No Bias. No Narratives.
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!”
