Recap: Competitive 1-rounder from Smoke Room Battle League sees both Chef Trez and KD deliver fiery performances that were matched by plenty of piercing punchlines/ However, a more wordplay-heavy, mayhem-rich and slightly more versatile Trez earns the win despite going first and not being able to drop any rebuttals (a fact that was hilariously noted by KD after the coin toss).
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “This a horror movie, this round I brought was sick, I’ve been writing fire, Michael Myers off the jump you know I’m cut for this!”
Recap: Showing off his funny bone amongst a boatload of fiery gun bars, persistent mayhem, mocking personals, dope rebuttals and gritty punchlines, Chef Trez scores a 30 in this IMBL battle against a solid and witty at times, but flawed when it came to punches, Jajo.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Show him the small clip, it’s a sneak peek, gun under his chin, separate everything, it’s a neat freak, I press the button, push everything to the top…it’s a retweet!”
Recap: Close 1-rounder from The Battle Academy between Chef Trez and E. Ness is lit with boastful zingers, fiery 4-bar-set-ups, rigid gun bars, piercing name flips and gripping/witty punchlines. And while the old-school performing/beat-friendly stylings of Ness made for a solid show, a couple of more haymakers and a paid of dope rebuttals by Trez gets the Chef a win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “But this the wrong match, I’m a show you that fame is boring, y’all seen me put Smack down and still be a legend killer…I’m Randy Orton!”
Recap: ATL’s Chef Trez visits the West-coast for a Riot Network battle against Real Name Brandon and for the most part doesn’t miss a beat, using a boatload of fiery gun bars, gritty set-ups/punchlines, some dope rebuttals and fierce wordplay to take both of the opening rounds for the win, before an top-to-that-point topsy-turvy RNB puts it all together with a stirring, punch-heavy and mayhem-dishing 3rd to avoid the 3-0.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Why you after me? I’ll put a glock to him, send shots to him, fuck it I’ll just box with him, we in Cali, you’ll get a hook like Nate, but in the end he gonna look like Robinson!”
Recap: From Zoo Battle League, before giving way to some dope freestyles in round 3 just to show off the arsenal, Chef Trez uses a boatload of fiery gun bars and stinging set-ups/punchlines to easily beat back an earnest-punching, but mostly pedestrian Kidd Galxc.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “But at the same time I’m too humble, low key I’m ready to smoke this Kidd…I’m the cool uncle!”
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: Dope 3-rounder from RBE finds Chef Trez and O-Red doing what they do with mostly fiery results. The Chef, after getting edged by a more potent Red in the 1st round, steps up his recipe game in the latter rounds, using a spicy mix of flexing rebuttals, hitting gun lines and stirring/braggadocio (“I took your spot, it’s mine’s now, give me your honors, you removed the ‘locks, I grew the ‘locks, I was more fit for the roster [Rasta]!”) punchlines to make for a debatable 2nd round, before edging the 3rd over his ever-confident opponent, who while consistently spicy/personal and wordplay-lit throughout the battle, fell a little too hard on cuisine-related punches and rebuts that fell a little flat, which in turn helped to cost Red his edge as the battle proceeded.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: O-Red – “I’ll throw a left hook that’ll floor a pup, then the four will bust, head shot, ringing a Chef bell like ‘Order up!'”
Recap: In what turned out to be a stirring and competitive 3-rounder brought to you from Gates of the Garden, Chuck Book dishing off enough gritty and sometimes witty lines to make for a debatable 3rd round. However, even without the ability to produce the amount of rebuttals we’ve normally witnessed, Chef Trez’s prolific usage of stifling gun bars, boastful darts and head-twisting punchlines were too much for Book in the opening rounds, giving the Chef Life capo another win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You think Corona gonna stop us from being in the streets spinning?, the NBA might’ve cancelled their shooters, but we didn’t!”
Recap: Remote, one-round Covid-19 battle from ROBR between Chef Trez and Acezero goes the Atlanta vet’s way as the Chef Life capo gets busy with an insurmountable amount of spicy gun bars and flexing wordplay to handily beat back an earnest rapping, but mostly indirect and overall pedestrian Acezero.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Do the math, if I shoot you two times Zero, it won’t be nothing left!”
Recap: Naw’lins up-n-comer Boogie impresses throughout this 3-rounder, spouting a boatload of fierce rebuttals, some ill personals and raucous punchlines to keep things competitive here in this Bayou Battle League match against Chef Trez. But after a fire, debatable 1st round, the Chef pulls away from his opponent in the latter rounds, using some spicy rebuttals/freestyles on his own, piercing name flips and a barrage of hard-hitting punches/gun bars/4-bar setups to take the 2nd round before edging the 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I don’t fuck with you, get every accomplishment from your past tooken, you the type that like to explain yaself, that’s bad looking, start talking and get shot, fuck a ass-whupping, all that extra lip will help you catch a AR…like Vlad footage!”
Recap: Shotz Fired Battle Rap League matchup between Chef Trez and Scopes sees the Chef beat back the hardbody and gritty styling’s of his opponent with a gang of head-ringing name flips, piercing gun bars and fly rebuttals/punchlines/schemes to take both of the opening round’s, before a more condensed Scopes delivered enough raucous darts to equate with Chef’s vigor and make for a debatable 3rd.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Squeezing tight till my hand’s is thumping, blood everywhere…but just scoping the scene like I’m planning something!”
Recap: Gritty and solid effort by Chaze Banks in this 1-round BattleRap Society match gets beat back by a rebuttal-lit, name flip spazzing, personal-bent and punchline/gun bar potent Chef Trez.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I got real G homies and they be wilding, and ain’t shit to send a G Banks way like I’m depositing a thousand!”
Recap: Well, you had to know that was coming. After an uber-gritty and aggressive Bandit Montana dished his best bar of the night, a dope, 2nd round, 4-bar set-up that ended with an emphatic ‘…barber chair’ punch, you just knew that Chef Trez was plotting an even flyer rebuttal. And that he did with a raucous ‘since they wanna boost a nigger, I’ll keep the baby in the seat’ dart that along with a gang of head-ringing gun bars, other feisty rebuts and piercing name flips/punchlines, gave the Chef a 30 in what was still a mostly competitive battle from GOTG.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Don’t run, these bullets ain’t seen you in a minute…they good for catching up!
Recap: A witty at times, but mostly indifferent Bill Collector equates to another day at the office for Chef Trez, who uses a plethora of spicy gun bars, some fire rebuttals and a host of elite wordplay to knock out a 30 in this 3-rounder from The Battle Academy.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I’ll empty and load the clip again, shots knock him 6 feet back, we practicing social distancing!”
Recap: Here in this 3430 Studios 3-rounder, a rarely seen righteous and personal 3rd round from Chef Trez caps an overall sublime performance that contained a host of gritty 4-bar set-ups/punchlines, off-the-dome zingers and head-ringing name flips/gun bars that altogether were enough to beat pretty solid and at times hard-hitting punch-wise showing from K.T.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Sorry fat fucker, with the steel I could assist you with your death, I’m that gutter, catch you off the rebound and point…stat stuffer!”
Recap: In the midst of a biting wind outside, a visually sound Qleen Paper still does a nice job playing up an underlying, moniker-friendly ‘Kitchen vs. Chef’ theme, using some solid (“What you cook is [kisses the air] what I cook is crack…the pot different!”) [wordplay and gritty angles to get his point across. However, Chef Trez, with a shortened and easygoing turn that he probably did on the way to the store, still dished out enough gripping punchlines and meaty name flips to earn a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “We miss the clean {Mister Clean] you used to be, now nigger’s mopping the floor with you!”
Recap: Punchline for punchline, the returning-to-battle-rap Money Bagz and Chef Trez are about even in this dope 1-round, Social Distance battle from RBE. But Trez’s addition of fierce personals, braggadocios shiners and more potent name flips in the long run gives the Chef the edge.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Well, let’s get this bread, class in session, I’m ripping lead, they asking if he’s black or white, sssshhhhit I just know the nigga dead!”
Recap: When you’re as prolific as Chef Trez is when it comes to battle rap, 1-round, Social Distance battles like this one are pretty much a walk in the park. Indeed, as seen here against rising female battle rap star Blve Cocaine, the Chef dishes out 2 minutes of exquisite mayhem, fierce names flips, stinging 4-bar set-ups and piercing personals/punchlines with ease, beating back a solid, angle-savvy turn by his opponent that while also penetrating with the visuals, overall still lacked the potency of the Chef’s more versatile composition.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You ain’t hurting me, I’ll do you to the worst degree, dead people get the best promotion?, now Blve’s [blues] everywhere…Bourbon Street!”
Recap: Being under quarantine hasn’t seemed to slow down Chef Trez, who’s still battling as often as a B. Magic punchline. And here against KP, even without the opportunity to spin a rebuttal, the Chef still manages to cook, using fierce name flips, head-ringing gun bars and spicy schemes/punches to easily beat back an elongated, old head-ish and mostly pedestrian turn by his opponent.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I give you props for trying to stand and face this, but there it’s a difference in levels, no question…fam you basic!”
Recap: Chef Trez versus Charron for 3 rounds (not counting the added freestyle round at the end here) on the RBE stage, goes about as expected with 3 high quality rounds of spicy rebuttals/freestyles (hey, there’s an idea, with their noted acumen for dope freestyles and rebuttals, maybe Trez and Charron should form a tag-team?), piercing mayhem/punchlines and spitfire personals. Still, outside of a 1st round that Trez was able to equate in potency thanks in part to his ability to dish 3 of them thangs, an almost flawless, versatile, punch-crazy, racially transparent and off-the-dome superior 2nd round by Charron got him the lead in the battle, before a just-as-crazy 3rd round with near the amount of robust bars as the previous one won him the battle while at the same time beating back two pretty solid and rebuttal happy, but not quite as consistent turns by Trez.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Charron – “Have him see through when I’m rolling up, try to creep, slow as fuck, even when I’m sleeping I got a can on me…Homer’s gut!”
Recap: Steely with the real-life street narratives, banging with the gun bars, repping his Chi-Town hood with livid polemics and steady hitting with gritty punchlines/wordplay, Heavy Half scores with enough heat to edge a strong, but not quite as potent turn from the always reliable Chef Trez in this 1-round Social Distance match from RBE.
Verdict: Heavy Half (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Heavy Half – “If I’m black and always surrounded by the white, well does that make me a token?!”
Recap: Put aside the requisite stinging rebuttals and glistening gun bars for a second and spotlight an exquisite punch game from Chef Trez here against a pretty solid and hard-fought effort from ShowStoppa in this 1-rounder from No Coast Raps. Indeed, with the ability to also mix in some fire name flips and head-ringing set-ups, for the Chef this versatile and flexing round would turn out to be just another day at the office.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I wanted smoke with Killer B, I feel it’s about time, and now it’s ShowStoppa I gotta out shine, but a known fact, when you beat up on the little bro it always makes the big brother come outside!”
Recap: Real solid effort from Mark Anthony who came with a host of piercing punchlines and rich self-depreciating bars to stay competitive in the first two rounds before struggling with his flwo and having to shorten his 3rd. But Chef Trez being Chef Trez, with a host of sizzling gun bars, fire rebuttals and rapidly hitting punches still takes this one, pretty handily.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “But on the other hand, what I’m squeezing sick, it’s a big 9 like…what you been feeding it?!”
Recap: Forgive us for wishing the likes of Chef Trez versus 1st-timer-to-RBE Quantum Physics could happen on a big stage (and maybe one day it will) instead of a 1-round Social Distance battle. But in some abnormal times, you have to take whatever you can get. And both QP and the Chef still showed up with the latter dishing plenty of resident heat, some spitfire punches and fiery requisite name flips, while a wordplay-spazzing, pointed, punch-lit and performance-heavy QP made for a crazy dope debut. That said, with a little less filler in a battle that was pretty equal on haymakers, the edge here goes to QP.
Verdict: Quantum Physics (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Quantum Physics – “He got a extra round in the funeral home for trying to rebuttal in the casket!”
Recap: Even during a pandemic, the Chef be out here cooking. This time using prolific gun bars, stunted vet talk, a couple of flexing rebuts and some fierce wordplay/punchlines to beat a pretty solid punching, but not as consistent with his handle Cosmo Kessler in this 3-rounder from 15 Minutes of Fame.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I blaze guns, Trae Young, I’ll shoot as soon as I cross the line!”
Recap: That “Pillow on the barrel, just to keep the baby quiet!” line by Ghostt was extra mean and the confident up-n-comer also impressed here with a boatload fly rebuttals, dope punchlines, an ability to freestyle, a gang of daunting gun bars and quality personals (against Trez as well as battlers within his home league). That said, another element of being a top tier vet is never taking your opponent for granted. And the Chef makes sure not to do so here, taking away any chance of an upset with his own barrage of spitfire rebuttals, fierce name flips, some fine wordplay, an armory of head-swinging gun bars and enough hard-hitting punchlines to take rounds 1 and 2 before his less punch-heavy, but more versatile opponent earned a debatable 3rd.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “My dog’s say you got a thousand flips for the nigger’s name, I said shit I would have zero if his dumb ass ain’t pick the name!”
Recap: Not sure why a mostly mayhem-dishing, fiery and name flip-spazzing Holmzie Da God would also go after Chef Trez’s rebuttal game as it takes a special skill to rebuttal and the Chef is one of the best at it. But other than one questionable angle and a slow start to both his 1st round (which he lost) and his 3rd (which he won), it’s a flexing and top-notch showing by Holmzie, who takes advantage of a bit of a lazy pen/flow from the usually more consistent Trez to out-punch and out-perform his opponent in the latter rounds for the win.
Verdict: Holmzie Da God (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Holmzie Da God – “I pull it out, the mag clap, you better duck, Aflac, a small cap will leave this brim bit like a dad hat!”
Recap: In this Black Ice Cartel battle versus Chef Trez, noted puncher Danja Zone turns it up a bit and grinds hard enough to force a debatable 3rd round. But before that, too many dated bars/schemes by Zone as well as punchlines that were a little meh at times obscure an otherwise solid showing. Then too, with the Chef dishing more consistent mayhem, gritty punchlines, fiery name flips, a couple of fire rebuttals and genuflecting gun bars at random during the 1st and 2nd, this battle was already was already in the bag before the final round.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I would say we could line it up in the streets, but I know you don’t trust that, so we could do a cage fight, fuck rap, jab, hook then let a knee in Zone…touchback!”
Recap: In addition to A. Ward supplying a just-as-fire rebuttal game, a versatile and punch-heavy Chef Trez has his work cut out for him for the first two rounds in lieu of the Christian rapper also dishing a host of fiery punchlines, witty barbs, jaunty name flips and some stinging mayhem to match his opponent’s potency and points on the scoreboard. But after the two battlers split the opening rounds, helped a bit by Ward’s solid, but 1/3rd pontificating and filler-bent turn, it’s a still cogent with the punchlines, gun bar swinging and fly with the schemes/punches Trez who takes the deciding 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Who cold as this?, no matter where I go my opponent’s get slaughtered, I haven’t seen a person this year who went harder, so fuck talking about who pen harder, ‘cuz I write nothing but nice shit…like a kid’s author!”
Recap: Chef Trez had to earn this one as Sway’s gritty trap talk and piercing punchlines not only made their mark, but kept him in the battle throughout. However, a couple of nice rebuttals in the opening rounds, along with some fierce wordplay, a boatload of stinging punches, ill similes/personals and a bunch of ever-reliable and visceral gun bars, allows the Chef to edge the opening rounds before a slightly punch-heavier 3rd by Swav kept Trez from pitching another shutout.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You supposed to be on URL with me representing the South, you heard that?, I should backhand you for leaving me hanging…give you your Smack!”
Recap: Open question: when Chef Trez does a 1-round battle, how much does his opponent’s chances of winning go up, knowing that if Trez loses the coin flip, they can take away his rebuttal game by picking him to go first? An opponent confident enough in his pen would probably disagree, but I’d say it does. That said, putting aside the crowd-pleasing moment of Brizz Rawsteen coming to the stage just as the ever brazen Snake Eyez just happened to mention his name, there really wasn’t much to see here as even without the ability to dish anyof them thangs, assisted by Snake starting his round off strong before it became too Tay Roc-centered (and lyrically subpar towards the end), a way more versatile, gun bar-slinging, punch/wordplay-heavy, personal-lit and consistent Trez takes this one easy.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “And you could miss me with the stories about how you was eating in jail, ‘cuz I was locked in like a SIM card, calling shit, the most important piece in a cell!”
Recap: Proving himself able to handle the big stage, but not really really wilding out on the eccentric gun bars, punchlines and rebuttals like we’re used to seeing, a B+ overall Chef Trez still manages to out punch and edge a rambunctious throughout, but less potent for the first couple of rounds Shotgun Suge. And while the Jersey rapper, performance-heavy throughout with a nice dunk on the whole Cave Gang midway in the 2nd, was able to put forth enough consistent darts to make the 3rd round debatable, besides getting beat by his opponent’s more potent display of lyricism, Suge’s inability to take full advantage of his own angle’s and personals hurt him here as well.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “He think he could kill with the post moves?!, he’s wilding, pull a box out, I’m rebounding, machete, Hack a Shaq like I keep fouling!”
Recap: Each battler living up to their top tier status in the game, Chef Trez and Ill Will put on a spitfire display of bar efficiency in this 3-rounder from RBE. The Chef, after a pretty solid, gun-centric and punch-heavy showing in the first round that only gets beat by a turned, set-up lit, (“I’m the stupidest one, two arms to both sides of Chef, like he waiting for the food to get done!”) performance-stunting and name flip/heat-a-blazing turn by Will, edges the 2nd round with else?…a fiery, room-shaking toss of 3 of them thangs, plus more eccentric (“Let him play, fuck all the hype games, knife swing, dirty blade…something rusty around Will, old bike chain!”) punchlines and other sizzling polemics and personals that in lieu of yet another fire turn by Will, he’d need to tie things up going into the 3rd round. Both battlers would dish plenty of stinging mayhem, searing punchlines and well-loaded (Trez: “When I cook, I’m too seasoned, hope you wasn’t expecting a lazy Chef ‘cuz now you gotta face the Chef, I’ll blaze the Tek, bullets at this leg, got him taking baby steps!”) gun bars in the deciding final round, but with an equal amount of heat from both sides, this altogether fiery and competitive matchup would end up as a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Ill Will – “But the 5th will twirl, Nick ya son, hit ya girl, once I get in the range, miss the games, send the Chef to a different world!”
Recap: An aggressive, focused and bullish Ell Oh Ess displays a nice freestyle game, but elongated rounds littered with tedious schemes/punches and a condensed Chef Trez, a little spent at times, but still on his game with staunch punchlines, flippant gun bars and piercing personals/name flips.similes adds up to a quality 30 in this 3-rounder from Bar4Bar Battle League.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Keep it rap because these [balls up fists] come two at a time, you could get beat, punched or hooked…we got studio vibes!”
Recap: Took him a round to get it together, but after a couple of hiccups in an opening round that also saw the challenger struggle with their flow, yet Chef Trez still edged thanks to scoring more haymakers, Trez proceeds to ride the remaining beats in the latter rounds of this Verbal War Zone battle versus Casino PA with a steady, uninterrupted flow, while dishing a sturdy amount of spicy 4-bar setups, rigid punchlines and fiery name flips to easily beat back his punching, but much less intricate opponent and score a 30.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Many opps, that’s why I’m quick to let a semi pop, machine putting rounds in a Casino, now he a penny slot!”
Recap: Against a mostly persistent but inconsistent display of flashy gun bars from Kid Deph, in this 1-rounder from GOTG, Chef Trez not only goes ham with a roundhouse of stinging name flips, but spouts his versatility with a boatload of ringing punchlines/schemes, some feisty wordplay, pointed personals and his own host of searing heat to get the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Now I’m for the culture, besides, I’m too humble, I mean I’m here, giving Kid a shot…I’m the cool Uncle!”
Recap: The beginning of Big Kannon’s 3rd round here still has me scratching my head. Indeed, an aggressive Kannon who was already tee’d up during this URL/Born Legacy 8 matchup against Chef Trez from some heckler in the crowd as well as Tay Roc, who he nearly got into an altercation with in round 1, just never seemed to get his focus together in this battle. The Chi-town vet, who was pretty solid in both of the opening rounds, overall dishing one too many punches at Trez and Roc’s Cave Gang crew when he wasn’t spouting the aforementioned drivel or brashly attempting to keep up with his opponent’s off-the-dome heat. And those bumbs in the road by BK would only benefit Trez, who with the addition of fiery personals, rigid freestyles, gritty punchlines/gun bars and some killer wordplay would edge round 1 before (call round 2 debatable) handily taking the 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I was screaming Writer’s Bloque in every battle, for y’all I would’ve clapped tools, I was down for the Bloque like Embid, that mean I was even willing to shoot if I had to!”
Recap: Dishing a plethora of fiery schemes, lucid gun bars, stinging name flips and fiending punchlines–outside of a close round 2 that saw his opponent spout a couple of fly rebuttals–over the course of 3 robust rounds Chef Trez makes easy work of a mayhem-slinging, but a bit elongated, wit-challenged and inconsistent KO.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You don’t wanna see me enraged, what make him think he could beat the greats, like this a piece of cake?, a bullet will leak his face, they booked us to see K shine [K-shine] [Bowh!], but instead see DNA!”
Recap: Gritty and mayhem-drenched battle between Chef Trez and Prophelinni stays close throughout its 3 rounds, but even with nary a rebuttal, it’s Trez who still outshines his opponent with a wide series of sizzling gun bars, head-ringing schemes, searing street narratives and stinging punchlines to take each round.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Peep bitch, I don’t know what they was saying but I’m here, glide on the street he live I bet this K will give him fear, he outside with hella niggers?, I’m a wave it at his peers, I went for the steal [steel] and caught a block…Defensive Player of the Year!”
Recap: Over the course of this 3-rounder from Renegade Rap Battles, Chef Trez’s wide assortment of fluorescent gun bars, over-the-top mayhem and fiery name flips/punchlines combine to make easy work of a performance-heavy, but flow-challenged and lyrically unsteady Chris Trotter.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Chopper rounds make his head spin, Dead or what, Alive? [Bwoy!} they found him dead then!”
Recap: Two of the best free-styler’s/rebuttal feen’s in the game, Chef Trez and Bangz, go at it on the iBattle stage and for the most part it’s a goodie with each battler flexing their off-the-dome skills (which allowed for some entertaining crowd participation) in between written’s that mostly engaged in your usual assortment of fierce mayhem, braggadocios lines and gritty punchlines. That said it’s Trez–way more consistently nice with his punches in the deciding 2nd round, while matching his opponent in impromptu shiners here and there, who takes the match in the end after also winning round 1.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Speaking of bitches, your’s can learn this death lesson, I’ll body him then assault Bae…who think the Chef flexing?!”
Recap: Weird to see Chef Trez only dish one rebuttal during a 3-round battle. But here against a pretty solid punching, Asylum The Crow, he wouldn’t need them as the Chef went haywire anyway with a gang of potent punchlines, flexing gun bars and some piercing name flips to take each round for the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You from Arkansas, you said right?, whoop-die doo nigga, the shit is great, Ar’s ya state’s initial’s?, [well] my AR could change ya initial state!”
Recap: From URL’s Born Legacy 7 card, a super-competitive, hard fought and overall dope 3-rounder between Th3 Saga and Chef Trez. A consistently aggressive Trez edges round 1 over a brazen, religious-laced and set-up/punch-lit Saga with a slightly more versatile, punch/wordplay-crazy, gun line-bent, religiously-tinged and personal/scheme/freestyle spicy turn of his own before a surprisingly off-the-dome-lit, 4-bar set-up/punch-spazzing, personally/Cave Gang-angled and simile-lit Saga edged round 2. Helped by some rare displays of wit and a spicy rebuttal, a slightly more condensed Trez would take round 3, using a gang of graphic mayhem, ill set-ups and fiery punchlines to edge another dope, righteous/storytelling-rich at times and Christian-bent, but a little filler-prone Saga and gain the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I could body a Horseman like BoJack!”
Recap: In this 3-rounder from Gates of the Garden, Buttah From Da Block puts on a solid effort with some nice, aggressive punches here and there. But too many reaches and predictable/pedestrian bars from BFDB along with a more condensed Chef Trez who consistently killed it with fire name flips, steely gun bars and fierce punchlines/rebuttals over the course of his 3 rounds, gives the Chef another $30 meal ticket.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “No bragging, but I’m the real plug, I do the dope rapping, how you want it, throat-slashing or straight-faced like no passion?, it’s just you and my gun…butter-n-toast, old-fashioned!”
Recap: In sports, just because you know what play the opposing coach is drawing up, doesn’t guarantee that you’ll win the game. And the same theory applies to Franchise, who despite almost always slinging 90% gun bars, still makes for a formidable opponent with his graphic punches, rich performance bars and at times witty verbiage. That said, the Canadian battler’s commitment to dispensing heat is what gets him the edge in this URL/Born Legacy 6 battle against Chef Trez. A consistently energetic, gun line-centric, punch-drunk and haymaker-drenched round 1 goes Franchise’s way before Trez (who despite losing the opening round, still had a pretty dope turn) went ham in the 2nd round with what might be a record ‘5 of those things’ (aka rebuttals) that along with some spicy name flips, fire gun lines and fierce personals/set-ups, nicely combined to tie things up heading into the 3rd round. The last round was a close one with Trez delivering his usual tasty combo of rich punches/personals and off-the-dome burners. But despite getting off to a bit of a slow start, Mr. No Lacking uses a series of gritty street darts, power punches and steely mayhem to edge the final round for the win.
Verdict: Franchise (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Franchise – “Dump the body, toss the heat, talk is cheap, creep up with the ladder like Dawson’s Creek!”
Recap: In what was a pretty solid battle overall, Chef Trez’s spitfire guns bars and stinging punchlines/wordplay over the course of 3 rounds, coupled with some fly rebuttals and feisty schemes are enough to earn the Cave Gang member a clear win in the 1st and 3rd rounds here over a Danny Myers, who outside of a crazy and versatile 2nd round (which only did enough to force a debatable turn, in light of the sizzling round the Chef had too) and a boatload of personals, just couldn’t bring enough consistent heat to avoid the loss.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I keep one .9, one .40, this shit a safe code, then I’ll put a pound to one [2,1] this shit a gate code!”
Recap: As proven once again here, it takes more than just a solid effort to beat the likes of a top tier dude like Chef Trez. And certainly a confident YBS tried, delivering rapid punches throughout his elongated turn in this 1-rounder from Locked In LetsTalkAboutIt. But even with a few quality haymakers landed here and there, too many pedestrian bars and a lack of intricacy with many of his punches would hurt the We Go Hard stalwart, before a gritty Chef Trez, loaded with opening round rebuttals, spitfire name flips, toxic gun bars, fiery punchlines and even a few spicy personals, got the kill.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I said I’m loaded with a chopper bitch, rock ya shit, drop him quick, cock the grip..shoot BS down like I’m focused on the positive!”
Recap: Salacious, hardbody guns bars rain down aplenty in this solid, 1-round battle between Chef Trez and Goddie Lumenati. But a more consistently potent Trez, mixing in some fiery schemes, stinging name flips and righteous braggadocio/struggle bars throughout his gun-centric turn, ends up taking this one.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Nigga said, don’t step in my lane, you’ll hear a loud blast, I’ll let a round skip through your lane…that’s a bounce pass!”
Recap: Come-n-comer Erky Law shows a lot of potential in this 1-rounder against Chef Trez, flexing with a load of nifty punchlines, sporty wordplay and a variety to his bars. Still, never one to take anyone for granted regardless of what tier they’re on, a more condensed Trez’s more potent name flips, jaunty gun bars, lofty personals and consistently bodacious punches are all too much to overcome.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You should just act, do comedy, we don’t believe that you spraying, I know that he was a grown kid soon as I spotted little man on his way in!”
Recap: Slinging fire gun bars, festive name flips, wicked punchlines and a head-ringing rebuttal to start things off with vigorous abandon, in this 1-rounder from Capital Battlegrounds, Chef Trez beats back Friday fan King Esco, who while aggressive and solid with his punches throughout, just didn’t have enough potency to his raps to keep up with his opponent’s more spicy lay work.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “The shit you spit?, they hype it, but it is your hometown, well this chopper ain’t Shine, from this K you getting a whole round!”
Recap: Anyone who’s ever peeped the punch-lit Brixx Belvy before would know that he’s more than capable of bringing that competitive fire to Chef Trez. And that’s the case here as in this 3-rounder from Rap Grid, the SONS vet delivers a fiery dish of standout (“Push a plate back on Chef, I ordered fries wit it!”) punches and nifty wordplay that more than met the crowd and his opponent’s approval. However, Trez being Trez, was just too much here what with the Cave Gang general dropping haymakers with ready abandon via a stinging mix of jaunty name flips/personals, heated (“If plotting what you trying to do, you’ll get one .40 put to ya brain, you got a genius I.Q.!”) gun bars, potent trap talk and of course, a couple of fire rebuttals and other lofty punchlines. Mark it down as a debatable 1st followed by the Chef earnestly taking the latter two rounds.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Fuck it, I’ll stick a knife in Brixx [bricks] like I’m testing the quality!”
Recap: All the while proving himself to be unworthy of saving, Chef Trez cooks up a devilish plate of nasty punchlines/personals, salacious schemes and seedy gun lines to easily take the first two rounds and beat back a solid overall, but too hit-n-miss in the early rounds and none-too-Spiritually-connecting till the 3rd Loso in a long-awaited matchup between two ATL battlers with similar histories in the game.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Let’s talk, I battled DNA, Nitty, Chess, I faced real tiers, even Ryda, Mike P, Prep, some fire mid-tiers, so I’m not worried about facing you and your savior, I don’t feel fear, plus, I already stood in front of JC once…and I’m still here!”
Recap: Don’t know what, if anything, happened between these two before the battle, but whatever the case the raspy, struggle life stylings of Boss Status sure did light a fire under Chef Trez, who delivers a 1-round ‘ass-whipping’ to his opponent with, to start things off, ‘3 of them thangs’ before proceeding to dish a shitload of spitfire names flips, red-dotted gun bars and a plethora of righteous punchlines.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Who the fuck told you could battle me?, dog just stop, I ain’t hearing nuthin’ Boss saying, I’m off the clock!”
Recap: Even with some reaches here and there, a pretty confident and aggressive Ian B matches his swag with enough fiery mayhem, solid punchlines and slicing gun bars to edge round 2 and make things interesting going into round 3 of this World War 478 matchup against Chef Trez. But after a subpar (for him anyway) middle round (that followed a stellar 1st), Trez turns it up in the deciding 3rd, using more revved up guns bars and a gang of steely punchlines to easily take the round and earn the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You trying to bend a word, I bend the block, extended shots and put that good milli into ya stomach, it hot the spot!”
Recap: Confidently dishing a cocky load of personals, residual mayhem (“Nigga just a sacrificial lamb, he gonna die being the goat!”) and fiery punchlines, for two rounds anyway Kush impresses enough to put up a serious fight with Chef Trez. But elongated turns from Kush that lessened the impact of his haymakers and a mediocre 3rd round, plus a more condensed Trez who stayed on point with a series of salacious (“He try to run through and zip-zag, my nigga that’s good, till I hide him in a forest, but we all know Kush can’t last in them backwoods!”) name flips, a couple of nice rebuttals, stinging gun bars and some fire schemes throughout the battle, gives the Chef yet another vic.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I raise the pound well, and it’s my color…that’s Black excellence!”
Recap: A 1-round grudge match from CGBL Battle league features a solid showing from Remedy Loko who in-between some filler here and there, spouts a host of fierce name flips and hot punchlines against the ever ready Chef Trez. But even with an able effort from his oppoenet, in the long run Trez takes this one, proving to be overall more consistent with the bars as well as nicer with the spicy gun lines, virtuous punchlines and potent schemes.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I’ll put the gun to your own head while you stand over your friends, damn the nigger bled on me, I thought he wasn’t going to do it, but he put it all on his dead homies!”
Recap: Sometimes one side just does a little more. Pretty solid overall with the bars, extra (“I handle llama’s and send the drama, to end the karma, have the Chef surrounded…reservations at Benihana’s!”) fierce with an aggressive performance, mocking his opponent with witty schemes/personals and willing to take a few risks here and there with the pen (tho I’d x-nay rebutting yourself), Mr. Wavy edges rounds 2 and 3 and pulls off a minor upset over the favored Chef Trez, who while finessing with spicy rebuttals, some fine freestyles and fiery (“But it’s Mr. “Debatable”, till I squeeze a K, it’s gonna hit you, or your people’s face, now it’s really debatable, ‘cuz I’ma put it two one (2-1) either way!”) schemes/personals/wordplay throughout, would fall victim to not only a fight that occurred in the crowd midway thru his 2nd round (that admittedly threw him off, tho he had a fire [“I had this crafted perfectly, but nigger’s sabotaging the fucking picture…all that fighting in the crowd, whatever dog, y’all some sucker niggers and Smack, I’m sorry that shit had to happen, you know I’m fucking with you, but when you punch like this, it usually got influence on other nigger’s!”] rebut for it), but a few too many predictable punches/gun lines, personals themes that became a bit redundant and a sometimes flat (and distracting) pen game.
Verdict: Mr. Wavy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Mr. Wavy – “I’m strapped in…nah nigger I already clapped him!”
Recap: If Swavatar Jack really was waiting to a long time to battle Chef Trez, it certainly showed as the Atlanta Battle Rap spitter came through with some fire (“Bon appetite, put the Mil in a Chef plate, feast your eyes!”) punchlines (mostly in round 1) and gritty wordplay to make this 3-rounder competitive. But a few too many dry spots from Jack and Chef Trez being Chef Trez what with a boatload to rich set-ups, fiery gun bars, spirited name flips, stinging (“You was bugging me for years about being Chef Life, I did the nigga foul, put up a ‘Not Hiring’ sign, when Jack put in the app, I shut the kitchen down!”) personals and just to throw them in there, a couple of fire rebuttals, just ends up being too much for the begrudging Jack to pull off the upset.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “We can’t get real jobs, a drug test?, nigga we passing scales!”
Recap: Dealing all sorts of mayhem and dishing on some eerie situations with his massive load of guns bars, Chef Trez easily puts a hurting on Dubb Da Feenom’s loud, but less potent raps, that is before a late round choke by Dubb ends things for good.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Let’s switch the plot, I’m in front of his doorsteps, through his house giving shots, the irony, as soon as the pound hit the door, the nigga knock!”
