Recap: Despite some nice (“If it’s that personal, I’mma go to ya crib, scare ya mum while she cooking, [Bow!] put a hole in her fridge!”) punchlines here and (“These light-skin niggas man, I don’t want no beef, Drake got y’all niggas turned up, I ain’t trying to be no Meek”) there, Math Hoffa gets caught up in his feelings, allowing outside the ring drama to get in his head and induce some rare slip-ups as well as an off-the-dome rant that while allowing him to vent his frustrations with current-day battle rap, didn’t help his cause of being able to keep it professional in the ring. That, and what was mostly a consistently (forgive him for daring to mention the words ‘Humpty Dumpty’ in a battle) tight and personal (“You fell off, I remember days when you was a heavyweight, now you don’t cut the top tier like a wedding cake”) savvy round from the UK’s Tony D, allowed the Hollow da Don’s doppelganger to pull off a mild upset.
Verdict: Tony D (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Tony D – “Bro, you punch rappers in battles, and then moan when you get punched and then moan more when your opponents in battles bring the shit up!”
