Recap: A couple of veteran top tiers who should be on every serious battle rap fan’s Top 10 list, it’s to be expected that Ill Will and Hollow Da Don put on a crazy show. And on this 3-rounder from RBE the two do just that, Will with a gang of rambunctious punches, witty personals, fire set-ups/name flips and gritty struggle/gun bars with steady abandon. While the slightly more unorthodox Hollow brought to the bout a rich pallete of twisted, but piercing wordplay, hard-hitting angles when it came to the name flips and personals, a handful of solid rebuttals/freestyles and a plethora of dizzying punchlines that for the most part landed on their mark. Close throughout with Will rapping a little more longer in each round, some flexing off-the-dome heat combined with a pretty punch-heavy turn from Hollow is just enough to score a debatable round 1 after a versatile Will went berserza in the opener. Round 2 was just as competitive and fiery from both sides, but one or two more haymakers from Will gets the Yaktown battler the second before yet another sterling round from Will and Hollow is edged by a boastful, but a little more (“God-tier what we done built, I can make Smack and ARP sit down, eat a meal and argue who gonna keep the bill!”) punch-heavier da Don to make this one a debatable.
Verdict: Debatable
Favorite line: Ill Will – “I ain’t the one you want to put in pursuit, I’m looking to shoot, James Bond, every nigga that play me got put in a suit!”
