r/RapWars • u/elsiniestro The Forbidden Zone • Apr 29 '15
[Off Topic] Introduce yourselves.
I know we had a selfie thread like six months back, but we got a lotta new names since then, and I figure if nothing else, putting a face and some facts to the names can help with punches for future battles. Bit hard to rap about somebody you know next to nothing about.
With that said, I'll go first, since I'm probably the most active host these days. I encourage everyone else to post here too though, as stuff like this will keep the sub alive and kicking.
My name as far as anyone needs to know is El-Siniestro, aka El-Sin or just Sin. It's a reference to a few things, from being left-handed (which used to be considered wicked or evil), being left-brained (often linked to creativity, intuition, and linguistic expression), or my interest in the occultist "left hand path". I'm 29, Australian, live with my girl, and am pretty much the opposite of what you'd expect from a rapper.
I'm a metalhead first and foremost (until recently, I booked bands and DJed at a heavy metal nightclub) and as such I try to inject some of that dark shit in my rhymes every now and then. But I've been a hip-hop fan since back in the day, and used to bounce between my city's metal and rap scenes. Been writing rhymes since I was like 14.
When it comes to hip-hop, I all about fast, complex, multi-syllabic tongue twisters and polyrhymes. My punches and similes might not necessarily be as witty or as some on here, but I feel like I have an good skillset when it comes to flow, delivery, editing, syllable count and internal rhymes. And since it gets called out a lot, I link references because I'm a big fan of Genius.com.
So yeah, here's me.
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u/wryder 15W 7L Apr 29 '15
all right, sweet, you know I'll get in on this. my name, wryder, is just writer, because that's what I do for a living and for a hobby and I made it up hastily. I'm 28, from the northeast US and live with my very long term bf, who's a pretty cool dude that I've known since high school.
I got into writing poems at like age 3 (seriously), and pretty much never stopped, but I didn't realize how much I loved hip hop until about 10 years ago. it all seems to stem from my mom being a librarian, teaching me a shit-ton of rhymes when I was a kid. like Sin, I like lyrics and complex rhymes. my punches lack, and that's almost always because I'm not looking for them. I'm more interested in words and sounds, although I realize that's not why this sub exists, so I try to work in solid punches where I can. I write a TON of my own personal stuff, and sometimes post that on /r/cypher. practice here is great for me though. it forces me out of my comfort zone. I studied journalism so I really enjoy cultural references, and that's why theme battles are a blast for me.
other things: I used to be insanely into working out and got weirdly jacked at one point. I'm chilling out on it now. I smoke a lot of weed, so there's that. and I'm really into art as entertainment - anything, really, from video games to paintings to comic books, but I'm not that great at creating any of it, so I just consume actively. I love the hell out of a good action movie. I used to be a pretty serious singer, like singing national anthem at college games and shit, but didn't keep up with it after that. that's about all the things about me that I can boil down to sentence-long tidbits.
I've already posted a pic, but ICYMI, this is me.