Recap: Fire 3-rounder here from Chrome 23 between Detroit up-n-comer K1ng and Brooklyn vet Cortez. The former scoring left and right with a (“You gonna be hooked up to machines once a slug fire, he go from writing haymakers to hearing a beeping noise…his heart monitor reacting to a one-liner!”) plethora of crazy (esp. mid-round in the 2nd) punchlines, flippant name flips and dope wordplay throughout. While ‘Tez came hardbody with a gang of gritty street raps, righteous darts, some fiery trap talk and other lyrical burners and piercing gun bars that for the most part hit. A close one all the way through, with the help of some nice off-the-dome heat, it’s K1ng who edges round 1 before an equally efficient and haymaker-lit round 2 comes up a tie before the more steady hitting Cortez took the 3rd for the win there, thus making this one a debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Cortez – “I’m so gutta, .40 Cal bone crusher, pole clutcher, Rocky in the meat freezer King, I’m a cold puncher!”
