My boy Voss and I were having this conversation. Mostly about written battles vs purely freestyle. His take is that written battles are a new trend, and they're the future. Two emcees get a week or so to gather up dirt and write rhymes. This allows for cleaner and wittier lines. If you've ever been to a freestyle battle, there's a lot of repetition. People are trying to go off the cuff quick, so the tendency is to resort to an old favorite line or even biting to keep the flow. Sure, freestyling is the pure form of battling, but written shit makes for an awesome spectacle. I don't think that written battles could ever replace freestyling, but it's not an evil takeover of rap that some purists try and make it seem like it is.
Example of freestyle vs written with Voss:
Free:
Written:
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