Recap: Rest assured Math Hoffa versus Chilla Jones will go down as a finalist for 2015 Battle of the Year. With contrasting styles and both putting forth their A-game, each battler had the crowd buzzing throughout the match, more than giving the fans their money’s worth. Math’s first round was straight fire, a sizzling combo of contentious bully (“You ain’t about that life, you ain’t been where I been Chilla, forget who the F U R and that’s your chin-Chilla”) bars, heated wordplay and wicked performance bars/schemes. Yet, an undaunted Chilla, quickly returned the fire with a series of lofty (“What good is street cred if you can’t spit that tight?, you get broken off with 4 bars, you the Kit Kat type”) punchlines and fiery name flips that somewhat went away from his forte, but still worked well. Second round kept the crowd hyped with Math putting on emphasis on creatively mocking his opponent’s (“When you tell niggas you scheming that means you rhyming shit for ’em, if I tell niggas I’m scheming, that means go inside it’s a warning”) style, while Chilla gamely turned the table on Math’s notorious real rap lines with steady sermons (“You worry about looking real, that’s something I feel is pitiful, cuz whats’ real about your kids going to jail to visit you and birthdays and holidays past, but you still invisible”) on what really matters most in life. Last round served up another stellar platter with Math splitting his time supplying more (“5 niggas against one, that ain’t a jump, that’s a leap!”) rhetoric on the infamous Dizaster battle along with some aggressive BK (“We slide through, bust it in Ds, it ain’t a titty fuck!”) punches that landed hard. Chilla’s 3rd, arguably his most consistent round, saw him step to Math with some fresh (“If you used that wood proper like you should patna, Bonnie would’ve came back like good posture!”) personals, amiable wordplay and good-natured jokes that’d make Drake proud. Overall a great battle, but while Chilla showed off his humor and took away Math’s penchant for disrespecting his pen game, some of his set-ups took too long, he did have some filler and one wishes he’d played to his strength and schemed a little more. Thus, credit Math for sticking to his repertoire and having a tighter ratio of dope bars per lines, a slightly better performance, a nice counter for all of Chilla’s (“Inside you mad you ain’t fucking with me, youze a Bonnie nigga”) Bonnie drops/Dizaster lines and a wider degree of angles throughout the match, especially in rounds 1 and 3 to take the win.
Verdict: Math Hoffa (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chilla Jones -“When y’all want bars, he just be rapping facts at you…I mean this gonna be a serious [Serius] disaster [Dizaster]”
