Recap: Tay Roc versus Danny Myers from URL’s Super Fight 6 card. Let’s deal with all the “controversy” first…well, for starters judging from the hearsay, clips and previews we saw from this battle, the drama that came with it was kind of overblown (and that’s including the argument these two had after their face-off). Accusations of Danny getting gassed what with his friends in the crowd over-reacting when he spit a fire bar? Honestly, outside of rapper Royalty (I think that was him), the feeling here is that Danny’s pals (whether they were going extra with the cheering or approaching him in the ring to dap him) didn’t anything more than what Tsu Surf did rooting on Roc (to the point where even Danny had to tell Surf to shut up). In other words, it wasn’t nothing over the top. Tay Roc using a recycled bar from a virtual battle he did last year against Rio Nkosi? So what. As I’ve said before concerning recycled bars…they’re YOUR bars. So let’s not go crazy and make it like Roc pulled a Prez Mafia here. Then too is the fact that if you go back to the Rio battle, Roc didn’t just go back and use the bars again verbatim. He re-arranged them and it was literally the last bar he spit in a 3rd round I already had him winning. My only issue with recycling comes when either the round is super close (as in a debatable, in which case originality always get first dibs) or if a battler gets lazy and uses a gang of (or in some cases an entire round) of recycled bars during a battle. That said, one could partly blame Roc for stirring the pot in the first place by going on YouTube and stating that he never recycled. Lastly, as we witnessed in the clips to this battle before it dropped, Danny’s rebuttals were superb (esp. the ‘Stop, Hammer Time!’ joint which got him a re-tweet on Twitter from Mr. Hammer himself). Too bad for Danny tho as the rebuts weren’t enough to win. Simply put, after edging round one (which btw was close, thank to a pretty dope turn from Roc) with a classic turn that even the ever-excitable Mr. Myers literally doing push-ups) Danny just got out-barred. Consistently-lit throughout the battle, Roc’s gritty punchlines, fire wordplay, aggressive set-ups, hard-hitting personals (esp. the brazen quips that went right at Danny’s wife and kids) and stifling gun bars were too much to handle in each of the latter rounds. Indeed, except for one or two subpar lines, Roc’s 2nd and 3rd rounds were equally sublime. And while Danny continued to fight hard, dish some fire punches/name flips/witty burners/off-the-dome heat and earn his stripes, one too many indirect bars, pedestrian lines and time spent in the weeds with the mayhem (which Danny is notorious for) would cost him, especially with the amount of haymakers Roc was dropping left and right.
Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tay Roc – “You probably hear those words ‘head wrap’ and feel sick inside, that head wrap symbolize all those rounds you couldn’t memorize, Eazy-E ain’t the only nigga from the West that got Real Sikh and died!”
