Warzone Beat Battle - August 11-15, 2026

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The next battle will be from August 11-15th! See the information below.

Signups

The signups will be on August 11th at 12pm ET, and end around 8pm ET, or until we reach 16 contestants (whichever comes first).
Voting will be each day from 8am ET to 7pm ET.

Check out the Warzone ranks: https://www.illmuzik.com/beat-battles/ranks/cat/war/

*Note: check out https://everytimezone.com to find out the correct time difference for your timezone.

The upload page will close at 8pm ET!

The Signup page is here (it will open up on the signup day)​

Theme: NONE
Time Limit: 2 minutes
*Vocal Track Allowed?: NO
**Vocal Snippets Allowed?: YES

*** This is the last Warzone of the season! ***

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* VOCAL TRACK ALLOWED? This means you can have a full vocal track with your beat (acapella, for example).
** VOCAL SNIPPETS ALLOWED? This means you can have vocal snippets in your beat (very short vocal parts, for example). This is where you can also have an intro with talking (like from a movie).
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*** NO AI GENERATED BEATS! ***

Rounds

*All times are in Eastern Time.
*Note: After each round, the numbers that won will be posted in this thread.

• Round 1: Day 1 - 8am to 7pm
• Round 2: Day 2 - 8am to 7pm
• Round 3: Day 3 - 8am to 7pm
• Round 4: Day 4 - 8am to 7pm
• Results: 7:10pm

Rules

If you're not sure about the rules, read this thread.

Voting Criteria

You can use whatever sounds you want, samples, synths, just remember to read the rules for the rest of the restrictions. What the judges will be looking for is originality, creativity, mixing skills and overall dopeness!

If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions about the competition, please post them in here.

 

[Armani]

yee na I don't think I'll make it for this one by the looks of it. completely drained of inspiration n juju n shi.

 

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yee na I don't think I'll make it for this one by the looks of it. completely drained of inspiration n juju n shi.

Maybe if you'd stop messing with that stupid goat microphone you would have time to make a beat!

It's the last Warzone of the season. Don't you want to be a part of history besides being known as the beatmaker piano guy from Iran that doesn't have 20 wives?

 

[Armani]

Maybe if you'd stop messing with that stupid goat microphone you would have time to make a beat!

It's the last Warzone of the season. Don't you want to be a part of history besides being known as the beatmaker piano guy from Iran that doesn't have 20 wives?

microphone?
you mean headphones big dawg?

 

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microphone?
you mean headphones big dawg?

Yea same thing.

Sorry, I was just looking at a video. It's old age mixing up certain things. You'll experience this one day.

 

[Armani]

Yea same thing.

Sorry, I was just looking at a video. It's old age mixing up certain things. You'll experience this one day.

the more days go by, the less shits one gives.

NotGiving2ShiTs Production

 

[I-ManuEL Beats]

Long Time Fam. Let me join this one

 

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ROUND 1!

Place your votes: https://www.illmuzik.com/warzone-beat-battle/battles/

 

[P.A.T.]

Good turnout, only one bye! That being said did I miss there being a theme of lofi old timey low budget western type beats?

 

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ROUND 1 is over!

Round 1 winners: 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15

 

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ROUND 2!

Place your votes: https://www.illmuzik.com/warzone-beat-battle/battles/

 

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ROUND 2 is over!

Round 2 winners: 17, 19, 22, 23, 26, 28, 30, 31

 

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ROUND 3!

Place your votes: https://www.illmuzik.com/warzone-beat-battle/battles/

 

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ROUND 3 is over!

Round 3 winners: 34, 36, 38, 39

 

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FINALS!

Place your votes: https://www.illmuzik.com/warzone-beat-battle/battles/

 

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RESULTS!

See what went down: https://www.illmuzik.com/beat-battles/archives/cat/war/battle/131/

Props to all those that entered, and to those that took the time to vote.

 

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Congrats @BiggChev! That sample really paid off. Dope flip.

There were a lot of really good beats in this one. Pretty much all the brackets were close!

 

[Armani]

@BiggChev congrats. shi was tight. u were right u had some heat stored for this one... well deserved.

@crog85 this is happening every battle atp but, every week I hear ur beat and I'm like "ain't no way in hell I'm beating this guy". always turns out to be you somehow.

 

[Iron Keys]

The @Iron Keys live-note voting

beat 1 - cool musical idea, just feels a bit flat
v
beat 2 - probably a bit goofy/gimmicky, but is 'alive' VOTE


beat 3 - vibe af straight away , vocal sound bit lame VOTE (tough couldhave gone either way) sometimes the other so thisone
v
beat 4 - also vibey, gonna be tough

beat 5 - lofi again, is okay, inoofensive, more movement than beat1
v
beat6 - interesting drums, sounding potentially unintentionally so... as beat progresses, it all sounds more considered VOTE

beat 7 - sounds overrtly one of those underground beats VOTE
v
beat 8 - sounds like production gonna bea lil bad, sounds like one of those corny (in good way) ATL beats, but sounds a bit corny (bad way), bit cheap and basic sounding

beat 9 - wtf this weird. last weird sample was Leonard, this you? second set of drums are cool

beat 11 - bass sounds fucking interesting, if this dont end up being drill then im confused... ah it went downhill, poor mix n dont sound hiphop (assuming missed the heavy rock beat this)
v
beat 12 - phonk; gotta be crog85, no one else here knows what phonk is. (would have got my VOTE but missed deadline)

beat 13 - sounds cool, like a lloyd banks sort of track, the vocally sounds have me suspicious, sounds likesomething weird ai would do maybe i dunno (VOTE if able)
v
beat 14 - can immediately tell the mix isnt good enough to get the vote, which is a shame as this could have been good, not including the switchup which just lost me.

beat 15 - kinda shit intro, cut it, good early 2000s beat, kinda expect this to be Arvin's, go get some pussy ffs. Fairly confident this would be my ovte without needing to listen to beat 16 (VOTE if possible - expect this to win the WZ)
v
beat 16 - not sure what this is, makes me think of the beat your friend makes at 4am whilst youre all sat around on his grubby sofas, and you just want to go to sleep so this can all be over, but he's sat there locked in, determined thinking he's just made the hottest beat of the century.

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beat 17 / 18 - 18 just a little more movement and fun
beat 21 / 22 - 22 more exciting and interesting
beat 25 / 26 - fuck it, phonk letsgooo
beat 29 / 30 - 30 better production values, despite sounding like existing track

beat 19 / 20 - 19, yesterday i would have voted the other way, but today 19 just making me nod more
beat 23 / 24 - 23, but only because of that shit string sound in 24, remove/change that and i'd have voted
beat 31 / 32 - 31 because it actually had a section i liked

 

[Dodgy John]

Congratulations @BiggChev