Than you're simply ignorant for thinking so closed mindedly. And I know the topicals you're talking about, I used to battle that way on SixShot.com and those didn't take anywhere near as much thought or talent to write than the topicals done on here and Rb and most of the net. Topicals are meant to, not just tell a story, but provoke emotion and feeling in the reader, which isn't an easy thing to do. But I never compared rap battling to topical battling, I just said that they both have their places in hip-hop culture... To deni either one only makes you look stupid.