Dope battle. Both of you did well and I had a hard time deciding on who to vote for.
Richard had sick punches and better recording quality, but Fat Beats was more personal with his, and I liked some of his schemes better. Fat Beats gets my vote by a whisker.
Reviews for "(7) Fat Beats vs (2) RJA"
its pretty close rich didnt seem to be trying or maybe he thought that way of flowing sounded better with this particular beat Fatbeats did a good job with flips and personals and so did rich but i had to listen twice to completely understand fatbeats which i rarely have to do but in this case it was so im going to say winner: Richard
Given Beats is my homie, but Rich was massively lazy, over-defensive and filler filled. Real talk, I dig Rich in most of his battles, but in this his trademark drawling arrogant swag came across completely unjustified and hollow. Birth certificate was a sick punch though, piercing kinda hit. The funny part is that most of Rich's shit was aimed at FB never getting listened and a FB track is one of the four featured, erm, most listened tracks on the website which is pretty shitty research.
Now to ragging on Beats- the vocal was rendered way worse than it should have been due to bad EQing, just some soft bass reduction could've gone a long way, especially against someone with a voice and a mic like Rich's. I felt like although Beats had hella sick punches, he emphasised the wrong ones, ending the first verse on filler and all that. A few too many single syllable rhymes for my tastes, although to be fair he had a few hella fly schemes, soo it doesn't come off too bad.
Give it to Beats, he ragged on Rich harder, more accurately and without coming across a knob cheese and without having so many cringe moments as Rich (when he rhymed gimmick, aka the most rhymable word ever created with idiot, I died a little inside. Tied with "is she a disease or an STD" cringe predominated through Rich's verses).
Highlights:
- "I listened to your first EP it was terrible/ after that it all kinda went downhill"
- "Leave you with carpol tunnel syndrome if you make it the whole beat"
- "Yeah I'm the muscle stretcher and I'm mad flexing on you"
Damn, sick battle buys. Rich's first verse was extra nicee
Nice instrumental, good battle!