Recap: Wordplay beats comedy in this one as while E Ness kept the Philly crowd hype with animated (“You don’t live the savage life, I’m working up an appetite, gun so big I gotta shoot it via satellite!”) bars and amusing (“See, I’m from Philly, my whole life is like a coin toss, I done seen blood splatter like soy sauce!”) anecdotes throughout, when attempting to go blow-for-blow with Cortez’s repeated (“I’m direct, you get the message with the Tek’s [texts], I let that Auto correct!”) heat, an inconsistent (“This a mismatch, a Butterfinger to a KitKat”) bar quotient and very little variety to his lines eventually did him in. Consider too that ‘Tez certainly did do his research with ill Philly (“Your career, you been here, and you still lonely son? he get love…in Yagon and lower Marion, like where Kobe’s from!”) hometown bars and stayed completely away from the standard E-Ness Making the Band jokes, and it’s easy to call this one 2-1 for the kid from Brooklyn.
Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Cortez – “You and your mans, they can die for less…so worthless, both of y’all sharing cig…like co-workers!”
