Recap: If you want to be successful in battle rap charisma and personality not only count, but can make a difference between staying on small stages versus performing in the limelight that comes with the big stage. So course, if all you’re about is bars (and in this case metaphors), then M. Ciddy (“A bootleg how he stay leaking, with four 5’s all around your face you ain’t Abe Lincoln”) won this battle by a landslide, no debating. But thankfully, we live in an age where battle rap isn’t just about bars, but also delivery, execution, set-ups, rebuttals, creativity, jokes, angles, wordplay, punchlines and yes, performance. Which is why Bill Collector wins here, despite mostly average bars, but a stellar performance, delivery (“…but that mac I let it riiiiniiiigggg then hang up and call you back!”), aggression and execution to edge rounds 2 and 3 in this early PG battle.
Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 2-1
Favorite line: M. Ciddy – “I ain’t spelling under when I put you [U] in [N] the [D] ER”
