Recap: In this 1-rounder from the New UDubb’s ‘The Rebirth’ card, Geechi Gotti has an easy time of it. Whether he was mocking opponent E. Ness’ old-school rapping linguistics, going back in time and making all-too-hilarious barbs on the veteran Philly rapper’s former ‘Da Band’ clique, circumventing via a bunch current event disses on Ness’ former boss Diddy and dishing a gang of hard-hitting street raps/punches, the EFB capo ends up doing more than enough to get the win over a hitting at times, but overall mediocre showing by Ness.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “This type of nigga be telling bitches ‘I’m E. Ness from Making da Band’, but the fucked up part is when he battle rap he don’t even be making a band!”
Recap: From TOS Battle League, against a gritty and pretty solid punching Coach Corleone, Geechi Gotti is made to earn it. But meeting the challenge with a gang of hard-hitting boastful chatter, steely street raps, lucid trap talk and a plethora of stinging punchlines, the Compton, CA, vet is able to efficently score a couple of more haymakers and get the win in this competitive 1-rounder.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “I’m talking a real dope boy, if I din’t have pyrex, we using ice with the pitcher, all my real nigga’s know when you cook it the rock never came back white, it was tan like this light-skin nigga!”
Recap: I’m sorry, but I’ve witnessed Aye Verb battle in front of too many hostile NY crowds, and never let that effect his performance, to feel bad for Serius Jones going through the same thing here. Then too with a litany of dated bars/schemes (esp. that Wu-Tang shit), subpar name flips/punches and elongated rounds, one can’t help but wonder (even tho he did have a solid round 1) if Jones will ever be able to change up his style to get with the new era of battle rap. But whatever Sharif. As outside of that, in this 3-rounder from URL’s Homecoming 2 card, it was all Geechi Gotti here. The EFB capo scoring some big payback from Jones after the NJ vet was going ham on stage cheering Murda Mook on during their battle last year. And no, it wasn’t just the blistering Math Hoffa (who just happened to be there on stage looking on and even flipped the coin beforehand) personals that did Serius in. But also a plethora of blazing freestyle/rebuttals, gritty street/trap talk, witty darts, hard-hitting punchlines and crafty name flips that handily got Geechi the 30.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “My 9’s popping, bitch I’ll have your at the hospital telling your family they can’t do nothing more, bitch, I’ll have your vital signs looking like a underscore!”
Recap: From KOTD, against a fierce and aggressive, but mostly subpar-punching Hollohan, in both of the opening rounds Geechi Gotti goes ballistic. The Compton, CA, battler using a steady stream of gritty street rhymes, flexing gun bars, daunting boasts and stinging punchlines to handily take rounds 1 and 2 for the win before dedicating his entire 3rd round to the passing of Canadian battle legend Pat Stay (RIP). And since Pat’s close friend Hollohan also did the same using his final round as a tribute to the Sucka Free Boss, we’ll just call the 3rd debatable.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Don’t make me upset, or blame the thuggin’, wet dreams, I literally came from nuthin’!”
Recap: Well, if you’re going to freestyle a whole round, Geechi Gotti can show you how to do it. After splitting the first two rounds with the righteous punching, angle-lit (esp. during a dope 2nd round centered around Geechi’s hair extension business that he edged) and activist-bent Jey The Nitewing, an openly peeved Gotti surprisingly takes the risk of going off the dome (no pulling out the phone during your round here) for his entire 3rd and it works. The gritty, gang shit/street rhyme-laced rapper putting aside the usual smoke for a fierce roasting session/scolding of his opponent that with a bunch of witty personals and too-real disses on his battle career that with a couple of spicy rebuttals, helped Gotti edge the final round (after out-punching Jey in the 1st) and take the 3rd round of this entertaining and competitive Traffic 6 matchup brought to you by URL.
Verdict: Geecho Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Swing on me, you’ll get shot, I bet you’ll make the floor quicker than you ever did!”
Recap: Damn, they didn’t even want to hug it out at the end. Oh well. From the Riot Battle League, former ‘Mafia’ co-horts Geechi Gotti and Coffee Brown let it all out for 3 rounds and as to be expected, it’s a highly personal and competitive affair. Coffee, always aggressive in her battles, but seemingly too a little hostile here, got all up in Gotti’s grill throughout the match, all the while dishing a stinging barrage of spirited gun bars, hardbody personals laced with rich metaphors and gritty punchlines. While a slightly more subdued, but still heated Geechi offered up blistering takes on his opponent’s alleged sex (“Jazz said if she fucked Smack she could own half the company, that pussy must be beautiful, this dumb bitch was fucking ‘P’ and couldn’t get one percent of the Crucibles!”) tales when he wasn’t also scoring with a gang of hard street rhymes, gripping name flips, righteous personals and potent punchlines. Add some solid rebuttals to the mix from sides in the bout and altogether you’re left with a battle that lived to its hype when it comes to grudge matches. Nonetheless, no winner here as after the slightly more haymaker/performance/multi-faceted-lit Geechi edged round 1, before a higher-dosed Coffee returned the favor in round 2. An equally crowd-buzzing, punch-crazy and efficient 3rd by both battlers makes this one a debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Coffee Brown – “It’s round 2 and you still a bitch, bang will lift, aircraft marshall, as soon as you land I’m waving stcks!”
Recap: Geechi: “You should’ve fucked with me, I wouldn’t have said nothing1″…damn. Granted, not the first time we’ve seen battlers go at league-owners on stage to their face, but Gotti’s righteous, Aye Verb-inspired, personal-lit and crazy 3rd (i.e. classic) was defintely one for the books. That said, even in light of a trap talk-spazzing, storytelling rich, gritty punchline/struggle bar-spewing and at times personal scoring 3 rounds, Eazy The Block Captain (whose best rounds were actually the 2nd and 3rd’s) is just going to have to accept the ‘L’ here as during each round his more consistently punching and versatile flexing opp just did him one better. A confident Gotti staying on point throughout in front of n attentive Chrome 23, New Jersey crowd with a shitload of spitfire street raps, slick wordplay, gangly similes, witty punches, heartfelt ancedotes and wicked personals at both Eazy and a seemingly stunned Remy Ma to earn the 30 in a battle that more than lived up to its expectations.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “I do this shit for the haves and the have nots, when Pap punched you, we was all wondering if you didn’t have or have knots!”
Recap: A dope 3-rounder from Last Second Sea between Emerson Kennedy and Geechi Gotti sees the former score with a bunch of spririted sneak disses, hitting struggle bars and piercing setups/punchlines. But it’s a slightly more condensed Gotti, not only on his shit with a gang of fiery personals, well-armed gun bars, steely punches and fierce street raps, but also a handful of spicy rebuttals who edges rounds 1 and 2 for the win before EK returned the favor in a close 3rd.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “I collect the heads of the bodies of the nigga’s I killed, I’m sick with it, but since Gotti got bundles y’all should know I got a box with wigs in it!”
Recap: A 1-rounder from iBattle features a pretty solid, punch-heavy at times and witty effort from home league fave Febou. But showing off once again that there’s levels to this shit, a turned up and a tad bit pissed off Geechi Gotti turns the tables on his opponent with a gritty barrage of hard-hitting personals, bodacious street raps, stinging punchlines, dope rebuttals and righteous haymakers to handily take the win.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Battling me this was a deathtrap, gun drawn under your chin it ain’t a neck tat, run down, pump and shoot…look like it was a step back!”
Recap: From Bullpen Battle League, outside of a so-so 3rd round Bad Newz turned it up here. The Atlanta vet keeping it competitive and standing toe-to-toe with Geechi Gotti with a consistent barrage of fire punchlines, aggressive street talk, some solid personals and stinging gun bars. But proving once again why he’s a mainstay on anyone’s top tier list, Gotti’s ability to steady serve up a bunch of fire rebuttals, fiery name flips, boastful barbs, witty personals, some killer schemes and his own parlay of grity gang talk loaded with hard-hitting punches and steely gun lines would just prove to be too much over the course of 3 rounds, whiel landing Geechi a Gentleman’s 30.
Verdict: Gechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Nigga you shoulda called off, ‘cuz ain’t no way you winnng this, even to save your life, even in the strip club the shit you spit gonna be the most ass we see on this stage tonight!”
Recap: One of the early Smack/DVD stars, after years of turning down a return because his asking price was too high, it’s nice to see Jae Millz finally humble himself enough to make his peace with Smack and debut on URL. And outside of a couple of lengthy rounds, Millz wasn’t bad here. The legendary Harlem emcee going back to his roots of boastful barbs, gritty street lingo and in-ya-face/mean personals to keep things competitive. Still even with the effort being there from Millz, making a decade-long comeback against the likes of Geechi Gotti is just asking for too much. And while the EFB capo half-heartedly acknowledged his opponent’s competitive fire throughout the battle, at the end of the day Millz was just overmatched what with Geechi utilizing a gang of hitting wordplay, bruising street talk, witty personals, sizzling name flips and heated gun bars to earn a 30 over a battler who might be better suited for small rooms bouts moving forward.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Hey fuck what they say, ain’t no chill side, nigga’s thought it was food coloring, i told ’em it was how Millz [meals] died!”
Recap: The way Murda Mook kept reppin’ for NY throughout this battle, you just knew some of this showing was about getting revenge for Loaded Lux’s shellacking at the hands of Geechi Gotti last year in Cali. Well, that’s my guess (hell, Mook did bring Lux out on stage in round 3) anyway. That said, this URL Homecoming bout with the current ‘Face of URL’ going up against the ‘Face of the Smack DVD era’ was a close and exciting one, a definitive crowd-pleaser that was worth the price of admission. Geechi, with his aggressive combo of hardbody street rhymes, gritty punches, brash personals and solid freestyles (which helped him edge round 2) rarely let a turned-up Irving Plaza crowd rattle him. While a versatile and angle-rich Mook, when he wasn’t spouting a gang of fiery NYism’s with his raps to keep the listeners in tune, continuously scored with a bunch of straighforward but potent punchlines, witty personals, steely pontifications and boastful barbs. Surprisingly, what ended up deciding this battle was an elongated Gotti too often leaning on the same gun-centric themes we’ve long heard him spout as well as Geechi letting the raucous away crowd unnerve a little bit which at times effected his flow. And with Mook (outside of the constant crowd interruptions and some indirect shots at notables like NuNu Nells), coming off more condensed and slightly more haymaker-lit in both the 1st and 3rd rounds, it’s the Harlem great who ends up pulling out the win.
Verdict: Murda Mook (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Murda Mook – “Your fight with death, I bet that gonna be your last tussle, Funeral that always wins, you better ask Hustle!”
Recap: Highly anticipated, especially on the West coast, Geechi Gotti and Dizaster face off for 3 rounds (last round unlimited) on GTX and to the crowd’s delight, dish a trio of fiery, competitive turns littered with plenty of mayhem, boasts and aggressive punches. Diz in his 2nd battle back after a long hiatus, delivered on his usual checkpoints of graphic violence, fierce storytelling, slick talk and rigid set-ups/personals/schemes. While the versatile Gotti consistently brought the heat with a barrage of hard-hitting/mocking personals, witty barbs, potent street talk, stinging punchline, boastful gun lines and a couple of spicy rebuttals. Altogether a close one, still it’s a more haymaker-lit Geechi who takes rounds 1 and 2 for the win before an equally syrupy on both sides 3rd round debatable.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “We Crips, Bloods, Esai’s, Asian’s, listen you don’t be in them streets enough, I don’t give a fuck much languages you know, bitch you don’t speak for us!”
Recap: Rim-rocking, competitive 1-rounder from The Battle Academy sees Geechi Gotti use a boatload of witty personals, some compact but stifling schemes, fiery gun bars/trap talk, fierce similes/punchlines and boastful barbs to beat back a pretty solid and mostly hard-hitting, but not as consistently scoring with the punches Rosenberg Raw.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Ugly nigga, your parents need to hold that L!”
Recap: In a virtuoso performance that featured a plethora of shrewd punchlines, ill style breakdowns, witty storytelling, hard-hitting personals, rigid wordplay and feelgood name flips that were capped by a dominant 2nd round, after getting edged by a sublime, real street talking and more punch-heavy Geechi Gotti in round 1, Hollow Da Don comes back to easily take the middle round before edging the 3rd with a more versatile and original-themed turn for the win in this highly entertaining and spirited URL/N.O.M.E. bout.
Verdict: Hollow Da Don (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Hollow Da Don – “You don’t even smoke, he said no but it’s some good tree and I stand behind it!”
Recap: Always a dope and unique way to test your pen, compliment battles are also a must-see for their sheer amount of entertainment value. But, hold on. Does Frak, a professional comedian (amongst other gigs) by trade, have an advantage going into one of these compliment battles against a battle rapper who doesn’t do much in the way of comedy when he/she raps? Most likely, yes. But by pulling all the spots, Geechi Gotti made sure that wouldn’t be an issue here. The Compton rapper using plenty of deadpan humor, rich storytelling, a couple of spicy rebuttals and a gang of witty punches/personals to take the latter two rounds (after his opponent edged the 1st) and beat back a pretty solid, Gotti lingo flipping and hilarious at times, but a little too redundant, filler prone and a bit elongated 3 rounds from Frak.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geecho Gotti – “[sniffs around Frak] I ain’t never smell good credit before!”
Recap: Finessing left and right with a fiery punch game throughout while adding his usual assortment of hard-hitting boasts, piercing name flips, a solid rebuttal and potent street talk, Geechi Gotti takes the two rounds handily and gets the win over a witty and personal-lit at times, but outside of the wisecrack-filled 3rd that scored him a debatable, not nearly as consistent with the punches Kitchen Qleen in this 3-rounder from GTX.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “You gonna be popping 30’s till you end up in the dirt fool, BUt at least ya family ain’t have to take care of you no more, see death got perks too!”
Recap: A 5th go-around at this tournament thing and it’s embarrassing that URL still can’t get their shit together as far as organizing and getting their judging system right. First of all, pay the damn judges. Secondly, to kill any thoughts of bias, no more than 1 current battle rapper should be allowed to participate in judging. And hell no to ever having judges on stage again as there’s no way one can properly judge a battle they’ve only seen once, much less while on stage in the midst of crowd noise, rapid punches that can easily be missed upon a first listen, etc. Instead, the judges should be in the back on separate monitors with ear pieces and allowed to watch each battle again if need be. I mean, with a $100K on the line, you want to get this shit absolutely right and it doesn’t take a genius to do so. Then too, and no knock against Geechi Gotti, Rum Nitty, Fonz and Real Name Brandon (who’ve all won previous tournaments). But with as many battle rappers URL has on their roster, why not spread the wealth a little bit and give other battlers, males and females, a shot at winning the big prize? All that said, in a close battle filled of rugged street shit, braggadocious bars, some flexing wordplay and gritty gang talk from both sides, I had the slightly more hitting Gotti edging round 1, but Tru Foe out-punched Geechi in the 2nd to split things and a more punch-lit and flow steady Gotti took the final round for the win.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Nigga, do you wanna know what would’ve happened if I shot you?, your momma would’ve seen you lying and said that’s not true [Tru]!”
Recap: Spitfire battle from URL’s Kings vs. Queens 3 card between Geechi Gotti and Jaz The Rapper as the two seasoned vets both brought their A-game’s to a bout that nary had a dull moment. Jaz, aggressive and performance-spicy from jump, punchline-lit throughout, hard-hitting with the personals amd (“Y’all wanna know if I spit or swallow? don’t matter I’m still catching a nut in the mouth!”) wordplay, adeptly utilizing her opponent’s signature moves and at times talking down to Gotti in a poised manner rarely seen, proved to be effectively strategic with her rounds. On the other hand, Geechi would never let up, the 3-time COTY dishing a bunch of potent personals on Jaz and her Bardashian crew when he lighting up the scoreboard with a gang of witty barbs, some solid off-the-dome lines, bullish punches/metaphors and scorching gun bars/street rhymes. Competitive with some dope name flips, roasting sessions and similes mixed in, a fire round 1 that featured some fiery stunting on both sides makes for a debatable before a slightly more versatile Gotti took round 2 before a slightly more condensed and punch-crazy Jaz came back to take the final round and make this one a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “You been around me and my Crips, bitch my gun was popping cherries before you even got dick!”
Recap: Death is something you don’t come back from and neither is Geechi Gotti’s round here. The 2021 Champion Male Battler of the Year getting his 2022 off to a tremendous start with a complete obliteration of Mike P in this 1-round Banned matchup from URL. Indeed, whether it was sublime personals on everything from his opponent’s man-bun to continually hard-hitting darts going at Mike’s girl to hard street rhymes that glistened with that real talk the Compton, CA native is known for, in his first battle of the year Gotti not only gets off a classic, but effectively dismisses to the crowd of onlookers anything Mike had to say (tho it was pretty raucous and solid) afterwards.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Caffiene, just ‘cuz this nigga play Call of Duty for y’all for a living don’t mean ypu mean you gotta keep giving him Black opps!”
Recap: I’m guessing that Geechi Gotti’s gets a lot of win’s from fans of battle rap due to the ‘believability’ factor. That is, when he talks that real street shit and gripping gang talk, never once do you think it’s on some make-believe shit ‘cuz he carries himself like he lives it (and well, I’m sure it doesn’t hurt that Gotti’s also a notorious Compton Crip). Still, too busy in these parts to find out who really does what outside of battle rap, from the moment the coin hits the floor, it’s all about bars and execution here. And that said, in this Gates of the Garden 1-rounder, while Dre Dennis kicked his usual assortment of spirited gun bars, hitting personals (tho nothing too out there, esp. when to comes to Gotti ‘tree’ jokes) and raucous punchlines that almost always makes him competitive in battles, a turned-up Gotti would take out his opponent’s soul, using a gang of extra-hard hitting personals bent towards exposing Dre’s alleged league dealings as well as the difference in each battler’s rap stature. Add to that a couple of spicy rebuttals in addition to some gritty punchlines/name flips and it’s the more haymaker-lit Gotti who gets the win here.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Them nigga’s gonna be paying for hsi vacatiosn all fucking summer, that’s what happens when you got a league owner with over a hundred-something battles, but he still an up-n-comer!”
Recap: Better than their first match (which A. Ward won) and more consistently spicy with sizzling off-the-dome heat from both battlers, from Geechi Gotti’s Riot league, this much-talked-about rematchbetween the Kansas City Horseman and the EFB capo lives up to the hype. Ward, with a bunch of stinging/mocking personals, fiery (“God already split a Red Sea, what you think will happen to a blue one!”) punchlines, righteous Christian-laced darts, different flows, witty barbs and some hard-hitting set-ups/wordplay/storytelling throughout the battle, came to win. While an aggressive Gotti, equipped with gritty punchlines/wordplay of his own, vociferous bully lines, discourteous religious darts, oft-wicked (“I will give your mama some angry dick like ‘fuck you mean!'”) personals, fire street-themed, West-coast bangers and steely gun bars, clearly wanted to make up for his earlier loss. And he did, with slightly better consistency with his bars, a couple of more haymakers in each of the opening rounds and the ability to equal Ward’s freestyles with a couple of his own, before the more potent Ward edged the 3rd, give Geechi rounds 1 and 2 for the win.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Nigga, you came prepared for me, but don’t make the worng move, we was literally whipping with a chrome spoon, so much work in the crib, it look like I was home-schooled!”
Recap: No disrespect to Geechi Gotti, who’s certainly put in the proper amount of work to earn a shot at Loaded Lux. But with the likes of JC on record been wanting to battle Lux or–if we’re going to do the West coast thing–wouldn’t a Dizaster/Lux matchup make more sense than this one? Especially if we’re not just looking to make Lux that secret bonus round you get when you’ve finally conquered your favorite video game. I mean, we got legacies to protect here. That said, despite a mostly solid (except for round 3 where he had a couple of slip-ups), heavy-hitting at times and ever-righteous 3 rounds from Lux, this URL/Til Death Do Us Part bout was all Gotti, who when he wasn’t theratneing to beat up someone in Lux’s entourage for talking through his opening round, outshined the Harlem legend in each round with an aggressive barrage of hard street rhythms, stifling punchlines, piercing name flips, mocking personals, some steely pontifications and flexing mayhem to get the win.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “If I say, I’m gon’ kill you, I’m gon’ kill you, I don’t give a fuck if it’s right or wrong, only thing I’m contemplating is, ‘Do I kill the kids too?’ so you ain’t gotta die alone!”
Recap: A bit of a rocky 3rd cost him a shutout, but against an ever-confident, street-thematic, brazen and overall pretty solid Calicoe (who’s best round was actually the 1st), with a story-gripping, macho-stunting, consistently punch-heavier, witty at times and mayhem-lit Geechi Gotti edges the opening round of this Summer Madness 11 matchup before absolutely ham and delivering one of the illest, haymaker-drenched personal breakdowns of a battle rapper you’ll ever see in round 2 (call that a classic) to own the win.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Every time a nigga step to you, he step up, Cal, stop livin’ off yo’ daddy name and get yo’ rep up, nigga, you a grown ass man but worryin’ about ain’t nobody respectin’ you, that’s cuz you in yo’ 30s and yo’ daddy still out here protectin’ you!”
Recap: Both a part of the EFB battle crew, for the second time in 3 years Rum Nitty and Geechi Gotti put their friendship aside for 3 rounds of hardbody punchlines, sick gun bars and gut-wrenching/witty personals. With the two meeting up this time for the URL/Ultimate Madness 4 tournament crown, both West-coast battlers would put on a fire show that was drenched in haymakers. However, outside of a debatable round 1 that deftly set the tone for what’s to come, it’s the slightly more consistently-lit and versatile to go along with righteous-bent Gotti (who also added a dope freestyle in the top of the 3rd) who edges both the 2nd and 3rd rounds for the win.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geecho Gotti – “Listen, I don’t give a fuck if you the best puncher in the world, that aint something I wanna hear, nigga your job’s at Walmart made that very fuckling clear!”
Recap: No voodoo hex to cause her opponent to choke this time around, but with her fiery gun bars and at times hard-hitting personals/punchlines, Casey Jay certainly made things closer in this URL UM3 3rd round battle then the consensus critic gave her credit for. Still, with a versatile and withering attack from Geechi Gotti that took on everything from Casey’s Bardashian clique to allegations on ghostwriting to certain personal priorities that along with some flexing name flips and boastful barbs amounted to plenty of points being put on the scoreboard, gave Gotti the 30.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “I don’t give a fuck about them pretty blue eyes, I’m really Crippin’, the only eye I’m worrying ’bout tonight is the witness!”
Recap: After just completing a battle the previous day, Geechi Gotti makes his first appearance on the Gates of the Garden stage and despite an aggressive, gritty and pretty solid from his opponent Wise, it’s a variety of sizzling name flips and piercing punchlines/personals that gets Gotti the win in this 1-rounder.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Hey, do you got kids, do they watch your battles?, nigga that’s beautiful, that’ll make it easier for them to deliver Wise words at a funeral!”
Recap: A couple of dudes who just teamed up for a 2-on-2 together, Swamp and Geechi Gotti, meet up in the 2nd round of URL’s Ultimate Madness 3 tournament and it’s a more versatile and steadily hitting Gotti, dialing up everything from head-ringing street missives, bruising punchlines, piercing name flips, witty personals and even a fly 2nd round rebuttal who does more than enough to take all 3 rounds for win over his gritty, but topsy-turvy opponent.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Nigga this ain’t a game, you said you broke down mo’ dimes than Kevin Samuels, that’s how you livin’? That ain’t shit bro, I ain’t kiddin’, you need to know the dope game how I’m really livin’, cuz I love you, but I had more O’s [hoes] on my track than Lenny Williams!”
Recap: Battling at a rampant pace, but still able to stay on his A-game (much less participate in a tournament), Geechi Gotti uses a gang of mocking personals, gripping gang life banter, steely punchlines and flexing gun bars/wordplay to handily beat back a gun line-lit, but also topsy-turvy Riggz in both of the opening rounds before an elongated 3rd by Geechi (who was complaining about time limits in both of the previous rounds) coupled with a shorter, but gritty, pretty solid-punching and bar efficient turn by Riggz makes the final run of this UM3 opening round bout debatable.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “I been hella gifted, this a level 1 verse Max security, the pen-level different!”
Recap: Not to take anything away from Geechi Gotti, who provided two killer opening rounds (and a pretty solid 3rd) littered with a shitload of scathing personals to earn the win here in this long-awaited matchup versus Math Hoffa. But Math’s ultimately perplexing decision to use a battle he’s long campaigned for versus an elite opponent like Gotti and waste so many bars going at his peers (mind you, for years we’ve seen Math ranting on blogs about wanting to battle a Goodz or a Tsu Surf or a Tay Roc, plus for over a year now he’s had his own hit show, My Expert Opinion, where he could easily go on anytime and rant there too) throughout this bout (esp. in round 1) just defies common sense, much less the idea that he might’ve won this battle without them. Indeed, outside of the aforementioned needless raps and a minor slip-up at the end of round 2, via some hard-hitting personals of his own, witty barbs, a bunch of fiery gun bars, some stinging wordplay and yes, even when he went the ‘M. Dot’ route and got on a righteous bender, Math was serving up more than enough consistent heat to warrant more plates on URL (honestly, I think Goodz should just say yes and let it happen already on a Summer Madness or N.O.M.E.). Nonetheless, with all the biting haymakers, verbal warfare, ability to gamely freestyle his way through some turbulence with his flow in round 2, rigid Dizaster fight angles and talk that real street shit throughout the battle (with some cutting jokes mixed in too), there’s still a better that Gotti wins this battle anyway even if Hoffa came more direct. Still would’ve been nice to find out.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Head shots, oh I’m talking too much, that goes to show I’m used to spilling beans!”
Recap: A highly anticipated rematch between DNA and Geechi Gotti sees the two get righteous as well as personal and deliver much more of a talking too at each other than expected. And while both battlers got their point across when it came to individually-slanted zingers, a more effective with the wordplay/schemes, consistent spicy, prophetic and less predictable DNA does enough to edge the first two rounds for the win before the more brazen Gotti earns the 3rd.
Verdict: DNA (W) 2-1
Favorite line: DNA – “New rules, I’m old-school I use the left-hand often, somebody better put Mark Cal away [Calaway] or he gonna be a dead man walking!”
Recap: Smack Volume 6 battle between Geechi Gotti and Goodz that outside of some dope rebuttals on both sides, goes down as expected: aggressive, competitive and well-executed when it came to preparation. Indeed, for all of Goodz talk of making money and living well outside of battle rap, Gotti countered with some scintillating (“I guess he always talking money ‘cuz he trying to speak in into existence!”) personals and righteous, business-minded moves of his own. Then too, Geechi’s penchant for gang-related themes in his raps were handled deftly by Goodz’s resident nonchalance and witty punches. Add to the mix a bunch of vet talk, boastful barbs and spicy breakdowns/punchlines from Goodz as well as a gang of rigid gun lines, piercing schemes and gloating chatter from Gotti and you’re left with a fire battle that was too close to call in each of the 3 rounds.
Verdict: Debatable
Favorite line: Goodz – “Every battle the same shit, somethin’ about his man death, nigga, you done lost so many friends I’m surprised you got friends left!”
Recap: A battle 3 years in the making, Snake Eyez versus Geechi Gotti, finally takes place on Gotti’s ‘The Riot’ league and while the final score might not be indicative, for the most part it’s a goodie. The ever-aggressive and raucous Snake, amped up from jump for a battle he’s long wanted, came through with a hardbody and personal/punch-heavy 1st round that seemed to provide proof that he’d be on his A-game throughout the battle. Yet, a more condensed, witty, brazen, metaphor-rich, personal-lit and spitfire turn by Gotti would not only edge Smake’s stellar opening round, but would lead to a battle that was on its way to being a classic, to becoming tense at times and bar-wise, pretty ordinary. Snake, seemingly bothered throughout the battle at the ‘gas’ his opponent was receiving, would let the crowd effect his game plan, often talking through Gotti’s raps, stunting unnecessarily and while his latter two rounds were cold at times, spoke up for Harlem and delivered a talking too when it came to the personals, overall nothing Snake could produce would equal what he dished in the 1st. Meanwhile, confident throughout the battle with an Afro-pick in hand to back his swag, Gotti just kept impressing, scoring with more ‘one eye’-jokes, systematic breakdowns on Snake’s inability to reach top tier status, that ever-ready gang talk, freestyles and piercing punchlines that more often hit than not for the win.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “But don’t you still live with your pops?, you gonna fuck around and get your daddy clapped, weird ass think he an official Crip just because he handicapped!”
Recap:League of Championship Kulture 1-rounder between Geechi Gotti and Young NASA sees the latter put on a loud and boisterous, but also versatile, personal-lit, funny at times and punch-heavy showing that was impressive on its own. But flexing off the jump with a couple of spicy rebuttals and then delivering a resounding display of righteous name flips, piercing punchlines, boastful darts, witty barbs and spirited mayhem/personals, Gotti is able to thwart his opponent’s competitive turn with an even better round of bar efficiency and execution.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Nigga, don’t you owe me bread, what you finna to do?, ‘cuz I’ll kidnap his boo, meaning if I don’t get my other half nigga neither will you!”
Recap: Reducing Charlie Clips to 4-bar set-ups and jokey-jokes might work for the Hollow Da Don’s of the word, but it’s probably not a good idea for other battlers to try that concept on him. As a brazen Geechi Gotti–in a battle some had him edging due to that mid-round slip-up in the final round from his opponent–should know by now, Clips isn’t your average, everyday battler. Nah, along with the often sizzling set-ups and witty barbs, one also has to look out for a fly rebuttal game, head-ringing schemes, ill personals and as showcased here, the potential for off-the-dome heat at any moment. That said, a competitive and altogether dope Summer Madness 10 bout from Clips and Gotti sees a more punch/set-up-heavy and versatile Charlie take the opening round while a more condensed, impression-friendly, (“We all know this ain’t the same Clips we been watching, this nigga edited!”) righteous and haymaker-lit Geechi edged the 2nd. The last round, crazy, alluring and intense on both sides with plenty of well-aimed personals to spare, would see the continually hard-hitting Clips’ dish a couple of spicy rebuttals to go along with a bunch of flexing/race-centric personals and a gang of room-shifting freestyles that would not only make up for the aforementioned slip-up, but overall allow the Harlem vet to edge what was an effective, unusually (for him, anyway) uber-righteous, but not as head-ringing turn from Gotti.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “With 18k’s I feel like an Ultimate Madness check…after taxes!”
Recap: Hard to recall anyone outside of Nu Jerzey Twork that’s gone up the ladder in the URL as quickly as Geechi Gotti. And while the Compton, Cali emcee has certainly earned all of the accomplishments and accolades he’s garnered in the past 3 years , you’d think more of the vets in the game (outside of NJ that is) would’ve studied enough of the game tapes to beat Gotti. Well, enter Aye Verb. The St. Louis battler getting on some ‘God-tier’ shit and rapping his ass off for 3 salacious rounds, using mocking personals, plenty of lyrical stunting, some solid wordplay, boastful barbs and gritty vet talk on gang life to edge the 1st and 3rd rounds over a Gotti who while serving up his usual palette of hardbody punches, a wicked series of personals that challenged his opponent’s manhood and other assorted real street drama, came a little predictable at times and altogether couldn’t keep up with Verb’s comeuppance when it counted most.
Verdict: Aye Verb (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Aye Verb – “Aye, I’m confused a bit how you start yo’ rounds like, ‘You’se a bitch’, but you get flew out by dudes and shit, get a bag, go home and buy weave bundles…No, you’se a bitch!”
Recap: In this competitive rooftop battle from URL/Smack, Geechi Gotti uses a consistent barrage of sublime and well-connected punchlines, belittling personals and flexing wordplay to edge the first two rounds over a pretty solid and name flip/personals-savvy, but less pointed, elongated and gun bar excessive Chilla Jones. Focused on the now contentious times that have led to so much civil unrest around the world, the normally 3rd round superior Geechi dedicated his final turn to current events instead of his opponent, leaving Chilla Jones with n easy chance to take the round, which he did with an aggressive and punch-heavy turn that worked with enough efficiency to avoid the 30.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Two .40’s, you get the ugly model…Grace Jones!”
Recap: URL Quarantined battle between Geechi Gotti and Th3 Saga sees Saga bring a nice assortment of righteous boasts and religiously-tinged, but still crispy punchlines to his turn. But a more versatile and condensed Gotti, whipping up a punishing array of flexing punches, disrespectful religious barbs, pointed lines on current events and witty/raucous personals along with incorporating some innovative musical bars into his rhymes, easily takes this one.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Fucking fool, based on Loso career I can tell that God fuck with him more than he fuck with you!
Recap: Impressive throughout with a wide range of polluted gun bars, stifling punchlines, fiery street chatter and piercing personals, after a debatable 1st round Geech Gotti does more than enough to take the latter two rounds and beat back a punch-steady and solid, but nowhere-near-as-potent B. Magic’s in this Quarantined 3-rounder from Smack/URL.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Pass the 5th, let the .4 blaze, the ratchet hitting everybody, it’s going through a hoe phase!”
Recap: 1-round URL Quarantined battle between Geechi Gotti and Jerry Wess sees them both wreck havoc with plenty of gun bars-a-blazing to go with loads of spiteful mayhem. But with Gotti also equipped with a gang of gritty name flips, a creative and stifling cameo from his girlfriend, a steadier flow and more spicy punchlines, call this one another vic for Geechi.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “All my enemies in they grave turning over…now that’s a plot twist!”
Recap: In this highly anticipated (and much promoted, considering they got their own billboard) matchup from URL’s Genesis card, Geechi Gotti hits on all cylinders, using a consistent barrage of boastful barbs, witty/gritty name flips, gripping O.G. talk, mocking personals, some syrupy wordplay, real street shit and piercing punchlines over the course of 3 rounds to beat back a pretty solid, gun bar-lit and at times cunning with the punches, but too often tentative and pedestrian Nu Jerzey Twork.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Aye, you beat up Norbes?, I really don’t care, I’m just tryin’ to figure out what that mean to a nigga that really clap things, shoot him, his body shut down, blood stream fucked up worser than Caffeine!”
Recap: In this dope West-coast 1-rounder, during the first half of his turn Da Kid Clutch makes quite an impression, dishing gritty punchlines/personals and hardbody gun bars with an aggressive performance to stay competitive. However, the 2nd half of Clutch’s turn, while still spent on flexing a load of heat, would see him falter a bit in terms of bar potency. And in light of a turned up Geechi Gotti consistently delivering a plethora of boastful punches, witty personals, formidable name flips and fiery gun lines/schemes that all but made their point, Clutch’s more erratic showing ends up not standing a chance to beat back yet another stellar showing by his opponent.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Imagine that, the shit you call highlights is below my average, nigga, this your championship game, bitch, this my practice!”
Recap: Delivering a wide load of fiery (“All that plug talk where you stash the cocoa, that’s a nono, this Nut’s all cap with his cane (‘caine); Planters logo!”) punchlines, sizzling personals, witty barbs and piercing 4-bar set-ups/schemes, Charron would’ve won this battle against Geechi Gottti if he hadn’t done one thing wrong: rap for too damn long. Indeed, after edging a potent and spirited-on-both-sides 1st round, the Canadian battler’s penchant elongated turns would hurt him in the latter rounds even after an almost flawless and (“We breathe different these emcees different, you gang bang I’m rich our G’s different!”) spitfire 2nd round that didn’t look like it had a chance of being beaten until Geechi came through with is own stash of steady heat, rambunctious punches, lofty wordplay/personals and 3 dope (“You wanna hear about niggas who ain’t never been on the block, rappin’ ’bout things they ain’t never did on the block?, keep watchin’ King Of The Dot!”) rebuttals for the draw. And with Charron still ahead in the battle going into teh final round and kicking yet another a savvy, personal-heavy, witty and punch-heavy turn in the 3rd, Gotti’s ability to take it up another level with a couple of fiery rebuttals that along with a slightly condensed turn that was rich with haymakers as well as hardbody gun bars, stifling personals, quality freestyles and humorous darts, allows Geechi to edge the 3rd and make this one a debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “I’ll let a .9 clap you, matter of fact this AK will make the floor shake, street nigga, I took all my bitches on court dates!”
Recap: Pretty congenial, intergender, gender reveal battle between West-elite’s Geechi Gotti and RX has a more theme pointed, personal, witty and wordplay-heavy Gotti scoring with enough flair (after a debatable 1st) to take both the 2nd and 3rd rounds and beat back a mostly solid and lyrically sharp run by his opponent.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “I mean, think about it, I ain’t choosing for y’all, but I think action figures are way much cooler than dolls!”
Recap: Damn, talk about turning it up. After a pretty solid 1st round that still got beat back a more punch-heavy and versatile Geechi Gotti, O-Red goes into ‘savage’ mode and dishes two of the hardest rounds of his battle career. The Newark, NJ, vet getting downright nasty with it via a gang of strong-arm wordplay, steely verbal darts, brazen personals (esp. during a flawless and perfectly executed 2nd round = classic) and piercing punchlines. And while Geechi continued to compete hard with a variety of stinging personals of his own, some solid rebuttals/freestyles, dicey name flips, vivid storytelling bars and gritty punches to keep it close, this Champion of the Year vs. Champion of the Year SMACK Volume 5 battle would come down to a more consistently spicy and elevated O-Red edging both of the latter rounds for the win.
Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-1
Favorite line: O-Red – ” I drive-by in a G37, you gonna remember me, holding the .8, sideways, out the Infiniti!”
Recap: Spitfire, electric, aggressive and highly competitive battle between Tsu Surf and Geechi Gotti not only lives up to the hype, but judging from Gotti’s head nod approvals throughout the battle, might be the realest he ever felt another battler got at him in the ring. But then, Surf kicking gritty, real-life narratives has never been in issue for the Jersey rapper. Instead, it’s always been his ability to stay consistent during an entire battle and not choke (as Gotti, eloquently pointed in the 3rd round: “You see it seem like he really wrote wit’ heart, he told y’all everythang…but he left out the chokin’ part!”). And thankfully, in a battle coupled with stoppages and repeats of lines where you might’ve thought Surf was about to choke, he doesn’t here. And maybe that’s because he knew what he up against what with the ever steady Gotti bringing his usual assortment of stifling (“Seen niggas get shot by a .40 then become an R.I.P. tat in Old English!”) punchlines, wicked personals, authentic gang-bang talk and bodacious gun bars. Yet, for all of Gotti’s slamming street narratives and shitload of haymakers dropped in each round, the Compton rapper was hurt a bit by some mediocre punches here and there, a few reaches and even rebuttals that didn’t quite hit. Add to that a consistently game for the street talk, rapidly punching and (“You ever been shot by a Crip?, I have, nigga too scary, they had me in that county eatin’ muffins, tryin’ to get that last Blue buried (blueberry’d)!”) hard-hitting, scheme/wordplay-heavier, effectively personal when addressing his own shit and his (“This this nigga first NOME ever, nobody fuckin’ care, how you do on UFF? Oh you wasn’t there, what about the BET Awards? Smack this isn’t fuckin’ fair, Gladiator School?,Snoop, nigga you was where?, when you was selling hair I was sellin’ here!”) opponent’s shit, more performance-heavy and gripping throughout Surf rarely dishing any filler and the edge here goes to Surf in both the 1st and 2nd round’s before a slightly (“This shit is sad, I’m talking death after death, we really live that shit, closed caskets, we don’t even know if he in that bitch!”) punch-heavier Gotti edged the 3rd despite a dope and complete turn by Surf.
Verdict: Tsu Surf (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tsu Surf – “Every time a nigga say a sad bar, don’t mean that’s a wow, my cuz had PS2, he still died, he only playin’ Dreamcast now!”
Recap:Ruin Your Day charity 3-rounder from URL sees a performance-heavy Big T spout a gang of sporty rhymes, mocking heaters, some blazing sound effects and thrifty (“I’m close to the .9 like Baccarat!”) punchlines that mostly scored, kept things competitive throughout and also allowed him to edge round 3 with a more condensed turn. However, the two previous rounds here were all Geechi Gotti, who was not only able to parlay his opponent’s rounds into some spicy rebuttals, but took each round with a flexing series of robust (“I’m about “5’8, every nigger that I ever had beef with was taller than me…they 6 feet!”) punches, fiery personals, real street talk and resounding schemes.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Your mama, your bitch, your kid, they all know you was coming to Cali to die, so seeing you go on that plane had to be a sad moment…but see funeral’s is like iPhone’s now, they a whole lot cheaper when your Family Plan on it!”
Recap: Dishing fiery struggle bars galore throughout this battle along with stifling gun drama, potent set-ups and wicked (“I said let’s keep it G, they gonna have to redirect me, the piece is deadly, hear a ring before the round…the pizza’s ready!”) punchlines/personals that had the crowd buzzing, under normal circumstances a Don Marino consistently on his A-game would get the win. But you don’t win Champion of the Year for having a mediocre pen, much less a spitfire rebuttal game that always comes in handy when you’re in the face of a barrage of constant heat. And that’s the case with Geechi Gotti, who somehow edged a superb, but one-themed 1st round from his opponent with a versatile array of stunted (“Nigga, I’m a Loc, yeah, twin cannon’s, twins blasting, the .40 with the .9, somebody call Chris Hanson!”) gun bars, urban street fair and scintillating braggadocio lines before using his stellar punch game, a boatload of stinging personals and his innate, off-the-dome skills to rebut Marino’s Mexican swag in the 2nd. And with Geechi pulling back with a solid, but condensed turn in the 3rd that easily got beat back by more of Don’s jaunty wordplay/name flips and real-life drama, Gotti getting the win here was well-earned.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “32 and down, basic cable, yeah nigga, good luck, but you getting everything 40 and up, the Mexican came and gave me the hook-up!”
Recap: Not sure how wise it was for Tay Roc to go out of his way and invite a Philly crowd to his nether regions after they cheered him for most of the battle and only did so after he took shots at one of their own (in this Cassidy), but Roc vs Geechi Gotti was still a dope battle all the way through. The 1st round was spitfire on both sides with an amped up Roc dropping a gang of versatile and elite bangers via syrupy gun bars, righteous boasts, fiery set-ups/sound effects and sizzling wordplay. On the other hand, while a slightly more condensed Gotti would devote most of his opening round to personals, he was still able to dish haymaker after haymaker centering around the brouhaha that occurred in the recent Summer Madness 10 matchup between Calicoe/Murda Mook vs. Brizz Rawsteen/T Top to edge what will surely go down as one of the best rounds in 2019. As for the rest of the battle? Pretty solid, but the advantage was clearly on Roc’s side as it became more apparent that Geechi didn’t have as much to work with outside of the previous themes on his opponent’s street credibility and his usual barrage of punch-heavy street semantics. And while Gottu was still competitive for the rest of the battle, Roc would take up Geechi’s lack of variety, spitting a fire rebuttal to start the 2nd round, going after Gotti with more salacious personals/wordplay/schemes, extending the clip with more heated gun bars, flexing with fierce 4-bar setups and spouting ever-increasing mayhem to make a comeback, edge the latter couple of rounds and take the win.
Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tay Roc – “I’m uncivilized, why you act like you gorilla size?, all it takes is the right [click] and you minimized!”
Recap: Armed with a fire rebuttal game to go along with his noted arsenal of gritty street tales, flexing (“You like to put your pen to the pad, they wanted to make the pen my pad, we got different rap sheets!”) personals/punchlines and a boatload of raw machismo bars, after getting edged in the first round by a (“Geechi got bundles and Geechi got shot, that’s what you telling me?, well damn, I ain’t know the hair business was this deadly, Sheesh!, you selling weed, I could help you triple your units, Geecho got bundles, I got a bald head, business is booming!”) spitfire, versatile, personal and slightly more consistent turn by John John da Don, Geechi Gotti formulates a comeback that despite a valiant and competitive effort from JJDD in both the 2nd and 3rd rounds, gets beat back by more haymakers, some nice freestyles and also a couple of multifaceted turns by Gotti.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Good shit John John [claps], but now I finna snap on him…y’all ain’t even catch that I told Johnny [Bravo!] then let it clap on him!”
Recap: After getting edged by a more consistently potent and (“A buck-fifty, behind his ear…it’s a magic trick!”) punch-heavy Bigg K in the 1st round, Geechi Gotti steps it up in the latter two, using savvy (“I don’t pump fake, I’m with the shit, Big who? bitch I done shot K’s bigger than this!”) gun bars, solid rebuttals, righteous punchlines, stinging personals and rare couple of slip-up’s from a still solid, but-not-quite-as-potent K in the 3rd to complete the comeback and take this fierce 3-rounder from KOTD.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “All my guns, the serial [cereal] scratched off like the grocery check list!”
Recap: 90 seconds and only one round, but it still counts. That is, Geechi Gotto versus DNA on the BET Hip-Hop Awards ’19 stage for 25K, which ‘The Champ’ edges thanks to a slightly more consistent flow littered with some dope wordplay, spitfire name drops and rapid shiners on current events. Gotti’s turn, while solid in its own right with some fiery/braggadocio punches/gun bars and a couple of nice rebuttals, still slacked in lieu of piggybacking too much oo his opponent’s bars and also coming off a little sluggish with his raps, which altogether cost him the battle.
Verdict: DNA (W) 1-0
Favorite line: DNA – “Y’all watch Power?, he better get down, I name my gun Trey Songz, it’ll mess up a big rich town!”
Recap: From the top, let’s just call this one what it is: Geechi Gotti getting 3-0’d by the best Arsonal we’ve ever seen. Ummm yeah and that’s no knock to Gotti who came hard throughout this match with his usual and steady assortment of gritty punchlines, real-life gang narratives, feisty (“This bitch wit’ a beam, I’ll steam his face, nigga I’ll kill ya kid, now you a seedless Grape!”) gun lines and pointed personals (which included clowning on Ars’ fashion choice with the 1st round opening “Up here, dressed like a ‘How To Be A Crip Starter Kit!” line). But as hard-hitting as Gotti came with his pen, his opponent would just rise to another level here. Indeed, gamely conquering what are often his biggest hurdles: lack of consistent lyricism and a prone for filler, besides a bit of a slow start to his 1st round, this version of Arsonal didn’t have to rely on biggest strength, disrespect, to win. Instead, the Jersey legend got on his A+++ game and brought a steady stream of ringing haymakers with him via searing punchlines, aggressive bully bars, steely (“Nigga, you gonna meet karma, my hand speed fast and my reach longer, I never went to prison, I stayed free so who really been on these streets longer?!?”) pontifications, witty barbs and of course, a wide range of ill-mannered (“Show up to the funeral, reach in the casket and grab ya sister butt, ‘cuz my first name ‘I Don’t’, last name ‘Give a fuck'”!) shiners. All that and some dope wordplay and an over-the-top, crowd-pleasing, mid-2nd round freestyle along the way and you’re left with Ars edging each round for a shutout over Geechi Gotti.
Verdict: Arsonal (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Arsonal – “I’m from a city where mothers die for sets, I really live what’s in my notebook pussy, my life a Butterfly Effect!”
Recap: Pretty solid URL Banned Legacy 3 battle between Geechi Gotti and Ill Will served up a gang of explosive gun bars from both sides, wicked sexual hijinks to go along with witty banter from Will, some spicy rebuttals from Gotti, mocking (Ill Will: “You be doing hair, you know what? I ain’t gonna debate about the nonsense, you a fag, I don’t know one nigga Straight Outta Compton!”) personals, graphic street tales and gritty name flips/punchlines. The best combined round, the 1st, gets edged by a more condensed and haymaker-lit Gotti, before Will came back with an altogether blazing 2nd round to tie things up heading into the 3rd. And tho Gotti had another nice rebut to combine with one more haymaker in the final round Geechi’s pen game just wasn’t as consistently lit as was his opponent, making this one a draw.
Verdict: Debatable
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Nigga, this .9 mine [Bawh! Bawh!], Mackk you better check ya man [Bawh!], I just gave him another shot, everybody deserves a second chance!”
Recap: Geechi Gotti versus Head I.C.E. might’ve looked promising on paper, but the battle itself tells a very different story. Simply put, Gotti’s rambunctious name flips, steely boasts, witty personals, spitfire gun bars and gritty, urban-laced punchlines combined to do unbearable harm on an at times elongated opponent who when he wasn’t struggling with his flow, oft-times immersed himself in nonsensical punches and pedestrian abstract barbs that went nowhere. And with a 3-0 over the former KOTD champ, it’s yet another impressive victory for Gotti.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “This ain’t the same I.C.E. that battled Goodz, he should be getting no bread, so unless your grandma came to suck all our dick’s…we not getting that old Head!”
Recap: In this 1-rounder from League of Championship Kulture, Memphis rapper T.E.D. makes for a solid effort with some nice punchlines and flexing mayhem here and there. But with his name flips and attempt at free-styling not being his strong points, you’re left with a lopsided affair as a consistently dope Geechi Gotti’s rambunctious gunplay, mean punchlines, robust rebuttals/name flips and jaunty wordplay literally had you hooked on every bar.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Fuck the police, I don’t mess with oink’s, the .40 kicking like an extra point!”
Recap: What virtually comes down to a sparring session between two West-coast elites, Rum Nitty and Geechi Gotti, still makes for a fire battle. Nitty, boasting a shitload of heavy gun bars, nifty wordplay and rapidly fierce (“Ya soul leavin’, we ain’t make London, but you’ll still be an RIP tat’ in Old English!”) punchlines, certainly came to compete. But if…every…fucking…bar is the standard here, then hands down the winner in this one is Gotti, who when not mocking his opponent’s street credentials, brought the house down with a gang of spitfire schemes, flexing performance bars, stifling (“You do the math, yo’ life ain’t scary as mine, the only thing I learned in school was how to carry a .9!”) punches and of course, that noted real-life street drama that only a few can actually live, survive and talk about. All said, Gotti, with lines more consistently potent handily takes rounds 1 and 2, before a more condensed Nitty delivers just enough heat to keep up with his fellow Crip’s sterling turn while earning a 3rd round tie.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “We can shoot it out or we can go wit’ the hands, y’all will see Rum get mixed up somethin’ sweet, now he a Pina Colada!”
Recap: Much anticipated West-coast, Smack/URL battle between Tech 9 and Geechi Gotti sees the Philly vet give a pretty solid performance what with a boatload of hometown swag that was often matched by some fiery punchlines, witty personals/barbs and even a bunch of real street shit in an earnest effort to show that his opponent isn’t the only one who can talk that life. Still, for all of Tech’s vigor and rap eloquence, one too many pedestrian bars along with way too nuch filler would hurt him in the long run. And for a Geechi Gotti, staying on point throughout his 3 rounds with his renowned gangster tales as well as displaying oft-times fiending gun line acumen and a sterling punchline game, a 30 is made even more explicit when the adversary has so many chinks in their armor.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “I heard Tech a legend, I say legend for what?, ‘cuz he beat Miles? [laughs]…nigga, what that mean to a nigga that beat trials!”
Recap: Superb efforts by both Chess and Geechi Gotti in this URL Born Legacy 6 battle makes this one a must-see as well as one of the top battles to take place in 2019. Chess, back on his grind with nary a slip-up, gets back to his old self with a gritty fleet of fiery schemes (esp. during a standout round 2 which earned him a debatable there), flashy gun bars, plenty of boastful darts, steely mayhem and fierce punchlines. On the other hand, an ever-confident Gotti delivered a slew of witty and mocking personals on his opponent’s recent struggles with choking when he wasn’t dishing righteous sermons on street drama that could only come from an O.G., scintillating verbal heat, rich storytelling and pointed punches. Add some in-ya-face aggression, sizzling wordplay and a fired-up crowd that was into every bar and you’re left with a highly competitive battle that had a slightly more versatile and more haymaker-lit Gotti taking the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win.
Verdict: Geechi Gottu (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Now listen, at 15 you was on SMACK doin’ big things, at 15 I was just tryin’ to make it to 16!”
