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Math Hoffa defeats Dialect

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Recap: Thanks to a couple of no-shows, UK grime/battle rapper Dialect and Math Hoffa end up going at it in this one-rounder, with what’s alleged to be only 3 days prep. For Math, that’s astutely going in vet mode, what with a solid turn of acute name (“Now Dialect, let me put you on trial a sec, this bar court, your name’s ‘Dialect, so you know what that kinda says? you all talk!”) flips, potent wordplay and festive bully bars, For Dialect, that’s mostly hit-or-miss jokes, a couple of stumbles and more than a minute of grime rapping…that kept the crowd’s attention anyway, but didn’t do much else.

Verdict: Math Hoffa (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Math Hoffa – “Fuck Dialect, ‘cuz Math is universal amongst the languages!”

Dialect defeats Cortez

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Synopsis: In front of a gassed, but supportive crowd UK’s Dialect drops some memorable bars, punches (“You are not a nigga’!”), jokes, crowd pleasers and a Biggie/Pac scheme that was clearly winning. But as you’d expect, Cortez’s name flips, personals, “plane” scheme and wordplay made it a close battle. Give it to Dialect if only for displaying better consistency as Cortez’s two slip ups and failed rebuttal ended up doing him in.

Verdict: Dialect (W) 2-1

Best line: Cortez – “”I can body son with this Tommy gun so I keep it calm, [but] if that barrel poking out the window it’s a peeping Tom”