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Recap: In this URL app exclusive 3-rounder, Ave unleashes a roundhouse of hard-hitting personals searing boasts, sporty wordplay and well-themed chain punches to handily beat back an earnest, but elongated and mostly subpar Quest Mcody.
Verdict: Ave (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Ave – “Trust me, your brody know, your whole career been Dusty son, you’ll lose your drive for success taking Cody roads [Rhodes]!”
Recap: A workmanlike performance here from Shotgun Suge who gets straight to it with a steady stream of braggadocious darts, mean set-up/punchlines, graphic violence and gritty storytelling to beat back a hitting at times, but too often pedestrian Quest Mcody in this 1-round BANNED battle from URL.
Verdict: Shotgun Suge (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Shotgun Suge – “I’m pissed off, I’ll let a clip off, my plug put it on a plane the whip soft, I out more powder in the air than Lebron before a tip off!”
Recap: While a spitfire 2nd round from both battlers highlights this URL barfest between Nunn Nunn and Quest Mcody, the more versatile (tho he was a little elongated with his rounds) Nunn’s ability to score with the boasts, wit, fiery personals, wordplay, set-ups and punchlines at a steadier level and even go off-the-dome when need be, allows him to take both the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win.
Verdict: Nunn Nunn (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Nunn Nunn – “I wanted Marvwon [one] and they gave me Marv 2!”
Recap: In this Born Legacy 12 match that featured the 1st solo appearance of longtime vet Quest McCody on URL, Cortez utilizes with a quartet of verbal apparatus’: fierce name flips, boastful lyricism, ringing mayhem and rigid personals on his opponent’s status in battle rap to take the first couple of rounds for the win before Quest used some pent-up aggression and blistering personals to angle his way to a 3rd round debatable.
Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Cortez – “My last battle?, that shit wasn’t trash, that shit was less than that, but Harry’s back ‘cuz once again I’m re-investing Smack!”
Recap: In this competitive battle from KOTD, a rarely-seen-solo Quest Mcody puts forth a solid effort with a wide load of brazen punches, witty barbs and even some off-the-dome freestyles. But over the course of 3 rounds, a more condensed Xcel proves to be too much for his opponent, using a wide array of righteous punchlines, potent wordplay and fierce name flips to score a debatable 2nd round when he wasn’t edging both the 1st and 3rd.
Verdict: Xcel (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Xcel – “A death match how?, this ain’t even a setback now, when X marks the spot, yo I got Quest mapped out!”
Recap: Danja Zone (“Your pencil is pitiful, shit my pen do is pivotal, appearance wise, fear for lives, see how I move without traveling…Jamiroquai!”) out-bars Quest Mcody in a close round 1. But Quest comes right back displaying more versatility with righteous (“Danja, swear to God you don’t live with your daddy….that’s ‘cuz I put you out bitch!”) jokes and (“You winning? nigga not today, he swing, he’ll get a knot today, pop and spray, he the future? cool, that’s not today!”) punches to even things up in round 2. Split going into the 3rd round, it’s all Danja, with personals that landed hard along with some nice (“Bitch, I’m fitting to smack you, they like ‘It’s just a battle!‘, [places arm under chin & waves] till I wave goodbye with the 5th to his chin like I’m a Little Rascal!”) performance bars and sizzling wordplay to earn the win.
Verdict: Danja Zone (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danja Zone – “It’s no pick-n-roll, give-n-go, but you’ll still get shot off-screen like I’m reloading an arcade gun!”
Recap: From Detroit’s Barbarian Battle Grounds, after getting outscored by a punch-heavy and versatile Math Hoffa in round 1, a cadence-lit Quest Mcody gets busy and more substantive with the bars via stinging bouts of spicy lyrical warfare that with a few rigid personals and some flexing wordplay mixed in, allowed the Motor City vet to take rounds 2 and 3 for the win over an earnest, but much less hitting Hoffa.
Verdict: Quest Mcody (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Quest Mcody – “You see these Tek’s [texts] book, this ain’t Borders bitch!”
Recap: Whether he’s spitting bars or dishing antics Daylyt’s always gonna go for broke. Still, his litany of jaunty bars and haywire (“I had a gun so BIG, it got married to Faith Evans!”) jokes here aren’t (btw, “Whoomp There It Is” was by Tag Team, not The 69 Boyz) consistent enough to overcome an inspired Quest Mcody, whose more witty (“That .38 take JJ fish with it, a special ed”) punchlines and variety of aggressive bars as well as well-hitting (“You probably saw the title of this venue and thought you could let a nigga ride your magic stick”) personals resonate enough to get him a close, but well-earned win.
Verdict: Quest MCody (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Daylyt – “I lift an arm for Quest chin [Question], like I got the answer”
Recap: Dope 3rd round by Quest MCODY doesn’t make up for too many lame (“If you were a puck, a hockey player wouldn’t put you on ice”) name flips during the first couple of rounds against Head Ice who faltered a little bit towards the end, but still had enough (“Try to see me the water’s deeper, you could die in the floor, ask those who really saw Katrina”) left in his tank to pull out the win.
Verdict: Head Ice (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Head Ice – “I know the real McGruff so if I start to fire I’m good”
