EPTOn April 04 2011 15:32 Scaramanga wrote:
What an odd simile
Sparing in martial arts is to improve one's self defense and is necessary as it's really the only way to get real live experience, which you do need, before getting yourself into a fight.
GrindTime, however helpful to your writing skills and hip hop ability (couldn't think of anything better to call it) isn't necessary. The only skill that is uniquely gained in grindtime is your ability to think of witty comments to say to people when you want to abuse them, but whats the point? If you were to do this all the time people wouldn't praise you for it, they'd just call you a dick. In my experience, people grow out of this behavior at 15, so i find it really strange that people in their 20 somethings would look at people of a similar age and say "hey man that was really cool, i especially liked that comment about you raping both his mother and his girlfriend at the same time". Tunk clearly has alot of talent as a writer, but to me he is just wasting his gift on schoolyard bullshit. So i say again, why not make some soulful hip hop that everyone can enjoy?
What an odd simile
Sparing in martial arts is to improve one's self defense and is necessary as it's really the only way to get real live experience, which you do need, before getting yourself into a fight.
GrindTime, however helpful to your writing skills and hip hop ability (couldn't think of anything better to call it) isn't necessary. The only skill that is uniquely gained in grindtime is your ability to think of witty comments to say to people when you want to abuse them, but whats the point? If you were to do this all the time people wouldn't praise you for it, they'd just call you a dick. In my experience, people grow out of this behavior at 15, so i find it really strange that people in their 20 somethings would look at people of a similar age and say "hey man that was really cool, i especially liked that comment about you raping both his mother and his girlfriend at the same time". Tunk clearly has alot of talent as a writer, but to me he is just wasting his gift on schoolyard bullshit. So i say again, why not make some soulful hip hop that everyone can enjoy?
You make a pretty bad assumption in your arguments -- that everyone would/should like the things you do. Not everyone would enjoy "soulful hip hop". Some may say any form of hip hop is devil music and he should instead do opera music that everyone can enjoy.
When it comes down to it, battle rap, much like most everything else (including martial arts) is not necessary but a matter of preference and interest. It has nothing to do with what is right and wrong. You say martial arts is necessary for self defense. I'd argue that martial arts is not necessary because there are other options for avoiding injury in fights, namely running away or avoiding them altogether. I would never practice self defense because I don't feel the need for it, but that's not the same for everyone, making it a matter of preference.
I like the parallel to martial arts. I think it fits well. Take boxing for example, check out the epic Mickey Ward v. Arturo Gatti fights on youtube. They beat the crap out of each other (much like throwing insults, but much worse) in the ring like you wouldn't believe. However, outside of the they had an amazing respect for each other because of those matches. Ward even had Gatti in his wedding. I would think this couldn't be possible by your way of thinking.
