Recap: From BMBL, Tay Roc and Bill Collector meet up for 3 rounds in Detroit and while competitive and crowd-pleasing throughout, the verdict here was an easy one. Bill, wily as ever with a plethora of spririted punchlines, witty barbs and solid personals, gets credit for an earnest performance. While Roc, continuing an electric run this year that’s seen him battle more often than ever before, ran through a gamut of graphic/mayhem-lit darts, hard-hitting g un bars, well-tailored name flips and piercing 4-bar set-up/punches that more often than not made their mark. However, helped by an opponent who ran out of gas punch-efficient wise in round 1, it’s the slightly more haymaker-lit Roc who takes round 1 before the Cave Man capo handily takes round 2 as well with an even more punch-drunk and sublime turn for the win. A pretty solid, but not as nearly turned up run by Roc in round 3 gets overrun by Bill’s more workmanship and personal-lit showing to avoid the 30.
Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tay Roc – “You call yourself the G code, what’s strange about it, what the fuck is a G code to a nigga who beat the game without it?!”
