Recap: Thanks to a couple of no-shows, UK grime/battle rapper Dialect and Math Hoffa end up going at it in this one-rounder, with what’s alleged to be only 3 days prep. For Math, that’s astutely going in vet mode, what with a solid turn of acute name (“Now Dialect, let me put you on trial a sec, this bar court, your name’s ‘Dialect, so you know what that kinda says? you all talk!”) flips, potent wordplay and festive bully bars, For Dialect, that’s mostly hit-or-miss jokes, a couple of stumbles and more than a minute of grime rapping…that kept the crowd’s attention anyway, but didn’t do much else.
Verdict: Math Hoffa (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Math Hoffa – “Fuck Dialect, ‘cuz Math is universal amongst the languages!”
