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Mister Greco

Battle rap enthusiast living in Timbuktu

O-Red defeats Ooops

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Recap: O-Red uses some some hard (“You’ll get X’d over the green, Jamaican flag”) bars, winning personals, nice rebuttals, a stunting Maya Angelou (“You like poetry? BOW!!!, say hello to Maya Angelou nigga, naw naw I ain’t trying to be that disrespectful, I was only calling her Mya, she with Ill and Huggins, say hello to Maya and ya Lou niggas”) flip, a funky translation scheme and aggressive wordplay to come from behind and edge a (“We seen y’all in Detroit that’s why I question your credibility, I mean y’all say he’s top tier but I don’t see Red’s ability [credibility]”) game, but stumble heavy Ooops in this entertaining battle from RBE.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-1

Favorite line: O-Red – “Yo bitch love daddy style, pull them khakis down, she feel the peen O [Filipino] get the box, I’m Pacquiao”

Krucial Ken defeats Lotta Zay

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Recap: Here against Krucial Ken, a gang of mean punchlines and fierce schemes earns Lotta Zay a split going into the 3rd round. But the usually gun and mayhem-slinging Ken, surprisingly switches it up a bit in the deciding 3rd, adding a fleet of stinging personals and wit to his repertoire to edge a competitive round and earn the win.

Verdict: Krucial Ken (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Krucial Ken – “You feel disrespected or something?, you looking strong in the face, I’m all in your bitch mouth, that’s a tribal piercing, I’m putting bone in your face!”

Charron defeats Charlie Clips

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Recap: Unbothered by Charlie Clips openly admitting to being a little distracted preparing for their battle, what with top tier names like Hollow and Luz on deck, after getting edged in round 1 (thanks to some amiable freestyles by Clips) a more consistently punching, scheme-heavy, witty, freestyle-spazzing and personal hitting Charron simply out raps his toilsome, but less potent opponent in the latter two rounds for the win.

Verdict: Charron (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Charron – “The reason I freestyle is ‘cuz it’s crazy and hype, you freestyle because you do this for a paycheck and you’re too lazy to write!”

M. Ciddy defeats V.I.

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Recap: V.I. carries with him an arsenal of consistently mean (“Grab that chopper and light Ciddy [city] up, have him looking like a Vegas strip”) bars, but after struggling somewhat with his delivery in round one, M. Ciddy returns to form and edges rounds 2 and 3 with a nice combo of potent bars, metaphors and rapid (“You live the wrong way like Benjamin Button”) punchlines.

Verdict: M. Ciddy (W) 2-1

Favorite line: M. Ciddy – “Trust me, it ain’t a car full of coins when that nigga say I roll with dimes [dymes]”

Brooklyn Carter defeats Bedaffi Green

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Recap: A consistently aggressive and sometimes (“…before your whip turn, I’ll let you talk to teh Smoke from ya car, Big Worm!”) potent Bedaffi Green not only does a bad impression of his opponent, but spits a too-short 2nd round and altogether too many basic bars to stand any chance against Brooklyn Carter, who besides the rare (“Fuck Mr. Bean, I’ll pull up, say nothing, the clip spit liek Silent Bob!”) mid-round rebuttal, uses a plethora of fiery name flips, fierce wordplay/schemes, nice double entendre’s and hard-hitting (“A headshot, I let a couple ring together, that’s wedlock!”) punches to land the 3-0.

Verdict: Brooklyn Carter (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Brooklyn Carter – “Released another clip and knocked off his dreadlocks, I left the crime scene so ugly…what happened bro?, niggas thought O-Red died!”

Big Kannon defeats Bill Collector

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Recap: Strictly freestyle battle between Bill Collector and Big Kannon definitely provides plenty of entertainment with BC making fun of Kannon’s eating habits and wardrobe, while the Chicago vet pounced on his opponent on a versatile mix of hitting personals, witty barbs, solid flips, boastful darts, piercing punchlines and crowd responses for the win.

Verdict: Big Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Big Kannon – “They hear my verse and say the nigga sound like a preacher, the shit’s so spiritual!”

Big T defeats Gemini

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Recap: Stellar round 1 from Gemini, but too many light bars, average punchlines and a lack of stage presence afterwards gave Big T a chance to catch up, wild out with weighty gun bars, dope wordplay and delirious (“I’m laying pipes like I’m designing basements”) punchlines to edge rounds 2 and 3 and take it this one at the end.

Verdict: Big T (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Big T – “You better hope that piece [peace] be with you, salam a lakum”

T Top defeats Sno

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Recap: In a battle between a couple of UFF champions it’s T Top all day as a shaky Sno delivers some lame follow-ups to his angles, mostly falls flat with the pen game and in round one can’t even make the 2-minute time limit, Still, for all his three rounds T Top’s resonance is too much to handle, what with consistently nice wordplay, dope schemes and his usual covert affairs on life in the trap game (“I be in the Yak week, I’m like a freeloader, no good conscious, devils on each shoulder, touch me and you gonna catch it, I’m Ebola!”) remaining electrifying.

Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0

Favorite line: T Top – “See I hate you, but the fans be thinking your flow nice, so when you say you about to fuck my mother…damn, you so right, cuz we been fucked by the white man our whole life!”

Jakkboy Maine defeats Moon

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Recap: A hot 3rd round by Moon, who along with his wily OG talk and braggadocio bars went personal to edge the round. But by then it was too late as Jakkboy Maine’s more graphic punchlines, potent schemes and fire set-ups got him the first couple of rounds for the win.

Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “Yeah, I listen to my elder’s advice, but not because he always right, but because he got more experience at being wrong!”

Rich Dolarz defeats Jimz

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Recap: Good battle between the supremely confident Jimz and a just-got-back-from-his-latest-vacation Rich Dolarz. Both dropped some crazy bars (Jimz: “Testing me is something you’ll regret, that’s a Daylyt tattoo”; Rich: “So when I see him I’mma fire on him, cuz’ he like Pinocchio, he was made to have wires on him”) and kept it competitive throughout with nice wordplay (esp. with Rich), performance lines and nice (esp. on Jimz part) personals. However, as is often the case with Jimz some of his bars didn’t match his agression, the “What You Know About…” lines were a clear cop from Shotgun Suge and at times his lines just didn’t add (even if the biggest Rich Dolarz hater could admit that his battle vs. Daylyt was dope) up. On the other hand overall Rich was more consistent with his bars/flow, came with more haymakers and spit a little variety more variety in his rounds to take rounds 1 and 3 to edge the win.

Verdict: Rich Dolarz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Rich Dolarz – “You screaming ‘Fuck da police!’, nIgga stop that, cuz a gun in in ya face, will have you asking ‘Where the fuck the cops at?'”

T Top defeats Brizz Rawsteen

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Recap: T Top wraps up this UFF Finals matchup against Brizz Rawsteen pretty early, using the first couple of rounds to spit some exquisite trap (“Selling blow up, I had to use too much bake, on a safety pin cuz razors leave too much shape”) talk along with elite storytelling bars that even left co-host Bow Wow a little shook. Rawsteen came with some dope (“I’ll cut your bitch head off, put the blade up in her, and leave the tip on the table like she paid for dinner”) bars here and there, but underperformed somewhat with a slower style that you’re not used to seeing from Brizz. A terrific battle nonetheless with T Top clearly coming out on top.

Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1

Favorite line: T Top – “See while you was doing yard labor, I was with the jar shakers, cooking back just to get it back, that’s hard labor”

T Top defeats Chess

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Recap: T Top’s rich and potent trap (“I hit my plug like ‘yeerrppp’ we need more bails, but he nervous he only meet me in a cheap hotel”) talk proves to be too much for a spirited, but inconsistent Chess in this UFF semifinal matchup. No doubt Chess had his (“This nigga tried to walk the walk, I made him limp off”) moments along the way, but with candid storytelling bars, a more consistent flow, dope performance bars and winning name flips, T Top took this one easy to advance to the finals.

Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1

Favorite line: T Top – “I turn this chest [Chess] inside out like Will jacket”

Daylyt and Progrest (DEBATABLE)

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Recap: Only in the middle of a Daylyt match could one envision a battle rapper having a cake presented to him while the audience sings “Happy Birthday”. That said, Progrest in his “3rd battle ever”, puts forth a pretty good showing, using ready-to-fire punchlines, witty (“Put hollow points in your cheeks, like Dots with ass shots”) anecdotes and introducing, get-ready-for-it…slow-motion performance bars that’d make Sylvester Stallone proud–yeah, this kid has potential. But give Daylyt credit for making this one-rounder competitive with fierce (“Niggas died in the lake, anybody that’s by you [Bayou] killed”) street bars and a well-timed freestyle (“I should’ve out hands on his big head, you like to [shakes hand] jerk”) game that earned him the tie.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Progrest – “Heaven sent, but you can see hell free, everybody to the left die [Left Eye] TLC”

Pat Stay defeats Daylyt

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Recap: Well known for gimmicks and not caring too much about wins or losses, of course it’s only right that Daylyt gets a title shot for the KOTD chain against the champion Pat Stay. And just in case you thought that there would be any chance of an epic battle, Daylyt ixnay’s that idea with the quickness by coming to the stage dressed as a slave and even goes so far as to bring his own ‘slave master’ with him (with a fake whip too, yunno, for crowd effect) to instruct him during the battle. Right. Well, at least Pat Stay showed up to battle and when he wasn’t dissing Charron or Charlie Clips, for 3 well-equipped and versatile rounds the Nova Scotia vet proceeded to use a sizzling performance and some potent lines to mock his opponent’s contrived stunts and rhyme patterns, pull rank with a host of ill bully bars and score aplenty with righteous/witty punchlines. And while Daylyt did somehow rap his way through his tedious rounds, during a performance that might’ve worked better as part of an elementary school play instead of a rap battle, his occasional abstract wordplay and other verbal hijinks were mostly pedestrian, leaving Pat Stay with a pretty easy defense of his title.

Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Pat Stay – “You see before the Spawn shit, he was nothing special, just a regular guy, it’s sad that you had tattoo your entire face just to get recognized!”

Illmaculate defeats Real Deal

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Recap: Capped by a killer 3rd round classic that him flexing with a shitload of spicy punchlines, Illmaculate’s casual but potent rebuttal game and winsome 4-bar punches/wordplay throughout this battle earns him a 30 over a more-raucous-than-usual and personal heavy, but overall topsy-turvy Real Deal in this dressed up 3-rounder from FilmOn TV.

Verdict: Illmaculate (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Illmaculate – “It would get ugly if a strap on me like Barkley kicks, but I’d rather take his top and leave something missing like Barbie’s tits!”

Aye Verb defeats Daylyt

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Recap: Daylyt’s extraordinary 3rd (”Soon as they gave Verb his price, for us to box in the spot, I spotted a box for you, the word is dice”) round will get most of the attention here. But Aye Verb still gets the dub, using steady (Send hot rounds to your door nigga, who ordered pizza?”) jokes, going the tutorial route with the personals, spitting hard-hitting (“He ain’t saying nothin’ throwing up signs, this ain’t Charades niggas”) bars, flipping Daylyt’s shit and executing a more consistent flow throughout to edge the first couple of rounds and score a slight upset.

Verdict: Aye Verb (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Daylyt – “I had a crack rock soooo big, Yung Ill tried to drag it home!”

Mass Messiah and Big Kannon [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Even tho he had to settle for a tie here, during his turn from this 1-round battle from HomegrownBGCT, conscious rapper Mass Messiah certainly got his point across impressing with a fleet of social commentary, revolutionary references, political messaging and some fiery (“You just knew I was Mass Messiah, probably thought of a lot of name flips, a white messiah been suppressing the races!”) wordplay/punchlines…all with nary a fat joke against an opponent, Big Kannon, who’s used to being on the other end of them. Still, Kannon didn’t come to play either. The Chicago spitter combating Messiah’s steady wisdom with a stable mix of fiery name flips/wordplay, stinging personals, righteous mayhem and a spicy rebuttal and freestyle to make this bout a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Big Kannon – “I mean something’s up, you get Mass Messiah put your dome on straight, you body Mass it won’t matetr because it holds no weight!”

YaBoyClip defeats Tyranny

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Recap: Not the easiest battle to decipher as despite YaBoyClip setting up Tyranny perfectly with alleged ‘tranny’ semantics in round 1 that led to plenty of crowd interruptions while the latter tried to spit his more pause-worthy bars, the DMV dude’s litany of potent (“I’ll be riding with a couple of .8’s like a soccer mom!”) punches throughout this battle was only diminished by elongated rounds and a few aggressive, but utterly lame personals here and there. That said, let it be known that while YBC might’ve lost the haymaker count to his uber-confident (“I’ll put 24 in his square like a shot clock, you’ll see a little arm wave like a pop-lock!”; “It’s not her birthday, but you’ll see the heat flashes when she get the .40!”) opponent, his ability to string together a more consistent palette of hot bars, feelgood wordplay/storytelling lines, a nice rebuttal in the 2nd and some very hard-landing (“See with these bars I keep it graphic with good ass rhymes, like when that chainsaw rip [vrrooommm, vrrooommm] you would’ve thought Shotgun Suge just heard a hard-ass line!”) punches of his own, ended up being just enough to edge rounds 2 and 3 and get the victory in this Proving Grounds matchup.

Verdict: YaBoyClip (W) 2-1

Favorite line: YaBoyClip – “They say the devil wears prada, well we rob nigga’s and those two, you’ll see two G’s in front of you like two of them Ugg boots!”

D.O.T. defeats Billy Bars

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Recap: ‘I could never lose a battle to someone who looks like a puppet’. Whatever Billy Bars has in energy, he severely lacks in wordplay, much less quality bars. In other words, an easy win for D.O.T., who besides a spitfire (“Catch me on ‘1st 48 like ‘Who talked?!'”) 3rd round, really didn’t have to do much to take this one in the end.

Verdict: D.O.T. (W) 3-0

Favorite line: D.O.T. -“You think this crowd care if you Unbias?, I could get you shit by an Angry Fan!”

Rosenberg Raw defeats TG Patron

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Recap: Despite a slip-up in round 3 and a too-short round 2, Rosenberg Raw’s repeated haymakers, off-the dome skills, variety and performance (“Nah fuck that! We all know that he not ready, I will automatic machine, Machine Gun Kelly!”) bars are enough to save him from defeat to the consistently just-average bars of TG Patron.

Verdict: Rosenberg Raw (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Rosenberg Raw – “Wack nigga, I ain’t gotta let the shotty blam, you weigh a buck fifty, you vulnerable to the bodyslam!”

Reepah Rell defeats Bonus

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Recap: Too often slow to his punches during the 1st half of his round, Bonus takes awhile to really (“So many bags in the crib, the cops tried to hit me with a ticket to distribute!”) heat up, which ends up costing him in what was otherwise a solid challenge to Reepah Rell’s relentless and more consistent gun theme’s, hitting personals and otherwise (“I find funny that you name yourself Bonus, when you rarely win!”) witty wordplay.

Verdict: Reepah Rell (W) 1-0

Favorite line:  Reepah Rell – “I’m thinking Paul George, that’s the last time I heard Bone snap!”

DNA defeats Sketch Menace

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Recap: Sketch Menace is a pretty dope battle rap moniker. But as seen here versus an animated DNA, Menace’s shtick works best when he sticks to the (“Talking about you got a million dollar smile?, yeah, that’s what they quoted you to fix it!”) jokes and punchlines, rather than the too-often ‘plain’ lines he spat here. All of which made for an easy 3-0 when faced against DNA’s fresh hometown schemes, spirited (“They booked Clips and Daylyt ‘cuz they wanted them bars, so how’s your name Sketch when you still not a draw on this card?”) name flips and more consistent delivery.

Verdict: DNA (W) 3-0

Favorite line: DNA – “Boy I work miracles, I could stop Advil with this pump!”

Automatic Ray defeats R Streetz

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Recap: Two dope rounds from R Streetz and Automatic Ray equate to a tie going into the deciding 3rd. However, an out-of-nowhere choke by Streetz leaves Ray with the task of just completing his turn without interruption, which the witty, veteran battler gamely does.

Verdict: Automatic Ray (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Automatic Ray – “I brought gun’s for the cheddar, that’s mac on mac, ski mask, Jay great, that’s Black on Black!

Jey The Nitewing defeats King HushHush

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Recap: Answering to his opponent daring to use ‘King’ in his stage name with some potent name flips, but also adept at dishing a raspy plate of righteous punches, lyrical stunting and pertinent mayhem, in the face of a gang of mediocre name flips and other pedestrian bars, in this 1-rounder from AHAT Washington, the ‘MadKing’ aka Jey The Nitewing scores an easy vic over King HushHush.

Verdict: Jey The Nitewing (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Jey The Nitewing – “But Hush, ain’t none of that trash going over our heads nigga, thsi ain’t waste management!”

Dre Vishiss defeats Bobby Lee Swagger

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Recap: Dope 1-rounder from AHAT between Bobby Lee Swagger and Dre Vishiss sees Swagger repeatedly score aplenty with some wicked and versatile punches during his turn to force the action and make him hard to beat. However, not to be outdone, a turned-up and slightly more consistent Vishiss uses some spitfire set-ups, gritty gun bars, fire name flips and lucid braggadocio lines to edge the round and earn the win.

Verdict: Dre Vishiss (W) 1-0

Favorite line:  Dre Vishiss – “This Krack [crack] City, we already seen what the shit did to you and Whitney, Bobby!”

Cassidy defeats Dizaster

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Recap: When Dizaster last faced a professional recording artist, Canibus, his notebook-entrenched opponent was so bad and Diz made it look so easy that the idea of the veteran battle rapper ever battling another rapper was a wash. Unfortunately for Diz, that wasn’t was case here as against former street battler Cassidy (from “I’m A Hustla” fame) Dizaster’s pen game fails him big-time with 90% pedestrian bars and rhymes that even when they did hit, ran the same theme of braggadocio lines, predictable personals and standard verbal assaults. But Cassidy, whose magnanimous battle rap face alone gets him points, showed from jump that he wasn’t going pull a Canibus, dishing enough cocky and hard punchlines, gun-laced shiners and a totally on-point of his loquacious opponent to edge round 1, before both battlers dialed it back to split a pretty underwhelming 2nd round, before Cassidy upped the ante again with hardbody schemes and gritty punches/personals to easily take round 3 from a tedious turn by Diz and up his win-loss record to ‘5001-0’.

Verdict: Cassidy (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cassidy – “I’ll snap and give you head shots like barber pictures!”

Brizz Rawsteen defeats Anubis

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Recap: Anubis has a wide range of bars, but too often his set-ups are elongated and rare does he say anything that’s over-the-top. And in a battle against a performance standout like Brizz Rawsteen, you’re going to need either a better performance or some haymakers and even some personals to win, yet for all of Anubis’ game plan there just wasn’t much of any of those. As for Rawsteen he did his thing, especially in the first two rounds with nice angles, violent themes and aggressive wordplay to earn the win.

Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – Honestly you living out a movie and your mind it seems, until i try and squeeze a bullet through the back of your eyes, that’s behind the scenes”

B. Magic defeats Conceited

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Recap: One of, if not the most anticipated battle of 2014, B-Magic versus Conceited turns out to be a goodie, especially with a frenzied crowd that was tuned into every punchline, scheme and so-so bar. 1st round, easily the best of the bout, would set the tone early on with a confident Magic dropping consistently spicy punch after punch with rich abandon and timely slices of wit. While the veteran Con would standup to his opponent with an equal fervor via hitting (“Twin guns, I’ll fill drums and you’ll lift them both, I’m the type to raise up two black 4’s to nigga’s like Different Strokes!”) punches/gun bars, jaunty personals and piercing wordplay. After a close opening round (edged here to the performance-heavier Con), however, things would begin to separate a bit as frankly speaking, Magic just kept his knee on Con’s neck, never letting up while dishing another barrage of nifty wordplay, gritty (“If you buggin’ you’ll get sprayed, I exterminated groups, metal talkin’, Con’ll run like Terminator 2!”) name flips and consistently spitfire darts to beat back a pretty solid and witty, but a bit topsy-turvy 2nd by Con and doing more of the same in the deciding 3rd to earn the win.

Verdict: B-Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B-Magic – “Who wildin’ out? Magic palmin’ the biscuit, every motherfucker rollin’ behind Con is gon’ feel it, got a pine box in the cemetery, Con should go visit, this bitch is fucked behind these bars: conjugal visit

T Top defeats Th3 Saga

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Recap: T Top and Th3 Saga put on a nice battle for UFF/SMACK/ URL’S 8 man elimination MC Battle tournament. Both put in work, but Saga’s best moments were somewhat spoiled by a lack of performance and a need to update (using 80s and 90s wrestlers in a scheme just doesn’t go over well) his bars. Meanwhile T Top’s preparation here was especially on point using dope storytelling lines, that sizzling trap talk, a spirited performance and heated (“I don’t give a fuck what your image and status about, you can’t pray fast enough with a gat in ya mouth!”) bars that not only got him the win, but sure as hell made Satan proud.

Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1

Favorite line:  T Top – “My moms was coke pitching, now she a stroke victim, that might be payback from the Lord but we coping with it”

Hemi defeats O’fficial

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Recap: O’fficial goes (“You couldn’t Ice T, my nigga you been afraid, but once I squeeze ’em, they gonna have to get him an aide [lemonade]”) ham on Hemi for a few minutes until an unexpected visit from Earl causes her to lose steam quick in this one-round intergender matchup from NOBL. However, truth be told, despite a need to work on his delivery, with the consistent heat, wild (“How you known for having an outfit problem, rock dirty clothes, but you built like a washing machine?”) personals and spirited punchlines Hemi was spitting, even a stronger showing from O’fficial wouldn’t have been near enough to take this one.

Verdict: Hemi (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Hemi – “You not my sister because I’d kick with you and I love ya, you my sister because ain’t no possible way I’d fuck ya”

DNA defeats Sonny Bamboo

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Recap: Close 3-rounder from Don’t Flop sees the witty puns and piercing punchlines from former Grind Time host Sonny Bamboo score here and there to keep things interesting. But a cleaner-flowing DNA, while not always on his A-game when it came to dope punches, delivers a sufficient amount of haymakers to take the deciding round 3 for the win.

Verdict: DNA (W) 2-1

Favorite line: DNA – “They nicknamed you the leprechuan, but you still ain’t got luck with me, and since I got the juice now, I guess that’s why they gave Sonny [Sunny] D!”

JC and Scripts [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Doomsday Rap Battle brought to you from Rap Grid ends up being a draw as the hardbody punchlines, street missives and mocking personals of Scripts puts enough points on the scoreboard to (round 1: debatable, round 2: Scripts, round 3: JC) matchup equally with the fiery schemes, slinging mayhem and (“You New York nigger’s buck-fifty with the razors, not us, the accuracy too cutthroat!”) piercing punches/name flips of a condensed JC over the course of 3 rounds.

Verdict: Debatable

Favorite line: Scripts – “This Roscoe biscuit, Ricky scratching that Lotto ticket, you don’t even know death coming!”

Chef Trez defeats Riggz

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Recap: Upon dishing punch after punch laced with repeated fire, Chef Trez sums this one-rounder versus Riggz better than I can: ‘You pretty a-ight, but for the most part you rap with filler’.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I’m a gun holder, you about to take a dirt nap bitch, I done put more nigga’s in box since them thirst trap pics!”

Bigg K defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Short, quick and to the point as Bigg K and B-Magic rep their bars with the quickness of two dudes who came through and left like they were late for a doctor’s appointment or something. Anyway, Bigg K gets this one with a more consistent flow, better overall quality (and quantity) of punches and more variety with his (“You was getting by Fox more than Barack Obama”) bars versus Magic who while spitting fire at times, what with 3 straight condensed rounds just came off like his heart wasn’t that into it.

Verdict: Bigg K (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B-Magic – “I warned dude first, tho we already knew that, i kicked this nigga ass till they asked where my shoe at”

Danny Myers defeats Merrick City

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Recap: Solid, 1-round phone battle between Danny Myers and Merrick City goes Danny’s way as while the punch-heavy M. City made for some quality missives here and there, his overall palette couldn’t quite keep up with a more visceral, versatile, name-flip friendly and boastful Myers.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “My flow excitement, I’m about get to gritty y’all, I’m hiding in his house, I ain’t looking for the mayor but I’m in City hall!”

Haixian defeats E Ty

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Recap: E Ty with an unorthodox delivery and hyper flow, made for some comedic (“He the type to get excited every Columbus Day!”) moments. But it’s the versatile and aggressive schemes of Haixian that end up easily taking this one-rounder.

Verdict: Haixian (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Haixian –  “I got a sub machine and my .38 special like custom jeans!”

Bedaffi Green defeats A-Ssassin

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Recap: Equipped with audacious name flips, salacious gun bars and witty (“This here, is Anton, that’s it…Mercy found him playing handball!”) barbs, after edging a tight first round, Bedaffi Green goes on to steal all the highlights in this 3-rounder versus A-Ssassin, who after starting off (“I guess it’s safe to say Orange is the New Black, there’s a lot of bitches acting behind bars!”) hot, goes on a downward spiral that ends up with him quitting on his stool.

Verdict: Bedaffi Green (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Bedaffi Green – “Y’all gonna see this cat lying, when that deuce ready to throw for A…Matt Ryan, I’ll flat line him, and if I hear talk, it’s Angry Fan at the airport, y’all gonna see Caps flying!”

Ryda defeats Streetz Messiah

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Recap: A composed and gritty Streetz Messiah has his best round in the (“Do something if you don’t like me bitch, and y’all gonna watch me straight break this nigga, that be your ‘Will he lynch?’, I mean I break nigga’s like Willie Lynch!”) 2nd, but other than that it’s basic gunplay, slip-ups and an unadulterated,  (“You old Jay Reid-ass nigga, always shooting without the intent to kill!”) bar-heavy Ryda whose aggressive and consistent litany of fierce punchlines along with potent set-ups throughout his 3 rounds, scores him an easy 3-0.

Verdict: Ryda (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Ryda – “Now you put your trust in the Lord, well for acting B.I.G. bitch, you could lose your faith in the night, now remember? Pac fucked B.I.G. bitch, he lost his Faith in the night

Lil Joe defeats Gy ThaRyda

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Recap: A slightly more condensed and more (“That flame to GY skull, that’s how I Ghost Rider [Ryda]!”) robust Lil Joe takes the first round, before delivering the dagger with a turned up second that overwhelmed his opponent. Gy ThaRyda, who stayed competitive throughout with some nice (“….he making faces?, so I’m Changing Faces, I’m a different nigger by 1:12 [112]!”) schemes and vigorous punchlines, avoids the 3-0 with heavier heat in the 3rd.

Verdict: Lil Joe (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Lil Joe – “Look, another fat bitch about to struggle, aren’t you Precious!”

Cali Smoov defeats Young B The Future

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Recap: A lot of loud chatter in the room for this intense battle between Cali Smoov and Young B (RIP). However, even with all the interruptions and side talk, a good battle was produced nonetheless with the braggadocios, name-flip savvy and oft-gritty punches/wordplay of Smoov spazzing enough to easily beat back an inconsistent turn by Young B, before a debatable 2nd that saw a less potent Smoov hit hard with a flexing (“It’s true, my wardrobe do show a nigger rose to the occasion!”) rebuttal that was arguably his best line on the night, altogether enough to match the aggressive and heated (“Get drugged and put that red dot on his head, that’s what the Hen do [Hindu]!”) punchlines of Young B. 3rd round featured another solid turn by Cali, who also showed off his versatile side with some nice freestyles, hitting personals and fire set-ups. However, Young B, hellbent on dishing personals throughout his turn, while witty at times, overall just couldn’t match his opponent’s lyrical potency or versatility.

Verdict: Cali Smoov (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cali Smoov – “That glock with me, trust, if we beef in my hood, you’ll get a one-on-one with Blood like that scene in The Wood!”

Danja Zone defeats Cortez

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Recap: Mostly a snoozefest between Cortez and Danja Zone as Tez for the most part seemed uninspired and his signature wordplay more often than not fell flat. Still, after a lackluster first round, Danja Zone stepped his game up and scored heavy in both the latter rounds with some nice performance bars and brash schemes to take it at the end.

Verdict: Danja Zone (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Danja Zone – “You telegraphing your punches, my jab’s fast as a Mach Five, you swing and I’ll weave and land that before you draw your hands back, I’m counterclockwise”

Cortez defeats Danny Myers

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Recap: 3-rounder from Rap Grid sees Cortez use a gang of mocking, but adept punchlines, some witty barbs, nifty wordplay and piercing personals/schemes to beat back a convoluted with the angles, redundant with the mayhem and mostly subpar with the punches Danny Myers.

Verdict: Cortez (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Cortez – “I dare him to creep closer, I’m strapped with each holster, I bring a coffin to Dallas ‘cuz I’m sicker than Ebola!”

Bigg K defeats Aye Verb

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Recap: While Bigg K may never get points or sportsmanship, as he shows once again here versus Aye Verb, no one can dispute his wicked bar/punchline game. So even while Verb uses the race card to offer some competition and a pretty (“Broads, I only fuck with one kind, I’m a racist!”) potent 1st round, from there it’s all K, dishing a fierce (“You just gonna say that I’m white, that is some racist and wack shit, I’ll smack your mother on the ass and call her a black bitch!”) rebuttal, feelgood bully bars, funny (“I heard you taking MMA classes, that’s some of the faggotest shit I heard in my life, you gonna wait till you 35 and try to learn how to fight!”) personals and a way more consistently dope bar game to easily take out a (“When you young and you riding on niggas, you just learning, you gotta make an older ride with you, it’s like a permit!”) hit-or-miss 2nd round and a wasted 3rd from Verb.

Verdict: Bigg K (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Bigg K – “I’ll leave you and your bitch stretched out, y’all Team Yoga!”

Chilla Jones defeats Yung Ill

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Recap: Not the best Chilla (could be taking too many battles, but props for the Jean Grae mention) what with a little more filler than usual, but against a Yung Ill who basically only showed up for a round (mostly the 2nd with hard lines like: “Pounds and Tek’s, that multiple so three or four? but these two I brought with me? I named them Either Or”) and a half, a plethora of (“Before the dollars came you beat Hitman with bars of flames, but he’s the legend and you? without a call or lane, another Pete Rose because you’ll never see Hall of Fame”) working personals, elite wordplay and feel-good schemes provided more than enough heat for the win.

Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “So play Hero, from here on I’m a villain I took Ill in vain, but that’s dope because if you take the word villain that’s ‘ill’ in ‘vain'”

Reepah Rell defeats July Streets

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Recap: July Streets (He sings too!) brings enough vociferous (“That piece on that side kick like baby bop!”) heat to make for a debatable 2nd round, but other than that, couldn’t keep up with, much less handle Reepah Rell’s righteous (“I just figured I’d teach July, you know this summer school!”) name flips, stinging gun bars and fiery punchlines throughout the 1st and 3rd.

Verdict: Reepah Rell (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Reepah Rell – “Ain’t no turning back, when I’m pointing at Streets, I’m like a One Way, nigga!”

Casey Jay defeats Deisel

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Recap: A raucous, hardbody start by Deisel is put to bed by a consistently spicy and punch-heavy turn by Casey Jay in round 1 of this fiery QOTR 3-rounder. However, with Deisel displaying yet another brazen and 4-bar setup-lit 2nd round to beat back her solid, but not quite as hitting opponent, things would even up going into round 3. The highly contested battle would take a turn in the final round tho as a couple of slip-ups by Deisel would help a still aggressive, versatile, gun bar savvy and squarely-punching Casey to coast to a win.

Verdict: Casey Jay (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Casey Jay – “I got Tek’s [texts] for y’all whole clique…group messages!”

Marv Won defeats Lotta Zay

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Recap: Even a punch-heavy, fire 3rd round by (“My bars the best, if anybody think they could double these [D’s], they must be talking Marvin’s breast!”) Lotta Zay can’t save him from getting 30’d, as a spitfire throughout, witty, condensed, personal/gun line (“Nigga, this choppa got a kick like it’s electric sliding!”) slinging and punchline-heavy Marvwon makes more than enough to take each round and Detroit proud.

Verdict: Marvwon (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Marvwon – “Nigga, I will fry you, my metal talk like Futurama!”

Emerson Kennedy defeats Ah Di Boom

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Recap: In this 3-rounder from AHAT, another gritty, performance-heavy and gun-centric showing by Ah Di Boom gets upended by a punchline and wordplay spazzing Emerson Kennedy. A confident EK, who also came with his own gang of performance-enriched bars, especially shines with more intricate set-ups and fiercer name flips/gun lines, leading to a plethora of haymakers that allowed him to edge each round.

Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “And I heard you got bad fists, get knocked out don’t do jack shit, you’ve been dropped around the corner, more than being ashamed of your dad’s whip!”

Head Ice defeats K-Shine

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Recap: On a Grind Time stage, definitely. On a King of the Dot stage, perhaps. But on a URL stage two-minute rounds should never be agreed to again, especially considering the exposure granted on the “world’s biggest arena”, level of the platform given and the costs heads gotsa pay to see their favorite battle rappers perform on Smack’s main events. And hopefully, this matchup between Harlem’s Head Ice and K-Shine (who deserves props for having the gumption to apologize for his shortened round) will be the last we see of two-minute rounds on Smack. As for the battle, while Shine came more prepared then we’ve seen in a minute, consistent in his flow and diverse in his (“If you so much as jump or move your leg it’ll be an ASL challenge Ice, bucket on his head nigga”) raps, it wasn’t enough to beat Head Ice’s assortment of street lines, aggressive stage performance, witty bars and that slick (“How you rap ’bout guns but ain’t got no closet for that?, You mean to tell me if I thought you was rich and wanted to murder ya I ain’t got the option of running into ya crib and flip furniture?”) talk so-called “real” heads love so much, especially in rounds one and three to edge Shine and take the win here.

Verdict: Head Ice (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Head Ice – [BANG!] One in the head shot, real killers ain’t gotta give ’em a dead kick, we could tell by how they leg twitch”

T Top defeats Ah di Boom

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Recap: T Top’s shrewd name flip’s, lofty mayhem and graphic street yarns/punchlines combine to beat back a hardbody and solid, but repetitive punching Ah di Boom in this griity 1-rounder from Angry Fan Radio.

Verdict: T Top (W) 1-0

Favorite line: T Top – “I know Jersey hoods, they say you don’t play with them slugs, they ain’t hear Boom bang bang since he was playing the drums!”

JC and Danny Myers [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Two prolific battle emcees who almost always give it their all, it’s to be expected that JC and Danny Myers would put on a dope, bar-heavy and competitive showing. Myers goes 1-up with a load of rapid, versatile punchlines that were well-spiced with braggadocio rhythms and some fire (“You fucking with a 5th banger, I’ll take him to the top of the mountain and well…the rest is a cliffhanger!”) set-ups, before JC even things out grandiose heaters that along with some witty (“All my bars make you do shit you can’t do, like bring them lines back!”) barbs/personals, beat back a solid, but not-as-fire-as-his-first-round turn by Danny. The 3rd and deciding round was just a matter of who could more fortitude and with both battlers going in with an equal amount of sterling punches, fierce (Myers: “Point bank in your living room nigga, I’ll spray a slug, your forehead be all in ya carper like a prayer’s rug!”) gun bars, graphic schemes, potent wordplay and some seismic haymakers, it was only fitting that the end result be a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: JC – “Now I know, you love doing that gun talk until somebody stretch him with the shit, bunch of Young Thug’s, all about the money till you address [a dress] ’em like a bitch!”

Chess defeats Prep

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Recap: Shocking slip-ups by Prep along with a wicked array of slick performance bars and schemes by Chess gives the confident young’un a quality win in this first round UFF matchup.

Verdict: Chess (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Chess – “My niggas speak lead, they thought of a pistol,your niggas speak lead they thought of a pencil, you going up? Good! Well your jaw [points up] going with you [and] I keep bringing it up like I’m forcing the issue!”

Real Deal defeats Daylyt

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Recap: No shit. Up until he literally took a dump on stage midway through his 3rd round before being escorted off stage by security, I thought Daylyt’s latest gimmick–fully dressed in an all-black outfit with a cloak over his head and then revealing a fake decapitated head (which was hilarious)– was none too extreme for a guy already well-known for his antics. But either the booing crowd really got to ‘Lyt (deservedly so considering how most of his bars were pretty subpar) or the entire shit-show was pre-planned (which is even worse when it comes to the fans and the company that’s paying you, in this case KOTD). Still, Daylyt would later blame the whole mess on ‘racism’, he’d continue to battle on KOTD and oh yeah, his opponent (and ironically, fellow Dot Mobb member) Real Deal would gain what was probably the easiest 30 of his battle career.

Verdict: Real Deal (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Real Deal – “Yo, another muthafuckin’ gimmick, he must have known he’d be the loser, your stupid ass came out dressed like the ghost of Christmas future!”

Chef Trez defeats Tommy Fishscale

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Recap: With a fly rap name like Tommy Fishscale, one can’t be faulted for thinking he’d come better here than a couple of slip-ups and a boatload of very basic raps. Thus, making it much easier for a punch-heavy, wordplay-lit and heavily armed Chef Trez to easily win this 1-rounder from AngryFan Radio.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “The ratchet mounted and stay clapping like club ho’s, I’ll grab a second gun and let a couple arms come together like a love pose!”

Danny Myers defeats Unique Barrz

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Recap: With a methodical and brazen flow that was matched by a gang of steely punchlines and salty personals, Unique Barrz managed to keep herself in contention during this 1-rounder from AHAT. But against a Danny Myers drenched in scathing personals to go along with a host of spicy punches, witty storytelling and fiery 4-bar set-ups, even a pretty solid showing by Barrz couldn’t beat her opponent’s blistering, misogynistic palette.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “These bars are a formula that you can’t get on your WIC card!”

Rum Nitty defeats Arsonal da Rebel

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Recap: A Dual in the Desert main event featuring the veteran Arsonal da Rebel vs. noted up-n-comer Rum Nitty lives up the hype with a highly competitive barfest filled with exquisite punchlines, wordplay and gritty bars. Both Nitty and Arsonal came strong in the 1st with da Rebel giving what the crowd wants: disrespectful lines, in-ya-face steez and wicked (“And most your chokes they like strangles, this a dual in the desert, it’s 90 degrees out this bitch and you still ain’t gone come at me with the right angles”) punches. Still, Nitty returns the heat with extra fire on top: fierce (“So go ahead, get in my face, that don’t intimidate, I’ll hit a Grape in his melon with this banana clip, i.e. lemonade”) punchlines, hometown bars, name flips and dope personals. 2nd round featured more consistently (“My Tommy will bust before it get to see Pam’s titties”; “Like bitches getting tattoos on boobies, I’m tit for tat”) nice jokes and punches from Arsonal, but also a couple of reaches and an interchangeable scheme (i.e. The Simpsons) we’ve heard many times elsewhere. On the other hand, Nitty spit a savvy round complete with fresh performance bars, rigid wordplay, street talk and (“Boy I got a gun so big…I can’t aim right, security caught me dragging that bitch off the elevator…like Ray Rice”) haymakers. Arsonal’s 3rd round may’ve been his hardest and most consistent what with hard-hitting (“They said you cripping, is it true Nitty? Well your baby mother said you ain’t never read [red] your daughter a story, but you ready to die over that blue Nitty?”) personals, more in-your-face aggression and heavy bars. And while Rum continued to spit that heat with easy swag, passion and ready-to-rumble (“Pause, Who want it? Line up, you’ll wind up red, that’s Merlo, I ain’t switching up breaks but he a prison inmate, you could’ve got this work for low [furlough]”) bars, his last round didn’t quite match up with Arsonal’s consistency. Still nonetheless, I got Rum edging the first couple of rounds to take this one in the end.

Verdict: Rum Nitty (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Arsonal – “I’m out here trying to fuck while you fingering bitches until your hand numb”

Cakes defeats Ah Di Boom

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Recap: Word to the wise: judging from all that creaking going on during this battle, next time so many bug dudes are all up on the same stage, you might wanna perform on a stronger platform. Moving on, nice one-rounder between Ah Di Boom and the underrated Cakes here as both came with some dope (Ah Di: “I’ll have my white boy [points gun at Cakes head] shooting at ya roof…to Higher Learning!”) bars, (Cakes: “In fact you was eating, I caught him doing his favorite thing in the fridge…reaching”) jokes, cool name flips and hitting wordplay. And although host Charlie Clips arguably had the best line of the night (“Real fat nigga shit, we feed each other!”), the feeling here is that Cakes edged this one if only for being more consistently nice with his raps, which stood out admirably when compared to Boom’s filler along with the fact that the first half of his round was much harder than the second.

Verdict: Chess (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Cakes – “Listen, I’m pimping, on the comeback, that means I’m bringing the mac round, Throwback Thursday you’ll get the black cartridge, that’s No Mercy before the Smackdown”

MyVerse defeats Cee The Boss

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Recap: Adding lofty multi’s and sporadic doses of wit to an already hefty bar game, MyVerse would need it all here in this Queen of the Ring match against the flexing gun bars and boastful shiners of Cee The Boss. Indeed, a competitive, raucous, wordplay-lit, name flip-savvy and lyrical crowd-pleasing battle throughout, it’d be a spitfire 3rd (which included a dope freestyle to start things off) from MyVerse, that showcased all of her versatility, that’d prove to be the difference in the end.

Verdict: MyVerse (W) 2-1

Favorite line: MyVerse – “Leave you with no feeling like you need acrylic!”

John John da Don defeats Aye Verb

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Recap: Battle of the Two Most Hated Battle Rappers (with good reasons) goes down as expected with lots of lame lines, boo’s and plenty of WTF’s (Verb: “I am a rooster”). But somebody had to win and in this case it’s John John da Don who survives Aye Verb 80’s swagger-jacking (“What you know about being in a cell ith a nigga facing a murder, got you scared to go to sleep cuz’ our crimes don’t match?”) the first round to edge the 2nd with better (“Just cuz’ your mother got a metal dick, that don’t mean you here cocking steel”) bars, personals, PG schemes and more spirited punches, while easily taking round 3 with winning anecdotes on Verb’s recent battles, nicer angles and a harder perforamnce versus Verb basically taking the round off and stopping short early.

Verdict: John John da Don (W) 2-1

Favorite line: John John da Don – “You got them white boys really thinking they could own us, for letting them take your shine on stage, here go some slow bucks [Slowbucks]”