Recap: Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but yunno, maybe if Cassidy broke his 1st round down and split them into 3 instead, he might’ve had a chance here. As this battle versus Arsonal wasn’t necessarily a compete one-sided affair, especially after seeing Cass compete with some fire punchlines and witty personals during a round 1 that while he still lost to Arsonal’s more consistently raucous boasts and righteous mayhem, at the very least gave one hope that this would be a decent battle. But damn if Cassidy didn’t fall off a cliff in the latter rounds. The Philly emcee succumbing to a very wide and basic load of 1995-2005-ish type punchlines when he wasn’t spitting pedestrian shit and corny ‘Da feet’ and ‘Pinnochio’ bars that had his own hometown booing him at random. All the while an always confident Arsonal got into his bag of disrespectful darts, ill breakdown’s of Cassidy’s recording artist career, mocking personals and random gun bars to go along with other fierce punchlines and fiery trap talk. And while to Cassidy’s credit, for all the grief he was getting from the crowd, he never wavered on completing his rounds. But after a loss like this, if Cass plans on battling again on the big stage, he may wanna lock himself in a room for a week, throw on some of the better 2020 battles and to quote Young Gattas ‘Get your bars up!'”
Verdict: Arsonal (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Arsonal – “Long hair don’t care, and I’m feelin’ like Rapunzel wit’ it, you got a new born in ya arms? I hit stick, make you fumble wit’ it, torture you while the children there, I hurt your youngest children yeah, I put the recordin’ of you beggin’ for your life up in his Build A Bear!”
