Recap: Plenty of fire moments in this gritty 3-rounder from RBE between Snake Eyez and Heavy Half (who replaced Head Ice for this match) with the Chicago rhyme-slinger throwing some fiery shots at URL while defending his home RBE turf when he wasn’t spouting a gang of rigid name flips, hitting gun bars and flexing punchlines throughout the battle. Snake Eyez, however, took it up a notch during his turns. The Harlem battler not only scoring with his usual mix of prison life exploits, but also tossing in a slew of spicy wordplay, piercing name flips, boastful darts and hardbody punches to make for a debatable 1st round, before taking the 2nd round and edging the 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “I said little nigga, be happy for this card you on, Omarion…Ice Box!”
Recap: Really dope 3-rounder from West Coast Elites between Da Kid Clutch and Rum Nitty sees Clutch go crazy with a versatile showing of fire personals, gully street darts and rigid name flips/punchlines while Nitty (outside of an extremely short 1st round that he seemingly called quits on due to forgetting his bars) did his part in making this battle sublime with a gang of exceptional gun bars, piercing punchlines and a bit surprisingly (for Nitty anyway) hitting displays of witty barbs and rankling personals. Altogether a close one with Clutch taking the first round and Nitty taking the 2nd, a crazy-on-both-sides 3rd gets edged by a slightly more punch-heavy Nitty to earn the win.
Verdict: Rum Nitty (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “Torture, lift a stick, blizzy drip, this the last time you gonna see him on the mic [Mike]…’This Is It’!”
Recap: Still recognized all these years later as one of the best punchers in the game, a stumble-free B. Magic flexes his punch-game with a gang of sizzling name flips, piercing wordplay, witty barbs and hitting personals/gun bars to earn a win over a pretty solid, stunting and punch-heavy, but overall not quite-as-potent Coffee Brown in what was a dope 3-round (score it a debatable 1st with Magic edging both of the latter rounds) matchup from URL, that could’ve been even better if not for Danja Zone’s constant overreactions looking on from the crowd.
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B. Magic – “She a thot, had niggas fuckin’ until her tracks fell out, at Coffee crib, they used to call that bitch the Maxwell House!”
Recap: A couple of things that always leaves you shaking your head in battle rap: dudes who can’t separate street shit from battles and battlers who get pissed at the audience for cheering on one of their lines. That said, no contest here as Teewhy’s florescent gun bars, boastful darts, fiery name flips and sizzling punchlines/wordplay combine to easily beat back a mostly mediocre Chris Hood in this 1-rounder from GOTG.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Teewhy – “Buck-fifty to the face ‘cuz I’m generous, I come back to the hood with a smile…it’s a fundraiser!”
Recap: Dope 1-rounder from the Colisseum Battle League between Swagtanna and Teewhy offers up a competitive display of spicy set-ups/name flips and smooth darts from Swag, while Teewhy brought the heat with his own dose of blistering gun bars, a boatload of hitting name flips and fiery punchlines/personals. And while both battlers kept it on-point with a barrage of hitting lines, it’s Teewhy’s ability to outscore his opponent on the haymakers that made the difference here.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Teewhy – “Head shot on his sewing machine…mean, he was literally minding his business!”
Recap: Took him getting off ‘Zen mode’, but versus the heat coming opponent Franchise’s prolific trap talk, gun bars and righteous personals, after edging the 1st round and then getting out-punched in the 2nd, Th3 Saga summons an aggressive and uplifting set of boastful shiners, hitting punchlines and piercing wordplay to take the deciding 3rd round for the win.
Verdict: Th3 Saga (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Th3 Saga – “Ninja blade, you throw a star at a Franchise, you get a Dynasty!”
Recap:League of Championship Kulture 1-rounder between Geechi Gotti and Young NASA sees the latter put on a loud and boisterous, but also versatile, personal-lit, funny at times and punch-heavy showing that was impressive on its own. But flexing off the jump with a couple of spicy rebuttals and then delivering a resounding display of righteous name flips, piercing punchlines, boastful darts, witty barbs and spirited mayhem/personals, Gotti is able to thwart his opponent’s competitive turn with an even better round of bar efficiency and execution.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Nigga, don’t you owe me bread, what you finna to do?, ‘cuz I’ll kidnap his boo, meaning if I don’t get my other half nigga neither will you!”
Recap: Confident enough in his raps to go first even with the coin flip coming out in his favor, an aggressive throughout Real Sikh puts a dope show with a wide load of loaded punchlines, witty darts, mocking personals and crazy nice set-ups. But damn if Chilla Jones didn’t take this Rookies vs. Vets battle seriously, the Boston King Pen scoring with a couple of fire rebuttals when he wasn’t also lighting up the scoreboard with a gang of sizzling name/bar flips, steely gun bars, boastful shiners, belittling vet talk, spicy 4-bar set-ups/punches and fiery wordplay/personals that coupled with a two condensed turns in the opening rounds gives Jones the win before a debatable 3rd.
Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “Real Sikhs can’t even cut their hair, so it’s ironic that you want this fade now!”
Recap: Pretty solid 3-rounder from League of Championship Kulture ends up a draw as a (“I ain’t come to talk about the skeletons in ya closet, but I got a bone to pick!”) punchline-lit Baby James delivers a slightly cleaner 1st round to edge things there, before a more condensed, punch-heavy, raucous and versatile Danny Myers returns the favor and edges the 2nd. 3rd round is another goodie with some hitting name flips/wordplay from Danny and more fiery mayhem/gun bars/personals from James. But surprising once again with another condensed turn that also spouted a couple of nice rebuttals, allows Danny to earn a draw for the final round and make this one debatable.
Verdict: Debatable
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Ain’t you a boxer?, ain’t no fight, I got the right route for this nigger, ‘cuz once I hot James’ toe knee [Toney], it’s Lights Out for this nigger!”
Recap: That ‘Where I’m from, Black lives still matter…unless that nigga still standing at the other side!’ line from gritty, Kid Chaos sound-alike Poppy G was hard. As was a bunch of other hardbody rhymes and storytelling bars by Mr. G in this 3-rounder from 5th Dimension Battle League. Too bad for Poppy tho, as a more condensed Emerson Kennedy spouting a gang of spirited, highly potent 4-bar punches to go along with fluorescent schemes and slick wordplay would be efficient in earning the 30.
Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “If Pop was a kernel first, I’m just making concessions!”
Recap: In this competitive 1-rounder from GOTG, a solid, gritty and mayhem-lit showing from Funeral F.A.M.E. gets beats by the graphic street hustling tales, heavy gun bars and stinging punchlines from Kyd Slade.
Verdict: Kyd Slade (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Kyd Slade – “We ain’t never like super heroes ‘cuz we always had bad luck with public defenders!”
Recap: Quick to segue from written’s to off-the-dome hijinks due to his amazing freestyle ability, the ever-witty and spontaneous AR-16 still makes for a memorable show. But in this 1-rounder from Kill Switch Battle League against Ish Mulah, a lack of steady heat from AR combined with a combative Mulah dropping a boatload of bruising punchline after punchline to go with some piercing personals and plenty of mayhem, gives Ish an impressive win when you consider too that his opponent rapped twice as long as he did.
Verdict: Ish Mulah (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Ish Mulah – “Quick to give him the first shot like loosen up!”
Recap: Dope 3-rounder from RBE finds Chef Trez and O-Red doing what they do with mostly fiery results. The Chef, after getting edged by a more potent Red in the 1st round, steps up his recipe game in the latter rounds, using a spicy mix of flexing rebuttals, hitting gun lines and stirring/braggadocio (“I took your spot, it’s mine’s now, give me your honors, you removed the ‘locks, I grew the ‘locks, I was more fit for the roster [Rasta]!”) punchlines to make for a debatable 2nd round, before edging the 3rd over his ever-confident opponent, who while consistently spicy/personal and wordplay-lit throughout the battle, fell a little too hard on cuisine-related punches and rebuts that fell a little flat, which in turn helped to cost Red his edge as the battle proceeded.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: O-Red – “I’ll throw a left hook that’ll floor a pup, then the four will bust, head shot, ringing a Chef bell like ‘Order up!'”
Recap: Not sure what happened here as in this Quarantine battle from Body Bag Battles as we get two rounds from B Magic and only one from his opponent PG. Either way, PG’s consistently gritty and raucous punches easily beat a solid, but shortened Magic in ’round 1′. But since only Magic makes an appearance in ’round 2′, we’ll have to call this one a tie.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: PG – “This ratchet will let you down like she ain’t in the mood!”
Recap: Midwest vets with plenty of memorable Summer Madness exploits, Calicoe and Aye Verb, go at it for 3 rounds at SM 2020 and it’s certainly a goodie with plenty of lyrical stunting, boastful barbs and piercing personals to keep it competitive what with Verb peeking through the 1st round before Cal edged the 2nd. The deciding 3rd? Another close one that saw both battlers cook with a wide load of rich similes, braggadocios heat and fiery 4-bar setups, but in the end a way more condensed Calicoe gets the round and the win.
Verdict: Calicoe (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Calicoe – “My stamina ain’t some shit that you wanna stand against, you rambling, my bars consist of with what I’m standing in, nigga, I was 12 when I found out sandwich bags was for sandwiches!”
Recap: Both Too Major and Loso bring a lot of hot personals and punchlines to this 1-round battle from Florida battle league BearArmz. A close and competitive matchup with a dope effort from each battler, it’s a more consistently spicy, versatile and wordplay/name flip-lit Loso who earns the win in the end.
Verdict: Loso (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Loso – “Couldn’t rap with Loso if you was on a tape with Clue!”
Recap: An aggressive lyrical warfare through and through with some rigid personals here and there from both battler’s, a slightly more consistently hitting, name flip/mayhem-rich, witty at times and wordplay/punch-lit Ill Will takes both of the opening rounds of this URL/Summer Madness 10 matchup vs. John John Da Don for the win, before an angle-bent and spicy when needed JJDD edged the 3rd to avoid the shutout.
Verdict: Ill Will (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ill Will – “I’m the Michael Jodran of this shitm ‘cuz I’m the only one who can get out of space and still ain’t animated!”
Recap: A battle years in the making (and closer than a lot of people have given it credit for), a righteous talking to from K-Shine in round 2 gives the NWX capo the win in this spirited bout versus Chess. The two battlers, who have been forever linked due to them both battle rapping from a very young age, a similarity in styles and course, the near fisticuffs that was produced between the two at Summer Madness, definitely brought their A-games to the battle with Chess getting busy throughout via gritty punchlines, some exquisite wordplay and lucid gun bars/name flips and a performance-heavy Shine doing his thing with more direct personals, fiery schemes, boastful barbs and piercing punches/name flips/gun bars. That said, it’s a more condensed, versatile and gripping Shine who takes both of the opening rounds for the win before a more haymaker-lit Chess snatches up the 3rd to avoid the 30.
Verdict: K-Shine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: K-Shine – “You’d rather place the blame ’cause you got a lane that you ain’t pursuin’, it’s URL, Shine – even yesterday, JayBlac, the stre…everybody but Chess!, nigga, you ain’t influenced, quit playin’ stupid, stop pointin’ your finger and put that boom box on your shoulder, you gotta face the music!”
Recap: Reducing Charlie Clips to 4-bar set-ups and jokey-jokes might work for the Hollow Da Don’s of the word, but it’s probably not a good idea for other battlers to try that concept on him. As a brazen Geechi Gotti–in a battle some had him edging due to that mid-round slip-up in the final round from his opponent–should know by now, Clips isn’t your average, everyday battler. Nah, along with the often sizzling set-ups and witty barbs, one also has to look out for a fly rebuttal game, head-ringing schemes, ill personals and as showcased here, the potential for off-the-dome heat at any moment. That said, a competitive and altogether dope Summer Madness 10 bout from Clips and Gotti sees a more punch/set-up-heavy and versatile Charlie take the opening round while a more condensed, impression-friendly, (“We all know this ain’t the same Clips we been watching, this nigga edited!”) righteous and haymaker-lit Geechi edged the 2nd. The last round, crazy, alluring and intense on both sides with plenty of well-aimed personals to spare, would see the continually hard-hitting Clips’ dish a couple of spicy rebuttals to go along with a bunch of flexing/race-centric personals and a gang of room-shifting freestyles that would not only make up for the aforementioned slip-up, but overall allow the Harlem vet to edge what was an effective, unusually (for him, anyway) uber-righteous, but not as head-ringing turn from Gotti.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “With 18k’s I feel like an Ultimate Madness check…after taxes!”
Recap: Da Smoke of NY does a nice B. Magic impression and kicked a gang of gritty, but mostly pedestrian lines, but in this 1-rounder from Kill Switch Battle League, Magic’s consistent barrage of sizzling gun bars, suave name flips and piercing punchlines to be too much in the end.
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 1-0
Favorite line: B. Magic – “I’m about to go nuts with the mil [meal] like Five Guys!”
Recap: Continually spicy for 3 rounds with a boatload of greasy gun bars, flexing punchlines, piering name flips and stinging wordplay, NXT puts up a 30 on an often-gritty, but a little flow-challenged and pedestrian Jayrone in this 3-rounder from The Riot Rap Battles.
Verdict: NXT (W) 3-0
Favorite line: NXT – “You slide out West and be a fucking target, they wave Glocks, Tay Roc…come in Caution!”
Recap: A couple of Winston-Salem, NC, battlers, Glueazy and Punchline, go at it for one round on Body Bag Battle League and its the way more punch-lit Glu who takes it on the end. The Smack vet using a bunch of mocking personals, rigid gun lines, righteous heaters and some brutal mayhem/name flips to handily get the win and keep his stamp on his hometown.
Verdict: Glueazy (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Glueazy – “I like Punch, I’ll spike Punch…[points arm out like a gun] pour the 5th in him!”
Recap: Championship round of URL’s Ultimate Madness 2 tournament between Bill Collector and Holmzie Da God gets the feted Summer Madness 10 platform, a significant first for each battler. Unfortunately however, overall it’s a mostly subpar affair as the two battlers (who happen to be part of the same Loud Boys clique) clearly didn’t bring their respective A-games to the bout and too often at times seemed focused on their ‘brotherhood’ rather than showing us who could rap better. Holmzie, often indirect with his punches and kicking a gang of pedestrian bars in every round, could never match the consistent heat he brought with his wordplay and punchlines that got him to the finals. While Bill, tho seeming to want it more at times, might have been suffering from battling too much late what with his lack of high-kneed hijinks and creativity. Nonetheless someone had to win and the edge here (despite Holmzie winning getting the belt in real time) in each round goes to BC, who overall was more direct and just had better punches, especially in his best round, the 3rd.
Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Bill Collector – “I’m here to seal ya fate, it’s easy to get of rid of Holmes when you from the real estate!”
Recap: Putting aside a fire, punch-heavy and race-angled/neutering 3rd round by Bigg K that won him that turn, the Norfolk, VA, rapper gets beat here by a more versatile, punchline-spazzing, raucous, metaphor-rich and extra witty Mackk Myron. Indeed, even with a slight stumble in round 1, Mackk’s more consistently electric and sometimes performance-heavy punch game stayed on point in both of the opening rounds, allowing the Pontiac, MI, spitter to score more than enough haymakers and edge what were a couple of pretty solid and bullish, but also a bit redundant turns by K for the win.
Verdict: Mackk Myron (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Mackk Myron – “My face, scare more nigga’s than test results!”
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!”
Recap: In this 1-rounder from King of the 5 Battle League, Chilla Jones swats away allegations of stealing bars and an aggressive, but mostly pedestrian Mike Caswell with a steady barrage of fine tuned name flips, a mocking fast-food scheme, fiery gun lines and a gang of piercing punchlines to get the win.
Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “Chilla for a new greeting, sorry to those I’m about to scare, but I’m over ya head with this [Boom!] Mike, just to make it loud and clear!”
Recap: Bar4Bar RBL 1-rounder between Casino and P.A.Y.N.E. is a close one filled to the rim with gritty punchlines, mayhem and plenty of braggadocios darts. Aggressive on both sides with some proverbial subpar punches and name flips mixed in, it’s the slightly more consistently hitting and versatile P.A.Y.N.E. who gets the edge here.
Verdict: P.A.Y.N.E. (W) 1-0
Favorite line: P.A.Y.N.E. – “The hottest in Ohio?, man they just put Casino in that shit last year…GTA online!”
Recap: In what turned out to be a stirring and competitive 3-rounder brought to you from Gates of the Garden, Chuck Book dishing off enough gritty and sometimes witty lines to make for a debatable 3rd round. However, even without the ability to produce the amount of rebuttals we’ve normally witnessed, Chef Trez’s prolific usage of stifling gun bars, boastful darts and head-twisting punchlines were too much for Book in the opening rounds, giving the Chef Life capo another win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You think Corona gonna stop us from being in the streets spinning?, the NBA might’ve cancelled their shooters, but we didn’t!”
Recap: Here in this gritty matchup from URL’s Summer Madness 10, Philly legend Reed Dollaz goes back to ‘Rambo’-mode, utilizing a barrage of piercing name flips, boastful vet talk, raucous heat and some wily personals/punchlines to take the 1st and 2nd rounds (before a debatable 3rd as they both got equally busy) for the win over a gun bar-lit, but not as consistently spicy with the punches Rum Nitty.
Verdict: Reed Dollaz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Reed Dollaz – “Out the trenches, ain’t nobody where I’m from safe Rum, what the fuck is a gun bar to a real gun case?!”
Recap: A close, competitive and spicy Summer Madness 10 battle all the way through with a gang of the usual personals we see on the respective ends of both B. Dot and T-Top, while the witty at times and more angle-licious Top kept things fierce and entertaining throughout, a slightly more intricate, rebuttal-friendly, personal/scheme-lit and name flip/punchline and wordplay-heavy Dot edges each of the opening rounds for the win before a more potent altogether Top handily took the final round.
Verdict: B. Dot (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B. Dot – “Same difference, the game shifted, this caffeine coke nigga finna get knocked out by a woke nigga, and it’s gon’ look like he punching on me, but here’s the noose, I rope a dope nigga, hang it up!”
Recap: Close one-rounder from Step Your Ink Game Up between E-Hart and Dubb Da Feenom features a gang of raucous raps and brazen punches, but in the end while also taking advantage of Hart’s less-than-usual buzzing wordplay, the more steadier hitting and name flip/personal-lit Dubb gets the vic at the end.
Verdict: Dubb Da Feenom (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Dubb Da Feenom – “I came strapped for this occasion like a lesbian date!”
Recap: Pretty solid effort here from Chubby Jag, who outside of a 3rd round that we’ll get to later and one too many name flips, came consistently hard and aggressive against Math Hoffa, with a gang of gritty punches throughout the match that should definitely should put him on par with King Los and 40 Cal when it comes to ‘best-comebacks-to-battle-rap-by-industry-rappers’. Hell, as far as recent comeback’s go, one could easily argue that Jag did way better then his former mentor Cassidy did. That said, there’s no way Jag beat Hoffa here, with the ever combative styling’s of Math fermenting his ground in the opening rounds with a boatlaod of bullish punchlines, fiending wordplay, rich metaphorical darts and enough mocking personals to remind you of the wide range Hoffa has when it comes to his pen. As for round 3? A story in itself with Jag getting extra greasy what with a turn almost entirely dedicated to the recent rape allegations that were publicly made against his opponent. Yet, surely, this being battle rap, Math had to know somebody was going to eventually bring it up. And yeah, as personal and sensitive as the subject matter was, Math getting riled up and walking away on stage while Jag rapped and leaving at the end without shaking hands, was certainly understandable. But no, unless it stops a battle from proceeding, unsportsmanlike conduct like that shouldn’t cost you the round…not that it matters anyway since Jag’s storytelling and execution was so point in the 3rd that it won him the round anyway and saved him from getting 30’d.
Verdict: Math Hoffa (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Math Hoffa – “Pussy, this our house, you on some distant cousin shit, we the kids that jumped on the bed just because we loved the shit!”
Recap: In this 1-rounder from Kill Switch Battle League, Real Deal gets off to a hot start with a gang of fiery punchlines that were backed by some dope wordplay. However, with a drop on overall potency during the final 3rd part of his round, R.D. risked losing the match what with an elongated turn. But any chance of challenger Henny #3 pulling off an upset would be taken away 2 minutes into what was a resounding start via a surprising choke, thus giving Deal the vic.
Verdict: Real Deal (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Real Deal – “I’m not the burden you should bear homie, I am a grizzly, you don’t want me on ya neck like a side bitch’s hickey!”
Recap: Assisted by a heapful of research done on his opponent and withstanding a few recycled bars here and there, Prep makes a dope return to the URL stage, unloading a steady barrage of piercing punchlines, fine-tuned personals, some flexing wordplay/name flips and other residual heat/mayhem to overtake a solid and sometimes dogmatic, but overall not-as-potent effort from Emerson Kennedy in this 3-rounder from Smack.
Verdict: Prep (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Prep – “I’ll pick up EK with the AR like alphabet soup!”
Recap: Getting in a battle a week before Summer Madness, Ill Will isn’t quite able to bring his A-game. But in a 1-rounder versus a solid-punching, but elongated and dated at times Dallas Cash, Will’s pedigree for strong set-ups, rambunctious punchlines, witty darts and stirring mayhem/gun lines still hold’s up enough to gain the win.
Verdict: Ill Will (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Ill Will – “I click and clap, gun butt, this side of the serial [cereal] ain’t nutrition facts!”
Recap: Remote, one-round Covid-19 battle from ROBR between Chef Trez and Acezero goes the Atlanta vet’s way as the Chef Life capo gets busy with an insurmountable amount of spicy gun bars and flexing wordplay to handily beat back an earnest rapping, but mostly indirect and overall pedestrian Acezero.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Do the math, if I shoot you two times Zero, it won’t be nothing left!”
Recap: Prez Mafia uses a steady barrage of slinging gun bars, hard-hitting personals and fiery punchlines to beat back a solid and mayhem-bent, but oft-redundant turn by Yung Murk in this 1-rounder from GOTG.
Verdict: Prez Mafia (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Prez Mafia – “Big gun…that’s not a growl!”
Recap: For the opening rounds anyway, a dope one here between Piranha and MYJ with the latter’s slick wordplay and gritty punchlines going toe-to-toe with the Detroit rapper’s steely darts and righteous street accolades. But with Piranha also adding some spicy personals/set-ups/punches, earnest vet talk and piercing gun bars of his own to the mix and MYJ fading down the stretch to the point of slipping-up a couple of times and eventually giving up his final round, after a 1st round debatable and edging round 2 of this 3-rounder from Onsite Battle League, it’s a 30 for Piranha.
Verdict: Piranha (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Piranha – “Loyalty, what type of friends he got?, one’s that’ll leave him in a cell, hit him with a shell, he gonna go to hell, .12 take his wig off…Madea Goes To Jail!”
Recap: Naw’lins up-n-comer Boogie impresses throughout this 3-rounder, spouting a boatload of fierce rebuttals, some ill personals and raucous punchlines to keep things competitive here in this Bayou Battle League match against Chef Trez. But after a fire, debatable 1st round, the Chef pulls away from his opponent in the latter rounds, using some spicy rebuttals/freestyles on his own, piercing name flips and a barrage of hard-hitting punches/gun bars/4-bar setups to take the 2nd round before edging the 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I don’t fuck with you, get every accomplishment from your past tooken, you the type that like to explain yaself, that’s bad looking, start talking and get shot, fuck a ass-whupping, all that extra lip will help you catch a AR…like Vlad footage!”
Recap: From URL’s Ultimate Madness 2, in a competitive battle filled with plenty of religious themes, piercing personals and gritty punchlines from both battlers, a cleaner-flowing, gun bar flexing and more consistently hitting Ryda takes rounds 1 and 3 from Loso (who seemingly pulled out the exact same shirt his opponent had on in round 3?!?) for the win.
Verdict: Ryda (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ryda – “You give him all the glory and yourself none?, ok, well here’s the issue, 6th man, you feel like that shot only good if the spirit is with you!”
Recap: Quarterfinal Ultimate Madness 2 battle between Bill Collector and Nunn Nunn was (residual name flips and personals aside) pretty much a punchfest, with both battlers offering up equally spirited efforts in their efforts to win. That said, a comfortable-in-his-skin, rebuttal dropping and punch-heavier Bill Collector with less-than-usual antics and a more consistently spicy pen game, manages to get the win, taking the first two rounds before a 3rd round debatable.
Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Bill Collector – “Man, I might bring pumps, the 9 cool, 50 on me, Ja Rule, squeezing out a window like Big T at a drive-thru!”
Recap: Queen of the Ring 3-round battle between Fiirst Ladii Flamez and Robin Rhymes featured some hard-hitting punchlines, salacious personals, boastful barbs, righteous gun bars and plenty of Jakkboy Maine mentions. And while both ladies also suffered from a case of hiccups here and there, the battle itself stayed competitive with Rhymes attempting to make the case that she can flow just as nice as she looks, while Flamez, in full-pressed gangsta mode here, did pretty well for someone who reportedly battled on only 2 weeks prep. Round 2 is the difference maker however what with a punch-heavier Flamez taking round 1, while Rhymes, in part due to her opponent struggling with her flow, took round 2. That said, despite a dope turn from Robin, a more condensed and rebuttal-lit Flamez gets the edge here in the middle round for the win.
Verdict: Fiirst Ladii Flamez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Fiirst Ladii Flamez – “…Flamez ain’t lady like, facts, but I’d rather be respected on 10 toes than just admired on my back!”
Recap: While True Indeed was dialing up a gang spicy personals and hardbody punches in this close 1-rounder from We Go Hard, a slightly more consistently gritty and name flip/punch/wordplay-lit Steams gets the edge here.
Verdict: Steams (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Steams – “This nigga sick, ‘cuz I’m Joe Jackson…go get the switch!”
Recap: Rookies vs. Vets battle between Jey The Nitewing and Shotgun Suge might’ve had a different outcome if Shotgun Suge didn’t struggle with his flow and shorten his latter two rounds as Suge was coming pretty nice throughout with the name flips and punches. Then too, faced against a night-quite-on-his-A-game Jey The Nitewing who took on a more straightforward, witty and highly personal approach throughout the battle (which for the most part worked) then the more intricate punches we’re used to seeing, even with Jey taking the latter two rounds for the win, Shotgun would have every right to point the finger at himself for losing this battle.
Verdict: Jey The Nitewing (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jey The Nitewing – “I seen that little bike trail you be going, yeah that shit ends at a Wendy’s!
Recap: Normally under-the-radar battle between J. Murda and Staccz received plenty of hype due to allegations surrounding Staccz seeking out Murda to buy bars from him some years back. And while you’d think that having a stain of purchasing bars on ya back might motivate a rapper, outside of a gritty, punch-heavy 3rd round by Staccz, this one was all Murda as the FTW capo (helped by his, by that point pretty listless opponent choking away his 2nd round) used a plethora of mocking personals, hard-hitting name flips, solid wordplay and rigid punchlines to prove the bite of his pen and easily take the opening rounds for the win.
Verdict: J. Murda (W) 2-1
Favorite line: J. Murda – “Buck 50, take a piece off Staccs [stacks], I need a portion!”
Recap: Using a steady barrage of feisty gun bars, some sound wordplay and piercing punchlines/4-bar set-ups, a surprisingly, for most part, freestyle-lacking Prep still manages to beat the brakes off a mayhem-dishing, but topsy-turvy Deranged in this 1-rounder from GOTG.
Verdict: Prep (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Prep – “You thought I would just come in here and sleep on you, huh?, it’s like a fire drill, I know you not a threat but I’m gonna treat you like one!”
Recap: A punch-fest between Chilla Jones and Jerry Wess goes Chilla’s way as the Boston rapper’s (who also came with a handful of nice rebuttals) more intricate darts, stinging name flips, fiery personals and buoyant wordplay/schemes in the first two rounds gave him the win in this competitive 3-round matchup, before both combatants stepped up their versatility and bar efficiency in the final round to make that one a debatable.
Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “Man I could see your man’s is nervous, every hand that lands stretch out Wess [West]…Louisiana Purchase!”
Recap: If you’re going to do a battle outside, you probably shouldn’t do it less than a block away from an elevated train station. But this frequently interrupted 1-rounder from The Battle Academy was still a goodie as Jersey rapper Steel, despite a slow start and a near choke at the end, was able to drop a barrage of gritty punchlines, braggadocious darts and piercing personals to make it close. However, with an oft-righteous talking Bill Collector spouting a better and well-connected flow along with some hard-hitting personals/storytelling, freestyles and punchlines, you can chalk up another win for Double-Bar Bill.
Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Bill Collector – “The street’s been missing you, but bro that street shit isn’t you, the most gangsta shit you ever did was stand up for some shit you didn’t do!”
Recap: Rookies vs. Vets 2 matchup between Eazy the Block Captain and Cortez goes Eazy’s way as the boastful Philly rapper’s hot wordplay/name flips, more direct and hitting personals, gritty street semantics and fiery storytelling hit with enough flair to take both the 1st and 2nd rounds over a solid and versatile, but mostly par the course ‘Tez, before a 3rd round debatable.
Verdict: Eazy the Block Captain (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Eazy the Block Captain – “Nigga, you fraudulent and why we doing all this talking shit and what the fuck we got to speak about the 3rd round Cort?, my judge don’t listen to closing arguments!”
Recap: Some dope wordplay and residual boasts from Danny Myers here and there, doesn’t take away from one too many pedestrian punches from the Bar God over the course of this battle nor a slightly punch-heavier, message-oriented and personal-driven KD landing with a higher ratio of heat in both the 1st and the deciding 3rd round to edge the win here in this tight 3-rounder from STL Street Report.
Verdict: KD (W) 2-1
Favorite line: KD – “You can’t be on ya high horse if ya life is in an unstable position!”
Recap: Dope Ultimate Madness 2 battle between Mr. Wavy and Nunn Nunn that outside of Wavy getting a little political midway through his 2nd round, had all the fiery punchlines, piercing name flips, flexing personals and righteous mayhem one could ask for. Split going into the 3rd round with a punch-heavier Wavy taking the 1st round before Nunn Nunn upped his bar efficiency to take the 2nd, a pretty spitfire and versatile 3rd round on both ends gets edged by Nunn Nunn for having one more haymaker as well as the best line of the round.
Verdict: Nunn Nunn (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Nunn Nunn – “You think you never fell off, you sure?, then why you competing for a Summer Madness reward when you been on Summer Madness before?!”
Recap: Competitive 1-rounder from iBattleTV between Real Sikh and King Jables, while featuring your usual assortment of rousing punchlines, boastful darts and ringing mayhem, goes Sikh’s way as the New Jersey up-n-comer’s added ability to display some wit and alter his flow for some nice rapid-fire schemes as well as Jables one too many dry spots and over-reliance on name flips that didn’t always score, gave Sikh a close win.
Verdict: Real Sikh (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Real Sikh – “You from Kansas, I ain’t gotta spray him with a pound, fuck a gun, I’ll whip a tornado at your house!”
Recap: Shotz Fired Battle Rap League matchup between Chef Trez and Scopes sees the Chef beat back the hardbody and gritty styling’s of his opponent with a gang of head-ringing name flips, piercing gun bars and fly rebuttals/punchlines/schemes to take both of the opening round’s, before a more condensed Scopes delivered enough raucous darts to equate with Chef’s vigor and make for a debatable 3rd.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Squeezing tight till my hand’s is thumping, blood everywhere…but just scoping the scene like I’m planning something!”
Recap: Taking advantage of a surprisingly light 1st round from Emerson Kennedy a with solid enough turn of his own and then spouting enough fire personals and a nice rebuttal to edge round 2, before getting blistered by a much lyrically sharper EK in the 3rd round, Holmzie Da God manages to squeak by in the opening rounds to gain a win and advance to the next round of this Ultimate Madness 2 tournament.
Verdict: Holmzie Da God (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Holmzie Da God – “I’m the bipolar nigger, but you the one that like to play both sided of the spectrum!”
Recap: In a 2nd round Ultimate Madness 2 bout already filled with plenty of nihilism, visceral mayhem and head-twisting punchlines, Danny Myers also adds some piercing name flips and dope wordplay to the mix to help him edge all 3 rounds against a topsy-turvy and sometimes flow-challenged Tink Da Demon.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “You don’t like how Ryda name his guns? me neither, but I will introduce you to my blade…meet [meat] cleaver!”
Recap: Gritty and solid effort by Chaze Banks in this 1-round BattleRap Society match gets beat back by a rebuttal-lit, name flip spazzing, personal-bent and punchline/gun bar potent Chef Trez.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I got real G homies and they be wilding, and ain’t shit to send a G Banks way like I’m depositing a thousand!”
Recap: Yunno, can’t really say that I get all into battlers wardrobe’s while on stage. Sure, some battlers are known for always being fly (which is fine) and some battlers can be pretty dusty (which they have to know will be used against them in future battles), but for the most part I could care less, it’s just all about the bars here. Which leads me to the befuddled reaction towards this Kid Chaos vs. JC battle as for all the love and reaction Chaos has gotten for being such am energetic and versatile spitter of late, seeing him so hellbent on getting personal with JC–for all 3 rounds–just didn’t make any sense. Whether it was a supreme focus on JC wanting to battle Lux (what’s wrong with that?!), JC’s lack of looking spiffy on stage (as long as the guy is clean, what does anyone care if he likes to wear T-shits with baggy pants all the time) or the recent chatter surrounding JC looking rather gaunt (and possibly on drugs) of late (ok, since that topic did receive quite a bit of talk online, one can understand an opponent going there, but then going back to when he battled Chilla, JC has always been a small guy), when it came to personals, too often Chaos (who granted did have some solid schemes and wordplay mixed in) just went overboard while acting like he was the vet in the ring and not his opponent (one loss to Loso doesn’t wipe out JC’s entire resume). And to Chaos’ chagrin, judging from this battle JC was clearly paying attention to all the gossip surrounding him of late as well, because this was a clear 30. Spouting God-like synergy throughout the bout, whether he was dishing a gang of eccentric haymakers in a boastful, flawless and punch/wordplay-lit round 1 and just continuing with more of the same to go along with fire name flips, well-aimed personals of his own and steely gun bars in the latter rounds, for all the talk of how close (and in some cases surprising) the Rookies vs Vets battles have been in 2020, all the vets should be thanking JC for this one.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC – “See me and you? Nothing alike, you hold the door when I’m comin’ in, I’ll pull the plug to end your sufferin’!”
Recap: Well, you had to know that was coming. After an uber-gritty and aggressive Bandit Montana dished his best bar of the night, a dope, 2nd round, 4-bar set-up that ended with an emphatic ‘…barber chair’ punch, you just knew that Chef Trez was plotting an even flyer rebuttal. And that he did with a raucous ‘since they wanna boost a nigger, I’ll keep the baby in the seat’ dart that along with a gang of head-ringing gun bars, other feisty rebuts and piercing name flips/punchlines, gave the Chef a 30 in what was still a mostly competitive battle from GOTG.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Don’t run, these bullets ain’t seen you in a minute…they good for catching up!
Recap: URL/Ultimate Madness 2 matchup between two gun line extraordinaire’s, Rum Nitty and Drugz, stays competitive for 3 rounds with plenty of back-n-forth action and heat. However, despite a pretty solid effort from The Gun Show, it’s the slightly more versatile, condensed, set-up/name-flip lit and intricate punching Nitty who edges each round for the win.
Verdict: Rum Nitty (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “Razor blade, cut him, the wound will heal up, NBA bubble, you better play it safe!”
