This is kinda nuts. Spit and I are mentioned in some poetry book online that has a section talking about online battling. Lay Doubt to text member HOF status confirmed lol
https://books.google.com/books?id=2E...acular&f=false
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Last edited by Lay Doubt.; October 9th, 2023 at 12:17 AM
Been a real one.
It's an ebook you can buy for free, written by a battler from either RB or NC haha. But yes, Lay Doubt should be HOF.
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Pretty cool you got mentioned though. Spit and Mystery Murdera too.
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Originally Posted by Wuxia
Idk man it’s some super old ass Romanian dude. I think it’s far more likely he reached out to people to advise him on certain subjects like this one. Can’t imagine him as rap forum member lol plus the book’s primary focus is obviously poetry.Originally Posted by Soule
https://csde.academia.edu/NicolaeSfetcu/CurriculumVitae
And idk who the hell D.Zaster is. Feeble snubbed though, hate to see it.
Also odd how guys like Allah and ClasSick would get name dropped but not Fracture and Resin, who were probably the best.
Last edited by Lay Doubt.; October 9th, 2023 at 12:25 AM
Been a real one.
D was early 2000s. Like earlier than us. He's in some of the first lll battles.
http://rapbattles.com/forum/showthre...ight=D.+Zaster
http://rapbattles.com/forum/showthre...ight=D.+Zaster
http://rapbattles.com/forum/showthre...ight=D.+Zaster
Changed his name to Violent apparently.
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Also, if it's a Romanian guy it could be Vanja, Hosea or Born to Kill haha. They old AF
Last edited by Soule; October 9th, 2023 at 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Wuxia
That HAD to be Richard Corey I swear to God. Scrypt was his terminology for it. It never took off the way he wanted it to, though. He even has a wiki for it.
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If he didn't author it then he definitely provided input because that entire Scrypt bullshit was on him.
I don’t know guys, it really doesn’t seem like the author was a rap forum member. And that excerpt is such a small part of a 400 page book about poetry as a whole. Not to mention his tweets are all in the Romanian language.
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I could definitely subscribe to the input theory. Surely that author wasn’t snooping around rap battle message boards lol someone had to give him names and shit.
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It would also make sense why him and those other dudes are mentioned from their site, but not Frac and Resin.
Been a real one.
I wouldn't be surprised if Richard had some sort of connection to him. I see a book on poetry, then I see a reference to Scrypt, then I see Richard Corey get mentioned. That's alot of red flags for me lol.
Scrypt is def a pretty obscure term.
The book was also written in 2014, so realistically there’s no way the author would have been able to name drop Mystery Murdera (or even myself) if he’d been digging around sites at that time.
Either way, super random. Spit came across it somehow lol
Been a real one.
I don't think that guy was personally involved in text because the timeframe he is focusing on is kind of off. Especially if he's an older historian. From that excerpt he makes it seem as if text started at that period, but in reality it dates back to 1995-1997. Apathy, Deacon The Villain, DJ Kno, Cashmere The PRO, Sankofa, Jugga The Bully, Stahrr The FEMCEE, are some people that came before Jin, at least I think. Wasn't Holla Front in the early 2000s? The very first text battling sites back then were Lyricists Domain, Lyrical Vortex, Davey D's, Sethros, ICU, I think I'm missing one there. When Sethros went down everybody shifted to UPN, and Frac and Resin were there too, I can't speak for their original sites like RM or RB or whatever, but UPN had Aloe Vera, Nathan Blaze, Username, Defc0n, Ajax, Priest, Native Son, I think Baron Mynd passed through there, Storm G, alot of RM guys were around UPN. Anyone know how old RM was? I don't remember it being around in 95. Pretty much the oldest generation of text battling I was exposed to went on to become UPN, and the later generations, which are probably you guys, RM/RB frequented UPN.
And that reminds me of Richard Corey because he ignored all that history after being told about this by people at UPN and insisted that text battling, or Scrypt, as he called it, originated in the early 2000s.
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There used to be a guy named The Rose who was like an encyclopedia for this shit. He ventured throughout the internet documenting text. He was older than me by at least 10 years.
I'm trying to find this Old Ways movie now. That trailer looked great.
Aloe and Username were pretty dope.
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Damn so Rapmusic straight up doesn’t exist anymore, huh? That’s unfortunate. No b-boys either?
Been a real one.
I think RapMusic is rmbva.org or something like that now. It's been a few years since I've been there.
It's on Netflix I believe.
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Originally Posted by Wuxia
That shit’s gone now too, apparently.
Been a real one.
RB is like the blade runner of forums
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