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Craig Lamar defeats Lil Man

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Recap: Blessed with a flow that sounds like he graduated from the Shakespearean division of the Battle Rap Academy, Craig Lamar utilizes his standout cadence to spout a gang of glistening gun bars, performance-stunting wordplay, piercing punchlines and to top it off, a spitfire rebuttal/freestyle at the end of his round to win this Zoo Battle League 1-rounder over a solid and gritty punching Lil Man.

Verdict: Craig Lamar (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Craig Lamar – “Face shot, if I let that dime squeeze ya shit will rip, I’ll do a number on this nigga chin, that’s Chinese arithmetic!”

Viixen The Assassin defeats Jade

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Recap: From Superior Entertainment Arena, Jade’s fiery gun bars make for plenty of damage throughout her turn. But in this close, Coronavirus 1-rounder, a more versatile, direct and personal-lit Viixen The Assassin scores the win.

Verdict: Viixen The Assassin (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Viixen The Assassin – “Karrine Steffans, this vixen could write a book on all the bodies I caught!”

Chef Trez defeats Blve Cocaine

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Recap: When you’re as prolific as Chef Trez is when it comes to battle rap, 1-round, Social Distance battles like this one are pretty much a walk in the park. Indeed, as seen here against rising female battle rap star Blve Cocaine, the Chef dishes out 2 minutes of exquisite mayhem, fierce names flips, stinging 4-bar set-ups and piercing personals/punchlines with ease, beating back a solid, angle-savvy turn by his opponent that while also penetrating with the visuals, overall still lacked the potency of the Chef’s more versatile composition.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You ain’t hurting me, I’ll do you to the worst degree, dead people get the best promotion?, now Blve’s [blues] everywhere…Bourbon Street!”

Fonz defeats Eazy the Block Captain

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Recap: Gritty, street-savvy, boastful and mostly (I thought Eazy had a pretty mediocre 2nd round) competitive battle between Eazy The Block Captain and Fonz contained a gang of fire 4-bar set-ups, head-ringing mayhem, rousing struggle bars and dope punchlines. But after getting edged in the 1st round (despite a seismic bump on his opponent), Fonz, a stickler for aggression throughout any battle he participates in, backed up his bullish ways with raucous/witty punches, scintillating personals and some flexing wordplay to take the latter two rounds for the win.

Verdict: Fonz (W) 2-1  

Favorite line: Fonz – “I told him I’m a threat, the acid rip the skin off the body, I’m from Cleveland, we used to seeing Bone without the Flesh!”

40 Cal defeats Dizaster

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Recap: Not sure why 40 Cal gets to rap as long as he did AND tag in Math Moffa to complete his turn, but Dizaster, who granted was on overkill mode, doesn’t get to finish his round. But, oh well, even with a very able and debilitating Math assist, 40 gets the win anyway, using a smooth, methodical flow to dish some hot personals, braggadocios shiners and spicy punchlines here and there. On the other, while Diz got off to a decent start with the punches and jokes, his choice to go into redundant mayhem for almost two-thirds of his round would hurt him in the long run.

Verdict: 40 Cal (W) 1-0

Favorite line:  40 Cal – ““I squeeze .8’s at grown men, kidnap your friends, it’s no porcupine, you wanna get em back?…depends [Depends]!”

Jey The Nitewing defeats Lu Castro

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Recap: Getting cut off there at the end of his 3rd round was probably a good thing for Jet The Nitewing because really, who needs another Twork impression? That said, a solid showing by Lu Castro (esp. in his opening round) here in this Ultimate Madness 1 matchup from URL. But after a debatable 1st round, while Lu’s aggression was still there, his bar efficiency would go downhill as the battle proceeded, thus leaving him handily beat by an unorthodox, wily pontificating, witty/mocking personals slinging and punchline/wordplay-spazzing Nitewing in the latter two rounds and giving Jey the win.

Verdict: Jey The Nitewing (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Jey The Nitewing – “I’ll cross ya arms in a coffin just outta respect, and I’ll let Twork and them know when they show up to your death, I did that ‘cuz you from the Bronx, not NWX!”

Ru Bando defeats Your Honor

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Recap: Your Honor (who after a crazy dope 1st round seemed to use some recycled bars in the 2nd before giving away the 3rd) going on record and stating that he wasn’t that prepared for this battle due to some real life drama, does take some of the glare off of this win for Ru Bando. But for Rando, after all the heat he received from a subpar showing in round 1 of this tournament, at the very least, his ability here to put forth a solid performance and go back to that flexing, gun-bar happy and rapid-punching Bando we’ve seen before, might give him a shot in the next round of this tournament.

Verdict: Ru Bando (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ru Bando – “They gonna charge me with murder in the 1st or the next degree, but I’m still gonna beat ya honor and still get the .25…double jeopardy!”

G Lowe defeats Philly The Genius

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Recap: The brazen trap talk stood out most, but also extra spicy were the name flips, witty barbs, flagrant gun lines and fiery punchlines as G Lowe takes this Art of Words 305 1-rounder from a solid, but also inconsistent Philly The Genius.

Verdict: G Lowe (W) 1-0

Favorite line: G Lowe – “Now we moving, long nose on The Genius like Isaac Newton!”

Jerry Wess defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Coming unto this URL Quarantined Sterilizer 2 battle with a rep for choking, a slightly slower flow helps an overall solid B. Magic get through 3 rounds without a hiccup. But a gun bar-heavy and name flip/personal-lit Jerry Wess, after a debatable 1st round, delivers more than enough heat to take both of the latter rounds for the win.

Verdict: Jerry Wess (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Jerry Wess – “Let’s let this shit be clear, I don’t know how they got me to do this shit, but it literally took Magic to get me here, I put a blade on the top of your soul, blood and sweat seep through ya pores, you ain’t gonna have time to pull a rabbit out of ya hat, cuz I’m a pull a knife outta yours!”

B. Dot defeats S.O. Finesse

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Recap: It’ll count in the books, but there’s no real ‘L’ here as this dope 1-rounder takes place at a surprise proposal Dre Vishiss had for his girlfriend. Sentiments aside tho, B. Dot’s conscious wordplay and versatility with the bars are incredible and so are S.O. Finesse’s poetic flow and passionate, Afrocentric vibes. And while the more haymaker-lit Dot gets the win, on a day like this, everyone’s a winner.

Verdict: B. Dot (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B. Dot – “I know you study astrology and probably can predict the future, but that don’t mean you know how all men act [Almanac]!”

Brooklyn Hanz defeats Ace Amin

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Recap: Brooklyn Hanz and Ace Amin trade a gang of aggressive street missives, boastful barbs and real, raw hood narratives in this Quarterfinal matchup from URL’s Ultimate Madness. A close one through and through with a bit of a flwo challenge from both battlers, after Ace edged the 1st round and Hanz edged the 2nd, it’s a slightly more punch-heavy and witty Hanz who edges the deciding 3rd for the win.

Verdict: Brooklyn Hanz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Brooklyn Hanz – “Ace, you look like a flying monkey, from The Wiz, bearded wig from a violent junkie!”

Charron and Quantum Physics [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Another 1-round, Social Distancing battle from RBE, this time between Quantum Physics and Charron, gets a draw as on the creativity side any momentum gained from QP’s clever/witty Leave It To Beaver-like visuals and wordplay/personals gets deflected by a way-too-short turn when it came to the bars. And while Charron showed us once again what an awesome free-styler he is with the random word usage in his raps, an elongated turn combined with a bunch of so-so punches (tho he had a few hard-hitting one’s) was only enough to merit a tie.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Charron – “He’s Quantum Physics so it’s only right to have his body in two states at the same time!”

Big T defeats Tez Beastmode

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Recap: For as many hardbody punches and witty personals as Tez Beastmode dished out here in this 1-rounder vs. Big T, an almost equal amount of pedestrian bars and dated barbs from Tez along with T’s eccentric wordplay, boastful shiners and fiery performance bars, would give the Chicago vet the edge in the end.

Verdict: Big T (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Big T – “Bullets tearing you, it’ll be so many vegetables Aye Verb will be screaming ‘It’s a miracle!'”

Swave Sevah defeats O-Red [Rematch]

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Recap: In a rematch from their infamously one-sided URL battle almost a decade ago, Swave Sevah uses 2 minutes of scintillating wordplay, hardbody punchlines and well-themed name flips to beat an O-Red, who while coming a lot better prepared here against Swave than he did all those years back, still couldn’t contrive up enough heavy punches to match his opponent’s overall versatility and potency in this 1-rounder from RBE.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Yo O, to obtain optimum omniscience is the overall goal of an Overlord, follow the manuscripts, man your ships, obliterate the opposition, offer the other one rowing oar’s or throw then overboard!”

Cortez defeats Kid Dangerous

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Recap: Hope that I can be forgiven for giving unsolicited advice to a self-proclaimed ‘G.O.A.T.”. But as awesome as Kid Dangerous clearly is with the raps, going forward he may want to add more energy and performance to his bars…just saying. Meanwhile, in this super short 3-minute 1-rounder from ‘Special Battle League’, a pretty graphic with the punches as well as the sexcapades Cortez somehow manages to put a hurting on his opponent’s sublime bars to get away with a surprise win over battle raps KD….just don’t tell anyone.

Verdict: Cortez (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Cortez – “Razor’s for any amount, Bam Bam Bigelow, that means a flame gonna sit on his scalp!”

Squeako defeats Gunpowder Patt

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Recap: Against a lyrically topsy-turvy opponent with a bit of an identity crisis (not sure sometimes if Gunpowder Patt wants to be a bullish Math Hoffa or a swagger-lit Goodz or perhaps both), an unusually irked Squeako has a mostly easy time of it, using some stinging name flips, boastful shiners and piercing punchlines to easily take rounds 1 plus 3 (call the 2nd debatable) and get the win in this One Off 3-rounder from URL.

Verdict: Squeako (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Squeako – “All you gonna talk about is how I loss to Your Honor….bitch I took a plea!”

Ace Amin defeats Bad Newz

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Recap: A battle that didn’t quite live up to the hype, but still had a bunch of controversy come with it due to Bad Newz supposedly dedicating his entire 2nd round (which he clearly didn’t) to some allegation Ace Amin made against him beforehand, this Ultimate Madness matchup stayed close despite both combatants dishing a boatload of pedestrian lines and subpar name flips in between your usual fare of boastful stunting, laissez-faire street theatrics and slick personals. Aggressive throughout with plenty of effort what with $25K on the line from both battlers, a more condensed Ace Amin with the hotter lines in both the 1st and 3rd rounds, gets the edge here.

Verdict: Ace Amin (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ace Amin – “You will never pop, I hate to tell y’all, when it comes to Bad Newz there’s never a right time for it!

Big Hann and Brooklyn Hanz [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Philly versus Coney Island matchup sees both Brooklyn Hanz and Big Hann bring out the bravado and heavy artillery throughout this Ultimate Madness 3-rounder from Smack. Indeed, a wide array of steely boasts, performance-heavy gun bars and daunting punchlines are the feature here, which kept the match competitive and gritty. That said, the battle would come down to the 2nd round what with a punch-heavier Hanz taking the 1st round and the more direct Hann taking the 3rd. The middle round was merely decent on both ends what with Hann while displaying plenty of aggression, too often succumbing to outdated/pedestrian bars. On the other hand, while Hanz dished some solid punches here and there in the 2nd, too often his lack for better bar intricacy would show itself. Thus, with the aforementioned semantics as well as an equal amount of dry spots and filler in the round, we can call this one a draw.

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Th3 Saga defeats B. Dot

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Recap: Damn. Does it get any better than this version of Th3 Saga during this long-awaited URL Quarantined: Sterilized 2 battle against B. Dot? Really now. Delivering 3 epic rounds of righteous heat, an also performance-heavy Th3 Saga leaves nothing on the cutting room floor (esp. during a flawless 2nd round) via a flexing arsenal of spitfire punchlines, scorching personals, scathing breakdowns on Black-conscious rap posturing, hitting name flips, earnest BLM shouts, bodacious wordplay/4-bar setups, fiery sermons/schemes and for the people in the back, some solid/witty Loaded Lux impressions. As for Saga’s opponent? Well, B. Dot certainly showed up. The Cali-wordsmith spouting a series of dope personals (esp. when it came to Saga’s old crew, NWX), rigid punches, fierce set-ups/schemes and piercing street/Black power narratives to keep ya head up. Still, as prepared and electric as B. Dot was at times, Th3 Saga just took it to another level here, taking it back to sublime efforts we’ve seen in the past against the likes of Snake Eyez, Tink da Demon and Swaze Sevah, while more importantly winning both the 2nd and 3rd rounds after a debatable 1st.

Verdict: Th3 Saga (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Th3 Saga – “For a brave protagonist, my second time on the roof to reclaim the savageness, I became a strategist, ‘cuz first I hit Cor’ [corps], then hit [smack] B. too [B2]…we playin’ Battleship!”

Jai 400 Block defeats T-Rex

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Recap: Besides being somewhat lazy and antithetical to today’s era of battle rap, I don’t have too much of a problem with the use of recycled bars. After all, T-Rex is absolutely right when he states that back in the day, as dudes went from block to block to battle, using the same verses over and over was the norm. And yes, using recycled bars always beats stealing…always. Funny too how Rex’s proud usage of mixtape bars serves as some great self-promotion to yunno, go out and buy one of his mixtapes. That said, pretty clear win here for Jai 400 Block, the Newark battler basking in an aggressive assortment of rugged punchlines, flexing personals, lofty wordplay and rigid heat in this 1-round Social Distance battle to beat Rex’s shortened, gun-heavy and witty at times, but far less potent turn.

Verdict: Jai 400 Block (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Jai 400 Block – “Not the type of business that you conduct when looked as a vet, that shit ridiculous, you just out here taking free money like the stimulus!”

Eazy The Block Captain defeats Don Marino

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Recap: In this Ultimate Madness matchup bout between Eazy The Block Captain and Don Marino, after splitting the 1st two rounds, the Block Captain’s more gritty street stories, fiery gun bars and hardbody punches/personals beat back a less versatile and mostly struggle bar oriented turn from Marino in the deciding 3rd.

Verdict: Eazy The Bock Captain (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Eazy The Block Captain – “You did dishes?, I did dishes too, You went fishing? I was castling lines from one cell to another nigger, I went fishing too!”

Fonz defeats J Krooger

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Recap: Plenty of righteous heat, rigorous mayhem, braggadocio shiners and hardbody punchlines in this Ultimate Madness battle between Fonz and the ever-reliable J Krooger. But with Fonz also mixing in some flexing name flips and spicy personals with his raps, the Cleveland, OH, rapper manages to edge round 1 before easily taking the middle round with a near flawless turn. J Krooger, who was also hurt by less consistent turns in the earlier rounds, did manage to turn it a bit in the 3rd round to make that one debatable.

Verdict: Fonz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Fonz – “I bang straps, boy you get hit with that black thing, oh Krooger [Krueger] kill nigga’s in they sleep?, well lucky we on Caffeine!”

Ill Will defeats Shotty Horror

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Recap: Solid turn by Shotty Horror, but Ill Will just runs circles around the UK rapper here, using some dope wordplay, blazing gun bars, scintillating name flips and a gang of righteous personals/punchlines to score a pretty easy win in this 1-round Social Distance battle from RBE.

Verdict: Ill Will (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Ill Will – “Pale Nazi, I ain’t believing your quotes, white boy be cooking but he ain;t got enough seasoning tho!”

Bigg K defeats Jae Millz

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Recap: Yunno, gotta admit, Bigg K gotz a really nice crib there. And props to K and Jae Millz for the fly creativity with the visuals here. Moving on to this 1-round Social Distance battle…a close one with fire punchlines/personals from both battlers. And I like how Millz predicted K would bring up his notorious Cash Money days. Still, a slightly more condensed with less filler Bigg K gets the edge here.

Verdict: Bigg K (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Bigg K – “I’ll get the drop, spray it up, Glock 30, you talk dirty, the mop straighten up, gauge cocked, face shot, your top breaking up, I’ll bring more people to Jae [Jay] spot than a Roc Nation brunch!”

Jey The Nitewing defeats Real Sikh

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Recap: In this 3-rounder from URL/Smack’s Ultimate Madness card, a more condensed Jet The Nitewing’s more intricate punchlines, slick name flips/personals and prideful boasts combine to make quick work of Real Sikh’s hardbody, but not as consistently potent servings, thus giving Nitewing the 30.

Verdict: Jey The Nitewing (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Jey The Nitewing – “Either side of the bracket, I only know half these nigger’s and they stick me with the fucking fortune teller, if I wanted my hand read [red] I’d slap these nigger’s!”

Your Honor defeats Squeako

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Recap: Helped by the use of some redundant themes used by his opponent as well as a Squeako choke in the 2nd round, Your Honor also utilizes a quality composite of eccentric name flips, witty barbs and boastful punchlines to take the first two rounds and win this Smack/URL Ultimate Madness match, before a punch-heavier Squeako gets back on his grind to easily take the 3rd round.

Verdict: Your Honor (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Your Honor – “Now you know that, the Glock 9 down, it need Prozac!”

Hollow Da Don defeats Mackk Myron

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Recap: After a 6-minute plus promo for all things RBE, Mackk Myron and Hollow da Don go at for about 2 minutes each in this 1-round Social Distancing battle. With his turn, Mackk makes for a solid effort with his usual assortment of witty barbs, fiery punches and rugged name flips. And while all of Mackk’s shenanigans might work against your average battle rapper, Hollow is just on a different level. Proving his top tier status once again via an intricate palette of dicey name flips, penetrating wordplay and flippant personals to take the win.

Verdict: Hollow Da Don (W) 1-0

Favorite line:  Hollow Da Don – “So many whips you can tape Roots, bread so old you can make hooch!”

Yoshi G defeats Gucci

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Recap: Yoshi G takes part in yet another 1-round Quarantine battle and this time gets a win, consistently unloading some brash thot bars, nifty wordplay and dope angles on a solid and gritty, but not as heavy-hitting Gucci.

Verdict: Yoshi G (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Yoshi G – “Solid bitch, ten toes down, I’m standing tall, if it wasn’tfor backshots I don;t think I would bend at all!”

Lu Castro defeats Kid Chaos

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Recap: Surely, we’ve seen better showings in the past from both Lu Castro and Kid Chaos. Which leads to a bit of irony what with each battler competing in a tournament that gives the winner $25K, funny how Castro and Chaos would save their best material for the final round. Still, even with a boatload of pedestrian personals, schemes and punchlines on both sides (esp. during rounds 1 and 2), a more consistently gritty, gun bar toasting and bar efficient Castro manages to edge each round for the win.

Verdict: Lu Castro (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Lu Castro – “He heard the music before the shot, he was the last to split!”

Murda Mook defeats Street Hymns

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Recap: RBE Social Distancing 1-round battle with a different twist as judging from their rhymes Murda Mook and Street Hymns clearly had no idea they were battling each other. A good battle nonetheless with Street getting 3-dimensional with the visuals, while kicking some introspective bars that were backed pretty well when it comes to adept wordplay. But a never-lacking-for-confidence Mook, battling in a project playground which metaphorically speaking perfectly suited his brazen bars on the state of battle rap, his stamp in the game and other what-have-you’s on competition and critics, gets the edge in this one.

Verdict: Murda Mook (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Murda Mook – “Let’s take it back to when it was no rules, ain’t no you who’s, nobody had moves to mark y’all calender’s, my whip’n old school, I’m from where you couldn’t afford to dodge no challengers, now let’s see y’all caliber’s!”

K-Shine defeats Nu Jerzey Twork

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Recap: 1-round Quarantine battle from URL between then-both NWX members K-Shine and Nu Jerzey Twork, while filled to the rim with plenty of mayhem and aggressive gun bars, still goes the former’s way as Shine’s more consistently-lit punches score with more than force to beat the raucous, but slightly less substantive Twork.

Verdict: K-Shine (W) 1-0

Favorite line: K-Shine – “I fuck with the Roosters, but you the one I got the Tek on, told my bitch, meet me downstairs with ya sweats on, got my chicken hawk on a rooster…Foghorn Leghorn!”

Loso defeats Fliiko L

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Recap: In this competitive 3-rounder from Bullpen, Loso get the 30 but Fliiko L made him earn it via a strong display of lofty esoteric darts, fiery punchlines, hardbody schemes/lyricism to keep things close. And for the most part, Fliiko also did himself a favor by staying away from the usual assortment of anti-Christian semantics that most battlers seem to use against a member of the 4 Horsemen. Still, after a long vacation away from the ring, a well-rested Loso just had too much in the tank for his opponent, using a versatile mix of jaunty name flips, well-research/piercing personals, stirring 4-bar setups, some daunting wordplay and a wide load of spiritually-laced, but still flexing punches to take each round along with what was an impressive win.

Verdict: Loso (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Loso – “Watch son crack under pressure, they gonna have to fix his dash, have I ever used profanity?, Bro I been cursed…with this gift I have!”

Tay Roc and T Top [TIE]

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Recap: 2 round Quarantine battle between T Top and Tay Roc certainly had its moments of witty/mesmerizing personals, flaming gun bars, battle team (“You single-handily gave Cave Gang a fall to the ground and we was gonna let Roc slide, but we seen it all coming down!”) stunting and boastful barbs. But after a more piercing with the punches Top takes the 1st round, a cleaner-flowing and slightly harder punching Roc edges round 2 for a tie.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line:  Tay Roc – “Smack, he don’t want smoke, he the Bear…he scared of forest fires!”

Ill Will defeats Sha G

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Recap: Flexing his comedic side and singing ability along with some witty character development, a still gritty Ill Will easily takes this 1-round iBattleTV (COVIDeo battle) matchup against a tried and true, but much less potent Sha G.

Verdict: Ill Will (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Ill Will – “I’m a savage ‘cuz I’ll take ya burner and slap ya man’s, you a savage ‘cuz you be doing that Meg The Stallion dance!”

Casey Jay defeats Ms. Murk

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Recap: Rare bodybag here as highlighted by a classic 3rd round that was superbly executed when it came to exquisite punchlines, wordplay, name flips, gun bars and personals, all via a pretty confident Casey Jay who put a severe 3-round hurting on Ms. Murk in this Royalty battle from QOTR and URL. Indeed, the bar-spazzing Casey Jay who had the crowd rocking from jump and was almost as equally superb in the early rounds, would unfortunately receive would little to no competition in return for her effort as Ms. Murk, after starting off nicely in round 1 with a series of fire punches, would choke halfway in that round before needing a water bottle, delivering one line and choking again in round 2 before not even attempting to spit in round 3. Whether or not the notoriously fallible Ms. Murk choked this battle away due to her own shortcomings or due to her opponent’s over-the-top and consistent heat is a conversation for another day.

Verdict: Casey Jay (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Casey Jay – “You was supposed to put on for us bitch, you never did it, you started choking every battle, crowd was losing their interest and if you wrote that shit then how the fuck you forget it?!”

Emerson Kennedy defeats Nu Jerzey Twork

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Recap: Pouncing on Nu Jerzey Twork with a gang of gritty punchlines and stealth wordplay/set-ups/personals, an also more condensed Emerson Kennedy gets in the vic in this 1-round URL/Quarantined bout over an opponent who while slinging the usual mayhem and personals on EK that we’ve seen before, never could bring the consistent heat needed to beat his more potent opp.

Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “Twork seize your opportunity, it’s West in this bitch, they thought they was gonna watch us play games…till he left with a Twitch!”

Snake Eyez defeats Rosenberg Raw

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Recap: No slight to Rosenberg Raw, who’s super-witty (“When they knocked that fucking pupil out your head, you was traumatized!”) personals on Snake Eyez’s eyes stood out throughout this battle and kept things close. But if not for Snake Eyez kicking a gritty and hardbody, but elongated 1st round, this would’ve been a 3-0. And Snake almost getting a 30 just speaks to a highly versatile and potent punch game here as whether it was aggressive darts that more than hit their mark or a strong scheme presence, piercing gun bars, capable defenses of common Dot Mobb narratives, stinging name flips or random, but (“A bitch told me your belly stink!”) humorous anecdotes that had the crowd buzzing, Snake’s 1st appearance on the RBE stage was a stellar one. Rosenberg, on the other hand, when he efficiently showing off his funny bone, just didn’t have too much to offer outside of the usual Dot Mobb jokes, resident name flips and bully themes we’ve all heard before. So edge the 1st round to a way more condensed Raw before Snake, with an almost flawless 2nd round and a more potent 3rd took the latter two rounds for the win.

Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “Fat nigga, I’ll clap, leave Rose on his stomach!”

E. Farell defeats Real Deal

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Recap: One-round, social distance video bout between Real Deal and E. Farell from iBattleTV sees the more punch-heavy, wordplay-lit and consistently spicy Farrell get the win over a solid, but none-too-over-the-top showing from Deal. Let it be noted tho that this wasn’t a total loss for Real Deal what with his son kicking a gritty series of bars at the end to prove once again that the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

Verdict: E. Farell (W) 1-0

Favorite line: E. Farell – “Talking how you rep your city, well I brought the pole in it, I gotta stick in the Pitt and it’s not deoderant!”

Th3 Saga defeats Cortez

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Recap: A consistently strong and righteous 3rd round from Cortez (who beforehand was too gun bar heavy) comes too late to knock off a punch-heavier, spirited, name flip-lit, set-up crazy and savvy with the personals Th3 Saga in the earlier rounds of this URL Sterilized battle that took place on Saga’s church rooftop.

Verdict: Th3 Saga (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Th3 Saga – “Leave all you frantic, I figured if take out people with Core’s [core] values then more will panic!”

Math Hoffa defeats B. Magic

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Recap: A noisy crowd, another slip-up prone (and choking) performance from B. Magic and a flexing wordplay displaying, punchline-lit and scathing with the personals showing from Math Hoffa gives the veteran Brooklyn battle rapper/media personality a pretty easy 30 in this one-sided 3-rounder from Street Status.

Verdict: Math Hoffa (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Math Hoffa – “Y’all like them corny Math flips?, I ain’t feeling your logic, ‘cuz if he could really flip Math, he wouldn’t be stealing deposits!”

Mackk Myron defeats Showoff

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Recap: Apparently forgotten in ShowOff’s criticism here of Mackk Myron being strictly a dope puncher was just how witty and scathing with the personals Mackk can be. I mean, just ask Loso, who in Mackk’s recent battle against A. Ward, took a huge brunt of Mackk’s deceitful wit just for standing on the sideline to cheer his boy on. So while Showoff’s visceral gun bars and flexing wordplay made for a competitive battle here against Mackk (as well as a debatable 2nd round), Mackk’s underrated and versatile pen would eventually win him the day. The Pontiac, MI, rapper using a variety of stinging punchlines and raucous name flips to take round 1, before edging a pretty dope turn by his opponent with a rampant mix of performance-heavy bars, mocking personals and piercing punchlines in round 3 for the win.

Verdict: Mackk Myron (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Mackk Myron – “This nigga be like [sings] ‘My name is Sh-oh-oh-off!’, and you know what’s funny?, they support dude…pussy if you sing in a battle you’ll sing in a courtroom!”

T-Top defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Against a B. Magic too often mired in pedestrian name flips and a sometimes bland punch game, T-Top uses a boatload of surefire trap talk, gritty punchlines, rigid gang-related darts and fiery personals to take both rounds and get the win in this URL Quarantine battle.

Verdict: T-Top (W) 2-0

Favorite line: T-Top – “I was looking for magic 8-ball, shook him up and he told me everything I need to know!”

Arsonal defeats Danja Zone

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Recap: Gonna go out on a limb and guess that the only thing that stopped Danja Zone from rapping was a time limit. That said, even while Zone had a nice run near the end of his elongated turn, a lack of substance to most of his punches plus a more condensed, versatile, mayhem/disrespectful-rich and name flip/punch-lit easily gets the win in this 1-round Quarantined match from URL.

Verdict: Arsonal (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Arsonal – “I got a team full of Warriors, that’s a 30 and a Mac-11, Zone’s defense beter be able to stop more than one shooter!”

Your Honor defeats PG Skillet

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Recap: After PG Skillet kicked things off in this 3-rounder from Bullpen with a raucous, mayhem-drenched 1st round that edged a salient, witty and versatile, but flow-challenged turn by Your Honor, this battle would immediately turn its head as the always performance-heavy and conversational YH’s half-jocular/half-hardbody stylings would score him an easy vic over his more pedestrian opponent in round two. In spite of a fierce tag-in on YH’s side from the-one-and-only T-Rex, the deciding 3rd round would still go to Your Honor, who with some pretty rugged trap talk and pronounced punches, had just enough in the tank to beat back an uninterrupted, but less potent turn from Skillet.

Verdict: Your Honor (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Your Honor – “There was always that one feen that came super late, but it’s ok, microwave, 4th {???] bowl, water, good plates, 3 minutes got you creamy chicken…the hood way!”

Danny Myers defeats Emerson Kennedy (Rematch)

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Recap: A rematch from their battle about 7 years prior, URL puts Emerson Kennedy and Danny Myers on a roof for what turned out to be a solid bout of competitive boasts, punches and wordplay. And while EK openly felt that he took the first two rounds, the feeling here is that a slightly more consistently spicy Danny took them for the win before a punch-heavier EK salvaged the 3rd.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “You tryna bring Bar Code to the world?, I mean, I’m no conspiracy theorist, but wit’ all this Pizzagate, look around, the climate is hurtin’, it’s a New World Order – I say your timing is perfect!”

Bedaffi Green defeats True Indeed

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Recap: Spouting the kind of aggressive, hardbody, gripping punchlines and earnest gun bars that earned him a few URL appearances not too long back, but really stepping it up with an epic, personal-lit and heavy on the stunting round 3, in this 3-rounder from We Go Hard, Bedaffi Green also delivered a consistent amount of backbreaking heat to take round 1 as well. Thus taking the win over a pretty solid, gritty with the smoke and competitive…until he choked in the final round, True Indeed.

Verdict: Bedaffi Green (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Bedaffi Green – “You ever let off 4 shots and picked up 3 shells, now you can’t sleep?!?”

Shotgun Suge defeats Reed Dollaz

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Recap: A pair of raucous turns by Shotgun Suge and Reed Dollaz in this 1-round URL/Quarantined battle gets edged by the slightly more versatile and consistently lit Suge for the win.

Verdict: Shotgun Suge (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Shotgun Suge – “I’ll clip ya family Dollaz, ya mommy, your auntie, even your pop, that’s Dollaz’s [Dollar] General!”

Geechi Gotti defeats Th3 Saga

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Recap: URL Quarantined battle between Geechi Gotti and Th3 Saga sees Saga bring a nice assortment of righteous boasts and religiously-tinged, but still crispy punchlines to his turn. But a more versatile and condensed Gotti, whipping up a punishing array of flexing punches, disrespectful religious barbs, pointed lines on current events and witty/raucous personals along with incorporating some innovative musical bars into his rhymes, easily takes this one.

Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Fucking fool, based on Loso career I can tell that God fuck with him more than he fuck with you!

Chef Trez defeats KP

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Recap: Being under quarantine hasn’t seemed to slow down Chef Trez, who’s still battling as often as a B. Magic punchline. And here against KP, even without the opportunity to spin a rebuttal, the Chef still manages to cook, using fierce name flips, head-ringing gun bars and spicy schemes/punches to easily beat back an elongated, old head-ish and mostly pedestrian turn by his opponent.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I give you props for trying to stand and face this, but there it’s a difference in levels, no question…fam you basic!”

Jakkboy Maine defeats Hefe

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Recap: Surviving a 2nd round choke and also helped by his opponent struggling with his flow at times, Jakkboy Maine uses some finite wordplay, stinging name flips and a versatile mix of ringing mayhem and rigid personals to beat back a confident and pretty-solid-when-on-point Hefe in this 3-rounder from GOTC TV.

Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “I’m a kill every female in ya family, resuscitate em and then give em a new death, then beat you black, blue…man I’m changing your hue Hef!”

Geechi Gotti defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Impressive throughout with a wide range of polluted gun bars, stifling punchlines, fiery street chatter and piercing personals, after a debatable 1st round Geech Gotti does more than enough to take the latter two rounds and beat back a punch-steady and solid, but nowhere-near-as-potent B. Magic’s in this Quarantined 3-rounder from Smack/URL.

Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Pass the 5th, let the .4 blaze, the ratchet hitting everybody, it’s going through a hoe phase!”

Duce defeats B. Magic

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Recap: In this fierce 3-rounder from Bullpen Battle League, a barrage of hard-hitting heat/wordplay and a wide array of piercing punchlines from Duce allows him to take the 1st round, before the name-flip spazzing and punch-heavy B. Magic’s more condensed turn edges him round 2. But Duce, consistent throughout with a versatile pen game that had the crowd jumping, is able to add a few flexing personals to an already hip, sometimes witty and punch-lit performance that ends up beating back an overall solid, but nowhere near as potent round by Magic in the deciding 3rd.

Verdict: Duce (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Duce – “Trey shot out the .8 blaze ya, then buck-fifty his face with a straight razor, closed casket at the funeral, family can’t face ya, they gonna have to cover a nigga up like…‘I said Nakers!’“

A. Ward defeats Danny Myers

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Recap: Taking advantage of an up-n-down, pedestrian bar-prone and sometimes predictable opponent in Danny Myers, but also equipped with his own rich palette of feelgood sermonizing, steely punchlines, feisty schemes, mocking personals and of course, some flexing rebuttals, A. Ward scores a well-earned 30 in this 3-rounder from RBE.

Verdict: A. Ward (W) 3-0

Favorite line: A. Ward – “Parallel bars are easy…Jesus was a carpenter that died by hammers and nails!”

Danny Myers defeats Cobbins

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Recap: Besides incorporating legendary freestyle rapper Supernatural into one of his punches, Danny Myers impresses in this 1-roundeer from The Connects with a gang of raucous punchlines, mocking personals, some fierce wordplay and boastful shiners. On the other hand opponent/Christian rapper Cobbins, dearth in personals we’ve long heard used on Danny and basic struggle bars, may want to work on adding some substance to his punches if he wants to join the likes of the 4 Horsemen.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Is this your breakout performance?, bitch nigga we flash cans, we documenting all of your Bull, this your Last Dance!”

Rum Nitty and Mike P [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: 1-round URL Quarantined battle between Rum Nitty and Mike P features strong performances from both battlers as Mike’s aggressive, (“Rum got me fucked up, there’s something about me and dark liquor!”) punch/personal-lit and brazen oft-performance-rich bars stay toe-to-toe with Rum’s fire gun bars, fierce set-ups and stinging wordplay. A goodie with little breaks in the action, a tie here sets up what could be a dope 3-rounder down the line.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “Do not try me, you a nobody…the head detective!”

Jey The Nitewing defeats Dre Dennis

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Recap: There’s levels to this shit, man. Hence, Jey The Nitewing’s casual, yet elaborate wordplay and steely personals beating the breaks off of Dre Dennis usual assortment of fiery gun bars and formulaic punches in this Quarantine 1-rounder from Gates of the Garden.

Verdict: Jey The Nitewing (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Jey The Nitewing – “Boy. show respect, Dre Dennis, stuck at the main entrance!”

Tay Roc defeats Big T

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Recap: As far as Quarantine rounds go, it doesn’t get much better than this one from Tay Roc. The Cave Gang capo going ham on an eccentric at times, but somewhat lackadaisical Big T with a sublime turn of fiery name flips, piercing gun bars, sizzling wordplay and gritty punchlines to take this battle easy.

Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Tay Roc – “Dump the shotty, up a body, like the selfie of a fat girl!”

True Indeed defeats Sonny

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Recap: Typical We Go Hard battle with its gritty, aggressive punches, brash deliveries, gripping street missives and hardbody personal inclines gets dressed up as a PG and features WGH vets Sonny and True Indeed going at it for 3 competitive rounds with the name flip spazzing and slightly more versatile overall True spouting more than enough heat to take all 3 rounds for the 30.

Verdict: True Indeed (W) 3-0

Favorite line: True Indeed – “I spend all day waiting, drop the addy, wherever Sonny [sunny] at…it’s a vacation!”

B. Dot defeats Rum Nitty

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Recap: B. Dot’s socially-conscious polemics garner the most attention, but when it comes to his raps, we often forget what an efficient puncher he can be. And just in case you needed another reminder, from breaking down his opponent’s mostly two-dimensional rap style to dishing some dope wordplay/gun bars/schemes to using some exquisite personals on Rum Nitty’s life outside of battle rap, Dot’s punch game was pretty persistent here and helped by a Nitty who didn’t always give a full effort, gives Dot the 1st and 3rd round’s for the win.

Verdict: B. Dot (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Dot – “The shit that I’m on, I’ll turn your head to a convertible roof if I blast shots you had the bandana wrapped around your hat, well I took it as a sign…nigga rag tops!”