Battle That! Battle That! Competition - September 9-12, 2026

BiggChev

StormBourneMusic
You know, it’s not even that I dislike dry Oreos. I can get down with a dry Oreo if that’s what I planned for.

BUT, I had the ‘intent’ of milk. Fuck, the glass was right in there front of me. I could almost taste it. Then I dunk my Oreo in it…fucking soy milk.

Some sorta Schroedinger’s Fuck Ass Milk quandary.
 

Armani

tryna bust a nut
Round 2:

@Armani - fuck you bitch! LOL - just playing, this is a dope beat. On the first listen, I thought maybe I could get past you in R2. The drums are nice, but I thought the kick was a bit rounder and synthetic sounding compared to the rest. I knew I was in trouble is when that low piano kicks in at 0:28. That middle section with the pianos, strings, and little 'frills' tucked up in the mix. I did find the main jangly bit got a bit grating - but it fit every element it was paired against in the beat. That middle section at 1:28 is super dope! It really dials back, and works to re-build energy while introducing new elements. nicely done bro! Where I think you had me was mix and variety. Your beat builds and wanes, gets introspective, then builds again.
lmao thanks for the love my guy. what do u mean by the main jangly bit? the sample that goes ding, blrblrblrblrrring duyi ding, blrblrblrblrrrring?

yee na that piano was foul work. fade could've almost disqualified me for that shi it's unfair lol

Round 3:

@Armani - While I like the energy, and the intro, there's a quality to this that I didn't quite care for. The only way I can explain it is "Just Blaze but Street Fighter Music." It's got this Ken Theme pop-ballad sound that seems a bit hokey. I really don't mean to sound rude or hyper critical. I will say that once it gets into the second section around 0:51 it becomes more enjoyable, then again at 1:32 mark...to me. Mix is clean, and it's certainly got energy. Drums do a great job of mirroring that energy and keeping the bounce going, it's just that main line that wore me down man.
bro weird thing, this was the only beat I was sure wouldn't lose. I was unsure about ever other one except maybe r2. I was feelin maybe my mix got wayyyyyy too much going on in the high end? not sure. maybe it was all TOO loud, production wise? like not even in the mix - in the energy of it all.


thanks a lot for the feedback man. both from my and everyone else's behalf. I'll re-listen to your shi and try to be as nitpicky as I can shortly lol. hope to grow together n shi :coffee:
 

Armani

tryna bust a nut
@Iron Keys I told you to get therapy. and yk I only talk outta love. shit only gets worse like this.

I would too if I could afford that shi in this wasteland. when you need help you need help dawg. some of us really do. you've got serious problems. I do too but I usually don't make it anyone else's problem, I just cry a lot. or make some girl cry. or bust a nut. or make a girl nut. I'm just really into turning emotions into liquids.
 

Armani

tryna bust a nut
Just read the thread...

Chev said he should made a fresh R2, I agreed and said he shouldn't sweat about it.

No ones arguing, no one's complaining, everyone's getting along. That's ALL that's going on...


Then out of nowhere, as usual, 2Good goes on some massive rant making up a whole bunch of conspiracy and nonsense and arguing.

There was literally no issue, but 2G had to make there be one.

Read it. The proof is all there.

I'm done with this convo, made up out of nowhere to cause problems. That's the actual definition of a troll. Deliberately creating arguments and derailing threads.

So he can carry on all he likes, not feeding this troll anymore.
uhh
broski, you're getting fucking predictable

Honestly I don't think AI can ever truly replace us. It can make it harder to make money for sure but, what we're really capable of is sorcery. Not cyborg shit.



Unless of course I lose. In which case you're all AI, music is doomed and I'm quitting the ill. and music altogether. until I get a hug :hahaha:




normally I'd ride the fence n be like "ayy let's hug n kiss erryone" but ik what 2g is sayin. you've done the same to me.
(P.s. nobody "it's just a battle on a dwindlin site" me rn please)

your comment wasn't innocent. it was double-speak. and I'm pretty sure he's more pissed about sliding into ur manipulaty-ahh dialogue in the shoutbox than whatever's here.
here's what you do basically:

you find a way to bait exactly whoever won into a conversation, normally by discrediting the battle or them directly if they're as non-confrontational as me - it used to be more shallow things like "the voters have cliche taste" or "00s dre stuff win all the time" (hilarious since ur famous for ur own 00s dre shi), and then it developed into fucked up shit like "fade changes the votes for you" or "beat x is AI so didn't get my vote". p.s. you have no right to make fun of conspiracy theories when you come up with shit like this:


[images deleted because I was politely asked - context; the "fade changes the votes for you" shi]


it's fucking disrespectful to call the results "mad odd" because I won a few battles btw. I thought we fw eachother. "I can't bother to make cliche shit no more" RIGHT after congratulating me is legit insulting. I let you get away with it because I'm kind and loving but it's just plain toxic now.


pshhhhhhhh



anyway, I forgive you. a hug, a kiss, more psychoanalysis

it doesn't matter if ur bait is true or not. it's usually double-speak and you'll change the context as soon as you're confronted. "oh I was talking about the OTHER beat". "I didn't even mean it that way". etc.

doesn't matter. as soon as your target responds to the bait, you'll goad them into a convo where they're responsible for your feelings. it's guilt tripping n all sortsa shi. you'll mention quitting the ill, quitting music altogether, quitting jesus's side and aiding judas, etc. I legit have .png proof of 48 instances of you threatening to leave/quit and that's just what I have. I'm sure it goes beyond 2 digits. it's like you can't handle imagining the other person being happy with what they got.

it's either that, or if it's more public/on the battle's thread, you divert the attention to yourself. this way it doesn't matter if you won, 2g won, I won or whoever. you'll always get your dose of attention.

either way
even if you quit, the ironkeysness will follow you wherever else you go. you'll never be at your 100% at whatever you pick up (which is a lot since you're obviously talented asf), and you'll either attract fucked up people (e.g. toxic bitches), or relatively normal people who will get sick of u after some point. unless u change ur ways n shi.

get help. ts won't end well. and again I'm sayin all this as ur friend. I don't think anyone here has had ur back as much as I have. I WANT to see you here. I want to see you win. not just here, music in general. I done shared sauce with u, I done sent u legit SS's of my FL projects when u needed help figurin out the mix, even irl I done tried to help u get ur sound out. you got official releases because of me. you literally can't call me of all people a hater or nothin.

this ain't it. that ego ain't doin u no good. imagine you got ME of all people lecturin u bout ego. u oughtta know it's a bad situation lol.




Them superpowers gettin neutralized, I can only watch in silence... =))
 
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Armani

tryna bust a nut
pshhhh

I know all this because I grew up with my older brother. he used to lose to me on FIFA then start sayin shi. first it was "you play boring strategies" "ur defending all the time" etc, then it'd become "you're using the unfair buttons" (!!) or shi like "you've edited the players". legit ANYTHING to distract me. so now he's just playin the game but I'm playin both the game and his game, where idk, shooting with ronaldo is illegal cause he's too strong lol. I couldn't even use half the buttons cause he didn't like them.

eventually he'd win and put on this smug face like he owns the world and I'd tilt. he'd act like the game doesn't matter until he won. if I tried to do his own tricks on him it wouldn't work either so... I'd just train to play the game 4h a day lmfao.

at the end he'd discredit my wins saying "oh you trained a lot it doesn't count". ffs.

I've spent 22 years around this motherfucker and he hasn't credited me for ANYTHING I won against him lmfao. you're almost identical to him in how you act when u don't feel good about yourself. he's kinda the same way with serious things too. look how nice n healthy I turned out around him lmao.

sorry for exposin ur ahh on them dms btw. I don't normally publicize private shi but this my 1 exception cause that was FOUL work. feel free to publicize embarrasing shi I confessed to u back. idk.


anyway go get help. love. 1.
 

BiggChev

StormBourneMusic
Have we all aired our grievances and lifted the bricks of our chest yet?

I know I’m the “drunken bar maid Jabroni” around here, but can we get back to the music please?

There was a lot of great music in the tournament this year. Let’s please give the participants their props.

I know my feedback can be pretentious and exhausting, but I try to provide some positive critique.

I realized I haven’t said it yet, but congrats to @2GooD Productions - happy to see you in Battle That this year.

@Bandia Gotach wss my all around fav of the tournament and I liked basically ALL of the music.

For what it’s worth, I would also love any feedback or commentary anybody is willing to share about my beats and matchups. I’ve been making beats for 24 years now, and probably “suck” based solely on my time at it. There are soo many talented, unique, and creative folks here, I think I could learn or glean some actionable next steps from your thoughts and creative process.
 

Armani

tryna bust a nut
Have we all aired our grievances and lifted the bricks of our chest yet?

I know I’m the “drunken bar maid Jabroni” around here, but can we get back to the music please?
NAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK SOCIETY



Sesame Street Fire GIF by Bell Brothers
 

Armani

tryna bust a nut
@BiggChev

On The Flipside - The Bassline is immaculate, the "wuk wuk wuk wuk" noise u did with ur guitar is also awesome. it's too repetitive I'd say. and it's not doing anything for me emotionally. love the melody you added on 1:24 but I'd say a change in chord progression and twice as much extra things would've helped. like a loud ahh chorus, yk? not just loud sonically but, loud emotionally. post 1:24, it became harmonically busy, which makes it a bit... well yk how bach used to be all stronk in how he expressed feelings but come impressionism and we have these... flowy, vibey stuff that are half-inducing emotions or rather, strongly invoking "weak" emotions? that's what it did.

that's okay if you're tryna make jazz ig but, I can't imagine a hip hop beat surviving that vibe very easily. especially with such a innocent sound-selection like clean electric pianos and horns and electric guitars and real sounding bass and... it's gotta be non-pasteurized Somewhere. this just sounds... idk... blank-ish? stock music? it doesn't have the illegality vibe of hip hop, or the musicality of non-hip hop. and generally it sounds like something you have to be over 50 to be able to rap over. it's boomerish. and I've heard non-boomerish boom bap.

Fragments - you're really good at basslines aren't you lol. love how it tells a story by itself. again, my main issue is emotional. how am I supposed to feel hearing this? angry? ganged up? triumphant maybe? it'd serve really good as video game music I suppose. also, the slidy type synth you did... I LOVE that. I wish I could do that on my own beats. I'll 100% try to. how'd u come up with that??

something about the quality of the beat feels too... bright for me, for what it's seemingly trying to be. cause the way I hear it it's pretty... dark. maybe it's the reverb on the drums n such? idk. and the strings make it sound a bit... average, compared to what you could've cooked up.


in general I really fw yo shi. like I was legit expecting u to win this battle. I feel like you'd do good in genres almost opposite of what u wanna make tho. like idk, dua lipa kinda pop.
 

Armani

tryna bust a nut
@BiggChev

On The Flipside - The Bassline is immaculate, the "wuk wuk wuk wuk" noise u did with ur guitar is also awesome. it's too repetitive I'd say. and it's not doing anything for me emotionally. love the melody you added on 1:24 but I'd say a change in chord progression and twice as much extra things would've helped. like a loud ahh chorus, yk? not just loud sonically but, loud emotionally. post 1:24, it became harmonically busy, which makes it a bit... well yk how bach used to be all stronk in how he expressed feelings but come impressionism and we have these... flowy, vibey stuff that are half-inducing emotions or rather, strongly invoking "weak" emotions? that's what it did.

that's okay if you're tryna make jazz ig but, I can't imagine a hip hop beat surviving that vibe very easily. especially with such a innocent sound-selection like clean electric pianos and horns and electric guitars and real sounding bass and... it's gotta be non-pasteurized Somewhere. this just sounds... idk... blank-ish? stock music? it doesn't have the illegality vibe of hip hop, or the musicality of non-hip hop. and generally it sounds like something you have to be over 50 to be able to rap over. it's boomerish. and I've heard non-boomerish boom bap.

Fragments - you're really good at basslines aren't you lol. love how it tells a story by itself. again, my main issue is emotional. how am I supposed to feel hearing this? angry? ganged up? triumphant maybe? it'd serve really good as video game music I suppose. also, the slidy type synth you did... I LOVE that. I wish I could do that on my own beats. I'll 100% try to. how'd u come up with that??

something about the quality of the beat feels too... bright for me, for what it's seemingly trying to be. cause the way I hear it it's pretty... dark. maybe it's the reverb on the drums n such? idk. and the strings make it sound a bit... average, compared to what you could've cooked up.


in general I really fw yo shi. like I was legit expecting u to win this battle. I feel like you'd do good in genres almost opposite of what u wanna make tho. like idk, dua lipa kinda pop.
also, there's a looooooooooooooooooot of positives in your beats that I left out of feedback because I was focused on what could be improved. like the mix, how smoothly everything flows, how things fit together, etc.
 

BiggChev

StormBourneMusic
@BiggChev

On The Flipside - The Bassline is immaculate, the "wuk wuk wuk wuk" noise u did with ur guitar is also awesome. it's too repetitive I'd say. and it's not doing anything for me emotionally. love the melody you added on 1:24 but I'd say a change in chord progression and twice as much extra things would've helped. like a loud ahh chorus, yk? not just loud sonically but, loud emotionally. post 1:24, it became harmonically busy, which makes it a bit... well yk how bach used to be all stronk in how he expressed feelings but come impressionism and we have these... flowy, vibey stuff that are half-inducing emotions or rather, strongly invoking "weak" emotions? that's what it did.

that's okay if you're tryna make jazz ig but, I can't imagine a hip hop beat surviving that vibe very easily. especially with such a innocent sound-selection like clean electric pianos and horns and electric guitars and real sounding bass and... it's gotta be non-pasteurized Somewhere. this just sounds... idk... blank-ish? stock music? it doesn't have the illegality vibe of hip hop, or the musicality of non-hip hop. and generally it sounds like something you have to be over 50 to be able to rap over. it's boomerish. and I've heard non-boomerish boom bap.

Fragments - you're really good at basslines aren't you lol. love how it tells a story by itself. again, my main issue is emotional. how am I supposed to feel hearing this? angry? ganged up? triumphant maybe? it'd serve really good as video game music I suppose. also, the slidy type synth you did... I LOVE that. I wish I could do that on my own beats. I'll 100% try to. how'd u come up with that??

something about the quality of the beat feels too... bright for me, for what it's seemingly trying to be. cause the way I hear it it's pretty... dark. maybe it's the reverb on the drums n such? idk. and the strings make it sound a bit... average, compared to what you could've cooked up.


in general I really fw yo shi. like I was legit expecting u to win this battle. I feel like you'd do good in genres almost opposite of what u wanna make tho. like idk, dua lipa kinda pop.

Thanks for this bro!

I do agree a lot of my music can be a bit too "polite." for the jazzier stuff, I kinda like the "dinner party" qualities of that music...and to be fair...I'm not a jazz musician. So I can see how it ends up with an apathetic, near indifference. Will keep this in mind moving forward. I'd like to really nail down the ideas in my head, and the emotion the piece should evoke.
 
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