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Recap: He may be a slow puncher, but PC’s bars can still land with stifling effect, As he shows here in this Bullpen Battle League matchup against a B Magic who started off hot but struggled with his flow for the latter half of his turn, PC’s consistently measured gun bars and unhurried punches still packed enough heat to earn the win.
Verdict: PC (W) 1-0
Favorite line: PC – “Clip ’bout as long as the Pledge of Allegiance, the irony I gotta stand for it!”
Recap: Credit to E Ness for keeping this one close, edging the second round with more potent (“Come and get this ass-whipping you been running from, I ain’t gonna lay you on the slab, I’ll tuck you under one!”) bars after a pretty basic 1st that a poised (“You looking for a monster?, well I got this shit on lock Ness [lochness]”) B Magic steadily took advantage of. Still, after starting off solid, the choice for an elongated 3rd hurts Ness in the long run what with some bouncy filler towards the end as well as a bad impression of his opponent. Left to face a quick (“I’ll spit on ya grave, this shit scary like…like being in a group with Dylan!”) roundhouse of punches from Magic, it’s the St. Louis emcee who’s left standing tall.
Verdict: B Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B Magic – “Trash nigga, I see Brenda baby is all grown up!”
Recap: Every noted battle rapper must have a reference or two they get tired of hearing about from opponents in battles and in B Magic’s case I’d venture to guess that it’s ‘J Fox’ fight bars and ‘David Blaine’ mention’s. And while Syah made use of both those here in this RBE 3-rounder, the ATL spitter as he usually does, still made for a winnable effort with a gang of piercing punchlines (esp. in round 3, which he edged) and solid personals throughout the match. But as he shows us once again here, a prepared B Magic can take on anyone and with a steady barrage of sizzling punches/gun bars, rigid wordplay and witty darts in the opening rounds, one can attest here that the show did arrive.
Verdict: B Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B Magic – “Think of the Banks family, I’ll raise the Smith [Smif]!”
Recap: A slightly cleaner flow, consistently efficient with the bars and more versatility with the punches allows Gauge to edge this 1-round Go-Rilla Warfare battle against a pretty solid, but not as steady with it B Magic.
Verdict: Gauge (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Gauge – “When you die tell the devil to forward my mail, you know you bogus when you get the cold shoulder in hell!”
Recap: Fire battle between B. Magic and Iron Solomon with a load of hefty (B. Magic: “You get bombed on in Boston, no matter the race!”) punchlines, witty (Iron Solomon: “I mean we done got so used to you choking, we thought ‘Fuck!’…was your new slogan!”) personals, fire name flips and some creative wordplay by both battlers. Competitive throughout with a couple of debatable rounds (1st and 3rd) that produced a lot of daps and and cheers from the crowd, this KOTD battle came down to the 2nd, which while littered with visceral haymakers from both sides and some versatile synergy by Iron, is edged by Magic here due to more consistency with his pen when compared to an opponent who while dropping a load of gems, too often struggled with filler during his turn.
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B. Magic – “Slit his throat, I’m trying to cut out what he was just fitting to tell me!”
Recap: Despite a lazy stumble, using a litany of raucous punchlines and piercing (“I’ll punch this nigga dead in his stomach till his lungs touch, I mean I would swing on these chains [D Chain’s] like nunchucks!”) name flips, B Magic literally makes the AHAT crowd go bananas throughout his one round against D Chain. Indeed, it was an easy win for Magic as D Chain, besides a Trayvon Martin shock value bar, clearly didn’t have much in his tank and failed to take advantage of a ‘white dudes winning over Magic’ angle that could’ve worked when considering his opponent’s history of losses to Caucasian battle battle rappers.
Verdict: B Magic (W) 1-0
Favorite line: B Magic – “I’ll split a nigga’s brains with a scalpel, get your Adam’s apple cut,
cuz I’m trying to gas him up, bag him up, dag??? a clutch, then he hear a Magnum bust, these Tek’s [Texas] gonna make sure Chain saw [Chainsaw] a massacre!”
Recap: What Money Bagz had in performance and a little more variety with the (“.45 hit him outta nowhere, that’s a mid-life crisis!”; “You act savage and I’ll black Magic and I ain’t talking about a curse!”) bars, B Magic had in crazy (“Money know how to get peeled back, like I’m taking out a wad!”) name flips and infinite (“Don’t sleep on me, y’all know Bagz [bags] under I [eye]”!) punchlines throughout this judged battle. Therefore, pretty close throughout, essentially the difference here is Magic getting touched by a bout with Earl in both rounds 1 and 2, thus leaving Team Homi with the win.
Verdict: Money Bagz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B. Magic – “You don’t wanna feel nuthin’ Hot Boy, well leave the Cash, Money!”
Recap: Gotta appreciate a crowd that lets you know it when you come unprepared. And boy did they here as after B. Magic got off to a hot start with a punch-heavy opening round to easily beat back a mostly pedestrian turn from Brixx Belvy, in light of Belvy upping his punchline game with a steadily hitting 2nd round, midway through Magic’s 2nd he’d would catch a severe case of the hiccups and proceed to choke away both of his latter rounds (to the tune of some serious displeasure from the audience) and pretty much hand an increasingly potent and personal-lit Belvy the win.
Verdict: Brixx Belvy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brixx Belvy – “You in here looking like a bitch and they know it…oh, that’s your resting face!”
Recap: While the slight stumbles here and there certainly made B Magic beatable, one too many pedestrian bars and reaches by DV Hendrix coupled with Magic scoring with a boatload of piercing punchlines and name flips when he had command, leaves the St. Louis vet with the win in this 1-rounder from Stl Street Report.
Verdict: B Magic (W) 1-0
Favorite line: B Magic – “Think it’s a game till the homeboys get to teaming up like Rock N’ Jock!”
Recap: Two battle rappers with polarized styles, B Magic and Bill Collector, both from arguably URL/Smack’s best PG class get together for a 1-round match on Krack Liberty Battle League’s stage. Magic’s punchlines are, as usual (“Magic, know the name when its death near, metal open up this pussy, that’s a pas smear”; “I’m back snapping like I don’t fuck with the fitted hats!”)…insane with a flow/delivery that never strays from the ingenuity of the lines he spits. Bill on the other hand, goes back to his old outrageous self with perfunctory performance bars, witty (“Magic you in my house, Smack dropped us both, I guess we back in the tryouts!”) lines on the two’s collective battle history and some dope (“Ness, D.O.T., Jai, all my battles matter of fact, was classic Magic like a rabbit out the hat”) wordplay. A close one-rounder that easily should’ve been a 3-rounder, it’s Bill’s overall versatility and the alleged claim that Magic already used most of these bars (I looked and Magic’s raps are no longer available on Soundcloud) last year in a “Triumph Instrumental 40 Bar Challenge” vs Mickey Factz that gets Bill the win. Indeed, the fact that almost all of Magic’s bars were pretty generic does lend to the idea that he was lazy writing original for BB Gun Bill.
Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Bill Collector – “I’m in a different class Magic, that’s Gryffindor!”
Recap: In this punchline-lit 3-rounder from Black Ice Cartel, a spitfire freestyle at the end of his 3rd round serves as the coup de grace for a confident Danja Zone, who’s steady barrage of sizzling punches, rigid mayhem and boastful wordplay/name flips/personals is enough to beat back a solid/clever-punching, but less potent overall B Magic in each round.
Verdict: Danja Zone (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Danja Zone – “I slaughter nigga’s and you nothing like Carter, write harder, thinking Danja wack, I’ll bring the blade to Black like Wesley Snipes’ barber!”
Recap: Keeping up with B Magic’s punchline pedigree isn’t easy, but Detroit rapper Mackk Myron does a damn good job of doing so here. Almost matching Magic line for line with a fiery bowl of stirring (“Your name Magic, right? Well show me a trick besides your mama, you ain’t the magic type”) one-liners, feelgood jokes and even a couple of stupendous (“Its some niggas who hate Mackk and can’t stand him, niggas think they stand up [raises hand] niggas till we Lieutenant Dan em”) performance bars, Mackk’s rigid performance here should be warning to anyone facing him in the future. His only downfall? Elongated rounds that failed to match his opponent’s consistency. As for whether Magic was doubling down on the (“Will, your homeboy is dirty, tell him dress up, this nigga Mackk couldn’t come clean if he fessed up!”) personals, spouting some rich sneak punches or steady scoring with dazzling name (“You seen Player’s Club, St. Louis niggas is quick to put a Mack in the trunk”) flips, his overall tenacity was just too much to keep up with.
Verdict: B Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B Magic – “Last laugh nigga, Mackk ain’t a shooter, I’ll send you to meet your maker like Back to the Future”
Recap: Having long carved a niche as an antic-prone performance artist as much as he is a battle rapper, Daylyt is that lone top tier rhyme-slinger where a win-loss record really doesn’t matter. Indeed, as long as you get your money’s worth, at this point who cares about which Daylyt shows up, much less if he wins or losses? The guy pretty much does what he wants, the fans love him and if you’re a league owner who cares about his bottom line, you’d be hard-pressed not to book him on your platform. So whether it’s the rapper’s rapper who, ski-mask or no ski-mask, can go toe-to-toe with the likes of Pass or Mike P. or the dude who takes a dump on stage or the dude who just ups and quits (vs. Rone) on a battle or the dude who brings out Loaded Lux impressionists for a laugh and does a fantastic Morpheus slow-motion impression (as he does here against B Magic, who with consistently spicy punchlines in both of the opening rounds, took the win) that coupled with his crew’s performance and some witty/esoteric punches, makes for a classic, jaw-dropping 3rd round while verifying that Quill is never not entertaining.
Verdict: B Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B Magic – “From the Louiee, I’m Gucci, watch how I design a flow!”
Recap: Kicked off by one of the best first rounds you’ll ever see in battle rap, KG The Poet and B-Magic put on a barfest for the Smack/URL West coast crowd. Except for possibly rhyming too long, KG’s opening round was pure fire with fierce (“Yeah your bars is top tier, but your actual punches? them shits in the actual proving ground”) personals, damning name flips and righteous gun (“That chop…got a kick…strong as une botte, the goons out to stomp you out, you’ll see nuthin’ but Jordan’s Chuck Taylor’s and tube socks, that’s different kicks!””) bars being spat at a blinding clip. Indeed, it’d take an epic round to top KG’s first and Magic delivers with stupendous (“Me and Ooops don’t shoot clowns, we ain’t equal till kg see 2.2 pounds”) haymakers, intoxicating wordplay and of course, a steady stream of crazy (“Scope biggest bitch from the roof, I’m Higher Learning ya!”) punchlines that would leave most opponents dazed and confused. With nowhere to go but down on the intensity and competitive tenacity in round 2, both battlers still brought the heat. KG continued to make waves with an intense flow backed by robust (“Before you get cooked, get wet with the bread like French toast!”) bars, while B Magic put forth a more cursory round that still had (“This not a battle, I’m rapping strong for it, this more like spoken word because I’m snapping on Poet”) a solid impact. Tho he still managed to drop some gems (“Even tho I had to profit from it, I still hate the brown more than Donald Trump!”) here and there, a little too much pontificating and less flavorful bars hurt KG in the last round, more than enough for Magic to get the dub with more profound bars and some spine-tingling (“I will spike ya moms drink, making the Bill Cosby face, then proceed to choke ya Bird like Doctor J!”) wordplay.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B-Magic – “You’ll get drugged in the back like Walgreens!”
Recap: Plenty of loud, aggressive heaters/punches by Grandaddy Purp make for a competitive battle. But too many pedestrian bars from Purp along with a sizzling mix of stinging wit, spitfire punchlines and fierce name flips gets a more consistent and potent B. Magic the sweep.
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 3-0
Favorite line: B. Magic – “I fear none, I come for your damn wig, nighttime, ducked off with a mask and a damn cig, then what’s in the dark come to light like Aunt Viv!”
Recap: With arguably one of the weakest (“holes in his body…look like he had a fight with a moose”) punch’s (after a righteous set-up) you’ve ever heard in battle rap, you just knew that Just Juice was in for a long night. And that it was as B. Magic’s consistent flossing and sturdy punchlines make mince meat of Juice’s mostly pedestrian bars to the point that with the battle already decided after two rounds, Juice’s 3rd being cut short (hence the asterisk) because he brought up a couple of Magic’s (who was already as emotional as one has ever seen on stage throughout the battle, perhaps due to battling a local St. Louis rival) dead homies, didn’t really matter.
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-0*
Favorite line: B. Magic – “I’ll point at you with the long cap like Uncle Sam!”
Recap: Despite Milton Bloe’s constant interruptions and need for screen time, this battle along with a B-Magic strictly on his A-game is still worth a see. And after getting edged in the 1st round, thanks in part to yet another nice (“You said, I’m the Chef, I should be used to long caps, well you Magic so when I pull something outta one, it shouldn’t be a surprise!”) rebuttal from the hard-punching (“Rib shot, bullets go through your side like the front door was locked!”) Chef Trez, Magic’s spitfire (“Round [around] 2, I’m eating like late lunches!”; “This fucker gonna die quick, see the ratchet, busting out the window, it ain’t a side bitch!”) punchlines dominate round 2, before he takes the last round with more consistent (“I made a song about the ratchet, called ‘I Hit It First!'”) heat and a higher overall bar quotient.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B-Magic – “Blow ya chest across the room like ya crib haunted!”
Recap: As long as Ty Law’s been out of the ring, you had to know he was sitting on a shitload of bars. Still, up against a resilient punchline fiend like B-Magic, the main question here was if Law’s long break would give way to rust. Apparently not as from the jump Law’s pronounced, slow-punching and for the most part (one too many lines on Magic’s past brouhaha with the S.O.N.S’ Fox), consistently biting lines definitely made their presence felt throughout the battle. B Magic, on the other hand, quicker and adept with the punches, while also fierce with the name flips, wordplay and unorthodox polemics, would take advantage of Law’s worst turn of the night (a hitting at times, but somewhat pedestrian 3rd that came right after he tied things up by edging round 2) with a condensed, but ably proficient and punch-heavier round that worked effectively enough to edge him the battle.
Verdict: B Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B Magic – “You better break when it clap like a football huddle!”
Recap: Young B The Future takes advantage (literally and figuratively) of the big stage at Snoop Dogg’s Gladiator School with hardbody gun lines, fierce punches and hyper-aggressive performance bars that had the crowd amped. Too bad the same couldn’t be said about his opponent B. Magic, who after delivering a pretty solid 1st round with his penchant for fiery punchlines, switched to a more pedestrian mode in the final two rounds, not offering much resistance to Young B’s steady comeuppance.
Verdict: Young B The Future (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Young B The Future – “I expected hate, but after that then the Tek squeeze, shit’ll go through your window like a fresh breeze!”
Recap: One of, if not the most anticipated battle of 2014, B-Magic versus Conceited turns out to be a goodie, especially with a frenzied crowd that was tuned into every punchline, scheme and so-so bar. 1st round, easily the best of the bout, would set the tone early on with a confident Magic dropping consistently spicy punch after punch with rich abandon and timely slices of wit. While the veteran Con would standup to his opponent with an equal fervor via hitting (“Twin guns, I’ll fill drums and you’ll lift them both, I’m the type to raise up two black 4’s to nigga’s like Different Strokes!”) punches/gun bars, jaunty personals and piercing wordplay. After a close opening round (edged here to the performance-heavier Con), however, things would begin to separate a bit as frankly speaking, Magic just kept his knee on Con’s neck, never letting up while dishing another barrage of nifty wordplay, gritty (“If you buggin’ you’ll get sprayed, I exterminated groups, metal talkin’, Con’ll run like Terminator 2!”) name flips and consistently spitfire darts to beat back a pretty solid and witty, but a bit topsy-turvy 2nd by Con and doing more of the same in the deciding 3rd to earn the win.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B-Magic – “Who wildin’ out? Magic palmin’ the biscuit, every motherfucker rollin’ behind Con is gon’ feel it, got a pine box in the cemetery, Con should go visit, this bitch is fucked behind these bars: conjugal visit
Recap: Short, quick and to the point as Bigg K and B-Magic rep their bars with the quickness of two dudes who came through and left like they were late for a doctor’s appointment or something. Anyway, Bigg K gets this one with a more consistent flow, better overall quality (and quantity) of punches and more variety with his (“You was getting by Fox more than Barack Obama”) bars versus Magic who while spitting fire at times, what with 3 straight condensed rounds just came off like his heart wasn’t that into it.
Verdict: Bigg K (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B-Magic – “I warned dude first, tho we already knew that, i kicked this nigga ass till they asked where my shoe at”
Recap: Equally solid effort here from both Charron and B. Magic comes down to a more condensed Magic edging rounds 1 and 3. And while the always witty Charron was a little more versatile overall with his bars, while also spouting a handful of nice rebuttals during the match, the Canadian rapper was hurt by a couple of elongated rounds as well as his punch-heavy opponent coming through with less filler.
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B. Magic – “Metal squeeze on this bitch chest like a mammogram, one rise we all get into it like a family van!”
Synopsis: Damn, a battle that could’ve been so much better considering the names. And just when you thought B-Magic was on his way to an easy 3-0, he chokes in round 2 and had a couple slip-ups in round 2 to allow Big T (who stayed consistent throughout despite not being at his best) to steal a win.
Verdict: Big T (W) 2-1
Favorite: – B. Magic – “Besides your homies I ain’t see you with a bitch yet”
Recap: Gorilla Warfare battle between JC and B-Magic stayed competitive with the two splitting the first couple of rounds. But Magic, who’d already served up more than enough JC ‘pop-locking’ references/bars in the match, would not only continue with more of the same silly personals in the deciding 3rd, but also deliver a shortened and mediocre turn that when faced against a stellar and punch-heavy round by JC, handily cost him the bout.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “You gonna die from two Yak nigga’s clearly, it ain’t for the fans to decide, ‘cuz you got killed by Will [wheel] like Brandy was driving!”
Synopsis: If you’re looking for a total barfest, then you’ve got one here as B. Magic faces a budding version version of himself in a game and able Rum Nitty. I got Magic edging the first two rounds only for outnumbering Nitty on the haymakers (“And yett yett, I show out (ShowwOutt) with the nina’s nigga, and let, let my Hitman do the remix nigga”), while Nitty took the 3rd easy when you take in account his stream of elite bars (“Dome shot, close your casket, it’s over Magic, get close and pull this nickle behind your ear, don’t make me show you Magic”) combined with Magic’s slip-up. Not only does it not get much better than this, but can we please see Nitty in the URL?
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1
Best line: B. Magic – “Ain’t no bitches around here, you get the picture?, when you get wet with the calico (Calicoe) it ain’t skinny-dipping”
Recap: Ill Will versus B. Magic is a close one throughout with the always punchline-heavy Magic dishing too much heat in taking the 1st round, before Will overcomes a bit of a slow start and returns the favor with a barrage of heated punches and potent schemes to outshine a less potent Magic, take the 2nd and split things going into the 3rd. With Magic still punching efficiently in the deciding round, but failing to meet the high barometer he set in the 1st, a more versatile with the bars, name flip savvy and witty Will does more than enough to take the round and the win.
Verdict: Ill Will (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ill Will – “You nobody till somebody kill you, that’s what Biggie taught, think you could outrun these shells? that’s what Ricky thought!”
Synopsis: Funny how they still biting Math (“Bars!”), but anyway after an average round one, B-Magic just get ham in round 2 (“Bullets come out St. John like Ron Artest”) and 3 with personals, (“Where Charlie at? Boy I’m slaying your little sister”), punchlines, aggression, performance and bars galore. DNA provided plenty of comp with some nice freestyles and schemes, but wasn’t nearly consistent enough to stand a chance.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 2-1
Best line: B-Magic – “Reload the clip so many times you think it’s Bufferin”
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”
Recap: Toss out Tay Roc getting the face wrong (it’s Grant, not Jefferson) on the 50-dollar bill because he would’ve lost that round anyway here B-Magic, who after a pretty light first round, upped the ante and used some nice personals, punchlines and hard (“Trip dog and I’ll stage a shooting like Rick Ross”) bars to split this match after two. With Tay easily taking the first (“Man for real, who the fuck is B stopping?, you got 3-0’ed like two battles ago but now B popping?, let me catch B plotting, I’m griping the waist, I’ll pistol whip [smush] push in his face like B. Hopkins”), this one came down to the 3rd which saw Magic snapping away with frequent punchlines and name (“For trying to Jack Black, I’ll teach you how to school a Roc”) flips, yet Roc did him one better with a steady diet of effective punches, wordplay (“I don’t play, this mac ain’t Beanie Sigel, once I rock him y’all won’t see him again, I’ll Memphis Bleek you”) and elite gun bars to take it at the finish line.
Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tay Roc – “If he see me on his block when he roll around, the chopper Conceited size, I wish he would slow it down”
Recap: In this 3-rounder from Smack/URL, a rare choke by Chilla Jones in the final round ends up being moot as frankly speaking B. Magic was just about unbeatable here. Indeed, especially during the 1st half of his 2nd round and versus a scheme-heavy and personal-mocking Jones who up until he had to quit due to memory loss in the 3rd, was pretty solid throughout, Magic just left earth with a boatload of spitfire punchlines (the Mysonne line will live on forever), witty personals/anecdotes and sizzling name flips that all worked together to enforce a shutout.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 3-0
Favorite line: B-Magic – “It’s B. Magic muthafucka, acknowledge me, big straps that’ll take that back like apologies!”
Recap: Full of conviction with his raps, while unloading a versatile mix of spicy punches, witty barbs and fiery schemes, Lynx Montana’s effort here could never be question. But damn if the Puerto-Rican rapper didn’t run into a B-Magic that was on his A-game throughout this 3-rounder from Scheme Street. The St. Louis battler consistently in his bag with a gang of piercing punchlines, some sizzling wordplay, steely mayhem and for the 3rd round only, jaunty name flips to earn a 30.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 3-0
Favorite line: B-Magic – “Boy, you think you’re on ya grizzly with these gay schemes, you’ll get more hawks when I go rampage on A-team, still lying in front of ya temple like Beijing!”
Recap: Really, how many more Owen Hart bars on one take? Anyway, Cali rapper Heartless makes a visit to St. Louis to battle B. Magic on the Street Status stage and gets a win (score the 1st round debatable and the latter two for Chi McBride’s son) via a relentless/spicy punch-game, a 2nd round choke from B. Magic and some piercing wordplay to go along with witty lines that even had the away crowd in a hoot.
Verdict: Heartless (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Heartless – “So if I hear one bar about how you push cane or you cook flame, I’ll run up and slap his ass…good game!”
Recap: Featuring the classic, call-n-response, crowd-controlling line: “But I know the slogan Smack so to me that raises up the question, what time is it? Real what? [‘Real nigga time!’], thanks for making me the exception!” from Real Deal, in what was one of the best 1st rounds you’ll see from two rappers in battle rap history, Real Deal versus B. Magic on the URL stage was also highly impactful when you consider the style clash of a ‘Grind Time’ rapper making his debut and stepping out of the ‘knapsack rap’ zone of GT for the more street-friendly/gritty confines of URL. That said, with a gang of rigid race angles/punches, spicy [B. Magic: “You looking like I’m not the shit, nigga, change your face!”] idioms, spitfire punchlines/metaphors, witty barbs and stinging personals left and right, this close and competitive battle stands out even more due to each battler bringing their A-game. That said, with Real Deal’s more versatile artillery (which also featured some off-the-dome heat) and crowd-friendly antics upping his performance game, it’s the slightly more condensed Pittsburgh battler who does just enough to edge rounds 1 and 3 for the win.
Verdict: Real Deal (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Real Deal – “Ok, so what happens when the Black dude goes up against the White dude & the White wins?, Aiiiight then! better go home and tell ’em I’m light-skinned!”
Recap: In this three-round battle from Smack/URL, Rosenberg Raw starts things off with a bullish, banging and more condensed 1st round to edge things there before falling off (to the point of even getting tight with the crowd) with each proceeding round and leaving a consistently punch-heavy throughout, witty and mayhem/name flip-lit B. Magic to take both of the latter rounds for the win.
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B. Magic – “See, Rosenberg want that drama till you pull shit, I will leave Rose on his back for that bullshit!”
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Synopsis: Not a huge upset, but an upset nonetheless with an underwheling B. Magic seemingly not taking Young Kannon seriously and it showed throughtout this battle what with YK bringing his typical aggression, but matching it with a bunch of fiery gun bars, personals and even schemes. Overall, one of YK’s better showings.
Verdict:Â Young Kannon (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Young Kannon – “My ‘matic buries adversaries, 16 shots will knock the dust off of Ashy Larry!”
Recap: An on-point B. Magic can out-punch you to death. But besides a consistently spicy and crowd-pleasing turn, what stands out here in this 1-rounder versus an aggressive, gritty and pretty solid Pooh Bear, is how midway Magic flips his flow pattern to highlight the last word of the punch, a style on cadence that I’ve seen used at times by quite a few of 2020’s more established vets and even newcomers. Style linguistics aside, a close one between the two gets edged by the slightly more steady, wordplay-lit and direct Magic.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 1-0
Favorite line: B-Magic – “Pooh, I hope over 99 k’s wet you and give your ass the wings…today’s special!”
Synopsis: B. Magic all day and that even includes one of the best saves you’ll see from a near choke. Then too, as much passion as M. Ciddy puts into his bars, more often then not they just don’t match (“everything you say is a joke, you Dave Spade” and basically his entire 2nd round) the aggression. In addition, there’s nonsensical drama like claiming B. Magic stole his style(?!?) and trying to dap him in the middle of your round right after that infamous Hollow/Hitman battle (even if he really was gonna smack his hand, who’d fall for that?). Meanwhile, Magic just stayed consistent throughout and stuck to script, landing continual punchline haymakers (“B. Magic hit ya’ back up, Plan B.”) and a steady stream of dope name flips to easily take the win.
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1
Best line: B. Magic – “If I don’t fire the clip I was gone off the Henny, took time to battle my son, I put on for my Ciddy (city)”
Synopsis: One of those early Proving Ground battles that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. As John John makes his first appearance on the URL stage and almost goes toe-to-toe with a typically nice B-Magic. I gave Magic the slight edge because I just thought that his punchlines and personals hit a bit more than JJDD’s, while as his round went on Magic just seemed to get nicer with each bar.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 1-0
Best line: B Magic – “Bitch I get long dome like Stewie head, bangin’ cans behind your car like a newlywed, think you sick well B-Magic is the Sudafed, this right hook will give you them Zab Judah noodle legs”
Recap: Exquisite wordplay, name flips, street talk, (“Bitch I’m somethin’ you never seen like bird piss”) punchlines, flat-out bars, it’s all there as B Magic spazzes on a tough, but just not ready for prime time V.I. The Great.
Verdict: B Magic (W) 1-0
Favorite line: B Magic – “The mad desi get to flying at ya k, have it on the tip of ya tongue like something you trying to say”
Recap: Early and classic Proving Grounds battle from URL/Smack goes to B-Magic, whose fierce punchline game, understated wit and flexing (“My next body like my room, I gotta make it clean [Qleen]!”) wordplay beats back a solid performing, (“Hustle down to the D, ’cause I can arrange that, there everybody know QP, I’m still that same cat, not that SONS nigga, I ain’t a fucking child, he from southern Cal where it never rain at!”) slick-talking and amusing Qleen Paper in the 1st and 3rd rounds to earn the win.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B-Magic – “Magic let the 80 pill, I got an Army that’ll get your whole Navy sealed, you ever seen baby blues?, get your baby killed, pull a can, make Dirty Dance, Patrick Swayze skills!”
Recap: B-Magic uses rapid (“blind porn star, you don’t know who you fucking with”) punchlines, witty wordplay, jokes (“I will beat the F word outta this piece of S word”) and a couple of haymakers to take out Scripts, who while definitely representing (that “beat him the fuck up that’s what I do to a rookie, fist fuck your pregnant girl and give your kid a noogie” line was extra mean and the Middle East scheme was short and sweet), just didn’t have enough artillery to win a round here.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 3-0
Favorite line: B-Magic – “Beat your face till I need Scripts for the wrist pain”
Recap: Entertaining battle to say the least with SK delivering steady (“Probably got shirts and shit with other niggas bitches and names on ’em and they ain’t dead or famous, just got other niggas bitches and names on ’em”) jokes, while B Magic brought rapid punchlines and winning name flips. SK did well, but overall Magic’s more consistent flow and execution gets him the win.
Verdict: B Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B Magic – “Took your bitch overseas, but wait it gets scarier, we fucked her on the plane, she was cummin’ [Coming] to America”
Recap: Dope 1-rounder from Street Status between RemyD and B-Magic features plenty of boastful barbs, piercing punchlines, solid wordplay and witty shiners. And while both battlers delivered standout turns, a more set-up rich and haymaker-lit Magic gets the edge here.
Verdict: B-Magic (W) 1-0
Favorite line: B-Magic – “Like a Dodger better charge when you see me, your bitch said your Lil’ Jon couldn’t skeet-skeet!”
Recap: Getting better and better as his round proceeds B Magic whips out a whole lot of personals, rigid punchlines and haymakers to put a hurting on and catch a body against a clearly overmatched Profit.
Verdict: B Magic (W) 1-0
Favorite line: B Magic – “Beat your ass till my palm hurt, I shit on niggas like I didn’t know the john worked”
