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Recap: Steady scoring with a variety of hardbody name flips, rambunctious boasts, fiery gun bars and gritty punchlines, in this 1-rounder from The Smoke Room Battle League, Fonz gets an easy win over an aggressive and earnest, but mostly subpar punching Heavy Half.
Verdict: Fonz (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Fonz – “They say all I do is punch and they gave me a Heavy bag, C3 no matter how much they try to cover it up…Heavy ass!
Recap: Struggling a bit with his flow after a stellar round 1, but still able to deliver some mean name flips, witty barbs that included a few freestyles and rigid personals/storytelling bars that for the most part hit, after the two split the first two rounds, Hollaluyah Jones is also able to take advantage of a Heavy Half choke and spout a shortened, but punch-steady and clean 3rd round for the win in this 3-rounder from Smoke Room Battle League.
Verdict: Hollaluyah Jones (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Hollaluyah Jones – “I used to hide crack in my teeth, that was white on top of the gum, I really had an over bite!”
Recap: Plenty of fire moments in this gritty 3-rounder from RBE between Snake Eyez and Heavy Half (who replaced Head Ice for this match) with the Chicago rhyme-slinger throwing some fiery shots at URL while defending his home RBE turf when he wasn’t spouting a gang of rigid name flips, hitting gun bars and flexing punchlines throughout the battle. Snake Eyez, however, took it up a notch during his turns. The Harlem battler not only scoring with his usual mix of prison life exploits, but also tossing in a slew of spicy wordplay, piercing name flips, boastful darts and hardbody punches to make for a debatable 1st round, before taking the 2nd round and edging the 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “I said little nigga, be happy for this card you on, Omarion…Ice Box!”
Recap: Steely with the real-life street narratives, banging with the gun bars, repping his Chi-Town hood with livid polemics and steady hitting with gritty punchlines/wordplay, Heavy Half scores with enough heat to edge a strong, but not quite as potent turn from the always reliable Chef Trez in this 1-round Social Distance match from RBE.
Verdict: Heavy Half (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Heavy Half – “If I’m black and always surrounded by the white, well does that make me a token?!”
Recap: Dropping a versatile cluster of witty jokes, stirring storytelling bars, gritty schemes, fire name flips and fiery punchlines/gun bars, a well-prepared and confident Math Hoffa wildly impresses in the first two rounds to beat back RBE standout Heavy Half, who was hindered by a slow start in the 1st round, before his loud, aggressive and unorthodox stylings allowed things to get more competitive in the 2nd and 3rd rounds, the latter of which he edged via a more potent use of gritty punches/wordplay to make the final score respectable.
Verdict: Math Hoffa (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Math Hoffa – “Apologies to the fans for the lows I had, my life, like his career, you don’t know the Half!”
Recap: Dope 3-rounder from RBE between Swave Sevah and Heavy Half with the less experienced Heavy displaying a wide load of greasy gun bars, rugged street shit and some gripping storytelling with a spicy mix of piercing punchlines dipped in. Good thing for Swave he was all the ready for whatever his opponent brought him, the Harlem vet sporting a more versatile mix of witty personals, flexing boss talk, stinging punches/wordplay and wily name flips to edge the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win.
Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “I’m nice, hate it or love it I rap my way, name your price and I’ll slash in Half like it’s Black Friday!”
Recap: Thanks in part to Xcel pretty much taking round 2 off, overall it’s a close one between the Team Homi vet and Chi-town’s Heavy Half. But the pick in the end here goes to Xcel, always a beast when he doesn’t choke, spouting enough delicious (“How can X miss [Xmas], when my gift is rap [wrap]!”) wordplay and fierce (“It’s cyanide I provide, there’s poison in every punch, Jim Jones style, all ya need is to test it once!”) punchlines in the final round to squeeze out the win and overcome some rapid (“You ain’t taking nobodies life tonight, you could stop it nigga, you OJ getting off for killing his wife, bitch you NOT the killer!”) punches in the 3rd from Mr. Half.
Verdict: Xcel (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Xcel – Bar for bar..you?, never stood a chance guy, I mean I even came on your terrain-eo (i.e. Calicoe)…it’s still a landslide!”
Recap: 3-rounder from Go-Rilla Warfare has some editing problems in the video during round 1 (so we’ll call that a draw), but afterwards you can see Big Kannon responding in kind to all the smoke adn bully bars Heavy Half was dishing with a bunch of witty barbs, some spicy punchlines/rebuttals, hitting schemes and rugged name flips to take the latter two rounds for the win.
Verdict: Big Kannon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Big Kannon – “Understand why you even stand here today Heavy, you ain’t gotta look at me and Gracie’s body structures to know that we made Heavy!”
