Recap: Outside of an opening round that saw a way more punch-heavy and wordplay spicy Chilla Jones take with relative ease over a so-so turn by Automatic Ray, while the latter rounds of this 3-round Universal Battle Realm were more competitive (esp. with Ray getting more busy with a gang of witty barbs and piercing punches/personals), the 2020 Champion of the Year would prove to be too much here, scoring left and right with a bunch of flexing rebuttals/freestyles, bruising name flips and crazy dope set-ups/punchlines in both rounds 2 and 3 on his way to a well-earned 30.
Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “Some say I’m overpaid ‘cuz they don’t give Ray bands…that’s why he throwing shade!”
Recap: In this 1-rounder from GOTG, Street Hymns lets us in what’s in the backpack and besides some nifty, but hard-hitting personals, piercing Scripture-laced punches and rigid wordplay, it’s the shoes that catapults him to a win versus a solid at times, but mostly mediocre Automatic Ray.
Verdict: Street Hymns (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Street Hymns – “Y’all notice whenever we pay for big names we always gotta put em on the levels, but Ray’s fire, left hand of God, I put that on the devil!”
Recap: Two dope rounds from R Streetz and Automatic Ray equate to a tie going into the deciding 3rd. However, an out-of-nowhere choke by Streetz leaves Ray with the task of just completing his turn without interruption, which the witty, veteran battler gamely does.
Verdict: Automatic Ray (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Automatic Ray – “I brought gun’s for the cheddar, that’s mac on mac, ski mask, Jay great, that’s Black on Black!
Recap: Young rookie goes up against the older vet as Chef Trez battles Automatic Ray in a fiery, one-rounder from Spit Dat Heat. Ray, apparently motivated by Trez not giving him enough credit for putting him on, puts on a solid show, dispensing winsome punchlines and engaging (“You think your bitch is being faithful?, I bet if I meet her I can hit it, Street Fighter bonus stage, she gonna see the whip and try to kick it!”) wordplay with ease, while kindly (“You got booked in a couple of states, ok, that’s fine…but I’ve made more off these kids than Danny Myers at tax time!”)…reminding his opponent of his place in the game. Indeed, a solid round from Ray that only dipped when some punches either lacked pizzazz or came off elementary. Still, a hard turn to follow up, but Trez more than put in that work. Using some crazy (“Listen Ray, you can’t son a nigga that’s sonning nigga’s, gun will hitt’cha, for that bread, this square will get his head shot…Wanted picture!”) wordplay, filthy (“I was in the whip with a Smith-n-Wesson, with a dozen round mag, waiting on him to leave with his team, when I see him I’m dumping everything out that bitch, somebody gonna bleed on the scene, that’s 1 gun, 1 clip, 12 bullets, I feel like making a song while I’m squeezing that thing, I see him, now 112 [one .12] blasting out the car like I’m bumping ‘Peaches and Cream’!”) schemes, potent gun bars, nice set-ups and hitting (“You too aggressive, in the shop throwing temper tantrums, well calm your nerves or I’ll [reaches hand out like gun] 10 per tantrum”) personals that hit their mark, it’s the yung’un who shines brighter in what was pretty dope battle.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Ray said he’ll grab his Mac, dump it and blaze it, fat fuck, better off saying you got a sag lunch with bacon, I’ll grab pumps or lay Tek’s [latex]and bust, that condoms breaking and hit him with a K [‘k’] like that’s the end of that conversation!”
Recap: Automatic Ray scores with some jokes and nice (“Rap or otherwise, we get suckers cut, we engineers, cuz’ we punch niggers for fucking up!”) punchlines, but an inconsistent delivery/performance and a lame Loaded Lux impression does him in against T Top, who on top of the requisite trap talk, mixes it up a bit with a variety of dope wordplay. potent schemes and witty (“…her breathe smell like…aight I ain’t gonna start no shit, but she could say the holiest words and still be talking shit!”) jokes to score a 3-0.
Verdict: T Top (W) 3-0
Favorite line: T Top – “I promise you gonna die, no might, it’s like Napolean, Len Bias style, you ending before the show begin”
Synopsis: Another easy win for Cortez as other then the 2nd round, Automatic Ray didn’t really put up much of a fight. Inconsistent bars and way too much filler did Ray in, which sucks because this wasn’t your best Cortez (once again too many gun bars) and against a vet you’d think PG’s, rookies or whatever you want to call them, would want to step it up to add an impressive ‘W’ to their resume. Not in this case.
Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1
Best line: Cortez – “The nigga Lux said in Harlem the loser had to jump, well we in Brooklyn, they brought guns and this loser has to run!”
Synopsis: Brizz Rawsteen pulls out a bag of crazy name flips, punchlines, aggressive (“But dog when will the shit stop, I palm let the fifth pop, pause till the click drop, reload then give Auto more like a wristwatch”) bars and solid wordplay to take out Automatic Ray.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Automatic Ray – “But pride’s a pill, swallow that and quit whining dog, cuz’ my NyQuil [Nike will] will put a head through the Tylenol [tile and all]”
Recap: Slightly more intricate and consistent with his punches/schemes/personals in round 1, before snapping with some fierce and witty 4-bar set-ups in the second round, Automatic Ray beats back a lyrical, but mostly so-so O’fficial early to make what was a pretty pedestrian 3rd round irrelevant when it comes to the outcome.
Verdict: Automatic Ray (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Automatic Ray – “Bitch you keep having 3somes, Mike & Ike, Ben & Jerry!”
