Recap: “You’re mid-tier!” Ummm, yeah. Prez Mafia can keep killing the Craig Lamar’s and Money Bag’s of the world, but until he can step up and beat a Top Tier like DNA or in this case Cortez, he’ll forever remain a mid-tier URL battler (or, at best, headlining a smaller league card). Which is a bit disappointing when you know that the talent is there (so much so that can’t help but wonder if the two chokes here were due, in part, to taking this battle too soon after his recent battle’s against the aforementioned Lamar and Bagz) as we’ve seen it in the past and he even had a few (“This nigga is gassed and pussy, he petro!”) moments here when he wasn’t slipping up or choking. Either way, another dope performance by Cortez. The downright Nasty! (“I know Bloods up in your hood, so play even, or I’ll them big hats up on Prez like Abe Lincoln!”) wordplay, lessons in Battle Rap 101, spitfire jokes, braggadocio (“This is a bird-ass nigga, a bozo, you know the type to wait on line for days for some Jays that’s finna drop?…I’ll skip him, ‘Shut up nigga, its been my spot!'”) bars and crazy punchlines…it was all there throughout his 3 rounds on an Ascension card that garnered so much talk for ‘Tez being on it in the first place. Now after this showing, URL needs to stop the insanity and give Cortez the Top Tier battle’s he so richly deserves.
Verdict: Cortez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Cortez – “They said keep ya eye on the prize, I got a scope for that, ’bout to trump Prez like ‘fuck him’ I ain’t vote for that, Mr Hide My Bars, well good, I got a vault for that!”
