grave, groove)
AB (slave, move)
AAB (pave, grave, remove)
-B (hoove)
Onomatopoeia
Grave Gots Groove
Headstone Hardened Hoove
Notes
[1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/grave
3. Dignified and somber in conduct or character
He'll obviously anticipate grave in the context of being dead, so instead I'm using grave in the context of him being gloomy and boring, while saying that I've 'got the groove' and am an awesome rhymer
[2] Note that I'm not killing him, and even at the end of my rhyme, he's still alive. He's not worth my time to kill. I'm just going to let him die, then pave over his grave and remove his headstone so that he's forgotten. Thus any defense he puts up about me killing him will be wasted.
[3] Singular of plural
I'll dance on your name[1] like a rowdy rave,
Can't ditch 'dis dame, or her rhyming shockwave.
I'll prance through this game, while you hide in your cave.[2]
Put you to shame, while I live in fame
You can't match my claim, or the heat of my flame.[3]
Rhyme scheme
ABC (dance, name, rave)
-BC (dame, shockwave
ABC (prance, game, cave)
-BB (shame, fame)
-BB (claim, flame)
Onomatopoeia
Rowdy Rave
Ditch 'Dis Dame
Notes
[1] http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/dancing+on+someone's+grave.html
Idiom: If you will dance on someone's grave, you will outlive or outlast them and will celebrate their demise. This makes sense, since as an immortal goddess, of course I'll outlive him. Grave is in his name, so by phrasing it as dancing on his name I invoke the idiom while simultaneously pointing out that I'm making fun of his name, plus the rhyme.
[2] He's a kobold. Kobolds live in caves.
[3] Recurring theme with the hot pun
Game's all done, thanks sucker, for your visit.
See this sun on my flank[1] Pucker up and kiss it[2].
Rhyme scheme
ABCD (done, thanks, sucker, visit)
ABCD (sun, flank, pucker, kiss it)
Onomatopoeia
See Sun
Notes
[1] Reference to Celestia's cutie mark: the sun on her flanks.
[2] I am, of course, telling him to kiss my ass.
"Onomatopoeia" should have been "Alliteration."
Opening up, LB puts his/her status and some diss wordplay. Aight', aight'.
Second verse is an attack on DtG's...magical prowess. This is a nice verse, but would be a lot better if Dave had ever commented on being a master wizard like some other rappers in this tournament. It's still a fly verse.
Third verse's first two lines reek of outdated jive turkey, but the last two lines are full of enough force to hit really hard.
Fourth verse carries over the momentum, threatening Dave under a never-ending stream of insults and disses.
Last verse finishes with an ass-kiss, now that's how you go about a battle rap.
MATCH 1 WINNER: LORD BUCKET
It was very hard to choose between two raps full of wordplay and hard insults, but Lord Bucket's stellar finish was a lot stronger than Dave's sixth grade punchline. Though if Dave's entire part was as strong as his second verse, it would have been a different story.
The first point has been decided! But the battle can still go either way as we enter:
MATCH 2!
DAVETHEGRAVE
VS.
LORDBUCKET
IT'S ALL ON THE LINE MOTHERFUCKERS!
In relevant news, I've changed my perspective on judging you guys. I was basing y'all on either modern of gangster rap artists, and neither was working, everyone has a rhythm in stark contrast to those two period. So I wondered, who do all my players rap like?
Then I got it.
You're all 80's rappers. That's a compliment by the way. Just listen to Eric B. and Rakim and tell me you guys don't rap like this.