Recap: Nice UFF battle between Xcel and Anubis as both came hungry and represented with plenty of bars, schemes and wordplay. Gotta agree with the judges here tho as Anubis’ dope punchlines and hard bars were too much for Xcel’s somewhat light (took too long to get to his punches) and filler-drenched round 1. Xcel came harder in round 2 with a more consistent flow, gritty (“You could be in the Caribbean van and wouldn’t bang steel”) bars and crazy wordplay, while Anubis fell a little flat with too many average bars. With round 3 deciding the winner, Anubis would take it with dope performance bars, cold personals, a hard rebuttal and fierce (“I had you bringing people to pay me, this a pyramid scheme”) punchlines against a good round from Xcel that had plenty of aggression and punches, but not enough potent bars to match his opponent’s heat.
Verdict: Anubis (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Anubis – “I don’t lose position, I write shit that make God himself lose religion”
