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Young X defeats D.O.T.

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Recap: “Reach Gawd, that’s what the haters gave me!” Apparently settled on the idea that he had a point to prove in this battle rap game, a determined D.O.T. ditches, for the most part his noted performance acumen for tedious bar-thirsty polemics and elongated schems that defied logic when you consider the notable run he’s been on of late. Too bad too as outside of an elongated, but pretty fiery, name flip (“Stop playing with me, I ain’t wit’ them X games!”; “I got the aim of an eXpert, baretta’s llama’s semi’s ruger’s, I could show him eXcellence, I been killing shit, I got eXperience!”) doused 2nd round, too many average lines (Rd. 1) and a lil too much pontificating (Rd. 3) spoiled what could’ve been a win over a versatile and funny, but not always consistent Young X. Nonetheless, with a fiery X kicking steady (“D.O.T. could get it any day, nigga I let them semi’s spray, no guns in New York?, fuck you talking to nigga, we brought pistols anyway!”; “Picture X going at D.O.T. and me not winning, when I’ll fuck DNA up and that name got 3 dots in it!”) haymakers and dope guns bars while mocking D.O.T.’s style in the first round and edging out the 3rd with a better bar quotient as well as comical multi-faceted (including another rousing “Get ’em” rant: “You, when it comes to brushing my teeth, I hate reaching-ass nigga!”) verbiage in the last round…on paper it’s a win for Young X. But as far as D.O.T.’s most likely concerned, as long as he got his point across it’s a win for him too.

Verdict: Young X (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young X – “I said Smack ain’t pay me, this three rounds of community service!”)

Riggz defeats Brixx Belvy

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Recap: A raucous, punch/wordplay-heavy, gun bar-friendly and perfectly executed 1st round from Riggz makes the difference here in this competitive and fiery 3-rounder from Bullpen Battle League. Indeed, while Brixx Belvy upped the ante and delivered a couple of consistently spicy, witty at times, personal-savvy and punchline-lit turns in the latter rounds, his Team Wordplay opponent kept it just as tight with a gang of gritty barbs, fire set-ups and stinging mayhem/punches of his own, making for two debatable rounds while allowing Riggz to hold onto his lead for the win.

Verdict: Riggz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Riggz – “You hustle, Brixx”, let me find out that you did squeal, I’ll give you 20 from this .16…that’s my New Years deal!”

Serius Jones and Teewhy [NO CONTEST]

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Recap: According to the host of this battle, both Teewhy and Serius Jones still wanted this battle put out despite the bad editing (which happens, suspiciously, mostly during Teewhy’s rounds) and lost footage, therefore a recap. Overall, neither battler particularly shined here esp. with a personal-leaning but (“Nigga, you look like Pinocchio just became a real boy!”) oft-witty Jones’ often (“Pistola”?!?) reaching with his punches and Teewhy, while more consistent with his flow, engaging in a lot of filler throughout his turns. Still, from what you see here, it’s hard not to call this for Jones as after getting edged in the first round, it looked like he easily took the 2nd, before edging the 3rd with more fiery punchlines, personals and wordplay. But it wouldn’t be fair to make a call a winner what with the aforementioned technical difficulties, missing bars from Teewhy and the allegation that a huge Jones slip-up got edited out. Of course, how you put on a battle with only one cameraman, much less no backup batteries is another story.

Verdict: No Contest

Favorite line: Teewhy – “Y’all got me really mad at him, Billy Madison, old nigga getting schooled by them young boy’s!”

Geechi Gotti defeats Yung Griz

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Recap: Already down one round that wasn’t helped by a slow start and Yung Griz’s slick (“Kill a pen, fill it with Murder ink [Inc.], I’m about to Irv Gotti!”) wordplay and fierce schemes, Geechi Gotti turns it up in round two, solidifying his street/battle cred with standing (“I’m standing over him, shooting with both hands, I’m looking like Rick Barry on the line!”) haymakers and graphic urban street tales that you had to be there to witness. All said, it makes for a deciding 3rd round, which Gotti, thanks in part to slow start to his 3rd by his opponent and a pedigree of dizzying punches, edges with enough heaters to complete the comeback.

Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “I know you frail, you wouldn’t fight if you was getting paid [pow!} knock his homie head in his arms, that’s the only way you’ll make him catch a fade!”

Showoff defeats Krillz

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Recap: Krillz had some hot (“Unlike you, I ain’t a singer or a dancer, I’m a rapper nigga, but I will hit the milly rock…and then slap a nigga!”) lines, especially in a fiery 2nd round that allowed him to come from behind and gain a split going into the 3rd. But too many predictable bars from the light-skin dude in the deciding round, along with a way more wordplay-heavy and resilient (“It’s 2016 nigga, who fighting?, fuck punch drunk, I’ll dump him with a K, the K that I’m throwing up, lick a shot, buck it in his face, Punch. Drunk. Throw-up  Lick a Shot. Bucket in his Face!”) Showoff allowed for Brooklyn to one-up Jersey here.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Showoff- “Oh, you thought I’d take you light, here’s bars that you don’t deserve, poetry, watch I get to snapping after these spoken words!”

Jey The Nitewing defeats D’mon

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Recap: AHAT Washington 3-rounder between Jey The Nitewing and D’mon features a beautiful view outside, a gang of flashy/mocking personals, rich punchlines, a couple of solid rebuttals from Nitewing and a battler with the unique ability of ‘talking to himself’ while he rapped (D’mon). A close and competitive one all the way through, it’s a punch-heavier and standout turn by Nitewing (who seemed at times like he was in a handicap match the way he taking on his opponent and his friend) in the opening round that gets him the win in light of two debatable rounds afterward.

Verdict: Jey The Nitewing (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Jey The Nitewing – “It hurts me to hurt you nigga’s, but y’all already know how J be, big fish, small pond, hell yeah I’m a get wavy!”

Cortez defeats E-Ness

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Recap: Wordplay beats comedy in this one as while E Ness kept the Philly crowd hype with animated (“You don’t live the savage life, I’m working up an appetite, gun so big I gotta shoot it via satellite!”) bars and amusing (“See, I’m from Philly, my whole life is like a coin toss, I done seen blood splatter like soy sauce!”) anecdotes throughout, when attempting to go blow-for-blow with Cortez’s repeated (“I’m direct, you get the message with the Tek’s [texts], I let that Auto correct!”) heat, an inconsistent (“This a mismatch, a Butterfinger to a KitKat”) bar quotient and very little variety to his lines eventually did him in. Consider too that ‘Tez certainly did do his research with ill Philly (“Your career, you been here, and you still lonely son? he get love…in Yagon and lower Marion, like where Kobe’s from!”) hometown bars and stayed completely away from the standard E-Ness Making the Band jokes, and it’s easy to call this one 2-1 for the kid from Brooklyn.

Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cortez –  “You and your mans, they can die for less…so worthless, both of y’all sharing cig…like co-workers!”

Fettuccine 20 defeats Sammy Wild 100’s

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Recap: Tight, nice and highly intensified contest between Harlem’s Fettuccine 20 and Chicago’s Sammy Wild 100’s comes down to the 3rd round after they (Fetty: “I know I’m from New York, but sometimes my mind be in a New England state, I’m be airing [Aaron], I’m Bolden? but I’ll still heat ya face…nah, I’m more like Tom Brady, I got the balls to air out, them I beat the case!”; Sammy: “You been pussy since birth, they pulled you out like ‘It’s a bitch!'”)  split the first two. And despite an ill (“Y’all heard him in the second round, he said I look like a dyke, so I keep different straps for a bitch!”) rebuttal in the middle of his round and equally ill freestyle by Sammy that had the crowd go nuts, Fetty’shigher consistency with the hot bars, along with a handful of (“They say Sammy be balling, copping all the bottles and Adriano’s on Thursday, that’s great, ‘cuz I’ll come clapping at his table like he at a restaurant on his birthday!”) haymakers edges it for him at the end.

Verdict:  Fettuccine 20 (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Fettuccine 20 – “That .40, the Tek and the trey, they all in the backpack, I’m that strapped, this one leaning to the voicemail, this one calling his ass back!”

Caustic defeats T-Rex

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Recap: Here in this KOTD 3-rounder vs. T-Rex, after getting edged in the first round to some more pertinent heat from his wily opponent, Caustic’s witty barbs, hitting personals/punchlines and fiery wordplay combine to easily take the latter two rounds and gain the win over a by then pretty redundant Rex.

Verdict: Caustic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Caustic – “The last few years we haven’t really seen improvement, they should call you Tomb Raider Rex, this bitch’s career is in ruins!”

Bonnie Godiva defeats Melato Black

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Recap: From RBE, after a gritty, personal-lit and condensed Melato Black edged the 1st round, this one was all Bonnie Godiva as the Yonkers heroine came back with a blistering barrage of hard-hitting punchlines, salacious/witty personals, fierce name flips, a fire rebuttal and stringent mayhem that with an able assist from Melato’s flow-challenged 2nd round, easily gave Bonnie the latter two rounds and the win.

Verdict: Bonnie Godiva (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Bonnie Godiva – “Know why you attract big-ass nigga’s?, you been food!”

Ty Law defeats Cyssero

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Recap: The Philly battle rapper’s need for more intricacy within their bars displays itself again as while Cyssero spouted more consistency and a better flow here against Ty Law than he did a few months earlier against Cortez, his mostly hard lines and straightforward delivery just couldn’t hang with a more elaborate punchline (“Your pen game like Rogue off X-men, feel her [filler] is hurting you!”) feen, personals (“Me and Cortez ruined ya buzz, my question is who killed him more, Court or Law?…YOU be the judge!”) stalwart and jaunty (“You got frail hands, you ain’t poppin’ no gun, it’s gonna be a nasty sight, tell Th3Saga don’t run!”) wordsmith in Law. So while Cyss’ penchant for guns bars were drenched in cinematic sound bites (and he did manage to spit some (“If I don’t give him a shot, I still Set It Off, you Vivica Fox, eat the butt of the 50!”) fire at times) too often they lacked the adroitness, bite and animated pizzazz of a Big T. So indeed, while the (“I throw lead, go ‘head with the hype shit, AR hit ya car and make it do bike tricks!”) talent is certainly there, if Philly’s best are going to continue to take on the URL’s best, they’re not going to have to catch up to the slick proficiency of battle rapper’s more elite, but come more consistent and even look into drafting a different game plan.

Verdict: Ty Law (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Ty Law – “Your time to blow done, your chances like Daylyt [daylight] vs O Red battle, because Day died and [in] ’01 [O won]”

Hollow da Don defeats Pat Stay [Rematch]

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Recap: Scintillating, punch-heavy and aggressive rematch between Hollow da Don and Pat Stay gets decided by the only round that wasn’t a debatable: the 1st, as Hollow’s showmanship, fly performance bars (even if there’s some controversy over the originality of the ‘look like I’m backstroking’ haymaker), rich (“I’m just wondering, how the fuck you let me 3-0 you in a one-round battle?”) anecdotes and fire set-ups make hay of a mostly indirect/pedestrian round from Pat. So while Pat’s rebuttal game, exquisite (“I ain’t racist, nah, but my shank is, ‘cuz the blade tip brown from all the dried up blood that it’s stained with!”) bully bars and witty shiners would get him a tie with Hollow’s (“I could’ve said ‘deuces’, me getting back on this card is just pity Pat!”) well-rounded, personal-drenched 2nd and a pontificating, but (“But bro, we are your peers, we’re all we have in this business, you are the exact definition of everything you used to stand up against, man, listen!”) hitting with the personals Pat would do the same versus a slightly less fiery, but still solid 3rd by Hollow, it’s the aforementioned 1st round that gets Hollow yet another win over his always formidable opponent in this one.

Verdict: Hollow da Don (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Hollow da Don –  “I live for this shit, nigga, I die for my ‘respeck’, I’m talking to all ‘tree’ of y’all!”

Chef Trez defeats Syah

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Recap: Syah stays competitive with some nice name flips, (“They ain’t really want me to Black here, this some Oscar shit!”; “You should hire a new manager and stop staring at me for real, matter fact hire Norbes, at least he can tell you what can happen over a grill!”) punches and winsome (“Any thoughts of running up on me, just dead it now, I sleep with more .45’s [4, 5’s] and .9’s [9’s] than a pedophile!”) gun bars throughout his three rounds. But other than a close 2nd, none of Syah’s turns could stand up to Chef Trez’s ever-flowing (“Your mom’s mom dead, for grams of 40…moon rocks!”) heat and rich performance. Indeed, a constant barrage of fiery personals, frenzied (“You only talk, you ain’t about action, I know what dog ’bout, like a freak bitch on her period, you all mouth!”) haymakers, dope set-ups and fluorescent (“The gat spitting, but when this bitch touch you, you won’t catch feelings, I told him I’mma hit you with a clean nina, but gave him a dirty .40…I’m cat-fishing!”) wordplay that reminded us all that Trez more than belongs on the big stage–and that’s no gassin’.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You been battling for how long and still got no fame?!, you John John Homeboy nigga…that’s your name!”

Dougy defeats Al 40 Cal

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Recap: Gotta love these intense, upclose, small-room battles. Yet, despite a consistently aggressive Al 40 Cal showing some potential (“I’ll hop out the whip and clap him, fuck a drive-by, upload the body on Facebook, he gonna die live!”) here and there, mostly standard bars and a lack of creativity gave him little chance of beating Dougy’s more intricate (“…or I could get a knife and leave something open son, with a Jamaican blade, I’ll poke he mon [Pokemon]!”) lines, feelgood gun bars and scintillating name flips.

Verdict: Dougy (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Dougy – “My cousin, he showed me how to boil crack, then he told me how to get those rocks in, I watched him cook with the jar, pointing at the glass like he window shopping!”

Yung Ill defeats Heartless

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Recap: Back on a solo mission, Yung Ill proves himself to be up for the task, delivering a stellar dish of fiery performance bars in the 1st and (“Y’all gave his battery in his back a charge and he still can’t match my practice bars!”) 3rd rounds to edge punchline-fiend Heartless. Indeed, while the SONS captain spouted steady rich (“You oughtta be ashamed now, your career like the Mario brothers, soon as it got on the pipe it went straight down!”) personals and phenomenal (“Lick a shot, they get nuts with it like bar food!”) wordplay at times, he would fell victim to not only Ill’s penchant for hard rhymes, but his own slip-up in round 1 and way-too-short 3rd.

Verdict: Yung Ill (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Yung Ill – “This perfect, the SONS left you in the Lou deserted to face the Sandman, nigga I’ll ask a bitch where you stay, throw a clip in the K and take a trip to L.A., I’m a Rams fan!”

Head Ice defeats Math Hoffa

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Recap: Like DNA choosing to rap over a beat in the 3rd round versus K-Shine or John John da Don choosing to go on BET’s Rap City and get beat by a no-name, white kid…you can file this one under
‘Worst Life Decisions’. How else to explain Math Hoffa, co-headlining a much-anticipated and long-awaited matchup versus Head Ice, choosing to show up in a robe, set up a DJ to provide lame horror film sound effects while he rapped, all the while spitting what amounted to mostly pedestrian bars that lacked any sort of spark or ingenuity? To think, throughout this battle, what with a bunch of nonsensical blather and that took away from some lowkey funny and gritty shit that landed, Head Ice clearly wasn’t on his A-game either. But damn if Hoffa even cared about winning this battle in the first place, he was that bad.

Verdict: Head Ice (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Head Ice -“You a one-way ticket, if tables ever turned you’ll get gunplay with it, nigga’s will have trays all over your head like this Riker’s Island and we want your Sunday chicken!”

Dizaster defeats IE Reign

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Recap: Dizaster gives local magician IE Reign a shot in this freestyle battle that took place outside a KOTD event in L.A. and the battle goes well as Reign held his own with some nifty punches and flips here and there. But the way more experienced Diz, combining off-the-dome theatrics with local references and sheer wit/personals, still gets the easy 30.

Verdict: Dizaster (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Dizaster – “Well, I’m gonna give you a concept that might be hard for you to grasp, when you step to a battle never tell them that you’re gonna shove shit up their ass!”

Bangz defeats QP

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Recap:  To let Bangz tell it, a lot of effortless wordplay and punches in this iBattle matchup between him and Q.P. Close throughout and clearly none-too-serious what with both battlers being a part of the camp R# squad, after Bangz edges the 1st round with overall filthier (“Get smacked with the heat, till this guy’s teeth smashed, Chinese ass, the butt was ugly!”; “…I don’t mean scrapping nigga, action figures, I fight with grit!”) punchlines, before Q.P. easily takes the second round with an exquisite turn of stirring metaphors along with a string of fiery (“The blade like, delayed flights, you’ll get stuck plane [plain]!”; “Your intuition leaking out, you’ll be stuck with that gut feeling!”) setups, a close 3rd round is separated by a fire rebuttal, an opening freestyle and more unorthodox (“Whoever on the side line can catch bullets like 3rd-string receivers!”) styling’s from Bangz.

Verdict: Bnagz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: QP – “When Q toy around with them guns, you’ll see [Bangs] pop out with that white flag!”

Rosenberg Raw defeats Tre Mega

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Recap: Tre Mega displays some talent (that scheme of Rosenberg Raw was in high school was actually funny at the beginning) but with angles that were literally all over the place, a couple of slip-ups and jokes that were hit and miss, he stood zero chance of winning against Rosenberg Raw’s way more gritty (“And I keep the steel, call me Metal Man, red dots all on you, you the Freckle Man!”) bully bars and potent sport flips.

Verdict: Rosenberg Raw (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Rosenberg Raw – “I gave you this battle for cheap, that’s what I’m angry for, y’all got True Religion jeans versus this Bret Favre Wrangler boy!”

B. Magic defeats D Chain

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Recap: Despite a lazy stumble, using a litany of raucous punchlines and piercing (“I’ll punch this nigga dead in his stomach till his lungs touch, I mean I would swing on these chains [D Chain’s] like nunchucks!”) name flips, B Magic literally makes the AHAT crowd go bananas throughout his one round against D Chain. Indeed, it was an easy win for Magic as D Chain, besides a Trayvon Martin shock value bar, clearly didn’t have much in his tank and failed to take advantage of a ‘white dudes winning over Magic’ angle that could’ve worked when considering his opponent’s history of losses to Caucasian battle battle rappers.

Verdict: B Magic (W) 1-0

Favorite line: B Magic – “I’ll split a nigga’s brains with a scalpel, get your Adam’s apple cut,
cuz I’m trying to gas him up, bag him up, dag??? a clutch, then he hear a Magnum bust, these Tek’s [Texas] gonna make sure Chain saw [Chainsaw] a massacre!”

Ty Law defeats Times

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Recap: Not always consistent with his pronounced and unorthodox punch game (which allowed for a debatable 2nd round), but here in this 3-rounder from Alpha League against a spirited and hard-hitting at times Times, Ty Law still brought enough frenzied name flips, piercing punchlines, witty barbs and lofty wordplay to take the 1st and 3rd rounds and earn the win.

Verdict: Ty Law (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ty Law – “He be talking drive-bys and shit, you like a salve that’s already an Uncle Tom…nigga, you ain’t got a whip!”

J. Murda defeats Big Hann

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Recap: Dope PG battle between J. Murda and newcomer Big Hann with plenty of street chatter, ringing gun bars and some crazy nice wordplay from both battlers. I got Murda edging round one, after Hann’s put on a worthy (“Everybody wanna be in the spotlight, till we tell ’em to reach…and [reaches hand out like gun] put a dot in they face!”) display of sizzling (“Y’all let a lad in [Aladdin] , but got mad when he stole the bread!”) bars during his turn, Murda brought his own palette of steady heat with a richer (“Automatic and an automatic, I’m steering with an armload….[puts hands like’s driving and holding gun] it look like I’m stick-shifting!”}performance bars and a slightly better bar quotient. But credit Hann’s for sticking in there and stepping it up in round two with nicer wordplay, real (“My life consist of scrapping and clapping, a bunch of one-night stands…how I kept resorting back to the magnum!”) rap shit and aggressive (“This how you kill a nigga, I keep the silver by my back, you dealing with a gorilla nigga, but try to run and that wild shit will cover ya back like a chinchilla, nigga!”) haymakers that landed hard. And while Murda stayed consistent with righteous (“Relax chump, got mad guns, the impact make a tin can out of a Mack truck!”) lines that for the most part hit their mark, it just wasn’t enough to take the round. Continuing to impress for his hometown of Philly, Hann’s stayed solid in the last round with gritty braggadocio (“You a fan and you been one before you got a wave, spoiled kid first day of school…nigga I’m rocking J’s!”; “I only gave a [points hand like shank] tip, because I knew there was a stab behind it!”) bars and seering street tales. But just when you might’ve counted Murda out, he whips out an assortment of goodies including convincing (“A head shot, he fall asleep forever…and dream nuthin!”; “Stop being a bozo Daffy, but if I shoot you better duck clown or get the cal popping on you like Kung Pow”) urban theatrics, fiery punchlines and vibrant (“Ain’t no Love in Hip-Hop, if you butt in [Budden], you gotta deal with the Consequence!”) wordplay–a more versatile turn that got him the win in what was a very close and exciting battle throughout.

Verdict: J. Murda (W) 2-1

Favorite line: J. Murda – “I got too many fucking demons boy, I talk to them on the regular, that shit happens often…only nigga with more monsters in his head than me, is Magic Johnson!”)

Bonnie Godiva defeats Realiztic

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Recap: From KOTD, a fire freestyle/rebuttal in round 3 caps off a sterling performance from Bonnie Godiva, who on 1-week prep still makes it look easy via stinging personals, witty barbs, a gang of dope punchlines and some steely wordplay to easily beat back a pretty solid (that is, outside of a mediocre round 2) effort from Realiztic.

Verdict: Bonnie Godiva (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Bonnie Godiva – “Your repertoire is less than par, you only type fire like a flame emoji, I mean do you even know Patois?, he like yeah that’s my favorite goalie!”

NXT defeats Kristofire

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Recap: Apparently already impressing the battle rap community by securing his 1st URL PG battle after only one bout, a raw at times NXT still manages to shine here vs. Kristofire. The fledging Sacramento, CA, battler using a gang of solid punchlines, potent gun bars and some spicy wordplay/lyricism to beat back his gritty, but less consistently hitting and slip-up prone opponent.

Verdict: NXT (W) 3-0

Favorite line: NXT – “I keep clicking Chrome like the wifi down!”

Jey The Nitewing defeats Blue Jaccet

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Recap: Scoring better with the witty barbs than the gritty street drama, in this 3-round battle from Skytier NorthWest, Blue Jaccet still keeps things interesting until a 3rd round choke gives more room for Jey The Nitewing’s more consistently spicy punchlines, ill 4-bar set-ups/pontifications and hitting personals over the course of the battle to do Jaccet in.

Verdict: Jey The Nitewing (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Jey The Nietwing – “He said ya homie gonna punch me in my face, if I was ya homie I’d punch myself!”

Luck Dollaz defeats Tink Tha Demon

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Recap: In a battle that’s pretty evenly replete with fiery and aggressive gun bars, Luck Dollaz’s more consistent flow outlasts a slip-up prone Tink Tha Demon’s.

Verdict: Luck Dollaz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Luck Dollaz – “Nigga you wants no part of the cannon [Canon], like you camera shy!”

Knamelis defeats Big T

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Recap: Knamelis’ hard (“You’re a bad father with fat daughter, you probably shower with the plug in and make her re-use the pipe water”) personals and requisite fat jokes combine to put a hurting on Big T, who despite displaying more (“They say he’s Knamelis, I know he’s nameless, but who is he?”) versatility with his bars, for the most part left the electric gun sounds at the border and ultimately beat himself with a 3rd round choke.

Verdict: Knamelis (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Knamelis – “So now there’s T-Rex and there’s T-Top, you’re not even the top T, if Tall T didn’t get shot, you wouldn’t even be in the top 3!”

Gwitty defeats K.O.

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Recap: After edging the first round here against K.O. with overall more potent (“I’m cooking raw, well done, cans rung, stupid bullets out of nowhere…he ran dumb [random]!”) bars, Gwitty’s unorthodox flow and shout-rap style reaches overwhelming heights in a stellar round two that sees bar after bar dished with pointed (“Another pussy eating a big ratchet…get Ya Boy Clipped!”) flair and rich (“Buck 50 ya jawline, that change hang low from ya jibs, ya dig?!”) pedigree. And it’s needed too as after an inconsistent 1st round, a consistently hyper and swiftly snapping K.O. gets better (“I’ve been hood all my life, my mom’s showed me how to rip the top off the Chinese tray to make an extra plate!”) and better as the battle goes along, taking the 3rd round (“You and your homies, the dot’s will find a way to stitch up his face…you gonna be the newest emoji!”) easily after a solid turn by Gwitty–but by then it’s too late.

Verdict: Gwitty (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Gwitty – “URL give me all bread, get shot with a Norbes, a bald head, Smack got more in the vault…like Cortez!”

Profecy defeats Bedaffi Green

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Recap: Sizzling Proving Grounds battle between Bedaffi Green and Profecy comes down to the 3rd round after Green handily takes the first with killer, aggressive (“Put him down, I won’t blast or steal, this bitch will drop from the Roc, get it? that’s Amil!”; “For any wrong reason, I’m palm-reading, meaning I’m gonna see Profecy [prophecy] in the hands!”; “It’s sick one’s ’round here, these peoples seek terror, this West coast nigga ain’t come strapped up? that’s that Eazy-E era!”) gun bars that landed with ease. While Profecy edged the 2nd stepping up after a (“You get a bright idea, I’m putting tips to ya head, and ya frame on top of the casket, that’s for any body who can’t picture him dead!”) crazy at times, but somewhat slow start with rambunctious (“This stage is my house, you better choose ya words wisely, or I’ll go get the ratchet from out the room, I’m Ron Isley!”; “I hope you got yaself a gun, nah that was Ns tho, what I rep gp hard, we’ll bury Green by the mil like Pablo, that’s an Esco bar!”) haymakers that overstepped another very (“When it’s time to rhyme it’s homicide, I’m getting all these niggas clipped on cam…we shooting Amistad!”) solid round from Green. Left to the last round things, it’s Profecy who does a better job at staying on point, dropping melodramatic (“I’ll turn Bedaffi Green into Profecy, that’s a dred head into a red head and he gonna have as many dots as me!”) shiners and excellent wordplay to top another fiery, but filler-prone turn by Mr. Green.

Verdict: Profecy (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Profecy – “See every bar over the top, but I rhyme slow so it sound basic…you just hating and I’m Haiti 2010, that’s groundbreaking!”

Presidential Dubz defeats Fettuccine 20

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Recap: They both rapped really well. A 50-minute PG battle between fellow East Harlem-nites Fettuccine 20 and Presidential Dubz is highlighted by a (“You in danger, running from the grip, we in different zones!”) haymaker-drenched, no filler, performance-stunting, wordplay Dubz easily taking the first round, before a little less condensed, yet punch and wordplay heavy (“I’m fucking this esay up, my grammar bad!”) as well as fiercely scheming Fetty edges the 2nd over a still fire, but not-quite-as-nice-as-his-1st Dubz. The deciding 3rd round saw both Fetty and Dubz continue their raucousness, with both battlers punching hard, getting a little personal and even throwing a couple of random shots at noted hypeman Gwitty, looking on from the crowd and enjoying the attention on himself. But it’s a slightly more versatile and a little more stronger with the bars Dubz who earns the vic at the end of this altogether competitive and fire battle.

Verdict: Presidential Dubz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Presidential Dubz – “Nigga, I got Spanish nigga’s riding with Razors like we keep a scooter!”

Arsonal da Rebel defeats Head Ice

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Recap: Plenty of bully (Arsonal: “Like a new refrigerator, all it take is the click of a button for me to crush Ice!”) bars, street (Head Ice: “You only ride around one them hoverboards because real street dealers in the hood told you to watch your step!”) chatter, old man (“Why you ain’t tell me you and my grandma know each other?”) jokes and braggadocio quotables in this sizzling battle between two wily vets, Arsonal and Head Ice on the KOTD stage. Putiing on a dope show despite a readily known friendship outside the ring, while it’s ICE who edges the (“You the nigga that know a nigga that know a nigga that know a nigga that got the pistol…I’m the nigga that know the nigga that know the nigga that know the nigga that drove the nigga that got with you!”) haymaker count, altogether a more consistent with the delivery and versatile with the bars gives this one to da Rebel in the end.

Verdict: Arsonal (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Arsonal – “Them Top 5 combos?, you don’t ever get mentioned in, [so] I’mma melt Ice down and send him to Flint, Michigan!”

Big T defeats Rad B

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Recap: In this competitive 3-rounder from UDubb, hometown luminary Rad B delivers a strong performance with a host of gritty punchlines and boastful darts spread out thru his 3 rounds. But opponent Big T, verbally combative throughout the battle with a fiery mix of rich similes, stirring/witty vet talk, piercing wordplay and rugged storytelling bars/punches and personals, does more than enough to take the first two rounds for the win.

Verdict: Big T (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Big T – “I pull bitches and don’t say nuthin’ to ’em, I’m like Jason to these ho’s!”

MyVerse defeats Villun

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Recap: After a 1st round choke to MyVerse here in this 3-rounder from Don’t Flop, Villun makes an impressive comeback, using a steady stream of nifty punchlines and piercing personals during a spitfire 2nd round and pretty solid 3rd to make this one competitive. But in the end with MyVerse (who incredibly was battling for the 2nd time in one day) handily taking the first round thanks in part to her versatile palette of hitting punches/personals/boasts and earning a tie in the 3rd with a more condensed turn that was highlighted by a spicy freestyle to start things off, Villun’s inability to win both of the latter rounds after his choke, ends up costing him here.

Verdict: MyVerse (W) 2-1

Favorite line: MyVerse – “Gas him then his grill will leak, if this pussy think’s to speak, that’s a soliloquy!”

Nunn Nunn defeats Bonus

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Recap: Rarely wasting a bar, Nunn Nunn flows swiftly with impressive angles, righteous bully (“Bad employee, with these hands, I’ll fuck a Bonus up!”) bars and wide-eyed schemes to edge this Proving Grounds matchup over Bonus, who delivered just enough fiery (“That’s pride issues, and i keep two nina’s, i let them 9’s hit you, rubber grips on both of the hammers, like a bicycle”) wordplay/schemes and (“As far as your snow bunny?, shit I learned from Kobe, that all of ’em problems, but it’s hard, ‘cuz white girls fun, ‘cuz all of ’em swallow!”) personals to comeback and tie things in the 2nd, but moving on suffered from too filler to keep up with Nunn Nunn’s rambunctious (“I’ll put this twenty on two, your face feel Double Impact!”) 3rd round.

Verdict: Nunn Nunn (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Nunn Nunn – “You wanna play? with my bands, I don’t have time, tell ya new bitch get off my damn line, she my last year Yankee, I G’d her for the last time!”

T Top defeats Biz Barker

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Recap: For a relative newbie facing a borderline top tier, Biz Barker does pretty well for himself dishing some hot urban diction along with hood (“I seen his girl, she look like the type I could slide quick…whole time I was thinking orgy, me, her and my dick!”) jokes that kept the crowd entertained. Still, against the likes of T Top, ‘pretty well’ isn’t quite enough as Top’s more consistent trap talk and gritty (“If you ain’t got a Teflon hat or a shirt piece, how you gonna stop these rounds? he said ‘Jersey!'”) punchlines prove victorious once again.

Verdict: T Top (W) 1-0

Favorite line: T Top – “…but I ain’t pick up that pipe, I learned from it, I seen all the ashes they had and earned from it!”

Big Kannon defeats Xcel

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Recap: Some borderline reaches here and there, but for the first couple of rounds Big Kannon’s more consistent punch-game along with a boatload of flexing schemes, piercing name flips and hardbody personals gets him the win, before Xcel finally ups the ante to deliver a more steady mix of fiery wordplay and raucous punchlines in the final round and avoid the shutout.

Verdict: Big Kannon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Big Kannon – “It’s filters, Photoshop, you ain’t stop to fix his image yet?, I mean its no direction in your videos, not even a Little X!”

Cortez defeats Charron

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Recap: Another dope 3-rounder from KOTD sees an uber-lyrical Cortez combine streams of sizzling wordplay, some witty, but also flexing-at-times personals and a gang of steely punchlines to edge the 1st and deciding 3rd rounds over a pretty solid throughout, humorous and hard-hitting at times, but one too many dry spots-having Charron.

Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cortez – “I’m a beast, woken out of his deep sleep fire in his eyes, I’m alive, and you gon’ greet me Sire, or you’ll meet Messiah, these 16’s get put to rest for trying to sleep with Tyga’s!”

Steams defeats E. Ness

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Recap: If battles were based on entertainment alone, E. Ness would’ve won this one hands down. What with a steady stream of loud (“A headshot in broad daylight, that’s how you daydream!”) performance bars that kept him in this battle against Steams–especially in round two where his enduring theatrics were nimbly weaved with frenzied (“You a bitch with a dream like Coretta King, treat you like a bill collector, I’mma let it ring!”) bars and rich (“Fuck a drive-by, I’ll do it on a hoverboard!”) line execution–Ness was able to keep the crowd hype throughout. Still, for all his entertainment value it’s too bad that Ness still often suffers from dated bars and elementary school (“You softer than an elephant”) filler. The latter two elements of which makes you appreciate even more here, a way more consistent (and more importantly concise) Steams’ penchant of dishing nifty (“Code word: river, and my nigga’s put E’s bae in the East bay or strip for them, I done sat in front of more bodies than a speed date!”) put more bodies wordplay, fierce (“He’s a self-proclaimed legend, I be with with Chess, I don’t play checkers, you can’t King yourself!”) personals and stinging (“If I toss him a shot, I don’t expect to get it back…like a pass to Melo!”) punchlines that got him rounds 1 and 3 along with the win here.

Verdict: Steams (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Steams – “You say a lot of fuck shit while you winded, you need to pause more!”

Xcel defeats Heavy Half

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Recap: Thanks in part to Xcel pretty much taking round 2 off, overall it’s a close one between the Team Homi vet and Chi-town’s Heavy Half. But the pick in the end here goes to Xcel, always a beast when he doesn’t choke, spouting enough delicious (“How can X miss [Xmas], when my gift is rap [wrap]!”) wordplay and fierce (“It’s cyanide I provide, there’s poison in every punch, Jim Jones style, all ya need is to test it once!”) punchlines in the final round to squeeze out the win and overcome some rapid (“You ain’t taking nobodies life tonight, you could stop it nigga, you OJ getting off for killing his wife, bitch you NOT the killer!”) punches in the 3rd from Mr. Half.

Verdict: Xcel (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Xcel – Bar for bar..you?, never stood a chance guy, I mean I even came on your terrain-eo (i.e. Calicoe)…it’s still a landslide!”

Charlie Clips defeats Big Kannon

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Recap: As a rule a dope freestyle will always beat dope writtens. That said, when matched against just alright writtens, a dope freestyle will stand out even more. Such is the case here as the 2nd round serves as the difference maker in this battle between Charlie Clips and Big Kannon. What with Clips taking the first with mean punchlines and a crazy (“Listen I need to murk you, I wrap your body you don’t need a girdle, big shells stuck in ya botch back, we call her Lisa Turtle!”) ‘Saved By The Bell’ scheme over-matching the overused ‘Clips dad is a snitch’ angle by Kannon, and Kannon able to provide new and (“…the nigga got up, ran fast ‘cuz he ain’t wanna get jabbed by dude again, he left the whole building, ‘cuz he ain’t want him to guess what room he in!”) comedic fodder to that Math/Dizaster scenario last year, Clips off-the dome (“Old guns, but got all types of kicks, I had to East Bay’em, dick all inside your bitch lips, I’m like ‘what she saying?’, my hand back and forth on her ass, look like I’m DJing!”) prowess gets him a dub in Chi-town.

Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Big Kannon – “I’ve seen you die and they still say you alive…are you Tupac, nigga?!”

Franchise defeats Tez

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Recap: Equipped with enough versatility what with witty one-liners, straight shots at his opponent’s penchant for gun bars and some fierce punchlines/rebuttals, going into the deciding 3rd round, Tez looked like he was going to take this bout against Franchise. However, a more condensed and strong 3rd from Franchise combined with an out-of-nowhere failure to remember his bars (tho he did almost make it through with freestyles) by Tez, gives Franchise the vic.

Verdict: Franchise (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Franchise – “I’m knocking on your door with [makes arm like gun] an arm out like a good pastor!”

Chess defeats Jay Balla

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Recap: Exuding the confidence, swag and filthy bars for which the league is known, Chess and Jay Balla give you yet another dope battle from We Go Hard. Jay is solid throughout his one round, dishing fierce (“I’ll put this pound on Chess [chest] like I’m finished peacing my niggas!”) performance bars, lucid name flips, an on-point Chess impression and delicious (“You ain’t got no guns, this shit is about to get drastic, it’s bad here, your hat off is Summer Madness!”; “But I seen you on Facebook, Cuf daddy!…you be fighting for your bitch, huh? Lil’ Scrappy!”) personals/jokes that landed with heat. If Jay may’ve faltered any, it was only due to a little filler here and there and too many bars not directed at his opponent. On the other hand Chess was well…Chess, delivering a sweeping panoramic palette of searing (“Who you got after Jay?, Reed [J. Reid] I hope he ain’t no cop!”) wordplay, quixotic (“And this blast’s for him, 59/50 I’m the New Era, so it’s nothing for me to tag a brim!”) punchlines and gripping (“Hey, I’m here to crush every dream this fucking fella got, you wanna bet your gwap?, I’ll hurl a blade and open Jay like na uncontested shot!”) haymakers that literally had the crowd jumping. These bars from Chess? An inferno.

Verdict: Chess (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Chess – “It’s a massacre, have your family looking at you in a casket bra, they lined over your box like previous days in a calendar!”

Mo Mula defeats Bonus

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Recap: This was one of the better PG battles that didn’t get enough acclaim, much less made it hard to pick a loser, as both Bonus and Mo Mula brought their A-games to what was a highly competitive and contentious battle throughout. Still, for all of Bonus’ palette of sterling (“I’ll use the pistol to come and get you, shit I’m dope with mine, you’ll get crossed out with that cig inside your circle, that’s a No-Smoking sign!”) gun play, fierce (“You named yourself Mula, which is another word for money, but in this case it ain’t a paying cost, but it’s still a win-win for me, ‘cuz I get to fuck Money up and not take a loss!”) wordplay/braggadocio lines and pointed personals, a few dry spots here and there along with a lack of versatility with the bars as compared to his opponent didn’t help his overall chance at winning. Then too, for Mula to get this one, his bar steed and his performance (“I’m a keep it a buck [swishes down Bonus’ face like a blade] to show you that the truth hurts!”) game had to be superb…and for the most part it was, with the Steams (“….No! The Cake distracts you from the bald head like Amber Rose!”) cameo, in particular, making for a haymaker, while his noted dance moves came off as not only authentic, but useful in a self-deprecating way, esp. when you know your opponent is going to speak to it. That said, the only clear round was the 3rd, thanks to a stellar turn from a resilient (“The .9 with me and I swing the hammer like John Henry!”) Bonus. But that was only after Mula’s more multifaceted 1st and 2nd, which included potent (“Mama said you got nuthin’ nice to say then leave it unspoken…but you get out the ring and then talk about nigger’s, like Hulk Hogan!”) set-ups, singing, dope name flips and fierce shiners at Bonus’ crew throughout, was enough to get a well-earned win.

Verdict: Mo Mula (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Mo Mula – “Where you from, step-pop’s rape daughters and mother’s blame the child…where I’m from, we use sweepers to bang top’s when my neighbor’s Loud!”

DNA defeats Arrow

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Recap: A sluggish with the bars Arrow lands a nice right with his ‘After I let the Tommy ring 4 times, I’m Belichick’ line, but other than that it’s all DNA with yet another consistent, (“Your last battle was with Jason, your thoughts was deadly, but your career is still in my hands, come walk with Freddy!”) punch-heavy and imposing performance to easily take this one-rounder brought to you by iGrind Entertainment.

Verdict: DNA (W) 1-0

Favorite line: DNA – “Murdered him, Shine right there, he’s the accomplice, y’all just seen me spin Arrow in a round, that’s a compass!”

JC defeats King Beanz

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Recap: Until round (“So if you see me it’s strapped, an assault rifle with the wood stock, no ski-mask, ‘cuz I wish a nigga would watch!”) 3, King Beanz proved to be much better with the jokes than the bars, leaving JC with more than enough room to dish continuously fiery (“You should’ve known better or shown effort, now the next time they see you, you’ll be see-through at Coachella!”) punches mixed in with some over-the-top (“You seen my shows, I hope you’re ready for this, ‘cuz I’m a let go of this body faster than a married Mexican chick!”) jokes in the first couple of rounds for an easy win.

Verdict: JC (W) 2-1

Favorite line: JC – “You see the problems I bring, you do not wanna be a nigga I target, I’ll get to climbing through the whole set like the intro on ‘Martin’!”

YaBoyClip defeats Ace Da Great

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Recap: Well, here’s something you never see: brother versus brother in a rap battle as Ace Da Great and YaBoyClip go head-to-head in this one-rounder for family bragging rights. And despite Clip being the vet of the two, altogether it’s not a bad battle…really. Granted, Ace Da Great spat some mediocre bars, but he still hit aplenty with a load of nice (“Since a kid I been good with these hands, everything I touch got static shock!”; “I’m emotional behind these bars, like I ain’t get a jail visit!”) punchlines and aggressive shiners, definitely showing that he came to win. However, with big bro Clips getting lit throughout with a variety of witty (“Yo Steams, by this nigga belly, my bro been reppin’ the Came life!”) personals, winning name flips and fiery wordplay, it’s the younger brother who’ll still have to wait his turn at the family reunion dinner table.

Verdict: YaBoyClip (W) 1-0

Favorite line: YaBoyClip – “He be working out, taking pictures at treadmills, but we never see you on ’em….yo I swear you a slow nigga, Austin Powers at Planet Fitness, I’m the reason you came in as a Gold member!”

Chess defeats Reed Dollaz

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Recap: After a subpar performance during his first battle on URL against John John da Don, Reed Dollaz returns to the scene with a much better showing here against Chess. Still, while Reed uses a gang of potent bars, braggadocio personals and some lucid (“Knock the gigs out’cha brain, leave the streets full of data!”; “Bullets hitting brick walls, trust me, it’ll go through, you don’t know the shooters, but nigga the shooters know you!”) gun lines to get his rep back and make this battle close (I got him edging round one thanks in part to Chess twice as long as him, thus a better bar quotient), too many outdated bars, a pedestrian 3rd round and the choice to lamely go into professional rapper mode midway in the 2nd, ends up hurting the Philly legend and thus overall, handing this battle to Chess. The latter who it should be stated once again, too often hurts himself with elongated rounds. Still, the understated wit, fierce (“Spend dollars on dollars, I’ll put a Check Up on him like a worried friend!”) wordplay, flippant (“Ghetto nigga side shot, look like I’m having trouble opening the car door!”) punches, an ill personals/performance, etc., altogether with his opponent’s shortcomings, gives the yung’un yet another pass.

Verdict: Chess (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Chess – “The old slammie, just like Reed, it got a rusty pen!”

Danny Myers defeats B. Dot

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Recap: From LABattleGroundz, a fire and competitive battle between B. Dot and Danny Myers that sees Dot’s far-reaching ‘woke’-isms, prophetic sermonizing, oft-spicy (“Don’t be talking about guns, you got too many daughters and sons to be pulling out!”) punches/wordplay and gritty personals get plenty of shine throughout the match, in fact, for 3 rounds a testament to his rising fame in the game. But for all of Dot’s righteous preaching, he hurts himself a bit with elongated rounds (esp. the 1st) which gave way to more commonplace riffs as well as long spiels to get to the punch. Providing a fiery counterbalance to his opponent’s pontification’s would just come naturally for Myers tho, the West-coast vet meeting Dot’s aggressive checks and balances with his own testimonies on real street life drama, potent (“I ain’t gon’ lie, that the shit you be talking sound good, you be preaching Dot, but I brainstormed under my mental umbrella, you be reaching, Dot!”) name flips, steely personals, lofty punchlines/gun bars and plenty of ringing mayhem, almost all of which brought with it a gang of haymakers. And while Dot was near the task in providing spitfire moments, an almost flawless )and condensed) turn from Danny in both the 1st and 3rd round (call the 2nd round debatable) gives the ‘Bar God’ the win.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Stop it, I don’t feel your skill’s a threat, I’ll give Creflo Dollar 65 from the mil’ then jet!”

Money Bagz defeats B. Magic

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Recap: What Money Bagz had in performance and a little more variety with the (“.45 hit him outta nowhere, that’s a mid-life crisis!”; “You act savage and I’ll black Magic and I ain’t talking about a curse!”) bars, B Magic had in crazy (“Money know how to get peeled back, like I’m taking out a wad!”) name flips and infinite (“Don’t sleep on me, y’all know Bagz [bags] under I [eye]”!) punchlines throughout this judged battle. Therefore, pretty close throughout, essentially the difference here is Magic getting touched by a bout with Earl in both rounds 1 and 2, thus leaving Team Homi with the win.

Verdict: Money Bagz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “You don’t wanna feel nuthin’ Hot Boy, well leave the Cash, Money!”

DNA and Ty Law (DEBATABLE)

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Recap: With the chances increasing of a battle ending in a tie, this is why everyone should hate even round matchups. Especially in this case where, if what DNA said was true, Ty Law went past the required time limits in both rounds–so they might as well had done a one-off. Either way, I got this one split down the middle. DNA took the first with real talk(“This gonna be your first battle with 500 thou, so you could tell me your welcome more, ‘cuz Will thought like the police, he used dna to help the Law”) personals and (“The way the Nina kicking at Law, look like a Tekken fight!”) haymakers, while Law’s punchlines was (“Get nigga’s jumped, I hit each gunner, like 3 people in the Flintstone car, see them 6 feet under!”) splendid at times, too many lazy tooth jokes did him in. 2nd round saw Law step it up on the (“Steal him, I don’t gotta smack him, know he feel himself so he get the closed fist like when Saga try to dap him!”) wordplay, nice schemes and more crazy (“I’m dumping at his big-ass head, have this nigga cabbage baking, that dome you’ll get a round 2 to it, like procrastination”) punches, while DNA had a slow start and came with fiery bars here (“Nigga whatever you bleeding on, we’ll be next to the fresh prints [Fresh Prince] like Nia Long!”) and there, his freestyle compensation for Law’s elongated turn, was at the end pretty subpar.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: DNA – “I’m the PG killer, I give them that feeling, made Chess a star, off that [a] million, and showed I even got punches for the kids [balls fist], I’m Kat Williams!”

Viixen The Assassin defeats Tia. S

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Recap: Frequent bar-fest here between Tia. S and Viixen The Assassin goes the Milwaukee emcee’s way after a debatable round 1, as the more versatile and consistently hitting Viixen (despite a pretty solid effort from Tia) unleashes a wide array of witty/head-ringing personals, rigid name flips, fierce punchlines and a sublime gun bar game that carried her to wins in both round’s 2 plus 3 on her way to a victory on the QOTR stage.

Verdict: Viixen The Assassin (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Viixen The Assassin – “See the problem that you’re boring, that’s on the business end, lead in her mouth like she drink in Flint, Michigan!”

Geechi Gotti defeats Element Rhymes

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Recap: Apparently on his way to an American Idol audition instead of a rap battle, Element Rhymes spits with little coherence, much less any real battle bars for pretty much the entire 3 rounds here and against Geechi Gotti. That’s a bad mix, especially against the likes of Gotti, who’s spitfire urban street flair along with a fire mix of unruffled wit, equates to an easy 30.

Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “You wore your seat-belt on the way here, I had a 40. on me, we strapped different!”

X the Real defeats Tre Poundz

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Recap: Choosing for the most part to put aside the jokes, for this battle Young X designs his bars around his opponent Tre Poundz’ (“Like, what you know about that place, where it is not so sweet?, a yoga mat on concrete, that’s where you got your sleep!”) pedigree, as in who’s more authentic. But it turns out to be a risky move. As after dishing enough fierce (“I’ll run up on you while you got on your homie’s ‘Rest In Peace’ shirt, shoot him in the face, the nigga die again on the t-shirt!”) bars to handily take round 1, when Poundz’ gets more versatile, combining that real street talk with (“He’ll stand there and watch if I smack dude mother, type of nigga, rep a set, then get the tattoos covered!”) jokes and some nice wordplay in round 2, for X, an energetic, but filler-lined turn even things up and puts him a ‘lil back on his heels. Tied going into the 3rd, it turns out to be a pretty lackluster round for both competitors, with X edging it thanks only to a little more consistency with his bar quotient. while Poundz started off well, but labored towards the end.

Verdict: Young X (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young X – “I’ll punch ya pregnant baby mother, fuck her fetus up, or I’ll burn ya house down and anybody try to help y’all, I’ll fuck FEMA up!”)

K-Shine defeats Ill Will

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Recap: Despite eliciting a horrible 3rd round that served as the lowlight of this battle, on the strength of a superb 1st round and a pretty dope 2nd, K-Shine still sneaks out a win over the always potent Ill Will. Strong and aggressive 1st from Will with ample (“Cal pulled out a few weeks ago, right?, it’s cool Call, Ill Will I guess they shook of him, but I already killed 4 Brothers from the D anyway, i’m what Victor Sweet could’ve been!”; “Either you get bagged or we drop a classic, either way these hoes will still riding Ill dick like Cookie on top of Magic!”) haymakers and nasty bully bars that hit hard, yet his turn did decline a little bit when some bars didn’t quite meet the standard set by his more consistent zeal. Thus, Shine taking advantage with a stronger start, flexing hard with ill set-ups (…niggas ain’t seen Miles since Moesha had her show up”), fiery performance (“Couple bucks I just [spins] spin and give Will a [Wheel of] Fortune!”) bars and raucous (“Tell Will to chill or I’m dumping the semi, I’ll just pull it to the side and I come [cum] for a quickie!”) haymakers that had the away crowd hype and even left Will nodding his head in approval. Shorter 2nd round from Will saw some crazy wordplay and more delicious (“Slide through, I’ll be there, guns blazing, you the first to hit, they like ‘Why Will solo?, the Secrets under the arms like anti-antiperspirants!”) gun bars from the Pontiac rhyme-slinger. Yet, Will’s ill verbal mix still edged by a more stalwart K-Shine using a nice URL (“…confused alcoholic, you was whining in the Yak!”) rebuttal to get started and then seguing to a steady stream of feisty (“Twin revolvers, two thumbs up, ‘Way to go’!”) gun bars, lofty (“He ain’t even know he was clapped, Charlie Sheen was there!”) punchlines and dope anecdotes that all landed. As alluded to earlier the 3rd round was no contest, with Will supplying his best round dishing out more dope (‘My verses explicit, them [puts hands out like a gun] drums will have his organs on the front lawn like the church got evicted!”) gun bars, an ill mid-round 2-on-2 with Mackk Myron and potent (“My nigga lets let the world debate, I’ll give ya bitch ultra combos and cinder [send her] to the pearly gates!”) punches that literally left the world. Criticize and all K-Shine for being lazy with apparently not writing whole a 3rd round, but that doesn’t take away from him just doing enough to edge the first two rounds and the win.

Verdict: K-Shine (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ill Will – “I’m a 100 O.G. nigga, you a 100 Emoji nigga!”

Ave defeats Rum Nitty

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Recap: With two exhilarating, punch-drunk rounds as well as arguably the greatest 1st round in battle rap history, there’s really not much you can say negatively about Rum Nitty versus Ave (credit to Smack for predicting this battle could be a classic before it even started). A super-lyrical punchfest from jump, it’s a boastful (“But you ain’t in the streets at all, you bum, your heart not strong enough to run that base…you John Q son!”) and also packing Ave who opens things up and sets the bar high with a classic 1st round that provided textbook 101 material on what incredibly astute (“I stash that fifth, and beat the foul out ya, then point it at the back of your head: that’s Alfalfa!”) wordplay with the proper research and Hip-Hip embedded cultural moxie can separate the top tiers from the rest of the crowd. But not to be outdone and already a noted punchline feen in his own right, Arizona’s Rum Nitty (making his first appearance on the URL stage) would not only prove why he didn’t need a PG with his own turn of rapid haymakers via flexing (“If I whip the piece, your family fucked, headshot your mom’s sister, they gon’ have to M-O-P your auntie up!”) punches after (“If I raise, shit sparkin’, I let that bitch go “blaka,” nigga… like he Facebook stalking!”) punches, but with little to no filler of his own and roundhouse screeds that had the house jumping, the West-coast battler would serve enough heat and frenetic gun bars to make the opening round a draw.

The rare epic battle that was little on personals or schemes or freestyles, had zero rebuttals or much in the way of performance-heavy bars, when it came down who’d take the latter two rounds it was really just a matter of who could punch better. And lack of versatility aside, the 2nd and 3rd rounds still served up a couple of spitfire, competitive turns from both battlers. But with little room for error considering his opponent’s ability to consistently rain down (“That’s child play, the Internet diggin’ this fuckin’ clown, you think you Pac? well, try to be Digital Underground!”) haymakers with steady ease, it’s Nitty’s 2nd round that would be the difference-maker here what with a handful of reaches and subpar punches that allowed Ave to outpoint him. The final round, another classic turn with both battlers on their A-game saw a more condensed Nitty doing just enough (“And on sight, I’ll pick you off, like they photo-flagged him, I’m known for that, mid battle, a 40 clap, that shit will stop Ave dead in a round like a cul-de-sac!”) punch-wise to also force a draw against an opponent who was just relentless throughout the battle, would only add to this battle being one of URL’s best ever.

Verdict: Ave (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ave – “See, that’s why we’re different, geek, ‘cuz see I’ve been about the action, 30 under the 40…that’s an improper fraction!”

Pass defeats Bishop Brigante

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Recap: After calling him out in a previous battle, Pass uses a fleet of blistering personals, fiery name flips and piercing punchlines to beat back a topsy-turvy Bishop Brigante in this 3-rounder from KOTD.

Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Pass – “This a roast, don’t nobody in here wanna see you rap, they just glad they ain’t gotta see you host!”

Squeako defeats Scotty

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Recap: Squeako and Scotty put on a dope 1-rounder for the 7 Shark Cities battle rap fans with plenty of boastful shiners, spicy punchlines, rigid name flips and witty personals mixed in. Consistently nice on both sides, it’s the slightly more versatile and haymaker-lit Squeako who gets the edge here.

Verdict: Squeako (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Squeako – “When your mom’s used to say look both ways before you cross…well I’m the streets she was talking about!”

Real Deal defeats Q.P.

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Recap: A comfortable split of the first two rounds immediately gets fraught when (“His bitch gave me head under the table, what’s that?, off the books!”) Q.P. admits to forgetting his 3rd round and resorts to an imperfect freestyle spree that fortunately, he’s talented enough to pull off without a premature stoppage. Nonetheless, abled vet that he is, for Real Deal a well-written barrage of fierce personals and lofty (“If my whole circle clap like the cuddle break, you gonna make me raise this bitch in the air like I couple skate!”) quips had a pretty good chance at beating Q,P.’s forgotten round anyway.

Verdict: Real Deal (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Real Deal -“You and your baby mom’s put out a sex tape thinking that would do numbers, it was the first time in the history of porn the role of the plumber was played by an actual plumber!”

Younga Baby defeats Franchise

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Recap: Younga Baby keeps up with opponent Franchise’s love for destruction and mayhem via stifling gun bars enough to split the first two rounds, before a surprising choke by Franchise in the deciding 3rd round leaves plenty of room for Mr. Baby’s continued flexing, much less a win that was capped off by a fire mid-round rebuttal.

Verdict: Younga Baby (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Younga Baby – “Come get me nigga, I see why you giving me the side-eye…’cuz you a fishy nigga!”