Recap: Energy-wise, Brizz Rawsteen is almost impossible to keep up with, so leave it up to a wily vet like Yung Ill to attempt to beat him bar for bar. And for while the St. Louis puncher’s strategy works, as after getting bedazzled by his opponent’s boisterous (“Smack, who is this nigger when I got more battles then…who is this nigger?!”) anecdotes, potent name flips and performance-heavy heat in the first round, a more lyrically adept, cocnsistent and (“You look like a baby male ostrich!”) witty Ill edges the 2nd round to even things up going into the 3rd. Yet despite Brizz calming down a bit and failing to match the steady ferocity of his stellar 1st round, he was still able to deliver solid turns in both the 2nd and 3rd, using the latter round to spout rich, braggadocios lines, hitting personals as well as a gang pf flinging mayhem to beat back a lyrically-bent, but mostly pedestrian turn from Ill and take the round along with the win.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “You didn’t know you could die or maybe you wanna get euthanized, well cool it’s fine, I’ll take a blade two inches wide, split you in half…Holla and Verb choosing sides!”
Recap: An animated, aggressive and boisterous style that’s just as suited for preaching at a Baptist church as it is battle rapping, Brizz Rawsteen puts it all in emotively to deliver stifling one-liners, witty barbs, obnoxious anti-religious heat as well as potent personals to beat back a minus-a-couple-of-slip-ups, pretty solid with the punches (tho not as nice with the personals) Loso in this exciting 1-rounder from Bullpen Battle League.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “The Bible’s a classic, but it’s no Illmatic!”
Recap: Mr. Wavy’s been requesting a battle with Brizz Rawsteen for a little while now and he finally gets it as part of a Smack Volume 3 card. Two battlers mostly known for their performance, it’s Wavy who edges round 1 with more consistently potent bars that were topped by a flexing execution of dope (“15 on his head, let the ratchet screen, eye squinted like the Japanese, fuck it, I could do two-for-20, Wecole to Applebee’s!”) punchlines and some nice wordplay. An elongated Wavy would come back in the 2nd with a solid, but less stellar turn that just had too many dry spots, in turn allowing a (“It’s Raw in front of you, this dope, not sushi Wave, naw it’s the moving blade on the side of ya head, giving you that Boosie fade!”) name-flipping, more eccentric with the performance bars, steely with the personals and bar (“Beasley called, said you got 30 days prep, I said cool, tell that nigger he got 30 days left!”) heavy Brizz to tie things up going into the 3rd. The 3rd would’ve been a close one with Wavy mixing in some fire punches with steady aggression, moxie, storytelling bars, nice set-ups and witty (“Yunno, the type of nigger, ou try to show them something in your phone and he just start going through ya shit?…Brizz look like he would do that shit!”) personals…until he surprisingly choked near the end of his turn, giving a pretty solid, braggadocios and still super nice with the personals/name flips Brizz the edge and get the win.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “The difference between two high points is wavelength, bitch I’ll put you between two high points…Wave length!”
Recap: More anecdotal, graphic and spitfire with the heat in addition to flexing more consistently with the (“A shell will spit, I’ll black and push a nigger from the Darkside melon in [melanin]!”) mayhem in the latter two rounds, Rum Nitty ekes out a win over a Brizz Rawsteen, who started out (“I’ll throw a round sideways at a Crip, somebody tell him it’s a frizz bee coming…[Bwoh!] I squeeze until its empty dumping, the guys fall out, trust me, you don’t wanna see Rum on no empty stomach!”) hitting on all cylinders in a turned-up 1st round, before his opponent’s comeuppance and a few too many pedestrian personals/dry spots ended up doing him in.
Verdict: Rum Nitty (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “I’ll make it rain, and he ain’t the same after it ring like a maiden name, that’s how I made a name!”
Recap: It must be nice to be Rad B. The face of the UDubb league. Good friends with Arsonal. Get to face top tiers battle rappers at will. And when one of those said top tiers pretty much shows up for a paycheck (as a mostly pedestrian Brizz Rawsteen does in this 1-rounder here), you can rap twice as long, hit with a boatload of hard and aggressive punchlines, win the battle and have something to tell your kids about. Indeed, if you’re a battle rapper it doesn’t get much better than that.
Verdict: Rad B (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Rad B – “Ironic, killing him is something I have to live with, but fuck it, the best memories come from bad decisions!”
Recap: Except for a fire 1st round that featured a wide load of haymakers from both battlers, Brizz Rawsteen versus Charlie Clips was definitely not a ‘crazy one’. And the Houston, Texas crowd–which to their credit was heavily tuned in for just about every bar–let them know it, booing both Clips and Rawsteen during a very pedestrian 2nd round and also reacting loudly when they weren’t quite feeling substandard bars during each battler’s 3rd. Still, nonetheless after a close 1st where a more condensed and overall potent Clips edged, this one was all Charlie as the Harlem veteran displayed experience in the face of a sometimes adverse crowd with a nice freestyle game, dished some well-crafted schemes and utilized his charming wit and lofty punchlines to easily beat back an audacious, but filler-prone, elongated, mediocre with the personals and pretty modest with the heat Rawsteen in the latter rounds.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “I got a new AK and it’s about to strike, and it clap more than a little black girl that’s about to fight!”
Recap: Here in this Smack Volume One battle, it’s a punch-heavy battery along with a lyrical assault for a consistently fire O-Red, who once again proves his mettle against an overall (“You washed up, bitch I’m black on bars like African soap!”) solid and performance bar steady, but too often average Brizz Rawsteen. Indeed, a clearly-did-his-research-on-his-opponent O-Red, finessing with hard (“You let more bull come out your mouth than a Philly nigger!”) punches, steady wordplay, rich metaphors and hitting personals throughout all 3 rounds, conducts enough of a bar session to edge all 3 rounds, while at the same time giving Brizz a friendly reminder on why even without the dreads, he’s still one of Jersey’s finest.
Verdict: O-Red (W) 3-0
Favorite line: O-Red – “Brizz know better, this old heckler a hoe stretcher, leave a nigga from Raleigh [rally] in the street like a protestor!”
Recap: In one of the more disappointing Summer Madness matchup’s of all-time, Brizz Rawsteen versus Calicoe is a case of one fire round (Calicoe’s 1st), Brizz once again going way too long in rounds that were low-lighted by a boatload of filler, pedestrian name flips and personals that mostly fell flat and yet, still having a chance to win this bout at the end of his 3rd thanks in part to Brizz’s comeuppance on (“I can tell you ain’t getting money by the shit that your bitch wear!”; “Tell your dudes scrap or move back, or they gonan get the tek’s [texts] at the same time like Group chat!”) haymakers as well as Cal’s inability to match his conventional aggression with quality bars. That is, until a late (“My price is my price, I don’t bargain with nigga’s, from now on, we can’t eat unless you starve with a nigga!”) surge towards the end of his 3rd earns Cal a debatable…thanks in part to a solid, but once again elongated turn by Brizz. Still, with neither battler consistently bringing their A-game throughout, call this one a draw and move on.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Calicoe – “I’m the type of nigga that’ll front you, give you all the work and you the type that’ll run off and get your sister put on a shirt!”
Recap: Brizz Rawsteen takes a break from the big stage to literally school up-n-comer Gritzzz on the experience and form required to become a professional battle rapper. And after conducting a stifling lesson on delivery, performance, haymakers, stage presence and jaunty name flips, Brizz approves the yung’uns mostly meager effort, before departing the stage with yet another easy vic.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “We get off the chain with bro, all you seen was nigga’s killing everything in the house…it’s a slave revolt!”
Recap: A certified classic, that’s Brizz Rawsteen versus Ill Will. And that’s saying a lot in an age where popular battles are too often labeled ‘classic’ and fail to live up to the standard because popularity doesn’t always equate to a bout that will live on in infamy. Then too, classics aren’t just about two top tier battlers being on their A-game. Granted, Will’s ability here to spit a versatile array of spitfire bars via gritty (“.45 under the bed, I’m cheating on wifey wit’ a cougar bitch!”) punchlines, flexing (“Raw? Raw nothin’, if the Ross dumpin’, Raw runnin’, arm across his chest like, ‘Hold on bro, a car comin’!”) personals, dope storytelling bars, nasty gun lines and witty barbs/schemes (not to mention a killer Loaded Lux impression in the 2nd round that featured this banger: ‘Let me be honest, if you text out every hoe that I’ve stretched out, it’ll be nuthin new, just a double shot of smooth for ya boo and ya crew and I never have a bad drought, y’all niggas came here on planes…cool, y’all gotta go the hotel route, they didn’t even book my niggas rooms, I told ’em Brizz mama givin’ head out!”) for 3 consecutive rounds stands out, but having a heavy load of punches is what makes the Pontiac, Michigan rapper one of the best to do it. But it’s what Brizz does here that makes this one such a memorable battle, the Dark Side spitter surprisingly matching his energy, dripping mayhem and (“Aye Jaz, you want a Gucci purse? well you gotta give me some coochi first, it’s April 8th, how you feel about June the 1st?, I’m just puttin’ that in the universe!”) over-the-top wit with one of, if not his most consistent display of potent (“Live, In Living Color and sit ya face on the table like the Head detective, [BAOW!] I blow the brains everywhere, I mean, I’m not sure if you heard but that’s how I spread the message!”) punchlines along with a gang of fiery personals with little filler. And tho Brizz ends up losing the battle (I got Rawsteen edging the 1st with Will edging the 2nd and 3rd), with such a superb effort to go along with so many quotables/haymakes and an exceptional opponent who seemed to understand what an epic moment in time they’d both created, does it really matter who won?
Verdict: Ill Will (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “‘Cuz I’m a get Get Rich Or Die Trying and this .50 don’t Back Down, these serve all day, catch a MAC round, I’ll have his body hanging halfway out the bag like a hash brown!”
Recap: Brizz Rawsteen versus Arsonal lives up to its top tier billing with both rappers putting forth a wide load of entertaining personals, fiery schemes, witty punchlines, solid wordplay, sizzling (Arsonal: “Take him paint-balling and load up my gun with live ammo!”) gun bars and some raucous haymakers. Not as disrespectful as you’re used to seeing him, Arsonal still made a competitive show of it with a wide array of heaters that even included plenty of jokes and freestyles, while keeping himself in the battle throughout. But after a debatable 1st round, a more consistent, aggressive and performance-heavy Brizz just proved to be too much for the Jersey vet, dishing rapidly fire shiners and his own mix of disrespectful (“I’ll fuck your mother in the ass and make her suck it off!”) bars with ease and steady confidence to the point of garnering a ‘3-0!’ chant the crowd, while decisively taking both of the latter rounds for the win.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “Smack, we gotta make a movie, first, I need to see how that Uzi…work [Vert], and paint them dreds another color..Little Uzi!”
Recap: In a matchup that sort of came out of nowhere, as to be expected Brizz Rawsteen brings his rapid assortment of 6 million (“I’m back nerds, and it’s way worse and I’mma kill all you niggas and it ain’t a hate term, first I gotta write for him on the low like a Drake verse!”) ways to die, while veteran rapper Pass dishes his familiar palette of steady (“Nigga, I fucking hate when you rap, your voice is nails on a chalkboard, you sound like Craig daddy when he was talking on the toilet!”) jokes, nice wordplay and dope (“Ain’t no one checking for Brizz Raw, I can’t even continually say that Brizz raw, but a strong left will split the kid jaw, his muzzle will be a puzzle piece, this jigsaw!”) punchlines. And while a difference of styles bout is almost always intriguing, it’s an elongated Rawsteen’s showmanship, righteous name flips and splashier (“Please shorty, bring ya bitch, I’ll grow in 6 in ya bae [Bay] area with E-40!”; “You King of the Dot prostitute, but today Pass over, y’all better bring lot’s of juice!”) variety of bars that especially stands out during all three of his rounds, while Pass’ attempts of going outside the box with personals that mostly fell flat with too many going at T-Top and URL, instead of his opponent. For a consistent and performance-heavy Rawsteen attempting to make an impression on a loud West-coast crowd, there shouldn’t be any doubt that he’ll get an invitation back real soon.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “When he catch a head shot, I bet his neck roll, I told Smack for a pot of greens I’ll bring ya the nigga neck bone!”
Recap: Biz Barker manages to catch Brizz Rawsteen in the office having a relatively slow day, thereby using hyper-aggressive gun bars and nimble jabs that left their mark to pull off a win in this raucous one-rounder from IGrind Entertainment.
Verdict: Biz Barker (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Biz Barker – “I’ll aim where his heart is, if he move this tool will clap, headshot so smooth, shit won’t even remove his hat!”
Recap: Shotgun Suge takes advantage of time limits (hey, if that’s what they agreed to beforehand then it is what it is) an elongated, but (“I got a new .40, the clip hanging out the butt like a tampon string!”; “Even though I still got the steel cocked, sometimes I just let it run across your mind like Jill Scott!”) sizzling a times (yet too one-dimensional) Brizz Rawsteen, makes more efficient use of his time with some wild (“He get this biscuit for free, it’s complimentary, I’ll follow him around, I’m shooting a documentary!”) haymakers throughout his three rounds that coupled with more consistently fiery bars and a versatile approach, gets Jersey the win.
Verdict: Shotgun Suge (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Shotgun Suge – “Where I’m from this shit Afghani, Iraq, this shit Baghdad…bye Brizz [points finger like gun under Brizz’s chin] you a shot away from being a hashtag!”
Recap: After a careless slip-up in the first cost’s him a close round here against up-n-comer Cue Morgan, Brizz Rawsteen does what he does best getting back in his back with performance-heavy, spin-tingling, fire 2nd to pull even. However, after his oppenent’s mostly waste’s his round with a personal and well-themed, but utterly inconsistent deciding 3rd, a solid and just long enough turn by Brizz is able to shake off an upset by stopping his round short instead of falling victim to a choke.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “Your wife, dog, she put on a show when the lights off, she grab my meat then tap it twice like ‘Is this mic on?”!”
Recap: An alarm ringing towards the end of the battle, an ill-prepared DNA resorting to freestyles in round 2 (but still making the round relatively close) and some ‘pause’-worthy bars from Brizz Rawsteen made for a buzz-worthy, but action packed matchup on URL. First round was pretty potent on both sides with Brizz overcoming a somewhat slow start with an elongated turn that gradually led to some (“I see now you trying to Shine with K, well Clips must’ve told you he needed time and space!”) haymakers towards the end. But DNA, dishing a newer, rapid-fire flow with fervid ease, edged the round with more spitfire (“The nina clean, the Wesson dirty, but still got both hands close to the 12…11:30!”; “Then step on a party scene, a new Dot, I brought a bean, that shit will be hitting Raw everywhere…I’m Charlie Sheen!”) punches in a shorter timeframe than his opponent. Brizz, keeping the steady aggression up in round two, but also displaying more variety to his bars with witty (“Ya fake ass rapping ’bout ya clapping biscuits!”) jokes and personals amply mixed in, looked to easily take the middle round with what was his best go around. Still DNA, who apparently was going through some personal issues at the time of this battle, failed to build off the momentum he gained from his lofty 1st round, literally free-styling the entire round with lines that were hit-n-miss and even resorting to playing word association with the crowd just to get through the round. And albeit, come might say he was entertaining and (“You lost to ya man on 106, but that’s cool with me!“) capable enough to make the round debatable, the feeling here is a more prepared Brizz evening things up. Last round saw Brizz still popping, if not with more loud (“What, you think you getting girls now because of your looks?!?, Negro Please!, that mustache look like you in the Negro League!”) personals that landed hard, but with frenzied bars that kept his consistency top-shelf. And while DNA came back to his written’s in the last round, his punches, while fiery at times, weren’t nearly as strong as those in his 1st, allowing for Brizz to earn the win.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “I’ll leave a tool sitting where ya tooth missing…that’s how I bridge the gap!”
Recap: Yet another 1-round matchup that deserved 3 instead, sees E-City put on a quality, competitive show with repeated (“You staying under Top [T-Top], like Snapple Facts!”) punches that mostly hit their mark against a performance, rich Brizz Rawsteen who when he wasn’t dishing sanguine mayhem, stayed on point with feelgood (“White boy from Boston, this ain’t for real, he got that Ben Affleck, Matt Damon feel!”) personals, soul-lifting name flips and stifling wordplay/set-ups.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “Fuck all ya scheming rap, all that scheming crap, long nose, 3-5-7, I could scheme with that!”
Recap: It’s just too much Roc in this one, as despite Brizz Rawsteen bringing his entire arsenal of deft performance bars, (“Two hands on a .9, that’s real nigga time!”) loud/aggressive and hitting punchlines, pronounced delivery and witty polemics/personals to the match, Tay Roc’s steady ability to floss with rich gun lines, spitfire punchlines, kindred vet (“Nigga’s always talking about what they woulda did, till they the one’s that it happen to you!”) speak, fiery wordplay, ‘random’ (“I said, Summer Madness coming, Calicoe, stop running, Conceited, how you 4-foot 5 and still ducking?, John John still talking shit, he gonna make me steal something…”) shiners and braggadocio haymakers (all of which particularity shined and got him rounds 1 & 2, before a debatable 3rd) prove to be too much for the Dark Side up-n-comer, who while getting better as the battle proceeded, not only had too many dry spots, for the most part just couldn’t match his opponent’s consistency and versatility.
Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tay Roc – “Hey, to all them nigga’s claiming Gun Bar King, them nigga’s not me, I used to carry 1, now I pair it [parrot], they trying to mock me!”
Recap: The Rookies vs. Vets card has certainly lived up to the hype what with 3 dope battles released so far including this one between Brizz Rawsteen and Aye Verb–a really good look considering that Verb can be so hit or miss. As expected Rawsteen delivered three rounds of consistent heat. Whether it was neck-snapping (“I thought he had the iron low like it’s anemic, nigga I feed the iron shells, it throw ’em back up, that bitch bulimic!”) personals or cinematic (“In this movie he get hooked from the [raises right fist and points at Verb] right hand, cuz I know what you did last summer”) wordplay, Brizz didn’t leave any doubt that he came to win. Yet, through the first couple of rounds Verb matched him, mocking Brizz’s uber-aggressive style, unloading sparkling reminders (“You gotta be special, you can’t be mediocre and come see the Yoda!”) on his vet status and styling on Brizz’s team with witty (“Look at your fucking squad, these heathens and thots, 2-4-6-8, the 3-5-7 even them odds!”) punchlines. The 3rd round is where Brizz stands out the most, staying hot with a deluge of dope performance bars, brash anecdotes and a consistent delivery. While Verb, despite a couple of (“You into martial arts? Me too, but it’s not the same, two arms up, mean kick, nigga this is not the crane!”) shiners and surprisingly saving his signature “Showtime” for the last round, takes too long with his angles and suffers from a little too much filler in a shortened round. A great effort by both parties, but in the end Brizz’s lack of originality with his personals versus Verb’s better display of variety in the first couple of rounds gets the vet from St. Louis the win.
Verdict: Aye Verb (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “Do you think you compare better? Or do you just think your hair’s better? I mean, see this is the difference between niggas with barbers and niggas with hairdressers”
Recap: T Top wraps up this UFF Finals matchup against Brizz Rawsteen pretty early, using the first couple of rounds to spit some exquisite trap (“Selling blow up, I had to use too much bake, on a safety pin cuz razors leave too much shape”) talk along with elite storytelling bars that even left co-host Bow Wow a little shook. Rawsteen came with some dope (“I’ll cut your bitch head off, put the blade up in her, and leave the tip on the table like she paid for dinner”) bars here and there, but underperformed somewhat with a slower style that you’re not used to seeing from Brizz. A terrific battle nonetheless with T Top clearly coming out on top.
Verdict: T Top (W) 2-1
Favorite line: T Top – “See while you was doing yard labor, I was with the jar shakers, cooking back just to get it back, that’s hard labor”
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: Hard to believe that with $10,000 on the line any battle rapper would go so light as D.O.T. did in his 3rd here against the forever-on-Beastmode Brizz Rawsteen. Could’ve cost him as indeed this was a pretty close battle through two rounds, but Brizz ran away with this UFF matchup in the 3rd with better wordplay, (“You crazy bro?, You smoke crack, dont’cha? well try this Lean On Me, [but] I ain’t Crazy Joe”) personals and crazy performance bars.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “You still think eating pussy gonna give you facial hair”
Recap: Pretty dope battle between GE and Brizz Rawsteen, but yet another reason to hate one-rounders as these two competitive juices more than flowed, thus enhancing the chances it would’ve stayed entertaining throughout. That said, the edge here goes to GE. Brizz defeinitely had his (“In Milwaukee you’ll catch crazy shot in your projects from a Coo Coo Cal!”) moments and came with his usual aggression, but some bars fell a little flat and there were a couple of minor slip-ups. While GE’s wordplay/punchlines was at times sick, he also executed (“Now who gonna stop me?, no you, you ain’y all that seasoned, Set It Off tho and you’ll die like Stoney brother for doing all that reaching!”) nicely, spit some potent performance (“These pair will echo, cannon on the right, cannon on the right, like Rafael De La Ghetto!”) bars and stayed way more consistent in his round to get the dub.
Verdict: GE (W) 1-0
Favorite line: GE – “Two arms up, 12 o clock, you know the time, your nigga watch, point one at him, now it’s 12:05”
Recap: Brizz Rawsteen versus Young X comes down to who the better 2nd round. As thanks in part to a lackluster second half of what was a quality (“You the type to get mad at’cha bitch, try to punch her out, but you ain’t punch that nigga who took ya tray when CO’s was passing lunches out!”) first round by X, but mostly due to Rawsteen’s righteous (“I mean they tried everything, telling me this bitch was a thug, then they tried switching it up, said he was flipping them drugs, [but] that ain’t convincing enough, we only seen X with O’s when it’s kisses and hugs!”) name flips, rich performance bars and a couple of (“Dirty nigga’s, how they compare smiel quality to God kind of speed, I’m a prodigy, my mom’s kind of deep, to kill the daughter in front of the boss…Godfather 3!”) haymakers, it’s Brizz who clearly takes round one. While X, thanks in part to a short round by Brizz that included a huge slip-up, but mostly due to the fiery versatility he displayed–that included some dope (“And I got a knife called ‘eyewitness’, because it SAW a nigga’s face!”) wordplay/double entendre’s, crazy punchlines, a hilarious roasting session and raucous (“…all y’all know he hang with a bunch if stupid nigga;s, they think he going to heaven because they buried him in True Religion!”) comedic timing–it’s X who clearly took the 3rd. All said, a dope middle round from both (Young X: “…nigga you’ll be like a flat spare tire, you’ll be in the trunk for nothing!”; Brizz: “I come with the best raps, that’s just facts, I got it figured out, you trying to get it out, but good shit is what X lacks [Ex-Lax]!”), but it’s Brizz who edges it with more quality punchlines, nice set-ups/name flips and an overall better performance.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “They think I’m joking with Charlie, I get silly with Clips..then aim right for ya baby, Gillie the Kid!”
Synopsis: In this PG matchup between Brizz Rawsteen and Show Off, Brizz boasts the versatility with exquisite bars (“It’s ’bout to get live as shit, what I’m giving you ain’t a compliment, I’ll split your frame and take you outta the picture without cropping it”), nice schemes.and a top-notch performance to match. It’s a new jack primer that deftly displays who’s ready for the big stage and who (consider Show Off’s choke in round 2) isn’t quite there yet.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “His last battle he had on leather pants with zippers and leather sleeves, looking like he argue with bitches over who got the better weave”
Synopsis: Too many old-school references, generic bars and an inability to match Brizz Rawsteen’s aggression, gutter bars and personals clearly did Lotta Zay in here.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “Smart mouth niggas get smacked, right in their wisdom teeth!”
Recap: Well prepared with a barrage of heavy punches/personals and a surrounding theme on his opponent’s performance-centric raps being a little too extra at times, S-Kapone manages to edge a couple of early elongated rounds by Brizz Rawsteen, whose mostly animated raps weren’t always matched in potency by his bars.
Verdict: S-Kapone (W) 2-1
Favorite line: S-Kapone – “Nigga, I been round, liek in a treehouse with no ladder, you don’t know how I [I’ll] get down!”
Recap: Some witty/fiery (“Man, this manslaughter is awesome, he’ll get slapped from both sides like Macaulay Culkin!”) punches by P.T. keeps him around in this 3-rounder versus the ever-capable Brizz Rawsteen on the Pit Fights Battle League stage. But an elongated 2nd from P.T. along with too many nursery school raps, gives a more punch-heavy and consistent Rawsteen the first couple of rounds before P.T. manages to edge the 3rd.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “The type of knife I got will treat your bitch pussy like a pizza and put slices in a box!”
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]”
Synopsis: Not quite feeling lines that basically big up George Zimmerman and I get the feeling that Fred Mance doesn’t like jokes in his rap battles. But other then that this was a good battle, both bringing that hard heat with their lines, but Brizz just spazzing throughout and clearly outnumbering Mance on the versatility, performance and haymakers (“I been hell, you been frail, my guns go ‘BA-ROCK!!!, no Obama, there won’t be no missed shells [Michelle])”.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “The bullets in the tech is toe size, no lie, put ’em to your neck from both sides like bow ties”
Synopsis: “Bury niggas just to make sure the shovel working”…clearly ready to go all night if he had to, a steady and passionate Brizz Rawsteen keeps the crowd wanting more in this easy win over Africa.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “….BOW! That’ll put ya’ thru the floor, now I’m shooting at the floor like I’m mopping with the gat!”
