Recap: We don’t go off of hype here. That said, Nu Jerzey Twork and Dougy’s debut on the URL stage goes the latter’s way as the Brooklyn rhymer explodes for almost 3 entire rounds (including a flawless 1st) with not only a gang of spitfire gun bars, but piercing (“Show you what the toolie do, banana clip, swing a monkey in ya window like Zoboomafoo!”) punchlines that showed off some excellent wordplay, some finessed personals and enough glaring trap shit to make you wary to go outside. Not that Twork didn’t hold his own tho, the much-heralded newbie shining for the most part with intricate (“I’m ballin, I get highlights often, Lorcin or a .9 might spark him, face shot, I pop eyes [Popeye] ‘Why I oughta!‘”) punches that often lit up the room, some head-ringing bully bars and his own performance-heavy and unique brand of lofty mayhem and righteous heat. Indeed, if not for Twork getting off to slow starts in both the 1st and 2nd round, coupled with some pedestrian bars here and there as well as a shortened 2nd that one could argue was actually a choke, this battle might’ve had a different outcome. But even with Twork consistently putting it all together in the 3rd round to edge a pretty solid turn by his opponent, by then, lyrically speaking this battle was already lost.
Verdict: Dougy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Dougy – “I flipped my first pack at 12, my O.G. showed me the weed, 14 grams, my first pack was older than me!”
