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Mister Greco

Battle rap enthusiast living in Timbuktu

Young Gattas and Bonnie Godiva [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Dope, punchline-crazy 3-rounder from KOTD between Young Gattas and Bonnie Godiva stays competitive throughout with Bonnie matching Gattas with sublime haymakers and personals in round 1, before Gattas takes it up a notch with a even more superb 2nd round that displayed her moxie as one of the top tiers in the game and versatility with the bars. Behind a round going into the 3rd, Bonnie would have to go extra hard to beat another solid from Gattas and that she did with a witty at times, hardbody and (“Be a bitch and know your place before you get put like one, stupid, you was supposed to Think Like A Man, not look like one!”) personal-lit turn to edge the final round and call this one even.

Verdict: Debatable

Favorite line: Young Gattas – “What I’m saying is, we can’t compare lines, ‘cuz in every battle another nigger fight for you, fuck Bonnie, I wanna battle all the nigger’s that write for you!”

Ty Law defeats Ave

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Recap: Bad footage, distracting background noise, definitive crowd bias…it’s all there in this battle between Ty Law and Ave. Still, if you listen closely you’ll hear a competitive battle nonetheless, edged overall by Raw who despite lacking in performance at times, was slightly more consistent in his bars and able to land more punches in the first couple of rounds to earn the win.

Verdict: Ty Law (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ty Law –  “Who bars sell more, Ave’s or Ty’s? This nigga commercial!”

Danny Myers defeats Riggz

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Recap: Against a gun bar-heavy but also valiant Riggz, a more versatile and performance-heavy Danny Myers rings up enough sheer mayhem, blistering personals, solid wordplay and piercing schemes/punchlines to take the deciding 3rd round and win this competitive 3-rounder from Miltown Bloe.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Your unemployed bitch has a mean slob, she got a dick in each hand talking about she in between jobs!”

JC defeats Ceph Deezy

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Recap: Can’t front, after one round I thought JC was on his way to another bodybag here. But then Ceph Deezy really stepped it up on the bars, delivery and schemes in rounds 2 and 3 to make this a battle. However, overall JC just had more variety and nicer wordplay to edge it, but in the future don’t sleep on the kid from Indiana.

Verdict: JC (W) 2-1

Favorite line: JC – “Look at this, this a death stare, Brandi behind the wheel”

Casey Jay defeats Sevi

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Recap: From DFW Battle League, seems as if Sevi was a last-minute replacement for someone else Casey Jay was supposed to battle. So credit to him for staying in there and doing a solid job practically free-styling for all of his 3 rounds, all the while withstanding an onslaught of syrupy punchlines, piercing personals and stunted mayhem from Ms. Jay.

Verdict: Casey Jay (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Casey Jay – “You taking this battle, it just proves you the bigger bitch, wanna battle a girl ‘cuz you ain’t ready for that nigger yet!”

Jay Rell defeats Danny Myers

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Recap: If Jay Rell wasn’t so cocky he’d easily become a more polished and complete battle rapper. After all the skills are there, but more often then not Rell gets in his own way by letting his emotions get the best of him…and in turn his performances during battles. However, here in this URL bout against Danny Myers, a focused Rell just dismantles his opponent, dishing sizzling personals with ease, styling on Danny’s street authenticity, cracking steady (“You look like the brother of Alvin, Simon and Theodore, you’ze the one they ain’t play with, you’ze was always on some gay shit, they trying to stack nuts for food, you trying to find to play with, gay shit!”) jokes and delivering haymakers like the Splash Brothers in the 4th quarter. Easily Rell at his finest and most consistent, now let’s see if going forward he can build on this.

Verdict: Jay Rell (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Jay Rell – “How the fuck y’all beef in sunny ass California?, ‘Meet me under the palm trees!'”

Eazy the Block Captain defeats M. Swagg

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Recap: Gritty and solid showing by M. Swagg in this 3-rounder from Traphouse Battle League, gets beat back by a more consistently spicy, name flip-lit, 4-bar setup nice and punchline/boastful-crazy Eazy the Block Captain in each round for the win.

Verdict: Eazy the Block Captain (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Eazy the Block Captain – “You got that Chinese store swag, yunno, your chicken lo mien [low man]!”

DNA defeats Charron

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Synopsis: “Smack rappers are bitches who can’t admit that they loss”….damn!!! There’s no denying how nice Charron is (that “masked up like MF doom” line was nice, as was “taking a picture with your sister was the only time I’ve seen you with a ratchet”), but too many angles on DNA that’ve been used to death and generic bars that could’ve been used against anybody combined with DNA’s personals (esp. the “loyalty” bars) and rebuttal (pocket checking back on his opponent, the Drect rebut, etc.) game being so on point, made me give DNA the first and 3rd rounds by a nose.

Verdict: DNA (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Charron – “Your bars are like your new tooth when its back, cause you need something false in your mouth just to bridge the gap”

Danny Myers defeats Mikey B

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Recap: Against the quick-lipped, but very basic raps of Mikey B, Danny Myers has an easy time of it, making excellent use of brazen white-boy-isms, gratuitous violence, fiery punchlines and earnest gun bars to handily win this 1-rounder from AHAT.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I confronted him, I was about to let the Tek blam his back, he was hold on Danny, some of my best friends are Black!”

Stampede defeats Diesel

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Recap: What Stampede may lack in bar efficiency, he sure does his to make up for it with performance, wit and some fiery schemes. And here, for two rounds anyway, against a slip-up prone and choking Diesel, a consistently flowing and confident Stampede gets a win that he probably wouldn’t have gotten had his opponent not had a case of fumble-itis.

Verdict: Stampede (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Stampede – “This .4, toe tag, shots will make metal’s split, you gonna have me grab that cannon [Canon], and flash on a couple, like I’m trying to take a wedding pic!”

K-Shine defeats Arsonal da Rebel

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Synopsis: Close call, but the edge here goes to K-Shine, partly due to overall better bars, schemes, the midget and IMO clearly winning round 3 (tho like him vs. Calicoe, he did O’D on the name flips). But then too, while Ars won round 1 handily, his clear disrespect of Shine (touching him several times and talking while he rapped throughout the battle) was wack for a vet and should lose him points on any card. Arsonal can do his disrespectful thing and put on a dope performance without breaking battle rap’s code of conduct. Plus, he knows damn well he wouldn’t have done that shit against certain other dudes. That being said, props to K-Shine for the win (esp. after the clear loss against Big T) and for literally being the bigger man on stage.

Verdict: K-Shine (W) 2-1

Best line: Arsonal – “You nothing but a Dot-mob flunkey, Rex never gonna promote you, Shine, what’s your first action when a terrorist approach you?, and I got the leverage to smoke you, these niggas hate seeing on they screen, you like the nigga in the Everest commercial”

J. Murda defeats Wolf

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Recap: Wolf, apparently on 3 days notice for this battle, came ready and dropped some cold (“I’m a thug, I hug streets, war with niggas that bust heat, so I knew what it was before Biggie told us ‘What’s Beef?'”) here and there. But too many average lines combined with J. Murda’s (when he wasn’t interrupted by the amateur host) constant barrage of performance bars, feelgood (“You better not get crazy bitch boy, unless you a ratchet dyke”) quips and fiery punchlines was too much to beat here.

Verdict: J. Murda (W) 1-0

Favorite line: J. Murda – “You getting bodied God, just tell them niggas the devil’s back [with] seven straps and enough ammo to go to with the men in black”

Arsonal defeats Dizaster

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Recap: Lengthy, but still entertaining with plenty of references to Drake throughout the battle, Dizaster versus Arsonal (a on the King of the Dot stage also contained a wide load of boastful darts/schemes, a mass amount of filler, spicy personals, redundant bars and fierce/aggressive punches. And while both battlers (despite neither quite being on their A-game) kept it competitive with displaying a seemingly mutual distaste for each other, a slightly more versatile Arsonal gets the win here, edging both the 1st and 3rd rounds in front of a cheering Canadian crowd that somehow stayed glued to this underwhelming battle from start to finish.

Verdict: Arsonal (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Arsonal – “Introduce myself, get acquainted with ya ex bitch, just to knock her walls down, I nicknamed her Tetris!”

Hitman Holla defeats Conceited

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Recap: A credit to Conceited and Hitman Holla’s popularity that a battle with one of the worst 3rd rounds in history could have over 5 million views. And to think, here we see a vet like Hitman literally giving up a round and trying to make up for it by rehashing some of his own standout lines from past battles followed up by a grandiose puncher like Conceited (who for some reason failed to insert more of his notorious ‘Slow It Down’ bar storms into his raps for this battle) delivering probably his weakest round ever in that same 3rd round?!? Not only was that torturous to watch, but if I was a paying customer I’d be a little upset with these two. That said, Hitman’s hard-flexing, witty, personal-heavy, name flip-spazzing and remix-snapping 1st edges a punchline-lit, but not as performance-heavy turn by Con in the 1st round, before Hitman also takes the 2nd with a more condensed turn that was also surprisingly punch-heavy at times and more consistently spicy then his opponent. Thanks in part to Hitman’s many shortcomings in the 3rd, even with a subpar turn of his own, a non-choking Con gets a final round that his opponent had already handed him.

Verdict: Hitman Holla (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Hitman Holla –  “You don’t really want that action, you worried about matching!”

Rosenberg Raw defeats Jimz

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Recap: No shortage of aggressive bars and trash talking here as Jimz and Rosenberg Raw go at it hearty, all the while clearly letting you know that they probably won’t be sending each other Christmas cards this year. Whatever with the tough talk tho, while Jimz repped heavy enough to make it close, his lack of creativity and wordplay eventually did him in, i.e, clearly not enough to keep up with Raw’s repeated punchlines and haymakers.

Verdict: Rosenberg Raw (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Rosenberg Raw – “I forgot we was battling, you spit that bum shit, you plainer than SunChips, your heart pumping Sunkist”

Serius Jones defeats Math Hoffa (DQ) [Rematch]

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Recap: Listen, Jones bringing out the twerking girls and distracting Math while he rapped was extra, dumb in its execution and totally unprofessional. But that sucker punch by Math was extra, extra dumb, super lame, left yet another bad mark on battle rap and whatever suspension he got from URL afterwards was well deserved (esp. after he went on the likes of Vlad TV to make excuses and laugh about it). All that aside, here’s a video of Jones spitting the 3 rounds he intended to spit after the battle was over as well as Math dishing one round of his. Since the battle ended right after the incident, we’ll only count the bars that actually took place.

Verdict: Serius Jones (W) 1-0 by DQ

Favorite line: Serius Jones – “Well, now you better Holla at a Hitman, ‘cuz when Jones out murkin’ I’ll kill everybody in this building just so we could have a no-crowd version!”

Pat Stay defeats Arcane

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Recap: With his chain on the line KOTD champion Arcane faces off with challenger Pat Stay for the title and the bout turns out to be as one-sided as a rap battle can get with Stay using fierce personals that included stinging lines on his opponent’s alleged pilfering of bars from another battle rapper in the past, witty schemes and a host of bodacious shiners, all the while commanding the stage, captivating the crowd and easily beating back Arcane’s pedestrian raps to become the new champ.

Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Pat Stay – “His name is ‘Cane ‘cuz he don’t stand a chance on his own!”

Emerson Kennedy defeats Daylyt

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Recap: Utilizing each round to fit a different narrative, in this California versus Utah, 3-rounder from AHAT versus Daylyt, Emerson Kennedy proceeds from gritty punchlines to resident name flips to stinging set-ups, resident heat and personals. And although not quite on his A-game throughout the match, going up against a Batmobile-reclining opponent who came prepped with mostly generic, anecdotal shiners that were hit and miss, a more overall consistent EK does enough in the 1st and deciding 3rd round to gain the win.

Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “That nickle, make it silent, we call that? pleading the 5th and that bulldog will talk to him…Daylyt?, Peter Griffin!”

Ty Law defeats Sno

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Synopsis: While it might be politically correct to say Sno got this, I’m gonna go the other way and say that Ty Law clearly got the win here. Indeed, Sno’s 1st round (even with the fumble) was a classic, just on the “Marshall Law” scheme alone. But like many battle rappers who open with over-the-top 1st rounds: soon it becomes way too hard to stay on that top shelf for all 3 rounds. That fact alone was fortunate for Ty Law, who just by being himself and staying consistent throughout all 3 rounds, delivering dope bar after bar (“And yeah the best feature on ya’ baby mother is her mouth, her tongue is out I’m nuttin’ on the couch, right when Andy was at work, it’s like  she put Andy in reverse, that’s whY D-N-A coming out her mouth”) was able to take the latter 2 rounds and edge out the win.

Verdict: Ty Law (W) 2-1

Best line: Ty Law – “You crackers safe in the house like professional thief’s”

QB (Black Diamond) defeats Stargirl Ladyred

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Recap: The female version of Arsonal with her elongated rounds, disrespectful bars and aggressive delivery (but less filler), beating QB in a battle takes an enormous effort. And for two rounds Stargirl Ladyred almost pulls it off, matching QB’s ruthlessness with a plethora of ill (“By looking…I could tell you don’t keep up withcha hygiene, pussy-licking cottage cheese smelling like fried beans!”) bars, dope schemes and hitting personals. But in the 3rd QB whipped out her entire bag of tricks and came out with a classic, landing (“But you frail, when the last time you was in some beef?, you somebody son, I got a Scooby snack for you Scrappy since you the spitting image of Mama Dee”) haymakers, delivering rapid personals (to her opponent and Cortez) and getting extra nice on the wordplay to pull ahead and take the win in what was otherwise a really good battle.

Verdict: QB (W) 2-1

Favorite line: QB – “You ain’t built for the street life, why you trying to be hardcore?, just ‘cuz you look like Chewbacca doesn’t mean that Star Wars!”

Arsonal and Goodz [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: A couple of Lionz Den graduate’s, Goodz and Arsonal (“He still drinking that dark, he must ain’t seen what that Brown did till it got a hold of Whitney!”), take their skills to MC War stage, rhyming for two rounds over a beat before switching over for the final style to normal style, but with a microphone in hand. Definitely a goodie with a pair of captivating flows over a gritty beat that was backed by equally fierce punchlines, boastful darts, solid wordplay and blazing gun bars. In the end, we got Arsonal taking the 1st round before a punch-heavier Goodz edged the 2nd, while the last round was a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Goodz – “I hate bitch nigga’s, you the type get a ticket for an open container and snitch nigga!”

Young B defeats Danny Myers

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Recap: No “preference” here. If a joke hits it’s just as good as a dope bar. And while Young B (RIP) certainly wasn’t no Dave Chappelle, in this 3-rounder versus Danny Myers, B’s boatload of mocking personals and witty punchlines/barbs scored way more heavily over the course of the latter two rounds (even the 1st was debatable) than Danny’s redundant screeds of mayhem and boasts. It really wasn’t close.

Verdict: Young B (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Young B – “I’m surprised your rap name don’t got ‘Grand Master’ in the front!”

Showoff defeats Pep

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Recap: Both Pep and Showoff dish on the usual street semantics with a load of braggadocio lines and gun bars mixed in. However it’s Showoff, styling with some sick wordplay and flexing with some mean schemes, who stunts with more versatility to take this one-rounder.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Showoff – “You gonna get that Special Ed helmet, that’s a strap to ya chin!”

Profecy defeats Supersick

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Recap: Some witty and gangster-riffic bars from Supersick are enough to edge round 2 and keep things entertaining. But a more slick-talking, consistent, rebuttal-dispening and punch-heavy Profecy owns the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win here on Voicebox Battles.

Verdict: Profecy (W) 2-1

Favorite line:  Profecy – “You must be kept on a short leash, I spend more money on Taste clothing than True spend on court fee’s!”

T-Rex defeats Dizaster

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Recap: Despite some scattered boo’s here and there, Dizaster’s first appearance on the URL stage is a solid one as the former KOTD champion’s arsenal of raucous darts, freestyle’s and witty rancor/personals kept things competitive throughout this long-awaited battle versus T-Rex. But a prepared Rex is a dangerous Rex and with the Harlem vet coming through with 3 original and hardbody turns containing often mind-blowing mayhem, stunted street theatrics, mocking personals and righteous gun bars/punchlines, outside of a couple of elongated rounds (that helped Diz score a debatable 1st), a more consistently spicy Rex is able to handily take the latter two rounds for the win.

Verdict: T-Rez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: T-Rex – “This summer I make all them (Autumn) fall, my gun’s winter fresh Ruger cocked, move a notch, you’ll be shot, barrel on that .44 smokin’ like a hookah spot, I’ll with that steel, I could show y’all how to use the Glock, my shooters is like Dashiki: they don’t know who to [who da] pop!”

Sco defeats Real Deal

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Recap: Hard to say that Sco won this one as much as an unprepared Real Deal loss as the Pittsburgh rapper, after easily winning the 1st, consistently loses his train of thought in the latter two rounds and has to kick mostly lame freestyles just to make it through the rounds. Thus Sco, with a punch-worthy and witty 2nd and a short, but able 3rd, edges this BET/UFF battle at the end.

Verdict: Sco (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Sco – “Nigga’s sleeping on Sco, I been the truth, been rapping since Bow Wow was in ‘Gin and Juice’!”

Ill Will defeats Lotta Zay

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Recap: Ill Will moves on to the finals by winning UFF match, but his Team Homi brethren Lotta Zay made him earn it, stunting in the early rounds heavy with some bully (“This nigga pussy, am I the only one smelling the shit?, now who gonna get you out that pickle when that chopper make you relish the bits?”) bars and clever wordplay. But while Zay’s delivery and bar quotient faltered a bit towards the end, Will stepped it up with a steady mix of off-the-dome (“We in the same motherfuckin’ click, so how I’mma disrespect him to the core? Fuck you, I love the real niggas in the hood more!”) flexing, entertaining soliloquies and righteous street talk to earn the win.

Verdict: Ill Will (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ill Will – “You from the hood where they wear those shirts that say ‘Stop Snitching’, I’m from the hood where they’ll take that same snitch, put him on a shirt go into a church and tell his mama to stop bitching!”

Xcel defeats Get Right

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Recap: Competitive and entertaining TrapHouse NY battle between Xcel and Get Right as the latter’s piercing punchlines and witty barbs kept him in the mix when it came to the name flip-savvy, boastful/personal-lit and wordplay-heavy lines from Xcel. A battle so close that it forced debatable 2nd and 3rd round’s, a more versatile and haymaker-friendly Xcel lands the win via the only clear vic in the 1st.

Verdict: Xcel (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Xcel – “Heat?, you bust none [nun], your gun’s belong in a convent!”

Pat Stay defeats Nils m/ Skils

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Recap: Poor sportsmanship on the part of Pat Stay, unnecessarily touching his innocuous opponent Nils m/ Skils time and time again during the first two rounds, doesn’t take away from Pat’s myriad of witty punches, boastful shiners and stinging personals out-pointing the awkward and sometimes monotone, but understated style of Skils. That said, for those who didn’t appreciate Pat’s bullying tactics in this battle, it would only be a couple of years later before Pat got hit with some karma during his battle with Calicoe.

Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Pat Stay – “He dives in feet first with a straight face when he jumps in the water!”

Sco defeats Ah Di Boom

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Synopsis: A motivated Sco (something happens to this guy whenever Nuborn is in the room) ups his bar game, gets creative (“Ah Di Boom sound like it can be street slang for anything…”) and spits enough real talk to edge Ah di Boom, who seems to have the consistent misfortune of getting in his own way (that Scotty Horror impression was just useless and he needs to work on his set-ups) sometimes.

Verdict: Sco (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Sco – “This is what I mean with you emcees who be talking about how you spray things, but if a nigga get you mad where you had to pop, you wouldn’t mood swing”

Emerson Kennedy defeats Konflict

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Recap: Battle rap in Utah must be popping as a nice crowd comes out to see Emerson Kennedy versus Konflict in this 3-rounder from AHAT, which EK wins after edging the first round with sharper bars and some feelgood wordplay, before taking a close 2nd with a nice rebuttal and even nicer (“Nigga, You Suck Live….guess that’s what your shirt stands for!”) freestyle on his opponent’s T-shirt. Konflict (“He quick to snitch, he wouldn’t complete a bid on Ebay!”) , who hurt himself with too many elementary bars between some hot one’s throughout, eventually gets 3-0’d in the 3rd with a meandering and elongated turn that didn’t have enough bite to even beat back a shortened, but steadily nice 3rd by EK.

Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “If you click, I click faster like my car blinker’s broken!”

Danja Zone defeats Nuborn

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Recap: Two-round promo battle between Danja Zone and Nuborn sees them both represent and put forth their A-games, which usually makes for a dope battle. However, it’s Danja Zone who stands out just a little bit more in each round with nicer schemes (esp. the “Machine Gun Kelly….Mac Miller” line) and more hard bars to get the win.

Verdict: Danja Zone (W) 2-0

Favorite line: Nuborn – “Line for line you can’t spar with me, soon as I start cooking I be getting niggas mad…Paula Deen”

Rum Nitty defeats AB Hogish

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Recap: In this 3-round battle from KOTD, it’s a punchfest between an aggressive Rum Nitty and a laidback, but still potent (“The loc’s said they wanna see you die, so I’m a open Rum when I’m riding, that’s a DUI!”) AB Hogish, Close throughout due to consistently hot bars, nice schemes and dope set-ups from both battlers, it’s Rum who manages to edge it in the end thanks to a more condensed and a little more versatile 1st and (“Since you’re black and Asian, you like your cat fried, right?”) 2nd round. Hogish’s 3rd, a fiery mix of exquisite (“You not even a star outside of L.A., so why you got on your game face!”) shiners, gets him the 3rd easy.

Verdict: Rum Nitty (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “Who in here think Hog is gonna win, well, you must be on base, lean, medicine, heroine or you family, you share the same blood if you think I’m a lose to A B…negative!”

Yung Ill defeats V. I.

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Recap: V.I. uses some nice name (“I’m pops from the Wayans Show, I’m just here to whip Marlon’s ass!”) flips and feisty punches to deliver a solid round here versus Yung Ill. But a minor slip-up, some filler and an opponent who dished more consistent punchlines and had a better flow along with crazier (“When this A R is on her [Arizona] that’s what she’s getting, big cans….A-R Iz On A…Arizona, big cans, that’s sweet tea, but ain’t nothing sweet so quit playing!”) wordplay, equates to a loss in what was otherwise a dope battle.

Verdict: Yung Ill (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Yung Ill – “This ain’t no walk in the beach, this more like quicksand, scope on this rifle, I could snipe you from a quick glance!”

Hemi defeats Ha Double

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Recap: In a battle of play with wordsmiths, Hemi’s rapid schemes and robust wordplay lights up the scoreboard with enough points to beat back a stumbling out the gate, but overall solid punching Ha Double.

Verdict: Hemi (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Hemi – “Tables, ladders, chairs, have ya back broke like ya unemployed!”

Charlie Clips defeats B. Magic

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Recap: Charlie Clips and B-Magic duke it out for the title of “Who Could Rap Better?” And on this day anyway, it’s Clips who wins with a nice combo of crazy (“The only nigga he bodied was Rosenberg, after that he took a detour, so I got a question, ‘why are y’all on Magic’s johnson if all he could do is beat Raw?'”) personals,  fiery (“You a ‘G’ Magic? Well sorry I’m a non-believer, you go in jail a tight end and come out a wide receiver”) punchlines and hard-hitting schemes. Don’t get it twisted as B-Magic was solid (“I ain’t trying to settle down when I’m dumping ratchets”) throughout, but just didn’t have enough heat to beat Clips in the first couple of rounds. Granted, Clips talking and gesturing through Magic’s rounds = not cool, but he still got the win regardless.

Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B-Magic – “I’m strapped, connected with them G’s like a Gucci shoe”

Lotta Zay defeats M. Ciddy

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Recap: I agree with the crowds decision here as while M. Ciddy was more consistent with the bars and wordplay, on the bar front Lotta Zay kept it close throughout while dropping more haymakers to go with a better performance.

Verdict: Lotta Zay (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Lotta Zay – “I’mma have to show y’all caskets when he get tagged at the neck like his shirt on backwards”

Emerson Kennedy defeats Scheme

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Recap: Pretty good one-round battle for two guys who only had a couple days notice. Still, as solid as Scheme was with his (“6 clips surround your whip…it’s like the drive-in!”) punches, a more versatile, (“The A-K go eh-eh-eh-eh-eh like a Wiz Khalifa laugh!”) witty and wordplay-heavy Emerson Kennedy takes the win here.

Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “You too busy giving your team a high-five, I ain’t surprised boy, you can’t hustle on your own, you need to grind more, see I celebrate my independence, I use my time more, if you don’t want to see how this fire work, then nigga what’d you lie for?!”

Charron defeats Soweto Kinch

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Recap: Dope, competitive freestyle battle between Charron and British emcee Soweto Kinch delivers high on off-the-dome adeptness, including rhyming to a variety of random objects from a plastic bag for the first two rounds (which the two split). And while Kinch, for the most part held his own against his opponent with nary a slip-up, some piercing lines here and there and a charming flow, overall Charron’s more potent rhymes/personals and flips worked with enough effect to take 8 of the 12 extra rounds for the win.

Verdict: Charron (W) 9-5

Favorite line: Charron – “Scar and wounds?, I’m the best at spitting, you look like Eddie Griffin with a meth addiction!”

Big T defeats K-Shine

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Synopsis: A classic round is like a knock down in boxing, a 10-8 round, a knockout, or that rare round where a battler is just perfect, no filler, no stumbles, regardless of the angle/perforamnce/bars/storytelling, etc., the type of round that belongs in a time capsule for battle rap opulence. Well, score one for Big T here, as he put forth a round that exemplified what a battle rapper can do when he’s at his best, delivering personals, schemes, bars, name flips, a crazy performance, creativity and angles that pretty much deaded this battle (granted Shine’s 1st round was decent) from the opening gate. Credit Shine tho for showing up and he made it close with a dope (“fat bitch on Instagram all it take is head shots”) 2nd that relied heavy on some ill gun bars. Much as it was hard to live up to his classic 1st round, Big T got off to a slow start in round 2, but still dropped some haymakers, esp on Shine’s street cred (“fruit cup, a lot of flavors, sweet cakes, a lot of bakers”) that ended up making round 2 debatable. A restless crowd didn’t help Shine in round 3 and neither did his slip-up, but overall his round was decent, yet took away any chance he had of winning as Big T’s 3rd was clearly more polished.

Verdict: Big T (W) 2-1

Best line: Big T – “I ain’t giving up bunny ears when I hold this piece behind his head”

Reed Dollaz defeats Mister

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Recap: Philly vs. New York, Reed Dollaz vs. Mister for 3 rounds from an old 2 Raw For The Streets video finds Mister clearly using a gang of mixtape bars, while Reed keeps it gritty and condensed with a bunch of boastful barbs and hard street rhymes. And while Mister displays a superb flow, some fire punches and some wit throughout his bars, the more original and consistently nicer Reed edges both of the opening rounds for the win here before Mister took the 3rd.

Verdict: Reed Dollaz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Reed Dollaz – “I ain’t even gonna mention my age, what could I say>, if they knew I was 17 it might fuck up your day!”

Prep defeats Tyranny

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Recap: In a scene that looks more like a party that got interrupted by a rap battle, the fun and good times rock on with the funniest part being Tyranny (a clear S.O.N.S. wannabee) changing clothes after round 2 with barely anyone noticing. Still, even with all the clowning on Prep’s fashion etiquette in round 3, Prep more than did enough in the first two rounds to take the win.

Verdict: Prep (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Prep – “Let’s take it outside, as soon as I step in the lot I’m pulling those cigs out like a smoke break”

Sco defeats Tone Montana

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Synopsis: Tone Montana must’ve gotten one of his videos rejected by BET or something, because I can’t think of any other reason for him not showing up here (he even goes out his way to diss Bow Wow to his face). But then talking about what went wrong with TM dismisses Sco’s performance–a nice palette of rigid bars, nice jokes and biting personals. Hey, at least we know that Tone Montana can do a mean DMX impression.

Verdict: Sco (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Sco – “Oh y’all nigga’s gangbanging out there? I hope you got your flowers and caskets, bet my 5 run your 5 off the basket without shooting a basket”

JC defeats Sic Vic

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Recap: Clearly confident throughout, JC backs up his mojo with a plethora of fervent schemes, lucid gun bars, some ill and braggadocios wordplay/punchlines and even a few rap tutorials to easily beat a mostly subpar Sic Vic in this 3-rounder from AHAT.

Verdict: JC (W) 3-0

Favorite line: JC – “They said homie was cold, I honestly thought he was gonna bring more at first, but you going up against a boss, you a Mexican, y’all was born to work!”

Arsonal and Aye Verb [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Elongated throughout the battle, but still stunting in his opponent’s hometown with enough gritty (“I’m Arsenal, I could teach you to be a winner, I’ll Coach Carter you, let a shotgun rearrange your eye, formation without an audible!”) punchlines, relentless mayhem/gun bars and fiery personals (towards Aye Verb and fellow St. Louis battler Hitman Holla), although amazingly lengthy throughout the battle, Arsonal survives some at-times scathing condemnations from a scheme/personal-heavy Verb to earn a draw (Ars took Rd. 1, 2nd round was a tie and Verb edged round 3) in this 3-rounder from Smack/URL.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Aye Verb – “There’s a bigger G than being a gangsta, it’s called being a grown man!”

Nu Jerzey Twork defeats Lu Castro

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Recap: Lots of gun bars and some bad editing in this matchup between Nu Jerzey Twork and Lu Castro. Yet, from what you can see, it’s pretty clear that a more aggressive, fast-rapping and (“Your mom take a lot of D, so you know the players in here, we call her Chandler, Why?, because she defensive player of the year!”) joke/bar-heavy Castro took round one, while Twork came back with more (“We know you ain’t got those .4’s dumping nigga, and when the cops come around it’s the only time you know something nigga!”) shiners and gritty schemes in round two to even things up. Last round saw Twork almost choke, but thanks in part to Castro often struggling with his flow and delivering nothing much but standard bars, it’s Twork with some ill usage of bouyant (“At his crib window, thumping on the glass, break in, shoot your mom while she humping on your dad, bullets ricocheting when I’m dumping out the mag, boy these shells like frogs how they jumping off the pad!”) storytelling bars, who edges the round and gets the win.

Verdict: Nu Jerzey Twork (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Nu Jerzey Twork – “Once I blast this nigga with Wessons, it’s like action figure collections, ‘cuz nigga you ain’t getting out the box!”

T Top defeats R Hood

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Recap: After a close and competitive (R Hood: “Snatch out, unload, that A-K crush him, so when a 6 throwing bullets at a Bear, know it ain’t Jay Cutler”; T Top:: “Start with me, I’m autistic, retarded clips, twin gats, this one drool, this [one] saliva spit!”) first round, R Hood’s performance stays steady in the latter rounds, but unfortunately the same can’t be said for his delivery and bar productivity. That’s all T Top needs to separate himself from his opponent by increasing his wordplay, come nice with the scheme game and deliver enough righteous urban (“Keep thinking I’m sweet, till your chin get the music”) drama to score yet another 3-0.

Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0

Favorite line: T Top – “I go from corner to corner like where ya pipe at?, you go from order to order, like ‘Would you like that?'”

T Top defeats Killa Kel

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Recap: Killa Kel’s pen game more often than not couldn’t keep up with his fierce and aggressive flow, leaving T Top with an opening to drop three nasty rounds of voyeuristic heat along with some witty (“They say her and coke were best friends, cool as a Chevy, Boosie and Webbie”) personals and take this one with ease.

Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0

Favorite line: T Top – “I heard you like to dance in the clubs, that’s what you lied about, my niggers dance too, but we only doing [forms gun with arms] the shootie bounce”

Emerson Kennedy defeats Sonic Soundwaveus

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Recap: Speed rapper Sonic Soundwaveus manages to salvage himself with a hot (“My disses are like imaginary friends, you gotta be crazy to respond!”) 3rd, but not before succumbing to Emerson Kennedy’s confident barrage of performance-heavy set-ups and sanguine (“They say EK flow chilly, that’s how a snowman move, something to make a nigga spin, like a slow dance move, two 22’s on my ankles if his ho man move, that’s two straps on my feet like old man shoe’s!”) wordplay during the first two rounds that ended up pronouncing this battle over.

Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “I’ll put 2 thousand dollars on ya head, and watch my fucking G’s flip, that’s two racks on ya roof like you taking a ski trip!”

O’fficial defeats K Prophet

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Recap: O’fficial’s Queen of the Ring debut goes well as she spazzes on K Prophet with 3 rounds of heated (“You look bad with a haircut, I would hate to see you with a perm or tracks, I’ll make my Flatline niggas bust on your face, but who’d put they sperm on that?”) personals, aggressive bars and juicy wordplay. Prophet had a couple of moments, but overall fell flat with too much filler, reaches and underwhelming bars.

Verdict: O’fficial (W) 3-0

Favorite line: O’fficial – “You say your city bang, well guess what my city bang too, you wanna be the president of your crew?, I guess they lames too, I carry Washington’s so when you fucked by this black bitch, it ain’t a Scandal”

Real Deal defeats Young Kannon

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Synopsis: Young Kannon and Real Deal always put on a good show and either one could’ve pulled this one out. But even though both of these guys 3rd rounds didn’t nearly live up to the bars, schemes and performance that they put out in rounds 1 and 2, I thought Real Deal edged round 3 to get the win.

Verdict: Real Deal (W) 2-1

Best Line: Real Deal – “That’s why nobody out here believes you when you acting like you so hard, you probably convert to Islam in the back of a patrol car”

Real Deal defeats Aye Dot

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Recap: Funny how an up-n-coming battle rap dude (in this case Aye Dot) can quickly go from confident and cocky to butt-hurt and sad after possibly ruining a chance to beat a top tier battler by slipping up and nearly choking during his round. To be fair tho, there was no way Aye Dot (who did deliver some solid schemes and wordplay during his turn when he wasn’t struggling with his flow) was beating Real Deal in this GHOGH 1-rounder anyway. The Pittsburgh vet staying on his opponent’s neck with a stellar rebuttal, a bunch of flexing punchlines, brazen boasts and witty/mocking personals to handily gain the win.

Verdict: Real Deal (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Real Deal – “I had to go back and watch his battles just to see how wack dude was, I’ve got throwaway bars you’d get tattoo’s of!”

JC defeats Young Pablo

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Recap: Battling against the traveling vet that is JC, credit Young Pablo for holding his own, spitting a variety of smoking (“Nino Brown with the shotgun, I’ll walk you down the street right after I jack Carter”) bars while for the most part staying away from the easy JC dance jokes. But not taking any opponent lightly regardless of their status, JC literally scoffs at Pablo’s lines with 5 minutes of winning (“He said J, I ain’t no pushover or a walk through the park, I said cool because I don’t walk through no park I’ll walk through and park”) wordplay, clever rhyme flips and mischievous punchlines to easily take this one-rounder.

Verdict: JC (W) 1-0

Favorite line: JC – “Every time I draw a line it go over head, it’s a Homer here [hair]”

M. Ciddy defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: Young Kannon had the hometown crowd, some nice (props to Denzel) schemes, a good performance and personals, but it wasn’t near enough to beat the total barfest put on here by M. Ciddy. From machismo (“This win is so clear like Jordan 11’s”) lines to intricate (“Topics I’ll address a couple like wedding planning, spark boom walk in a darkroom and develop Canon [Kannon]”) wordplay to precision (“You got killed by a dancer, nigga you Chris Brown in Stomp the Yard”) bars, one this day anyway Ciddy was that good.

Verdict: M. Ciddy (W) 2-1

Favorite line: M. Ciddy – “And you so corny and sensitive, you Chicago nigga, brush it off like Joe Torry”

Cortez defeats Dizaster

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Synopsis: Some ill freestyles and rebuttals by Dizaster throughout, but Cortez put it all together: schemes, wordplay, personals and straight up bars to easily get the win…on the road no less. I gave Diz the 3rd for that mean Princess Diana line alone.

Verdict: Cortex (W) 2-1

Best line: Cortez – “Nigga you brag every fucking battle and boost yourself up like you’re the guy, the shit, you’s probably remove your own rib just to suck your own dick”

Mo Mula defeats Crimz

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Recap: Spitting mostly mediocre bars, Crimz is only able to score with a couple of (“Everybody in yoru crew know you bitch pussy like a bitch jogging with camel toe!”) shiners here and there, leaving Mo Mula with plenty of room to shine using a combination of more consistently nice spitfire bars and a couple of thoro schemes for a one-round win despite a couple of slip-ups towards the end.

Verdict: Mo Mula (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Mo Mula -“And I heard you a Queens nigga, but when I told ya boy you was gonna lose, he was like ‘not my queen, nigga!'”

Ah Di Boom defeats Wu

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Synopsis: Not only is this battle wholly entertaining, but for all you Lotta Zay fans out there you’ll never hear his name mentioned more.

Verdict: Ah Di Boom (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ah Di Boom – ” I swear you sweet and you soft…you pudding skins!”

Majik defeats prez mafia

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Recap: Even before they became stars I don’t recall today’s top tiers taking battles off like so many of these new dudes do. Lack of preparation? Taking on too many battles? I don’t know what the deal is and no disrespect to Majik, but prez mafia shouldn’t be losing to guys like this.

Verdict: Majik (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Majik – “She said I remind her of the old school Lakers, cuz Magic on point and I Kareem [cream] in the center”

Ill Will defeats Danja Zone

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Synopsis: Danja Zone does remind you a lot of Chilla Jones, but I wouldn’t call him a clone as while he is scheme heavy, he has shown the ability to match his scheme quotient with fine performances and sublime bars. It’s just his capacity for filler and inability to build off momentum that makes for subpar performances. For example, he should’ve won this battle, esp. after a dope 1st round that saw Danja Zone take out Ill Will with keen wordplay (“You bowl and gutter, the only time you bold and gutta I bowled and gut the boy after I  Riddick Bowed his gut…”), ill jokes and dope schemes. But other than displaying that he has a nice impression game, Danja’s 2nd round was pretty blah and allowed Will to catch up with a dope rebuttal and crazy aggressive bars. Both came nice in round 3, but in the end Will’s continued haymakers (that ‘PG County scheme was crazy!) and personals edged it.

Verdict: Ill Will (W) 2-1

Best line: Ill Will – “Ever since Chilla came, these niggas been scheming more than R. Kelly at a middle school”