Recap: Take out a half-hearted and shortened 3rd round from Nu Jerzey Twork and you have a fire battle here against Charlie Clips. To start, there was a superlative 1st round from both rappers that saw a versatile, punch-heavy and witty Clips somehow edged by a raucous, (“You fucking fool, bust a move, dump a tool [Bwoh!]…guess what room he in? the other room!”) mayhem-induced and haymaker-drenched turn by NJT that even featured an early ‘Strapped In…’ bar. Undaunted by losing the 1st round, Clips showed his veteran steel with yet another fire turn in the 2nd round, breaking down Twork’s style with plenty of jocular (“Just because he screams and adds ‘Bwoh!’, it does not make him lyrical, nigga be like ‘I’m masked down, potato on a barrel, smell a hash brown…[sings] Call JG Wentworth, 877 cash [Bwoh!] I want my cash now!'”) call stylings, using some excellent crowd control and spitting some dope punchlines/personals. But Twork wouldn’t have reached his top tier status if he wasn’t equipped with a spitfire pen, as he shows again in the middle round with more visceral heat, a nice mid-round rebuttal, understated fiery wordplay and aggressive (“I’m like Charlie with longevity…extended Clips!”) punches/name flips/personals that made the round a tie. Partly due to the aforementioned indolence from Twork, the final round was a lay-up for Clips who for his part used a steady stream of fiery schemes and hitting punchlines to easily take the round and make this one a debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “You’ll catch stray’s, ASPCA, I don’t play with bitches, Red you said something earlier?, well I’ll throw something in Oshun [ocean] when I spray the biscuit and he’ll get found in the Pacific, like a ghetto bitch that’s trying to say ‘specific’!”
