Recap: From Premier Battles, Coffee Brown takes her talents to the UK and handles her business. The Cali native scoring and dishing plenty of mayhem with a gang of fiery name flips, some slick wordplay, hard-hitting punchlines, boastful barbs and graphic gun/knife bars to take rounds 1 and (call the 2nd debatable) 3 for the win over an often salacious, gritty and pretty solid effort from local battler Gemin1.
Verdict: Coffee Brown (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Coffee Brown – “I’m not affected by star power Gemin1, fuck a zodiac!”
Recap: Pretty solid 1-rounder from Don’t Flop between Cortez and Gemin1 with both battlers bringing plenty of spicy punchlines and other hitting darts. Undoubtedly a close one with an almost equal amount of haymakers, with slightly less dry spots Cortex gets the edge here.
Verdict: Cortez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Cortez – “Brooklyn, all day, we spray there and you know what?, life’s bittersweet but I was taught that I could taste fear!”
Recap: During their recent battle Hollow da Don schooled a lot of battle rappers on how to use personals when going up against Charlie Clips. But clearly not everyone is up for the task as UK up-n-comer Gemini displays here. Better when he flouted his hometown’s (“This a place where niggas go pen come out and go back in, they repeat the same sentence like a dyslexic reading!”) pedigree along with some rich punchlines instead of standard “School of Hollow” personals that mostly failed to land, Gemini’s round was simply no match for Clips combination of stifling performance (“I’ll grab ya baby mom’s to the roof and make her skydive, I was born in ’83, I was taught to Air Mac’s before 9 5!”) bars, easy name flip (“Now watch Gemin1 turn into a Leo, and start lying [lion] ’bout that full clip, if he say he shooting the Taurus, don’t worry that’s some bull shit”) schemes and rigid punchlines.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “I’ll pop a pill, take ya girl home. spend 9 hours in bed, I’m from America, she from London, so I made give me 5 hours a head [ahead]!”
Recap: Stellar round 1 from Gemini, but too many light bars, average punchlines and a lack of stage presence afterwards gave Big T a chance to catch up, wild out with weighty gun bars, dope wordplay and delirious (“I’m laying pipes like I’m designing basements”) punchlines to edge rounds 2 and 3 and take it this one at the end.
Verdict: Big T (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Big T – “You better hope that piece [peace] be with you, salam a lakum”
