Dissected II (Aryeh Response)

spelled phenomenal, incredible, remarkable, exceptional,

four synonyms gift-wrapped in an acrostic

the spelling bee approach to battle rap is the most diagnostic

symptom a writer can submit, the most prognostic

tell that the bars beneath the gimmick stay agnostic

toward substance, the acrostic is the scaffolding erected

when the building underneath cant stand unprotected

four adjectives self selected, self directed,

self graded, self awarded, self reflected

back to the writer like a mirror praising the reflection

you like narcissus, you drowning pursuing your own perfection

he myths the warning, not the glorification section

you built the whole opener on that specific misdirection

guess lebron tall tales stitched together at the seam

the telegraphed punchline visible upstream

before the bar arrived, the photographic dream

of surprise that never registered, the cream

puff punch, looks dense, structurally hollow at the bite

the setup carried the destinations weight in plain sight

elite punchlines move through the blind spot, ignite

the cognition after landing, yours announced the flight

path, altitude, coordinates, estimated arrival time

then landed exactly where predicted, the paradigm

of the bar that works against itself, the pantomime

of the unexpected wearing the expecteds crime

twelve consecutive Ms cascading, guess my shit is meticulous

the phonemic wallpaper masquerading as the ridiculous

precision of the technical, the promiscuous

deployment of alliteration, the insidious

confusion between the texture and the density

rakims internal architecture carried immensity

because the meaning matched the propensity

for sound, yours is sound outrunning the intensity

heaven sent hellish bars are here, the oxymoron

retired somewhere around two thousand and four, worn

smooth by ten thousand rappers, the horn

that everybody blew until the brass was torn

from the instrument, thats not a striking image anymore

thats furniture, upholstery, the revolving door

phrase that enters every battle raps first floor

before the writer finds the original, the score

settled by the timestamp, three days deep, jonah landed

veterans responded, the whole thread expanded

aryeh arrived after the verdict was branded

into the record, after the room already handed

down the conclusion, filed the diss

into a closed case, the analysis

of the latecomer, the nemesis

who shows up after the genesis

already happened, claiming the championship

belt mid ceremony, the relationship

between the timing and the authorship

mattering more than the sportsmanship

the general consensus claim requires the general

the census, the agreement, ephemeral

self appointment, the peripheral

vision mistaking the monocle for peripheral

omniscience, you see one angle clearly

call it the complete view sincerely

the battle rap museum curator, merely

cataloguing what preceded, severely

underestimating what arrived, three days

a weeks worth of veterans in a daze

aryeh timestamped late into the haze

already settled, claiming the ablaze

building as his fire, but im the arsonist

the evidence, the protagonist

the antagonist, the lyricist

who walked in and the whole list

reorganized itself accordingly

ready, set, dead landed awkwardly

on the wrong subject, the extraordinarily

misaimed title, the cartography

wrong before the first bar drew breath

ready, set, dead was your own depth

charge, detonated beneath

your own hull, count underneath