When you craft the right angle, every battle is won before it is fought. Hitman has the unique power to affect the perception of his opponents. He produces angles at a high level, in a more traditional approach. Through story telling.
Hitman Holla Angles Just As Good As He Performs
A good story is most effective when expressed with suspenseful narration, anecdote-sharing, and vivid imagery. A great connector finds a way to transfer his experience and make it relatable. You make people feel heard and validated.
The ability to capture an audience, lead them in whatever direction necessary, and leave the fans with newly presented knowledge or information to absorb can create a catastrophic and resonating impact. This is, more times than not, what you get whenever you watch a Hitman Holla performance. He wraps up his angles with his elite ability to be a great storyteller.
A good story can create and drive behavioral changes. Hitman Holla is widely identified as a performer, but more brilliantly, he deserves to be recognized as a high-level angler. He often attacks all his opponents with a direct and personal approach, detailing aspects of the relationship or stories he shares with his opponent. Hitman presents a canvas of a moment he has shared with his opponent, and by the end of painting this picture, his goal is to get the audience to have a different perception of them.
You can go as far back as his battle against Arsonal to see an example of Hitman painting a story filled with humor, suspense, and a surgical breakdown of Arsonal not standing on his own words.
Endless Examples
– His first round vs Calicoe, when he highlights the ‘Showroom Floor’ bar, where he paints a personal story he shared with Calicoe into a holorhyme.
-His first round against John John Da Don, where he shows the separation of skills between Top Tiers and Rookies, almost in the form of a tutorial.
-His third round against O-Red with the story about what O-Red did with some women in a house they all stood under. (If you know you know)
-His 2nd round against K-Shine, where he details how disloyal Shine was to Dot Mobb & T-Rex. Hitman compares his battle with Aye Verb to show the difference between how they settle issues among Families.
-Most recently, in his 2nd round for Ill Will, where he breaks down the difference between their journeys and how Hitman has a hall-of-fame career in two leagues.
We can list multiple great examples of Hitman Displaying all of the storytelling elements, but what exactly are these elements?
The Devil In The Details
The details in a story are the brushstrokes of a masterpiece—without them, the picture remains unfinished and lifeless.
There are four nuanced elements that Hitman uses to make his storytelling such a lethal attribute in his battles.
-Character: Hitman Holla is a box office battler, and the majority of the battles in his career have a purpose. He is usually against an opponent that has a backstory with him. This is an essential component for him because it lays the foundation for him to pick apart his opponent and center his focus on character assassination. He probably already has an angle of attack before he accepts the battle.
Plot: Your story’s plot describes the events rather than defines them; Hitman isn’t just chronicling an event but presenting a theme to weaken his opponent and honing in strategic dialog or tale-spinning. This is how the character assassination is built up. Everything you write for your story feeds into the other elements so that they can extenuate your plot.
-Setting: The setting in storytelling is like the stage of a play—it shapes the atmosphere, influences the mood, and gives the audience a place to connect with the story. A well-crafted setting does more than just describe the environment; it becomes a character in its own right, influencing the actions and emotions of the characters. Sometimes, being a great writer isn’t just about crafting layered metaphors or diving into entendre depths—it’s about knowing how to speak the language of the crowd and make every word resonate with them. Know your audience. This is where his skillset as a performer overshadows the brilliance of his effective writing.
-Suspense: This is where the pristine sense of timing in Hitman Holla’s delivery shines the most. While building up to his point, he knows how to withhold enough information that piques the audience’s curiosity. His sense of timing is indescribable, and it’s a rhythm in his battle rap skillset that you can not teach. The countless reps performing on the WIld-n-Out stage come into full motion when he gets in this bag. To connect with a crowd enough to know when to speed up or slow down, the tempo captivates and draws in the audience to give him their full, undivided attention.
Sometimes, he drives home the final bar and executes to perfection. Other times, his punchlines can fall flat and create a dry spot in his round if it does not garner a reaction, but the most critical aspect of this isn’t within the result of the bar, but it’s that he got the crowd’s full attention to follow his command.
Point blank. Hitman Holla is an all-time performer, but make sure you include him in the conversation when you talk about who some of the best of all time are at crafting and executing an angle.
