Recap: Another example of why it’s so risky to book big battles on smaller/new leagues. In what should’ve easily been a 3-rounder, somehow two of the best battle rappers on the planet, Hollow da Don and Pat Stay, get their much anticipated battle reduced to a one-rounder. And to make things worse, Pat for some inexplicable reason, gets his one round cut short by the timekeeper despite attempts by the crowd and even his opponent to let him keep going. Call it sloppy, call it disorganization or even blame the rappers failing to get their terms straight before signing the paperwork. Either way, it’s always the fans who get the short end of the stick. As for the battle itself, It’s Hollow’s versatility, that included everything from wild gun (“When I was young, I was a heat blower, revolvers with speed loaders, now it’s a drum and tommy gun, look like I’m [swings hands] swinging a leaf blower!”) bars, to wicked ‘knife bars’ to crazy (“The steel will erase his [racist] thoughts like the old Pat!”) wordplay to dancehall riddims to fly off-the-dome personals that outshined what was mostly the usual stupendous (“He’ll watch a porn like, ‘this guy ain’t even a real plumber'”, “Hollow da Don?…What’s your mother’s name, Donna da Mom?”) jokes and standard bully bars from Pat Stay. Still overall, a huge disappointment for fans and a battle that demands a 3-round rematch on either URL or KOTD.
Verdict: Hollow da Don (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Hollow da Don – “Oooohhh I hope you get Aids and Alzheiner’s, so you can forget you have Aids till all your ex’s start dying!”
