Throwback Thursday: Compliment Battles.

These gems have since become something that has filled out quite a bit from where they started, but are not as popular in Hip Hop culture as some think that they should be. The intricacies of Hip Hop battles are often overlooked due to their negativity, however, when the negative tone is reversed, its clear to see that the mental ingenuity required to come up with targeted jest toward another person becomes more apparent. Check out two of the giants of the game that really brought compliment battles to the forefore just about a decade ago.