Recap: Take away the 1st half of X-Factor’s round here versus Charlie Clips and you have a pretty exhilarating (and very long) one-round matchup on the URL/Smack stage. For Clips, in only his 3rd on-screen battle, as far as making an impression goes, all bases were covered: from witty personals to goading off-the-dome lines that no one was safe from to quintessential (“This is what you wanted nigga?, you wanted me to be disrespectful, put my dick in ya niece fish tank, dump the water on ya nephew!”) schemes to flat-footed (“I’m the controller, I leave squares like you so dead, so if X care to the triangles [try angles] like Verb, he’ll get an L too and have to battle U-Red!”) haymakers, all in a battle that he was clearly motivated for as he literally took the crowd chants of “Keep going!” to heart, rapping for like 20-plus minutes. Clearly without a clue of what he was in for, after Clips was finally done, X-Factor still managed to give the crowd a worthy performance…when he got into his bag. Dishing amusing (“Against Tay-Roc about 200…against Verb, 305!”) ‘priority’ bars, feelgood name flips along with requisite (“I be going HAM, up dumping, squeezing that pump, Clips be going HAM…add bacon, cheese and croissant!”) fat jokes that made their mark, Factor’s execution was only hurt by a filler-drenched first few minutes of his round as well as wordplay that didn’t always land hard. That said, altogether Clips’ overall performance combined with better consistency was enough to score a win.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “It’s been 5 battles straight and you have yet to take that hat off, now either Blind Fury is your barber, he did you and took your back off or you got a hairline that’d make LeBron happy, but piss Smack off!”
