Top 20 Text Battlers of All Time

[Blas]

Beyond GOAT!

[Aero]

At this point I’m easily top 5 best writers to ever do text. Any textcees who haven’t been writing and/or relevant since 2003 when “I cum hard like viagra” was the standard level of haymaker, are not part of the top 25. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk


Agreed. I think if you started off short bar you'd be undeniably the best ever buuuuuut you didn't and no one respects long bar so off you go.

[Witty]

This is always a pointless endeavor, everybody is going to have their own lists based on their own sites and experiences, people will always think those who battled when they did were the best because that is all they know. You may get a top 3 max that everyone can agree on but even that is unlikely.

Even a decade ago I was much more intelligent than everyone else who posted itt.

[Saint]

It's been a slow but steady decline since

[De Loco]

I never thought about Top 20 all time


Ima give it some thought and come back

* tries to figure out a slick way to write De Loco 20 times *

[De Loco]

Alright

On a serious note

Any disagreements then cash app bets could possibly be made if a match up gets booked.

My List is KILLIN everybody elses!
These are the best writers I've ever seen or battled personally in Text Rap.

Skizzo (aka Death undefeated all-time)
TGO Phalanx
Massacre
Mask Reaper
Mugga Montana
Sam Miller
Will Mac
Josh Hunt
Zach Moore
Oehmichen Erṅo
Hilah
Calvin Williams
Jas Gat (illest Girl in the game ever)
Mike Desanto
Marco DaEminent
Joe Deal
Joe Jimson
Resin 8 (best Resin I've seen)
Einstein Brainstorm
Jordan Denault ( will out wordplay ANYONE)

[Kill Spree]

Alright

On a serious note

Any disagreements then cash app bets could possibly be made if a match up gets booked.

My List is KILLIN everybody elses!
These are the best writers I've ever seen or battled personally in Text Rap.

Skizzo (aka Death undefeated all-time)
TGO Phalanx
Massacre
Mask Reaper
Mugga Montana
Sam Miller
Will Mac
Josh Hunt
Zach Moore
Oehmichen Erṅo
Hilah
Calvin Williams
Jas Gat (illest Girl in the game ever)
Mike Desanto
Marco DaEminent
Joe Deal
Joe Jimson
Resin 8 (best Resin I've seen)
Einstein Brainstorm
Jordan Denault ( will out wordplay ANYONE)

MassAKer a clown!

[Listen]

Y'all are missing a whole lot of people. This is basically a list of folks that eventually found themselves here.

It's missing literally all of rhymenreason. The FIRST version of RapBattle (no S) and when Shadow owned it.

[sral]

shut up, chicken.

i’m prob one of the two ppl here around long enough to know who you are (the other is you)

[sral]

Goat26
BLACK FLAME
Repitwa
Abolish Da Antonym
Phear
Spiritz
E Tha Real
Jay Krupp
Sincere
Status Qu0

TiMe
5%ers

blaow

[De Loco]

MassAKer a clown!

Lol

I slightly disagree. He got great skills...infact you should battle him one day. Very very similar styles yall got.

Just sayin

[Answer]

I'll reiterate


Any textcees who haven’t been writing and/or relevant since 2003 when “I cum hard like viagra” was the standard level of haymaker, are not part of the top 25. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

nobody cares about random old heads just cause they were dropping the hottest keystyles ever seen by LyRiCaL aRtIsT in AIM chats in 2002. 99% of those people were 12 year old kids who just discovered their ballsack for the first time & they were all objectively bottom tier trash by today's standards. Cool story bro, you wrote better text raps than some prepubescent kid who was still getting their lunch made by their mom who just discovered what multis were when they were 11.

Most of those people never transitioned to audio with any kind of success, or live battling with any kind of success. Music I've made has collectively gotten over 800,000 hits worldwide, and I'm purposely excluding a stupid trolling song that I made that KSI used in one of his youtube videos that ended up doing 3.2 million. Apart from Baron, I don't actively know one person other than myself that has actually battled in front of a crowd of REAL people and made them go batshit crazy. Apart from Baron, I don't know one other person who has battled against people who have been on URL. I even took my writing ability and adapted it to win local open mic stand up comedy competitions lmao

I was elite top tier when I was dropping HOF battles & open mics in the 2000's on HF
I was elite top tier when I was dropping HOF battles & open mics in the 2000's on raptism
I was elite top tier when I was the longest reigning heavyweight text champ RR has ever had in the 2010's
I was elite top tier when I when I came here and had to adapt my entire writing style and still ended up champing summer classic, fight night & NBL in 2020

If your accomplishments are that you were nice during a 3-5 year period where you battled sha77er s7ar on an ezboard you haven't done a fraction of what it takes to be considered top 100 of textcees of all time, let alone top 20 lmfao. You sat on your hands doing nothing while hundreds of people with more drive and motivation for this shit lapped you. It's really that straightforward. If you only existed in one era, you're not top 20. Which btw 2000 - 2010 was literally the WACKEST era of all time in terms of writing ability. The wordplays that they found acceptable during that era were absolutely horrendous garbage. I know, I was there. You never had to battle ANYONE who was a certified veteran with 10+ years of experience & accomplishments in writing because there was NO SUCH THING as text battlers with 10+ years of writing experience in 2001. Most those people battling, including myself, were still in diapers in 1991. Literally EVERYONE you battled was at best a teenager who was NEW to text battling because text battling didn't even EXIST in the early 90's. AIM wasn't even created until 1997

Most those battlers were never even able to replicate their success ANYWHERE else than the ONE site they were successful on. And even more of those people were only ever successful on ONE website because they were in people's AIM messages and PM's begging their friends to vote for them. The level of cheating that happened in that era was fucking RAMPANT and anyone who says it wasn't is either lying about the fact that they were around during that period, or they themselves were actively participating in that cheating and are lying about the fact that they participated in it. When I came to NC, the entire board absolutely hated me. I had threads on here flat out trashing me before I even said half a word to most people or knew who ANYONE here was (http://www.netcees.org/showthread.php?t=45514&highlight=deaf). If you have NEVER proven that you have the skill to go to a completely foreign territory where you don't know anyone, & everyone there is already waiting for you to lose, and still end up champing everything you touch, and PROVE that you can replicate that same success time and time again, you're not top 20.

I've been quiet & humble for years now cuz I'm a nice guy, but I'm done with that. You got outworked. Period. You didn't love this shit as much as other people loved it, yet you want to somehow attach yourself to it as if you were the greatest despite never having ANYTHING that proves you deserve that respect. You were the #1 basketball player in your high school, never went to college, never went to the pros, and now you want people to act like you belong on the same list as Jordan/Lebron/Kareem why? Because you were the best player at your high school?? You sound stupid as fuck. Guys like blue bayou, dominate, hush, resin, frac, hens, zuch, AK, aero, username, etc. etc. the list goes on - all champed and proved they were elite over spans of 20+ fucking years and on multiple sites. They were grown men battling against grown men, not children battling against children. If we're talking about topicals, Baron completely destroys everyone if we're being real. They objectively accomplished more things over the years, put out far more quantity of content, and put out way more QUALITY of content than these random ass names that only 5 people remember because they happened to be the #1 rapper on one of a hundred home sites back when dial-up was all the rage

If you're someone who was an active battler for 12+ years this obviously doesn't apply to you. Everyone else can either sit down & shut up or set up a 100 line battle. And yes, I MEAN 100 lines due within 48 hours of the thread dropping. Set it up, tag me, and let’s get to it. bc people like me and blue bayou have already put out MULTIPLE 100 bar battles. We can do this shit at a drop of a hat. We’re built for this shit wayyyy different than you 2000 - 2007 era rappers who needed 2 weeks to do a 20 line battle that’s got, AT BEST, one quotable bar in the shit. I'm happy to beat the shit down your leg and show you the difference in 2004 writing and 2024 writing. If you want respect, learn how to earn it.

fucka idiyotes

[sral]

Respect.

[Regulator]

That guys list is all longbar battlers only one I agree with is skizzo and tgo tgowas a long bar guy that came to this side and was successful I don’t think skizzo ever dropped anything but long bar


Tgo wasn’t really long bar more on shorter side but to standards on these sites he was longbar

[Witty]

I was about to be a dick and make fun of you for arguing about the best textcees in 2024 but actually it's nice to see.

This shit was dope, it was fun and it's worth talking about.

As you were.

[Answer]

I was about to be a dick and make fun of you for arguing about the best textcees in 2024 but actually it's nice to see.

This shit was dope, it was fun and it's worth talking about.

As you were.

I don't care tbh. If other people want to call me a loser for loving a hobby that's been a part of my life for 20+ years that's fine, I expect that & sure, I'm a loser. But those are the same people are popping out of the woodworks on a rap site that they’ve never even been a part of decades later & wanting to shoehorn their own name into the conversation, so that makes them losers, too.

[Witty]

I don't care tbh. If other people want to call me a loser for loving a hobby that's been a part of my life for 20+ years that's fine, I expect that & sure, I'm a loser. But those are the same people wanting to shoehorn their own name into the conversation, so that makes them hypocrites.

Yep. I completely agree.

This shit was really fun and I'm glad I was part of it.

[Witty]

Also, enjoying and being passionate about expressing creativity is only ever a good thing.

There's not a lot I wouldn't do to find the passion and enjoyment I had when I was writing 100 lines a week in topical tournaments 10 years ago.

It was so much fun. I won a lot but all I really remember was how fucking fun it was.

I'm not a loser because I did it, I'm a loser because I stopped doing it.

[Regulator]

It’s hard to believe there is they many goats of text battling history seems to be like only a handful and you keep the shot to your self or your dickriding

[Witty]

The GOAT discussion is difficult as there are so many ways to be great.

And being the GOAT isn't necessarily the same as being the most talented.

For example when it comes to topicals for me Lars is the GOAT but dead man is the most talented.

[Regulator]

I thought goat meant gayest of all time my bad

[Witty]

That was one of the worst attempts at humour I've ever seen.

[sral]

The GOAT thing comes up constantly and everyone has their own prerequisites on what defines them.

For me it has a lot to do with your consistency, ability to prove your domination across multiple different websites, and having longevity across eras.

There are few that manage it, but those are the ones you want to be looking toward for true GOAT status as well as something like boxing would do by comparing their career wins over other heavyweights / future heavyweights in their division.

This to me is the best metric.

[Regulator]

That was one of the worst attempts at humour I've ever seen.

Stop Trying to make fetch happen it’s not going to happen

[Mike Wrecka]

Literally not a single person puts people that quit during ezboards in the top twenty EXCEPT people that also quit during ezboards.

[Eŋg]

objectivity is impossible.

sobering to think there are legitimate lifers on this rapboard thing, but might as well own it if you are.

i've almost half of mine online which is pretty depressing, even if i was never meaningfully active.

Pakistani Hand Cannon what were the earliest shits you ever posted on? do you even remember?

[Regulator]

Don’t be that guy that puts people on the goat list just because they beat you and you think they done something.

[sral]

Dia you’re a lifer on the boards, where did you champ?

here and Sylem’s board maybe?

[dull boy]

lol

[De Loco]

That guys list is all longbar battlers only one I agree with is skizzo and tgo tgowas a long bar guy that came to this side and was successful I don’t think skizzo ever dropped anything but long bar


Tgo wasn’t really long bar more on shorter side but to standards on these sites he was longbar

Tgo, Josh Hunt, Calvin Williams, MassAKer, Joe Deal, and Joe Jimson


All 6 of those are shorter bar guys with the regular line structure style that can beat just about ANYONE we can think of.

The rest including Skizzo you probably right is more of the Longer bar style

[sral]

oh no, not JOE JIMSON

[De Loco]

oh no, not JOE JIMSON

Dude is actually a beast


He won the 250 dollar bag in the Street talk FB group.


Text battling for money is where the real competition is.

[Quill]

I'll reiterate



nobody cares about random old heads just cause they were dropping the hottest keystyles ever seen by LyRiCaL aRtIsT in AIM chats in 2002. 99% of those people were 12 year old kids who just discovered their ballsack for the first time & they were all objectively bottom tier trash by today's standards. Cool story bro, you wrote better text raps than some prepubescent kid who was still getting their lunch made by their mom who just discovered what multis were when they were 11.

Most of those people never transitioned to audio with any kind of success, or live battling with any kind of success. Music I've made has collectively gotten over 800,000 hits worldwide, and I'm purposely excluding a stupid trolling song that I made that KSI used in one of his youtube videos that ended up doing 3.2 million. Apart from Baron, I don't actively know one person other than myself that has actually battled in front of a crowd of REAL people and made them go batshit crazy. Apart from Baron, I don't know one other person who has battled against people who have been on URL. I even took my writing ability and adapted it to win local open mic stand up comedy competitions lmao

I was elite top tier when I was dropping HOF battles & open mics in the 2000's on HF
I was elite top tier when I was dropping HOF battles & open mics in the 2000's on raptism
I was elite top tier when I was the longest reigning heavyweight text champ RR has ever had in the 2010's
I was elite top tier when I when I came here and had to adapt my entire writing style and still ended up champing summer classic, fight night & NBL in 2020

If your accomplishments are that you were nice during a 3-5 year period where you battled sha77er s7ar on an ezboard you haven't done a fraction of what it takes to be considered top 100 of textcees of all time, let alone top 20 lmfao. You sat on your hands doing nothing while hundreds of people with more drive and motivation for this shit lapped you. It's really that straightforward. If you only existed in one era, you're not top 20. Which btw 2000 - 2010 was literally the WACKEST era of all time in terms of writing ability. The wordplays that they found acceptable during that era were absolutely horrendous garbage. I know, I was there. You never had to battle ANYONE who was a certified veteran with 10+ years of experience & accomplishments in writing because there was NO SUCH THING as text battlers with 10+ years of writing experience in 2001. Most those people battling, including myself, were still in diapers in 1991. Literally EVERYONE you battled was at best a teenager who was NEW to text battling because text battling didn't even EXIST in the early 90's. AIM wasn't even created until 1997

Most those battlers were never even able to replicate their success ANYWHERE else than the ONE site they were successful on. And even more of those people were only ever successful on ONE website because they were in people's AIM messages and PM's begging their friends to vote for them. The level of cheating that happened in that era was fucking RAMPANT and anyone who says it wasn't is either lying about the fact that they were around during that period, or they themselves were actively participating in that cheating and are lying about the fact that they participated in it. When I came to NC, the entire board absolutely hated me. I had threads on here flat out trashing me before I even said half a word to most people or knew who ANYONE here was (http://www.netcees.org/showthread.php?t=45514&highlight=deaf). If you have NEVER proven that you have the skill to go to a completely foreign territory where you don't know anyone, & everyone there is already waiting for you to lose, and still end up champing everything you touch, and PROVE that you can replicate that same success time and time again, you're not top 20.

I've been quiet & humble for years now cuz I'm a nice guy, but I'm done with that. You got outworked. Period. You didn't love this shit as much as other people loved it, yet you want to somehow attach yourself to it as if you were the greatest despite never having ANYTHING that proves you deserve that respect. You were the #1 basketball player in your high school, never went to college, never went to the pros, and now you want people to act like you belong on the same list as Jordan/Lebron/Kareem why? Because you were the best player at your high school?? You sound stupid as fuck. Guys like blue bayou, dominate, hush, resin, frac, hens, zuch, AK, aero, username, etc. etc. the list goes on - all champed and proved they were elite over spans of 20+ fucking years and on multiple sites. They were grown men battling against grown men, not children battling against children. If we're talking about topicals, Baron completely destroys everyone if we're being real. They objectively accomplished more things over the years, put out far more quantity of content, and put out way more QUALITY of content than these random ass names that only 5 people remember because they happened to be the #1 rapper on one of a hundred home sites back when dial-up was all the rage

If you're someone who was an active battler for 12+ years this obviously doesn't apply to you. Everyone else can either sit down & shut up or set up a 100 line battle. And yes, I MEAN 100 lines due within 48 hours of the thread dropping. Set it up, tag me, and let’s get to it. bc people like me and blue bayou have already put out MULTIPLE 100 bar battles. We can do this shit at a drop of a hat. We’re built for this shit wayyyy different than you 2000 - 2007 era rappers who needed 2 weeks to do a 20 line battle that’s got, AT BEST, one quotable bar in the shit. I'm happy to beat the shit down your leg and show you the difference in 2004 writing and 2024 writing. If you want respect, learn how to earn it.

fucka idiyotes

I think I should be in your top 20.

That said, I agree with most of what you said Mr. Hearing aid

[Quill]

My personal top 5 is
1. Zach the Zebra
2. He whose name shall not be spoken
3. Caged Cannibal
4. Phax
5. Celph Taut

[Answer]

I think I should be in your top 20.

That said, I agree with most of what you said Mr. Hearing aid

I don't have a formal list but you're definitely in my top 20 sarge

[De Loco]

I'll reiterate



nobody cares about random old heads just cause they were dropping the hottest keystyles ever seen by LyRiCaL aRtIsT in AIM chats in 2002. 99% of those people were 12 year old kids who just discovered their ballsack for the first time & they were all objectively bottom tier trash by today's standards. Cool story bro, you wrote better text raps than some prepubescent kid who was still getting their lunch made by their mom who just discovered what multis were when they were 11.

Most of those people never transitioned to audio with any kind of success, or live battling with any kind of success. Music I've made has collectively gotten over 800,000 hits worldwide, and I'm purposely excluding a stupid trolling song that I made that KSI used in one of his youtube videos that ended up doing 3.2 million. Apart from Baron, I don't actively know one person other than myself that has actually battled in front of a crowd of REAL people and made them go batshit crazy. Apart from Baron, I don't know one other person who has battled against people who have been on URL. I even took my writing ability and adapted it to win local open mic stand up comedy competitions lmao

I was elite top tier when I was dropping HOF battles & open mics in the 2000's on HF
I was elite top tier when I was dropping HOF battles & open mics in the 2000's on raptism
I was elite top tier when I was the longest reigning heavyweight text champ RR has ever had in the 2010's
I was elite top tier when I when I came here and had to adapt my entire writing style and still ended up champing summer classic, fight night & NBL in 2020

If your accomplishments are that you were nice during a 3-5 year period where you battled sha77er s7ar on an ezboard you haven't done a fraction of what it takes to be considered top 100 of textcees of all time, let alone top 20 lmfao. You sat on your hands doing nothing while hundreds of people with more drive and motivation for this shit lapped you. It's really that straightforward. If you only existed in one era, you're not top 20. Which btw 2000 - 2010 was literally the WACKEST era of all time in terms of writing ability. The wordplays that they found acceptable during that era were absolutely horrendous garbage. I know, I was there. You never had to battle ANYONE who was a certified veteran with 10+ years of experience & accomplishments in writing because there was NO SUCH THING as text battlers with 10+ years of writing experience in 2001. Most those people battling, including myself, were still in diapers in 1991. Literally EVERYONE you battled was at best a teenager who was NEW to text battling because text battling didn't even EXIST in the early 90's. AIM wasn't even created until 1997

Most those battlers were never even able to replicate their success ANYWHERE else than the ONE site they were successful on. And even more of those people were only ever successful on ONE website because they were in people's AIM messages and PM's begging their friends to vote for them. The level of cheating that happened in that era was fucking RAMPANT and anyone who says it wasn't is either lying about the fact that they were around during that period, or they themselves were actively participating in that cheating and are lying about the fact that they participated in it. When I came to NC, the entire board absolutely hated me. I had threads on here flat out trashing me before I even said half a word to most people or knew who ANYONE here was (http://www.netcees.org/showthread.php?t=45514&highlight=deaf). If you have NEVER proven that you have the skill to go to a completely foreign territory where you don't know anyone, & everyone there is already waiting for you to lose, and still end up champing everything you touch, and PROVE that you can replicate that same success time and time again, you're not top 20.

I've been quiet & humble for years now cuz I'm a nice guy, but I'm done with that. You got outworked. Period. You didn't love this shit as much as other people loved it, yet you want to somehow attach yourself to it as if you were the greatest despite never having ANYTHING that proves you deserve that respect. You were the #1 basketball player in your high school, never went to college, never went to the pros, and now you want people to act like you belong on the same list as Jordan/Lebron/Kareem why? Because you were the best player at your high school?? You sound stupid as fuck. Guys like blue bayou, dominate, hush, resin, frac, hens, zuch, AK, aero, username, etc. etc. the list goes on - all champed and proved they were elite over spans of 20+ fucking years and on multiple sites. They were grown men battling against grown men, not children battling against children. If we're talking about topicals, Baron completely destroys everyone if we're being real. They objectively accomplished more things over the years, put out far more quantity of content, and put out way more QUALITY of content than these random ass names that only 5 people remember because they happened to be the #1 rapper on one of a hundred home sites back when dial-up was all the rage

If you're someone who was an active battler for 12+ years this obviously doesn't apply to you. Everyone else can either sit down & shut up or set up a 100 line battle. And yes, I MEAN 100 lines due within 48 hours of the thread dropping. Set it up, tag me, and let’s get to it. bc people like me and blue bayou have already put out MULTIPLE 100 bar battles. We can do this shit at a drop of a hat. We’re built for this shit wayyyy different than you 2000 - 2007 era rappers who needed 2 weeks to do a 20 line battle that’s got, AT BEST, one quotable bar in the shit. I'm happy to beat the shit down your leg and show you the difference in 2004 writing and 2024 writing. If you want respect, learn how to earn it.

fucka idiyotes


Read your post bro. Now I ain't gonna lie, it's a little bit lengthy, but I respect it. The part about duplicating success other places in order to truly be elite.

I felt that shit in my soul type shit because tbh...that's what I'm about. But enough about me because I know the dues I've paid up to this point.

So ima tell you what man....inbox me ASAP. Let's talk some Text battle Rap business. A great opportunity to do something historic For the culture.

[Listen]

Goat26
BLACK FLAME
Repitwa
Abolish Da Antonym
Phear
Spiritz
E Tha Real
Jay Krupp
Sincere
Status Qu0

TiMe
5%ers

blaow

Close.

[bare ryu]

skizzo was nice for sure. gave me terrible advice in 2011 (?) on how to stimulate a clitoris though

[sral]

bare ryu I don’t think this was you, from memory you were the one from Rap-Royalty, but Listen will remember Ryuu from RB I’m sure:

http://www.netcees.org/showthread.php?t=132134

[De Loco]

skizzo was nice for sure. gave me terrible advice in 2011 (?) on how to stimulate a clitoris though

He'll give better advise on Rhyme scheme multies.

As for Clit stim you might wanna ask about De Loco in the streets, he Jabs P*$$ies all the time.

[Quill]

skizzo was nice for sure. gave me terrible advice in 2011 (?) on how to stimulate a clitoris though

I feel like this story needs elaboration.

[bare ryu]

bare ryu I don’t think this was you, from memory you were the one from Rap-Royalty, but Listen will remember Ryuu from RB I’m sure:

http://www.netcees.org/showthread.php?t=132134
yeah im from longbar.com

I feel like this story needs elaboration.
i was 14 and a virgin and he decided to give me some guidance

[De Loco]

I'm tired of all these list good grief. This is the final list up to now. Please don't make anymore list or nostalgia threads.


The list is this:

1. Aero
2. Fracture
3. Aloe
4. Damien aka D Omen
5. John Hensley
6. Cronus aka Barcotic
7. Pulse
8. Username
9. Time Virus
10. Kungfugrip
11. Beyond
12. NyVillian
13. Dominate
14. Resin MIC
15. Hush
16. Richard Corey
17. -Tek- aka Chronical
18. Butler
19. Dynasty
20. Metasin




How many dudes from this list are actively still battling?


Im asking outta curiosity

[Saint]

Hardly none. Most quit a decade ago.

I think these lists don't matter in 2024 but Iif i were to do one id have to separate by eras and lb/sb sites

[Witty]

Hardly none. Most quit a decade ago.

I think these lists don't matter in 2024 but Iif i were to do one id have to separate by eras and lb/sb sites

You just used a bunch of words and managed to say absolutely nothing.

Well done.