Recap: Can’t front, after a pretty basic 1st round that went up against a very (“‘Cuz the last nigger you beat was O-Red, and it was a O-Red that was way off…ok, so the Sixers beat the Pelicans, cool, neither one of y’all making the playoffs!”) witty, basketball-bar heavy, performance rich and scheme-friendly turn by Charlie Clips, it wasn’t looking good at all for Hitman Holla going into the later rounds. But then suddenly Holla flipped the script, starting out with a fiery (“You know what my brother Showout do, keep it up and you gonna have to remove DNA from the ground for real!”) rebuttal in the early part of his 2nd round, that along with some hard personals/punches combined with an aggressive performance edged things for the St. Louis rapper and made it a tie heading into the 3rd. The deciding round was more of Holla upping his verbal game with yet another nice rebuttal, some fly personals, braggadocio shiners and stifling gun talk, all enough to beat back what was a solid, scheme slick and at times funny, but a bit of a lazy turn by Clips, who needed to freestyle to complete his round.
Verdict: Hitman Holla (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Hitman Holla – “10,000?!, a nigger owe me $10, I need it, I’m on his doorstep, I’m knocking on his door with a .357 like it ain’t 4 yet!”
