Beat: Lots of people love this beat. I'm personally not overly fond of it. It's pretty catchy, but it's not very intense, and I don't find it that memorable. Not that it's bad, it's certainly got variety and again, it's catchy, but it doesn't do anything for me to be considered ''great''. 6/10
Impressions and Costumes: I'm glad they distanced themselves from The Cat in the Hat movie. Not that I don't like the movie, I personally haven't seen it in ages and don't remember much about it, but ignoring the movie allowed them to do their own thing with the Seuss characters and just have fun with them, and I do like how they handled the characters. The costume itself for Shakespeare is perfect, but they did literally nothing to Watsky's hair, which bugs me because Shakespeare's hair looks nothing like Watsky's. Seuss looks fine though, even though the face shape is a bit off, but there's nothing they can do about that. Also, I couldn't really find any other place to talk about that, but I'm actually glad they didn't have Seuss rap himself, because not much is known about him really. It adds a level of mystery that I just find cool. 8/10
William Shakespeare-Round 1: The first half of the verse with the Old English is actually all really clever and really well written. The second half? Not so much. The Soulja Boy reference seemed a bit random, and really, they could've called Shakespeare ''an old white Soulja Boy with no swag'' and it would've made just as much sense. The gonads thing is pretty generic and the Twilight reference was also way too random. I give it a high score for the first half, but I'm really unimpressed with the second half. 8/10
The Cat in the Hat-Round 1: First of all, awesome flow. In some ways, it's actually more entertaining than the flow in Shakespeare's second verse, since you can actually understand what's being said here. The line at the beginning is kind of an obvious joke to make, but the Seuss character references are pretty good. I love the MacBeth line, probably my favorite line in the verse. The translation line is pretty good, but then the rest of the verse is just all good flow and no good lyrics, although the scared kids line is kind of funny. This verse's flow deserves all of the love it gets, but the lyrics are a tad bit overrated. 8.5/10
William Shakespeare-Round 2: Like most people say, great flow, but average lyrics. The only two lines in this verse that I like are the ghetto muppet creatures line and the plague line. The rest, while well written, mostly doesn't have much to do with either character in the battle. Memorable, but not that great. 7.5/10
Things 1 and 2: Actually a very underrated verse. It definitely isn't as memorable as the other verses in the battle, but I do really like the puns, like the globe line, the script line and the last line. People say that they found the voices annoying, but I grew up watching Fred, so I could easily handle this. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I find the Things' verse better than Shakespeare's second. 8/10
Overall: I do find this battle a bit overrated. It's one of the most memorable battles to be sure, but there are just a lot of filler lines to me. There are some really excellent parts, but even those aren't consistently good and a few lines later they just turn to filler lines again. To me, this is a good battle, but not a great one. 8/10
William Shakespeare's Best Line: I'm iller than the plague I never caught.
William Shakespeare's Worst Line: And no Gonads, e'gads, it's so sad.
The Cat in the Hat's Best Line: (You bore people to death!) You leave a classroom looking like the end of MacBeth!
The Cat in the Hat's Worst Line: I got a best-selling book about me comin' back.
Things 1 and 2's Best Line: You gettin' upstaged Bill? Yo, you just got played!
Things 1 and 2's Worst Line: We'll break offa yo legs, make no mistake, we in a rage!
Final Results:
William Shakespeare: 15.5/20
Dr. Seuss: 16.5/20
Total Score: 54/70
Originally Posted by PolarBore
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