Nike Laos

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Nike Laos (born May 10, 1989) known simply as Laos, formerly Writtenz, registered as a member of nobodysmiling.com for the first time on January 7, 2006. In forgetting the passsword to this username, he would reregister as BlackAristotle on March 4, 2006. In the period of about six months, Laos established himself and is still considered one of the site's most dominant battlers, prolific lyricists and greatest writers. Although hailing from the now long defunct website, emceeboard.com, Laos is best known as a representative of the nobodysmiling.com Freestyle Lyrics and Battle community.

The EmceeBoard Period

Laos, whose full textcee name means "victory of the people" in Greek, began his textcee career under the name Nightmare on the now defunct website, emceeboard.com, in November of 2005. After reading the lyrics posted in the first text battle he'd ever witnessed, between veterans Sir Issac Newton and Gawd's Easel, Laos decided to give text battling a try.

Laos would call out middleweight battler Dorian to a match, only to recieve his first loss as a battler. Far from discouraged, Laos battled Dorian again, avenging his loss with a stunning Knockout victory. Impressed by the display, veteran Gawd's Easel reached out to the budding textcee, showing Laos the ropes. And under the tutelage of Gawd's Easel, Laos amassed a record of 10 wins, 10 knockouts and 4 losses.

Feeling himself ready to take on his mentor, Laos called out Gawd's Easel. With ease, the vastly more experienced Gawd's Easel easily took the battle, winning the match by way of knockout. Undaunted by his loss, Laos again called out his mentor, only to be showed up yet again, also via knockout. Still unbelieving of his inferiority skillwise to his mentor, he again battled Gawd's Easel, only to see the same result.

Weary of being beaten, Laos left emceeboard, putting his textcee days behind him.

NoBodySmiling.com

After leaving his first site, Laos stumbled onto the website NoBodySmiling.com. Although he registered in January of 2006, he could not remember the password nor the username to his account and simply made a new one on March 4, 2006. Still wary of battling, Laos simply used NoBodySmiling as a means to keep track of Hip-Hop related news and events. After a two month period of inactivity postwise, Laos made his first post in the Social, Political, World News section of the site, engaging in a debate over racism with member Republican Willy.

Quickly bored with Willy's rhetoric, Laos finally journeyed into the site's text battling section. Still a little wary of actually battling, Laos posted a few keystyles he had written during his period of inactivity. His first piece, "The Newcomer", was praised by members. However, Laos was accused of biting by LivingLegend, because the opening two bars of LL's piece vaguely resembled Laos'. The moderator at the time, J High, quickly intervened on the behalf of Laos, noting that Laos' vocabulary far surpassed that of LivingLegend's, a verdict the entire community agreed upon.

The debacle put behind him, Laos decided to breathe life back into his fairly short battling career, answering an open callout made by middleweight battler BLAZEInfinite. Agreeing to the battle, Laos faced off against BLAZE to unfornunately lose via a 5-4 split decision. Despite his loss, Laos had earned the respect of many lightweights, and was subsequently challenged by LyricalTampon. Accepting the challenge, Laos would defeat LyricalTampon via forfeit, being awarded his first win as a member of nobodysmiling.com.

After defeating LyricalTampon, Laos called out SouthernAdvocate, who in turn defeated Laos by way of Knockout. Seeing this, battlers The Only 1, later Streets King, and SinPopYaDome, later Hazerd/Uneke, challenged Laos. Laos easily defeated them both, earning himself two wins via knockout.

At that time, JuliaS, a respected middleweight battler, had begun sign-ups for a Lightweight Tournament, inviting Laos and 15 others to participate. In round one, Laos was pitted against IronAddict, a match Laos would lose by way of knockout. It was later discovered that IronAddict was in fact Sir Rhymes Alot, a well known veteran. Excusing the loss and banning SRA, Laos was readmitted to the tournament.

While this was happening, Laos had formed a crew with rival BLAZEInfinite, friends Freez3, Vex, Ne 1, Cannonz, and later arabflowsta once Vex went inactive. As a part of this crew, Laos would step up his battle activity, engaging Texas Truth and Comp Lex in topical battles, beating the latter and losing to the former.

In the next round of the tournament, Laos defeated Big Country/Mysterio Doom via knockout.