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Geechi Gotti defeats Diesel

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Recap: Nice one-rounder between Geechi Gotti and Diesel is served up by Geechi’s more brutal personals, some ill gun bars, fly punchlines and storied street tales to flex his authenticity. And while the always punch-heavy Diesel doesn’t waver of the face of Gotti’s gritty bars, a few too many dry spots during what was a pretty solid round leaves Gotti with his hand raised.

Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Fuck it tho, I got a new gun, and it’s a nice weapon, put the laser on the Barcode, I’m just price checking!”

Steams defeats Diesei

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Recap: Using some slick (“Fuck is y’all selling me Diesel for, [when] I’m already on Smack?!”) wordplay, fierce name flips and hearty punchlines, a confident Steams survives a sputtering round 3 to take the first two rounds and beat an overall (“Watching Ninja Turtles taught me having a gun so bigger gun…man that shit is wack, cuz’ yeah the ‘ooouuu’s will give you bigger shells, but it’ll also create bigger rats!”) solid, but slightly undermanned with the bars Diesel in this West-coast Traffic battle from Smack.

Verdict: Steams (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Steams – “I serve vets, why y’all give me this herb next?, I’ll bursts tek’s or you’ll get poked in the temple like church sex!”

Diesel defeats Moon

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Recap: After dishing a pretty pedestrian 1st round that easily got beat back by a fire, OG-savvy turn by Moon, Diesel steps it up with steady aggression, backed by fiery name flips, some nice schemes and roundhouse punchlines to take rounds 2 and 3 for the win over a still solid, but not as potent opponent in this PG match from Smack/URL.

Verdict: Diesel (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Diesel – “I’ll have Moon staring at the .50 like his birthday coming!”

Krucial Ken defeats Diesel

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Recap: After a debatable first round, a high-energy and confident Krucial Ken steps it up on the gritty punchlines, lucid gun bars and fire wordplay to take the last two rounds and out duel an overall solid, but too-oft-porous Diesel in this punch-heavy West-coast PG battle.

Verdict: Krucial Ken (W) 2-1

Favorite line:  Krucial Ken – “I’m a smoke Diesel and get on Smack, he a gateway drug!”

Diesel and J-Money [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Diesel and J-Money put on a fiery and competitive show throughout this West-Coast PG battle, loaded with plenty of hardbody punchlines/gun bars, feisty wordplay, ill braggadocio lines and aggressive performances. A more condensed and consistent Diesel takes a close round 1, before a (“They say you the hottest Dies…but you know nigga’s, they say a lot of things!”) pronounced, versatile and scheme-heavy J-Money comes back to edge the 2nd. The deciding 3rd round was nice all around with Diesel hitting hard with boastful punches and some fire set-ups, while J-Money dished his own crazy steeze of West-coast themed punches and stifling polemics to earn a debatable.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Diesel – “I’m riding, with a SOS…that’s a big flare, that’ll take you from your baby, your baby momma be Living Single like Sinclair!”

Danny Myers defeats Diesel

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Recap: Like a boxer preparing for a big fight, it’s a wonder watching the ever-passionate Danny Myers prepare himself for a battle what with the chap stick, water bottle and of course, the intense stare down of his opponent before they ring the bell. And as Diesel finds out here in this 1-round, West-coast AHAT battle, Danny’s focus usually pays off in the ring as after a pretty solid, raucous when needed and punch-centric turn by his opponent, Danny wrecks him with a systematically violent, punchline-crazy and storytelling rich go-around that your favorite up-coming battle rapper can certainly learn from.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I’ll test you before I put you through war like the ASVAB!”

Diesel defeats XP

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Recap: Nice comeback here from Diesel, who survives a pretty solid 1st round from a punch-heavy XP, to return the favor with an aggressive, gun-savvy and bombastic 2nd round, before completing the conquest with a condensed, but just as fire 3rd that was enhanced by his opponent’s near choke during his turn.

Verdict: Diesel (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Diesel – “Two hands on a .40 to make sure the steel keep straight, so keep a vest, stay protected, ‘cuz like Magic’s wife, one bust of this magnum will end in a tragic night!”

Nov defeats Diesel

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Recap: Dishing confidently and collectively with fiery gun bars, fire punchlines, cold name flips and some able wit, a more condensed and versatile Nov edges rounds 1 and 3 to take this one over a solid, but less potent and consistent Diesel.

Verdict: Nov (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Nov – “You dumb, you supposed to get smoked, stop acting sour Diesel!”

Diesel defeats Ratchet

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Recap: Diesel’s more rambunctious bars aren’t always spitfire, but here against a more often lyrical lightweight in Ratchet, the Cali rapper’s bombastic Godspeak combined with the aforementioned how-many-ways-I-can-kill-you themes, are enough to come from behind, take the last two rounds and a win.

Verdict: Diesel (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Diesel – “I’ll come to your funeral and when they try to lift you to Jesus, and give you something to take to the grave, like you’ll keep it a secret!”

Stampede defeats Diesel

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Recap: What Stampede may lack in bar efficiency, he sure does his to make up for it with performance, wit and some fiery schemes. And here, for two rounds anyway, against a slip-up prone and choking Diesel, a consistently flowing and confident Stampede gets a win that he probably wouldn’t have gotten had his opponent not had a case of fumble-itis.

Verdict: Stampede (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Stampede – “This .4, toe tag, shots will make metal’s split, you gonna have me grab that cannon [Canon], and flash on a couple, like I’m trying to take a wedding pic!”

Emerson Kennedy defeats Diesel

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Recap: With an apparent irreverence to actually rhyming at times, an emotive and steadily aggressive Diesel still manages to edge round one with more direct and potent bars than his opponent. From there, however, it’s all Emerson Kennedy, who with a friendly combo of casual wit, jaunty wordplay and a Diesel slip-up in the deciding 3rd, takes this Utah vs. Cali battle from AHAT.

Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy -“Nigger’s gassing you up, I’m like who in your head?, and nigger’s hitting your wife…that’s who in your bed!”