Recap: “Reach Gawd, that’s what the haters gave me!” Apparently settled on the idea that he had a point to prove in this battle rap game, a determined D.O.T. ditches, for the most part his noted performance acumen for tedious bar-thirsty polemics and elongated schems that defied logic when you consider the notable run he’s been on of late. Too bad too as outside of an elongated, but pretty fiery, name flip (“Stop playing with me, I ain’t wit’ them X games!”; “I got the aim of an eXpert, baretta’s llama’s semi’s ruger’s, I could show him eXcellence, I been killing shit, I got eXperience!”) doused 2nd round, too many average lines (Rd. 1) and a lil too much pontificating (Rd. 3) spoiled what could’ve been a win over a versatile and funny, but not always consistent Young X. Nonetheless, with a fiery X kicking steady (“D.O.T. could get it any day, nigga I let them semi’s spray, no guns in New York?, fuck you talking to nigga, we brought pistols anyway!”; “Picture X going at D.O.T. and me not winning, when I’ll fuck DNA up and that name got 3 dots in it!”) haymakers and dope guns bars while mocking D.O.T.’s style in the first round and edging out the 3rd with a better bar quotient as well as comical multi-faceted (including another rousing “Get ’em” rant: “You, when it comes to brushing my teeth, I hate reaching-ass nigga!”) verbiage in the last round…on paper it’s a win for Young X. But as far as D.O.T.’s most likely concerned, as long as he got his point across it’s a win for him too.
Verdict: Young X (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Young X – “I said Smack ain’t pay me, this three rounds of community service!”)
