Recap: ‘What do I know, I just got Charlie Clips in a year’. Ummm yeah, apparently Detroit emcee Shotti P is doing something right, because besides this battle I hadn’t heard much from him before. Yet, here he is on the KOTD stage against the likes of Clips…in what ended up being literally a debatable battle. 1st round goes to Clips…easy, what with sizzling (“Y’all know me, I roll with two guns, pay attention, I got one tucked, I’m Mario when he get the extra man…I [points hand up] keep one up!”) set-ups/schemes, a fiery and consistent flow and scheming (“Maybe it’s only me, but you look like you sit on the toilet for a half an hour straight and only pee!”) bars that lit fires in your belly. Still, the 3rd round went to Shotti P…easy, not that Clips delivering yet another 3rd round dropoff helped any, yet that doesn’t dismiss Shotti’s jaunty (“Naw, fuck that I ain’t looking for a cop-out like his pop’s did, I ain’t with the politics, you’ll get caught smoking like one of Barack’s kids!”) personals and nice comedic timing. Second round is the deciding factor and could either way with Shotti’s spitfire (“You got s mean gun? well I got a depressed .38 like a midlife crisis!”) bars and wordplay versus a little more diverse turn from Clips that landed heavy with potent storytelling bars, searing (“…but if I ain’t feeling your Styles P, then huh!, I make you Kiss the gun!”) puns and rich crowd-pleasers.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Shotti P – “When a shotty [Shotti] smoking, it’ll lift a nigga spirit like ‘Great News!’“
