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Street Hymns

Bonnie Godiva defeats Street Hymns

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Recap: ‘Boulevard’ was dropping some gems and may need to make a few more appearances. But other than Street Hymns getting his Steve Urkel/Steffon imitation on in round 2 of this 3-rounder from RBE, the 4 Horseman’s struggles with delivery, reaches, topsy-turvy punches and more condensed schemes coupled with a Bonnie Godiva raining down haymakers from a variety of angles that included a boatload of mocking/spicy (‘Christian Ghetto-Gaggers’…LOL!!!) personals, spicy name flips and some flexing wordplay/punches,, gives the Yonkers, NY, rhymestress a handy 3-0.

Verdict: Bonnie Godiva (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Bonnie Godiva – “I bet ya momma just wish she could start again, but real bitches don’t speak on mistakes, we swallow them!”

Bad Newz defeats Street Hymns

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Recap: Not sure why Street Hymns would dish so many long-winded schemes in a tournament battle. That said, in addition to a topsy-turvy punch game that featured a handful of reaches and a Bad Newz that was just consistently gritty/hard-hitting with the pen (when he wasn’t scoring with fierce name flips and some stellar personals), this one-sided Season 1 tourney battle was pretty much decided after round 1.

Verdict: Bad Newz (W) 3-0 

Favorite line: Bad Newz – “Shot 5 times, you think being a virgin is tough? that’s a whole ‘nother hard!”

Street Hymns defeats Automatic Ray

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Recap: In this 1-rounder from GOTG, Street Hymns lets us in what’s in the backpack and besides some nifty, but hard-hitting personals, piercing Scripture-laced punches and rigid wordplay, it’s the shoes that catapults him to a win versus a solid at times, but mostly mediocre Automatic Ray.

Verdict: Street Hymns (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Street Hymns – “Y’all notice whenever we pay for big names we always gotta put em on the levels, but Ray’s fire, left hand of God, I put that on the devil!”

Murda Mook defeats Street Hymns

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Recap: RBE Social Distancing 1-round battle with a different twist as judging from their rhymes Murda Mook and Street Hymns clearly had no idea they were battling each other. A good battle nonetheless with Street getting 3-dimensional with the visuals, while kicking some introspective bars that were backed pretty well when it comes to adept wordplay. But a never-lacking-for-confidence Mook, battling in a project playground which metaphorically speaking perfectly suited his brazen bars on the state of battle rap, his stamp in the game and other what-have-you’s on competition and critics, gets the edge in this one.

Verdict: Murda Mook (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Murda Mook – “Let’s take it back to when it was no rules, ain’t no you who’s, nobody had moves to mark y’all calender’s, my whip’n old school, I’m from where you couldn’t afford to dodge no challengers, now let’s see y’all caliber’s!”

Charron and Street Hymns [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: A credit to Street Hymns’ creativity and dual pen game here as the ‘fake’ Charron he’d incorporate into his raps had me fooled at first when he first showed up at the door. Then too, Street’s Bible-laced wordplay and nifty/mocking personals were also on point. And while Charron’s just-waking-up, from-the-basement-peeking visuals doesn’t come close to competing with his opponent’s more neighborhood-friendly optics, bar-wise ‘Billy Pistols’ was all-in, using some ridiculous name flips and an ever-strong (“After this quarantine you know that I’ll rap harder, ‘cuz the game needs me more than I need a black barber!”) punch game to earn a draw in what turned to be a pretty dope 1-rounder from RBE.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Street Hymns – “Man I got Quads, Quintuples, Sextuples, I done built a 4th wall more than Ted Pool!”

Kid Chaos defeats Street Hymns

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Recap: Flexing throughout the battle with a gang of mocking personals, piercing punchlines, screeds on Christian hypocrisy, on-point breakdowns of his opponent’s style and some stifling name flips, a consistently nice Kid Chaos easily scores a 30 here in this Proving Grounds battle versus a punch-heavy (esp. in round 3) at times, but also oft-indirect and oft-bloviating Street Hymns.

Verdict: Kid Chaos (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Kid Chaos – “Bro, you rap like a bitch and think that mean you got a broad mentality!”

Lu Castro defeats Street Hymns

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Recap: Even with a fire 3rd round himself, Lu Castro might’ve been a little lucky that Street Hymns couldn’t put it all together, that is as far as intricate haymers, till the end. That prognosis speaks to Hymns’ dubious struggles in the earlier rounds of this overall solid PG, whether it was low potency with the more abstract screeds, a little too much attention towards Nu Jerzey Twork, not enough faith-based lines or scoring a trifecta when it came to slip-ups in a haphazard 2nd round. Not to take too much away from Castro tho, whose consistent aggression was more often than not matched by gritty schemes, seismic gun play.bully bars and steely wordplay/punchlines that worked to carrol him the first two rounds and the win.

Verdict: Lu Castro (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Lu Castro – “I need that bread tho, I’m out here robbing God’s people in the name of the dollar…Creflo!”

Lotta Zay defeats Street Hymns

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Recap: Nice, flexing and punchline-spazzing 2nd round by Street Hymns makes for a debatable. But other than that one too many supbar name flips as well as a couple of inconsistent turns by Hymns in both the 1st and 3rd rounds in lieu of an opponent in Lotta Zay who came well-prepared with a boatload of steady heat, prideful boasts and wide-angled punches, gives the Team Homie member the win.

Verdict: Lotta Zay (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Lotta Zay – “You think you the only one good with God?, fam I swear, it’s like Martin and Bruh Man, it’s like our relationship funny at times, but I’m cool with the man upstairs!”

Brixx defeats Street Hymns

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Recap: When it comes to wordplay, Street Hymns can often overplay his hand and that leads to a lot of reaches, especially in this Bullpen Battle League matchup versus Brixx Belvy. Of course, that’s not a knock to the 4 Horseman’s overall ability seeing as he can rap and despite some reaches here and there, he did score with enough prolific darts to take round 2 here. But frankly speaking, if not for Belvy’s own lack of consistency (esp. after a spitfire, punch-heavy round 1) with the amount of reaching Street was doing throughout this battle, a vet like Belvy barely edging the 3rd for the win is pretty self-evident.

Verdict: Brixx (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Brixx Belvy – “Scripture for scripture, hey that ain’t what you wanna do, as a virgin you couldn’t understan what this was coming [cumming] too!”

Danja Zone defeats Street Hymns

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Recap: After a subpar 1st round that gave way to some stifling bars from opponent Street Hymns, Danja Zone turns it up and puts it on vet mode, dishing potent punchlines, Poindexter-dripped personals a couple of fire, mid-round rebuttals in the 2nd and 3rd rounds to easily beat back Street’s more substandard bars and earn the win.

Verdict: Danja Zone (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Danja Zone – “I had a Revelation after Genesis, I’m gonna show him where’s the exit’s [Exodus] at!”

Riggz defeats Street Hymns

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Recap: Two things can be true at once. So no, most of Street Hymns’ rhymes were not too advanced or ‘going over your head’, for the most part here in this Bullpen Battle League bout against Riggz, Street;s punches were subpar, his delivery was poor and a failure to adequately embrace so-called ‘nerd bars’ or being a Christian battle rapper showed time and time again as he was too focused on wordplay instead themes and schemes (ex. the excellent Genesismore in line with his in-ring persona. Then too, while hitting at times, yes Riggz was taking in a lot of gas from the crowd throughout this match, especially during the opening rounds, which coincidentally weren’t even his best (that’d be his 3rd). Still, a mostly one-sided battle regardless as while Riggz may need to take some time out to look up what ‘Repentance’ really means, his gritty gun bars, spicy Christianity retorts and flexing punches/personals scored him a 30.

Verdict: Riggz (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Riggz – “Let’s get back to business Streets, your bitch ain’t cha bitch, when you not around she be acting type iffy Streets, I would put you on but where I’m from we consider that snitching Streets, just know she don’t believe in ya God, that bitch be on my sack religiously [sacreligiously]!”