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T Top defeats Th3 Saga

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Recap: T Top and Th3 Saga put on a nice battle for UFF/SMACK/ URL’S 8 man elimination MC Battle tournament. Both put in work, but Saga’s best moments were somewhat spoiled by a lack of performance and a need to update (using 80s and 90s wrestlers in a scheme just doesn’t go over well) his bars. Meanwhile T Top’s preparation here was especially on point using dope storytelling lines, that sizzling trap talk, a spirited performance and heated (“I don’t give a fuck what your image and status about, you can’t pray fast enough with a gat in ya mouth!”) bars that not only got him the win, but sure as hell made Satan proud.

Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1

Favorite line:  T Top – “My moms was coke pitching, now she a stroke victim, that might be payback from the Lord but we coping with it”

T Top defeats Ah di Boom

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Recap: T Top’s shrewd name flip’s, lofty mayhem and graphic street yarns/punchlines combine to beat back a hardbody and solid, but repetitive punching Ah di Boom in this griity 1-rounder from Angry Fan Radio.

Verdict: T Top (W) 1-0

Favorite line: T Top – “I know Jersey hoods, they say you don’t play with them slugs, they ain’t hear Boom bang bang since he was playing the drums!”

Rolla defeats T Top

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Synopsis: Really good battle, but Rolla got this. His wordplay, name flips, jokes and gritty bars outnumbered and outmaneuvered T Top’s usual trap talk and tough schemes/bars. Having seen Rolla give Tay Rock good comp before, it’s no wonder he held his own here.

Verdict: Rolla (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Rolla – “I’m a southpaw, as soon as you step left, I’m Right witcha!”

T Top defeats Cityy Towers

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Synopsis: Chilla Jones nods his head at too many bars, I mean they can’t all be that nice, can they? Anyway, City Towers has some skills (“You say you trap dusk till dawn with your eyes wired, I’ll let a round flame your top if you a night rider, my con ride up them type riders, that’ll cock the metal back before another sentence, them typewriters”), but besides telling his entourage to ‘chill out, it’s just a battle’, he needs to work harder on his delivery, versatility and being more consistent. As for T Top, what more could you ask for? Street/gutta shit, storytelling, name flips, throw in a joke or two (“I’m gun pouting because I ain’t hearing you baby, I mean you barely got born, you a miracle baby”) to keep the levity all the while dropping more consistently tight bars. In other words, Carolina all day.

Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0

Best line: T Top – “16’s will put him in a box, that’s a Pro Tool, I’m still Chuck E. when I’m Fresh, I bust the dope moves!”

John John da Don defeats T Top

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Synopsis: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: when John John da Don isn’t stealing bars or continuing to use Serius Jones’ old-as-hell “Multiple Choice” scheme, he’s one of the nicest battle rappers out there, good comp. for just about anyone out there including top tiers. That said JJDD proved my point here (tho he did swipe that opening from O-Red), with a versatile array of personals, solid (those “Popeye’s” line was nice!) schemes, jokes and dope punchlines. Indeed, his experience came through here and it had to because a game T Top gave just as well as he took, only losing points for too many “Trap” bars and trying to use the “multiple choice” back on JJDD. Good battle nonetheless.

Verdict: John John da Don (W) 1-0

Favorite line: “It ain’t a hard choice, you want to earn all coffins, but since they riding with the dead we brought hearses for all of ’em, and when these shells get to bursting upon him, I’ll have his brains hanging out like they ain’t gotta work in the morning”

T Top defeats Automatic Ray

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Recap: Automatic Ray scores with some jokes and nice (“Rap or otherwise, we get suckers cut, we engineers, cuz’ we punch niggers for fucking up!”) punchlines, but an inconsistent delivery/performance and a lame Loaded Lux impression does him in against T Top, who on top of the requisite trap talk, mixes it up a bit with a variety of dope wordplay. potent schemes and witty (“…her breathe smell like…aight I ain’t gonna start no shit, but she could say the holiest words and still be talking shit!”) jokes to score a 3-0.

Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0

Favorite line: T Top – “I promise you gonna die, no might, it’s like Napolean, Len Bias style, you ending before the show begin”

T Top defeats Cephdeezy

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Recap: Easy win here for T Top as his eccentric wordplay, potent gun bars and urban life (“My mom’s put coke in my pamper, I was born hustling”) tales are too much for Cephdeezy’s mostly rampant filler and predictable angles.

Verdict: T Top (W) 1-0

Favorite line: T Top – “They dropped you in the ring to die, boy you Owen Hart”

T Top defeats Punchline

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Recap: Appreciate the come up as in a battle of local North Carolina emcees, T Top takes out Punchline with a fiery performance that’s ably backed by winsome (“I came with a black-ass trigger, a 4-5, the kick back made me smack my nigga!”) dramedy, dope schemes and clever wordplay

Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0

Favorite line: T Top – “Nasty with a noose, at no time his neck could fit, I thought he was dead, but it was hanging on his second chin”

T Top defeats P.G Skillet

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Synopsis: Damn, this is a close one, both came with it, literally spitting that heat. Got the 2nd and 3rd rounds tied/debatables, 1st round edged to T Top on the versatility: visceral bars, metaphors (“Where I’m from you throw up something you got some shit to prove”), name flips and personals.

Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1

Favorite line: T Top – “Basically what I’m saying be cool or die, I let them boys sing in a group it ain’t Coolie High”

T Top defeats Dubby Dub

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Recap: In full blast mode following a really nice (“It’s a brick in every house on my block, that’s a chicken strip”) round by St. Louis spitter Dubby Dub, T Top literally goes in with what he knows best: gritty street talk and unfettered (“You smokin’, you don’t know ’bout cooking weight by the ounce, walk in the crib, smell like you painting a house!”) drug game in addition to a couple of (“I might have you battling Chilla, that mean I scheme for a while just to cap him with filler”) haymakers to take this fiery one-rounder brought to you by Spit Dat Heat.

Verdict: T Top (W) 1-0

Favorite line:  T Top – “I’mma crack cutter, I be trying to get shake right, like a frat brother”

T Top defeats R Hood

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Recap: After a close and competitive (R Hood: “Snatch out, unload, that A-K crush him, so when a 6 throwing bullets at a Bear, know it ain’t Jay Cutler”; T Top:: “Start with me, I’m autistic, retarded clips, twin gats, this one drool, this [one] saliva spit!”) first round, R Hood’s performance stays steady in the latter rounds, but unfortunately the same can’t be said for his delivery and bar productivity. That’s all T Top needs to separate himself from his opponent by increasing his wordplay, come nice with the scheme game and deliver enough righteous urban (“Keep thinking I’m sweet, till your chin get the music”) drama to score yet another 3-0.

Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0

Favorite line: T Top – “I go from corner to corner like where ya pipe at?, you go from order to order, like ‘Would you like that?'”

T Top defeats Killa Kel

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Recap: Killa Kel’s pen game more often than not couldn’t keep up with his fierce and aggressive flow, leaving T Top with an opening to drop three nasty rounds of voyeuristic heat along with some witty (“They say her and coke were best friends, cool as a Chevy, Boosie and Webbie”) personals and take this one with ease.

Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0

Favorite line: T Top – “I heard you like to dance in the clubs, that’s what you lied about, my niggers dance too, but we only doing [forms gun with arms] the shootie bounce”

T Top defeats Juice

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Recap: I don’t what’s worse, watching this one-sided battle or Chinese water torture. Yeah, it’s that bad as Juice’s consistently lame (from that horrible ‘milk this cow’ spiel to that terrible ‘I’ll come to your head quarters like George Washington to bring you pain’ line) bars, underwhelming delivery and annoying hypeman seemed to even make the steadily on point (“Your battles getting views my nigga, I’ll give you that, but now your career getting cut shorter than Midget Mac”) T Top have a hard time getting through this battle. Granted, Juice scored just enough points to prevent a bodybag, but the simple fact that he didn’t even know what position Terrell Owens plays (he was only a Pro Bowl wide receiver and NOT a tight end) should be reason enough to never have to watch him battle rap again.

Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0

Favorite line: T Top – “Listen bitch, all that staring could get your vision split, 20/20, that’s a big .40, now spit and whip”

T Top defeats Young N Wise

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Recap: An up-n-coming. inspired and seemingly pissed-off T Top lays the hammer down on a clearly overmatched Young N Wise, lacing a bodybag with straightforward aggression that’s equaled by debilitating (“I know it’s iron-ic, that iron make him freeze up, and that blade will make you fold your load, it’s like a crease cut”) bars, fierce punchlines and ferocious wordplay.

Verdict: T Top (W) 1-0

Favorite line: T Top –  “Ya grandmama shaking her head, that’s a mean bump”

T Top vs. R Streetz (TIE)

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Recap: Really, it’s not that serious. Here we find what looked to be building up to a decent battle between T Top and R Streetz, get spoiled by heads in the crowd taking things a little too personally. Reminder: it’s a rap battle people and heads who can’t differentiate between entertainment and real life shit could do us all a favor by just staying home.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: T Top – “The armor clap will send this army brat back to Iraq”

T Top defeats Kenny MacGuyver

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Synopsis: Good battle, competitive throughout and all of that. T Top came with creativity in round 1 with nice Grandma/MacGuyver storytelling bars, while Kenny MacGuyver went for the fat jokes (and played my man Steele from “Juice”) in round 2 to grab that one. With the battle up in the air come round 3, Top’s trap talk and gutter punchlines ably beat MacGuyver’s simply alright bars.

Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1

Favorite line: T Top – “Your bars be average, mines fantastic, I should be on that carpet with Jasmine, fuck Aladdin”

T Top defeats Lee Hustle

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Recap: Almost didn’t recognize him at first, but the infamous Lee Hustle gets in the ring with T Top in this one-rounder from Goonie BattleGroundz. All these years later, Hustle still displays an aggressive style and still doesn’t have a problem talking while his opponent raps, but within a shortened round is only able to spit a couple of standout (“Top, you wanna know why my fans come around? Cuz’ my shit raw, I got the shit that put Whitney in the ground”) bars outside of what amounted to mostly average lines. On the flip side, T Top literally goes ham for like 8 minutes, amping the crowd with crazy personals, steady schemes, raw (“Lee Hustle, you fat muthaficker you, but ask him moms, I’m a fat mother fucker too!”) jokes and persistent name flips on top of a mean performance that allows his to leave the show with a body.

Verdict: T Top (W) 1-0

Favorite line: T Top – “Fuck Hustle, I’m coming for your fam Lee, send Deebo in ya crib, I can’t stand [Stan] Lee!”

T Top defeats K.O.

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Recap: K.O. kept it close with some tough (“These niggas wanna talk shit, but then they scared to get hit, it’s flag football!”) lines against T Top, until he pulled a Canibus and starting reading some bars from a piece a paper in round 3. A little flat with his wordplay and struggling a btitwith his delivery, T Top still managed to spit enough potent bars to get the win.

Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1

Favorite line: T Top – “Bitch niggas, i turn my back on those pussies, I like twat, so I might just look back at them pussies”