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Recap: From KOTD’s Season 1 tournament, against the intricate punches of Madflex, after a doppelganger-ish turn that saw him lose the opening round to his more consistently hitting opponent, Bill Collector gets back in his bag of witty barbs, spicy contorted punchlines and stinging performance bars and returns the favor to take each of the latter rounds for the win.
Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Bill Collector – “Transphobic boss…I’ll fire IT!”
Recap: Even with a witty, blistering and personal-heavy 3rd round, Madflex doesn’t have enough in his tank to survive a shortened and pedestrian 1st or being edged in the 2nd round punch-wise by a Danny Myers who came flexing with aggressive heaters, spirited schemes and some dope punchlines.name flips to take the opening rounds and gain the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Bitch, you called for this, some nigger’s be rushing to die [holds up arms like a gun] I sniped nigger’s while I was drunk, I trusted my eye, even when I’m buzzing I can adjust on the fly!”
Recap: Madflex’s unorthodox stylings, pointed personals, witty (“Fat Thor!”) anecdotes and often clever wordplay make for a debatable 1st round and a close 2nd and 3rd. But in this aggressive, competitive and fiery bout from KOTD, Bigg K’s gritty name flips, flexing punchlines. fierce braggadocios darts and stinging metaphors/personals combine with more consistency/potency to edge the latter rounds and earn the win.
Verdict: Bigg K (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Bigg K – “I ain’t no fucking battle rapper, where you know me from, your O.G. my little homie and he owe me one!”
Recap: Sporting a plethora of showmanship, wit and rapid lyrical aptness, Madflex matches bars with the always flexing wordplay and fiending punches of Xcel for 3 rounds on the KOTD stage. A solid and spirited battle throughout, a fire middle-of-the-round (“…when his LIFE come out his chest like the shirt on his skin!”) freestyle by Madflex allows him just enough room to match a versatile and fire (“You not the truth, I will rock your roof like stalactites!”) turn by Xcel. The 2nd and 3rd rounds however, sees each battler out-maneuver the other what with Madflex’s more consistent darts and finite (“If I offered you a featherweight fight, you look light, you’d bring a pillow!”) penmanship beating back a less potent turn by Xcel in the middle round, before the Team Homi vet comes back with a more punch-heavy and surmisable in the 3rd for the draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Xcel – “You wanna try angles, but got the wrong hypotenuse!”
Recap: Despite a mostly solid (“I’ll take ya Playstation, put you on punishment, I’m your stepdad!”) performance from the steadily aggressive Rosenberg Raw, the oft-witty, heated, (“No women giving him the Netflix and Chill option, me?, I’m Netflix’s real option, that means you haven’t done shit, so I question you, are you still watching?”) scheme-dazzling and wordplay-heavy bars of Madflex combine to edge each round.
Verdict: Madflex (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Madflex – “I’m sorry Tiger, you could mark me out?, man I’m sorry how? Your body-type is ‘I don’t play sports and I’m not starting now’!”
Recap: In what was a straight-up punch-fest throughout, after a debatable 1st round with Madflex, Chilla Jones spices up his punches with some fiery wordplay and killer personals/name flips in the latter rounds all the while taking advantage of a shortened 2nd round as well as a flow-challenged 3rd from his opponent to take this 3-rounder from BOTZ Battles.
Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “You wanna know why they show me love in this town brother?, ‘cuz I been fucking with the West on the low long as LeBron mother!”
Recap: After getting overwhelmed in the 1st round by Geechi Gotti’s more slick set-ups and real-talk bars, a smooth, speed-rapping Madflex manages to edge the middle round with more consistently nice punches that combined well with a spitfire flow. But just in case anyone needs a reminder of the difference in talent here, a confident Geechi comes back with versatile mix of fiery name flips, flexing street barbs and consequential gully rap that along with an error-prone turn from his opponent, gave him what was ultimately an easy vic.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Geechu Gotti – “There’s a lot of pain when I rap, we call that passion bro, ‘cuz I come from a place where death so common that funerals became a fashion show!”
Recap: If Emerson Kennedy has a flaw, it might be stamina, as his habit for shortened 3rd rounds grow to be stigma. Here however, against a Madflex who didn’t get in his bag of fiery wit and performance-heavy punches until the 2nd round, EK, after easily taking the 1st with a punch-heavier turn, doesn’t hold up with enough consistent weight to keep his lead. 3rd and deciding round goes to Madflex, who with a gang of amusing personals and visceral wordplay is able to best what was a hard-hitting and profound, but awkward-timed turn by the normally apolitical (in the ring) EK.
Verdict: Madflex (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Madflex – “He walks up to women in the club like [extends hand out] ‘I’m Obama’s brother’!”
