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The Duality of Reality[KOTM]


Man in the middle playing second fiddle to left and right,/
My right shows life and light, my left shows fights and plight,/
City on fire many pawns inspired by dire straits your entire fate,/
In the hands of hate death and taxes at higher rates,/



Death destruction and dysfunction facing dichotomy,/
Corporations cater to the economy but what about biology?/
Twisted Psychology, profiting off properties,/
Money used properly probably could of cured poverty,/

Fuck up the forest for fortune,/
And driving in foreigns and forcing,/
Animals out their element hard to ignore the elephant,/
In the room that's far from elegant,/

Symbolizing and emphasizing the negligence,/
Insulting intelligence,infants inflicted with recklessness,/
Innocent internally ingrained with insane thoughts on their brain,/
Mentally chained and eventually trained to keep nature constrained,/


The world split in two which side do you choose?/
The big business view, or the plants with the greenish hue,/
Duel with reality it's duality tools in actuality,/
Used by fools with a money hungry mentality./
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jnice! Welcome to LA my ninja. This is a hell of an intro. A very social/ecocentric verse that definitely made its point.

"Man in the middle playing second fiddle to left and right,/
My right shows life and light, my left shows fights and plight,/
City on fire many pawns inspired by dire straits your entire fate,/
In the hands of hate death and taxes at higher rates,/"

great intro that really established the concept

"Death destruction and dysfunction facing dichotomy,/
Corporations cater to the economy but what about biology?/
Twisted Psychology, profiting off properties,/
Money used properly probably could of cured poverty,/"


cool alliteration towards the end of the stanza

"Fuck up the forest for fortune,/
And driving in foreigns and forcing,/
Animals out their element hard to ignore the elephant,/
In the room that's far from elegant,/"

cool alliteration at the beginning of the stanza. the way u set up the elephant in the room was dope! solid rhyming too, brutha.

"The world split in two which side do you choose?/
The big business view, or the plants with the greenish hue,/
Duel with reality it's duality tools in actuality,/
Used by fools with a money hungry mentality./"

that duality line was crazy, son! love that line. and an overall great closer

this was a really good entry to the challenge man and i'm glad u blessed us with it. I feel you have all the necessary component down. Your wording is really good and i look to reading more of ur stuff bro. 


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this was a dope piece. for one, hats off to youin regards to the alliteration. not only did you have some dope alliteration, you had a bunch of it throughout the verse in its entirety.
 
"Death destruction and dysfunction facing dichotomy,/"

"Twisted Psychology, profiting off properties,/
Money used properly probably could of cured poverty,/"

 "Fuck up the forest for fortune,/
And driving in foreigns and forcing,/"
"Animals out their element hard to ignore the elephant,/
In the room that's far from elegant,/"

"Insulting intelligence,infants inflicted with recklessness,/
Innocent internally ingrained with insane thoughts on their brain,/"

 
one thing I did notice is that you tend to change your end rhymes a lot. that being said I would work a little more in transitioning through rhymes. placing the former end rhyme in the first half a line before you do the next end rhyme will make the transition much smoother.
 
you had good vocabulary on this piece and it was easy to follow along reading. you had some nice illustrations as well, such as
 
"Fuck up the forest for fortune,/
And driving in foreigns and forcing,/
Animals out their element hard to ignore the elephant,/
In the room that's far from elegant,/"
 
this was dope here how you started with an internal rhyme but that grew into a multisyllabic end rhyme on this part
 
"City on fire many pawns inspired by dire straits your entire fate,/
In the hands of hate death and taxes at higher rates,/"
 
 
now, I did enjoy the picture your last quatrain was able to draw
 
"The world split in two which side do you choose?/
The big business view, or the plants with the greenish hue,/
Duel with reality it's duality tools in actuality,/
Used by fools with a money hungry mentality./ "
 
 
BUT, I don't think it ended strong enough. it proves a point of the verse. you started that whole quatrain so complex but then it was over simplified on the last line, where imo, if you were to do that it would have to be a killer line.
 
again, the alliteration in this is great, you have no room for improvement in that aspect. I saw you had a few nice multi rhymes, if you could layer those from top to bottom it would make an already smooth read, that much smoother.
 
welcome to LA, this was a great first drop. Hope to see you participating on the site!
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Thanks for the feedback Puente.
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Indeed this was dope. Not only was your flow liquid and smooth the entire way through, but it was also a pleasure to view the complexity of your rhyme scheme. It's one thing to employ alliterations without being trite, but it's a whole other thing to use them without sacrificing an ounce of lyrical content. I think you did a great job balancing the two. Also, your content in and of itself was pretty impressive. You had a socially conscious message that was packed with superb allusions to the topic. All in all, this was a great submission to the lot.
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Man in the middle playing second fiddle to left and right,/
My right shows life and light, my left shows fights and plight,/
City on fire many pawns inspired by dire straits your entire fate,/
In the hands of hate death and taxes at higher rates,/

(liked how this flowed here,it came off like a spilt oil tanker,slick,the contents and
vocab were also solid,i also found this segment to be subtle and creative bordering
on being abstract too,these short lines are a joy on the eye aswell,I thought you did
good as you used fewer words to say a lot,not an easy task to do)

Death destruction and dysfunction facing dichotomy,/
Corporations cater to the economy but what about biology?/
Twisted Psychology, profiting off properties,/
Money used properly probably could of cured poverty,/

(yeah nice message here,if only the elite gave a fuck,then we could all have a
small piece of utopia,i liked the way how you see globalisation and dividends
as an artificial enemy of poverty in a metaphorical view,I also liked how you
presented this segment by using abstract contents and again vocab,all still
whilst keeping that tempo)

Fuck up the forest for fortune,/
And driving in foreigns and forcing,/
Animals out their element hard to ignore the elephant,/
In the room that's far from elegant,/

(again nice point made I believe,the absurdity of the Elephant having no place
and habitat left was a nice inclusion,and the irony here,chopping down forest
for money,which in turn is then made to form paper which is then turned into
money,to carry in wallets and pockets,shit if only we could class all litter as
currency,we'd all pick it up all day long, and do a great public service in the
process,you just highlighted how shallow humans are,i'm liking this verse
here)

Symbolizing and emphasizing the negligence,/
Insulting intelligence,infants inflicted with recklessness,/
Innocent internally ingrained with insane thoughts on their brain,/
Mentally chained and eventually trained to keep nature constrained,/

(yep I feel the view here,education has it's advantages for the elite as it keeps us in
our place,we're not taught survival techniques or independence,we're taught to work,
and to work for them only,follow orders and don't question anything, loving the subtle
messages in this drop and the scale of the elite societies reach)


The world split in two which side do you choose?/
The big business view, or the plants with the greenish hue,/
Duel with reality it's duality tools in actuality,/
Used by fools with a money hungry mentality./

(nice to be reminded that we do have choices,and like everything in this world there are
2 sides to it all,this is a thought provoking piece on the whole,and when in contact with
a thought evoking piece i like to share what I took from it,hence the feed I leave, i kind
of paraphrase a little..lol..but this was solid from start to end,and I have really enjoyed
the read here,and the vision you took from the picture was ripe, good work and I shall
look forward to reading more of your work)..peace.
"You need to learn how to make an exit,
before you can dare make an entrance".
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"Death destruction and dysfunction facing dichotomy,/
Corporations cater to the economy but what about biology?/
Twisted Psychology, profiting off properties,/
Money used properly probably could of cured poverty,/"

"Fuck up the forest for fortune,/
And driving in foreigns and forcing,/
Animals out their element hard to ignore the elephant,/
In the room that's far from elegant,/"

Symbolizing and emphasizing the negligence,/
Insulting intelligence,infants inflicted with recklessness,/"

First piece I've ever seen from you, and I'm impressed. At first, quite honestly I almost left in your opener and I'm glad I didn't. If you re-create that opener to some thing with the same quality you have in the above referenced, this shit would be wild. I think I may have to say the same about your closer. The meat and potatoes of this piece really lies with your ability to convey deep issues with less words. Not over talking and letting your vocabulary "breathe" their definitions. Less is more approach. Loved it. 

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Thanks for the feedback. Glad you liked it.
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