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Chef Trez defeats The Saurus

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Recap: From GTX, giving the fans what they craved with spicy rebuttal games unleashed on both sides, after a debatable round 1, punch-for-punch it’s a wordplay-lit Chef Trez who flexes more, out-scoring and outlasting a pretty solid effort from The Saurus to take both of the latter rounds for the win in what was a competitive 3-rounder.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Paul, Peter, Roll, I’m snatching hope from him, but I’ll never rob Peter to pay Paul…I’m getting both of ’em!”

Jey The Nitewing defeats The Saurus

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Recap: Styling throughout on his opponent’s battle rap legacy with a bunch of mocking/dismissive personals, but also scoring with a gang of hitting name flips and piercing punches, in a Skytier Northwest battle that outside of round 1 wasn’t really close, Jey The Nitewing handily beats back The Saurus, who after a punch-heavy opening round, went downhill pretty quickly afterwards when it came to bar efficiency.

Verdict: Jey The Nitewing (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Jey The Nitewing – “They call you legendary, well bitch I’m lack intolerant!”

Cali Smoov defeats The Saurus

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Recap: Well, that was surprising. After using a gang of spicy punchlines/personals to take round 1 and utilizing the same aggressive formula to withstand the passionate personals and nifty storytelling rhymes/schemes from opponent Cali Smoov and force a draw in round 2, an early, out-of-nowhere 3rd round choke by The Saurus allows a cleaner-punching Smoov to spout an assortment of mayhem-rich darts, piercing struggle bars and solid punches to score a 10-8 in the final round and get the win in this KOTD Season 1 matchup.

Verdict: Cali Smoove (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cali Smoov – “I’m battling The Saurus on King of the Dot, wow I’m in heaven, this would’ve been a big deal for my career…in 2007!”

Dizaster defeats The Saurus (Rematch)

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Recap: A rematch that we had to wait 12 years for gets its grand comeuppance with $50K on the line in this KOTD Grand Prix tournament. Close, competitive and filled to the brim with hard-hitting (and sometimes witty) personals on both ends, a surprising 3rd and deciding round choke by The Saurus edges the win for Dizaster.

Verdict: Dizaster (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Dizaster – “Couldn’t keep up with the Jones’ so nowadays he’s more like a contact tracer ‘cuz all he does is watch his neighbors!”

Marv Won defeats The Saurus

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Recap: Adeptly utilizing a modus operandi consisting of rugged punchlines, flighty gun bars, gracious jokes and lofty schemes/personals, here against fellow battle rap vet The Saurus, a consistently nice Marv Won’s only misstep is a costly, flow-challenge 2nd round on his way to a win in a matchup that was literally 13 years in the making.

Verdict: Marv Won (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Marv Won – “The flames hit different when you looking in the mirror, nigga, the chair roll different when you pushing it yourself!”

TheSaurus defeats Math Hoffa

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Recap: Honestly expected more from two battle rap legends, Math Hoffa and TheSaurus, then this KOTD bout, which had its share of moments, hot punches/schemes (Math: ‘…they gone see Math vs Thesaurus and never click on this battle!”) and piercing personals, but overall didn’t measure up to what you’d expect from the name recognition. Still, after the two split the first couple of rounds, a fire rebuttal by Thesaurus along with a handful of haymakers in round 3 were enough to edge a righteous and on-its-way-to-being-epic, but also a bit flow-challenged and eventually shortened turn by Math.

Verdict: TheSaurus (W) 2-1

Favorite line: TheSaurus – “Every time he’s got a problem Math’s still counting on his hands!”

E-Ness defeats The Saurus

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Recap: Someone might want to tell The Saurus that E-Ness said his face looks like coffee cake, not ‘cheese cake’. Or maybe The Saurus knew that anyway and yet was just feening to get in yet another ‘cheese cake’ pun on his opponent. Still, with a gang of solid punchlines, rich performance bars and some witty barbs mixed in, it’s an inspired Ness who one up’s fellow vet, but a wily inconsistent The Saurus in rounds 1 and 3 to earn a win on the KOTD stage.

Verdict: E-Ness (W) 2-1

Favorite line: E-Ness – “The Saurus, why you force it?, it doesn’t come out natural, your flow sounds robotic and it lacks replay value!”

Geechi Gotti defeats The Saurus

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Recap: After struggling with his flow in a pretty pedestrian round 1 and withstanding Geechi Gotti’s steely (“9. to his face [pow!]……I had to bring the mill [meal] back like they ain’t get my order right!”) comeuppance, The Saurus gets his swag back to make for a more competitive 2nd round that’s still edged to an overall, more (“I’m a hitman, I get paid to pop like foster parents!”) flexing with the punches, Gotti. Still, even with the bout already decided The Saurus’ spitfire (“Throwback, brought a rusty Razor like the Wolfpack!”) wordplay and  resiliency for stalwart (“Muthafucka, I stay with the shotgun, I’m a car pooler!”) punches, allows him to avoid the 3-0.

Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Friend or foe, I’m through with the damn fakes, you’ll get slapped with the pound like Mexican handshakes!”

Charlie Clips defeats The Saurus

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Recap: For the most part, Charles Clips leaves the schemes at home, replacing them with plenty of straightforward wit, righteous personals and a well-themed (“If you really Mr. 2-times everything, why God ain’t call you to build Noah’s ark?!”) 2nd round that along with a very solid 1st and 3rd, more than gave the KOTD crowd their money’s worth. The Saurus, nice with the punches despite some dry spots here and there, kept it competitive for the first two rounds, before choking on his own lines and faltering in the round in the bout Clips had won after the 2nd anyway.

Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “145 battles?!, you’re not a battle rapper, you’re a league!”

Aye Verb defeats The Saurus

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Recap: In this close 3-rounder from KOTD, while a slightly more versatile The Saurus had the jokes, fiery bars and solid personals (esp. during a dope 3rd), a more consistently hitting, turned up with the heat and punch-heavy Aye Verb does enough to edge both of the opening rounds for the win.

Verdict: Aye Verb (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Aye Verb – “If we had the same mother, you’d be my retarded brother that couldn’t drink from the same nipple!”

Chilla Jones defeats Thesaurus

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Recap: In this 3-rounder from Boston’s 413 Battle League, Thesaurus puts up a pretty dope fight, punching with the kind of crazy efficiency over the course of 3 rounds to remind you why he’s one of the most respected vets in the game. But with the battle split going into the final round and after withstanding another fiery turn from his opponent, the already scheme-heavy Chilla gets extra versatile and busy in the 3rd, dishing a rich palette of scorching lyricism, well-finessed wordplay and spicy punchlines/personals to edge the round and gain the win in what was a fierce and competitive battle all the way through.

Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “You getting screwed by this L, minus the Allen wrench!”

Arsonal defeats TheSaurus

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Recap: Battling himself with 3 way-too-lengthy rounds as much as he was his pedestrian-prone opponent TheSaurus, a punch-heavier was adept (esp. after a 1st round choke) enough with the pen to remain consistently spicy, via a wide load of racially-tinged barbs, fierce gun bars, boastful darts and gritty personals, in the latter rounds and come back for the win in this 3-rounder from Filmon.com.

Verdict: Arsonal (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Arsonal – “I’m from a block where nigger’s hand that raw tho, you the type of cracker that’ll stop at a red light…on Grand Theft Auto!”

Bigg K defeats Thesaurus

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Synopsis: Thesaurus’ trite and predictable style proves no match for Bigg K’s raucous and eccentric banter (hey, K’s confidence has grown to the point where he’s even dropping rebuttals). And while one can certainly appreciate Thesaurus’ perennial love for battle rap, he seriously needs to update his rap flow (did he really say ‘He gonna coach the Hit Squad if we catch K solo’ in round 1???….yes, he did) if he’s gonna stand a chance against these hungry yung’un’s in 2014.

Verdict: Bigg K (W) 2-1 

Best line: Bigg K – “I will bag Thesaurus like Barnes and Nobles”

Charron defeats TheSaurus (Rematch)

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Recap: TheSaurus certainly made him earn it as in this dope, personal and punchline-lit KOTD rematch of an earlier freestyle battle that the two had sometime back (that TheSaurus won), Charron hits with enough witty barbs, steely punches/wordplay, storytelling bars and stinging personals to edge the 2nd round (scored the other two debatable) and take this competitive battle.

Verdict: Charron (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Charron – “The Saurus, you’re washed up with no future, you’re the oldest fucking book since Kama Sutra!”

John John Da Don defeats The Saurus

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Synopsis: Very good battle. Both JJDD and The Saurus represented well with a chock full of bars, jokes, personals and nice name flips. But even though John John (whose been talking about taking down legends on Twitter recently) practically gave away the 3rd round, I thought he dropped better consistent lines and subpar schemes in rounds 1 and 2 to edge the win.

Verdict: John John Da Don (W) 2-1

Best line: JJDD – “Why am I giving you the shot if you the vet?”

DNA defeats The Saurus

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Recap: When he wasn’t talking throughout DNA’s rounds, The Saurus mostly kicks some lame (“What do you call the people who ghostwrite his bars? DNAides”) rhymes as well as Charlie Clips/DNA fodder that we’ve long been privy too. Thus, it’s a pretty easy 3-0 for DNA, who before spazzing on race matters along with his opponent’s noted hypocrisy for style points in round 3, took round 1 and edged round 2 with better delivery, (“I came with all my niggas, we rolling 60 deep, don’t ask me if I ball, just know that I grip the heat, ain’t got nothing but white shooters, so you could die from a Pistol Pete”) wordplay and punchlines.

Verdict: DNA (W) 3-0

Favorite line: DNA – . “Now you wanna act like it’s words nigga, your brains will be on that curve nigga, shoot you and your bitch with a .33 on her, now you on the back of that Bird nigga!”

Pat Stay defeats Thesaurus

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Recap: Yeah, Thesaurus’ 3rd round ‘Why would you question my parenting faggot?, I fathered this entire scene’ rebuttal should go down as one of the best and most classic rebuts in battle rap history. But at the end of the day it was just a line. And I’m puzzled how one line within a very shortened turn supersedes the extra witty punches and personals Pat Stay was spouting earlier in what was a deciding round 3. Same goes for the 1st round as well which saw Pat lay down a flexing combo of piercing punches, rigid wordplay and boastful barbs over an opponent who while hitting at times, was pretty pedestrian with the raps otherwise. Indeed, if not for Pat struggling with his flow a bit in round 2, this could’ve been a 30, but instead the judges somehow gave Thesaurus the win.

Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Pat Stay – “His baby’s mom will send him to the store to buy his daughter some diapers, he’ll come home late all awkwardly hyper, like, ‘Sorry baby. I got caught in a cipher!'”

TheSaurus defeats Charron

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Recap: Veteran emcee and two-time Scribble Jam champion TheSaurus serves up a spicy dish of boastful darts and nifty punches/flips/rebuttals in each of the 3 rounds here against a less-potent Charron to catch (besides a debatable 3rd) an easy win from this KOTD Proud2BEhBattleMC WD2 battle.

Verdict: TheSaurus (W) 2-1

Favorite line: TheSaurus – “You want to be what I was in 2005!”

Cortez defeats Thesaurus

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Synopsis: No disrespect to The Saurus, a pioneer and true legend of battle rap. But this was no contest as Cortez’s bag of personals, aggressive bars and standout delivery would not deny him the victory.

Verdict: Cortez (W) 3-0

Best line: TheSaurus – “Are you Asian?, they said you were openly in love with math”

Real Deal defeats TheSaurus

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Recap: In this rematch from their Scribble Jam battle a few years back, Real Deal gets some get back by out-punching The Saurus over of the course of 3 rounds in this competiive and witty 3-rounder from Grind Time.

Verdict: Real Deal (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Real Deal – “After all these years Pete I’m still astounded how your face looks, find it utterly ridiculous that you’re allowed on Facebook!”

The Saurus defeats Dizaster

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Recap: No doubt about it, the Saurus gets robbed here. The 2-time Scribble Jam champ equating Dizaster on quality punchlines, wit and personals, but edging the 1st round thanks to a Diz slip-up. Then after a debatable 2nd round, a more condensed The Saurus edges the 3rd with a steadier flow as well as one more haymaker. Yet another unnecessary OT from Grind Time was equally subpar on both sides, which makes that round a draw.

Verdict: The Saurus (W) 2-0-2

Favorite line: The Saurus – “We understand you’re faking, your from a land that’s vagrant, where fucking camel racing is known as public transportation!”

The Saurus defeats Real Deal

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Recap: Both battlers bouncing around the stage a lot because apparently that’s you did if you were a battle rapper back in the late 2000’s, The Saurus uses a fierce punch game in addition to some killer rebuttals to take both rounds for the win in this 2-round Scribble Jam matchup.

Verdict: The Saurus (W) 2-0

Favorite line: The Saurus – “Can’t give you all the credit, ‘cuz that Rice-a-Roni line was hotter when Solomon said it!”

Iron Solomon defeats The Saurus

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Recap: $100 on the line for this 3-round street battle between The Saurus and Iron Solomon and outside of a subpar 2nd round from The Saurus, it’s a goodie as both battlers get busy with the fiery punchlines and gusty freestyles. However, before the punch-heavier The Saurus took the final round, a slightly cleaner, condensed and more consistently spicy/versatile Iron wins this one by taking both rounds 1 and 2.

Verdict: Iron Solomon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Iron Solomon – “Named himself TheSaurus, but needed a dictionary to spell it right!”

The Saurus defeats Passwurdz

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Recap: In this 3-round freestyle battle from 2004, both Passwurdz (who incredibly was in his mid-teens at the time) and The Saurus show off the ability to effectively punch and speed rap, all the while keeping their flows intact and mixing in some solid off-the-dome personals to punctuate their rhymes. A goodie when you consider the oft-middling turns of early 2000’s battle rap, an overall stronger punching The Saurus edges each round for the win.

Verdict: The Saurus (W) 3-0

Favorite line: The Saurus – “This kid barely graduated kindergarten!”