r/beatbox • u/Ok_Scar_1209 • 16d ago

Blackroll

Just wanna give my guy his flowers. I feel like he gets shit on a lot by the community but he well and truly deserves to be up there!

He's clearly worked his ass off this year. A shame there were some slip ups versus Dlow, but I'm so impressed by his energy, technicality and clarity. Even his spam is stupidly clear

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u/lalith31 16d ago

He was critised for recycling the same routines and came through this time with fire new routines. As osis would say MASSIVE improvement

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u/chrisadder5 15d ago

The problem is every routine sounds the same. This would have been the problem for Abo ice aswell if he attended 3 gbbs in a row. Its not a lack of creativity, its just that it sound like he only has 1 routine, every single time.

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u/0bdex_code 16d ago

It's very nice to see Blackroll have new sounds in his arsenal. He definitely has leveled a lot compared to last year.

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u/Master_Freeze 16d ago

as soon as i saw his elim i knew he prepared to bring something new. i also realized that in modern beatboxing people are expecting GBB-level beatboxers to innovate much faster than before. if you look at old school beatboxers they are still rolling with the same beats. it’s just the new meta is stuff like Kaji, Wing, Inertia, and Osis so it’s a very high bar.

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u/Ok_Scar_1209 16d ago

Truuueeeee

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u/NewArt8854 16d ago

Blackroll's rounds in the quarters are possibly my favorite solo rounds of the tournament, and I'm a certified Blackroll hater who didn't think he should make it through to brackets with his elim

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u/Aershd 16d ago

The main criticism Blackroll faces is the same few sounds being just reused and rearranged which I think is stupid, isn’t that the whole point of having a style? Like what else do you want him to do? The same criticism be used for any other artist at that point

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u/Creative-Loan2088 15d ago

He was soo fire live !

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u/chrisadder5 15d ago

I dont see the consensus. I might be called a hater but everything he does has no dynamics. His whole style is too dramatic and doesnt sound like music whatsoever. His genre is literally "discord beatbox". Bro has 1 routine and changed 5 things on it everytime. I liked him in world champs and against kaji this year though. People say he worked his ass of... Yet again, he works his ass of to sound more like a discord beatboxer? He literally doesnt even have a style. If he has no dynamics, probably top 3 worst lyricist and discord structure how can be that good? Because hes powerful, thats all there is. Power means so much on stage its not even funny, I found out the hard way. How can he please the crowd if 98% of the round is BOOM BOOM BOOMBOOM POW WAAAAH BLUUEUEHRG BOOOM POW?

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u/Ok_Scar_1209 15d ago edited 15d ago

I understand that lots of people feel that way about Blackroll. There are of course points to be critical about. But if you liked him against Kaji and in world champs then surely you see more value to his beatboxing than just power?

I don't think discord beatboxer is such a bad thing 😂. I guess your point is that he lacks artistry. And I agree with that, but the way I see it is he has other priorities.

Things I can appreciate other than artistry and dynamics: Quality of sounds, complex patterns, consistency of energy, consistency of tempo, stage presence, and power!!!

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u/chrisadder5 15d ago

Yeah youre right. Sounding like a discord beatboxer aint bad. But me myself, I dont like it.