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she's just sick of being personified -Sage Francis

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1st Battle In Legends
Bars Of War - Champ
L.L.L. - Former HWeight Champ
S.S. - Hall Of Fame

The Eclipse...

..The Way I Was Raised..

Down The Drain I Surround My Pain In Pounds Of Cocaine..
Its Strange.. Im On A Different Chapter But At The Same Page..
And My Name, Isn't Nothing More Than Bad Riddence..
Drugs At Un-Written Statistics.. But That Just Hits The Image..
If You Could Witness, My Life Under A Lime Light..
I Cant Find Right Worth The Time Sight, So I Live The High Life..
Sellin Nugs To Kids..High Life.. Drugs That Is..
Dont Got Enuff To Live.. So Many Times I Think "I've Had Enuff Of This..

..How It Changed..

Smoked 8 Lines Of White Powder.. Smoked Myself Sour..
Lost All Power, As My System Shut Down During The Same Hour..
Breathe Hard In The ER.. Such A Stoner..
I Couldn't Save Myself, It Was All Up To A Donor..
Found The Organ, A Loner.. Barely Able To Funtion..
Never Make An Assumption Cuz They Made Somethin Outta Nothin..
Solid Conjuntions Eruption.. Turned Over A New Leaf..
Me? Please.. The Leaves Breeched South Of The Tree..
I Admit, I Toned It Down A Bit, We'll Leave It At That..
Since I Seen All Its Wrath, Im Back.. I Tried But It Just Crossed In My Path..
The Crack Kills, But Packs Thrills N' Attracts Bills..
I Laugh Still.. Smoke So Much Never Had A Chance To Sat Still..
When Will My Maturity Take Its Form And Show Up..
No Luck.. 22 Years, Kids Got Jobs N' I Aint Even Took The Next Inch To Grow Up..

..Some Things Never Change..

A Freeze Frame, Drivin Down East Main When The Police Came..
A Dream Break, Never Thought You Could See Pain..
Over A Small Guard Rail, Into A Yard Sale.. 3 Flips Then Stopped..
Cops, In Place.. Looked To My Friend, Didn't Know If He Was Breathing Or Not..
In Shock, I Crawled Out, Doin Whatever I Could To Get Him Released..
The Police Ceased Me.. N' Before I Could See Him, They Declared Him Deceased..
No Dreams.. We Got Past Them Then Abide And He Died..
I Cried For His Life, Just Wished I Wasn't High At The Time..
Tried To Get By, But Had 24 Years To Surround My Name..
Housed In Pain..Couldn't Do This No More..Took The Renouned Cocaine..
With A Look In Shame.. Opened The Bag And Poored Its Remains Down The Drain..


Wasn't Feelin This Topic At All.. So I Worked
Wit What I Could...Dont No Show Me Mystery.. I Dont
Need Another No Show On My Name..

Took Me 12 minutes... almost no showed, lol here...


It All Amounts The Same (No Difference)

Not An Ounce Of Fame, Nothing At All, The End All Amounts The Same
Pounds The Shame On My Head, Just Wanting Fame & To Be Fed
When There Are Children Other Places Who Awake To Be Dead
I Awake In A Bed. Suffering?! - They Don’t Wake Up. So I’m Fake At Best
When Weekly Distrubed In Africa Are Vaccines And AIDS Test
To Match?! Me – Mad Cuz I Aint Been Payed Yet, Then Realization…


Sittin In A Room, Flippin To The News n Seeing Another Child Die
Mad As Hell Cuz I Shoulda Been Payed At 5 and Now Its 5:05
Time Passes By But I Forget The Clock, It Forgets Me I Sit n Watch
So Insensitive. Like My Eyes Opened N Now I Witnessed It
That Day My Heart Is Where I Kept The News… Took My Check
Got Up… A New Person Left That Room…

The End
Three Years Later, Missionary Style, Missions In Forest… Pinchin A Child
Wake Up Saomi. Its Life That I Bring – Hard To Block Out The Nights N The Screamz
He’s Being Torn Away From Life, Bad Blood Is Knifing His Seems
Then That’s It… Like I Said…

Not An Ounce Of Fame, Nothing At All, The End All Amounts The Same
So I Wash Away The Blood N Tears, Two Hearts, Two Lives… Down The Drain

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1st Battle In Legends
Bars Of War - Champ
L.L.L. - Former HWeight Champ
S.S. - Hall Of Fame

The Eclipse...

auspicious took this quite easily...i feel mystery shouldve tried some more..auspicious has a nice story...he was creative...nice imagery..and some nice vocab...mystery your peice was ok...but you couldve done better

Vote:Auspicious

nice battle right here fellaz...the breakdown as I seez it...

flow-M~M
wordplay-Auspy
story-Auspy
multi'z-M~M
meta4'z-Auspy

so the overall vote would have to go to that Thugged out Whyte kid...damn you puttin' our convo in ya sig...lol

VOTE=AUSPICIOUS

Yeah, mystery didnt try with this one and it showed, a bit of a let down really cause he could of made this dope if he'd tried, but yeah, it wasnt bad for a twelve minute effort, but it wasnt good enough to pull off the win here.

VoteAuspicious

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vote- aussy. (lol)
came w a worse approach to the topic i feel, but a better job on what he picked by far. i almost voted MM cuz the drugs shit is played..but thug did a good job with it.
vote- auspicuous.

Vote Auspic

You overpowered MM and yes it showed.............im sure if MM spent some more time the outcome may have been different…….Aus took this with wordplay, meta's and a tight theme………. Also had nice originality

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Auspicious- You are really dope...this is the first piece of yours I've read. Your take on the topic wasn't really original, but it was portrayed really nicely. I need to learn how to tell stories in rhyme again, because it looks so phucking dope (READ: Your storytelling was great). For future reference, you don't smoke lines, you snort em . Your flow was alright, and the emotion was plainly there. The internal multi steez is always dope to see

M&Ms- dude, even though you didn't try, I thought this was great. Once again, not a very original take on the topic, but it made a really nice comparison between the life we lead the lives of the much less fortunate. It made me think. The 5:05 line was really nice, highlighted your whole take on it. The flow was pretty good, but you didn't have very much wordplay. Pretty good dude.

Vote-Auspicious

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Life isn't a bitch...
she's just sick of being personified -Sage Francis