Heat Wave: HW Text (Rd 1): Hanging v Arthur

Battle C
Best of 3 votes from JUDGES
Straight battle round

Both battlers will diss XLNC as he no showed.

Arthur

Heat Wave just got itself a new favourite....Let's Go.

You must Respect Me, your name went from L to N 'cause you can't call yourself an MC
What you Expect B? now watch Art do a number on XL and I ain't talkin 'bout Spreadsheets (Excel)

Art in the Dopest Form, only way to avoid defeat during Heat Wave is to Hope For Storms
Get his Folks To Mourn, I'm quick to leave Bullet In A Mess like a fucked up Notice Board (Bulletin)

You a Damn Bender, Art provin he's a bitch without questioning Saat's Gender
Won't serve me like a Bad Vender, see Tamil disappear without mentioning Banned Members (Tam'll)

Ya Words Lack, We don't need to witness him get a tattoo to see Art Hurt Saat
Writing's what he's Worst At, In the end I'll have XL on his back like a fat guys Shirt Tag

Art Purely A Preacher, only thing harder than makin it big for this Indian will be Securing A Visa
Haha! I'll Surely Defeat Ya, cause I could also leave Vik's on his chest like Curing A Fever (Vicks)

I bring Sleek Dissin, you couldn't topple Art if it was in ya Sleep Wishin
NC Slippin, call me Matador cause we all know that Bullet will Keep Missin (Bull, It)

He's Basic In Text, not playstation, when I hit X I'll leave his Face In A Mess
I'm Blatantly Best, this Indian doesn't want any Beef because the Cows are Sacred To Them

You whack that's for Certain, cos when we drop Blinds, for you it's gonna be Curtains
I'm a complex Urban, cause punk my Raps go over ya head like the application of a Turban! (Wraps)

This was a real good battle, both displaying high quality in their own approaches...I'm not really going to break this down too much as you both know what you're doing and are making conscious choices to do it the way you do it.

Hanging Basket I thought you had some real nasty disses in there, silver spoon, Lincoln assassination was a really sharp punch, I really liked the way you wrote that Sanskrit line as well, and the opener was also really stylish. I think the price of some of your shots was they lacked that X factor, so solid disses and effective lines but not the kind of haymakers that make the most damage, especially in shorter form battles. But that's what makes you unique and there's nothing that I felt was fillerish, it's just you look for aggression and high impact, or at least I do.

Art I thought this was pretty textbook, variety of really solid hits and some great plays in there...you execute up those wordplays with great finesse and shows you really understand the execution of a concept, it's never concept driven it's always about landing hit with you and I respect that...lot of other people lose sight of that sometimes and makes it inconsistent. I think the one area I'd like to see you sharpen up is to cut out those padding rhymes...I know you're doing it intentionally, but they often feel like you've written the punch and you're just adding the rhyme in after, if you can work he rhyme in naturally and it adds something then by all means do it...but I'd like to see that same sense of execution on your rhythm and rhyme scheme as you have in your punch and diss concepts. Not that it's bad, but I think you can make it razor with that tweak.

Overall Art brought a harder verse and landed more impactful punches & that got him the win. Both did themselves justice though and I thoroughly enjoyed reading both verses.

Vote = Art