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Rum Nitty defeats Iron Solomon

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Recap: Can you deliver a classic round and still lose a battle? Apparently so, as despite the condensed and gun bar prolific Rum Nitty dishing just enough seismic punchlines, stinging racial barbs and fiery (“This how a nigga play, If I need something in my house, I’m running errands [run in Aaron’s], I got bills to pay!”) wordplay in the 1st and 2nd rounds to take the win, a returning-to-Smack Iron Solomon, competitive throughout with his own mix of rigid punchlines, quality personals and stinging schemes, delivers a 3rd round for the ages with its stellar offering of well-crafted angles, potent (“You they property, ain’t about to see a proper piece of the profit share, they pay you less than bottom tier…Nitty, you a volunTEER!”) personals and total flexing with the lyrics. Altogether a fire battle (it should be said that a consistent throughout Nitty spit a punch-heavy and dope 3rd round himself) with too many standout bars to count, Rum Nitty versus Iron Solomon goes down as ultimately living up to its marquee bill.

Verdict: Rum Nitty (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “I’ll leave a nigga leaking for intervening, while your people be penny-pinching, mine nickle squeezing I kill em easy!”

Chilla Jones defeats SeeJee

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Recap: In this 1-rounder from Premiere Rap Battle League, SeeJee, with his boatload of witty barbs and piercing punchlines, certainly provided enough heat and competition to make Chilla Jones work for it. And that Jones did with a steady and condensed stream of personal-savvy, wordplay-intricate and punch-heavy bars that allowed him to edge what was a pretty dope battle.

Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “What I write is out of this world, a sci-fi author, this hand [Han], solo [Solo], could turn you into a sky walker [Skywalker]!”

Dre Dennis defeats Swift Millie

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Recap: Even with a load of filler thrown on, Dre Dennis drops enough righteous gun bars along with an able amount of haymakers to take this one-rounder and edge a solid with the punches, but stay away from the personals, Swift Millie.

Verdict: Dre Dennis (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Dre Dennis – “Arms clap if he whip it, car crash and he dent it, I was bodying [body in a] a Freeway, they thought Cassidy did it!”

Mackk Myron defeats Jeffrey

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Recap: On any other day Jeffrey’s witty (“I won’t diss your buzz tho, I mean I respect the dead!”) punches, consistent knee-slappers and vibrant (“My .45 hold 9, but the 7th in it [inning] will stretch you out like baseball!”) wordplay would’ve beat most rappers. But a robust, more versatile, gun-bar (“Nigga’s doing flips and shit as soon as I started clapping, I pull once then pull over like a Starter jacket!”) festive, name-flip heavy, metaphor-slinging and (“I’m the type to start a fight and steal everybody, you the type to lose your job and kill everybody!”) punchline-crazy Mackk Myron just wasn’t having any of it, putting in more than enough work, topped off by a sterling performance, to take all 3 rounds here and warrant finally getting out of the PGs.

Verdict: Mackk Myron (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Mackk Myron – “I hate honkey’s, I’ll bury [Barry] White, I’m talking real deep!”

Young X defeats Moon

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Recap: Enthralling battle between Young X and Moon sees X run the gamut on trap talk, fiery (“Fuck outta here, you living in teh past my bro, don’t nobody help the old people with they bags no more!”) wit, lofty (“Now he punch drunk, look like he been drinking moonshine, call me lunar eclipse, way I come up and fuck up Moon shine!”) performance bars and frenzied name flips to take rounds 1 and 3 for the win over an opponent who while dropping a load of old-school (“They be like ‘O.G., how should I play the cards [opens hands up] that life dealt me?’, I say, first of all little nigga, stop showing them your whole hand!”) gems, dope schemes and steely (“They don’t know I’m about to be the game changer, Smack went and got the old gun out the stash, tired of putting bodies on the same banga!”) O.G. talk throughout the battle, couldn’t keep up with X’s explosive first (despite a fire turn himself) and thanks in part to a slow start and a little too much filler, got beat back in the deciding 3rd.

Verdict: Young X (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young X – “And don’t be coming with that 60s shit, we don’t understand the lingo dog, see you gonna make me catch your old ass coming out the bingo hall!”

DNA defeats Scotty

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Recap: Scotty’s wit and fiery (“I go everywhere with this stick, you gonna think that I’m flying!”) punches keep this one-rounder close against DNA. But with the NWX spitter already in relax mode with the robe on, for the Houston rapper there just was no beating a sizzling display of sporty schemes, feelgood wordplay and potent punchlines.

Verdict: DNA (W) 1-0

Favorite line: DNA – “I only took this one round ‘cuz I love wreck, you could only afford a sample of DNA…drug test!”

Glueazy defeats J Slash

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Recap: With loads of gritty punchlines and head-rining mayhem from both battlers, it’s nothing short of a competitive showing in this fiery 1-rounder between Glueazy and J Slash. However, a little too much filler from Slash as well as the Ohio rapper delivering only an equal amount of haymakers despite rapping almost twice as long as his opponent, gives the more condensed and slightly more versatile Glu the win.

Verdict: Glueazy (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Glueazy – “Did you know that he a schoolteacher?, I’m talking Monday through Friday, but on the weekends he battle raps and holds his gun sideways!”

DNA defeats E. Ness (Rematch)

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Recap: If you’re Elliot Ness, the chance to redeem yourself after the horrible showing you spouted in Summer Madness 2 versus DNA should be a blessing. Especially in Philadelphia, with your hometown crowd amped at every bar you spit and there being zero chance you could whine about a supposedly biased crowd. And with a now performance-heavy Ness having changed his style of rap so much since their last battle, who knows what could happen this time around, right? Well, if you still predicted DNA dishing another 30, you’d be absolutely right as the NWX leader used a fleet of rigid gun bars, some robust name flips and salacious schemes/punchlines to easily beat back the mostly pedestrian bars from his opponent during all 3 rounds of this rematch. But hey, at least Ness stayed professional and kept his mouth shut during DNA’s rounds and didn’t whine this time around.

Verdict: DNA (W) 3-0

Favorite line: DNA – “I’m done with logic, don’t throw no water, don’t touch my pockets, or everything I need will point [needle point] at E…fuck a compass!”

Stuey Newton defeats Chilla Jones

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Recap: Strange to see Chilla Jones get so personal in a battle, but here against Stuey Newton he does just that and kind of cost him, rarely scheming, loading up his rounds with too much filler and overall, really spouting more bars to reflect personal animus rather than trying to win a battle. Not that Stuey would complain as after a couple of nice rebuttals edges him round 2 and gets him a split going into the final round, Newton’s continual penchant for gritty punchlines along with a stream of ill personals gets him the deciding 3rd round and an easy win after what was a haphazard turn from Mr. Jones.

Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “This flow kills, tell me how this losing your soul feels, your family get the news, they’ll be out of control….yeah they got no chill!”

Drugz defeats Gwittty

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Recap: Fire battle between Gwitty and Drugz, what with plenty of dope personals and real tension in lieu of past drama between the two for the past year or so. Drugz shines hard in the 1st round, dishing steely punches and stinging gun (“Mini rocket launcher look like a news camera!”) bars left and right with wild-eyed intensity on his mark, while easily beating back a mostly pedestrian turn by Gwitty. 2nd round, however is all Gwitty, scoring at will with crisp (“This the dirtiest matchup on Smack…Xcel verse Anubis!”) jab after (“You out here acting reckless, they think he wilding, his record clean, that’s why they call him Drugz [drugs], he non-violent!”) jab, all the while slumping his opponent to the point of pretty much giving up the round and evening up the match. A solid, (“Have my bitch suck his dick, my ratchet head-tap him…blow his brain!”) punch-heavy, personal-drenched turn from Gwitty in the 3rd and final round gives him a nice chance to take a win here. However, Drugz wouldn’t be having it, dishing exquisite (“But my daughter was born yesterday, y’all seen Final Destination? the only think that could stop death is new life!”) set-ups in-between witty pontifications and grandiose braggadocio bars, it’s the more versatile DMV rapper’s vic for the taking.

Verdict: Drugz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Drugz – “Now I bring death upon Paper…a eulogy!”

Chef Trez defeats Chess

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Recap: You’d think that most objective battle rap fans would put Chess in their Top 10 for best lyricists, as even while struggling so much with his flow here, his overall palette was impeccable. Still, this battle rap and stumbles, slip-ups, chokes…well, they all matter. As they should. And lately, it’s becoming too much of a problem for Chess. And while, some could say that with Chef Trez spazzing, clearly on his A-game while spouting a potent [“…9, .44…Tyrese nigger, what more do you want from me!”) ‘3 of dem things’ in a ridiculous 2nd, I’d say that if not for Chess struggling with his flow at times in the first, he would’ve at least been able to edge the 1st round despite Trez’s opening round (“…he struggling to breathe? [hiccups] sound like I’m in his rounds when he fucking up!”) comeuppance and we would’ve had a tie going into the 3rd as overall, Chess spat slightly better (“30 shooting at homes like Steph playing in the Oracle…I like Trez tho, I know he pussy, but his aura cool [oracle]!”; “Step back or get a wet back [wetback]…immigration!”) bars and showed a little more versatility than his opponent did. Of course, there’s no excuse for Chess choking in the 3rd, a round he probably would’ve lost anyway what with his slow start and yet another (“You speak brave, you from the PJs, you got a lot of lip!”) spitfire turn from Trez. But moving forward I’d still recommend Chess work on shortening his rounds to avoid the slip-ups and let’s definitely not give K-Shine’s constant interruptions a front row seat.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Gun butt him, leave a kid with the shitface…he the seed of Chucky!”

Yung Griz defeats Profit

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Recap: As much as it’d be nice to see a Philly rapper breakout and become a star on the URL stage, I don’t think Profit will be that guy. Indeed, while his performance was top-notch, full of energy and kept you entertained, the bars themselves, were another subpar story brought to you from The City of Brotherly Love. That said, as easy vic for the consistently punch-centric, name flip spazzing and confident Yung Griz, who with this one should definitely be graduating from the PGs.

Verdict: Yung Griz (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Yung Griz – “I talk wrong while I’m acting Savage, this the Wonder Years!”

Quban defeats Presidential Dubz

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Recap: Quban and Presidential Dubz go toe-for-toe, splitting the first two rounds with elite gun bars, some well-equipped personals and raucous punchlines/set-ups, before a deciding 3rd is edged by Quban, who kept the heat on his opponent with more hardbody punches and schemes, while a still aggressive Prezzy spent half of an elongated round taking shots at potential opponents instead of the guy in front of him.

Verdict: Quban (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Quban – “If shit escalate, we won’t even switch the plot, gender reveal, cut the Cake, let’s see if he a man or not!”

John John da Don defeats Bigg K

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Recap: Well, who doesn’t love a battle where the two contestants face off that really don’t like each other? That seems to be the case here as after a year or so of social media banter, threats, interviews, blogs, etc., Bigg K and John John da Don finally take their differences to the battle stage on RBE.

And yeah, it was a goodie with JJDD going first and cleverly taking on his old threat to slap BK ‘when he sees him’ to set off a round of solid bars, dope personals and some stinging set-ups. However, Bigg K wasn’t having any of it, not only addressing JJDD’s backing out of his threats, but barking in his opponent’s face with a shitload of fiery punches/personals and feelgood (“I’m seasoned with the elbows, like Salt Bae on the Gram!”) haymakers that won him the round. Still, John John came right back in the 2nd, dishing on Bigg K’s tumultuous history in battle rap with pointed punchlines, witty (“The k got a kick like…you, when you don’t like a bar!”) barbs and just to make sure he totally got his point across…a picture prop with Bigg K not looking his most gangster that was accompanied by a gang of raucous heaters. And while Bigg K came back with a solid round of funny personals and stinging (“You just want to sell a battle, get your check, claim the fame on it, I want to sell a shirt that got the death, date and name on it!”) punchlines, overall it wasn’t enough to take the round.

Split going into the 3rd, with plenty of tension in the air, John John sticks with his game plan, going after his opponent with more and more personals that included a nice mix of flexing personals and potent schemes. And while K started his 3rd hot with a couple of banging personals/shiners, his swift adjustment to a rapid stream of nifty punchlines was not only head-scratching when it comes to tactics, but more importantly, not enough to take the round, thus giving JJDD the win.

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

Favorite line: John John da Don – “URL don’t fuck with you, care to tell the people why?, better yet I’ll tell ’em, just in case you feel a need to lie, after choking twice he went and set his price extremely high, but they was down for you K [U.K.] until you showed your European side!”

Fettuccine 20 defeats Rich E. Rich

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Recap: Somehow Nu Jerzey Twork steals the scene, apparently falling down during one of Rich E. Rich unorthodox raps and giving the crowd a more entertaining moment than any number of the battlers bars spat here. Still it counts, and with Fettuccine 20 spitting more heaters than his inconsistent opponent, despite the slip-up near the end, it’s a definitive win for Harlem going away.

Verdict: Fettuccine 20 (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Fettuccine 20 – “How the fuck we expect you to follow the code of the streets…you look like you wouldn’t make it out the streets of Dakota!”

Lexx Luthor defeats E-Ness

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Recap: Even a solid and entertaining E-Ness can’t keep up with a punch-heavy and metaphor/wordplay-flexing Lexx Luthor, who when he isn’t trying too hard to be the funniest guy in the room, can punch with the best of them as he displays here for 3 rounds to earn the 30.

Verdict: Lexx Luthor (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Lexx Luthor – “You some battle rap legend and they only paid you a grand, its been 20 years since MTV Eliott, how you still Making a Band?!”

Chilla Jones defeats Ness Lee

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Recap: Even without the trademark towel on his shoulder, Chilla Jones proves he’s still the ‘Kingpen’, slicing up a witty and punch-heavy, but sometimes elongated Ness Lee with a slew of fiery wordplay, lurid schemes and fierce personals to take the deciding 3rd round in an entertaining battle from VDM5 in Chicago,

Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “Nigga, you look like Mr. Clean….fell asleep in a tanning booth!”

Snake Eyez defeats Mack Mel

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Recap: 3 elongated rounds from Snake Eyez, but nary a bar wasted as the Dot Mobb general puts on a fire and versatile show, dishing straight heat with gritty urban semantics, aggressive bully bars, rich personals and that tough jail shit that you ‘had to be there’ to truly grasp. In the face of Snake’s gripping polemics throughout, Mack Mel still came through with a performance and punch-heavy palette that at times shook the stage, when he wasn’t delivering stinging (“Spine shot [Bhow!], nah y’all too used to that, blade out, drag it down his back like a Yakuza tat!”) punchlines and some casual wit that made this bout competitive, while also edging him the 2nd round. However, after forgetting his bars at the start and almost choking away his entire 3rd round, the newest Goonie member pulled it together and stood tall with a solid, gun-savvy turn that gave him an honest chance at winning. But after getting off to a bit of a slow start in his final round, Snake Eyez, just as he did to take the 1st, used a steady stream of wicked punches, more grandiose (“The clip longer than an O-Red translation!”) heaters and some flexing performance bars to take the deciding 3rd and gain the win.

Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “Lying all in your raps, I’m with all that tho, you ain’t never been up North, nigga’s trying to get waves off Corcraft soap!”

Gwitty defeats So Severe

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Recap: Accusing a battle rapper of being gassed isn’t always easy to do, but once So Severe had the audacity to spit, in 2018, a Busta Rhymes/Spliff Star bar and get away with it, you just knew that something ain’t right here. Besides that, even a Gwitty on his B-game has enough puchback to beat the mostly light bars his opponent was kicking.

Verdict: Gwitty (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Gwitty – “Another cat, with a chihuahua face, looking stupid, Ren and Stimpy!”

Cortez defeats A. Ward

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Recap: More constructed in his raps and a little more consistent overall bar-wise than his opponent, who seemed to be spitting themes at random throughout the battle, Cortez can be forgiven for the misuse of Bret Hart in the 4 Horseman reference, in an otherwise well-themed and personal 3rd round that serves as the difference maker in this win versus Christian rapper/KOTD stalwart A. Ward.

Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cortez – “Ain’t shit we gotat speak about, ask Hollohan bitch, i killed God already!

Geechi Gotti defeats Ave

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Recap: A competitive, altogether fire and epic punch-fest with plenty of replay value, Geechi Gotti versus Ave is easily one of the best battles to go down in 2018. And damn if Ave, on his A-game throughout with a shitload of flexing (“My mans died, my mode was on ‘ride’, wasn’t even sleepin’ bro, then wifey caught me loadin’ the strap, lookin’ like, “Please don’t go!, two wrongs never make it right!”, [but] it make it even though!”) punches, some phenomenal wordplay and aggressive mayhem/gun play, didn’t do everything to win. But unfortunately for the Norfolk, VA rapper, Geechi, in rounds 1 and 3 (a superbly-executed classic) anyway, just did him one better. An urban alchemist when it comes to the bars, while Geechi’s real life street ethos usually garners the headlines, his ability to mix in dope personals, witty barbs, ‘random’ shots at whoever’s irking him at the time, storytelling bars and gritty (“‘Cuz I’m struggling with making it out the streets, and that’s one of the toughest problems to have, I’m just sayin’, my whole life I’ve been battlin’ the Ave!”) name flips/schemes, more often than not doesn’t get the credit it deserves. And that’s why Gotti wins here.

Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “My nigga, you remind me of 2Pac though, not ‘cuz of your bars or because the hood feel you, it’s just we seen you throw punches on cam, but we still think Suge killed you!

Steams defeats Ish Mula

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Recap: In this 3-rounder from WeGoHard, Steams uses a nice quartet of intricate wordplay, ill set-ups/personals, snappy name flips and steely punchlines to survive both a 2nd round choke and a sterling middle round from Ish Mula, who while forever gritty and aggressive with his punches, came with too many reaches/pedestrian bars in the first, before an elongated and pretty average 3rd got him edged there too.

Verdict: Steams (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Steams – “Ish wanna be the shit, but that’s a gift and a curse at the same time!”

Respek BA defeats Serius Jones

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Recap: Granted he went a little overboard on the Math personals, but other then that Scottish rapper Respek BA’s witty punchlines, potent rebuttal game and aggressive schemes are more than enough to beat (Respek easily took the 1st and 3rd rounds, call the 2nd debatable) an up-n-down and sometimes reach-leaning Serius Jones.

Verdict: Respek BA (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Respek BA – “Let me assist you, ‘cuz you must have got confused, it doesn’t make you a pimp ‘cuz your woman is a prostitute!”

Prep and Rush Tyg [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Good to find out that J.R. Smith is a fan of battle rap. Besides that, in this one-rounder from I Got Bars Battle League, a mostly free-styling Prep gets busy with off-the dome shiners that mostly hit when he clowns his opponent’s (“This gun is Supreme, just that like ski-mask, you only gonna see half his face!”) wardrobe. However, a slip-up and too many pedestrian bars mid-round, allows the super emotive Rush Tyg, while not as intricate with the heat, still hang in there with able wit along with a load of fiery punches to earn himself a debatable.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Prep – “You front liek you with the shit’s and need Teflon, but you running around dressed like Zac Efron!”

Skates defeats Haixian

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Recap: This latest PG matchup is a standard gun-bar fest between Haixian and Skates, who both use aggressive and well-aimed darts/punchlines to split the first two rounds before Haixian falters a bit with a shortened and pedestrian turn in the deciding 3rd, while Skates keeps up the live action, using boastful punches and hardbody set-ups to easily take the round and the win.

Verdict: Skates (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Skates – “Dipshit, big shit, flip whips, I’m Derek Fisher with Matt Barnes’ wife!”

Steams defeats Diesei

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Recap: Using some slick (“Fuck is y’all selling me Diesel for, [when] I’m already on Smack?!”) wordplay, fierce name flips and hearty punchlines, a confident Steams survives a sputtering round 3 to take the first two rounds and beat an overall (“Watching Ninja Turtles taught me having a gun so bigger gun…man that shit is wack, cuz’ yeah the ‘ooouuu’s will give you bigger shells, but it’ll also create bigger rats!”) solid, but slightly undermanned with the bars Diesel in this West-coast Traffic battle from Smack.

Verdict: Steams (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Steams – “I serve vets, why y’all give me this herb next?, I’ll bursts tek’s or you’ll get poked in the temple like church sex!”

Holmzie Da God defeats Craig Lamar

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Recap: It doesn’t happen often, but even being more versatile than your opponent can get you a loss. As seen here in this dope URL matchup, while Craig Lamar spouted a wider array of bars with fresh personals, punchlines, wordplay, a rebuttal and even a freestyle mixed in, a little too many dry pots along with the set-up heavy, dazzling schemes dishing and gun bar feening Holmzie Da God raining graphic haymakers on an energetic crowd that seemed into every hot bar performed, earns the Loud Boy spitter rounds 1 and 2, before a debatable 3rd cost him a shutout.

Verdict: Holmzie Da God (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Holmzie Da God – “Blade through his shirt and start poking him through it…then take another stab at it like I know I can do it!”

Nu Jerzey Twork defeats JC

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Recap: When the bars match the energy…well, let’s just call it a goodnight. A less ‘over-the-head’, but still potent with the punches and wordplay Nu Jerzey Twork gives the full business to a solid, but slightly hiccup-prone JC in this 3-round battle from Smack Volume 1. After JC edges the first round with a little more consistent and (“Bitch, being in the ‘hood don’t cover them lines, I’m a repeat that: being in the hood don’t cover them lines!”) witty pedigree, Twork steps it up, using steely name flips, gritty punchlines and fierce (“I’ll wet up every dry spot you been controlling with your pace, always chasing Lux, well now you run to something loaded in ya face!”) performance bars to edge both rounds 2 and 3. Altogether, a more polished and thorough palette than his somewhat redundant-with-the-themes opponent that also laid waste to those who might’ve thought Twork had reached already his peak, much less battles too often.

Verdict: Nu Jerzey Twork (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Nu Jerzey Twork – “Fuck a glove, it’s enough rubber on the handle when I’m palming the grip Tommy, the drum’ll peel like j’aime belle ta’, pardon the French!”

Calicoe defeats Raptor Warhurst

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Recap: Calicoe doesn’t battle often, but when he does he usually puts on a pretty good show. In this case, not so much as after going through of his turn stunting, he struggles a bit with a couple of memory lapses and has to freestyle in order to finish his round. Still, in this one-rounder versus UK rapper Raptor Warhurst, most of Cal’s witty barbs and fiery storytelling lines are more than enough to beat back the (when he wasn’t connecting with some funny performance bars) mostly pedestrian raps of his opponent.

Verdict: Calicoe (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Calicoe – “I’ll slice your neck, put a smile on ya face, nigga!”

Ryda defeats Prez Mafia

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Recap: After about a 1-year layoff, Ryda’s return to battle rap is a sublime one as the babyface Goonie uses a consistent plethora of epic gun bars, solid name flips, steely performance bars and heated (“Knife in ya bitch weave, then turn it counterclockwise, I’m rewinding her tracks!”) punchlines to edge and beat back a dope and pretty (“Nigga, I will do a number on them arms like birthday punches!”) nice for two rounds Prez Mafia. This Survivor Series matchup, long in hype beforehand and well appreciated by a crowd that was into it throughout, stayed close and competitive until the middle of the 3rd round, when Prez surprisingly cut short what was beginning to look like another solid turn. Given an easy opportunity to get a 30, Ryda obliged with yet another versatile and strong final round that was laced with a handful of haymakers.

Verdict: Ryda (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Ryda – “Nigga, I put in some of my best work with this Nina…Larenz Tate!”

Real Deal defeats Metra Flako

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Recap: Battling over RZA’s epic “Stand Up” beat, Real Deal goes totally off-the-dome with some Wu-Tang references mixed in to not only flex his freestyle ability, but beat back a solid, but nowhere noteworthy effort from Metra Flako in this 1-rounder from No Coast Raps.

Verdict: Real Deal (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Real Deal – “You in trouble dude, like your shirt, but I’m getting the W!”

R Streetz defeats Reepah Rell

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Recap: An eccentric, but hardbody R Streez uses a well-themed, ‘real rap shit’ 3rd round to break a tie and pull off a mild upset over the veteran Reepah Rell, who besides boasting a crazy (“You see me? Mister Unruly, big toolie, you’ll be under Streetz for being a clown, It movie!”) 2nd round, didn’t quite deliver on his usual, consistent offerings of exquisite wordplay in a close 1st (that btw, featured a pair of tits getting flashed: ‘Say it again!’) and an indisputable 3rd.

Verdict: R Streez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: R Streez – “Real nigga’s bars, playing chess with your cellmate, but he ain’t even your cellmate…you yelling out ‘Queen 6’ through the toilet bowl!”

Kid Deph and Superblack [Debatable]

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Recap: How Yogi Berra said it? ‘It ain’t over till it’s over!’ Right, indeed. With Kid Deph and Superblack using an alloy of fiery (KD: “My shooters is reckless, Google investment, they stock lovers!”) gun lines, steely punchlines, ample (SB: “You got any plans of throwing a cig in my face, you better cut that…unless it’s a Newport!”) wit and fluid performance bars to split the 1st round, after a poor showing in the 2nd round by Superblack combined with a dope (“Put your life, under this ladder…he superstitious!”) 3rd from Deph, it seemed like the Kid was on his way to a comfortable win. But with an able assist from his girl, Superblack’s unorthodox stylings and delivery showed up and finally left earth in the 3rd, displaying enough versatility along with plenty of dope set-ups and steely punches to win the round and score a debatable.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Superblack – “Shit I ain’t even get a chance to scratch the serial on a ratchet, only a half the Gun Title like Free Surf!”

Kyd Slade defeats Prez Mafia

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Recap: Audacious with the personals, fiery with the gun bars, righteous with the urban street dalliances and even taking a timeout to give a shout-out to his connect, a sublime Kyd Slade manages to put a hurting on a solid for two rounds Prez Mafia, before a 3rd round choke by Prez gives Slade the 30.

Verdict: Kyd Slade (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Kyd Slade – “You ready for war?, well, that’s how nigga’s should get down, it’s simply like a bus ride, you either reach for the metal or sit down!”

Prep defeats C Low

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Recap: Prep survives a solid, punch-heavy turn by C-Low with a nice rebuttal and a couple of alright freestyles, but mostly a spirited name-flip, personal, gun-friendly and lyrically adept frenzy that overtakes his opponent and wins this one-round battle from Gates In The Garden.

Verdict: Prep (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Prep – “Wet his shirt like I’m trying to expose an informant!”

B. Dot defeats Emerson Kennedy

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Recap: You know damn well Smack wanted to yell ‘Time!‘ early during that round 3. But give him credit for keeping it professional and letting B. Dot, with his first ever appearance on the URL stage,  go on uninterrupted with arguably (the closest that I could think of was Arsonal going at ARP during his battle against Showoff) the most (“Or is this the same trick that got us boarded on the slave ship from that European invasion?, Capitalism, they ain’t change it, the old master say, ‘You niggas ain’t goin’ nowhere’, new masters say, ‘It only matters on this plantation!'”) scathing and blistering round you’ve ever seen against a league owner in battle rap history. And B. Dot needed every bit of his classic 3rd. Because that’s how nice the highly slept-on Emerson Kennedy was throughout this battle, dishing exquisite punchlines, fiery (“Are you really reppin’ they word, or just reinforcing the negative lessons they’ve learned?, when your community ask for action, are you…too busy preppin’ for Aye Verb?!?”) personals, some stinging wordplay and even a couple of fire rebuttals to take round 1, before being edged by Dot’s conscious, gun line savvy, at times braggadocio and personal comeuppance in the latter rounds. A fire battle regardless of who you thought won that repped the West-coast well, it’s good to know that with B. Dot proceeding to make a couple of more appearances on Smack since this battle took place, it’s all good now.

Verdict: B. Dot (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Dot –  “Watch how I aim the thing and flame your scene, I turn your world upside down my nigga, it’ll be nothin’ but ashes and you ain’t never seen Stranger Things!”

Gwitty defeats Badd Newz

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Recap: Funny how nice Gwitty can be when he dispenses with the gibberish for wit and fiery punches that actually make sense. The latter is the case here and against a very underwhelming opponent in Badd Newz, that’s adds up to an easy vic in this one-rounder from The Trap..

Verdict: Gwitty (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Gwitty – “From zero to negative 10, what I rate you, you a Smickie D’s burger, Mercy!, I mean fake food!”

Danny Myers defeats Coffee Brown

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Recap: In a battle lit with hard-hitting personals and plenty of well-meaning mayhem, a righteous, more condensed, consistently nice, punchline-spazzing and dirty drawers spouting Danny Myers puts the brakes on Coffee Brown’s often cold, but unsteady polemic’s with his own series of visceral heat and earn the 30.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I know it’s foul, but you the biggest ho around, your baby was chewing on a condom in the ultrasound!”

Pat Stay defeats No Shame

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Recap: Clearly more adept with the punches than his opponent, Pat Stay uses a plethora of ‘tranny’ jokes, some genuine circumventing of identity politics and a host of fiery punchlines/schemes to lay down the hammer on transgender rapper No Shame.

Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Deep voice yet soft spoken, right there for you when your heart’s broken…or need a jar open!”

Rum Nitty defeats DNA

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Recap: Fire and competitive throughout, DNA and Rum Nitty both do what’s expected of them in this 3-round battle from Smack/URL. Elongated in the 1st round, but more versatile with his (“What you a Crip with your faking ass?, if you don’t wanna die just move, this an imitation crab [Bwoh!] now to try to process food!”) punches, at times witty and scheme-heavy, DNA does just enough to edge what was an unapologetically heated, wordplay (“Y’all the reason why nigga’s saying battling lame, ‘cuz we got 100 wack nigga’s trying to manage The Game!”) friendly and gun-savvy turn from Nitty. The second round saw DNA open up with a fire rebuttal and then launch into some amusing (“I need y’all to picture Nutty at the lunch line, soon as he saw the meal [mil] with the tray [.3]…he got a punchline!”) personals as well as aggressive punchlines drenched with a flair for bluster and righteous polemics. However, after barely getting edged in the previous round, Nitty would come back with yet another more condensed and spitfire round, dishing fiery, back-to-back (“100 in the clip, you getting 80 D…pay attention!”) punches along with steely name flips and more bodacious gun lines for that ass to take the middle round. The 3rd and deciding round saw DNA attempt to drop a few rebuttals to open things which turned out to be hit-n-miss, before seguing into a versatile turn of solid punches, gun bars and personals that were again a bit on the prolonged side, but still a hard go at it nonetheless. But overall Rum Nitty would just prove to be too much in the end, keeping his foot on the pedal with syrupy gun bars, more finessed punches, a high-level performance and even mixing in a little wit to take the final round, complete his comeback and get the win.

Verdict: Rum Nitty (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “Let’s scrap fam, I’ll drop a bomb on a nigga from the Gap band!”

O’fficial defeats Kai The Poet

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Recap: In this 1-rounder from Opulence Battle League O’fficial uses some spiffy wordplay, fierce set-ups and a boatload of fiery punchlines/personals to make quick work a mostly pedestrian Kai The Poet.

Verdict: O’fficial (W) 1-0

Favorite line: O’fficial – “I mean, I been a queen, holding the crown like a cavity!”

Charlie Clips defeats Harry Baker

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Recap: No, Anita Baker did not single the soul classic “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” song, that would be Aretha Franklin. But that minor error by Charlie Clips still didn’t stop him from beating the performance-rich and often-hilarious stylings of the UK’s Harry Baker in this entertaining 3-rounder from Don’t Flop. Clips using a series of fiery schemes, buzzing name flips, a couple of fire rebuttals, one-too-many-tag-ins-by-his-opponent in the 2nd round and witty personals/punchlines to edge the latter two rounds for the win.

Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “How about I bring the pound to ya face like currency exchange!”

Glueazy defeats Danny Myers

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Recap: With like a week’s notice Glueazy more than impresses, dishing a versatile barrage of fierce punches, fire personals, stinging gun bars and some real talk shit that more than made their point. Indeed, with the always intense, punch-heavy and in this case, even witty at times Danny Myers delivering yet another solid performance, it would take a superb, haymaker-drenched turn from Glu to take the 1st round, before a turned-up (after a faltering and inconsistent 2nd), condensed, back to basics and overall more potent Glu took the deciding 3rd for the win in what overall was a dope and competitive battle.

Verdict: Glueazy (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Glueazy – “Glu official, group of pistols, I’ll let 2 burn on you. Chris Unbias, fuck with the kid the whole group turn on you!”

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!”

Math Hoffa defeats Machete Trevy

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Recap: Altogether an entertaining battle that the legendary Supa Hot Fire would certainly be proud of, Math Hoffa travels all the way to Canada to flex his versatility with a couple of rare rebuttals, some fire schemes, witty jokes and potent set-ups, thus making relatively easy work of the slow-starting, but effective in the latter rounds Machete Trevy.

Verdict: Math Hoffa (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Math Hoffa – “This shit is pointless like lifting the seat just to piss on the wall!”

Quban defeats Kid Deph

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Recap: Plenty of mayhem, fire set-ups and potent gun bars in this Southern Invitational One-Off between Quban and Kid Deph, but while Deph certainly had his moments here and there, a slow start along with Quban dishing more consistency with his bars gets the CNC spitter the win.

Verdict: Quban (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Quban – “My nigga, what was you doing?, your buzz was ruined, he couldn’t stomach a Pep talk, but think he could handle smoke with Quban!”

K-Shine defeats Bad Newz

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Recap: Bad Newz’s penchant for solid gun bars and braggadocio room shakers can work against most opponents. But with a more versatile battler and harder-hitting puncher in K-Shine, who besides the aforementioned dalliances, can also mix in incredible wit and performance…well overall, Newz’ tank just isn’t equipped with enough juice here, especially in the 1st and 3rd rounds, thus Shine earning the win.

Verdict: K-Shine (W) 2-1

Favorite line: K-Shine – “They 12 deep?, 6 shot revolver, who gonna die, who gonna carry ’em?, I’ll let these cats choose, ‘cuz whoever don’t die gonna be the bearer of Bad News!”

Bangz defeats Chris Dubbs

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Recap: Chris Dubbs scores here and there with some nice braggadocio bars. But you’d have to be consistently nicer if you’re going to go first in a one-rounder the likes of Bnagz, who’s freestyle/rebuttal acumen and playful wordplay seem to always land when executed with enough pizazz. Thus, more than enough to take this one.

Verdict: Bangz (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Bangz – “Nigga I’ll squeeze and blaze ya, pound waving like ‘See ya later!'”

Fettuccine 20 defeats Bangz

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Recap: Don’t know if you’ll find a better 3 rounds from Fettuccine 20 than this one versus the ever lyrical/off-the-dome-specialist Bangz. An exhilarating battle from jump, with Bangz kicking at least 5 mid-round rebuttals with each receiving the love they deserved, let’s just say that if Fetty came with anything less with his A-game, this one would’ve been a wash. But no worries there. After a first round littered with solid punches and some excellent wordplay by Fetty that was somehow edged by Bangz’s more condensed and fire (“So you could save the chat, ‘cuz lately I showed nigga’s it’s levels, bodies on top of bodies and fetti is something that’s made to stack!”) punchlines as well as a few of those aforementioned rebuts, Fetty stepped it up. First there was a spitfire 2nd round laced with haymakers, that is when he wasn’t scoring with salacious punch after punch. Then in the deciding 3rd, more of the same rigorous (“You see the arms waving and the medal clicking when it kick, it ain’t a tap dance show, first a POW!!! and then ‘Bangs!’ in the air, this the old Bat-Man show!”), steeze from Fetty, capped off by his own mid-round rebuttal that seemed to surprise even himself. A solid Bangz, still competing hard with plenty of wit, a nice freestyle and another rebuttal in the final round, would just fell short, what with a too few many dry spots and not quite as many bangers as his more noteworthy opponent.

Verdict: Fettuccine 20 (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Fettuccine 20 – “The first step [pop] or I could raise a nigga son, lift him all the way up, yeah, I keep a semi by, [leans back] Lean Back, rock Bangz [bangs] better than Remy Ma!”

Eazy the Block Captain defeats Zeus Da God

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Recap: Plenty of gritty boasts, fiery street shit, livid struggle bars, rugged name flips and fierce punchlines in this dope 1-rounder from We Go Hard between Zeus Da God and Eazy the Block Captain. However, while a little lengthy with his turn, Eazy still makes it all useful and slightly more versatile, adding spicy metaphors, rich storytelling and intrepid jail shit to an already gripping arsenal for the win.

Verdict: Eazy the Block Captain (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Eazy the Block Captain – “See, the plug trust me, so every O is 800, it’s like my credit right!”

Chef Trez defeats Young Smurf

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Recap: Once again Chef Trez makes it look easy, running circles around an inconsistent and to put it blunt, overwhelmed Young Smurf with spitfire punches, fiery set-ups, witty personals and of course, a handful of dope freestyles and rebuttals that warranted a few shirt pull-ups from the back from host Miltown Bloe.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez -“Everybody running off on the plug….I just pull them bitches!”

Ssynic defeats Dizaster

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Recap: It helps when you’re a comedian as German rapper/comic/artist Ssnyic spouts a ton of hilarious schemes, well-timed humor, dope storytelling and witty personals/punchlines to beat back a raucous and punch-heavy at times, but topsy-turvy with a gang of dry spots Dizaster in what was still an entertaining battle from Toptier Takeover.

Verdict: Ssynic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ssynic – “So in L.A., you might be a big shot, running around like ‘Fuck It, Suck It’, but in Germany you’re just a Canucker!”

Clone defeats B. Magic

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Recap: We been hearing about B Magic screwing up his legacy and choking left and right for the last couple years or so. But for a guy already on the downhill, who still recently “un-retired”, at what point does he either bring a phone on stage with his raps in them so he can stop forgetting his bars or just be done with battle rap for good while he can still save face? To think, other than a pretty fire 1st round and a few hot bars here and there later on, Magic’s opponent Clone, was pretty average. Or in other words, very beatable. Yet, after 4 slip-ups led to the host John John da God having to cut Magic’s round short in the first, before a pretty pedestrian 2nd lost him that round (and hence, the battle) and a horrible 3rd that saw him slip-up again after like a minute before just flat out giving up, Magic needs to stop getting mad at perpetuated crowd reaction’s and start looking in the mirror and getting mad at himself, especially if he’s going to keep wasting people’s time and money with these lame showings.

Verdict: Clone (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Clone – “Keep running ya mouth, nah it won’t get you hit in the jaw, we shooting it….for no reason, consider it law!”

D.O.T. defeats Gunna

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Recap: Delivering verbal hijinks and stinging performance bars at will, D.O.T.’s virtuoso showing here against a solid, but too often underwhelming Gunna, results in a nice win for Brooklyn.

Verdict: D.O.T. (W) 1-0

Favorite line: D.O.T. -“I could let the Mac hit his bitch…Ms. Parker!”

T Top defeats JC

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Recap: If his classic (not just for the controversial and ill-advised ‘Kenneka Jenkins’ bar), haymaker-drenched 1st round didn’t prove that T Top wasn’t motivated for this battle with JC, then certainly his fiery and elongated 2nd and super-long 3rd (which even featured a cameo from a pop lock dancer, because yunno THIS once happened) did. And maybe with him tossing out everything but the kitchen sink, including wild name flips, potent (“I brought this [turns hand like gun over JC’s head] to press on your mind like postpartum!”) gun bars and some killer punchlines, Top might’ve had a 3-0, if not for JC being JC (minus a few redundant quotables here and there) what with a barrage of exquisite (“I’m no fool, but I’m on the street like Will Ferrell in Old School!”) wordplay, witty personals and hellbent gun bars/punches that were spicy (and condensed) enough to force a debatable 2nd and 3rd. Thus it’s the aforementioned 1st, the only round with a clear victor, that garners Top an appearance in the winner’s circle.

Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1

Favorite line: T Top – “My grandma told me you was coming, yeah that’s what she said, but she ain’t tell me he was 5-2 clapping the lead, a Vice Lord?!?, with a bandana wrapped on his leg, I thought Jesus ran with Disciples, ain’t that we read?!”

Reepah Rell and Top Ten [Debatable]

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Recap: Plenty of hardbody (“I made money off the Rock and the Diesel, I’m like The Fast and the Furious!”) bars from Top Ten speak with both flair and grit in this one-rounder against Reepah Rell, who after a bit of a slow start, shook the crowd with some stupendous wordplay and fiery schemes. Still, while Reepah might’ve dished more haymakers, a mid-round slip-up along with another, albeit  slighter slip in delivery later on, cost’s Rell the edge here.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Reepah Rell – “I’m ready to rock, think Super Mario, we jumpig for coins, you ain’t gotta question the block!”

Swamp defeats Skinny Man Bang

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Recap: Intense 1-rounder between Swamp and Skinny Man Bang with plenty of mayhem, righteous gun bars, aggression, heated personals and blazing punchlines from both battlers. A close one with a wide array of haymakers, at the end it’s a more consistent with the punches, storytelling, witty and wordplay-lit Swamp who gets the edge here.

Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Swamp – “You get on my nerves more than when I’m in a rush to wash my ass and the shower curtain just keep grabbing my leg!”

Arsonal defeats Tony D

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Recap: Tony D’s winsome wordplay and mocking personals (esp. during a hilarious 2nd round) keeps him neck-to-neck with Arsonal in this 3-rounder from Don’t Flop. But with the New Jersey native’s ability to stay sharp with a wide load of fiery punches, rambunctious multi’s, glistening gun bars and ill-mannered personals, a debatable 2nd and 3rd round forces one to make the 1st round, a turn that saw Ars clearly out-punch his opponent, the deciding factor here.

Verdict: Arsonal (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Arsonal – “I’m disrespectful, I’m the type of nigga that when you sneeze I say ‘Fuck you!’ instead of ‘Bless you!'”

Real Deal defeats Chuck West

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Recap: Only an adept freestyler who happens to be battling in Chicago could spout a Rex Grossman line knowing it’d absolutely kill as Real Deal does here. The Pittsburgh vet using a gang of nifty off-the-dome darts on his way to handily beating a rapid, but so-so spitting Chuck West in this 2-round freestyle battle from No Coast Raps.

Verdict: Real Deal (W) 2-0

Favorite line: Real Deal – “Why the fuck you got me up here battling a Black Milhouse?!”