He’s coming off of a debatable against Aye Verb, but there has been a trend with Lux that seems to be that his performances has gotten worse with every battle. Is his unbeatable aura gone? Were there too much expectations placed on him after SM 2 and Hollow? What solutions do you have for Lux?
I feel his performance is suffering most definitely the last few times. I also think he's lost the meaning of what it is to battle, and I think battle culture in general has forgotten the meaning as well: The point of battle is to do damage IN THE BATTLE. Imagine two boxers scrapping it out, one nigga get stretched, and wakes up talking about, "They'll check the footage and see who really won." No. Do your damage THERE. Writing for the replay is dumb as fuck.
The reason the Miles battle is timeless and the Calico battle is too are because he's cramming shit in but it's palatable as well as technical. What's fucking him up lately is he's applying his impeccable technique to shit that ain't all that poignant or hard-hitting. Bitching about time limits? Word?
To me, Lux is in that Eminem Relapse phase where he applies a greater use of skills than most of his peers, but he's using that technique to make songs like "Puke" instead of "Stan" or "Rabbit Run." You have end rhymes, in rhymes, multis, schemes, and all this dope shit applied to a garbage angle or scheme.
Going back to performance, I don't think even Lux knows how to perform his shit it's so complex. Compare Lux's lines versus Verb to the direct setups and punches Verb was landing: "You walk around backstage water distilled, chilled/I walk in and hit the faucet like this still." It's simple, but the body language made it memorable. Lux had the clock in bar that was hard, and it was hard for the same reason: it was direct, he acted it out, and you felt it.
How do you act out Wayans Brothers bars or schemes that long said that fast?
That's his biggest problem to me: He's going so far with the pen that by the time he comes up for air, the crowd doesn't know what to react to so you end up with these debates where lyrical heads who watched it four or five times want to say he won a battle versus the crowd like me who's like, "Nah, it's a verbal fight. The camera is for people who didn't see the fight not for you to say watch it three times to see me win."
The Miles shit is one time. Instant. No debating. Even if homie didn't choke, there was nothing he could've done with that Lux performance AND bars. Nothing at all. He need to reassess his whole style and practice more.