No Bias. No Narratives.
Recap: In this 1-rounder from Next Level Battle League, a steadier handling Swamp uses a gang of mean name flips, sturdy gun bars, wily personals and hard-hitting punchlines to beat back a gritty, but not as prolific stunting effort from Big Hunnit.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “It’s something about the Francis Scott Key situation that helped me really learn some shit, you can do whatever the fuck floats your boat just don’t burn a bridge!”
Recap: In this gritty 1-rounder from Capitol Battle Grounds, despite a couple of minor stumbles with his flow, a punch-heavier, name flip-lit, personal-hitting and braggadocios Swamp manages to score more than enough haymakers for the win over a street-themed and solid overall, but less consistent Reed Dollaz.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “This battle rap shit is a outlet, no fun, I was always taught stay ten toes down and don’t run, if it’s 4th down? you don’t punt, home runs, don’t bunt, this morning my bitch sent me 5 attachments…to 4 guns!”
Recap: From URL’s ‘Homecoming 2’ card, scoring more points with a better overall punch game while also supplying better efficiency lyrically (thanks in part to opponent Lu Castro’s elongated 1st and 2nd rounds that were capped by way too many mundane bars), a consistently gritty, aggressive, performance-spazzing, punch-crazy at times and personal-lit Swamp handily takes rounds 1 and 3 (call the 2nd round debatable due to Swamp’s struggles with his flow) for an earnest win over an opponent who while bringing the goods when it came to performance and wit, just couldn’t compete when it came to punchlines.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “I was riding around New York with my shit on my lap, first I was home alone, had to turn my crib into a trap!”
Recap: From Bulldog Battle League, during this fiery 1-rounder Real Name Brandon souldalike Blakk Rollakk scores with his wit more than his gritty street verses, leaving a more condensed and efficient when came to heated punchlines, frequent boasts and piercing personals Swamp to get the win after a bit of a sluggish start.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “This ain’t nuthin’ but another nigger from up North rapping with a chipped tooth, now ain’t that Fabulous [Fabolous]!”
Recap: As much positive work that these two have put in over the years, Swamp versus Chef Trez definiteluy deserved to be on the big stage at Summer Madness 13. But instead this much-anticipated matchup appears on Banned and guess what? Not only is it still a doozy, but the darkened, cozy setting here actually enhances both the battle and the bars. Indeed, Trez with his boatload of fierce gun bars, serene rebuttals and fiery punchlines/name flips as he always does, came to compete. While Swamp on his A-game with zero unforced errors throughout, brought it back to his classic Your Honor battle, what with the lofty levels of trap talk, stirring/action-packed gun lines, witty ersonals and fire similes/punches that he unleashed here. And that ended up being the difference, with the slightly more steady and haymaker-lit Swamptown capo edging rounds 1 and 2 for the win, before a just as combative Trez and his trio of thangs edged the 3rd.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “I tried to rob a nigga with an empty shotgun, I was pump-faking!”
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “Catch you slipping in the mall or something and let you buy my lady J’s with your military discount!”
Recap: From URL’s ‘Outside 2’ card, a pretty good (and witty at times) 3-rounder between Stumbles and Swamp ends up with the latter taking it. As outside of a couple of hiccups here and there in round 2 (which helped a cleaner, crispy street talking and punch-lit Stumbles to score a debatable) it’s the more versatile, personal-lit, name flip spicy, rebuttling, boastful, gun bar-slinging and altogether more consistently crazy with the punchlines Swamp who would take the 1st round and handily take the 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “Yoou standing in front of a real stepper…boy I can put creases in a pair of foamposites!”
Recap: Damn, there used to be a time when your biggest worry with Qleen Paper was whether or not he was gonna show up to the battle. But choking? All 3 rounds?!? SMH. Needless to say after seeing his opponent fail to complete all of his rounds, it’ll never be any easier for Swamp. The South Carolina battler getting the 30 and a rare bodybag on top while doing his part via a trio of rounds filled with a bunch of sturdy punches, boastful/fiery barbs and his usual plate of Southern-style cooking served with piercing name flips, aggressive name-calling and prolific gun bars that made this URL ‘Redemption 2’ bout a mixed blessing anyway.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “The bull dog is for close range, but the scope on a rifle, for the deep threat, the swamp, you jump off in that water, you gonna more than ya feet wet!”
Recap: Th3 Saga’s return to the URL continues to be a worthy one as the Christian barrle rapper uses a steady diet of fiery schemes, sneaky but nasty wordplay, a bunch of killer set-up/punchlines and rigorous name flips to beat back a gritty, but not nearly as consistent, a bit predictable at times and flow-challenged effort from Swamp in this 1-rounder from URL’s ‘Outside’ card.
Verdict: Th3 Saga (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Th3 Saga – “Blam the Wesson, this gonna go from Page to real life…I’m manifested!”
Recap: Despite often time struggles with his flow and/or one too many slip-ups, with just enough haymakers we’ve seen Swamp survive some of these 1-rounders on smaller leagues with either close win’s or debatables time and time again. But not this time. As while the Swamptown capo delivered a round loaded with a bunch of hardbody punches and raucous darts that often scored, a minute long mid-round collapse that saw an almost handful amount of unforced errors before he got it back together allows an elongated, but forever gritty, witty when necessary, steady with the flow and gun bar savvy Young X to squeeze out this Winter Soldier Event battle from Da Rabbithole Podcast.
Verdict: Young X (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Young X – “The Glock will spark and I keep shooting till the metal lock up like I p ushed the grocery cart!”
Recap: Gotta admit, really expected Arsonal to be more disrespectful during this URL Homecoming battle, especially with so much to work with considering all the South Carolina ‘raccoon’ shit that’s been in the air of late after Swamp battled Tay Roc just a couple of months back. But perhaps da Rebel saw that battle and decided not to rehash things as instead he seemed more content with flipping it on vet mode and delivering a talking too to Swamp, while also sporting a bunch of witty lines, boastful barbs (the shot at Murda Mook in round 3 was pretty epic, but also fluky when you consier that his opponent dissed him earlier for still not getting a battle Ars has long clamored for) and hard aggressive raps that were mostly hit-n-miss. And for a Swamp who was pretty solid throughout, but not quite on his A-game, Arsonal’s chosen game plan would ironically work to his opp’s advantage. The newly self-proclaimed ‘King of the South’ mixing it up with a bag of highly disrespectful personals of his own, while adding a gang of gritty punches, mocking personals, steely pontifications and brash haymakers sauteed with a slice of Southern pride that got him rounds 1 and 3 (call the 2nd round a debatable) for the win.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “I got nigga’s in red, white and blue like a Patriot, if I pull up it’s with a ratchet, baretta blazing shit, he gonna see the light then fade to black like an atheist!”
Recap: Even with the win, not sure what was going on with Tay Roc in during much-hyped Summer Madness 12 battle versus Swamp. And no, we’re not talking about all the ‘raccoon’ mention’s. First (and a bit surprisingly) there was a highly personal and stellar round 1 from Roc, who while always on point regardless of who the opponent is, usually saves his best rounds for the latter (more on that later) rounds. Then there’s the sheer bewilderment of seeing Roc continuously get into it over all the raccoon talk with a Charlotte, North Carolina crowd that was clearly prideful of their Southern culture. A move we’ve witnessed from Roc before (like against Geechi Gotti in Philly after he took a shot at Cassidy), but one that made zero sense back then and made zero sense here, especially when you consider the fact that the raucous crowd cheered for many of Roc’s bars and wasn’t showing Swamp (who’s from nearby South Carolina) any bias seeing as he got booed too. Lastly, even with just enough haymakers to edge the deciding 3rd and gain the vic (call it a moral victory for Swamp, especially after he came back to take round 2 after getting overmatched by Roc in the opener) in an aggressive battle knee deep in fiery gun bars, highly-spirited personals, solid name flips and gritty punchlines from both sides, the idea that Roc seemingly took Swamp for granted going into this matchup and thought his 1st and 2nd rounds would be enough for a clear win is a move any vet should be wary of making.
Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tay Roc – “Talk to me nice or your jaw I’ma break, nothing’s impossible, God isn’t fake, I can’t take a lake in a swamp, boy but I can toss a Swamp in a lake!”
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: From URL’s Civil War 2 card, against a D.O.T. who’s definitely prioritizing lyricism and aggressive punches (to a topsy-turvy effect as seen again here) these days over the exuberant, performance-rich hijinks of his more noted classics from the past, a consistently lit Swamp dishes a boatload of gritty name flips, killer set-ups/punchlines, bruising gun lines and stinging personals to handily score an impressive 30 in front of a hyped North Carolina crowd.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “It really don’t matter where I choose to hit D.O.T. cuz’ wherever I choose to be it’s gonna be spot on!”
Recap: Still teetering on the edge of losing some of these smaller league battles with his near slip-ups and lack of preparation, in this 1-rounder from Bars Over Bricks Battle League, Swamp survives yet another near choke and with just enough juicy personals, head-ringing gun bars and gritty punchlines gets past the rambunctious and wordplay-lit, but slightly less versatile and less consistent stylings of Murda.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “Newsflash, do you really want to know why we compare you to Twork?, butch cuz’ you ass!”
Recap: From URL’s Summer Madness 5 tournament, taking advantage of a Fonz mired in inconsistent punches, a lack of wit and a surprising 2nd round slip-up, a more consistently hitting, gritty, personal-lit and trap talk spicy Swamp takes both of the opening rounds for the win before a debatable 3rd round that while giving witness to Fonz finally putting it all together like the Landlord we’re used to seeing, still was only good enough to match the brazen polemics from South Carolina’s finest.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “The last battle, it was ‘Paige’ [page] this, ‘Paige’ [page] that,
nigga flipped Paige [page] too fast and read me wrong!”
Recap: In what was arguably his best overall performance since his Your Honor battle (tho his matchups against NJT and Ace Amin are also standouts), a more versatile, angle-lit, gritty, witty at times and personal/punchline spazzing Swamp flexes with 3 straight rounds of mostly (a couple of slip-ups in rounds 2 would help him get edged there) consistent heat to take rounds 1 and 3 and beat back a pretty solid, simile-spicy, gun bar/name flip fiery, but not as steadily hitting with the punches Rum Nitty in what was a dope battle from URL’s Summer Madness 5 tournament.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “EFB full of manure, we liked y’all better when it was kahlua, when Geechi and Rum came with Coffee in it!”
Recap: From URL’s Ultimate Madness 5 tournament, despite Swamp’s slower Southern drawl serving as a bit of a hindrance in a battle with time limits, in a fiery, close and competitive bout against a pretty solid, bullish and name flip-lit Shotgun Suge, after getting edged in round 1, the South Carolina battler’s raucous punches, boastful barbs and hitting street lingistics are enough to take rounds 2 and 3 from a slightly less potent Suge and earn the win.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “It’s a difference when you look in the mirror and know you the GOAT, the stick got a switch and a button on the side like a Roku remote!”
Recap: From HOC Rap Battle League, with both Man Murray and Swamp (“You try me and I’m going over the edge like toes and small sandals!”) equally cooking and dishing a gang of gritty punches/personals during this 1-rounder, a competitive bout is spoiled by each battler struggling with their flow to the tune of a trio of slip-ups from both sides that ended up making this one a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Man Murray – “After this they gonan say Swamp got fucked up like a natural disaster, so why the fuck are you worried about Midnight Madness when you not gonna make it to the morning after?!”
Recap: Loud and aggressive throughout, but not really scoring much due to a boatlaod of subpar punches and way too many weird Tay Roc mentions. In this 1-rounder from iGrind Battle League, JUSDJ did manage to dish some more substantive raps midway through his round to make things a bit competitive. However, displaying an ability to grind out a win even with minimal preparation, a Swamp who wasn’t on his A-game when it came to delivering consistent heat, still proceeds to line up enough gritty haymakers to get his arm raised at the end.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “9 times outta 10 if you see me I got a gun boy, I’ll paint half his face like Reepah Rell than spin the block and paint the other half like NBA Youngboy!”
Recap: Kind of weird watching a battle where like half the audience could care less about the battle (much less making noise while the battle proceeds) going on right in front of them. Nonetheless, in what was pretty much a boastful, street bars/gritty punchfest, the more consistently harder-hitting and less pedestrian-bar prone Swamp gets the win over Black Aladdin in this 1-rounder from Black Elite Battle League.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “I’m the type of nigga, if you play stupid, they only gonna talk about how I shot him, Rest in Peace to Kendrick Johnson, it should’ve been this nigga they found rolled up in a carpet…not him!”
Recap: In this dope 1-rounder from Bars Over Bricks, a strong, punch-heavy and gritty showing from Murdock gets edged by a more condensed, storytelling-rich, witty, name flip-lit and punch/personal-heavy Swamp.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “You play stupid and you’ll get can fried, then ya man dying, or you might wake up to a band on ya head…nigga, that’s a grand rising!”
Recap: While Swamp’s slip-ups are becoming a little too habitual, the South Carolina battler’s ability to dial up a variety of gritty/descriptive punchlines, raunchy/flexing personals and stinging gun bars/street darts are enough to beat back a pretty solid and witty at times Scotty in this close 1-rounder from Houston Bar Code.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “The clip in this bitch [holds out arm like gun] longer than a bus ride from school and you know you got a fucked up report card!”
Recap: Continuing to put on for the small, local leagues around town, here against a gritty Carolina Phat, Swamp struggles a bit with his flow, but still delivers enough fiery punches, cool name flips and witty barbs to beat his more elongated and topsy-turvy opponent in this 1-rounder on The 1 Battle League.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “This the type of nigga that’ll tell ya his teacher said he ain’t gonna amount to shit knowing damn well she ain’t say that shit!”
Recap: In this URL/Super Fight 5 matchup, a couple of slip-ups by Swamp in the final round vs. an elongated, but cleaner turn by Serius Jones cost the South Carolina battler the 30. But by then this one was all Swamp as the down South spitter used a versatile, personal-lit, witty and punch-heavy opening round to take the 1st (which also featured a super awkward moment when Jones pulled out a diamond tester as a gimmick early in his round, only to have it malfunction on him which in turn led to Serius slipping up a few times when attempting to get back to his bars) before using a set-up rich, righteous at times and wordplay/name flip/personal-crazy 2nd to gain the win over an opponent who while making a game comeback in the 1st, followed that up with a mostly pedestrian middle round that took away any chance he had at winning.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “Hey URL, y’all really gotta stop trying me homie, I said nothing about Serius Jones, I think I said serious inquiries only!”
Recap: Couldn’t keep up with how many times Mannor Boy mentioned that he was in college. But damn you if you don’t believe him. And in this 1-rounder from SEBL, the South Carolina battler put on a pretty solid show with a gang of righteous at times, witty and personal-lit bangers that kept him competitive. However, his opponent Swamp would prove to be too much here. S.C.’s finest using a plethora of bruising bully bars, mocking personals, stinging punchlines and aggressive heaters in a more condensed turn that ended up outpacing his adversary for the win.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “I know you might be a male stripper but I fucked your bitch and she told me I’m the one who know how to work the pole better!”
Recap: A battle between a couple of Carolina heads long in the making, helped by Swamp (who otherwise came through with 3 punch/personal-heavy rounds and even a couple of nice rebuttals) slip-ups in each of the opening rounds, an angle-deft (tho a little elongated throughout the bout) T-Top also uses a bunch of righteous storytelling/schemes, wily personals, rigid set-ups, witty barbs and piercing name flips/punchlines to take each of the opening rounds of this URL Super Fight IV matchup for the win before his more condensed opponent edged a close 3rd.
Verdict: T-Top (W) 2-1
Favorite line: T-Top – “Tell him we could go shoot the fade right now if ya man’s want it, but I never been a bitch so he probably won;t put his hands on me!”
Recap: Gritty and a little unorthodox with the ability to kick a lot of wily street missives, Goddie Lumenati can be problematic for almost anyone, especially if you’ve been battling so much as Swamp has of late. But helped in this Takeoff Battle League 1-rounder by Goddie’s frequent slip-ups towards the end of his turn, a pretty flagrant with the personals and slightly punch-heavier Swamp gets the win.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “Facebook gangster, you better go to any nigga page but Shaun Paige!”
Recap: Courtesy of Pyrexx Battle League, nice effort by G-Queen in this 1-rounder, the femcee using a boatload of gritty bangers along with some personally uplifting gems to make quite a statement. For Swamp tho, apparently a week away from his Geechi Gotti battle, an angle-lit and storytelling/witty combo of salacious personals, boastful barbs and home state stunting would earn the South Carolina battler a close win.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “If I kick in your fucking door, the kids? I’m leaving them, I believe in them!”
Recap: A couple of dudes who just teamed up for a 2-on-2 together, Swamp and Geechi Gotti, meet up in the 2nd round of URL’s Ultimate Madness 3 tournament and it’s a more versatile and steadily hitting Gotti, dialing up everything from head-ringing street missives, bruising punchlines, piercing name flips, witty personals and even a fly 2nd round rebuttal who does more than enough to take all 3 rounds for win over his gritty, but topsy-turvy opponent.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Nigga this ain’t a game, you said you broke down mo’ dimes than Kevin Samuels, that’s how you livin’? That ain’t shit bro, I ain’t kiddin’, you need to know the dope game how I’m really livin’, cuz I love you, but I had more O’s [hoes] on my track than Lenny Williams!”
Recap: One too many ‘Paige’ name flips and a bit of a flow-challenged Jerry Wess, who was slightly better overall with the personals than the punches (where he was a little predictable in the opening rounds, before he came through with a dope 3rd), leaves Swamp, who steadily finessed throughout this Ultimate Madness 3 first-round battle with a bunch of ill street rhythms/set-ups, witty/shrewd personals and steely gun bars with the edge in rounds 1 and 2 for the win.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “You always talking about your muthafuckin’ car, like that shit is cool…your car is a piece of shit, but my gun is a lemon too!”
Recap: In this 1-rounder from VLMG & The Kulture, Swamp gets extra crispy upfront with a fly rebuttal before continuing to lace the Texas crowd with a barrage of gritty punchlines, blistering personals and spicy gun bars to beat a solid, but not as hard-hitting showing from JDK.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “Nigga, I will dump a can if you speak or grab you by those little pointy=ass ears and spin your shit like it’s the jam of the week!”
Recap: His simple, yet contagious Nickelodeon raps may have had the crowd laughing, but I’m sure that if and when O Solo sees this battle, Mr Bey will have gained a fan and that what’s most important. That said, Swamp all the way in this 1-sided, 1 round Pyrexx Battle League battle as the South Carolina battler gets extra busy with a consistent variety of witty barbs, stinging name flips, blazing gun bars and hard-hitting punches on his way to an easy vic.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “Fuck you, my girl made me change my number the minute you called and ‘Bey’ [bae] popped up!”
Recap: Dope battle between Swamp and Swave Sevah on URL’s Born Legacy 11 card sees the two go at it full steam with a boatload of mocking personals, witty barbs, rich storytelling, gritty punchlines, bully talk, a spicy rebuttal by (“Nigger’s still getting at me about this karate shit, when that shit gonna pass?, yo, y’all realize y’all make fun of me ‘cuz I know how to kick y’all ass?!”) Swave to go along with a hard freestyle by Swamp and some flashy heat/gun bars. Despite a slight hiccup midway, Swamp with more haymakers takes round 1 before another condensed and blazing turn by Swave gets him round 2. 3rd round was another goodie with Swave getting righteous on the angle tip while gamely utilizing his opponent’s born name throughout his final turn, while Swamp kept it a bit more condensed and versatile while delivering enough boastful darts and piercing punches to make this one a toss-up.
Verdict: Debatable
Favorite line: Swamp – “This ain’t nuthin’ but the old head that pull up to the park, do nothing, make one shot, now he telling everybody to get back on defense!”
Recap: A battle that epitomizes why you shouldn’t run with narratives, how a battler’s popularity can effect views from both his peers and the so-called ‘exprets’ in the battle rap blogger field AND why almost every URL/App vote result can’t be taken seriously, a prolific-punching, personal-lit and wordplay heavy at times Casey Jay edges rounds 1 and 2 of this Kings vs. Queens battle against Swamp for the win. And while Casey still gets the win here, judging from the reaction from nearly the entire battle community, you would’ve thought that Swamp got bodied as the South Carolina battler’s overall pimp stunting, sexual innuendo’s, witty personals, entertaining storytelling and boastful darts (which clearly got him round 3) just seemed to have gotten overlooked in a bout that was close throughout.
Verdict: Casey Jay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Casey Jay – “You know I got good delivery, I’ll bring the mill [meal] straight to you…I’m good at catering!”
Recap: Solid and gritty, if not a little elongated effort by Zeke gets brushed aside by an aggressive, fiery with the punches, witty and personal/name flip/gun-savvy Swamp in this competitive 1-roudner from Zoo Battle League.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “You pussy, I keep smelling it, rat in the face muthafucka, keep telling shit, blade cross his stomach, now the bottom half drop…now he Zeke Elliott!”
Recap: Long-awaited, much-hyped battle that’s even more enticing when you’ve paying enough attention long enough to know that these two guys, Swamp and Nu Jerzey Twork, really don’t like each other. Too bad for fans tho as even with a highly-billed match as this one, Nu Jerzey Twork fails to hold down his end, showing up unprepared yet again and ‘Jersey’-ing what was a pretty solid round 1 halfway through before choking away the deciding round 3 after dishing an incredible, hardbody 2nd. Meanwhile, while certainly not the best, punch-heavy Swamp we’ve seen, the South Carolina emcee still brought the heat, aggressive as well as getting personal throughout the match and making himself heard with well-executed bars that spoke to Twork’s former(???) Gooonie squad and delivered a talking too when it came to his opponent’s troubles in and outside the battle ring. Add to that some sizzling gun bars, fierce schemes and a spicy punch game, even if he was helped by his opponent’s shortcomings, considering all the drama that took place before this bout happened, for Swamp vengeance still had to be sweet.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “My life is a movie, you need the script, you bang the .5, I bang and plead the 5th!”
Recap: Swamp survives a couple of stumbles and a pretty competitive and punch-heavy at times showing from opponent Bakinsota with a versatile display of fiery name flips, witty/mocking personals, some flexing punchlines and a spicy rebuttal to edge this 1-rounder from Pyrexx Battle League.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “This bitch fucking timid, I’m on a mission, either I’m a get my commas up or I’m a get a fucking sentence!”
Recap: Fierce, 1-round battle between Swamp and Chi-town’s King Krash goes the former’s way as the South Carolina battler’s more condensed turn, which contained a boatload gripping mayhem, witty personals and rugged punchlines/schemes, was more than enough to beat back a hard at times, but elongated and hit-n-miss round from his opponent.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “I wish I could sleep peacefully, fuck a cover, it ain’t till I tuck my pistol I feel warm in the bed!”
Recap: Now if only Ace Amin can apply the same focus and energy he has for marketing and promoting his battles to the ring…he could become one of greats. In the meantime, we’re left with gritty street narratives, rich schemes and a gang of lofty wordplay that too often get interrupted by Ace’s lack of preparation or in this case a boatload of slip-ups in his biggest battle yet here against Swamp from the Smack Volume 5 card. Ace’s many miscues, pedestrian bars and near chokes aside, at least Swamp showed up. The South Carolina rising star flexing for 3 rounds with a variety of stinging punchlines, lucid urban street fare and a plethora of spicy personals and other well-meaning, but killer gun bars that gave him a 30 for this much hyped battle.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “My bitch she couldn;t make this trip, told her I love her, she told me go fuck myself, now she on Pay Per View watching me do me!”
Recap: Overwhelming his opponent with grandiose/visceral schemes, steely punchlines, stifling gun bars and mocking personals, in this 1-rounder from State 2 State Hip Hop, Swamp makes quick and easy work of a subpar J Skillz.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “The glock dumping, don’t fuck around and get shot from it, I’m still that same nigger that’ll fuck ya bitch raw then make her get checked to see if we got something!”
Recap: At times to his opponent’s clear annoyance, a pretty solid throughout Don Marino pulls out all his tricks in this Survivor Series versus Swamp: Mexican bars, fiery punchlines, NWX entries, struggle bars galore, jaunty name flips (tho he did go overboard when it came to using Swamp’s gov’t name)/personals and a host of pointed gun lines. More than enough altogether to take round 1 over a less direct Swamp and potent enough to him competitive in the latter rounds. In other words, Marino made Swamp earn this one. And the South Carolina spitter certainly did, getting more direct with the punches in rounds 2 and 3 while also adding a gang of filthy trap talk, mocking personals, hitting rebuts on his opponent’s struggle narratives, rich set-ups, blistering punchlines and piercing gun chatter to take both rounds and get the win.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “Fix ya face little bitch, he stressing, depressing, get him a Volume please, leg shot, his legs looking like Megan the Stallion knees!”
Recap: 1-rounder from Body Bag Battle League sees Swamp beating back Quban’s braggadocio punches, fiery (“A big chopper, get y’all chomped, eagles and hawks, Lord Farquaad, I’m the reason there’s animals on Swamp!”) schemes/punchlines and menacing name flips with a more versatile palette of stinging personals, rich performance bars and ill punchlines…until he had a huge slip-up mid-round. And while Swamp was able to get his groove back and continue on with a wide assault of verbal hijinks, despite spouting better bars overall, it’s the aforementioned stumble that makes this one a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Swamp – “Now we only got one round in this muthafucka and bitch you gotta go early…38, Kevin Gates, they both pearly!”
Recap: Even with Bad Newz’s hardbody raps, sometimes abstract shiners and head-ringing mayhem causing plenty of havoc throughout this battle, over the course of 3 rounds, a more consistently nice and versatile Swamp’s more potent punchlines, stinging name flips/personals, gritty street narratives and witty darts prove to be too much for the less intricate Cave Gang member in this fiery Banned battle from Smack/URL.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “I ain’t playing with not one of these muthafucka’s, its devouring time, last time it was Your Honor, now the honor is mine!”
Recap: In one of the better PGs from 2019, it’s a flawless 2nd round that along with some surprising (“And you was just a Lunchable, I was always taught to cover my own ass, like if you say “grace” I say one right after you, just in case God don’t fuck witchu!”) wit and extra spicy personals/name flips that stand out for the normally gun bar/punch-heavy Swamp here as the South Carolina battler used a condensed and punchline-lit turn to edge round 1, before the aforementioned 2nd also earned him that round. And while the witty/slick storytelling (“I seen a nigga who had nothin’…still get bitch-slapped!”) backstylings of Your Honor had at the very least kept things close in the earlier rounds, the DC rapper could only muster (bird sounds included) a half-hearted effort in the final round, which in turn would help a still-on-point and gritty Swamp get the 30.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “You play with me I’m a grip the thing, the drum stick [drumstick] will leave ’em all flat like most bitches like they chicken wings!”
Recap: All Swamp in this one as the South Carolina spitter flexes a series of potent trap talk, stinging punchlines/schemes, fire set-ups and stifling personals to easily 30 a mostly pedestrian and ill-prepared Apollo in this Proving Grounds battle from Smack/URL.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “You look like you be loving and cuffin’ bitches, not me, the minute my mama put that light bill in my name I stopped trusting bitches!”
Recap: Tune 6’8″ could have the record for tallest battle rapper. But in this 1-rounder versus Swamp from BK Battle League, there’s noting much to see as Swamp’s dope braggadocio lines, stinging name flips and heated schemes/punchlines easily beat back Tune’s performance-heavy but mostly pedestrian raps.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “You a tall muthafucka, but this 40 nickle will slow cook a nigger like a pot roast!”
Recap: We Go Hard battle between Swamp and Illa sees the latter keep with close throughout with a rich combo of dope (“Let this nigger cross me, choppers coming out…false teeth!”) punchlines, fly schemes and some nice name flips. But even with a slight slip-up in the 1st round, overall Swamp just came with more heat, the South Carolina battler scoring left and right with a crazy and (“You ain’t fucking with me, I’m too lethal, I been to hell and back twice, my life got two sequels!”) punch-heavy opening round, before also taking the latter two rounds with a bunch of sizzling trap talk, witty personals, lofty performance lines and fiery gun bars/punches/set-ups to earn the 30.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “Soon as I pull up, I hop out that bitch, Kobe Bryant with the stick, I done hit so many, they don’t give a fuck how many shots I done missed!”
Recap: Intense 1-rounder between Swamp and Skinny Man Bang with plenty of mayhem, righteous gun bars, aggression, heated personals and blazing punchlines from both battlers. A close one with a wide array of haymakers, at the end it’s a more consistent with the punches, storytelling, witty and wordplay-lit Swamp who gets the edge here.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “You get on my nerves more than when I’m in a rush to wash my ass and the shower curtain just keep grabbing my leg!”
Recap: From South Carolina Battle League, tho he did some reaches here and there and rapped twice as longer as his opponent did, a cleaner-flowing, scheme-heavy and at times punch-lit Power Lines, helped a bit by a Swamp choke (which led to his crew having to finish his round) ends up with enough fiery darts to take this 1-rounder.
Verdict: Power Lines (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Power Lines – “Drive-by, shotgun out the window, you dead from the jump, ‘cuz when we come around one time you getting smoked…like too many hands on a blunt!”
Recap: Dope battle between Swamp and Gwitty, sees them both packed with heated bars, rich set-ups, witty lines and various methods of destruction. Still, while Gwitty for the most part came (“I’m mad skinny, I need a country girl to get with me, I beat all in her face, I heard y’all eat good in the country…I expected more on my plate!”) nice with his despite struggling with his flow here and there, a slightly more consistent with the punches and more (“‘I said ‘cuz this is not an act, I’ll pull up where you popping at and pop a gat, have the cig tucked behind a nigga ear like its the last one from out the pack!”) haymaker dropping Swamp ends up taking this one-rounder from No Ransom BL.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “I hope you came on your A-1 shit, no slip-ups or stumbles, I hope you came with balance, ‘cuz I got beams, machines, bars, schemes, set-ups…this shit look like the ‘You Name It’ challange!”
Recap: Holding it down for the opening rounds with a gang of visceral punchlines, drawn-out mayhem and sporty name flips/wordplay/set-ups, a more condensed Swamp puts in enough work to beat back a thrill-seeking, gritty and punch-lit, but also elongated D Nice in what was a competitive 3-rounder from No Ransom Battle League.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – “I made all the funeral arrangements for your ass nigger, I even paid for the plot, the casket was expensive as fuck, but shit even U-haul make you pay for the box!”
Recap: Nary lacking for confidence, Swamp uses a gang of boastful stunting, scintillating gun bars, fiery personals and flippant name flips to beat back a solid and gritty, but nowhere-near-as-potent turn by Polo in this 1-rounder from Carolina Barrs Rap Battle league.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “Every time this bitch open his mouth, dog gonna lick a shot, that’s a Snapchat filter!”
Recap: Well, if there’s one thing you just can’t do when there’s money on the line in a battle, it’s choke. Unfortunately for Shawty Raw–who after getting overwhelmed by Swamp’s grimy bars, way more potent lines and heated punches in the 1st round, made for a gritty enough comeback in the 2nd to make that round both competitive and debatable 2nd–his fate (and $400) would not only be decided by his opponent’s sizzling punchline game and fiery gun bar verbiage, but also a total loss of his bars.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Swamp – ” I said I’m done playing, you see me, it’s front pages, gun’s blazing, bucks from all kinds of muthafucka’s…like you fundraising!”
Recap: Even the out-of-nowhere phone convo in the 3rd round doesn’t do much to help Swamp as besides a debatable 2nd round, opponent Robb Marley more condensed lines, lofty personals, witty jokes and ‘shit’-laced punches in the opening and closing rounds prove to be no match for Swamp’s less potent bars and often erratic showing.
Verdict: Robb Marley (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Robb Marley – “I thought you was gay in school, bitch your lip gloss was popping!”
