Recap: Champion Pat Stay versus longtime battle vet Dizaster for the KOTD chain makes for a curious style clash and incredible battle, but overall doesn’t quite meet up to the expectations. And that’s partly due to the battle being almost an hour long, thus making for both battlers while getting a lot off their chest, being a little bent with filler and/or pedestrian bars, especially on Dizaster’s part. Still, while Diz wasn’t always on his A-game, even struggling with his flow at times, using lazy personals (including way too many Golden Retriever/Charron references) and not being as consistently aggressive as we’re used to seeing him, for the most part Pat Stay was, with the Nova Scotia spitter dishing his usual assortment of jocular stylings, hard bully bars and gritty punchlines with the flair of a defending champ. Overall, a solid battle that sees a more polished and condensed Pat Stay hold onto his belt by taking the first two rounds before a debatable 3rd.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Check it, see you wild, but I got more style than you, I’m so nice my rap name should be ‘How Are You?'”
