Northeastern University student Jerry Spatch has created a card game that could really help any aspiring MC work on their freestyling ability.
Going off the top is something of a lost art these days, and Vers: The Rap Game is trying to bring it back. The game works by players drawing two cards — one theme card, and one card that has three rhyming words on it that a player must use. The game features 400 cards. We’re no maths geniuses but we’re pretty sure that comes to a whole lot of combinations — meaning the game should have a great shelf-life.
Spatch has set up a Kickstarter to help him produce the game, and he’s already halfway toward his target of $10,000. If you’re thinking about investing in the game, a pledge of $25 or more will get you a copy.
For a pledge of $3,000, Jerry will visit you (provided you live in the Continental US) and you’ll get some tea together.
Also, if the Kickstarter passes $100,000, Spatch Games promises to host a ballet that will be broadcast “to the entire world.”
Writing on the Kickstarter page, Spatch explained how he came up with the idea for Vers:
“I was tired of people in university saying I shouldn’t rap because it was unprofessional. Everywhere I went, when people heard about rap they’d think of a bunch of things that it wasn’t. So I made the game and it’s fun and silly and everyone can play it.”
This video gives an overview of how the game works:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/915746399/vers-the-rap-game
dope concept, but the real ones remember freestyling and the homies just shout words for you to build on top of. you know…the free method lol.
This game is useless for todays music…how they gonna use this if they fucking mumble a 50 bar course #toolatehiphopisforgenuises