Recap: I can’t think of any way you can prepare for a haymaker that’s about your man getting knocked out before the battle…by your opponent. But hey Young Kannon certainly tried, addressing the matter within his first round here when he wasn’t spitting other scintillating (“Louie V put you to sleep recently, what was that fight ’bout?, how the fuck your name is Shine if nigga’s keep putting your lights out!?”) personals and back-breaking mayhem. Still, for all of K-Shine’s hot-headedness, the guy couldn’t have lasted this long in the game if he couldn’t rap and that made for the difference here as YK, for all his comeuppance, aggressive set-ups and sublime raps, overall just got out-barred. Indeed, after a dope 1st from YK, K-Shine, using some hitting performance (“Stomach shot, he get that gut [rubs his belly] feeling like something’s wrong!”) bars, nice crowd control and some ill (“You might as well call me Earl, this man a G.O.A.T. [Manigault]!”) wordplay, ends up edging the round. And another personal-tinged, punch-heavy and overall solid turn by YK in round 2 gets beat by a more eccentric, (“Hey, we ain’t the same, I’m nothing like you nigga’s, I’m a double shot of 1800, that’s twice the killer!”) punchline-spazzing and witty Shine. And while YK fell a little victim (again) to some redundant themes/personals used against Shine in the past, his 3rd was still pretty nice what with some flexing punches, fire (“I’ll put the K to K, k?, that’s white supremacy!”) gun bars and jaunty wordplay to salvage a round and match another comical, but potent, (“play it safe, or I’m tagging the Guerilla [gorilla] like Bathing Ape!”) punch-heavy, braggadocio and gritty turn from Shine
Verdict: K-Shine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: K-Since – “I’m good, when I got these hands out, shit 10 minutes ago I just knocked your man out!”
