Recap: A true classic, this matchup between a young Murda Mook versus street battle rap legend Jae Millz is responsible for a lot of people becoming battle rap fans and a lot of heads becoming battle rappers themselves. Going toe-to-toe for 5 fierce rounds uptown around Harlem’s infamous 125th street, spicy quotables along with a gang of braggadocios heat, gritty gun talk and witty personals are aplenty here. Still, it’s an ever confident Mook, more versatile with the set-ups, raucous when needed, fiercely (“Go ahead, turn around if you’d like/’cuz through the grapevine, Millz, I heard that’s how you ask for the pipe/don’t get trapped in the hype, homeboy, you ain’t real/I don’t wanna hear no mess about how you spray steel/’cuz in the pen, they told you to stay still/twenty nigga’s in the shower, waiting to Jay Millz!”) storytelling here, stronger with the wordplay and clearly landing more haymakers in the 1st, 3rd and 4th rounds (a more condensed Millz [“All that bullshit you talking, I ain’t hearing it and you ain’t gotta tell me about your deal ‘cuz (looks at his wristwatch) I’m wearing it!”] does enough to make the 2nd round debatable, before getting more multifaceted with his raps to easily taking the 5th round) who shines best for Harlem on this day and takes the win at the end.
Verdict: Murda Mook (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Murda Mook – “His career? It’s on a treadmill/yeah, he getting run, but he ain’t going nowhere!”
