Recap: A pretty solid effort that featured a bunch of sturdy gun bars and hard-hitting set-up punchlines & personals keeps J2 competitive in this ‘Redemption 3’ 3-rounder from URL. But one too many attempts at more acute punches that failed to hit by J2 as well as a turned up JC, who when he wasn’t getting righteous with a gang of syrupy pontifications in round 1, got the job done with a combative stream of fire wordplay, boastful barbs, fiery God-complex heat, witty darts and potent punches to take rounds 2 and 3 (after a debatable round 1) for the win.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “Your community cancel me, go wild, I have no concern about him/he/them/they or she…I’m the pronoun!”
Recap: Clearly, Deth The Kid wasn’t just happy to be there. Proving gamely effective with a gang of stinging 4-bar set-up/punchlines, gritty wordplay and some solid personals, in this 1-rounder from iBattle, Deth proved that he came to win. Unfortunately for Deth tho, JC wasn’t about to let an upset happen. The Michigan vet rising up to the challenge (tho he did come close to a couple of reaches) with an ill-mannered stream of graphic, mayhem-lit punches, sturdy name flips, fire gun bars, lofty similes/metaphors and boastful darts to gather up just enough haymakers and edge the win
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “Man you know I’m a beast, we are nowhere close to relief, nigga I’m so sick, nigga’s are outside checking Covid for me!”
Recap: From KOTD, battling more regurlarly these days after a long hiatus away from the ring, Canadian battle rapper Loe Pesci uses a bunch of mocking personals and witty barbs to keep it competitive for 3 rounds with JC. But displaying better efficiency overall than his opponent via a morbidly poetic touch that featured death-themed metaphors, razor-sharp wit (esp. when it came to revisiting Pesci’s infamous battle with Daylyt awhile back), righteous boasts and sophisticated flair when it came punches/wordplay, it’s The Kid JC who takes the 1st and 3rd rounds (call the 2nd debatable) for the win.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “You tried to let these lights and cameras make you forget where you better sitting at, even Organik said Pasci could’ve stayed Home Alone ‘cuz he know the Goodfella stepping in a trap!”
Recap: From Anybody Can Die Battle League, a fierce one-round bout between JC and LL Coogi sees the EFB vet emerge victorious via a relentless onslaught of sharp set-ups, gritty punchlines and mayhem-lit bars. Indeed, JC’s seamless delivery and stirring wordplay would overshadow an opponent who while intense throughout, got off to slow start when it came to the potency of his lines. And while LL would redeem himself with a flurry of hitting punchlines in the latter half of his round, by the end it’d be too late.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “You are not raw, I sell services so efficient, I drop more bodies than I drop calls!”
Recap: From URL’s Traffic 6 card, the battle vet JC and up-n-comer Awthentic put on a dope show for the Arizona crowd in a 3-round battle that was as competitive and close as close could be. Awthentic, ganging up on his opponent with a boatload of gritty punchlines, some solid wordplay/name flips and feelgood gun bars never lacked for confidence. While JC kept it cool, but bombastic with a shitload of eerie boasts, poisonous (“You only got one form, but you don’t gotta conform to fit in this casket!”) darts, festering gun bars and bold name flips. Steady on both sides with the heat with little on the personals, a debatable round 1 is followed by the slightly more efficient JC edging round 2, before a punch-crazy Awthentic came back to land more haymakers (including the line of the battle, see below) in round 3 to make this one a debatable overall.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Awthentic – “my time has been birthed, and I’m defined by the turf, how JC walk on water but died trying to Surf!’
Recap: In this 1-rounder from The Battle Academy, JC once again shows that there’s levels to this shit by mostly staying away from the standard name flips used against his opponent and instead relying on a steady platoon of hard-hitting gun bars, fiery wordplay and gritty punchlines/metaphors to beat back a menacing, but not as consistent turn by Reed Dollaz.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “We gonna serve him up, fuck every animal Rambo studied in that jungle…he shoulda learned to duck!”
Recap: A fierce 1-rounder from Takeova Battle League/No Entourage between JC and Caswell gets edged by the Michigan vet, who despite an earnest, name-flip drenched and punch-lit at times showing from his opponent, managed to get the win via a more efficient round of piercing boasts/gun bars, hitting white boy-isms, clever set-ups, ghoulish missives and fire 4-bar punches/similes.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – ” Savages, hazardous, being alive this sick for this long…it’s just Magic shit!”
Recap: From iBattle, despite a 5-year hiatus away from the battle rap game, for 3 rounds here against JC E. Farrell shows that he hasn’t missed a beat what with his salacious combo of witty barbs and piercing punching that kept him competitive throughout the entire battle. But JC…well being JC, just prives to be a little too much in the end, the Michigan vet using a gang of slightly more efficient hardbody punches, dark/mayhem-drenched mosaics, ample name flips and gritty wordplay to edge the first couple of rounds for tne win before a 3rd round debatable.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “It get very real, I mean we in every field…toe-tagging, that mean we with it all sport, Bo Jackson!”
Recap: Absolute 1-round, URL App-exclusive punchfest between JC and Emerson Kennedy sees the more eclectic-punching and personal/set-up lit EK get the edge in what was a haymaker-drenched turn on both sides.
Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “This nigga plain, talking bar none, that Surf performance?, far from, the quality, nigga if you had started dancing, we thought you was gonna bar some…we thought you were supposed to end the wave, this nigga tried to start one!”
Recap: A dope 3-rounder from URL’s —series sees Crucible alum Klutz go toe-to-toe with the always formidable JC. The former combining a bunch of witty puns/personals, stinging punchlines/schemes, storied name flips that were often pretty metaphorical/gripping (esp. during an emotional round 3) and boastful darts to make sure his opp and the crowd remembered who he was. However, despite a strong showing from Klutz (which was enough to force a debatable round 2), one too many pedestrian bars from the newcomer and a slightly more condensed/efficient JC, who with his shitload of mayhem-lit punches, crazy set-ups, steely gun bars, potent wordplay and fiery odes to death and demise, manages to edge rounds 1 and 3 for the win.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “How everybody trying to act like Big Meech and his son can’t even play him right?!”
Recap: From URL’s Lite Work battles, using a steady combo of hard-hitting personals, mean set-ups and aggressive/gritty punchlines while also taking advantage of a pretty solid overall, but flow-erratic JC, Ms. Hustle scores more than enough haymakers in each round to earn the 30.
Verdict: Ms. Hustle (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Ms. Hustle – “They know I’m Ape, but like a Fedora I’m around the brims!”
Recap: From Summer Madness 12, a highly anticipated and long awaited style (‘pen’ vs. ‘AMG mode’) clash between Tsu Surf and JC ends up being a mostly one-sided affair after the veteran Michigan emcee got off to a hot start with a barrage of stifling personals in the 1st half of his opening round. And while it was a bit surprising seeing JC get so personal with an opponent, considering all the hype and back-n-forth yapping between him and Surf (well actually it was mostly Surf doing the promoting and shit talking beforehand) leading up to the battle, the EFB member’s change in tone and strategy seemed fitting. Yet stunningly it quickly went downhill from there as the usually boastful, wordplay-lit and God-centric pen of JC’s would succumb to a boatload of subpar punches.personals during the next two-and-a-half rounds that not only left him down and out, but had him pop-locking on stage. All the while Surf, already on an impressive run of 5 wins in a row against top tier opponent’s, would back up months of smack talk with a gritty, punchline-savvy, performance-heavy/crowd-controlling, metaphorically fire at times, street rhyme-lit and personally cold trio of rounds to handily get the win.
Verdict: Tsu Surf (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Tsu Surf – “This must be another JC, it gotta be, the JC I know had me covered when they shot at me!”
Recap: From the final round of URL’s Ultimate Madness 5 tournament, a multifaceted Swamp uses a gang of gritty punchlines, hitting personals, rugged street bars, witty barbs and a killer near-end round rebuttal to take the first couple of rounds and get the win over a morbidly-inclined, boastful and often wordplay/punch-heavy, but less versatile and less bar-potent JC in rounds 1 and 2, before round 3 saw JC step it up and get a little more savvy and formidable with the bars, which with an assist from a Swamp slip-up, gave the Michigan vet the 3rd.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “What you about 4’2″?, shit I couldn’t bury you 6 feet if I want to!”
Recap: These time limits in URL’s SM5 tourney need to be fixed and can Smack, at the very least, pretend he’s listening to battles while they’re going on instead of talking up some hottie standing by his side on stage? That being said, Sheed Happens with the fiery illiterations, some sturdy, performance-lit punchlines and hitting personals (mostly in round 3) and JC with a gang of fire wordplay, boastful punch work and steely set-ups/similes makes for a dope semifinal bout as well as 3 rounds of competitive heat. But it’s the Michigan vet, slightly more potent and steady with the bars in both rounds 1 and 2, who gets the win here before Sheed saved face and edged the 3rd.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “Give me my flowers when I’m here or you gonna get yours when you’re not!”
Recap: Making an out of the blue appearance in a 1-rounder on iBattleTV, JC still leaves his mark, using a consistently hitting barrage of dismissive personals, killer Godbody bars and flexing punchlines/similes to beat back a solid and gritty, but nowhere-near-as-flashy turn from King Jables.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “I know that may seem worse, but your whole intro into battle rap was ass-backwards, a breeched birth!”
Recap: From URL’s Ultimate Madness 5 tournament, round 2. The O.G. Head I’C.E. puts forth a pretty solid and competitive effort with plenty of hardbody raps, some unique, ‘bottle’-capped word association lines (with props included) and a few hitting personals. But it’s a JC heavily armed with a gang of sizzling gun bars, festering God-body punches and a fleet of seismic punchlines who earns the 30 here and moves on to the next round.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “Changing my stock, I gave every nigga I came with a Glock, no instructions, just aspirations…aim for the top!”
Recap: Considering the fact that they’ve battled twice already in the past, it’s a little weird seeing O-Red and JC meet up for a 3rd time in the first round of URL’s Summer Madness 5 tourney no less. But whatever. As with the earlier meetings, the two battle vets kept it competitive here while banging out a slew of braggadocious punches, slick wordplay/name flips, aggressive schemes and a few hitting personals. Still however, with a 2-minute time limit per round that most likely hurt the usually interminable Red moreso than his opponent, it’s the more concise and punch-lit JC who takes each of the first two rounds for the win before a clearly more potent O-Red avoided the shutout by taking the 3rd.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – ” I could shoot all y’all at once like a family portrait, you nigga’s literally gotta get it together!”
Recap: From URL’s Kings vs. Queens 3 card, despite an also wordplay-spicy C3 dishing a barrel of hardbody personals that we haven’t seen the likes of against JC since his Bigg K battle, the consistently fiery Michigan vet lets loose with a gang of Godbody punchlines, stifling name flips, hitting braggadocious bars and witty/piercing personals to take rounds 1 and 3 (w/ C3 additionally adding a couple of dope rebuttals to a punch-lit on both sides turn, call the 2nd round debatable) for the win in what as a highly competitive matchup.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “I lot of y’all can’t find a reason to beat up a bitch…I see 3 [C3]!”
Recap: Against the witty at times and often raucous/bullish raps from Real Sikh, JC immediately goes for the kill, using a gang of morbid bangers, unwholesome name flips/wordplay, graphic mayhem and sick punchlines to get the win in this competitive 1-rounder from URL’s Banned card.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “I’m that nice, I could clap twice and the room get lit!”
Recap: Not gonna lie. All that dapping JC gives his opponent’s during a battle when they spit a hot bar can be annoying. Like, it’s one thing to hear some shit from your opp that’s fire and nod your head out of respect, but as witnessed again here, JC just be going overboard with all the handshakes. That said, nice to see Charron (aka ‘The Smack Killer’) finally back on the URL stage after a long time away on this Super Fight 6 card, the Canadian vet coming off a stellar showing against Ooops that would ironically be used against here by JC. The Pontiac, MI, rapper dishing a boatload of searing disses towards Charron in the latter rounds in light of some feeling that Charron went too far in bringing up Ooops past mental illness struggles during their battle. But then, when he wasn’t scoring with a host of deft personals, JC was also lighting up the stage with a gang of stifling punchlines, some exquisite wordplay, rich gun lines, racially-tinged tutorials and dope set-ups. And while Charron stayed close with his usual barrage of hard-hitting rapid-punches, witty personals and slick talk, outside of a crazy 3rd round that saw him put it altogether, the Wild N’ Out star’s elongated turns in the opening rounds to go along with rebuttals that weren’t as spicy we’re used to seeing to go along with some filler here and there and a sense of humor that wasn’t as sharp/versatile as you’d normally see combined with JC’s slightly more condensed and consistently-hitting turns would edge the latter both rounds 1 and 2 for the win.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “I’m back on my shit, accurate clips, a self-defense video on Tik Tok not putting you in the sky as fast as this!”
Recap: Don’t get to see 3-rounders from Gates of the Garden too often. But for the 3 rounds, Wise versus JC, is for the most part a doozy, as the former showed he deserved a shot at the vet by delivering a strong and aggressive performance (when he wasn’t taking too long to build to the punches in the earlier rounds) what with a sometimes mean punch-game and a gang of gritty bangers/personals that when consistently lit, made for a debatable 3rd. Good thing for JC tho that he didn’t come to play either. The newly recruited EFB member sticking it to his opponent with a plethora of lethal set-ups/punches, sizzling name flips, rich metaphors, stirring vet talk and bruising wordplay that spiced with the addition of a suprising, final round pop-lock got him both of the opening rounds and proved that whether it’s the younger JC or the older JC, count your blessings on the outcome.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “See, y’all just a copy photo image, y’all flip the same stories for a punchline, but we supposed to believe ‘cuz you so descriptive?!…nigga, so are snitches!”
Recap: Although he’s still doing way too much intrusive shit while his opponent is rapping, one could argue that the version of Serius Jones we see here during this Smack Volume 6 matchup against JC, is the best we’ve ever seen from the Jersey veteran. Sure, Jones is still cocky as ever, his rounds were a little longwinded and he needs to get over the Math personals (hey, if they can still talk about JC’s infamous dance video then they can talk about ‘The Punch’), but for the most part the dated bars (‘tho that Martin bar in the 2nd round was sublime) and reaches were gone, the punches and schemes were much more substantive, the self-deprecation was humbling, he was still witty and righteous when needed and that rapid, more intricate and versatile flow with a mix of some killer personals/wordplay was especially dope to see, especially during what was a superlative 2nd round. That said, JC still edge rounds 1 and 3 for the win. The Michigan battler getting past a surprising 2nd round choke with a variety of crazy set-ups/name flips, gritty punchlines, piercing gun bars, well-executed personals and punch-drunk mayhem during two slightly more condensed turns for what was a close vic.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “Talking about ‘I shoot like KD!’, like it’s something spiritual, till you take the wrong shot, get tore up over a line and the Bucks will finish you!”
Recap: Note to self: look out for Polo Roe as his versatile and fierce punch game and permeating wit almost pulled off an upset here in this close 1-rounder from Any Body Can Die Battle League. Too bad for Polo tho as JC being JC takes all comers seriously, which in turn led to Pontiac, Michigan’s finest using a boatload of piercing punchlines, boastful God-pen lines and rigid heaters in a slightly more condensed run to win this one by a nose.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “I told you, I’m heaven sent, you smell me?, I’m way beyond that level y’all fear I’m on!”
Recap: An opponent no-showing still doesn’t prevent JC from doing JC as the Pontiac, MI, wordsmith uses a gang of boastful barbs and fiery punchlines to beat back a gritty, but much-less-potent effort from last-minute replacement Albo in this 1-rounder from Organyzed Cryme Battle League.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “See, this something only we could change, no use of bringing town news, around you, nothing hip…like Tisha Campbell, straight body!”
Recap: After getting out-maneuvered lyrically in round 1 to a more condensed and spicier-punching JC, in this NOME XI battle from URL, Fonz ups his bar efficiency, ignores the JC mind tricks and uses a steady barrage of rigid punchlines, fierce wordplay/heaters, witty/hard-hitting personals, daunting set-ups, aggressive boasts and fiery name flips to edge the 2nd round and take the deciding 3rd over an opponent who while still serving up a gang of potent darts to keep the bout close, theme-wise was a little redundant in the latter rounds, spouted a few pedestrian bars here and there and dare we say it, was even a bit predictable with his punches at times.
Verdict: Fonz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Fonz – “I’m on this Smack stage causing Terror next to Troy, the shit look like a PG event!”
Recap: From URL’s Super Fight 3 card, JC uses a steady barrage of bruising name flips, wicked God-body bars/angles (esp. in round 1) and a bunch of stinging punchlines/personals to beat back a hard-hitting, personal-inclined and mayhem-lit, but overall not as strong or punch-heavy performance from Nunn Nunn.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “I’ll have you talking to a dot like ‘Alexa, play with somebody safe!'”
Recap: From Organyzed Cryme Battle League, that ‘Cocaine paid for college…I had white privilege’ line Raydale Shamaine was fire as was a bunch of other gritty street missives and name flips. But despite his opponent coming through with some dope shit in this 1-rounder and making it close, it’s JC, with a bit shortened, but still superbly effective fleet of righteous punchlines, stinging wordplay, God-body darts and sublime set-ups/similes who gets the win here.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “Saying you won the battle probably gonna decrease our YouTube views, the whole party was made up in your mind Ray…like the Boom Boom Room!”
Recap: A much closer battle than what the URL ‘App Gang’ gave it, First Lady Flamez gives the JC all he can handle in this Kings vs. Queens 2 bout with a gang of wicked punchlines, sizzling gun bars, real street talk, some wily personals and stinging wordplay that stood out even more when you consider that Flamez not only stayed on her rugged bar game, but rarely, if ever, went for the sort of name flips or lines on her opponent’s past dance moves that have become the norm against JC. Still, while Flamez was her usual gangsta self, an ever boastful JC, for the first two rounds anyway, sizzled throughout. The Pontiac, MI, vet utilizing a wide array of eerie darts laced with expiration dates, blistering personals, mayhem-rich punchlines, stifling gun bars and hitting name flips to earn the win over two pretty solid rounds by Flamez. That said, the Richmond, VA battler would get some payback with a sublime and punch-heavy 3rd round that beat back a dope, but slightly less consistent round from JC.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “All you have in this world is your name, Flamez…and you gonna melt in it!”
Recap: Outside of a spitfire 2nd round that bordered on immaculate with its cold set-ups, mocking personals, flexing heat and gritty wordplay, an ever confident JC, while not always on his A-game, still manages to deliver enough righteous punches in the deciding 3rd round to beat back a versatile (esp. those two stinging rebuttals to start his round 3), but a bit topsy-turvy in the latter rounds Ryda in this Born Legacy 11 battle from URL.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “Mr. Ryda, yeah you even spell your name lame, but I’ma show you why I [U, Y, !] am the difference!”
Recap: Matching his opponent’s consistent love for gun bars with plenty of piercing heat of his own, while also adding a gang of mocking personals, rigid name flips and fiery punchlines/wordplay to the mix, JC does enough in each round to score a 30 on Franchise in this exclusive 3-rounder from the URL App.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “So how you always throw these punches, but I land mine better, I’ll send a shooter to Toronto so fucking accurate he’ll leave with a Franchise record!”
Recap: Dope, punch-heavy and consistently fiery battle between JC and Riggz comes down to a spitfire, haymaker-drenched 3rd round from Mr. Carter, whose death before dishonor rhythm’s, rigid name flips/gun bars and systematic breakdowns surrounding demise worked in unison to edge the deciding round and up young Julian’s body count.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “That’s why I brought extensions ‘cuz JC warned y’all about the Latter days!”
Recap: Nothing to dislike about this extra dope URL 3-rounder between Prep and JC. ‘Dirty Prep’, already building his brand back up on the smaller leagues, starts things off with a superbly-executed and classic 1st round, delivering a gang of fiery personals with plenty of wit and bite to beat back a punch-heavy, name flip nice and extra crispy turn by JC. But the always confident JC wouldn’t allow his opponent’s fealty to deter him, immediately coming back with a personal-lit, witty, wordplay-savvy and righteous 4-bar set-ups to edge a fire, but elongated turn by Prep, before another haymaker-prolific turn in the 3rd by JC also edged another dope, but lengthy (and a little dated when it came to personals) run by the DMV star for the win in what was still an energetic and spitfire Born Legacy 9 battle..
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “And this not even a fighting game, I could still do damage when I’m holding back!”
Recap: Yunno, can’t really say that I get all into battlers wardrobe’s while on stage. Sure, some battlers are known for always being fly (which is fine) and some battlers can be pretty dusty (which they have to know will be used against them in future battles), but for the most part I could care less, it’s just all about the bars here. Which leads me to the befuddled reaction towards this Kid Chaos vs. JC battle as for all the love and reaction Chaos has gotten for being such am energetic and versatile spitter of late, seeing him so hellbent on getting personal with JC–for all 3 rounds–just didn’t make any sense. Whether it was a supreme focus on JC wanting to battle Lux (what’s wrong with that?!), JC’s lack of looking spiffy on stage (as long as the guy is clean, what does anyone care if he likes to wear T-shits with baggy pants all the time) or the recent chatter surrounding JC looking rather gaunt (and possibly on drugs) of late (ok, since that topic did receive quite a bit of talk online, one can understand an opponent going there, but then going back to when he battled Chilla, JC has always been a small guy), when it came to personals, too often Chaos (who granted did have some solid schemes and wordplay mixed in) just went overboard while acting like he was the vet in the ring and not his opponent (one loss to Loso doesn’t wipe out JC’s entire resume). And to Chaos’ chagrin, judging from this battle JC was clearly paying attention to all the gossip surrounding him of late as well, because this was a clear 30. Spouting God-like synergy throughout the bout, whether he was dishing a gang of eccentric haymakers in a boastful, flawless and punch/wordplay-lit round 1 and just continuing with more of the same to go along with fire name flips, well-aimed personals of his own and steely gun bars in the latter rounds, for all the talk of how close (and in some cases surprising) the Rookies vs Vets battles have been in 2020, all the vets should be thanking JC for this one.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “See me and you? Nothing alike, you hold the door when I’m comin’ in, I’ll pull the plug to end your sufferin’!”
Recap: Loso versus JC took awhile to happen, but for the most part ended up being worth the wait. JC, sometimes redundant and even a little stale with the mayhem, still solidified his name in the game with an extra dope, punch and wordplay-heavy 3rd round when he wasn’t scoring here and there with some piercing name personals and scathing religious knocks. But Loso, displaying brimming confidence from jump, was able to back up his mojo throughout the battle using a boatload of sizzling name flips, spirited punchlines and surprisingly, a plethora of scintillating personals to edge the first two rounds and add a huge win to his resume.
Verdict: Loso (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Loso – “Should I give him a single shot or let two can’s go?, nah you don’t even deserve the semi’s…Ru Bando!”
Recap: Some fierce name flips, a gang of hard-hitting punchlines, spicy current event bars and a bunch of stinging set-ups/gun bars/braggadocios lines gives JC the win over a gritty, but overall less substantive Drugz in this Quarantined 1-rounder from URL.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “This ain’t comp, this a case, that’s gonna be easier to get out of than grade school!”
Recap: Sometimes it’s not about the opponent not showing up, but rather showing up without a plan. That description pretty much describes O-Red to a tee here in this rematch against JC on a URL Genesis card. Whether it was attempting to get off on a slower, pronounced flow in round 1 that went nowhere what with mostly pedestrian bars or trying to mano-a-mano with JC in regard to who could dish better sport bars or resident name flips that were mostly ho-hum or even a Translation utterance that fell flat, when it came to angles and executions, Red just seemed to be going in circles. And that’s not a good look especially in light of an top tier adversary who was clearly more motivated to win this battle. Indeed for 3 rounds, JC nuanced with the set-ups and coming down hard on the punches, flexing with the gun bars/name flips, spouting some piercing personals and ever bullish with the wordplay, had an easy time of it here against an opponent who at times looked like he couldn’t wait to leave the stage.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “Six years ago I would of left this bitch as the best to write, I punched with Tyson Fury and I don’t expect you to be any Wilder in the 2nd fight!”
Recap: A rematch of their 1-round battle in Chicago from some years back (which we had Clips edging), Charlie Clips and JC go at it again, for 3 rounds this tine on the URL App Event 1 card. And just like the first time, this one is close with Clips’ usage of fiery wit, witty personals and searing punches taking the first while JC’s resounding mayhem, amusing personals and steely punches/punches doing just enough to take the 2nd round after a slow start. The deciding 3rd round however goes to a much more versatile, punch/scheme-heavy, jocular, set-up crazy, personal-stinging and consistent Clips, who also works with enough zest and potent angles to beat back a solid, but oft-redundant and a bit erratic turn from JC.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “All I do is knock-off J’s like Rum Nitty getting dressed!”
Recap: Part of JC’s greatness is the fact that he always shows up, something that shouldn’t be taken for granted in a battle world littered with choke artists. Add that factor to having one of the best pen’s in the game, when one talks about a ‘beatable JC’, surely they’re going no lower than ‘B’-level on the game mode. And that what’s a little disappointing here: witnessing a Shotgun Suge getting off to such a raucous, heavy-hitting, mayhem-dishing and gun’s-a-blazing start in round 1 and letting the attentive Philly crowd down with a mostly pedestrian 2nd round (which he could’ve beat considering what was for JC, just a solid turn) and then Suge cutting short his 3rd round (in the face of fans who had to be anticipating some electric ‘What His Life Like?’ bars) after apparently forgetting his lines. And while it should be said that JC’s 1st and 3rd rounds were both sublime, gun-bar lit, punchline/metaphor crazy and witty with the personals, Suge delivering a stronger 2nd round definitely could’ve made a difference here.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “I’m not the one to get gruesome with, double-jointed, put a big body in a small box…see if he really been thru some shit!”
Recap: Those gritty ‘Plug talk’ bars from Luck Dollaz in round 3 were fire and earned him the round. But before that JC’s more consistently piercing punchlines, pertinent mayhem, braggadocios darts and stinging wordplay edged him both of the opening rounds to gain the win in this fiery 3-rounder from SupaNova Battle League.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “When he thru, they gonna study me at HBCU’s, I black on the highest level”!
Recap: Challenging the dichotomy of Christianity in relation to Eurocentric whitewashing during a sublime 3rd round, that while met with a righteous and punch-heavy turn by Th3 Saga (enough to force a debatable), still showed off the formidability of his pen, a consistently punchline-lit, witty, wordplay-spazzing and set-ups rich JC, edges both of the earlier rounds of this hour-plus long battle to score the win in this long but still competitive 3-round Born Legacy 8 bout from URL.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “Saga doing good in his battles lately, now that’s something different, you really have changed your life since becoming Christian, you really are unstoppable when you don;t beat ya self…pun intended!”
Recap: Yet another solid showing by the performance-heavy, facial expression loving (“‘Cuz when you dead in the casket, you ain’t got one!”) and punch/mayhem-centric Bankhead against a top tier opponent should get him plenty of notice. But here in this Black Ice Cartel, 3-rounder versus JC, the Michigan battle vet’s more condensed, consistently potent, fiery wordplay-drenched rounds which contained a boatload of fire gun bars, dead bodies and stinging punchlines/set-ups would be too much for even his eccentric opponent to handle overall.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “I heard you turn into an animal on stage, well I think they sorta lying [lion], I’m test it, when I reach for the belt, just hope he morph in time!”
Recap: Banned Legacy 3 battle between JC and Cortez sees the kid from Brooklyn rap his ass off for 3 rounds with a versatile mix of fiery punchlines, wily boasts, flippant personals and some nasty name flips/wordplay. But as he’s always capable of, JC just took matters to another level here, the much more condensed emcee, delivering even finer wordplay, fierce name flips, fire set-ups, witty personals, heated gun bars and crazy punches that produced haymaker after haymaker, especially during an almost flawless 2nd round. And with the Michigan battler also taking the 1st round, despite a debatable 3rd (‘Tez’s best round), it’s still an impressive win for JC nonetheless.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “You can’t keep blaming your lack of battle releases on your opponent’s, see that’s that usual Cort shit, I devour nigga’s and you can still click ‘view’ on them corpses!”
Recap: In this Born Legacy 7 battle from URL, after a couple of topsy-turvy, aggressive, but pretty redundant opening rounds, Glueazy finally chokes (after ironically getting off to a hot start) away his 3rd round. But then looking back, did Glu really have a chance to begin with? That’s just speaking practically to how sublime JC was here. The Michigan battler confidently in his bag for 3 rounds while delivering nothing but straight heat via a gang of witty personals/storytelling, spitfire punchlines, persistent mayhem and piercing name flips/set-ups/wordplay to handily earn a shutout.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “I got him running in pain, covered in stains like a mattress flip!”
Recap: Fierce 1-round battle between JC and Chicago rapper King Krash sees the latter go hard on the God-complex angles/themes, sermonizing and gritty street lines with a flair of confident aggression throughout his turn. But JC being JC, even if not totally on his A-game, still brought a heavy load of stinging punchlines, flagrant gun bars and potent name flips from his palette to score enough haymakers and earn the vic in this one.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “The mere fact that I come from nothing means I will always reach for something, I even reach and bang the hammer without thinking, so don’t rush to judgment!”
Recap: Born Legacy 6 battle between JC and Mike P sees the latter give it his all, including some resounding punchlines, nifty video game bars, some witty personals and a pretty inspiring 3rd round that halfway through, spoke on more important matters in life. That said, yeah JC might dap his opponent’s too much during battles, but if that’s only thing you can criticize him for after he gives you straight rounds of sterling punches, spitfire wordplay, raucous bangers, graphic boasts and piercing name flips/set-ups as he did here, then you might be the problem and not him.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “It’s true, you never called me out, but you did say yes and that’s important ‘cuz accepting an ass-whooping is just as bad as asking for it!”
Recap: As much as Young Ape impresses with an opportunistic load of gritty (“The rounds is lighting, shot up the car that I found him riding, did a number on the back of the whip…how’s my driving?!”) punchlines, a more versatile, potent with the gun (“Dome hit, left nothing but thoughts in the casket, now it’s a suggestion box!”) bars, fiery with the name flips/wordplay, angle-savvy and even a bit personal JC just came more equipped with the tools to take this dope 1-rounder.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “I won’t say that I saw you get killed on RBE, but you definitely choked and you didn’t win, it was pitiful, how you bottom shelf and still can’t reach your pinnacle?!”
Recap: Tough to call and as he mentioned in the battle, JC will definitely differ with this being a ‘debatable’, but with all categories considered and we’re done picking apart a superb punch-fest here with Ave, the verdict here is a draw. Which makes sense when you take in the long noted similar styles between the battlers, an elongated Ave getting turned up with the punches, (“If dance is rather what you’d be on, than young fella keep doing it, or fuck with the music…70’s porn!”) crazy set-ups/wordplay, aggressive urban street talk and braggadocio lines, but not-always-quite-so with the personals. While a more condensed JC, not always able to keep up with his opponent’s more finessed (esp. versus Ave’s fire 2nd round) repartee, still dished enough stifling heat, witty personals, fire name flips and potent schemes/punchlines to drop enough haymakers and edge round 3 after losing the 2nd and a debatable first. Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: JC – “I grab this, they wont remember his name, he’ll be past tense, he will literally go from Ave to Memory Lane”
Recap: Rare 1-rounder for JC sees Big T put forth a nice, solid effort with some wily/witty punches and fiery heaters/name flips here and there that made their mark. But with a more consistent JC firing on all cylinders, whether they be piercing personals, sturdy gun bars, stinging braggadocio lines or rapidly spitfire punchlines/schemes, Big Terrence really had no chance.
Verdict: JC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: JC – “Do you believe in a higher power? [Bwoh!], ask him again after one enter T [entity]!”
Recap: As much as his name was mentioned in this battle, I’m guessing that Loaded Lux would smile at this one. Then too, in front of a mostly subdued crowd, B. Dot versus JC was just a fire matchup, competitive throughout with a boatload of hardbody punchlines, steely personals, style breakdowns that Murder Mook would certainly wink at, flippant gun bars as well as a host of gritty wordplay and haymakers. In other words, you couldn’t ask for much more. Despite rapping longer than his opponent in pretty much every round, a swift-kicking B. Dot gets the edge in round one, fiendishly (“I can’t believe this clown and all the shit y’all let him get away with, we all know he don’t spray clips, that’s why he emphasizes every line, every line, and y’all pay him for the overcompensation!”) exposing JC’s rap pedigree with a series of dope schemes/personals, while also dishing some rich performance bars and stinging punches to beat back a pretty solid, but a bit filler-prone and mostly thematically atypical with the gun semantics/punches turn from JC. The 2nd round saw B. Dot continue to leave aside his usual m.o. of cerebral, militant, thought-provoking raps for rapidly hitting personals that with an aggressive performance and some fine (“I mean the dancer, the rapper, the clapper, I’m knowing they all mesh, look I get you, it fits you, these personalities you switch to, its residential, they all fit inside your Napoleon complex!”) wordplay, for the most landed. But JC wasn’t having it, coming back with his own set of well-crafted (“Bitch stop the switchin’, llama’s spitting at this walking contradiction, big guns, Super C on Nintendo, that’s actual Contra-diction!”) personals mixed in with wild (“I catch bodies, I’m from the Glove, the proof is in the fingerprints!”) braggadocio lines and potent punches that all led to a more condensed and versatile turn to edge the round and make it 1-1 going into the 3rd. The last round was spitfire on both sides with B. Dot getting busy (and back to basics) with sterling life/rap (“I mean Smack, you just another train that he can board, said he wasn’t believable, that’s when he found a new Vice and start banging to the core, well of course, I’m not surprised, here go another God named JC claiming that he Lord!”) tutorials on awareness mixed in with more breaking down of his opponent’s raps via fire angles and set-ups. But JC wasn’t having any of the frenetic class sessions, delivering a confident and pragmatic (“The problem is the fact that we need to unify comes after the red raggin’, not saying it’s not a place at all, but it’s contradictory, Ref, you gotta drop that flag before you make the call!”) turn on B. Dot’s alleged hypocrisy in his raps with a boatload of consistently steely personals and feelgood schemes. All enough to match B. Dot’s potency in the deciding round and make this one a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: JC – “This that same nigga who mirrored the image of Loaded Lux, then thought that it would help him skip the ropes, didn’t get that feature he wanted, realized Lux (luck’s) not on his side, then that mirror broke!”
Recap: Besides a rim-rocking, personal and punch-heavy 1st round from JC, for two battlers well-known for their ferocious pens, JC vs. Iron Solomon, while solid throughout, certainly didn’t live up to the conventional hype. Still, with only 3 weeks prep, it’s probably not fair to have expected more to what turned out to be a tight and exciting match. And while Iron, after an up-n-down 1st, came back in the 2nd with a wittier, more potent turn that featured more braggadocio lines with an upturn of polemic wizadry, it’s a back-to-flexing (and more versatile) JC who takes the deciding 3rd with one too many haymakers to beat back another solid, taciturn round from Iron that like his 1st, just came with a few too many dry spots.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “Ask K-Shine, Smack is the only thing separating you from Charron!”
Recap: Well, what an interesting turn of events that was. After DNA dishes a performance-heavy, set-up (“Y’all remember verse Ill Will when I messed up the slogan, when I switched the liquor?, well I could fuck up the Yak again, then I’m a different nigga!”; “Let’s see if you could manage a punch, where Rome at?!”) savvy, witty, crazy personal, hometown-friendly and punch-slinging 1st round that was so consistently formidable that it leaned on being a classic, “The Champ” just took all the momentum he had here against a 1st-round-solid, but drawn-out JC and tossed it all away. Weird to say the least. Starting with an episode of “What The Fuck Was He Thing?!?”, using the high caliber NOME 8 platform to “experiment” and bring out champagne as well as Tech-9 for a 2nd round “interview” with “The Champ” that was just mostly lame and ultimately a boo-fest. Meanwhile JC, clearly more confident with his bars then the previous round, just turned it up, dropping stifling punchlines and wild personals/schemes that were littered with elite (“When I up the arms, you can’t up your arms to contest the shot!”) gun bars and a boatload of filthy haymakers. Tied going into the 3rd, DNA with nowhere to go but up, delivered what was a solid round with a usual assortment of nice gun bars, amicable schemes that Jay-Z would surely love and a few witty personals. Still, with his opponent handing him an easy opportunity to win the round (and the battle) with a turn that wasn’t too crazy, somehow JC finds a way to almost drop the ball. The Pontiac, Michigan battler starting off extra nice and spicy with continuously fiery (“These fucking bullets will penetrate anything, they got no standards!”) punchlines and extra heated darts, while continuing to mock DNA’s rap style (and missing tooth), but coming close to blowing the battle with 2-plus minutes of mostly filler towards the end of his turn. Indeed, if the raucous Houston crowd hadn”t told JC that he had the battle won already so he could stop rapping, DNA might’ve been warranted in serving them all with champagne too for giving him the vic instead.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “Bitch, the .38 special, like every class you sit in up until graduation!”
Recap: Just not quite enough. From URL, a fiery and confident JC gives opponent Geechi Gotti all he can handle with a barrage of gritty (“I’m changing everything…like the moment you found out wrestling was fake!”) punchlines/gun bars, righteous (“bangers, mind-blowing darts on the afterlife and fiesty lyricism. But while JC was scoring a gang of 9’s with some 9.5’s and 10’s mixed in, a bullish and aggressive Gotti came prepped with 3 near flawless rounds. The Compton spitter giving a gut check to his Michigan adversary with a consistently spicy lot of stifling gun bars, real street talk, piercing personals, low-down, grimy punches/wordplay, rich storytelling and vicious name flips to take both rounds 1 and 3 (call the 2nd round debatable) for an impressive win.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Look, I used to hold the shit sideways, I wasn’t feeling it, now it’s both hands on a handle, I’m double-dribbling!”
Recap: Rarely lacking for confidence and pulling a vet move by mostly staying away from the what would have been easy name flips, JC spits a gang of spitfire braggadocios lines, potent gun bars and righteous punchlines to take rounds 1 plus 3 and beat a very solid KD, a St. Louis battler who used a wide variety of loaded wordplay, nice set-ups and hitting personals/punchlines to stay in the mix, before a spicy storytelling, but hit-n-miss turn and JC’s comeuppance in the deciding final round eventually did him in.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “If your soul gets snatched in a battle with me, only I can give it back, so don’t come here expecting no Black Panther flip from me…nigga, what kind of shit!”
Recap: For a couple of battle rappers noted for having bullish pen’s, when it comes to a ‘War of Words’ matchup, JC and (“They say you may weathered [Mayweather] these punches, yeah, if Ricky hadn’t walked into it!”) Anubis make for a fitting matchup. That said, JC gets the edge here using sanguine (“These shots, drop tops, I call them Kennedy slugs, but everything from this point forward, gonna be in memory of!”) gun bars, a few audacious personals and some spicy set-ups to edge the first couple of rounds and earn the win.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “That’s the problem with living in the moment…nigger’s never even considered dying in it!”
Recap: When the bars match the energy…well, let’s just call it a goodnight. A less ‘over-the-head’, but still potent with the punches and wordplay Nu Jerzey Twork gives the full business to a solid, but slightly hiccup-prone JC in this 3-round battle from Smack Volume 1. After JC edges the first round with a little more consistent and (“Bitch, being in the ‘hood don’t cover them lines, I’m a repeat that: being in the hood don’t cover them lines!”) witty pedigree, Twork steps it up, using steely name flips, gritty punchlines and fierce (“I’ll wet up every dry spot you been controlling with your pace, always chasing Lux, well now you run to something loaded in ya face!”) performance bars to edge both rounds 2 and 3. Altogether, a more polished and thorough palette than his somewhat redundant-with-the-themes opponent that also laid waste to those who might’ve thought Twork had reached already his peak, much less battles too often.
Verdict: Nu Jerzey Twork (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Nu Jerzey Twork – “Fuck a glove, it’s enough rubber on the handle when I’m palming the grip Tommy, the drum’ll peel like j’aime belle ta’, pardon the French!”
Recap: If his classic (not just for the controversial and ill-advised ‘Kenneka Jenkins’ bar), haymaker-drenched 1st round didn’t prove that T Top wasn’t motivated for this battle with JC, then certainly his fiery and elongated 2nd and super-long 3rd (which even featured a cameo from a pop lock dancer, because yunno THIS once happened) did. And maybe with him tossing out everything but the kitchen sink, including wild name flips, potent (“I brought this [turns hand like gun over JC’s head] to press on your mind like postpartum!”) gun bars and some killer punchlines, Top might’ve had a 3-0, if not for JC being JC (minus a few redundant quotables here and there) what with a barrage of exquisite (“I’m no fool, but I’m on the street like Will Ferrell in Old School!”) wordplay, witty personals and hellbent gun bars/punches that were spicy (and condensed) enough to force a debatable 2nd and 3rd. Thus it’s the aforementioned 1st, the only round with a clear victor, that garners Top an appearance in the winner’s circle.
Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1
Favorite line: T Top – “My grandma told me you was coming, yeah that’s what she said, but she ain’t tell me he was 5-2 clapping the lead, a Vice Lord?!?, with a bandana wrapped on his leg, I thought Jesus ran with Disciples, ain’t that we read?!”
Recap: I’m guessing that all those shouting “3-0!!!” in the crowd were either diehard JC stans or on crack or something, because this was nowhere near a shutout. To start, ummm yeah, that was Rum Nitty taking off with a fire first, delivering righteous (“I said you bitch made timid, I’ll walk up to ya whip then raise with it, then put .5 on the glass like an inmate visit!”) gun bars and steadily potent with the metaphorical (“You thought I left the .4 at home, I keep it Loaded in the gray hoodie, I never leave my nose alone!”) wordplay to edge a raucous (“Instead of taking a slit wrist, I took a big risk and made every step count…like a Fitbit!”), personal -savvy and thematic turn by JC that the latter might’ve won if not for taking a little too long to get in his bag. The 2nd round wasn’t quite a fire as the first, but was still a dope round nonetheless. Rum, fresh off a sizzling round 1, came down a bit here, but still remained competitive, dishing steely personals and aggressive (“You Vice Lord right?, well I’ll put you under the .5 and bang it to the left!”) heaters with ready, aim, fire semantics that would’ve beat most opponents. But after an up-n-down first, a confident JC stayed turned up, dispensing steadier heat with a fine mix of able-bodied (“Nigga you be with a different team every visit, so the next time you switch sides, I’m a be waiting for the shot…just cherry-picking!”) personals, witty shiners and jaunty (“The chopper put him in his place like real estate, and that’s not a punch…it’ll flip a house!”) gun lines that got him the round. Tied going into the final round in what altogether was a near classic, Nitty stayed on point, continuing to score with fiery punchlines and more (“Your soul lifting, one in the doem hit him, now Carter can’t feel his face…and got no ceiling!”) lead for that ass that while mostly hitting their mark, could be knocked a little bit if only for its repetition. That said, it’s where a slightly more versatile JC edged it, mocking (“You make those Gunz look worse than Love and Hip-Hop!”) Rum’s rap style, spouting plenty of dope 4-bar set-ups and staying on point with a load of spitfire (“I don’t even do subliminal’s, I let the sub tweet!”) wordplay.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “I’m not here to pass Roc, I’m ball-hogging…I want the last shot!”
Recap: Surprise battle on, of all places, the RBE stage between West-coast vet Illmaculate and JC lives up to the hype with plenty of dope (Illmac: “This is terminal cancer, he knew he was dead when I hit the terminal, panicked and tried to jet soon as he heard that I landed, I let him carry on, that’s personal baggage, then take flight, that’s plane to see…”) schemes, metaphorical wizardry, personals galore, a load of small guy shit-talk, hitting gun bars and a plethora of witty (“Jay [J-eh] ain’t what he sounds like…fuck it am I speaking Spanish?!”) anecdotes. The feeling here is a 1st round draw with both battlers dispensing equal heat along with equal (JC: “This is wht greatness is, you clown’s are just plagiarists, trying to sneak a scheme past Stephen King, oh wow…well I created It!”) haymakers with steady aggression, nice performance bars and staid crowd control. And while Illmac came hard with more fiery wordplay in a (“They got me preying on Baby Jesus…Talladega Nights!”) personals-driven 2nd round, the vet rapper hurt himself a bit with dated themes and an elongated, 7-minute 2nd round that allowed for equally adept (“We need you upright, because this one night, it ain’t about increasing the peace, shit, you’ll get beat with the piece like you Pun wife!”) JC to edge the round with less dry spots amongst more of those ill (“You about as notable as a wave….in Kevin Durant hair!”; “Shit, I’ll take any shot…I’m ambitious!”) punchlines/personals the Michigan rapper is noted for. But displaying veteran resiliency, Illmac bounced back in the 3rd, what with a more versatile and well-crafted round featuring a load of lofty (“Right hook, jaw gets damaged, mouth sticking out the side like when you talking with a Boston accent!”) punches and a handful of haymakers that beat back a solid, but not spectacular turn from JC. All in all, a terrific battle that deserves to be debated.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: JC – “If you looking for a nigga to embarrass you, you couldn’t have picked a better dude, colossal impact, even at eye-level, I leveled you!”
Recap: Confidently smashing his way to a total dismantling, for 3 rounds JC flexes on a seriously flow-challenged, but otherwise solid Chess with a righteous palette of stifling (“Jump stupid [raises arm like a shotgun], get violent, the pump gonna sit him down in the air like you zip-lining!”) gun bars, fierce braggadocio (“Shit, these ain’t words, I know nigga’s that can make it happen now, have you act it out, [but] he survived, but now he got real struggle shit to rap about!”) lines, searing wordplay and wicked personals. For the battle-tested JC, it’s a rich combo that may finally warrant that long wanton match against Loaded Lux. For Chess, embarrassingly choking away his 3rd round after a slip-up prone 2nd, even with a highly (“To beat Chess, you gonna have to take me out of the game, Glock .40, if I take it out he gonna get flamed, I’ll have a ratchet beating on him like ‘Baby, I can explain!'”) competitive 1st, overall it’s such a bad look that it could be time to consider removing him from the starting lineup.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “I got the shovel at the plot for you and I’m digging up dirt like I’m prosecuting, get them all in tact, ain’t no calling back, the only thing you will ever get from my history are body’s…and those are the facts [artifacts]!”
