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In August 2017, that epoch-making battle ian battle rap. Also loudly declared themselves
“Oxxxymiron – SLAVA KPSS” came out, this year: Karambit, AO, Plane Dead. And the
which attract the attention not only of the flow of passable MCs was always, they did not
established battle audience, but also of the develop, and over time the culture completely
wider masses; cultivate new adepts; signif- crowded them out.
icantly expand its scope. "It used to be better"
"It used to be better"
However, in the same battle, the thesis was put Argument: Just a couple of years ago, the entire
forward that the battle rap is a dead genre. battle’s audience, with bated breath, watched
This idea, like a virus, has penetrated both into the second season of “SLOVO SPB”, of the festi-
the fragile minds of the newly-made public, val in Krasnodar, of the epochal confrontation
and is firmly entrenched in the heads of the of Oxyxymiron and Johnyboy. At that time, the
“old men” of rap fights. We suggest that you “VERSUS” level seemed to many unattainable.
consider the main arguments and counterargu- Battle rap obviously had its areola of mystery.
ments to understand the development process Counterargument: When was it better? In
of this genre. 2012-2014, most of the MCs wrote punch-lines
that are now embarrassing to take in badbars.
"There are no new faces, more and more
"There are no new faces, more and more
mediocrity comes to the battles" Or was it better when rhyming jokes in almost
mediocrity comes to the battles"
every battle? Or, maybe two months ago it was
Argument: At this stage there is an endless better, but now everything has collapsed?
stream of battle-ms, which does not introduce These conversations exist almost from the very
anything into the culture of the original and au-
thentic. They only chew on what was invented
by someone and chewed on by the rest of them
a thousand times.
Counterargument: There are new faces! Yes, it
is possible that they had not yet had time to
make a big name for themselves, but after all,
today's famous MCs went to this for years. Be-
sides, PM took several dozen battles, in three
tournaments, to sit on the pedestal of the Russ-