OK I read it now and one can clearly tell where the story fell off.
It started good, not exactly the pinnacle of world literature but that's not what I expect from a shonen.
Until it reached a point where the whole story went downhill. When they started rapping I was so done with this shit


It turned into a complete parody.
Screw Shueisha for axing series early like that. This could have become a good story!
If One Piece were started today it wouldn't survive 2 months of serialisation.