Discovering Rap Forums exist

[Vulgar]

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[Diode]

Okay so I've met a handful of people in real life who write rap lyrics over the years, or ones that just started doing it as a hobby. None of them ever heard of rap forums before, except maybe one.

How small is the window of actually discovering they exist? I think it's small because we haven't had an 8Mile this generation to create a cultural demand for more competitive spirit to be fostered.

We're lucky to have this perfect outlet (as perfect as the lime green can be) for our hobby.

Thoughts?

They all Facebook it now.

[Vulgar]

True, but they don't get any valuable feedback. They also don't know what it feels like to take an L. Humbling experience for writers IMO.

[Wise Wiggles]

Fool from hs put me onto em back in the day..

[Inno]

^^same here

I got on my first rap board back 99 from this dude
who was on a rapboard in class lol. told me to join. history the rwst is

[uh-oh]

i found rapleagues.com in 04-05ish? after searching melyssa ford/gloria velez/vida guerra/nancy erminia.

they had a hip hop honeys section with big galleries for all the video ho's. i seen on the sides of the site tho that they had battle rankings, as well as "classic bars" and threads to battles and discussions.

found it that way.

in high school my buddy posted on one too he's the only dude i know in real life who found them on his own, and we put our other buddy onto them.

[Glossy Finish Dick Lips]

yea. I started fuckin around on boards in '98 because a buddy of mine in school would always talk about him text battling and winning an shit. so I decided to see for myself, considering me an that same double would always freestyle battle in study hall and I'd always demolish him, lol.

[Geno]

Thoughts are.. just like anything else.. advertisement man.youtube video promotibg twxt and how dope the writers and battles are. Etc etc

[Witty]

I just googled rap battles and RB was the first result.

[Certain]

A real-life friend told me about a 2Pac website where people battled horribly on a horrible pre-EZ-Board template. He didn't stick around long enough to explore other sites.

[Objective]

I was looking for hiphop forums as a way to find new rap albums to listen to outside of the DC++ sphere and discuss it. I had tried to write some lyrics on my own, but they were wack. The first forum I found only had a battle-thread, it was pretty fun so I started googling for ''rap battle forum'' and found a couple. I also found a Norwegian hiphop forum with text battles on them that way and got involved. Been doing it on and off since.

[Certain]

I had tried to write some lyrics on my own, but they were wack.

We know.

[Orc]

my friend was a moderator on some hiphop forum and got me to join when we were in school. i joined and starting text battling (he never did, just moderated). i remember we would check the score of my battles after school and get excited as fuck if i was winning. anyway i end up googling others, joined rapworlds, then illesty, then rb and then netcees.

[Objective]

We know.

Lmfao. I suck at battles, but you can't honestly say I'm not good at topicals when I got time to do it right.

[dull boy]

This is a cool thought. We don't really think of the benefits of this place because it's generally so fucking negative around here.

I think it's a combination of things. Writing is sort of a loner hobby and the internet is obviously the loners outlet, among other things. Rappers tend to be more social. Most text people are writers influenced by Hip Hop. The outlet of these forums, while good for developing certain skills, also make it easy to remain in a comfort zone that can be limiting.

It's an interesting subgroup, for sure.

[Spoken]

I was just writing rhymes and j typed in rap battles... RB popped up it said forum I clicked it said register so I did...

[Tom Sparks]

I was looking for rap music to download back in 00 and I googled 'rap music' n one of the first things that came up was rm and that's how I got started

[Badweather]

Okay so I've met a handful of people in real life who write rap lyrics over the years, or ones that just started doing it as a hobby. None of them ever heard of rap forums before, except maybe one.

How small is the window of actually discovering they exist? I think it's small because we haven't had an 8Mile this generation to create a cultural demand for more competitive spirit to be fostered.

We're lucky to have this perfect outlet (as perfect as the lime green can be) for our hobby.

Thoughts?

I didn't know they existed until after like a year of going into AOL chat room cyphers. Dude was recruiting people from there.

[Pakistani Hand Cannon]

majority of the people on these sites dont write 'rap' lyrics though

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[~RustyGunZ~]

My sisters boyfriend when she was in college told me about rapforums.com. he meant a different site for hip hop news but I ended up there and had done AOL chat cypher shit so battled. Went 20-2 and just kept going with it. Had moderated general disc forums and shit was it wasn't hard to roll with it quickly

[Passenger]

my older brother used to download albums online and sell 'em to people back when bootlegging was wild & internet wasn't this popular

i was like 12 and ended up messing with his computer, going through his history, i think it was called like "ilovemuzik" or "hiphophideout" or some shit like that. signed up to that site as "the saurus" or "lethal assassin" lol forgot which one, but started there then google'd rapbattles and RB came up

[Joe Metts]

I found d12world looking for Eminem lyrics probably. Then my boy irl laughed at me for saying I champed the site and told me real competition was at bboys so I went there.

It's too easy to record tho. That's why text isn't shit anymore. Cost nothing to get a set up.