Recap: Who doesn’t love a fire PG? Well, that’s certainly what you got here as Utah’s Emerson Kennedy comes all the way out to the East coast to take on Brooklyn’s Jerry Wess. Despite a dope turn of fiery wordplay and fire punches from a slightly elongated EK in the first, Wess took the 1st with a sizzling and at times performance-heavy round that was backed by handful of well-stocked (“Bang, bang, you’ll be the first PG to get a ‘Don DeMarco!'”; “Pop the arm?!, you wouldn’t pull a muscle at a seafood bar!”) haymakers. Round two was another dope turn from both battlers, but EK’s fiery set-ups, standoffish (“No credit for the bullets, you not spraying nigga, we told you like we told Kobe, stop playing nigga!”) punchlines and raucous wordplay would edge an overall solid punch-wise, but too-often pedestrian turn by his opponent. Last round was nice on both ends with EK and Wess dropping an equal share of spitfire punchlines. But a nice rebuttal, fire struggle life bars and one more haymaker by Mr. Kennedy gets him the win here.
Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “I was living in guestrooms, whole family had to rent rooms with junkie roommates, paraphernalia, needles, ex-shroom’s, I felt like Neo, in the Matrix, when I was just 2, I knew this couldn’t be real life when I saw all them bent spoons!”
