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Recap: Packing enough fiery gun bars, gritty punchlines, pointed personals and rugged street chatter to make his presence felt, a performance-heavy Piranha dishes enough consistent heat to edge the unique rhyme patterns and festive wordplay of Anubis for all 3 rounds in this competitive matchup from URL.
Verdict: Piranha (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Piranha – “Test me A and get 90 out the [holds arms out like a gun] 100…like strip club change!”
Recap: For a couple of battle rappers noted for having bullish pen’s, when it comes to a ‘War of Words’ matchup, JC and (“They say you may weathered [Mayweather] these punches, yeah, if Ricky hadn’t walked into it!”) Anubis make for a fitting matchup. That said, JC gets the edge here using sanguine (“These shots, drop tops, I call them Kennedy slugs, but everything from this point forward, gonna be in memory of!”) gun bars, a few audacious personals and some spicy set-ups to edge the first couple of rounds and earn the win.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “That’s the problem with living in the moment…nigger’s never even considered dying in it!”
Recap: After a debatable 1st and a lethargic 2nd that saw him fall behind the (“When the arm extends, y’all get touched is what I’m getting to, turn the Zoo Faculty into the Petting zoo!”), personal/punch-heavy Krome, despite a near choke towards the end, Anubis’ mostly hot 3rd is just enough to edge the final round and get a tie.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Anubis – “You an electronic cigarette, you don’t want smoke for real!”
Recap: In this 3-rounder from KOTD, a more direct, (“Yeah, they walk tough, but when I glove up, you see they stretch change, they know when this Alchemist app is all fire, I’m Roy Mustang!”) punch-heavy and bullish Anubis takes this bout from a (“Keep thinking shit sweet and we could square up Now or Later!”) solid overall, but too inconsistent Lexx Luthor.
Verdict: Anubis (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Anubis – “I notice that you yell ‘Team Homi!’ before every battle, I just got one question…are they aware of that?”
Recap: Vigorous and bar-heavy match between (“You love to saying JC my ghostwriter, cool, I expect the hate, if that’s the case, the hand of Christ moving my pen, it’s Revelation!”; “I been disrespected, y’all give me cats that ain’t half as nice, yelling ‘grown man bars’ when only a child thinks felonies are bragging rights”) Detroit’s Anubis and (“I’m just here to prove that you can’t stand the pressure, like when your ankle twist”; “I been bucking, I’ll beat a bitch ass like I’m fist-fucking!”) Nebraska’s Saint Mic stays close until the 3rd round where Anubis falls victim to a couple of slip-ups, while Mic stays consistent with an aggressive flow that was backed up nicely by gritty schemes, feisty (“Food for thought, put him to sleep. give him nigger-itis!”) punchlines and potent personals to take the win.
Verdict: Saint Mic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Saint Mic – “I bury shit, i’m an asshole to cats!”
Recap: Some production issues in the 3rd round doesn’t ruin this competitive punchfest between M. Ciddy and Anubis, with the first couple of rounds highlighted by Anubis’ understated wordplay and Ciddy’s wide-ranging vocab that stayed potent even amongst other more recreative verbal gymnastics. And for a more consistent Ciddy, that was just enough leverage and zing to edge the first two rounds, couple with a win.
Verdict: M. Ciddy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: M. Ciddy – “See, I handle breaking crews, if the camera can’t review, can your pics are alike, I’m panoramic makes moves, Madagascar shit, I gotta animate the zoo!”
Recap: Granted, it’s funny how so many opponent’s bring up Anubis’ very basic wardrobe at that BET/UFF battle versus Brizz Rawsteen some time back. But style points aside, the Michigan rapper’s ability to deliver fire punchlines, gritty tutorial raps and stinging set-ups with a rapid Midwest twang usually serve as his breadwinner as he shows again here, dropping consistent heat to easily beat back an often elongated and mostly standard Ceph Deezy.
Verdict: Anubis (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Anubis – “Tho you getting slumped with honor, you like Colombiana…a bitch that wanna kill, but don’t knwo shit about the world yet!”
Recap: Anubis has a wide range of bars, but too often his set-ups are elongated and rare does he say anything that’s over-the-top. And in a battle against a performance standout like Brizz Rawsteen, you’re going to need either a better performance or some haymakers and even some personals to win, yet for all of Anubis’ game plan there just wasn’t much of any of those. As for Rawsteen he did his thing, especially in the first two rounds with nice angles, violent themes and aggressive wordplay to earn the win.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – Honestly you living out a movie and your mind it seems, until i try and squeeze a bullet through the back of your eyes, that’s behind the scenes”
Recap: Nice UFF battle between Xcel and Anubis as both came hungry and represented with plenty of bars, schemes and wordplay. Gotta agree with the judges here tho as Anubis’ dope punchlines and hard bars were too much for Xcel’s somewhat light (took too long to get to his punches) and filler-drenched round 1. Xcel came harder in round 2 with a more consistent flow, gritty (“You could be in the Caribbean van and wouldn’t bang steel”) bars and crazy wordplay, while Anubis fell a little flat with too many average bars. With round 3 deciding the winner, Anubis would take it with dope performance bars, cold personals, a hard rebuttal and fierce (“I had you bringing people to pay me, this a pyramid scheme”) punchlines against a good round from Xcel that had plenty of aggression and punches, but not enough potent bars to match his opponent’s heat.
Verdict: Anubis (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Anubis – “I don’t lose position, I write shit that make God himself lose religion”
Recap: Can a PG rapper actually face and beat a top tier before he starts talking reckless about one? I’m just saying. Anyway, good battle, but Steams outnumbered Anubis (loved that “your big bitch ass ain’t real like you sitting on a sink” line tho) on the execution, delivery, punches as well as the wordplay throughout all 3 rounds to earn the win.
Verdict: Steams (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Steams – “If he move, I got under the knee tools, the shit I lick-a come from the bootleg like cheap booze”
Recap: Another good battle from the Proving Grounds featuring Ha Double and Anubis in a total barfest with schemes and wordplay galore on both sides. Tho he seemed to run out of steam towards the end, overall Ha Double displayed more consistency (esp. in round 2 which he clearly won) to take it in the end.
Verdict: Ha Double (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Anubis – “Silencer, got that 9 quiet but the tech will scream, I missed the first shot fuck it I got LeBron heat, take off his headband with the second ring”
Recap: In this 3-rounder from Alpha League, Piranha serves up a solid effort with a boatload of gritty punches spiced with rampant mayhem. However, for the more versatile Anubis, a consistent dish of fiery schemes, flexing punchlines and downright gully personals would be too much for his opponent over the course of 3 rounds, thus giving Anubis the 30.
Verdict: Anubis (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Anubis – “Now go ahead, tell ’em how a weekend with you I only got a chance to die, but you live a life where ya pet smarter than ya kid, you a Family Guy!”
