Texting is Dead
 

texting is dead as far as i'm concerned. i was around for its hayday, but that was friggin nearly 20 years ago now. fuckin crazy aye?

the progression we made from say, 1999 -> 2005 was leaps and bounds. going from the Tyson era to what I consider the end, the Namix era. Think about how vastly different those styles were. PJK introduced multisyllable rhymes, and we fuckin had a guide that showed you how to make em/be a textcee. I remember when we used to ADD to that book with new inventive styles and shit.

Topicals, too. I think Richard Corey laid down the foundation. Grimm.... folks like Raw. Duke & Bricks Build, Playedwords & mic boof, Inverse & me took it to some beatnik shit, around the time Diode was doing his own thing with topicals. Point is everyone had their own unique style. Now everyone is a clone.

Shiiit's stagnant. Reading any battle or topical here...there's nothing inventive at all. Everyones just doing the shit we already did. It'd be like if everyone still rapped in the 90s wu-tang style.

I've felt this way since I came here way back when, i've just always been too wasted to put it in a coherent post.


In conclusion, I think the only hope would be if we had a thriving audio scene like we did on b-boys. I think textceeing is just a dead medium, it's over, nothing more to be done with it. That'll never be true for music.

where are all the audio heads now? people used to kill it! yall remember Kuan? oof. & thr3 was on some next level shit. BlackJesus did his thing too. where are these folks these days?

Agreed but where's my mention?

Texting isn't dead.

LMAO one of my fav movies but if you don't know me I'm not sure you should be posting here.

Texting is dead.

New generation cats don’t even text one another. They all FaceTime each other lol. It’s crazy. Phone down and they just talking. Camera at all sorts of weird angles. Staring at nothing but wall or ceiling or at someone’s neck, legs or up their nose. Why not just call the other person? Idk man, weird society.

Texting is not dead

Lol at the summary

This is the post that made me delete this site from my browser smh

Pjk is not the godfather of multi syllabic rhymes. That's Rakim. In the 80s.

Text been dead since like 2007 really....you just got a few places like this that's got ppl that can't let go of being a text head because they were never good at anything else....that's why most of the guys here use to be really good textcees...u don't see many guys here who sucked....the text heads that were really good can't let go

True.

True.

I don't agree with the hayday being 20 years ago... WOW @ Tyson... I haven't thought of that name in a long time.

I do agree though, that at a certain point there were a lot of people like me. I was dope and better than most but everyone stuck to the same punchline type text. I champed almost every league on the internet. During its prime I can't say exact years but it was awesome that people like Kempo and RC took hours and hours of time to write mags to hype things up. Allah too.. he did a lot for that.

And so that was the best as far as I'm concerned and I get there was a lull and everyone did the super punchline stuff, and obviously theres a better or worse. But it got boring. But with doing to text theres limitations, only so much you can do with it.

The topical stuff I have to admit I never read, I wrote a couple that were real personal I think, but I didn't read anyone elses.

And Kuan was the shit I almost made a song with him. He had a brother too which was pretty good.

but yeah you're correct that theres only so far you can go with being versatile and new with text vs. actually making music, but if you still like doing it then do it I guess.. I haven't read a text verse from anyone else since I went to jail when I was on project rhyme... I'm sure its all still witty, just witty the same way with new references instead of old pop culture references

Think about the amount of time we poured into text battles,leagues, tournament and shit.... mothafuckaz spent years mastering a craft that leads absolutely nowhere....wtf was we doing or hoping to accomplish?

This shit was our version of dungeon and dragons

And now you sit here just discussing stupid pointless shit

yeah snitching is gangsta... I agree with you

Only people I felt or maybe still feel bad for are people that it was something more than that.

I was a top 'texter' for years and years and years.. I was doing it to try and stay away from the streets, and I still was in the streets etc. I was only one of the few people I knew that even had the internet.

I was able to go home get on dial up AOL and post good punchlines like a comedian would and people would feel it or not. It was a distraction from real life and I was pretty good at it. Throughout basketball practices and real life bullshit I didn't post as much but it was like you said a hobby. I can rap, ok... I posted some shit I can't find it but I posted it on soundclick and my biggest song was bronx finest. I can't find it now but i've looked it was like 12 years ago.. or something like that. Was just me yelling bronx finest rapping horribly and yelling out neighborhoods. I never had a delusion of being a rapper, never tried.

nothing wrong with being a text rapper now, its just a fun distraction from things

and if younger people can still do it, and get a kick out of it... more power to them its dope at least they're working their minds

It's a fucking hobby man... Wtf are you talking about accomplishing shit and leading to things?!

http://i.imgur.com/qGhiEIe.gif

the fuck?

ha. not really. most of the people here were never good. actually quite the opposite, the legends who did come around here dipped long ago.

now it's just people who were dope as textcees and are dope at audio & still actually making shit. like @boof, uh-oh, and me obviously. dead poet also still doing his thing and has always been good.

@Ouch was super dope but he dont do shit now.

actually i remember we had a thread about this long ago, and we all decided we pretty much just hang out here cuz we're used to each other. i've known boof since i was 13 for instance.

@Ouch with the actual knowledge in this thread. you aint drunk enough homie!

uh speak for yourself bro. i can say for sure that when we were pushing boundries and shit like that, and even learning the basics, textceeing helped me become a better artist.

now i got real multi-millionaire rap friends. i never drop names cuz yall niggas gay AF, but the real bboys know i always ran with the crewwww. would that shit have happened if i didn't learn to freestyle and do dope multi syllable rhymes and wordplay, and shaojin and RC werent dropping mind bending rap topicals and shit

hell na

no way jose

i can say fo sure that b-boys.com changed my life in a positive way. sorry the rest of yall are just losers

god damn shaojin.... dope name another name I hadn't heard of in a million years.

I dunno if she was female or not but she did al the topical stuff, and she was alright... fuck i'm trying to remember super old old niggas... Knowl o brien... I don't know anything he ever did just remember the name.. and I don't know how old I was at the time.. Spems.. .. i'm in my younger 30's and I don't think I was in all this in middle school.. but maybe I was... illmatic monk

you know I met this girl name ages... she was old school

Rip txt 01 an 07 an 11 an 13 an 15 an 17 till infinity till next time we Rip txt.

nah the text stuff is dope I basically can't do it... I could but I don't want to get owned

Audio better

TEXTING IS DEAD. WE CHAT ON NETCEES INSTEAD
EATING FRUIT LOOPS
LOOKING FOR THE BEST THING SINCE BREAD
BUT ITS ME BITCH
AIN'T NO JET SKIS AND LEGS THAT COULD HAVE YALL CATCH UP
DRINK A BEVERAGE. YA DEAD.
KILLA
I'LL PUT THE SKET TO YA HEAD
HAVE YOU LIKE
FUCK IS THAT
BUT THE NEXT THING YA DEAD
I USED DEAD THRICE.
HAVENT KEYED IN 37 YEARS
YA BITCH IS UGLY BUT IM A PERV AND NEVER FEAR IMA MURDER HER BRASIER WITH AN IMPERVIOUS-ISH LEER LIKE BRING THEM GURGLED TITTIES HERE
NIPPLES LOOKING LIKE THEY HERDIN' WITH SOME DEER
STILL TWISTS THEM SHITS WHILE SHE OBSERVES IT IN A MIRROR

SPOOKY

DA GODS KOOKY AND OFF HIS ROCKER
A GOON THAT'LL ALWAYS PROSPER IN NUMEROUS SLOBBER KNOCKERS
CONQUER AND ROB A LOBSTER OF CLAWS AND A CONCH HE ROCKS WITH
IS THAT A SHELL OR A BEAST
THE LOGICS FLAWED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
OR IS IT
MY DICK IS AS MYTHIC AS HIEROGLYPHICS DEPICTING A BURNING VISAGE OF DEATH DEFYING PHYSICS EMBRACED BY EARLY MYSTICS
I'LL CHASE AND BURN A CIVIC WITH LASERS AND CURVE THE DISTRICT THE HATERS WONT LEARN TO WIN SHIT IM GREAT AND IT HURTS YA INNIT.
I COULD SAY SHIT ABSURDLY BRITISH LACED WITH THE SLURS OF MISFITS WHILE RAPING A NERDY MIDGET AND CHASE IT WITH BOURBON, BITCHES.

KILLA

oh shit..Spemz haha...

was like the first legend i knew of. actually found B-Boys cuz i was looking for a graffiti board.


i knew ages too IRL. crazy shit happened where we ended up living on the same block in northern cali. i was drunk as fuck tho and ruined the date, never saw her again

Shaojin is Monk's sister

facts


text is dead i killed it,
i txt his ex, i filmed it
a texas wreck, don't feel shit
like i just been poppin on pills and fuckin on models for real
these niggas ain't real, like mirrors aint real
can't see me for real
memba, "ill lay down the law like im fucking judge judgy"
& them Assholes Anonymous kids ain't booty.
EK was a think-tank, they post make u hit a U'y
nowadays these trans are X-Men, but not like Wolverine, they just fruity

Text isn't dead, forums are dead.

oh shit, remember "shaking the rust off" hahahah

"been a minute since i keyd...just shaking the rust off"

Shaking the rust
Got your girl in my place and she's shaking her butt
I got my face in it...but...
...ima wait til she falls asleep then I'm raping the slut

immo I don't know who are... I met Haley I felt like it was weird because she was in new mexico and .. shes from giving me new knes ass.. I told her she could place something on it

and what did I say... haeley's name was IDreamLucidly... which is nice

What up tho.

Shut up Amen

Twitter text bsttling is the new wave

I don't know what the deal is i've got a dicki9esa hoddy wrangler pants... a puma shoeas