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Shotgun Suge and B. Magic [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Despite battling some early slip-ups in round 1, Shotgun Suge still manages to get busier with the punches in round 1 of this 3-round, ‘The Rebirth’ bout from UDubb vs. a pedestrian B. Magic to edge things there. However, a combination of a still pretty solid Suge relying a little too much on well-oiled personals concerning his opp along with Magic stepping it up with both the punchlines and the wordplay (esp. when it came to use of hometown [“I could’ve been a Birdman with all the Fiend’s that I found!”]references in round 3) in the latter two rounds allows for an equally efficient 2nd, before Magic came back to take the final round to earn a debatable.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Shotgun Suge – “I only play the trap for half a summer, these nigga’s lack in hunger, I hit the block and turn 20 into 50, we doing Magic numbers!”

B. Magic defeats Emerson Kennedy

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Recap: From Mic Masters Alliance, after yet another long Lush One intro and getting edged in round 1 to the effervescent and hitting 4-bar set-up/punchlines from Emerson Kennedy, while taking advantage of his less direct opponent, B. Magic ups his rapid/searing punch game to edge both of the latter rounds for the win in this competitive 3-rounder.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “If I’m going against Kennedy, I guess I’m Nixon, how I put these heaters on both eyes, ‘cuz he stood in front of a chopper and that shit left peace’s [pieces] on both sides!”

B. Magic defeats Arsonal

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Recap: The visual essence that comes with witnessing a sea of blue (yunno, 2 Crip’s, Arsonal and B. Magic battling in RBE’s ‘Blue Room’) aside. In what was a gritty, competitive, 4-bar punchfest, after the more haymaker-lit Rebel took round 1, it’s a slightly more consistently hitting, fly cadence-switching, set-up crazy and punch-tastic Magic who edges both of the latter rounds for the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Why Big Jersey tripping?, I’m itching to bring proof, got ‘Ol Solo guns nigga, one of my nigga’s will bring two!”

B. Magic defeats Loe Peschi

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Recap: In this 3-rounder from GTX, after a 30-minute intro (j/k) from LushOne, a super condensed but superbly efficient B. Magic uses a gang of stifling punchlines, some flexing wordplay (esp. in round 3) and a bunch of hitting name flips/personals to handily score a 30 on a mostly pedestrian-punching Loe Peschi.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 3-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “He got In Too Deep, he fucked with a God and met a pool stick!”

B. Magic defeats Casino

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Recap: In this App-exclusive 1-rounder from URL, while Casino’s sterling trap talk and gritty storytelling were certainly a highlight. It’s B. Magic’s more variable schemes and name flips that included a gang of stinging metaphors and spicy themes coupled with the usual m.o. of rapid/hardbody punchlines that earns the more condensed EFB vet the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Pac leaving Tyson fight, this the last time you seeing Casino!”

B. Magic defeats Ness Lee

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Recap: In this close 3-rounder from No Coast Raps, veteran battler Ness Lee’s lyrical dexterity, mocking personals and at times effective punchlines keeps things competitive throughout. However, armed with his usual assortment of stinging one-liners, razor-sharp wit and gritty back-to-back punchlines while assisted a bit by Ness Lee’s up-n-down efficiency with the bars, it’s B. Magic who takes rounds 1 and 3 for the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “If my people kill you, the shit didn’t end, the hospital bring you back?, we gonna kill you again!”

B. Magic defeats Killa B

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Recap: From Black Iec Cartel, against a boatload of gritty (that ‘Lil Mermaid’ line in round 1 was particuraly fire) punchlines and solid name flips from Killa B, a confident and slightly more condensed B. Magic hangs in there, survives a slight slip-up in round 2 and with steadier barrage of spitfuire punches, soem sizzling wordplay and sporty name flips/similes of his own, edges rounds 1 and 3 for the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “I’m a big dog, come get your shitzu by the spot!”

B. Magic defeats Coach Corleone

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Recap: A real goodie here from RBE’s ‘Divide and Conquer’ card between B. Magic and Coach Corleone. Bagin bringing a shitload of killer 4-bar set-up/punchlines and crazy name flips, while Corleoen made his mark with a bunch of sturdy similes and relentless mayhem when came to the punches. Close and competitive throughtout, it’s a more haymaker-lit Corleone who takes the first round, before Magic turned it up when it came to steadier/hard-hitting punchlines (esp in round 3) to take both of the latter rounds for the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Think this pump fake?, I don’t hesitate, I mean it’s really ‘fuck you cuz’ like Kevin Gates!”

B. Magic defeats D White

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Recap: In this 3-rounder from Takeova Battle League, against a very confident, but mostly subpar and a serial abuser of way too many dated bars D White, B. Magic delivers an opening and middle round filled with a bunch of fiery punchlines, witty barbs, sick wordplay and stinging name flips to get the win, before a couple of stumbles by Magic in the 3rd contributes to a more punch-heavy White salvaging the final round.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Swing with all might, got big guns, all types, he on the verge of being dead, yunno oft-white!”

B. Magic defeats Pass

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Recap: Can’t front, before I came upon this 3-round GTX battle, I thought Pass and B. Magic had already battled too. Turns out that the two battle vets were scheduled to faceoff way back in 2015, but for whatever reason it didn’t happen. Still, it was worth the wait as both Magic and Pass came through with three rounds of pure heat. Magic intertwining a superb punch game with piercing shots of wit and sizzling name flips, while the ever-confident Pass ripped off a gang of flexing set-up/punchlines, stinging/versatile metaphors and a bunch of solid name flips/personals. A close one through and through with Pass edging the 2nd round, it’s a more condensed and consistently scoring Magic who edges rounds 1 and 3 for the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “You really need the work bad, you try to run up on me and get the works fast, I got a littel trick play that’ll reverse Pass!”

B. Magic defeats F.A.T.E.

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Recap: From West World Battle Rap, a couple of hiccups in round 2 and some strong punches from F.A.T.E. made for a debatable. But making good use of a bunch of sizzling rapid-fire, 4-bar set-up/punchlines, stirring name flips and nasty similes/wordplay in both the 1st and 3rd rounds, it’s a consistently nicer B. Magic who ends up handily getting the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “You could find me in a park by myself like a ’21 Prius!”

B. Magic defeats Fonz

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Recap: Fonz vs. B. Magic, elite puncher vs. elite puncher for a 1-rounder on URL’s Banned card, turns out to be a goodie with each battler spouting a plethora of head-turning bars to make you feen for more. Competitive with a near equal amount of haymakers on each side, it’s the more condensed and slightly more steadily hitting Magic who edges it here.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Street nigga, I was straight thugging and you really can’t relate like a play cousin!”

B. Magic defeats Danny Myers

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Recap: Not to get emotional here, but let’s not front like seeing Danny Myers pay homage to B. Magic’s battle career the way he did in that 3rd round wasn’t touching (and deserving) to say the least. Back to the battle, tho. While Danny had some dope rebuttals and spitfire punches here and there, a flow-challenged round 1 to go along with a Magic on top of his game in the two early rounds via a gang of rapid fire punchlines that killed when it came to set-ups, wordplay, metaphors and similes, would give the St. Louis vet (who also surprisingly pulled out a new slogan) the win in this Shots Fired Battle League 3-rounder, before a slightly more potent Danny edged the 3rd.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “You can’t see while I’m playing, I’m the 6th man!”

B. Magic defeats Zay Smoove

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Recap: B. Magic’s first appearance on GOTG finds him barely breaking a sweat as the St. Louis vet uses a steady barrage of spitfire punchlines and flexing wordplay/similes/name flips to handily beat back an earnest, but overmatched Zay Smoove.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “.9 clapper, this here spine cracker, bring a quarterback ain’t no safety on this linebacker, these two arms will raise your roof like a contractor!”

B. Magic defeats LL Coogi

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Recap: Capped by a gritty flow so sweet you’d probably pay to see him spout gibberish, a consistently punch-lit B. Magic puts on the breaks on opponent LL Coogi (who had his moments, but was mostly so-so here, esp. when using dated personals) with a boatload of haymakers to handily take this 1-rounder from The Rap Committee.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Bitch, I’m something nice, still hot, Arizona summer nice, this will get your nephew’s fingers cut and your uncle iced!”

B. Magic defeats O-Red

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Recap: From RBE, outside of a couple of slip-ups in round 1 (and a witty impression of his opponent in the latter rounds) that against an ever brazen, at times wordplay-lit and heavy with the gun bars/personal hitting, but elongated (for all 3 rounds) and not as steady afterwards O-Red, B. Magic sticks with his m.o. of consistently spicy punchlines and score score with enough haymakers to edge both of the latter rounds and get the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Magic been good in the hood like Penzoil!”

B. Magic defeats Wrist God

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Recap: Spouting the kind of versatile and deep-level intricacy with his raps that separates the elite punchers from the rest of the crowd, a consistently punch and wordplay-lit B. Magic puts a bruising for 3 rounds on a mostly mediocre-punching Wrist God to handily get the 30 in this battle from Next Level Battle League.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 3-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Walk up on him, him and the left soon meet, then my right, soon as that bitch connect dude sleep, you get a left then a right after a left [Ooowee!]…what a hook like N.O.R.E. on a Neptune beat!”

B. Magic defeats Tone Bone

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Recap: 1-rounder from Street Status comes with a dope mini-doc attached to it beforehand that came with nice footage on the St. Louis as well as a pair of insightful interviews with B. Magic and Tone Bone on their upbringing along with thoughts on the battle which itself was mostly one-sided as besides Bone winning the crowd over at times with some mocking personals and witty barbs, in comparison to Magic’s fleet of stifling 4-bar set-ups and stinging punchlines/wordplay, this one wasn’t that close.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “If you think you Heaven Sent like Keisha Cole, you’ll catch a couple off guard like the ‘Cheater’ show!”

B. Magic defeats Zig Zag

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Recap: Almost always intense and hardbody with the raps, but never lacking when it comes to effort, in this 1-rounder from Hunger Gamez, it’s good to see Zig Zag display some wit with the long flag-pull at the end of his round. However, an up-n-down and a bit long-winded run by Mr. Zag combined with an on-point, clean and prolific with the flexing punchlines B. Magic. allows the St. Louis battler to score the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “I will put my whole palm on ya bitch ass, plus we knew you wasn’t gonna ride from the gate like Six Flags!”

B. Magic defeats Villa

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Recap: From New Smacc On Go Vol 1, in this 1-rounder Villa brings the intensity, mayhem and a dope Tony Dungy line to his raps. But in what sometimes came off as a half-hearted effort, the vet B. Magic still manages to pull out a bunch of bruising punches out of his bag of tricks to best his less potent opponent and get the edge here.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “In the kitchen like Raekwon, till it lock up like Akon!”

B. Magic defeats Smoove Da Juugman

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Recap: In this solid 1-rounder from Underground Battle League, while Smoove Da Juugman started off hot with a gang of fiery punches/name flips, a more mundane set of bars during the 2nd half of what was an elongated turn combined with B. Magic rapping for like only two minutes, but making his condensed and punch-heavy round more useful and spicy, gives Magic the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Nigga, it’s suicide, who is you and where do you reside?, bullet holes, look like the barrel was ruler wide nigga!”

B. Magic defeats Pollo Creed

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Recap: Another reminder of how nice he is when he comes prepared and has his shit together, B. Magic strings together a gang of consistently piercing and versatile punchlines/name flips to edge a gritty and pretty solid turn by Pollo Creed in this competitive 1-rounder from The Rap Committee.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Question mark how the clip look nigga, I’m raising clues!”

Real Sikh defeats B. Magic

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Recap: URL Born Legacy X matchup sees Smack Class of 2020 “rookie” Real Sikh turn the tables on longtime vet B. Magic for 3 rounds via a gang of mocking personals, righteous discourses on battle rap efficiency, stinging 4-bar setups and piercing punchlines/name flips to beat an opponent who started off witty, punch/name flip-lit and solid in round 1, but succumbed to pertinent slip-ups and a choke in the latter rounds to help give Sikh the 30.

Verdict: Real Sikh (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Real Sikh – “Talk about ‘I told him once…’, you ain’t telling us shit, you be trying to tell us something then forget what it is!”

Ratchet defeats B. Magic

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Recap: If you’re looking for one of those battles where a dude beats himself moreso than the opponent actually won, this is it as B. Magic’s lack of preparation comes to the forefront once again. This time it’s the St. Louis battler, after starting off with an extra crispy and punch-heavy beginning to his 1st round, succumbing to a choke before unleashing a mostly subpar turn and getting edged in the 2nd round to lose the battle against an opponent, Ratchet, who while dishing some hot bars here and there, for the most part was drenched in a gang of pedestrian lines throughout the battle. Ironically, with Ratchet already having the win in hand while barely keeping his head above water when it came to overall bar efficiency, he’d choke away his 3rd round, thus losing any chance of telling his grandkids that he once 30’d B. Magic.

Verdict: Ratchet (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ratchet – “The Drako will leave Magic hanging in the rafters like a retired jersey!”

G Will defeats B. Magic

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Recap: 3rd round was iffy for both battlers (tho a choke by G Will helped B. Magic edge the turn), but in the opening rounds of this 3-rounder from West Coast Elites, B. Magic and G Will unleashed a gritty and mayhem-friendly punchfest that the slightly more personal, condensed and haymaker-lit Will took by taking both the 1st and 2nd rounds for the win.

Verdict: G Will (W) 2-1

Favorite line: G Will – “But your career, you used to be crazy, you used to go hard, now your shit is like a dirty Uber driver, you ain’t got no stars!”

B. Magic defeats Coffee Brown

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Recap: Still recognized all these years later as one of the best punchers in the game, a stumble-free B. Magic flexes his punch-game with a gang of sizzling name flips, piercing wordplay, witty barbs and hitting personals/gun bars to earn a win over a pretty solid, stunting and punch-heavy, but overall not quite-as-potent Coffee Brown in what was a dope 3-round (score it a debatable 1st with Magic edging both of the latter rounds) matchup from URL, that could’ve been even better if not for Danja Zone’s constant overreactions looking on from the crowd.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “She a thot, had niggas fuckin’ until her tracks fell out, at Coffee crib, they used to call that bitch the Maxwell House!”

B. Magic and PG [TIE]

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Recap: Not sure what happened here as in this Quarantine battle from Body Bag Battles as we get two rounds from B Magic and only one from his opponent PG. Either way, PG’s consistently gritty and raucous punches easily beat a solid, but shortened Magic in ’round 1′. But since only Magic makes an appearance in ’round 2′, we’ll have to call this one a tie.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: PG – “This ratchet will let you down like she ain’t in the mood!”

B. Magic defeats Da Smoke of NY

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Recap: Da Smoke of NY does a nice B. Magic impression and kicked a gang of gritty, but mostly pedestrian lines, but in this 1-rounder from Kill Switch Battle League, Magic’s consistent barrage of sizzling gun bars, suave name flips and piercing punchlines to be too much in the end.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “I’m about to go nuts with the mil [meal] like Five Guys!”

B. Magic defeats Chess

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Recap: With battlers choking and slipping-up left and right, lack of preparation has been a common narrative in 2020 battle rap. Well, now feel free to add Chess versus B. Magic to the mix. Granted, no actual chokes appeared here, but in a battle that saw Chess deliver some spitfire name flips/punches during a stellar 1st round (undoubtedly Magic, steady, punch/wordplay-heavy and solid throughout, had a dope 1st too, yet not as potent), but then struggle with his flow, slip-up here and there and end up having to shorten both his round 2 and 3, thus losing this match to a beatable opponent, is it safe to say that this one will also make the WTF?!? rants from both bloggers and fans alike?

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Talking bad to O’fficial nigga’s, the Tek be out, this bitch fat, you get the picture…Chess [chest] be out!”

Jerry Wess defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Coming unto this URL Quarantined Sterilizer 2 battle with a rep for choking, a slightly slower flow helps an overall solid B. Magic get through 3 rounds without a hiccup. But a gun bar-heavy and name flip/personal-lit Jerry Wess, after a debatable 1st round, delivers more than enough heat to take both of the latter rounds for the win.

Verdict: Jerry Wess (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Jerry Wess – “Let’s let this shit be clear, I don’t know how they got me to do this shit, but it literally took Magic to get me here, I put a blade on the top of your soul, blood and sweat seep through ya pores, you ain’t gonna have time to pull a rabbit out of ya hat, cuz I’m a pull a knife outta yours!”

Math Hoffa defeats B. Magic

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Recap: A noisy crowd, another slip-up prone (and choking) performance from B. Magic and a flexing wordplay displaying, punchline-lit and scathing with the personals showing from Math Hoffa gives the veteran Brooklyn battle rapper/media personality a pretty easy 30 in this one-sided 3-rounder from Street Status.

Verdict: Math Hoffa (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Math Hoffa – “Y’all like them corny Math flips?, I ain’t feeling your logic, ‘cuz if he could really flip Math, he wouldn’t be stealing deposits!”

T-Top defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Against a B. Magic too often mired in pedestrian name flips and a sometimes bland punch game, T-Top uses a boatload of surefire trap talk, gritty punchlines, rigid gang-related darts and fiery personals to take both rounds and get the win in this URL Quarantine battle.

Verdict: T-Top (W) 2-0

Favorite line: T-Top – “I was looking for magic 8-ball, shook him up and he told me everything I need to know!”

Geechi Gotti defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Impressive throughout with a wide range of polluted gun bars, stifling punchlines, fiery street chatter and piercing personals, after a debatable 1st round Geech Gotti does more than enough to take the latter two rounds and beat back a punch-steady and solid, but nowhere-near-as-potent B. Magic’s in this Quarantined 3-rounder from Smack/URL.

Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Pass the 5th, let the .4 blaze, the ratchet hitting everybody, it’s going through a hoe phase!”

Duce defeats B. Magic

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Recap: In this fierce 3-rounder from Bullpen Battle League, a barrage of hard-hitting heat/wordplay and a wide array of piercing punchlines from Duce allows him to take the 1st round, before the name-flip spazzing and punch-heavy B. Magic’s more condensed turn edges him round 2. But Duce, consistent throughout with a versatile pen game that had the crowd jumping, is able to add a few flexing personals to an already hip, sometimes witty and punch-lit performance that ends up beating back an overall solid, but nowhere near as potent round by Magic in the deciding 3rd.

Verdict: Duce (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Duce – “Trey shot out the .8 blaze ya, then buck-fifty his face with a straight razor, closed casket at the funeral, family can’t face ya, they gonna have to cover a nigga up like…‘I said Nakers!’“

B. Magic and Don Marino [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Fire, competitive battle between Don Marino and B. Magic features a variety of slick punchlines and fierce set-ups throughout the battle. And while Marino was able to dip in some pointed personals here and there, a more condensed Magic, after losing round 1, would score with enough (“Act tough and uh, Tek’s gonna hit y’all, it’ll calm that shit down like Pepto Bismol!”) haymakers to edge round 2, before hanging in there versus a robust turn from his opponent in the deciding 3rd round and force a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Don Marino – “You only got one or two moves in the ring…Mankind!”

Saynt defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Hearkening back to the days of Jay Focus and an early John John da Don, here in this KOTD 3-rounder versus B. Magic, Saynt’s fashionable fur coat is not only a bit nostalgic, but in this case fitting in lieu of his eccentric performance bars. Indeed, an often stifling series of varied bar patterns that were only lessened by a flow-challenged 2nd round that even with its more heated moments couldn’t keep up with Magic’s requisite climactic punchlines and fiery name flips. Still, clearly motivated to add a win over a top, punchline vet to his resume, Saynt’s more consistent and gritty punches in addition to his rugged gun bars, pointed personals, flexing name flips and steady mayhem are more than enough to take the 1st and 3rd rounds for the vic.

Verdict: Saynt (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Saynt – “Town Bizness, Smack Volume, you ain’t even been spitting hard, you wanna see some basic Magic, just pick a card!”

B. Magic and Kush Cloud [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: The Trap NY presents a dope punch-fest between Kush Cloud (can we get him some more plates, please?) and B Magic with the former unleashing a boatload of nifty punches, piercing name flips/personals and slick (“Built your name on Street Status, just to die on Ave when it counted the nost!”) wordplay that added up to Cloud taking the 2nd round after a debatable 1st and leading things going into the 3rd. The final round, however, would serve as yet another exercise in quality vs. quantity as Cloud would deliver an overall solid, but incredibly longwinded turn that got more and more tedious as it went on. And that elongated run by Kush would easily get overrun by a much shorter, but highly efficient and punch/name flip turn by Magic, allowing the St. Louis vet to take the round and score a debatable.

Verdict: Debatable

Favorite line: B Magic – “I’ll push you in the air, past the sky Cloud, Anthony Davis, I’m connected wherever eyebrow [I brow]!”

B. Magic defeats Carter Deems

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Recap: Despite Carter Deems eliciting plenty of hilarity with plenty of self-deprecating lines, nifty punchlines/jokes/name flips, freestyles and braggadocio bicycle talk, the comedic element’s of Carter’s rhymes not only fall flat to too many pedestrian bars during an elongated turn, but more importantly, a more condensed, grittier and consistently punch-lit B. Magic in this 1-rounder from No Coast Raps.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “This how I Space jam, this how we kick it, I’ll run you right [write] into a wall like Hieroglyphics!”

B. Magic defeats Cash Blix

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Recap: A bit of slippage with the bars by B. Magic in round 2 and an equally lazy 3rd by both battlers, but overall the more punch-heavy Magic easily takes this rapping-on-beat Verbal War Zone battle over a mostly pedestrian Cash Blix.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “I am my brother’s keeper, what Nino mean, I’m still screaming ‘fuck you’ like Cee-Lo Green!”

Way defeats B. Magic

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Recap: When B Magic’s struggling with name flips, you know that he’s probably in for a long night. The St. Louis vet making an appearance here on Cleveland’s Bar4Bar Battle League, failing to keep a steady flow, giving what looked like a half-hearted effort and eventually losing this 1-rounder to a mayhem rich and gritty-punching Way.

Verdict: Way (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Way – “He ain’t even worth a match, some nigga’s think Magic real, shit, some nigga’s think the Earth is flat!”

Illmac defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Punchline for punchline, in this 3-round battle from KOTD, Illmaculate and B. Magic are about equal on potency. That’s except for a 1st round Magic edged with a more concise turn. But with Illmaculate mixing in biting breakdowns of his opponent’s style, witty barbs, piercing name flips and a gang of fiery personals along with a solid punchline game as well as Magic struggling with his flow during a shortened 3rd, the latter two rounds are Illmac’s for the taking along with the win.

Verdict: Illmaculate (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Illmaculate – “Good Shepard, Catholic school you, I transcend bars to father greatness, that’s Mutulu, don’t let facts confuse you, top 5 convo’s, you can’t skip past me like ads in Hulu!”

Mr. Mills defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Solid 3-rounder from RBE sees both Mr. Mills and B-Magic struggle a bit with their flow’s, but still deliver on hard-hitting punchlines, righteous name flips and gritty street fare for the masses. Split going into the 3rd, while also taking advantage of his opponent’s nimble slip-ups, a more consistent with the heat as well as fiery scheme-dishing Mr. Mills takes the final round and gets the win.

Verdict: Mr. Mills (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Mr. Mills – “You ain’t never met a nigger like me, I’ll shoot up your whole set, I’m a mini Spike Lee!”

B. Magic defeats Big Kannon

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Recap: In this 3-rounder from Bar Fight Battle League, Big Kannon mostly comes unprepared, depending on quasi-pedestrian freestyles and a couple of nimble rebuttals to get by the first two rounds, thus leaving a way more composed with the punches, all the while dishing straight heat B. Magic with an easy vic before Kannon gets it together in a way more compact, pronounced and prepared 3rd to salvage a tie in the final round.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “I’ll slide up in ya hood with the Lethal Weapon, you’ll get an arm raised up like an easy question!”

B. Magic defeats Dex

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Recap: Brought to you from the good folks at Street Status, Dex and B. Magic both hit with some solid punches throughout this fiery 1-rounder. But along with dishing some dope schemes, it’s a slightly more consistent, condensed and original with the pen overall B. Magic who edges this one.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Beef is nothing you wanna find, the scope like a fairy tale, I had it Once Upon A Time!”

B. Magic defeats Verce

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Recap: A solid effort from Verce unfortunately ends up in a choke, leaving a fiery name-flip dishing, gun-bar spazzing and punch-centric B. Magic with an easy win in this 1-rounder from 413 Battle League.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Magic –  “What a minute, who told this muthafucka he should get brolic?, stuff ya fucking brains in, I’m trying to kick knowledge!”

B. Magic defeats Father Focus Confucius

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Recap: Via some nice gun bars and spicy braggadocio lines, Father Focus Confucius puts forth a hearty effort in this 3-rounder from No Coast Raps. But a focused and well-prepared B. Magic is simply put one of the best in the game as proven again here where we see the St. Louis vet dish a boatload of stifling name flips, witty barbs and spitfire punchlines to easily garner a 30.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 3-0

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Riding with mad cows, trying to check the beef, multiple head shots, look like he trying to catch a beat!”

B. Magic defeats Boatshoe Holly

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Recap: Here in this 1-rounder from Street Status, Boatshoe Holly stands out for his unique moniker and not much else as too many pedestrian bars ends up costing Boatshoe any chance at even beating a flow-challenged at times, but still punch/name flip-heavy B Magic.

Verdict: B Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B Magic – “Hope Verb beat Mook ‘cuz you ain’t winning tonight!”

B. Magic defeats J. Murda

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Recap: While J. Murda definitely got robbed by judges in his infamous JC battle a couple of years back, the feeling here in this judged battle (coincidentally, like Murda vs. JC, also on RBE) is that B. Magic got a little jerked here. A tight 3-rounder that was extra impressive when you consider that both battlers had only 8 days notice to prepare, after splitting the earlier rounds, while Murda had his moments via an aggressive and performance-heavy turn that certainly made waves, B. Magic, with a more consistent and of course, punch/wordplay-heavy framework, gets the 3rd and the win here.  

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Fuck who I Disturb and this piece [Peace] is not Ludacris [ludicrous], I’ll leave him Smokey on the side of the house…’cuz I do this shit!”

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!'”

Clone defeats B. Magic

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Recap: We been hearing about B Magic screwing up his legacy and choking left and right for the last couple years or so. But for a guy already on the downhill, who still recently “un-retired”, at what point does he either bring a phone on stage with his raps in them so he can stop forgetting his bars or just be done with battle rap for good while he can still save face? To think, other than a pretty fire 1st round and a few hot bars here and there later on, Magic’s opponent Clone, was pretty average. Or in other words, very beatable. Yet, after 4 slip-ups led to the host John John da God having to cut Magic’s round short in the first, before a pretty pedestrian 2nd lost him that round (and hence, the battle) and a horrible 3rd that saw him slip-up again after like a minute before just flat out giving up, Magic needs to stop getting mad at perpetuated crowd reaction’s and start looking in the mirror and getting mad at himself, especially if he’s going to keep wasting people’s time and money with these lame showings.

Verdict: Clone (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Clone – “Keep running ya mouth, nah it won’t get you hit in the jaw, we shooting it….for no reason, consider it law!”

Ave defeats B. Magic

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Recap: A battle (“And since Magic want to know who’s a new killer”) long in the waiting, B-Magic versus Ave finally takes place on the Smack Volume 1 card and for one round anyway, lives up to the hype with Magic vociferously spitting his usual assortment of spitfire punchlines and an also punch-heavy Ave delivering the goods on stinging set-ups, flexing wordplay and utter mayhem. With a more potent Magic taking an altogether spitfire round 1, the feeling was that we were in for a classic battle. But then early into his 2nd round, Magic started slipping up and despite eventually getting back his flow, his pen game was never quite able to get back to top-notch form. And with Magic continuing to slip-up while delivering mostly pedestrian punches in the 3rd, a way more consistent with his flow Ave just kept his handle up, dishing some fire braggadocio lines, sizzling name flips and personals to go along with a standard palette of bedlam to take the latter two rounds and get the win.

Verdict: Ave (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ave – “So go extra, that’s gonna get the big toast waving, a shell fed once the joint pulled and this Loc ate it [dislocated]!”

B. Magic defeats Born

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Recap: A more condensed and punchline-savvy B Magic might’ve edged the round anyway. But Born pulling out his phone to seemingly recall his lines is a costly blunder to start what was ultimately the deciding 2nd round, after Magic dropped steady weight in round 1 to take that on while Born salvaged the 3rd with more fiery punches.

Verdict: B Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B Magic – “If you plan to survive you gonna need the Lord, I ain’t the ONE to fuck with like Yuigi board!”

B. Magic defeats E. Farrell

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Recap: It’s a literal punch-fest in this dope 3-round battle between (“The type to rock socks and sandals outside when the snow’s deep, that’s why you ducked me in Chicago, you really had cold feet!”) E. Farrell and the vet (“Never go personal, I just kill nigger’s, I’m a kill you and you die…we got a deal nigger!”) B. Magic. With both hitting their marks more often then not, it’s a slightly more consistently strong, less predictable and more flow-efficient B. Magic that ends up winning it by handily taking rounds 1 and 3.

Verdict:  B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Suicide, kill yourself, do or die, see these, a buck on the corner like the movie guy!”

B. Magic defeats Tre Poundz

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Recap: Gotta shake ya head sometimes at these hardcore, real street rappers too afraid to get in touch with their funny bone when it comes to battle rap. I mean, if you got a witty side to you (or if your crew constantly says you’re funny), embrace it and write it into your raps. That option allows you to flex your versatility and it might be difference between winning and losing battles. Not that a mostly gritty-punching Tre Poundz wasn’t solid throughout this Street Staus 3-rounder versus B Magic, but damn if he didn’t have pne too many pedestrian bars and if the best bars he spit here weren’t on the humorous side. Either way, with Magic incorporating wicked, wicked gun sounds, a fly Superman scheme and his usual diet of consistently spicy punchlines to this match, even if his opponent did his best Bernie Mac impression, he probably would’ve lost anyway.

Verdict: B Magic (W) 3-0

Favorite line: B Magic – “Boy, you my son…but that bullshit is from ya momma side!”

PC defeats B. Magic

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Recap: He may be a slow puncher, but PC’s bars can still land with stifling effect, As he shows here in this Bullpen Battle League matchup against a B Magic who started off hot but struggled with his flow for the latter half of his turn, PC’s consistently measured gun bars and unhurried punches still packed enough heat to earn the win.

Verdict: PC (W) 1-0

Favorite line: PC – “Clip ’bout as long as the Pledge of Allegiance, the irony I gotta stand for it!”

B. Magic defeats E Ness

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Recap: Credit to E Ness for keeping this one close, edging the second round with more potent (“Come and get this ass-whipping you been running from, I ain’t gonna lay you on the slab, I’ll tuck you under one!”) bars after a pretty basic 1st that a poised (“You looking for a monster?, well I got this shit on lock Ness [lochness]”) B Magic steadily took advantage of. Still, after starting off solid, the choice for an elongated 3rd hurts Ness in the long run what with some bouncy filler towards the end as well as a bad impression of his opponent. Left to face a quick (“I’ll spit on ya grave, this shit scary like…like being in a group with Dylan!”) roundhouse of punches from Magic, it’s the St. Louis emcee who’s left standing tall.

Verdict: B Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B Magic – “Trash nigga, I see Brenda baby is all grown up!”

B. Magic defeats Syah

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Recap: Every noted battle rapper must have a reference or two they get tired of hearing about from opponents in battles and in B Magic’s case I’d venture to guess that it’s ‘J Fox’ fight bars and ‘David Blaine’ mention’s. And while Syah made use of both those here in this RBE 3-rounder, the ATL spitter as he usually does, still made for a winnable effort with a gang of piercing punchlines (esp. in round 3, which he edged) and solid personals throughout the match. But as he shows us once again here, a prepared B Magic can take on anyone and with a steady barrage of sizzling punches/gun bars, rigid wordplay and witty darts in the opening rounds, one can attest here that the show did arrive.

Verdict: B Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B Magic – “Think of the Banks family, I’ll raise the Smith [Smif]!”

Gauge defeats B. Magic

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Recap: A slightly cleaner flow, consistently efficient with the bars and more versatility with the punches allows Gauge to edge this 1-round Go-Rilla Warfare battle against a pretty solid, but not as steady with it B Magic.

Verdict: Gauge (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Gauge – “When you die tell the devil to forward my mail, you know you bogus when you get the cold shoulder in hell!”

B. Magic defeats Iron Solomon

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Recap: Fire battle between B. Magic and Iron Solomon with a load of hefty (B. Magic: “You get bombed on in Boston, no matter the race!”) punchlines, witty (Iron Solomon: “I mean we done got so used to you choking, we thought ‘Fuck!’…was your new slogan!”) personals, fire name flips and some creative wordplay by both battlers. Competitive throughout with a couple of debatable rounds (1st and 3rd) that produced a lot of daps and and cheers from the crowd, this KOTD battle came down to the 2nd, which while littered with visceral haymakers from both sides and some versatile synergy by Iron, is edged by Magic here due to more consistency with his pen when compared to an opponent who while dropping a load of gems, too often struggled with filler during his turn.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “Slit his throat, I’m trying to cut out what he was just fitting to tell me!”