Recap: A game plan based around hardbody, but redundant name flips, Jewish jokes/barbs, head-twisting gun bars and residual trap talk makes for a fine blueprint against Iron Solomon…if you have the wit, punch efficiency and talent of a top tier like T Top to pull it off. And here, face-to-face with Solomon on the URL Summer Madness stage, Top certainly did his thing, scoring (“I wish you asleep right now, I’ll wake him up, bulldog under the pit, let’s make a mutt!”) haymakers left and right with his arsenal of gritty lines throughout the battle to keep it competitive. But when your opponent is a veteran noted for having one of the top pen’s in the game, the strategy…well, let’s just say it wasn’t enough, even in a 2nd round that Top only edged because Iron’s most flexing bars were directed (“Volume 3 comin’! Aye Verb, stop runnin’!, Surf, how you take five shots and still duckin’!?”) at other rappers. The 1st and 3rd rounds here however, just provided a tutorial on how to rap, a condensed, confident and aggressive Solomon granting you nuisance with almost every punch, stunting with the wordplay, anecdotes (“Melvin!”), punchlines, schemes, personals while mocking Top’s rap credentials along the way. Again, a close one because Top is nice like that. But damn if Solomon didn’t take it to another level here.
Verdict: Iron Solomon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Iron Solomon – “I’m on the best comeback since Jesus returned, that’s why I’m heated I ain’t get to eat the feast I deserve, but when they bring out the cracker, you know T [tea] getting served!”!
