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Recap: The Gun Show makes a visit to The Colosseum Battle League for a 1-rounder against Swagtanna and despite a dope, name-flip-lit and gritty performance from his opponent, pulls out a close win with a spirited, witty at times, punch-heavy, personal-friendly and gun bar-smoking turn that capped a battle that was fire as fuck.
Verdict: Drugz (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Drugz – “Bitch, I’m walking with an extra arm like a birth defect!”
Recap: Dope 1-rounder from the Colisseum Battle League between Swagtanna and Teewhy offers up a competitive display of spicy set-ups/name flips and smooth darts from Swag, while Teewhy brought the heat with his own dose of blistering gun bars, a boatload of hitting name flips and fiery punchlines/personals. And while both battlers kept it on-point with a barrage of hitting lines, it’s Teewhy’s ability to outscore his opponent on the haymakers that made the difference here.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Teewhy – “Head shot on his sewing machine…mean, he was literally minding his business!”
Recap: Not just relying on that real life street shit he’s known for, but also coming correct here with a boatload of mocking name flips, righteous trap talk and a gang of stinging punchlines, Eazy the Block Captain not only flexes his versatility in this 3-round, URL battle against a pretty solid and gritty Swaggtanna, but manages to dish more than enough heat (esp. during a classic 1st) to score a 30 too.
Verdict: Eazy the Block Captain (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Eazy the Block Captain – “I’ll do anything to protect my Monopoly so don’t Chance it…’cuz I’ll do another bid, the only part that I hate is intake…with the cold sandwich!”
Recap: A gang of gritty punchlines, festering personals, rich set-ups, righteous (Swaggtanna: “And I shoulda charged y’all a check, you see I adverstise spraying the nose, I even showed y’all what to do when they say ‘NXT’!”) mayhem and Colosseum Battle League cred are the main themes of this fiery and competitive battle between West-coast battler NXT and Brooklyn emcee Swagtanna. Close throughout with plenty of salutes from the crowd when they heard a hot bar, a slightly more haymaker-lit Swagtanna takes the 1st round before the more consistently spicy NXT edges the 2nd. Round 3 was another stickler, yet for all of NXT’s loud and piercing punches, the more low-key and storytelling, but still potent Swagtanna was able to meet his opponent’s quotient for dope, quality punches to make this one debatable.
Verdict: Debatable
Favorite line: NXT – “C&C all bloody, I’m Airbnb, you know where I stay!”
Recap: Scoring at will with more loaded (“Then I dump the body over the river, he was trying to figure out if water was wet!”) heaters and fiery name flips, Fettuccine20 looks to be on his way to hard-earned win in this one-rounder versus (“The head was amazing, but she couldn’t handle the nut, bitch just said ‘c’mon, whatever it’s Fetti’s’ and I’m like damn how she cleaning this up?….but you know how that ended, why would you think she bleached all your stuff?”) Swaggtanna. But then the inexplicable happens…Fetti can’t recall his bars and if not for a save from Shooney da Rapper, would’ve lost the battle to a pretty nice throughout opponent. And despite getting his moxie back, another near choke by Fetti, before Shooney steps in (again) with some able assistance from Fetti’s Golden Squad crew, ends up earning a more consistent with his flow Swaggtanna, a debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Fettuccine 20 – “He always acting like he tough, nigga move something, the tool dumping, each one come with a pair, I put a metal on tray liek school lunches!”
