Recap: From Premier Battles in London, UK, in light of a pretty solid-punching and witty at times effort from opponent Bizzo Bond, a versatile Jaz The Rapper reaches in her big bag and pulls out all the tricks. The veteran battle vixen spouting a gang of fiery set-up/punchlines, savory name flips, mocking personals, boastful barbs and dope wordplay/gun bars with stifling consistency to earn a 30 overseas.
Verdict: Jaz The Rapper (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jaz The Rapper – “You hype ‘cuz your big ass ‘6 “3?, Twork is 6-4, I am not at all phased, twin guns, now he between two poles…Batty man legs!”
Recap: Camera dudes running through the stage while the battle is going on?!? Chrome 23 has gotta do better. Anyway, in an unexpected matchup between Bigg K and Jaz The Rapper that saw both battlers appear on Remy Ma’s league for the first time, outside of their usual m.o.’s., angles utilized by both K and Jaz were noteworthy. K with a bunch of hard-hitting/disrespectful personals when he wasn’t punching Jaz’s light out. While a more versatile Jaz would hit her opponent with a gang of witty barbs/personals when she’s using solid race angles (one of which K surprisingly addressed), fiesty gun bars and gritty punches that for the most part hit (tho she did shockingly struggle with her flow a bit). That said, a debatable round 1 efficient when it comes to haymakers on both sides is followed up by K upstaging a less consistent Jaz in round 2 before the Rapper got back (“You the king of being anti-Smack, matter of fact you so anti-Smack all you do is punch!”) in her bag with a sturdier and more consistently -lit 3rd to force a debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Bigg K – “Y’all ruin every league that try to give you bitches bread, it’s time to sing a new tune, that Femi shit is dead, they got me out the blue room ‘cuz y’all got Remy in the red!”
Recap: From Last Second Sea, using a gang of stifling gun bars, salacious personals, rambunctious punchlines, rich storytelling and syrupy name flips, after getting out-punched by the more cerebral and mayhem-lit Jaz The Rapper in round 1, a slightly more condensed, original and steadier scoring Nu Jerzey Twork takes the 2nd and deciding 3rd round for the win in this combative/competitive battle.
Verdict: Nu Jerzey Twork (W) 2-1
Favorite line: N Jerzey Twork – “Jaz The Rapper [spits], it’s a fucking scandal, punch the demon, knuckle sandwich, trying to get the rapper beat out of Jaz [Jazz] and that’s just a sample!”
Recap: From the Riot, in a competitive and stirring 3-rounder between 2022 WOTY Jaz The Rapper and 2022 COTY Rum Nitty filled with plenty (from both sides) of gritty punchlines, flexing gun bars, searing personals, wily wordplay and co-host Tay Roc talking through both battlers rounds, thanks in part to an elongated (when it came to schemes and rounds) throughout Jaz also hurting herself a bit with a slow start in round 1 (thus helping Nitty to edge) before coming back with a more steady showing in the middle round to split things going into the 3rd, it’s the more bar efficient and slightly more haymaker-lit Nitty who takes the final round for the win.
Verdict: Rum Nitty (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “I won’t slide in the cover, but I’ll take sloppy action, she like ‘I can’t breathe!’, stop the acting, you either gonna suck or choke….why you out here lollygagging!”
Recap: Outside of an opening round where a way more punch-heavy Jaz The Rapper handily earned the win, it’s a close Create For You 3-rounder here between Jaz and RX. The Compton, California native using a fire rebuttal and a plethora of hard-hitting/witty personals (while also taking advantage of a flow-challnged Jaz) to take the second round and tie things up,before a more versatile, righteous and consistently punchline-lit Jaz (who did this battle only a week after battling Charlie Clips) takes round 3 for the win.
Verdict: Jaz the Rapper (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jaz The Rapper – “Then I’m a stab her and y’all gonna witness me poking her up, see my women’s intuition told me go with the gut!”
Recap: Flexing her vet card by taking on Loso in a 1-rounder on only 5 days prep (to replace Ms. Hustle), a versatile, consistently spicy and slightly more haymaker-lit Jaz The Rapper uses a steady barrage of hard-hitting personals, fiery punchlines, steely wordplay and hardbody braggadocious bars to get past an opponent who while just as fiery and multifaceted with the punches, suffered from one too many pedestrian bars and couldn’t keep up with Jaz when it came to efficiency and overall potency.
Verdict: Jaz The Rapper (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jaz The Rapper – “This about to be a big body and I got the driev for it, I got my CDL, nah this gonna be a real body, I’m replacing a bitch that stole deposits for a BBL!”
Recap: Like the infamous Jordan “Flu Game”, even when they’re not at their best, the great one’s can still find a way to grind it out and win. Indeed, after getting blown away by a punch/personal-heavier, witty and versatiel Jaz the Rapper in round 1 of this URL ‘Kings vs. Queens 4’ battle and in front of a waning crowd that was on some ‘here we go again’ vibe what with Charlie Clips freestyling too much and seemingly not taking this highly anticipated matchup seriously, the Harlem legend somehow manages to get his groove back and edge both of the latter rounds for the win. Not that Clips didn’t require any help for his opponent, as Jaz’s lengthy 2nd and 3rd rounds, while for the most part entertaining (she even had ‘Black Jesus’ make an appearance), were too often dipped in filler and repetitive with the personals. But after a very so-so round 1, Clips would still need to step it up big-time to have any chance of winning. And he did, using a more steady barrage of penetrating off-the-dome heat, slick humor, brash personals, fiesty schemes, hitting name flips and stinging punchlines in both round’s 2 and 3 to complete the comeback.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “I’m glad you from Brooklyn, that mean you was trained to take an ‘L’!”
Recap: From The Battle Academy’s ‘Frenemies’ card. In what’s easily been her most prolific year on the battle rap stage, Jaz the Rapper visits Philly to give up-n-comer Shiest Raw a shot and let’s just say you might as well just give ‘Big Bag’ the WOTY crown now after this thoro demolishing. The Brooklyn vet using an aggressive gang of sizzling name flips, profound schemes, hard-hitting set-ups/punchlines and a couple of stellar freestyles in round 3 to handily get the 30 against an opponent who bar-wise was clearly overmatched. And while Jaz went home with an easy vic, some credit should go to Raw for not giving up and finishing her rounds (really wack move by Anwar, throwing in the towel like that during Sheist’s final round) despite experiencing what looked to be some severe leg cramps during the battle.
Verdict: Jaz The Rapper (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jaz The Rapper – “Y’all think I won’t take her serious?, well I don’t care what y’all saying, James Harden…I came from Brooklyn to Philly and I’m not playing!”
Recap: At this point bar-wise is there anything Jaz the Rapper can’t do? With an extremely high battle IQ that’s more along the likes of Hollow in his hey day and a versatile bar game that’s top-notch regardless of gender, seeing Jaz elevate the game while coming outside more in 2022 should be one of the top stories in battle rap this year. Viixen the Assassin can attest to it. The Milwaukee, WI, emcee fighting through what was pretty much a home game for her opponent, in front of a cheering and locked-in Irving Plaza, NY crowd what with continuously loud aggression and raucous punches/gun bars/personals for 3 rounds. Yet, despite a pretty solid effort that was atypical Viixen, nothing the Assassin did would be near enough as Jaz just displayed throughout that there’s another level to this. The Brooklyn battler stunting on her opp with a punch-drunk, 4-bar setup rich and haymaker-drenched round 1 that also flexed her lyrical acumen. Before taking it even higher with a flawless and sublime (i.e. classic) 2nd that reminded you of just how well-rounded Jaz is, going after Viixen with a gang of killer name flips, hard-hitting punchlines, self-deprecating humor, witty barbs, piercing breakdowns and mocking/stinging personals that clearly hit their mark. Already up 2-0 (clearly) in this URL Homecoming match, Jaz would then use her 3rd round to get nostalgic and boast on her standing in the game before getting back to another barrage of fiery personals, hard boasts and fierce punches that solidified a well-earned 30.
Verdict: Jaz The Rapper (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jaz The Rapper – “You got 3 kids and 3 baby daddies, you just one dick suck away from being Yoshi!”
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: Hitting all relevant topics from her 9-1-1 day job to her prior ‘dealings’ with QP to her time away from battle rap, while also delivering an aggressive, versatile and altogether blazing performance mixed with fire set-ups, mocking/witty personals, some stinging wordplay, banging name flips, fierce punchlines and a shoulder bump to remind you that she does this, Jaz The Rapper also takes advantage of a mostly pedestrian punching and much less witty than usual (tho she did have a dope round 3) Gattas to complete her return to the battle rap stage and handily take this URL/Till Death Do Us Part 3-rounder.
Verdict: Jaz The Rapper (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jaz The Rapper – “See, the Jaz changed since she started fucking jokes?, I don’t mind it, but whoever mad that I lost my virginity?…nigga, go find it!”
Recap: Anyone who’s followed Jaz The Rapper’s battle career knows that she only battles about once a year. So for 2018, why not see Jaz battle…a male rapper…from the UK…named Shuffle T…on Don’t Flop…in the UK…on a stage that looked like what you’d see in a college lecture hall (with a seemingly studious crowd to match). Right. And while did contain its share of belittling personals, storytelling bars and (esp. on Shuffle T’s part) varied wit, it was also a really friendly battle. That said, after a debatable round 1, it’s a more battle-canny Jaz (the fact that her opponent didn’t do his research enough to not know or care that Jaz was no longer a virgin anymore, was ill-advised to say the least) who uses some dope punchlines/personals and hitting wordplay to take the 2nd and 3rd rounds for the win.
Verdict: Jaz The Rapper (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jaz The Rapper – “Adam, I found out you’re an atheist, they say God don’t exist, but he created Adam, see you don’t believe the stories they tell, but how they gonna have faith you gonna beat me, when you don’t even believe in yourself?!”
Recap: After years of chatter, Jaz the Rapper and E-Hart finally meet up on the URL/Smack stage and as each battler’s immense talent and track record would lead you to expect, it’s a fire battle throughout. As for who won? The verdict here essentially comes down to the closest round, the 1st. That said, while E-Hart’s 3rd round was her shortest, the Bronx vet did spit some witty (“You been to more URL battles than Smack!”) lines in the last round that often hit their mark. But versus a thunderous (i.e. classic) round from Jaz that featured some fiery wordplay,, mean, body-dropping (“I’ll kill your daughter then you’ll die right after her…Debbie Reynolds!”; “Why that man let you keep it?, Oh I know ho…the 1st baby-mom always ugly, that’s a broke ho!”) personals and a funny appearance from pop dukes, Hart had no chance there. However, with Hart utilizing some elite wordplay to land (“I’ll catch Jaz wherever she at, like this block is mine, hit her with .9 and then walk away like I copped a dime!”) haymaker after (“You’ll get these bars like I wrote for a nigga…that’s equality!”) haymaker after (“Get it poppin’, I give it up like it’s forgotten, we questioning if you thoting, but that’s a different topic, the K low next to one Tray, that’s Tristan Thomson!”) haymaker with effortless proficiency in the middle round, she’d handily beat back what was an altogether (“So try somethin, ‘cuz I’m hunting, got beef and I invite myself to the cookout, like ‘Hi cousin!'”) solid turn from Jaz. Which brings back us back to the opening round, which saw both rappers mixing it up with an equal amount of stifling punches, stinging bars and hitting personals. And while Jaz was ready with a spicy (“O’fficial did not kill me, so y’all can stop the hating, it was the first time a bitch fought back, so it shocked the nation!”) shot at Hart after the latter went at her loss to O’fficial and kept it close with her own zesty (“The only match to see this Crown Royal is E and J!”) shiners and loaded schemes, it was Hart who was a little more direct and consistently (“Two guns, that’ll sing to ya, meet R and B, not one Bone, Thug in you, don’t speak to Harmony [harming E]!”) fiery with the punches, which in turn enabled her to get the win.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “You tried to explain your death, I was like stop it with the tweets already, after O’fficial fucked your night up, you was Ayesha Curry!”
Recap: O’fficial’s classic “Cock the Dezzi?, Jaz, you can stop already, pop a gun!?, You too afraid to even pop ya cherry!!!” line gets most of the attention here and deservedly so as its performance, authenticity and execution were extra on point. But after a more consistent O edges the 1st round, what really makes the difference in this battle versus Jaz The Rapper is a spitfire, versatile, personal, witty and punch-crazy 2nd round by O’fficial and what would amount to a couple of lyrically underwhelming turns by her opponent. Indeed, when the gritty, scheme-slinging and wordplay-heavy Jaz we all know would finally show up with a (“How you gonna beat me, O, when (Owen) Hart made you die in the ring?, and after all that, y’all wanted me to be the one she go to?, yeah I battle periodic, but I take bitches out they element, now I gotta get O too (O2)!”) punch-heavy, consistent, angle-rich and personal-spazzing 3rd, the irony of O’fficial getting booed in her 3rd (tho the 2nd half or her turn made up for a subpar 1st half) round probably wasn’t lost on the heads who had Jaz as the heavy favorite going into this battle.
Verdict: O’fficial (W) 2-1
Favorite line: O’fficial – “And if anybody say they’ll fuck Jaz, I’m upset, ‘cuz she built like a 10 year old boy, y’all suspect, she gotta, big-ass head, no titties, ass or hips, and y’all know I would never lie, this bitch is standing here shaped like a lowercase letter ‘i’!
Synopsis: So….is there really any more doubt about who the real Queen of the Ring is? Getting right to it in round 1 Jaz the Rapper lands haymaker (“Cuz’ to be the best you gotta beat the best, you ain’t ever had a full court press up in ya face, you battled Star, Imah, Norma, Dutchess, of course you gonna look like a queen always putting peasants in they place”) after haymaker (“…I just hit 22, but watch how I bag 40. I’m in a cougar bar”), showing so much contempt for 40 B.A.R.R.S. that she had the nerve to call that her lightest round. Meanwhile an up-n-coming, but clearly not-ready-for-primetime 40 B.A.R.R.S. stumbles from the gate and spits a round so light that even Tay Roc would shake his head. From there it’s nothing but Jaz prepping the bodybag, styling on her opponent with killer bars (“I got a gun so big…..that shit don’t work”), a nice Lux impression and embarrassing 40 with Popeye flashbacks (“40 you fought granny over a 2 piece biscuit and some fries?!”). How bad was this massacre? Twice 40 either choked or pulled a Duran and quit on her rounds–to quote K-Shine: “Zip her up!!!”
Verdict: Jaz the Rapper (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jaz the Rapper – “Hit that bitch in the head with a bottle of vodka to show 40 proof”
Recap: A little flat on delivery at times, overmatched on size and having to deal with nonsense like Ms. Hustle turning her back on her as well as Phara Funeralz attempting to steal the show, Jaz the Rapper still does this, taking on Ms. Hustle for mystical title of “Queen of URL” and winning with intelligent schemes, witty (“We was cool, I got hot, so we ain’t no more”) punchlines and hot bars. Granted, Ms. Hustle had her moments (“You dance around the punch, that’s prom night”), but after a sizzling first round it soon became clear that Hustle wouldn’t be able to keep up with Jaz’s truth serum and repeated (“When you think of Jaz you think of music, the team, even Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, when you think of Eboni you think of Pornhub, black bitches getting fucked in they ass”) haymakers (tho flipping that “With the Beats” scheme Ms. Fit used on her during their battle was funny to watch here).
Verdict: Jaz the Rapper (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jaz the Rapper – “You not Ms. Hustle, you Ms. Struggle!”
Recap: Besides a close 1st round this one was really no contest as Jaz The Rapper’s seismic schemes, potent wordplay, well-lit personals and piercing punchlines easily beat back a QB (Black Diamond) that you rarely see: little on the disrespect and more focused on bars that in this case were mostly pedestrian. Not that QB lacked on her notorious aggression, but a strategy that seemed bent on bully semantics and her opponent’s sex life, while hitting here and there, just got redundant over time and especially cost her when it came to elongated turns in both the 1st and 2nd rounds. On the other hand, overall a more versatile Jaz just had too much in her bag what with not only the aforementioned darts, but also witty barbs, fire rebuts for the virgin angles, fierce storytelling lines, scheming tutorials on battle rap and to the surprise of some, a pretty hip knowledge of football (and more) which would lead to some flexing sport schemes and ably assist in Jaz earning the 30.
Verdict: Jaz The Rapper (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jaz The Rapper – “You said you’d kill me?, you lied, but you said you would kill me without talking about my virginity?, so those was both lies, ‘cuz if you had [???] at a horror flick you would know that virgins don’t die!”
Synopsis: Besides QB, no female battle rapper comes better prepared than Jaz the Rapper. Not saying that Jaz doesn’t suffer from the rare slip-up (and sure some of her bars can be hit or miss), but when it comes to consistency, there might be no one better. Such is the case here against a worthy opponent in Chayna Ashley, where after a wasted 1st round (writing your best bar for Ms. Fit instead of Jaz?!?) from Dot Mob’s 1st lady, Jaz straight spazzes with both wicked personals and bars (“How you do it? Get them gloves, we could fight, right nigga? Against Jaz with one ‘z’, but you gonna get two or three once you go night, night, nigga”). Round two sees Chayna come back heavy with a barrage of mean one-liners (“That’s what your moms blessed you with? Magenta B—, spell shit with a ‘j’ cuz’ G’s don’t run in ya family”) and haymakers (“Turn heroes to pussies when they draw, no thundercats”). But just when you think Chayna might steal a round Jaz matches her steez by reloading her arsenal, dropping disrespectful bars (“Cuz’ since I started battling I got a lot of kids, Now I think I’m Dakishi bitch, and I enjoy showing my as in this ring, now I’m Rikishi bitch”) and more killer personals (“But see Chayna don’t really get none so she always hope for sex, and it’s ironic that niggas don’t wanna slap, they just want that open neck”). Hit the 3rd round and after a slow start Chayna does a nice name flip, but couldn’t build from there as a repeated visit from Earl doomed her into literally giving the win to Jaz, who still finishes her off with another nice round of feel-good personals, a live impression, steady jokes and stifling bars. Yeah, she does this.
Verdict: Jaz the Rapper (W) 3-0
Best line: – Jaz the Rapper: “Bitch, your favorite show is Man vs. Food and you masturbate to Cake Boss“
Synopsis: Good battle. Had it even after two, but while K-Prophet put forth a sizzling last round, in the end Jaz’s 3rd had more variety including a nice little rebuttal, witty bars (“get rid of K so y’all could really say I’m ill”) and even doper personals to edge it.
Verdict: Jaz the Rapper (W) 2-1
Best line: K Prophet – “You a lame with a Gina head”
Synopsis: No contest here as Jaz the Rapper body’s Skye with a hailstorm of wicked bars, jokes, name flips and personals. Indeed, with a corpse this big, one can only hope Skye’s plan B singing career is still on the upkeep.
Verdict: Jaz the Rapper (W) 3-0
Best line: Jaz the Rapper – “QB killed you, but you back so I’m guessing it’s that time again, well I’mma give Skye another L make it feel it’s Harlem back in ’99 again”
