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Young Kannon defeats Royalty

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Recap: Earnest effort by Royalty, after forgetting his rhymes midway through his round, to gamely freestyle his way through the rest of his turn and avoid choking. Either way, with Young Kannon dishing a blistering barrage of hard-hitting rapid-fire punches, boastful darts, flexing gun bars and stinging gun bars with almost zero filler, it would’ve required a huge endeavor by the West-coast up-n-comer to overcome YK’s sizzling performance in this 1-rounder from Big Slap Battles.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “The .40 casual like stone-wash jeans with Steve Madden’s!

Young Kannon defeats Stretch Millz

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Recap: From Onsite Battle League, a close 3-rounder with plenty of fiery gun bars, steely name flips, gritty punchlines and outright mayhem, despite some added spicy wordplay/set-ups and mocking personals from Stretch Millz, a more metaphor/similes-lit and consistently brazen with the punches Young Kannon manages to edge the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Keep ya grip tight, two hands on a .12, you wanna die at noon or midnight?!”

Young Kannon defeats Jay Lopez

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Recap: Close 3-rounder from UBL Midwest between Jay Lopez and Young Kannon featured plenty of bruising punchlines, head-ringing gun bars and resident mayhem. But after Lopez edged round 1 and YK returned the favor by edging the 2nd round, a strong 3rd by both battlers is edged by the more condensed, storytelling and slightly more consistent YK for the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Big .9, little .9, both I bring for the slaughter, that’s the broom twin and a baby twin, that’s Ice-T and his daughter!”

Young Kannon defeats Chuck Book

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Recap: In this 1-rounder from GOTG, Young Kannon’s steady barrage of daunting name flips, fiery gun bars and gritty punchlines easily beats a lackadaisical effort from Chuck Book, who while hitting at times, overall relied on way too many overused personals on his opponent that in turn made this a mostly a one-sided affair.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon –  “I’ll air the Uzi, do a nigga wig bad like a Tyler Perry movie!”

Young Kannon defeats X.O.

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Recap: In this one-rounder from Hunger Gamez, some nifty punches/wordplay from X.O. are able to land. But a steadier and overall more potent showing from Young Kannon, littered with fiery street missives/trap talk, gritty punchlines/personals and some stellar name flips, gets YK the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “A bullet hit X.O. in the heart…that’s hugs and kisses!”

Young Kannon defeats Bedaffi Green

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Recap: Main event Smoke Room Battle League bout between Bedaffi Green and Young Kannon comes with another hardbody/punch-heavy 3rd round by Mr. I Said That. But able to score at whim with a gang of rapid-fire punches that embodied a fierce mix of blazing name flips, pointed personals, persistent mayhem/gun bars and rousing punchlines, it’s the vet YK who takes the first two rounds for the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “At your wig let the .44 clap, end a Gold member like Austin Powers…yeah, I got my mojo back!”

Quban defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: Rookies vs. Vets battle between Quban and a solid throughout, but nothing momentous Young Kannon, what with a debatable 2nd and 3rd round, comes down to the 1st which saw a boxer’s robe-clad Quban deftly apply a pugilist mentality to his lyrics, bobbing, weaving and scoring with a bunch of stinging 4-bar setups, some fire wordplay, fly name flips and hitting punchlines to take the round and the win.

Verdict: Quban (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Quban – “I’m weighing in at 175 pounds and reach doesn’t matter when I’m walking ’em down!”

Young Kannon defeats Yung Deezy

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Recap: In this 1-rounder from GOTG, Young Kannon’s versatile array of vivid gun bars, mocking personals and slightly more consistently hitting punchlines/similes beat back a pretty solid, mayhem-lit and witty at times effort from a rapid-flowing, but not-quite-as-steady Yung Deezy.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Stop wolfin’ cousin before I shoot the shit like a good discussion!”

Shotgun Suge defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: Shotgun Suge uses a series of performance-rich gun bars and some stifling bully semantics to take the deciding 3rd round of this URL 3-rounder versus a Young Kannon who took the 2nd round with a plethora of gritty punches and kept it close throughout, but relied too much on outdated personals against Suge in the final round, which ended up assisting in his loss.

Verdict: Shotgun Suge (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Shotgun Suge – “I’m the type to do a drive-by going the opposite on a one way…and that’s on a Sunday!”

Bill Collector defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: Solid showings by both Young Kannon and Bill Collector in this 1st round Ultimate Madness 2 matchup with plenty of mayhem, spirited gun bars, heard-it-all-before personals, some witty bars and aggressive/spicy punches. Close and competitive throughout with nothing too outlandish (outside of a sublime 2nd round by Bill that evened things up going into the 3rd), it’s a momentun-rich, more condensed and slightly punch-heavier B.C. who takes the final round for the win.

Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Bill Collector – “Get your head wrapped ’round it, you losing tonight will make you Real Sikh [sick]!”

Young Kannon defeats C Moneii

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Recap: Pretty lit (for his first two rounds anyway), gritty and punch-heavy showing by C Moneii gets beat back hard by 3 superb, versatile, punchline-spazzing, Cave Gang-repping and personal-heavy rounds from Young Kannon in this mostly competitive matchup from Bullpen Battle League.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “I call up the cuzzo’s, heaters get gripped, whatever car you came in, we Swiss-cheesing the shit, I’m Mexican right?, that mean the whole family squeeze in [squeezing] the whip!”

Young Kannon defeats LL Coogi

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Recap: In this raucous, punch-heavy, name flip-spazzing, gun bar-slinging and competitive 1-round battle from L.O.E.W.key Battle League, a more steady with the heat Young Kannon beats back the aggressive, but overall less potent stylings of LL Coogi.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Your casket waiting, I brought the cig [sig] for the paper like an affidavit, your dome I’ll push it to the side…I’m a procrastinator!”

Young Kannon defeats Dre Stubbs

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Recap: Nice, fiery, gun-slinging effort by Dre Stubbs gets beat back by a way more versatile, witty at times, punchline/personal-heavy and name flip/heat savvy Young Kannon in this 1-rounder from Close Combat Battle League.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “This a body, like hair on a hoodrat…it’s no edges!”

Young Kannon defeats Craig Lamar

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Recap: Yet, another ‘almost’ vic versus a top tier for Craig Lamar as the mayhem-slinging and punch-heavy Florida spitter keeps his baritone flow intact enough to make things interesting and go 1-1 into the 3rd round versus a mostly potent with the bars, but too Friday-drenched with the name flips and a bit inconsistent Young Kannon. But a better prepared YK does a number on his opponent in the deciding 3rd, using fire set-ups, some intricate wordplay, witty personals and a steady stream of righteous punchlines/gun bars to beat a solid, but shortened turn from Lamar and take the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “I told these lame nigga;s stay the fuck from around me, I don’t rock with impostors, these battle rappers just fake beef like Impossible Whoppers!”

Young Kannon defeats Patron

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Recap: Young Kannon’s 1st appearance on the KOTD stage is a successful one as the Southside Chicago rapper unloads on a solid at times and capable punching Patron with a wide and aggressive mix of righteous heat, sterling name flips, boastful barbs and fiery punchlines for all 3 rounds to earn the 30.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “I told my nigger’s to bring guns…just in case he knew Wing Chun!”

Young Kannon defeats J. Murda

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Recap: When he wasn’t speaking up for gay rights or spouting some witty (Mitch!) barbs on long-held allegations of Young Kannon messing with trannies, J. Murda’s rampant yarns of mayhem was just enough to edge a close 1st round. Besides that, this one was all YK, who after a pretty solid 1st that he barely lost out on, used a gang of spitfire gun bars, stellar punchlines, hitting hometown ATL bars and some potent personals/wordplay to overwhelm a couple of dope at times, but at times lackluster turns by Murda.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “…after all that, y’all battled and he smoked you, you was chasing clout for no reason, I mean yeah you pulled Red shirt and then he sat you down for the season!”

Young Kannon defeats Xcel

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Recap: From the URL app…Young Kannon and Xcel spit a boatload of lyrical heaters, righteous mayhem, sturdy name flips, ready and loaded punchlines as well as stinging personals in this highly competitive 3-rounder from the URL Banned Legacy card. Noteworthy when considering that both battlers came through with 3 weeks and nary a stumble, the vic here goes to YK who edged the first two rounds via a slightly more consistent and condensed turn in the 1st, before landing more haymakers to take the 2nd. Call the 3rd round, which overall saw Kannon and Xcel come down a notch bar-wise, as a debatable.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Give X bucks after he gone…that’s alimony!”

Young Kannon defeats Gutta

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Recap: The intricate, wordplay-feening Gutta, who goes back a ways with URL/Smack, makes a solid effort here in this 3-rounder versus Young Kannon. But mixing it up well with more fiery punchlines, some witty barbs/schemes, well-researched personals and raucous name flips/gun bars, YK, for the first two rounds anyway, does more than enough to earn the win before a slightly more potent and consistent Gutta salvages the 3rd.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “You the yellow Starburst, you the worst out the pack!”

Young Kannon defeats Prep

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Recap: In this time-stamped battle from Onsite Battle League, when Young Kannon wasn’t proving how much research matters in lieu of dishing spitfire personals, for 3 rounds he was delivering an aggressive and potent mix of fiery gun bars/name flips, flexing wordplay with his punches, colorful bangers that The Wire fans would appreciate and well-crafted, ultra-violent mayhem against an at-times nice with the personals and nifty punchline swinging, but way too inconsistent overall and admittedly unprepared in the 3rd round, Prep.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Like I started writing yesterday, I’m doing Prep bad!”

Young Kannon defeats Polo

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Recap: With a boatload of fierce schemes/personals, hardbody punchlines and sterling name flips, Young Kannon makes quick and easy work of a confident and mayhem-dishing, but too par the course Polo.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Every time we see Polo choking, like the short too small!”

Young Kannon defeats Moolah 3X

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Recap: Young Kannon may think differently, but there’s no doubt here that Moolah 3X is at least affiliated with K-Shine’s ‘Zip ‘Em Up’ crew, what with such a similar, demeanor and aggression plus K Shine-like hardbody (“Hawk in the air?!, Dominique with the J’s on!”) heaters and fierce bars. But while Shine has the ability to punch and perform heavier, stay condensed with his rounds and get more versatile with the bars, to Moolah’s detriment, way too many name flips and 3 elongated rounds hurts his chances here. Thus leading to YK, after dominating the 1st round with consistency nicer punches/personals, a better performance and fire (“The weapon wild, Cannon with a drum, that’s Devin Miles!”) gun bars to edge the latter two rounds with a steadier mix of artful/potent bangers.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “I’m gripping the nose, like Craig in the bathroom when his pop shittin’!”

Pass defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: Tough one to call as it stayed close and competitive throughout. But after getting out-punched by a (“Put a nigger under those white sheets, he Clayton Bigsby!”) slicker, punchline/mayhem-savvy and more versatile Young Kannon in the first, Pass comes back with a more (“When my son was born, I had an AK under my bed nigger…he wasn’t scared of monsters!”) fiery, real talk spazzing and punch-heavy 2nd round to beat back a solid, but not-nearly-as-potent turn by YK. The 3rd and deciding round was a bit elongated on both sides, but still solid turn by each battler, that was tight enough to probably warrant a debatable if not for a couple of nice ‘Wakanda’ freestyles in the middle of his round by Pass. And while YK came back with a rare rebuttal, with an equal amount of haymakers and length in rounds, it’s the veteran Pass’ ability for off-the-dome shiners that gets him the edge and the win here.

Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Pass – “You Chicago niggers not even known for shooting, y’all known for dying!”

Young Kannon defeats QP

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Recap: Rare is a classic round from someone who ends up losing the match, but QP’s 2nd round here, dedicated to his opponent’s choice of footwear, was a fire tutorial on (“Size 12?, well, I guess you’re putting your best foot forward!”) off-the-dome acumen and delivery. That said, a 3-round close punch-fest with fellow vet Young Kannon equates to a whole lot of witty bars, dope wordplay, stinging (YK: “Black Ice, milking you for nothing…that’s a wig voucher!”) personals and fierce schemes on both sides. But at the end of the day it’s a more consistent and haymaker inclined YK who takes rounds 1 and 3 to earn the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Ever since you been hanging with Qleen, you been acting way too hard…off John Q, the nigger SONned you and gave you heart!”

Young Kannon defeats Mike P

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Recap: As expected, it’s a spirited punch-fest between Mike P and Young Kannon in this 3-round bout from Smack/URL, with both also mixing in some righteous personals, stinging wordplay and fiery name flips. A close battle throughout with nary a slip-up from either battler, before Mike got in his unorthodox bag to take the 3rd, a slightly more consistent with the punchlines, performance-heavier and bent with the haymakers YK edges the 1st and 2nd to take what was long promoted as grudge match.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Now be honest, y’all really think Micheal bang out with K’s?, after he spit a gun bar, he gotta wipe the bang out his face!”

Young Kannon defeats Drugz

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Recap: If Drugz had written a 3rd round (tho he did offer a short, but solid freestyle-enriched turn to make it through without just giving it away) this one might’ve ended on a different note. As after getting out-punched in the 1st, the DMV/Goonies rapper came back with a more consistent. condensed/punch-heavy and fire round 2 to tie things up. But the ever steady YK, while going overkill on the name flips throughout the battle, still came heavy in the final round with some fiery personals, stinging punchlines/schemes and salacious gun bars to easily beat back any chance his opponent had of taking the round, much less getting the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Drugz been on my nuts, I’m trying to smuggle shit!”

K-Shine defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: I can’t think of any way you can prepare for a haymaker that’s about your man getting knocked out before the battle…by your opponent. But hey Young Kannon certainly tried, addressing the matter within his first round here when he wasn’t spitting other scintillating (“Louie V put you to sleep recently, what was that fight ’bout?, how the fuck your name is Shine if nigga’s keep putting your lights out!?”) personals and back-breaking mayhem. Still, for all of K-Shine’s hot-headedness, the guy couldn’t have lasted this long in the game if he couldn’t rap and that made for the difference here as YK, for all his comeuppance, aggressive set-ups and sublime raps, overall just got out-barred. Indeed, after a dope 1st from YK, K-Shine, using some hitting performance (“Stomach shot, he get that gut [rubs his belly] feeling like something’s wrong!”) bars, nice crowd control and some ill (“You might as well call me Earl, this man a G.O.A.T. [Manigault]!”) wordplay, ends up edging the round. And another personal-tinged, punch-heavy and overall solid turn by YK in round 2 gets beat by a more eccentric, (“Hey, we ain’t the same, I’m nothing like you nigga’s, I’m a double shot of 1800, that’s twice the killer!”) punchline-spazzing and witty Shine. And while YK fell a little victim (again) to some redundant themes/personals used against Shine in the past, his 3rd was still pretty nice what with some flexing punches, fire (“I’ll put the K to K, k?, that’s white supremacy!”) gun bars and jaunty wordplay to salvage a round and match another comical, but potent, (“play it safe, or I’m tagging the Guerilla [gorilla] like Bathing Ape!”) punch-heavy, braggadocio and gritty turn from Shine

Verdict: K-Shine (W) 2-1

Favorite line: K-Since – “I’m good, when I got these hands out, shit 10 minutes ago I just knocked your man out!”

Young Kannon defeats Poetik Genius

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Recap: Using a lit combo of fire schemes, heated punchlines, fiery sound effects and nicely researched personals, an animated and ‘generous’ Young Kannon makes quick work of a solid-to-start, but quickly diminished Poetik Genius in this 1-rounder from Body Bag Battles.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Stomach shot…leave his belly hanging out like a QueenzFlip battle!”

Young Kannon defeats Street Profit

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Recap: Well, damn. For 3 rounds Young Kannon literally goes ham on fellow Chicago battle rapper Street Profit (who overall was pretty solid here) with a boatload of fiery personals, stinging name flips, ring-shattering (“You pussy and I’ll kick your mom’s in the pussy for having you!”) punches and gritty gun bars that not only gives YK an easy 3-0, but speaks to how preparation, research and a dope pen can separate the top tier’s from the rest of the lot.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “If I see paper, come with the metal dragging…that’s green dragon!”

Young Kannon defeats Mr. Mills

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Recap: Despite almost rapping as twice as long as his opponent, a more versatile and habitually robust Young Kannon is able to beat a not-quite-as-focused Mr. Mills in this one-rounder from Gorilla Warfare.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Paralyze him for charity, that’s how you get the meals [Mills] on wheels!”

Young Kannon defeats Young Smurf

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Recap: For all his confidence, name (“The second part of his name is the only time you see Kannon with a ‘k’!”) flips, elongated rounds, taking his jacket on and off and spazzing hard enough to garner a few moments here and there, Young Smurf’s overall repertoire fails to withstand a much nicer combo of eccentric gun bars, jaunty (“You weak nigger, I ain’t even gotta compete with’cha, I’ll just let the kick light up a dummy, that’s 3 Ninja’s!”) wordplay and ill personals from Young Kannon.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Time for the whipping now, my click with the shit’s bring the pistol’s out, take a different route and the whole family’s on it like the Simpson’s couch!”

Young Kannon defeats Zig Zag

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Recap: Zig Zag deserves props for a very solid performance here, spitting a load of mean bars with some delicious (“I’ll grab ya bitch, poke her, then use ya baby as the bargaining chip!”) gun lines/wordplay that was matched by his aggressive showing. But just as fierce with his bars and a little better overall with his wordplay and (“Fuck Zig Zag, get left in the backwoods for the raw paper!”) name flips, the always reliable Young Kannon was also a bit more consistent with his darts, thus managing to edge thsi one-rounder from Body Bag Battle League.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Cuz in Chicago you gotta be thoro, fuck if you a legend, they’ll still paint ya face like the Prodigy mural!”

Young Kannon defeats Jakkboy Maine

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Recap: Fire match between Jakkboy Maine and Young Kannon ends with a win for YK, who overcame Jakkboy’s stinging performance bars and salient sound effects with a more spitfire turn of fiery (“Call a spade a spade, they threw Jakk on the table knowing the King will cut him!”) punches, rich personals, frenzied set-ups and witty, yet hitting gun (“Weapons signing, second-stringer, I don’t play till a nigga get hurt!”) bars to edge the first two rounds. Jakkboy, who wasn’t helped by a bit of a struggle with his flow in round 2 and one too many darts spent on the likes of Tay Roc and JJDD during the bout, still held his own throughout the battle, even doing enough to avoid a sweep and salvage a dope round 3 from both battlers, with a more condensed turn than his opponent.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: -Jakkboy Maine – “Have you ever seen a nigga, see his nigga’s, fucking eyes closed [bwah!] then make sure that nigga see you before his fucking eye’s close!”

Young Kannon defeats Money Bagz

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Recap: Here we find a couple of old Grind Time vets, Young Kannon and Money Bagz, finally meeting up to go at it on the URL/Smack stage. 1st round is the only decisive round with YK’s usual emotive assortment of killer (“Make a Stone Cold entrance, yunno, the glass break when a bald head rush through the door?, I’m dancing with the sweeper, that’s Turbo in front of the store!”) punches and fierce wordplay easily beating back a staid turn from Money Bagz that featured way too many outdated bars. The middle round saw things get more competitive as Bagz lifted up his energy and delivered with some rich (“Oh, you got a gun up on your waist?, well that’s how you get your dome split, reverse psychology, I’ll take it from you and hit you with your own shit!”) set-ups and aggressive punchlines. However, coming off resoundingly consistent throughout this battle, YK hits right back with a potent mix of witty (“Your girl pussy taste like Starburst…the PINK one!”) bars, heated haymakers and piercing (“Do him dirty, then leave clean, that’s how I’m laundering Money!”) name flips. Behind 0-2 going into the final round, Money Bagz hangs in there with arguably his best (“How you in the field, but left your Shield like Roman Reigns?”) lines. However, a couple of slip-ups resort in the Team Homi member choking at the end, thus giving the round away to what was a pretty standard turn by YK.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Catch him rolling up in his vehicle, throw 10 in a car, have half the body hanging out the whip like Kendrick Lamar!”

Young Kannon defeats Stricc

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Recap: Against the underrated puncher Stricc, Young Kannon survives a spitfire 2nd round from his stoic, but still combative opponent with his own plethora of able-bodied punchlines, stinging personals, righteous mayhem and festive gun bars in both the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “We don’t care about your time in jail, ‘cuz all real nigga’s did time too for grinding sales, big ass bags…I could take T-Top’s mama from his clientele!”

Young Kannon defeats Dre Vishiss

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Recap: Plenty of hot bars dished from both Young Kannon and Dre Vishiss adds up to a fiery one-round matchup from West Coast Elites. However, a more resilient with the punchlines and less-reaching YK does more than enough to get fitted the crown at the end.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “The toaster with me, load and empty, kill or wheelchair him, turn a Grape Street into a Rolling 60!”

Danny Myers defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: In this matchup of Chicago versus the West-coast, Danny Myers does prove to be ‘Too much!” for Young Kannon, consistently dishing righteous (“I don’t know what in the fuck made you think you could see my nigga, a shot through a Chicago knee, is really the PG killer!”) metaphorical wordplay, fiery rebuttals, potent (“You ain’t worth a punch, I got something special for you, I’ll backhand you so hard, cops can use the echo for proof!”) bars, steady angles (“Tupac whupped Joe Torry ass, if y’all seen Poetic Justice then you’ll know how we do Chicago on the West coast!”; “Small errors in this city and your soul get lift, you won’t make it to your 60s, you better watch who you Rolling with!”) and even political briefings to beat what was an overall (“I’m a universal charger, I got a plug for everything!”) solid (but filler-prone, esp. in rounds 1 and 2) turn from the ever (“The only thing worse than your performance is your music!”) reliable YK. Indeed, still showing plenty of heart going into the 3rd round, it’s Kannon’s hard (“Back shot…have him walking like he 9 months pregnant!”) punches and a roundhouse of hitting (“You told Bigg K ‘my crew is like nigga’s in Italian suits, we got mob ties’, you a bitch trying to fit in with the killers, you the Mob Wives!”) personals that edges the 3rd after what looked to be an insurmountable (“I’ll let the .4 ring on his face like brass knuckles!”) turn from Myers.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I’ll come to the South side, aim at your throat and let the mill spark twice, them gonna be the ugliest shots in Chicago since Bill Cartwright!”

Charlie Clips defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: Fiery, competitive 1-rounder from Go-Rilla Warfare sees the ever-reliable Young Kannon display yet another dope effort spouting raucous punches and head-ringing mayhem with little on the filler side. Still, for all of his opponent’s righteous bedlam, an aggressive and biting Charlie Clips equipped with a load of potent schemes, flexing punchlines/name flips, feelgood rebuttals/freestyles and scathing wordplay/personals proves to be too much for even Y.K. in the end.

Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “Let me find out you gonna shower me and leave me slumped in the tub, when the last time you showed your strap?, exactly, you an uncomfortable stud!”

Young Kannon defeats Michael Ice

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Recap: Never one to leave the crib without a shitload of blistering gun bars, along with some fiery name flips, ringing punchlines and a couple of quality personals, Young Kannon comes well equipped to make quick work of a solid and gritty, but not as potent Michael Ice in this 3-rounder from Alpha League.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “You rep the .5, I’m testing a Blood, that’s a phlebotomy!”

Young Kannon defeats SammyWild 100’s

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Recap: In this fiery 3-rounder from Go-Rilla Warfare, SammyWild 100’s delivers the most memorable round, a well-angled and personal-lit 3rd that Young Kannon may’ve had to do some explaining for after the battle. But before that YK’s sublime schemes, persistent mayhem, piercing punchlines, fine wordplay and witty/mocking personals hit with enough consistent heat to take the earlier rounds for the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “How y’all want it? I could walk up….44 the nigger, or take the knifeand turn his other cheek like I ignored the nigger!”

Young Kannon defeats Fettuccine20

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Recap: Who knew that Young Kannon was such a (“Trust me, you ain’t waling through these sparks, you ain’t Goldberg!”) wrestling fan? Nonetheless, a good battle between the visiting YK and East Harlem up-n-comer Fettuccine20 pretty much comes down to round 1, esp. when you put aside a debatable (and fairly weak on both parts) second round and a debatable (and pretty dope on both parts) 3rd. And it’s YK who takes the only clearly non-debatable round, using queasy (“Outside his mom’s building ready to murk a nigga, she’ll see clear when I give 20 .20, that’s perfect vision”!) gun bars, filthy name (“Fettuccine need seasoning, I don’t mean powdered garlic, I’m cooking this nigga…from Trap House to the Olive Garden!”) flips and serene wordplay to squeeze past what was an at times ( “……where I’m from nigga’s only worried if a nigga wave an arm AFTER he reach”; “Nigga I’m a pimp, my bitch wear heels, that’s two pumps in the mac, like an African with a baby, this shit will put Young on his back”) fiery, but way too inconsistent turn by Fettuccine20.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Have him bleeding on his porch, his mama outside crying, screaming ’cause she hoarse, bullets toru guides with your name on it, lead him to the Lord, the metal twist Fettuccine like I’m eating with a fork!”

Young Kannon defeats Cannon ThaBeast

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Recap: In this 1-rounder from SpitDatHeat, Cannon ThaBeast’s love for gun bars allows him to score some shiners here and there in this, But a repetitive display of mayhem from ThaBeast along with a more diverse pen from Young Kannon–who not only scores with his own set of gun theatrics, but also some fierce schemes, soldi wordplay, name flips and airy punchlines–gets the kid from the Southside of Chicago another win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Why the fuck they got your man amped?, what you put in ink is barely above ass, you a tramp stamp!”

Cortez defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: It’s battles this like where just when you think he’s falling off Cortez reminds you of why he belongs in the top tier. Consistent with the aggression, spitting humbling (“Honestly you like the can, you’d suck a mean cock for a loosie and a Sprite but damn, he play for the D, ain’t that a coincidence he likes to Ram?, that’s why faggots get cut quicker than Michael Sam”) jokes, punchlines, gritty gun bars and confident with his (“I’m quick to get it shaking outside the ring, Freddie Roach”) metaphors and heavy wordplay, Cortez takes out Young Kannon, who brought plenty of (“Hell you beat Tek and Ill on Smack, but then the Vault 3-0’d you!”) heat, nicely rebutted Tez’s lines about that spelling error (“I left the ‘L’ off the shirt so I could give to you”) in his blog and spit some dope schemes with his usual moxie, but overall overplayed some angles/themes and failed to match his opponent’s efficiency and sharp assortment of bars.

Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cortez – “You, you just need to grind, your career?, it stays here, there’s no peak [just] decline, what the fuck I gotta spell it out?, oh he don’t see the signs?, well, it’s obvious, even Floyd could read between the lines”

Young Kannon defeats D. Flamez

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Synopsis: Battle of the aggressive YN’s was definitely competitive throughout, but YK took it a notch in round 3, getting more versatile with the (“Better have your cousin in the Will [wheel] that’s Hillary Banks, ‘cuz you die in this ring, that’s Hillary Swank!”) wordplay, bars, performance and schemes to take the win.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: D. Flamez – “That bitch remind me of Daylight Savings Time, an hour a head [ahead]”

Chilla Jones defeats Young Kannon

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Synopsis: I think Chilla said it best here: “I don’t waste lines”. While the underrated YK brought it with typical energy and performance behind his gritty bars (“[This] the lame boyfriend versus the side nigga who’s smashing two”). Where YK fails is his lack of ingenuity. For example, that “I just spelled your name out and you ain’t even know it” scheme, while nice, has been done before…by Chilla. Plus there was a little too much filler in between his best bars (esp. not good for a one-rounder, just ask Goodz who kills one-rounders). Also, some of his lines were nonsensical (that “Ginobili…free throw” diss was ass-backwards when you consider the facts) and his best line of the night might’ve been towards a guy he wasn’t battling: “I never got robbed in my own hood, I ain’t Cortez” (although that “You tell niggas to hold on to your words, then you drop the ball” and “Your hairline should have a nickname, LeHitman James” jokes were too funny). Then too the irony here is that not only does Chilla Jones do schemes better than YK, but the only reason he gets called “boring” by his peers and some battle rap fans is because too many of his bars go over their heads (talk about needing the rewind button) upon first listening.

So forget the biased home crowd as Chilla gets the win here, immediately addressing YK on his style disses (“I rap depressing and lack aggression, right? It’s simple, well my niggas will put a hole in your face, I tell them pull (dimple)”), adding a dope car scheme in the middle and finishing YK off with a “sex offender” scheme that even had his opponent nodding his head in agreement. Condensed bars, less filler, better personals together with killer wordplay throughout….it’s Jones all day.

Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 1-0

Best line: Chilla Jones – “Lemme ask you, who demand a kill and think Kannon will? Well please don’t, cuz he wont but I can n’ will, I’m a fire at his tire, let a clip hit Kannon wheel, somebody write Kannon will, then when he die in debt, his daughter will owe (Willow) like Kannon will (Will))”

Real Deal defeats Young Kannon

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Synopsis: Young Kannon and Real Deal always put on a good show and either one could’ve pulled this one out. But even though both of these guys 3rd rounds didn’t nearly live up to the bars, schemes and performance that they put out in rounds 1 and 2, I thought Real Deal edged round 3 to get the win.

Verdict: Real Deal (W) 2-1

Best Line: Real Deal – “That’s why nobody out here believes you when you acting like you so hard, you probably convert to Islam in the back of a patrol car”

M. Ciddy defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: Young Kannon had the hometown crowd, some nice (props to Denzel) schemes, a good performance and personals, but it wasn’t near enough to beat the total barfest put on here by M. Ciddy. From machismo (“This win is so clear like Jordan 11’s”) lines to intricate (“Topics I’ll address a couple like wedding planning, spark boom walk in a darkroom and develop Canon [Kannon]”) wordplay to precision (“You got killed by a dancer, nigga you Chris Brown in Stomp the Yard”) bars, one this day anyway Ciddy was that good.

Verdict: M. Ciddy (W) 2-1

Favorite line: M. Ciddy – “And you so corny and sensitive, you Chicago nigga, brush it off like Joe Torry”

Young Kannon defeats Real Talk

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Synopsis: Young Kannon delivers enough nice punchlines, schemes and exquisite wordplay to overcome a clearly biased host and admitted Barry White lookalike in Real Talk.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “This a televised practice, these my second-string bars on him”

Scripts defeats Young Kannon

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Synopsis: I remember Scripps from his battle with B-Magic, so I knew he’d bring his A-game here. And against an earnest YK, you knew this would be a good battle. I had it tied after round one, but Scripps was more consistent and delivered better bars and personals in round 3 to earn the W.

Verdict: Scripts (W) 2-1

Best line: (tie) YK – “Kidnap ya shortie and hold her longer than Smack footage” and Scripts – “The way she sucking on the dick, Kan I got your bitch rubber-necking, fuck her from the back, look like I’m discount double-checking”

Young Kannon and Lil Dave [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Lil Dave is funny as hell, came creative too with the “let me ask you a questions” lines, has some nice bars, knows how to storytell and can clearly play to the crowd. That said, while YK came hitting with the bars, there wasn’t much variety, he had a couple of slight stumbles and you’ve seen him hit harder as well as come with more consistent heat. So with all being fair, URL rapper vs. non-URL rapper and all, this one is a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Lil Dave – “And in your battle vesus JC you said some shit that was so untrue, you said you was blowing la with those Milwaukee niggas, Nigga we was smoking with YOU!”

Young Kannon defeats C-Boy Folgaz

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Recap: In a totally one-sided matchup, the very basic and pedestrian bars of C-Boy Folgaz whittle down to lint when put up against a slow-to-start-but-eventually turned-up Young Kannon’s fiery gun bars and relentless punchlines.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Your bitch gave me the fish, I went ham on that tilapia!”

JC defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: Despite some oft-hilarious personals that included JC allegedly stealing Smack’s money in club as well Young Kannon spouting entertaining schemes/storytelling bars on his opponent’s infamous Chris Stokes video, it’s YK’s elongated rounds and hit-n-miss wordplay/punches that end up hurting in the long run, leaving a more consistent JC, who dished his own fire set of personals, Mexican jokes and fiery gun bars/punchlines throughout the battle, with a a clear round 1 vic, before edging the 3rd for the win.

Verdict: JC (W) 2-1

Favorite line: JC – “I extort ho’s, twist the silencer on the floor slow, and muzzle the piece, make it sound like the torch flowing in Morse code!

Swave Sevah defeats Young Kannon

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Synopsis: Overall, a good show from Young Kannon, but against this A-game version of Swave Sevah he would’ve needed to put on the performance of your life. And unlike his recent battle against B-Magic, Kannon just didn’t have enough stamina to deliver it here.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Best line: Swave Sevah – “You a young kannon [cannon], the fuck is that? a .22?”

Young Kannon defeats B. Magic

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Synopsis: Not a huge upset, but an upset nonetheless with an underwheling B. Magic seemingly not taking Young Kannon seriously and it showed throughtout this battle what with YK bringing his typical aggression, but matching it with a bunch of fiery gun bars, personals and even schemes. Overall, one of YK’s better showings.

Verdict:  Young Kannon (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “My ‘matic buries adversaries, 16 shots will knock the dust off of Ashy Larry!”

Young Kannon defeats Sco

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Recap: An exhilarating 2nd round from Young Kannon is the main highlight here in this 3-roundr from URL/Smack. With YK’s more condensed and stronger bars taking the 1st and Sco edging the 3rd with slightly more hardbody lines, overall it’s a vic for the Chicago native.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “You getting fried and cooked nigga…Crisco, you got cookies and you got robbed, now that’s Nabisco!”

Young Kannon defeats Nuborn

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Recap: Early one-round Proving Grounds matchup finds Nuborn delivering most of his better lines towards…rappers (Hitman Holla, Big T) that aren’t his opponent, allowing to Young Kannon to get a relatively easy win with a barrage of heated punchlines, funny jokes and stirring wordplay.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Young Kannon – “I’ll whip this faggot’s flow, fast or slow, your rap’s a joke, that’s why this new born only grew up to be an average Joe!”

Tay Roc defeats Young Kannon

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Synopsis: Roc takes the last two rounds to edge this one from the always energetic Young Kannon.

Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Tay Roc – “And don’t speak bad ’bout my city, you ain’t never been through The Wire, you Kanye before the crash”

O-Red defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: Here we find Young Kannon basically sticking to one (“Get you fucked up while I’m tuxed up, that Tommy out that white suit won’t be a Power Ranger”) script: 101 Ways To Bully and Kill O-Red. which worked towards the beginning, but for the most part got tired and repetitive towards the mid and later chapters. Meanwhile, O-Red’s consistency and versatility was stayed (“I’m five notches above God status!”) lofty with a rapid mix of entertaining (“Gotta clip that’ll Pick 6, I play the Lotto with the .8”) wordplay. bully bars, name flips and wicked punchlines to earn the win.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-1

Favorite line: O-Red – “Hey Verb, he swagger-jacking your style, I just called him AdVerb and that faggot’s cracking a smile”

Young Kannon defeats Big Kannon

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Recap: In this early matchup of Kannon vs. Kannon, it’s Young K who edges it with more consistency with his bars, staying animated throughout while spazzing on everything from what he’d do to his opponent’s kids to taking down Big Kannon’s street cred. While Big K started out hard during the first half of his round, he fell flat towards the end and could’ve did more with the “You my son” angle.

Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Big Kannon – “I think nuts sometimes, I wanna treat him, evil as hell, when he come to my door, with his lawnmower, ringing my bell”