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Mister Greco

Battle rap enthusiast living in Timbuktu

Young Kannon defeats Mike P

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Recap: As expected, it’s a spirited punch-fest between Mike P and Young Kannon in this 3-round bout from Smack/URL, with both also mixing in some righteous personals, stinging wordplay and fiery name flips. A close battle throughout with nary a slip-up from either battler, before Mike got in his unorthodox bag to take the 3rd, a slightly more consistent with the punchlines, performance-heavier and bent with the haymakers YK edges the 1st and 2nd to take what was long promoted as grudge match.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Now be honest, y’all really think Micheal bang out with K’s?, after he spit a gun bar, he gotta wipe the bang out his face!”

Danny Myers defeats J.U.S.

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Recap: Danny Myers and fellow West-coast battler J.U.S. meet up for a competitive 1-rounder on the Skytier Northwest stage. And while the confident J.U.S. dished a series of consistently flexing punchlines/wordplay, it’s a more versatile, just as fiery and lit-with-the-personals Myers who gets the edge here.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Stuey got on Smack and I saw that it hurt ya, he moved forward while you stayed still…Newton proved his own law of inertia!”

Math Hoffa defeats Ill Will

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Recap: When your opponent even admits that this is the best version he’s seen of you, there’s a good chance that you got the battle won. Indeed, that’s the case here as Math Hoffa takes it back to his Marvwon and Arsonal days with a barrage of spitfire punchlines, witty (“People think that you a grimy dude, and honestly it might be true, but the only evidence we got, is you always dressing like it’s ’92!”) personals and hitting bully bars that, for two rounds anyway, put a serious hurting on a solid, but less potent and sometimes redundant Ill Will, who from the aforementioned salute to Math, clearly underestimated the strength of his opponent’s pen. Thankfully for Will anyway, a boisterous, (“I’m in his building, on the 3rd floor, arms waving, when I pop locks…I call it Turbo!”) gritty and consistent return to form in the final round was enough to force a debatable and avoid getting 30’d.

Verdict: Math Hoffa (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Math Hoffa – “The crowd ducking, security like ‘How he get the Larkin?’, I cheated, I had my bitch carrying [carry in], I’m Tristan Thompson!”

Swamp defeats Illa

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Recap: We Go Hard battle between Swamp and Illa sees the latter keep with close throughout with a rich combo of dope (“Let this nigger cross me, choppers coming out…false teeth!”) punchlines, fly schemes and some nice name flips. But even with a slight slip-up in the 1st round, overall Swamp just came with more heat, the South Carolina battler scoring left and right with a crazy and (“You ain’t fucking with me, I’m too lethal, I been to hell and back twice, my life got two sequels!”) punch-heavy opening round, before also taking the latter two rounds with a bunch of sizzling trap talk, witty personals, lofty performance lines and fiery gun bars/punches/set-ups to earn the 30.

Verdict: Swamp (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Swamp – “Soon as I pull up, I hop out that bitch, Kobe Bryant with the stick, I done hit so many, they don’t give a fuck how many shots I done missed!”

Qleen Paper defeats Young X

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Recap: Taking advantage of a Young X who for 3 rounds was mired in mostly pedestrian bars while coming hit-n-miss with the jokes, with a steady mix of slick punchlines, witty personals, solid name flips, banging heat and gritty street boasts, Qleen Paper manages to pull off a pretty easy 30 in this 3-rounder from Smack/URL.

Verdict: Qleen Paper (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Qleen Paper – “Bulldog snubs, thick as mad, this bitch a vest snatcher, I got the long nose on a .44…I got the X factor!”

JC defeats KD

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Recap: Rarely lacking for confidence and pulling a vet move by mostly staying away from the what would have been easy name flips, JC spits a gang of spitfire braggadocios lines, potent gun bars and righteous punchlines to take rounds 1 plus 3 and beat a very solid KD, a St. Louis battler who used a wide variety of loaded wordplay, nice set-ups and hitting personals/punchlines to stay in the mix, before a spicy storytelling, but hit-n-miss turn and JC’s comeuppance in the deciding final round eventually did him in.

Verdict: JC (W) 2-1

Favorite line: JC – “If your soul gets snatched in a battle with me, only I can give it back, so don’t come here expecting no Black Panther flip from me…nigga, what kind of shit!”

Eazy the Block Captain defeats Bangz

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Recap: When it comes to his raps, that real street shit, pain and struggle are topics Eazy the Block Captain can go on talking about forever. But here in this Power House Battle League 3-roudner versus a mostly unprepared and freestyle-prone Bangz, the Block Captain not only runs with his usual assortment of tricks, but also adds a pretty finite punchline game, a couple of nifty personals and some raucous name flips/gun bars to complete what overall was a pretty easy shutout.

Verdict: Eazy the Block Captain (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Eazy the Block Captain – “Send a contract, for the right price a mill will do, nigga I’ll mold something, clips full of a…I’m fucked up right now, you trying to hold something?!”

Xcel and Madflex [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Sporting a plethora of showmanship, wit and rapid lyrical aptness, Madflex matches bars with the always flexing wordplay and fiending punches of Xcel for 3 rounds on the KOTD stage. A solid and spirited battle throughout, a fire middle-of-the-round (“…when his LIFE come out his chest like the shirt on his skin!”) freestyle by Madflex allows him just enough room to match a versatile and fire (“You not the truth, I will rock your roof like stalactites!”) turn by Xcel. The 2nd and 3rd rounds however, sees each battler out-maneuver the other what with Madflex’s more consistent darts and finite (“If I offered you a featherweight fight, you look light, you’d bring a pillow!”) penmanship beating back a less potent turn by Xcel in the middle round, before the Team Homi vet comes back with a more punch-heavy and surmisable in the 3rd for the draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Xcel – “You wanna try angles, but got the wrong hypotenuse!”

John John da Don and Rum Nitty [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: ‘Mr. Everything’ John John da Don and gun line aficionado Rum Nitty go at for 3 rounds on the URL/Smack stage and it’s a goodie with JJDD going after Rum with resident name flips, but also some angles/allegations you don’t often see against the Arizona spitter: being one-dimensional with his raps, biting (“You took Roc’s whole style and took pride in the shit, your writing legit but nah, it’s not as exciting as his, Gun Bar King, Gun Line King, yeah you biting his shit…the Stone Cold Stunner, RKO, it’s the same move, minus the kick!”) other battlers and dishing questionable bars during past battles. Those factors along with some witty (“But I’m supposed to believe that you let your gun blam, when you wore those supposed-to-be-Jordan’s…that let us know you wasn’t real from the jump man!”) punchlines and gritty schemes/personals make JJDD more than competitive here. But Nitty being Nitty, while never lacking for sizzling (“This shit wicked, like government assistance, Nitty tripping, dump the body, put 4 eyes in the river…Mississippi!”) punchlines in any bout, did more than enough to stay in this one (even with a rare slip-up in the 1st round that caused him to end the round early and get edged by JJDD), thus bringing enough heat with his pen to make for a debatable 2nd, before taking the final round with enough haymakers to beat back a very solid turn from his opponent.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “This was one of your go too guys on the URL, off the belt I’ll pop a Smack shooter like Sugar Hill!”

In$ight defeats Jakkboy Maine

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Recap: Did all the smiles give it away? Yunno, that while impressed with opponent In$ight’s stifling punchlines and piercing gun bars throughout his turn, that Jakkboy Maine was totally unprepared for this battle? Yeah, looking back at one of the quickest chokes on record…probably so.

Verdict: In$ight (W) 1-0

Favorite line: In$ight – “They say every body got an addiction, right? Well my vice, grip!”

Coffee Brown defeats Yasmin

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Recap: Nice and punch-lit, but inconsistent effort from Yasmin gets beat by a more versatile and punch-heavier 3 rounds from Coffee Brown in this competitive battle from Beastmode. A confident Brown, more condensed throughout while delivering consistently righteous mayhem, pointed personals, fiery schemes and even a couple of spicy rebuttals, would also add a dope performance to edge each round and gain a well-earned 30.

Verdict: Coffee Brown (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Coffee Brown – “When I come [bwoh!] it’ll altar you, that’s religion, and you all can get it at the same time…that’s tradition!”

Sonny defeats Reepah Rell

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Recap: ‘I’m not your friend!’, Apparently so, as Sonny uses some stinging personals, fiery gun bars and spitfire punchlines to beat a somewhat subdued and mostly average (for him anyway) Reepah Rell, thus pulling off a mild upset in this one-rounder from We Go Hard.

Verdict: Sonny (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Sonny – “I walk around with a .30 tho, been killing nigga’s with the same gun for years, so the burner gotta build up like a dirty stove!”

GE defeats Marv Won

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Recap: It’s nothing but consistent mayhem, violence, heavy wordplay, trap talk and that gritty street shit from a prophetic GE, indeed enough savagery to beat back a solid and more versatile, but not quite as potent or rich on haymakers Marvwon, in this one round battle from Ruin Your Day.

Verdict: GE (W) 1-0

Favorite line: GE – “Little nigga, with a fire arm, I’m Mega Man!”

Bill Collector defeats Buttah From Da Block

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Recap: Putting it all together with a gang of any hard-hitting/zany punchlines, barrels full of wit, stifling personals/gun bars, a bunch of fly name flips and of course, a crazy ‘Gun so big…’ line, Bill Collector manages to dial up enough haymakers to edge a pretty solid, entertaining and versatile effort from Buttah From Da Block in this 1-rounder from the Gates.

Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Bill Collector – “I’ll rob you with a cap gun then beat you with a real one!”

First Ladi Flamez defeats Niesey Brown

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Recap: Flexing throughout with lofty braggadocio bars, stinging wordplay, potent personals and salacious punchlines/gun bars, First Ladi Flamez turns this 1-rounder versus a solid and gritty, but too oft-pedestrian Niesey Brown, into an easy vic.

Verdict: First Ladi Flamez (W) 1-0

Favorite line: First Ladi Flamez – “Snap if you choose to, you gonna get a different clip, bunch of bad selfies, that means I dump ’em all then switch the grip!”

T Top defeats Bigg K

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Recap: In what would turn out to be a cameo appearance back on Smack.URL, Bigg K gets T Top in a wild one that saw a forever (“I ride on ya, hell raiser, Clive Barker, you fighting Luke Skywalker with a flyswatter!”) snapping and oft-witty K use a more condensed turn to take round 1 from an almost as potent, a but little too prone to filler and elongated Top. Things would begin to turn around in round 2 tho as K would almost drop the comedy routine altogether for rapid punchlines that while loaded with utter mayhem, didn’t stand out too much when it cane to haymakers, thus leaving a more versatile, trap-talking and (“This getting old, y’all don’t remember the shit I did to Sno?, I been whupping crackers in the ring, I’m Riddick Bowe!”) personal-heavy Top with enough grit, grind and consistency to take the round. A pretty solid 3rd from both battlers sees K get sarcastic and busy with some fire set-ups/schemes/personals, before Top uses his turn to parlay his own round of spicy racial jargon, pointed/witty personals and enough loud, aggressive and potent punchlines to take the deciding round and earn the win.

Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1

Favorite line: T Top – “I’m Donald Trump sitting in office…a head cracker!”

Ish Mulah defeats Brooklyn Carter

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Recap: Been hearing some chatter around Ish Mulah retiring soon. But if he changed his mind after this dope one-rounder, could you blame him? Using a plethora of nasty personals and some spitfire braggadocio bars, the ever aggressive We Go Hard vet puts a hurting on and easily beats back an elongated and mostly pedestrian Brooklyn Carter.

Verdict: Ish Mulah (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Ish Mulah – “We ain’t the same lame, Oh, this is where the game change?, I’ll switch cartridges, shit look like I changed games, ain’t nothing else to do after you beat the main stage!”

JC defeats Anubis

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Recap: For a couple of battle rappers noted for having bullish pen’s, when it comes to a ‘War of Words’ matchup, JC and (“They say you may weathered [Mayweather] these punches, yeah, if Ricky hadn’t walked into it!”) Anubis make for a fitting matchup. That said, JC gets the edge here using sanguine (“These shots, drop tops, I call them Kennedy slugs, but everything from this point forward, gonna be in memory of!”) gun bars, a few audacious personals and some spicy set-ups to edge the first couple of rounds and earn the win.

Verdict: JC (W) 2-1

Favorite line: JC – “That’s the problem with living in the moment…nigger’s never even considered dying in it!”

Reepah Rell defeats Riddles

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Recap: No face-paint? No problem as Reepah Rell uses an assortment of fire ‘old head’ bars and stinging punchlines/set-ups to beat a too routine Riddles in this one-rounder from Gates of the Garden.

Verdict: Reepah Rell (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Reepah Rell – “You calling me a clown?, nigga’s always think it’s a circus until they see the sideshow [side show]!”

Danny Myers defeats Jose Cuervo

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Recap: Even the repeated shots at his opponent’s girl never gets old as a highly on-point Danny Myers uses a host of fiery punchlines, astute name flips, raucous gun bars and boastful/visceral darts to take this 3-round battle from Iron Mouth Battles over a solid overall, but too hit-n-miss (esp. with the wordplay as opposed to his punches) Jose Cuervo.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Danny Myers –  “In the back of my mind, I always wanted to fuck with pussy…like a 3rd cousin!”

S. Dot defeats Drugz

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Recap: For all of Drugz’s loud talk and aggression here, substance-wise it was more like he just showed up with righteous throwaway one would use for an OT round if they had to. In other words we’ve seen better from the DMV rapper and even if S. Dot wasn’t always consistently nice, the Boston spitter certainly came with enough heat and spitfire punchlines to beat his more pedestrian opponent.

Verdict: S. Dot (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Drugz – “I got a son now, I gotta chill, ‘cuz my life like Monopoly, every time I end up on the wrong corner, I end up in jail!”

Loso defeats Money Bagz

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Recap: While Money Bagz does the wise thing by mostly staying away from the usual assortment of Christian rebukes we see against Loso, in this 3-rounder from KOTD, Bagz punchlines and wit fail to make any hay when faced with Loso’s salacious name flips, stifling personals and salient wordplay/set-ups.

Verdict: Loso (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Loso – “I brought the ratchet in church…that’s Medea!”

Chef Trez defeats Sire

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Recap: Houston Bar Code 1-round matchup between Chef Trez and Sire sees a Trez who’s not-quite-on-his-A-game still use some stifling gun bars, fierce punchlines and 3 head-ringing rebuttals to beat back an overall alright, but sometimes lackluster and definitely elongated turn from Sire.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez -“I got a .9 and a .45, I’ll switch the tool, it’s vicious nigger, it is duck-duck-goose, a head tap can lift a nigger!”

Geechi Gotti defeats Cali Smoov

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Recap: Fire 1-round battle between Geechi Gotti and Cali Smoov sees the ever-energetic Smoov switch it up a bit on the braggadocio side with more wit, storytelling bars and some ill (“No jive, after jail I had to talk white like the new Gucci!”) punches/personals that landed hard. However, one too many dry spots by Cali along with Gotti, using an increased dosage of hitting schemes, dope wordplay, flexing personals and wicked (“Boy you a bitch…I’ll beat your granny ass!”) punchlines combine to give Geechi the win in a battle that probably would’ve showed more talent-wise if it went 3 rounds.

Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Geechi Gotti -“He said he gonna be the same nigga till he dead, you ain’t lie fool, ‘cuz after the shot I seen his soul slide out his body…he even died smooth [Smoov]!”

Stuey Newton defeats Drugz

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Recap: Punching (“I know I’m a long way from home, but I’m far from pussy like a long-distance relationship!”) extra hard from the jump, Drugz’s first non-PG, URL battle goes pretty well and leaves a mark. But a slightly more consistent Stuey Newton, witty at times and dropping (“And next is the easy victim, I’ll swing Rome DMV by the arms and beat you with him!”) haymakers all over the place with reckless abandon, takes this dope 1-rounder that set off an Initiation card.

Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “I will scrape and stretch Drugs, I need all the extra’s!”

King Krash II defeats Born

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Recap: Go-Rilla Warfare battle between Born and King Krash sees the latter stay steady with enough fire name flips, stifling gun bars and some solid punchlines to pull off a mild upset in beating a flow-challenged and inconsistent Born.

Verdict: King Krash (W) 2-1

Favorite line: King Krash – “So please, miss with me with all this mess about how you burst the Tek, the only time I was seeing Born with an extra arm is on a birth defect!”

K-Shine defeats B. Magic

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Recap: An under the radar battle that took a year to get released, K-Shine versus B. Magic contains a gang of nifty punchlines and schemes from Magic, some gritty wordplay and fiery punches/personals from Shine and after keeping it close for two rounds, Magic struggling with his flow in the 3rd round and almost choking before cutting his turn short. Therefore, with Shine clearly up on haymakers in both the 1st and 3rd rounds, it’s NWX for the win here.

Verdict: K Shine (W) 2-1

Favorite line: K Shine – “Here’s for my next trick, give his whole circle the L…that’s Alexis!'”

Uneek Fatal defeats Jade

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Recap: A plethora of clever punchlines, sizzling wordplay, steely mayhem and piercing name flips highlight this dope and highly competitive We Go Hard 3-rounder between Uneek Fatal and Jade, that the slightly more resilient Fatal (props to that fake choke in round 2) wins in lieu of edging the latter two rounds after getting edged in the 1st.

Verdict: Uneek Fatal (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Uneek Fatal – “Just ‘cuz we both got big titties and no ass don’t make this a mirror match!”

NXT and Swagtanna [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: A gang of gritty punchlines, festering personals, rich set-ups, righteous (Swaggtanna: “And I shoulda charged y’all a check, you see I adverstise spraying the nose, I even showed y’all what to do when they say ‘NXT’!”) mayhem and Colosseum Battle League cred are the main themes of this fiery and competitive battle between West-coast battler NXT and Brooklyn emcee Swagtanna. Close throughout with plenty of salutes from the crowd when they heard a hot bar, a slightly more haymaker-lit Swagtanna takes the 1st round before the more consistently spicy NXT edges the 2nd. Round 3 was another stickler, yet for all of NXT’s loud and piercing punches, the more low-key and storytelling, but still potent Swagtanna was able to meet his opponent’s quotient for dope, quality punches to make this one debatable. 

Verdict: Debatable

Favorite line: NXT – “C&C all bloody, I’m Airbnb, you know where I stay!”

Prep defeats Da Prafessa

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Recap: Battling pretty frequently of late (I’m guessing he’s been inspired by his prolific tag-team partner Dre Dennis), Prep uses some dogmatic name flips, sturdy punchline/wordplay and some nice rebuttals from earlier matches to edge a pretty hard-hitting overall, but too par-the-course having Da Prafessa.

Verdict: Prep (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Prep – “Someone horizontal, lay him vertically, plan it [planet] next to son [Sun] like Mercury!”

Chef Trez defeats T Dubb O

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Recap: Chef Trez uses salacious gun bars, potent name flips and wicked punchlines to make quick work of a solid, but slip-up prone (and eventually choking) T Dubb O in this 1-rounder from Street Status.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I took real losses, you get it shorty?, I went from ash to a beer belly, I done lost a pack and still had connections with the .40!”

Chef Trez defeats Dre Dennis [REMATCH]

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Recap: These two met before, in a Smack/URL matchup a few years ago that Trex won pretty handily. This time around? It’s Chef again, tho a little closer than last time as Dre Dennis scored well with some elite gun bars. But as Trex has shown time and time again, not only can he do dope gun lines, but he can mix it up too with fiery punchlines, fire performance bars and when it comes to personals, some timely wit. That versatility and a more condensed turn, allows Chef to go up 2-0 in this rivalry.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Let him act hood, he’ll get tossed behind the venue, but it’s supposed to be Loud in the back wood!”

Young Kannon defeats Drugz

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Recap: If Drugz had written a 3rd round (tho he did offer a short, but solid freestyle-enriched turn to make it through without just giving it away) this one might’ve ended on a different note. As after getting out-punched in the 1st, the DMV/Goonies rapper came back with a more consistent. condensed/punch-heavy and fire round 2 to tie things up. But the ever steady YK, while going overkill on the name flips throughout the battle, still came heavy in the final round with some fiery personals, stinging punchlines/schemes and salacious gun bars to easily beat back any chance his opponent had of taking the round, much less getting the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Drugz been on my nuts, I’m trying to smuggle shit!”

Yung Griz defeats Sin Flee

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Recap: Funny where you’ll see a Smack rapper turn up sometimes as West-coast denizen Yung Griz makes his debut on the East-coast Colosseum Battle League stage. Regardless of geometry tho, Griz still proves to be Griz, steadily superb for 3 rounds with the (“I’ll put these dogs on Flee [flea], now it’s opposite Day!”) punchlines, name flips and wordplay to score a 30 on a mostly (“Special Ed kid, I ain’t ever been Big on words, before I even hollered at a bitch, I was already used to the curve!”) solid, but oft-reaching (before choking at the end of his 3rd) Sin Flee.

Verdict: Yung Griz (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Yung Griz – “Hell, this a sending of Biblical proportions, Yung [young] leaving Earth early like clinical abortions!”

Gorilla Nems defeats Head ICE

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Recap: Still going after mother’s, daughter’s and anyone else close to you with utter disrespect all these years later while spouting scathing, self-assured raps/real street narratives with a menacing aura that makes his lines even more authentic, after getting edged by a punchline-heavier Head Ice in round 1, former Fight Klub champ Gorilla Nems delivers enough spiteful shiners in the latter two rounds to beat back an opponent that while dialed back on dishing mayhem and retribution, crumbled instead to a boatload of pedestrian bars and nonsensical stunting.

Verdict: Gorilla Nems (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Gorilla Nems – “Nigga, I’ll go to the graveyard and kick over your mother’s tombstone like ‘Bitch, fuck your after life!'”

Danny Myers defeats KH

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Recap: In this 1-rounder from the 4th Annual Young Bizill BarFest, Danny Myers faces off against KH and uses a boatload of spirited name flips, eccentric punchlines, boastful shiners and some witty personals to beat a solid, but straightforward/preachy and much less intricate effort from his opponent.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Your bar game weak as hell, it was never heavy, all that light work fuck with my brain like epilepsy!”

O’fficial defeats Shooney Da Rapper

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Recap: Witty, rigid with the name flips and solid with the punchlines/wordplay, O’fficial survives a dope, mayhem-dishing round 1 from Shooney Da Rapper, gets help from her opponent choking away the 2nd round and with a more condensed and consistent 3rd, edges this 3-rounder from Superior Entertainment Arena (S.E.A.).

Verdict: O’fficial (W) 2-1

Favorite line: O’fficial – “I already know Shoo deal, shit she works at Nike, so I’m supposed to believe she keep the knife tucked in her rhymes?, when this bitch don’t even let nigga’s cut in the line?!?”

Outlaw defeats Bill Collector

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Recap: In this 1-rounder from We Are Upsate Battle League, a clearly unprepared Bill Collector freestyles and recycles bar after bar during his round, in turn handing out a pretty easy win for an aggressive and fiery-punching Outlaw.

Verdict: Outlaw (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Outlaw – “You a mark, I’ll draw on Bill like I’m trying to see if the bread fake!”

Bedaffi Green and Franchise [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: In what was a spitfire We Go Hard battle, a slightly more versatile, punch/wordplay-heavy and confidently rebuttal spitting Bedaffi Green does just enough to earn a tie with Franchise. And trust that Green needed to unload the whole kitchen sink what with two epic name flip stinging, scintillating (“Pistol whip Bedaffi, have Green leaking down your screen, that’s the goosebumps!”) gun bar shining and haymaker-drenched rounds from his performance-heavy, Canadian opponent who seemingly had this one in the bag going into the bottom of the 3rd after the two battlers split the first two rounds. But Bedaffi wasn’t having any of it, getting his Chef Trez on with ‘3 of them things’ to start off his turn, before delivering just enough fierce punches along with some aggressive and potent heaters to make this one a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Bedaffi Green – “If he panic, Steve Francis, the Heat play Franchise gonna look fucked up!”

Goddie Lumenati defeats Nu Jerzey Twork

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Recap: For two minutes anyway, Nu Jerzey Twork does his thing, using some bombastic name flips and hometown bars to make you feel he came prepared to win…well, that was for two minutes anyway, until Towrk suddenly cut his round short. Because that’s what you do in a 1-rounder when you’re not prepared and can’t remember your bars. Thankfully, for the crowd and us battle rap feens anyway, Goddie Lumenati did come prepared. And while not kicking the dopest shit you’ve ever heard in your life, still scored consistently with fierce gun bars, stinging wordplay/metaphors and enough electric punchlines to take this one.

Verdict: Goddie Lumenati (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Goddie Lumenati – “Even when he hot, it’s hole’s in his rounds…Krispy Kreme!”

Dougy defeats Monstar

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Recap: Scoring consistently with fierce name flips, fire gun bars and potent punchlines, Dougy earns a win on the independent battle league stage with this well-rounded turn versus a solid, but inconsistent Monstar.

Verdict: Dougy (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Dougy – “Get in my shooter stance, y’all can tell that my aim right, this AR gonna put him the E.R., like I’m spelling his name right!”

Danny Myers defeats Bobby Lee

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Recap: Against a solid and personals-driven (face it, Danny will probably never hear the end of giving $25K to Rex) Bobby Lee, an aggressive Danny Myers dishes a resounding fleet of piercing punchlines, boastful shiners, rigorous 4-bar set-ups/storytelling bars, some stifling personals of his own and fierce struggle bars/name flips to get the win in this 1-round battle from Bizill Bar Fest.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I’ll spot ya, I’ll run up on him and the K will spray, the other strap got an extension like he can’t pay today!”

Prep defeats Vic Wallace

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Recap: First, the piano shit was hilarious. Second, tho he lost some points for too much filler in an elongated round, overall Vic Wallace was pretty solid. 3rd, a more condensed with the punches, gun-riffing and freestyle-astute Prep, got this.

Verdict: Prep (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Prep – “I target threats, fuck the iron, cutting option, split him, like I want his opinion, I had to run it by him!”

Sketch Menace defeats Real Deal

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Recap: KOTD 3-rounder offers up a plethora of intellectual wordplay, boastful barbs, fierce schemes, piercing punchlines and witty personals from both Real Deal and Sketch Menace. A close one between two emcees that were pretty rigid with their lines, assisted a bit by Real Deal spouting some indirect bars on other subject matters, an also more haymaker-friendly Menace edges rounds 1 and 3 for the win.

Verdict: Sketch Menace (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Sketch Menace – “Hassling people like ’10 dollars is all it costs for this CD from me bro’, aka it’s gonna cost you 10 dollars for him to leave you alone!”

Q.P. defeats Bill Collector

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Recap: Fun battle between an expansive (“Beat you like your mom when you forgot to let the chicken frost!”) Bill Collector and the always crafty (“Tongue’s hanging out, we”ll have Jordan jumping at these foul lines!”) Q.P., stays close and competitive through the final round, which a more consistent hitting Q.P., what with able freestyles and steady punches edges for the win.

Verdict: Q.P. (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Q.P. – “Talking trash to the pigs, I’m actually GLAD you squealed!”

O-Red defeats Cortez

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Recap: A classic, consistently punch-heavy, personal/name flip (nice enough to turn around Cor’s ‘Nasty!’ jargon on him) spazzing and aggressive 1st round from O-Red sets the tone. And even while getting edged by the rebuttal-spouting, mayhem-friendly and equal (“So either check in or get checked out, I’ll hit him with X amount, he’ll be X’d out, Malcolm X style, meaning he gon’ burn then die [dye] when I let it fry on Red scalp!”) haymaker-dishing Cortez in the 2nd, in this fire matchup between two battle vets, O-Red proves in the end to have enough (“Now I’m confused, are y’all tellin’ me, you went from Total Slaughter couch to Charlie couch? well goddamn Mr. Top Tier Money, you need some bread bro? Sub Zero after the finisher, hold ya head up [BAOW!] now it’s like I got evicted when the lead bust!”) heat and more consistent punches to edge to pretty solid turn from his opponent and take the deciding round.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-1

Favorite line: O-Red – “Smack, what you be on, this a lose-lose tell this faggot move along, a lose-lose for you I mean, you see, I could snap and do you wrong or choke every round and send you back where you belong!”

GE defeats Mike G

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Recap: Rare 1-round PG sees Mike G come with some hardbody punchlines that were mixed in with  a little wit, altogether making for a solid performance. But a few too many pedestrian bars from Mike along with an action-packed, trap-centric and wordplay/punch-heavy turn from GE just proves to be too much in the end.

Verdict: GE (W) 1-0

Favorite line: GE – “‘Cuz he talk about touching grams and letting ratchet’s ride, y’all like that?, not me, I ain’t see Mike black since Jackson 5!”

Big Kannon defeats Holmzie Da God

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Recap: With a well-fought win, Big Kannon’s return the the URL goes about as well as expected. But other than a clear second round takedown, BK’s too often pedestrian opponent, Holmzie Da God still put up a fight what with a load of stinging gun bars, real street talk and some righteous punchlines. Still, even if he wasn’t quite as nice with the rebuttals as we’re used to seeing and might have a spit one too many name flips, BK’s versatility and penchant for fiery wordplay, fierce/witty personals and turned-up schemes/punches gives him the first two rounds, before a debatable 3rd avoids the 3-0.

Verdict: Big Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Big Kannon – “Before Smack, nigger you knew you or paid attention to you still, that’s why you on every card and begging hard, just to get up on the bill, but I see why you slaving Holmes, ‘cuz to the masses you one of the lightest niggers in the field!”

Jakkboy Maine defeats Jerry Wess

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Recap: Speaking a wide load of ‘Jakkanese’ which seems to include stirring cartoon references, fanatical song bars, local hometown heat, explicit gun bars, dazzling sound effects that’d make Big T smile, yodeling and stinging (“I’m armed and reckless or put my dick in your bitch and make ya mother nut, giving her everything like blossom, bubble and buttercup!”) performance bars/schemes, Jakkboy Maine manages to outshine a witty, (“I was sneaking up on nigga’s before I heard of Chilla [Dome shot!], put Maine head on another body…Terrence Howard meme!”) punch-heavy, crowd friendly, freestyle loading and often wordplay spazzing, but also a bit filler-prone Jerry Wess in the 1st and 3rd rounds to take this entertaining and competitive ‘Survivor Series’ battle from Smack/URL.

Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “I’m equip the beam, yunno shit get hot from the red light like Krispy Kreme!”

G Lowe defeats So Severe

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Recap: Dope 1-rounder here from ABR sees So Severe get busy with a loud and aggressive mix of persistent mayhem and bruising punchlines. Still, for all of his opponent’s heat, it’s a more versatile, witty, consistently punch-heavy and wordplay-lit G Lowe who edges this one for the win.

Verdict: G Lowe (W) 1-0

Favorite line: G Lowe – “You light-skin, you probably apologize for getting cheated on!”

Iron Solomon defeats Chilla Jones

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Recap: Chilla Jones has been in the game too long to not know that elongated rounds can work against him. But somehow the ‘Kingpen’ still falls victim to either wanting to show off his pen way too much (which against a stellar lyricist like Iron Solomon is understandable) or he just doesn’t have the wherewithal to make his rounds more succinct and get rid of unnecessary filler. To be fair, in what was a punch-heavy-on-both-sides lyrical manifesto that stayed close throughout, Chilla’s versatility game stayed on high alert here, as the Boston rapper flexed repeatedly with fire punchlines, grandiose schemes, dope (“Summer the only time you was facing a Murda, when Mook was done with you, all they found was your glasses and a Skittles bag!”) personals/name flips and solid gun lines. But one too many nimble reaches with the bars, sermonizing (leave the impression’s alone, even if it’s in good taste, it’s just not you); gritty but nonsensical bars towards an opponent who doesn’t pretend too much to be street and a lack of cohesion with the bars was just enough to leave a more compact, braggadocio, theme-centric, set-up/personal heavy and wordplay (“Sometimes you gotta talk to these bitches, I’m mansplaining!”) spazzing Iron Solomon with enough room to take the latter two rounds and earn the win.

Verdict: Iron Solomon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Iron Solomon – “I’m Q, I’ll write through anyone in this guy’s crew, anybody could fucking get it, I’m AIDS in 9-2!”

Moon defeats Rolla

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Recap: Fire battle between Moon and Rolla sees the latter kick that real (“You keep telling me about your robbing spree, I need to hear a story about you being scarred for that!”) shit, segueing between gritty, urban polemics and talking to his opponent in an old-school manner that only a fellow real G could relate to. However, for all of Rolla’s hysterics, Moon more than met the challenge, using witty personals, fire storytelling bars, his own stamped gunplay and fierce (“Nigga’s thinking there’s something so special about ’em…well, so do their mother’s!”) punchlines to garner rounds 1 along with 2, for the well-earned win.

Verdict: Moon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Moon – “Nigga, my goons is psycho, your psycho is menstrual!”

Jey The Nitewing defeats Fixx

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Recap: Reputed Gun Bar King Tay Roc would probably take a liking to Fixx, whose penchant for dishing a plethora of crafty firearm-related (“I’m kinda sick with it, you better hope the bullet come out or you gonna live with it!”) shiners makes him one to look out for. But in this sizzling PG battle versus Jey The Nitewing, Fixx’s overall heat gets outdone by a more versatile opponent, who via some acute wit, sterling punchlines/set-ups, shining wordplay and steely (“Closed casket, the irony…they couldn’t fix your face!”) name flips, takes the 1st and 3rd rounds to earn the win even with his hoodie literally breaking down on stage.

Verdict: Jey The Nitewing (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Jey The Nitewing – “That talking, don’t mean shit, I know as soon as I seen Fixx, you put Jey in front of him, he change up, now he a prefix!”

Scotty Good defeats Sco

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Recap: When he wasn’t literally snapping on Sco with some biting (“Look like you got bed bugs snapping on you, nigga!”) personals, Scotty Good’s more raucous punchlines make for not only an entertaining match, but more importantly a win as even a solid (when not flow-challenged) showing overall by (“I mean look at his name, that shit ain’t off to you?, Scotty, S-C-O-T-T-Y, damn your whole career you’ve been waiting for Sco to talk to you!”) Sco couldn’t keep up with Good’s verbal undressing.

Verdict: Scotty Good (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Scotty Good – “A nigga blam biscuit, think Shoprite commercial…you’ll see what the deal is after the kids kicking!”

Prep defeats Gauge

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Recap: Prep versus Gauge gets the ‘everything but the kitchen sink treatment’ what with frequent rebuttals, freestyles, your resident Drugz-getting-into-an-argument-with-somebody moment, tag-ins, crowd interruptions, some nice bars, etc…and to think, this was only a one-rounder. As for the battle, the edge here goes to Prep, as while Gauge had some heaters here and there, overall Prep flexed more with consistently nice punchlines and some cool name flips.

Verdict: Prep (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Prep – “They tried to give me dirt on you, but this ain’t adding up, why would I need ammo for Gauge, I been working with different calibers!”

Ha Double defeats Trey Murch

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Recap: In this one-rounder from Houston Bar Code, even a Ha Double struggling with his delivery at times and clearly on his B-game overall when it comes to spitting spitfire lines is enough to beat back opponent Trey Murch’s monotonous flow and lazy name flips, much less struggle for potent bars.

Verdict: Ha Double (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Ha Double – “Booking me came with a different perp, you got paid to box and ship a body, now ain’t that how you handle merch [Murch]!”

Prez Mafia defeats Don Marino

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Recap: Let’s go out on a limb and say that Prez Mafia was inspired for this one. Against a very solid and witty (“The Mexican making the Garden look good!”) Don Marino, a hyped up Prez dispenses with straight heat, delivering well-packaged punchlines and righteous (“Stomach shot, nigga you’ll lie on ya belly for not trusting your gut!”) gun bars in between frenzied set-ups that all landed. To think, with Marino making such a dope impression in his last battle on Gates versus Chess, Prez’s spitfire showing here may’ve brought his opponent back to earth.

Verdict: Prez Mafia (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Prez Mafia – “You got a PG in July…first nigga to get a ‘Juan Demarco!'”

Coffee Brown defeats Mz. Liza

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Recap: After being on the receiving end of some blistering heat and a gang of fiery 4-bar set-ups from Coffee Brown in the 1st round, a just as gritty, street-blazing and gun line-heavy Mz. Liza makes a nice a comeback in the latter rounds to make this We Go Hard 3-rounder competitive. But overall, the always confident, aggressive and in this case more intricate Coffee, who even added a handful of quality rebuttals to the mix here, just lands one too many haymakers and other sterling moments in the latter two rounds thateven  had the East-coast crowd rocking and earn the 3-0.

Verdict: Coffee Brown (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Coffee Brown – “Just ‘cuz I’m intelligent and all business, don’t get it wrong, come to my block, all you see is jump rope sales, arms and pounds on the table…we making prison songs!”

Yung Griz defeats Cali Smoov

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Recap: Way more condensed with less filler in the 1st during a spitfire round that saw both (“From the bottom to the top of Cali…I guess you should’ve took the 5!”) he and his opponent Cali Smoov bring a load of potent heat, Yung Griz survives a turned-up 2nd from (“I’m a fact-checker, we asked some nigga’s about his rap sheet, he started listing his Smack record!”) Cali to comeback with a barrage of witty personals, fierce performance bars and some sick wordplay to take the deciding 3rd and the win in this Smack/URL PG matchup.

Verdict: Yung Griz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Yung Griz – “You brought nunchucks to your last battle?!?, did you them nunchucks in this bitch?, fuck a nunchuck, boy I’m off the chain with a stick!”