Freeze, Chick!

The theme songs are everywhere - so WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE KNOW THEM?!??!?! I love theme songs. I am a theme song type person.

Hey everyone, "paragraph and a half" rhymes. That's funny, and you should be laughing.

I'm going to let you all in on something you probably never knew about me. There was a time when I was a contributor to the KJ~52 forum. I was on there almost every day, but that was nothing compared to some of these guys. They would spend every moment they weren't at school on the forums and they would routinely stay up to 2 or 3 in the morning just to make sure they didn't miss anything. With the majority of these contributors living in the US I would often be checking the forums in the few hours that these people were asleep or at school (most of them were highschoolers).

I wasn't very adventurous at first. I stuck to the "General Discussion" and "Ask KJ" rooms, and would occassionally dabble in the "Debate" section. I avoided the "Battle Zone" at all costs, because there was no doubt in my mind that I could verbally be taken apart by some of these forumers. Eventually, my curiosity got the better of me and I entered the "Battle Zone", becuase lots of people were in General Discussion asking for votes.

I discovered that the Battle Zone was a place where you would type a freestyle rap according to the rules of the opponent and then others would vote on how well you did. You set how many votes you had to get to win. Usually it was first to five, but 3 - 0 was KO (It took me 2 weeks to realise that meant knocked out).

After doing some voting I thought that I should have a go at this "battling". First I had to find out the meanings of words like: biting, feeding, reycling, crew votes etc etc etc.

I issued an open battle and beat this guy who said at the beginning: "I won't be going easy on you just cos you're a newbie". This was before he knew I was a girl.

I beat him 3 - 0 (it was a KO!). The very next day I had 3 or 4 offers for people who wanted me to join their "crews". I considered this, but I kind of got the feeling as soon as you joined a crew you had a target on your back, so I didn't. Not too long after I found another Australian on the boards who challenged me. I beat him 3 - 0 as well, then discovered he was doing a set at Sonfest. He was pretty good, but I found it kind of satisfying that I'd beat him in a battle.

I got invitation from all over to join the battle tournament, to join crews and I even got a call out of two (that's when people specifically choose you to battle with, because if they can beat you they prove something I think). To this day I am undefeated (after a decent number of battles), and I sound less and less like Dr Suess every time I battle. I even tossed the phrase "I have you lyrically incarcerated" in once. But I haven't been back there in a couple of years, because the culture of the place has changed and everyone likes to bite the newbies. I don't think I'm that good, but as one of the forumers once pointed out, my record would suggest otherwise.

Yes, from time to time I like to pull out the lingo and see if I've still got an element of "flow" left. And I would like to see how I stand up against these folks again, but for now I'm just letting sleeping dogs lie. But I'll take any of you anytime!!