Recap: Fire battle on URL between a couple of lyrical swordsman, Chess and O-Red, goes down to the wire as a draw even tho it included a perfectly-executed, name flip expansive and punch-heavy 2nd-round by Chess as throughout the bout the slightly more consistently spicy, wordplay-bent and slick-punching O-Red refused to give an inch. Indeed, if not for the usually gritty, gun bar-heavy and intuitive Chess showing off a side of himself, we don’t often get to see in battles, his wit, versus a steadily cooking and haymaker-dropping Red in round 1, the opener would not have been a debatable. And with Red dropping more of the same consistent heat in the middle round, an aforementioned classic turn by Chess is the only reason he was able to edge round 2. Finally, in round 3, with Red dropping even more (“Think vending machines when the .38 pop, I load a few rounds, push my buttons, I’ll let it spin till a Cake drop!”) gems back-to-back, while getting even more deft with the vocabulary, boasts and personals, Chess, while still delivering a pretty solid and raucous turn, just couldn’t keep up with the efficiency coming from his opponent’s pen, thus giving O the round and making this one a debatable.
Verdict: Debatable
Favorite line: Chess – “The clip funny, it got a mind of its own, it’s schizo, like elephants, the long nose cling out the trunk, but the wide nose coming out the hip, O [hippo]!”
