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Cortez defeats Cityy Towers

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Recap: From Takeova/No Trenches, a close, fiery, sometimes personal and competitive 3-rounder between Cityy Towers and Cortez ends with the Brooklyn vet coming back and taking it in the end. As after getting edged in round 1 to the casual nexus of pertinent set-ups and flexing punches from his opponent, the more condensed Cortez’s own rich combo of hard street rhymes, stinging name flips and gritty wordplay/punchlines would earn Bodega a vic in both the 2nd and 3rd round’s for the win.

Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cortez – ” Dog, ain’t no respect for you lame types, ‘cuz the game hype, dog gassing, Bob Saget…you fake nice!”

Cityy Towers defeats Da Kid Klutch

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Recap: In what was a competitive and gritty 3-round punchfest from Hit List Battle League, after the two split (got Klutch edging round 1, before Towers edged round 2) the first couple of rounds, both Cityy Towers and Da Kid Klutch (both of whom had some killer name flips along the way) struggle with their flows in the deciding 3rd. However, Towers’ more complete turn and longer stream of haymakers gets him the win here.

Verdict: Cityy Towers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cityy Towers – “You in the field throwing flags, but you ain’t a player, you a referee, it make sense, your name’s Klutch, you ain’t shit but an accessory!”

J. Murda defeats Cityy Towers

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Recap: Anyone who has ever followed Cityy Towers battle rap career would know what a strong puncher he is. But Towers’ penchant for a high punch-acumen can sometimes get watered down when he leans it too heavily or in this case against J. Murda, segues back to punching even upon dishing fiery displays of wit and/or hitting personals. It’s a slight weakness that Murda takes advantage of here what with a hilarious round 1 that made no apologies for being all personal, before mixing it up a little bit and splitting the latter rounds with a variety of hard street semantics, rich schemes and aggressive, hardbody punchlines/performance bars.

Verdict: J. Murda (W) 2-1

Favorite line: J. Murda – “You go hula-hooping in a bagel…what you mad now, you gonna shoot at my ankles!”

DNA defeats Cityy Towers

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Recap: For two rounds anyway, this was a pretty hype battle between Cityy Towers and DNA, what with both battlers delivering on raucous punchlines, stinging personals, nice schemes, a little sermonizing and boastful, braggadocio barbs (and in DNA’s case, freestyles) to split the first two rounds. Then the 3rd round came around and surprisingly less than a minute in, Cityy seemingly forgot his bars. Granted, the Connecticut spitter would nimbly freestyle his way through to avoid a choke and complete the round. But against a vet like DNA it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Cityy’s awkward turn would cost him the battle and it did as his opponent would use a standard artillery of nifty punches and festive wordplay to gain the vic.

Verdict: DNA (W) 2-1

Favorite line: DNA – “Try to run, the can will take half off…that’s Six Flags!”

Cityy Towers defeats Shotti P

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Recap: Shotti P supplied some nice (“Besides the faking, you wanna know the real reason I can’t rock with you? You make being a full grown adult look impossible!”) jokes and feelgood (“I’m from Detroit, you from New Haven, let’s have a turf war, you’ll see a ratchet waving like a slut on a surfboard”) punchlines, but a costly slip-up in round 3 combined with Citty Towers more consistent (“Get live, I’ll get more live, I’m Michael Jordan, I just play different with that 4-5 [.45]!”) wordplay and an extra fierce (“If this wasn’t King of the Dot you’d be viewed as a shadow, I get more likes on a picture than you get views on a battle”) first round, ended up giving Towers the dub.

Verdict: Cityy Towers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cityy Towers – “You tell too many jokes, that tell me that your life sweet, you’re vegan, you don’t get cheese, you don’t like beef!”

Cityy Towers defeats Celebrity Cell

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Recap: Against a nice effort from up-n-comer Celebrity Cell, Cityy Towers lands just enough hard-hitting bars and punchlines in the first two rounds (with a dig at the PG’s thrown in) to claim victory in his 3-rounder from Beast Mode NY.

Verdict: Cityy Towers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cityy Towers – “We fighting wars in CT nigga, murders over drug money, every day I’m walking around with the same vest, I’m Doug Funnie!”

T Top defeats Cityy Towers

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Synopsis: Chilla Jones nods his head at too many bars, I mean they can’t all be that nice, can they? Anyway, City Towers has some skills (“You say you trap dusk till dawn with your eyes wired, I’ll let a round flame your top if you a night rider, my con ride up them type riders, that’ll cock the metal back before another sentence, them typewriters”), but besides telling his entourage to ‘chill out, it’s just a battle’, he needs to work harder on his delivery, versatility and being more consistent. As for T Top, what more could you ask for? Street/gutta shit, storytelling, name flips, throw in a joke or two (“I’m gun pouting because I ain’t hearing you baby, I mean you barely got born, you a miracle baby”) to keep the levity all the while dropping more consistently tight bars. In other words, Carolina all day.

Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0

Best line: T Top – “16’s will put him in a box, that’s a Pro Tool, I’m still Chuck E. when I’m Fresh, I bust the dope moves!”

Born defeats Cityy Towers

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Recap: Very close battle between Born and Cityy Towers, but Born edges it with more equipped angles: jokes (the “I can finally make short jokes” lines worked), slightly better punchlines, wordplay, grittier bars, name flips and schemes.

Verdict: Born (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Born – “I pop the ratchet like Billie Ray Cyrus”

Cityy Towers defeats Uno Lavos

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Recap: To think how good Uno Lavos would be if he could come more focused and spit hot bars and jokes with equal ease. Still a good matchup till the 3rd, as Cityy Towers broke down Uno’s style and used genial (“The gift of gab real [Gabriel] union with your bitch in the pool, that dee wade [D. Wade]”) wordplay to take the first, while Uno actually spit some hard (“People thought because I was battling City I was gonna be off but I ain’t, because my niggas is known for clicking and popping like Carlton Banks”) bars to edge the 2nd. Split after two, Cityy just upped the ante and spazzed with wicked personals, mean performance (“My shit ain’t over heads, it’s under chin!”) bars and line by line heat all throughout, leaving Uno to stumble through his 3rd round and eventually wave the white flag.

Verdict: Cityy Towers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Uno Lavos – “This gun will put niggas to sleep, that’s why I tuck it in!”

Cityy Towers defeats Presidential Dubz

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Recap: Whew! Kinda battle that makes you actually yearn for the Fight Klub days where you had a pool table between the rappers therefore making touching each other a non-issue. That said, I don’t have a problem with any battle rapper not wanting to be touched during a battle, but with all the performance bars and hand gesturing that’s in play these days, it doesn’t take being a rocket scientist to know the difference between being touched (Dubz barely grazed him) accidentally and someone outright disrespecting you with their hands. Then too, since it’s Cityy Towers who started the whole brouhaha (again, he had every right to be bothered by the touching, but I don’t think Dubz meant any disrespect with any of it), to be fair, all that gesturing at the camera while his opponent spits and/or grilling his opponent isn’t cool either, much less displays poor sportsmanship. Too bad for all distractions that came with the extra shit, because bar for bar and style for style this was a really dope battle. I got Towers edging taking the 1st and 2nd rounds, while Dubz clearly got the 3rd.

Verdict: Cityy Towers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cityy Towers -“You’re a Buckingham’s Palace guard, your career’s a stand still”

Brixx Belvedere defeats Cityy Towers

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Recap: Proving once again that you don’t always have to win battles with haymakers, Brixx Belvedere takes Cityy Towers to school (tho that “I’ll make your life look like the Jersey Shore…right now” line was mean) with bars (“hammers might glow if the lights go coward, I’ll show this pupil what a pair is, you’ll get an eyeful [Eiffel] Tower”) galore that included nice metaphors, punchlines (“Fucking been savage [Ben Savage] like Topanga!”), history lessons and even a nifty Slow-it-Down to keep the crowd moving…all with Conceited’s stamp of approval. No doubt. S.O.N.S. all day.

Verdict: Brixx Belvedere (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cityy Towers – “Nigga you don’t play the block and check for narcs, you text hoes and when they don’t text back you send them question marks”

Cityy Towers defeats Lexx Luthor

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Recap: Versatile and landing hard throughout with the fiery personals, rapid punchlines and gritty schemes, Cityy Towers gets the win by taking the 1st and 3rd round here over an aggressive and /scheme/punch-steady, but inconsistent Lexx Luthor.

Verdict: Cityy Towers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cityy Towers – “I’ll hit him with that ‘k’, just to show him I don’t text back!”