Recap: In an at-times surprisingly one-sided battle from URL’s Summer Madness 6, a punchline-spazzing, fiery-personal dishing and heavy with the mayhem Hitman Holla dominates a mostly subpar and sometimes listless-with-the-pen K-Shine. Not that a confident Holla needed any assistance from his opponent as the St. Louis vet set the tone out the gate with combative (“You told T-Rex you gonna knock him out if he disrespect your baby mama or your daughter nigga…man I’ll fuck your baby mama in front of your daughter, nigga!”) shiners and continuously cutthroat aggression mixed in some feelgood wordplay to easily take the first two rounds with little on the performance end. And while the lyrically sizzling Holla, already with the win in hand, came through with a solid 3rd round, Shine (who was so pedestrian with his bars during the early rounds that he started to get booed in the 2nd) finally found his bag, got in and did enough with stinging performance bars, witty (“You on TV, you supposed to be lit for the cameras, glitz wit’ the glamour, talkin’ to the Wild N Out strippers and dancers, instead, he up there showing his temper with tantrums, all aggressive, talking ’bout gripping his hammer, walking up gettin’ the [EEEEEH!] before he get to the answer!”) barbs as well as some gritty punchlines/personals in a slightly more condensed turn that allowed him to salvage the final round and avoid getting 30’d on battle rap’s biggest event.
Verdict: Hitman Holla (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Hitman Holla – “You un-loyal ass bitch, I can’t believe you, you had the nerve to give a fake five to the nigga that used to feed you!”
