Recap: Two crazy pen’s go at it on the WeGoHard stage and besides a disjointed 2nd round by Showff and too many slip-ups from Saint Mic in the deciding 3rd round, it still made for a close and fiery battle throughout. Round one is edged to Showoff, as despite his opponent having arguably the best line of the round (and perhaps battle), Show’s consistently potent (“Open my closet, a dead body is the only one a nigga found, but it’s a million dollars when I want a nigga now, ‘cuz I’ll leave a body with 6 0’s, I’ll be the 1, 2, calm a nigga down!”) bars, designed to boast his Brooklyn scorecard, set back a very hard and well-crafted turn from Mic who didn’t really heat up till the middle of his round. Second round saw Saint Mic come back to even things out with an intense and loaded (“Yeah, we rapping, Show, but I really came in the box on the low….I’m a date raper!”; “I cruised up, with them ‘matics, blued up, I’m Democratic!”) barfest that was littered with lofty wordplay and swanky gun bars. Going into the 3rd tied with each battler ready to take it, it was anyone’s guess who’d win. But it’s Showoff, after a bit of a slow start, who gets his hand raised in the end, overcoming a superb adn wide-ranged (“You cool on RBE, but to URL you still RPG!”) but gaffe-prone round by Mic to edge the final round with a better flow, steely, (“Midday, that .12 will lift him in the air…that’s how I knew him!”) animated gun lines and rapid heat laced with each dart.
Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Saint Mic – “You gay, bring a whole new meaning to keeping hammer’s on ya hip, the irony, we all seen Belly and I’m the Obama nigga, yet you the one out here with all the banana on ya lip!”
