Recap: In this 3-rounder from Black Ice Cartel, Charlie uses a bunch of fire schemes, potent setup/punchlines, piercing freestyles/rebuttals and witty personals to edge each round for the 30 over an aggressive, animated and gritty throughout, but too often pedestrian and reach-lit Bankhead.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “You got shot and started thinking you was Pac, you don’t even know the meaning of war, nigga ya built like if Brenda decided to keep the baby…and is feening for more!”
Recap: From The Rap Committee comes one of those outta-nowhere battles as Canada’s Charron crosses the border to face off with Milwaukee, WI’s Bankhead. A pretty competitive 1-rounder thanks in part to Bankhead’s gritty punches and underappreciated humor, with an elongated, but versatile turn that featured a gang of nifty freestyles, flexing name flips, sporty set-up/punchlines and witty personals, it’s the more steadily potent and haymaker-rich Charron who comes out on top.
Verdict: Charron (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Charron – “Jeremy Reed, Geechi’s favorite battler because he wears a weave!”
Recap: One of the most impressive Bankhead’s you’ll ever see here as for 3 rounds against Piranha, the Milwaukee emcee stays in cruise control, using a gang of stifling name flips/metaphors and grimy punchlines to earn the 30 over an opponent who despite a bunch of hitting lines never seemed to find his focus, stopping short in both of the opening rounds of this KOTD match before choking away his 3rd.
Verdict: Bankhead (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Bankhead – “Man, fuck all that chattering shit, why batter a fish, when I can air fry him?!”
Recap: Not quite sure what happened here, but in a judged battle where the always excitable Bankhead kicked a boatload of pedestrian bars, the Cartel League vet still manages to dish enough spicy punches/name flips and pull off a minor upset by edging the first two rounds against a lackadaisical and perhaps worn out from battling too much Chef Trez in this bout from RBE. Ironically, when the Trez we all know finally did show up in round 3, while he still wasn’t at his rebuttal and gun-lit best, he’d win the final round anyway thanks in part to another underwhelming turn by his opponent.
Verdict: Bankhead (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Bankhead – “…what other fucking reason you think I’d be here talking to a Chef?…nigga I want you to know [click click] this mil [meal] nasty!”
Recap: Bankhead with the sheer mayhem and fierce name flips makes for a bloody effort. But in this 1-round RBE Social Distance battle, Big Kannon’s short, but punch-heavy, witty, personal and slightly more versatile showing wins the day.
Verdict: Big Kannon (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Big Kannon – “Tell this fraud step or get jaw-checked, y’all think it’s Bank shot?, this a Social Distance battle, that means that it’s all net!”
Recap: Leaving your card in the ATM slot, failing to take any money out and leaving it in to let your man use it too? Hmmm, hope they remember to take out the camera’s before they bounce. That said, in this 1-round Social Distance battle from RBE, both Jai 400 Block and Bankhead bring the heat with Jai leaning on some stifling name flips and a host of gritty punches. And while Bankhead failed to deliver any Coronavirus-related lines, his frenzied (“I’ll give J the smith [Jada Smith] all it takes is some Will power!”) wordplay and steely narratives came with enough smoke to warrant a tie.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Jai 400 Block – “Catch up [ketchup], you in hindsight [Heinz], I know you must heard [mustard] about me!”
Recap: Yet another solid showing by the performance-heavy, facial expression loving (“‘Cuz when you dead in the casket, you ain’t got one!”) and punch/mayhem-centric Bankhead against a top tier opponent should get him plenty of notice. But here in this Black Ice Cartel, 3-rounder versus JC, the Michigan battle vet’s more condensed, consistently potent, fiery wordplay-drenched rounds which contained a boatload of fire gun bars, dead bodies and stinging punchlines/set-ups would be too much for even his eccentric opponent to handle overall.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “I heard you turn into an animal on stage, well I think they sorta lying [lion], I’m test it, when I reach for the belt, just hope he morph in time!”
Recap: Boisterous, energetic and punch-heavy battle between Bankhead and Danny Myers stays close throughout with Bankhead’s twisted, set-up friendly and mayhem-laced (“Brought an old ratchet for Myers…Jamie Lee Curtis!”) punches going toe-to-toe with Danny’s more lyrical, visceral and braggadocio raps. But the ever-confident Bar God, despite one too many name flips and rebuttals, still takes the first two rounds here, edging his enigmatic, but elongated (and a bit reach-heavy) opponent with more consistent punches and a couple of more (“I don’t gotta prove I got a better pen or I cook like you, I’m doing this for every nigger that got his bitch snatched by a nigger that look like you!”) haymakers. Give the 3rd round to a still spazzing and more direct Bankhead, a fiery turn that easily beat back a solid overall, but a bit porous and less head-on round by Mr. Myers.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I’ll catch ya at your family dinner bra, in front of ya mama I’ll give you bucks, long hair don’t care, no hair don’t give a fuck!”
Recap: Even with Bankhead rapping twice as long as his opponent, in this fiery 1-rounder from Black Ice Cartel against the also highly energetic Drugz, the future NWX member’s higher percentage of stinging (tho a bit excessive at times) name flips, potent gun bars, rapid mayhem and gritty, oft-performance heavy punchlines are enough to beat a pretty solid, but not as consistent showing from his opponent.
Verdict: Bankhead (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Bankhead – “What happened to that Drugz with substance? that’s the nigger people was actually feening with, how the fuck your name supposed to be Drugz with no active ingredient?!?”
Recap: Dishing enough mayhem, piercing name flips and heated punchlines/scemes to leave his mark, but also helped by an opponent who while solid and off-the-dome prolific for two rounds, wasn’t able to do much (not including tag-ins from both Prez Mafia and Q.P.) in the deciding 3rd, Bankhead edges this fiery battle from Black Ice Cartel.
Verdict: Bankhead (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Bankhead – “I watched you verse DNA…6 times, this bitch died, that shit made up wanna post in front of ya crib like a ‘For Rent’ sign!”
Recap: In a battle littered with a gang of vigorous boasts, some nice wordplay here and there and aggressive gun bars, after splitting the first two rounds, a more punch-heavy and condensed Brixx Belvedere does enough to outlast a solid throughout, but less steadily potent Bankhead.
Verdict: Brixx Belvedere (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brixx Belvedere – “Your gangster image nigger?, the shit’s a facade, you gotta smoke some shit to get you a nod, he In Too Deep, J Reed should go cop to kick it with God!”
