Recap: Not sure why a mostly mayhem-dishing, fiery and name flip-spazzing Holmzie Da God would also go after Chef Trez’s rebuttal game as it takes a special skill to rebuttal and the Chef is one of the best at it. But other than one questionable angle and a slow start to both his 1st round (which he lost) and his 3rd (which he won), it’s a flexing and top-notch showing by Holmzie, who takes advantage of a bit of a lazy pen/flow from the usually more consistent Trez to out-punch and out-perform his opponent in the latter rounds for the win.
Verdict: Holmzie Da God (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Holmzie Da God – “I pull it out, the mag clap, you better duck, Aflac, a small cap will leave this brim bit like a dad hat!”
Recap: In this Black Ice Cartel battle versus Chef Trez, noted puncher Danja Zone turns it up a bit and grinds hard enough to force a debatable 3rd round. But before that, too many dated bars/schemes by Zone as well as punchlines that were a little meh at times obscure an otherwise solid showing. Then too, with the Chef dishing more consistent mayhem, gritty punchlines, fiery name flips, a couple of fire rebuttals and genuflecting gun bars at random during the 1st and 2nd, this battle was already was already in the bag before the final round.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I would say we could line it up in the streets, but I know you don’t trust that, so we could do a cage fight, fuck rap, jab, hook then let a knee in Zone…touchback!”
Recap: In addition to A. Ward supplying a just-as-fire rebuttal game, a versatile and punch-heavy Chef Trez has his work cut out for him for the first two rounds in lieu of the Christian rapper also dishing a host of fiery punchlines, witty barbs, jaunty name flips and some stinging mayhem to match his opponent’s potency and points on the scoreboard. But after the two battlers split the opening rounds, helped a bit by Ward’s solid, but 1/3rd pontificating and filler-bent turn, it’s a still cogent with the punchlines, gun bar swinging and fly with the schemes/punches Trez who takes the deciding 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Who cold as this?, no matter where I go my opponent’s get slaughtered, I haven’t seen a person this year who went harder, so fuck talking about who pen harder, ‘cuz I write nothing but nice shit…like a kid’s author!”
Recap: Chef Trez had to earn this one as Sway’s gritty trap talk and piercing punchlines not only made their mark, but kept him in the battle throughout. However, a couple of nice rebuttals in the opening rounds, along with some fierce wordplay, a boatload of stinging punches, ill similes/personals and a bunch of ever-reliable and visceral gun bars, allows the Chef to edge the opening rounds before a slightly punch-heavier 3rd by Swav kept Trez from pitching another shutout.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You supposed to be on URL with me representing the South, you heard that?, I should backhand you for leaving me hanging…give you your Smack!”
Recap: Open question: when Chef Trez does a 1-round battle, how much does his opponent’s chances of winning go up, knowing that if Trez loses the coin flip, they can take away his rebuttal game by picking him to go first? An opponent confident enough in his pen would probably disagree, but I’d say it does. That said, putting aside the crowd-pleasing moment of Brizz Rawsteen coming to the stage just as the ever brazen Snake Eyez just happened to mention his name, there really wasn’t much to see here as even without the ability to dish anyof them thangs, assisted by Snake starting his round off strong before it became too Tay Roc-centered (and lyrically subpar towards the end), a way more versatile, gun bar-slinging, punch/wordplay-heavy, personal-lit and consistent Trez takes this one easy.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “And you could miss me with the stories about how you was eating in jail, ‘cuz I was locked in like a SIM card, calling shit, the most important piece in a cell!”
Recap: Proving himself able to handle the big stage, but not really really wilding out on the eccentric gun bars, punchlines and rebuttals like we’re used to seeing, a B+ overall Chef Trez still manages to out punch and edge a rambunctious throughout, but less potent for the first couple of rounds Shotgun Suge. And while the Jersey rapper, performance-heavy throughout with a nice dunk on the whole Cave Gang midway in the 2nd, was able to put forth enough consistent darts to make the 3rd round debatable, besides getting beat by his opponent’s more potent display of lyricism, Suge’s inability to take full advantage of his own angle’s and personals hurt him here as well.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “He think he could kill with the post moves?!, he’s wilding, pull a box out, I’m rebounding, machete, Hack a Shaq like I keep fouling!”
Recap: Each battler living up to their top tier status in the game, Chef Trez and Ill Will put on a spitfire display of bar efficiency in this 3-rounder from RBE. The Chef, after a pretty solid, gun-centric and punch-heavy showing in the first round that only gets beat by a turned, set-up lit, (“I’m the stupidest one, two arms to both sides of Chef, like he waiting for the food to get done!”) performance-stunting and name flip/heat-a-blazing turn by Will, edges the 2nd round with else?…a fiery, room-shaking toss of 3 of them thangs, plus more eccentric (“Let him play, fuck all the hype games, knife swing, dirty blade…something rusty around Will, old bike chain!”) punchlines and other sizzling polemics and personals that in lieu of yet another fire turn by Will, he’d need to tie things up going into the 3rd round. Both battlers would dish plenty of stinging mayhem, searing punchlines and well-loaded (Trez: “When I cook, I’m too seasoned, hope you wasn’t expecting a lazy Chef ‘cuz now you gotta face the Chef, I’ll blaze the Tek, bullets at this leg, got him taking baby steps!”) gun bars in the deciding final round, but with an equal amount of heat from both sides, this altogether fiery and competitive matchup would end up as a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Ill Will – “But the 5th will twirl, Nick ya son, hit ya girl, once I get in the range, miss the games, send the Chef to a different world!”
Recap: An aggressive, focused and bullish Ell Oh Ess displays a nice freestyle game, but elongated rounds littered with tedious schemes/punches and a condensed Chef Trez, a little spent at times, but still on his game with staunch punchlines, flippant gun bars and piercing personals/name flips.similes adds up to a quality 30 in this 3-rounder from Bar4Bar Battle League.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Keep it rap because these [balls up fists] come two at a time, you could get beat, punched or hooked…we got studio vibes!”
Recap: Took him a round to get it together, but after a couple of hiccups in an opening round that also saw the challenger struggle with their flow, yet Chef Trez still edged thanks to scoring more haymakers, Trez proceeds to ride the remaining beats in the latter rounds of this Verbal War Zone battle versus Casino PA with a steady, uninterrupted flow, while dishing a sturdy amount of spicy 4-bar setups, rigid punchlines and fiery name flips to easily beat back his punching, but much less intricate opponent and score a 30.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Many opps, that’s why I’m quick to let a semi pop, machine putting rounds in a Casino, now he a penny slot!”
Recap: Against a mostly persistent but inconsistent display of flashy gun bars from Kid Deph, in this 1-rounder from GOTG, Chef Trez not only goes ham with a roundhouse of stinging name flips, but spouts his versatility with a boatload of ringing punchlines/schemes, some feisty wordplay, pointed personals and his own host of searing heat to get the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Now I’m for the culture, besides, I’m too humble, I mean I’m here, giving Kid a shot…I’m the cool Uncle!”
Recap: The beginning of Big Kannon’s 3rd round here still has me scratching my head. Indeed, an aggressive Kannon who was already tee’d up during this URL/Born Legacy 8 matchup against Chef Trez from some heckler in the crowd as well as Tay Roc, who he nearly got into an altercation with in round 1, just never seemed to get his focus together in this battle. The Chi-town vet, who was pretty solid in both of the opening rounds, overall dishing one too many punches at Trez and Roc’s Cave Gang crew when he wasn’t spouting the aforementioned drivel or brashly attempting to keep up with his opponent’s off-the-dome heat. And those bumbs in the road by BK would only benefit Trez, who with the addition of fiery personals, rigid freestyles, gritty punchlines/gun bars and some killer wordplay would edge round 1 before (call round 2 debatable) handily taking the 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I was screaming Writer’s Bloque in every battle, for y’all I would’ve clapped tools, I was down for the Bloque like Embid, that mean I was even willing to shoot if I had to!”
Recap: Dishing a plethora of fiery schemes, lucid gun bars, stinging name flips and fiending punchlines–outside of a close round 2 that saw his opponent spout a couple of fly rebuttals–over the course of 3 robust rounds Chef Trez makes easy work of a mayhem-slinging, but a bit elongated, wit-challenged and inconsistent KO.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You don’t wanna see me enraged, what make him think he could beat the greats, like this a piece of cake?, a bullet will leak his face, they booked us to see K shine [K-shine] [Bowh!], but instead see DNA!”
Recap: Gritty and mayhem-drenched battle between Chef Trez and Prophelinni stays close throughout its 3 rounds, but even with nary a rebuttal, it’s Trez who still outshines his opponent with a wide series of sizzling gun bars, head-ringing schemes, searing street narratives and stinging punchlines to take each round.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Peep bitch, I don’t know what they was saying but I’m here, glide on the street he live I bet this K will give him fear, he outside with hella niggers?, I’m a wave it at his peers, I went for the steal [steel] and caught a block…Defensive Player of the Year!”
Recap: Over the course of this 3-rounder from Renegade Rap Battles, Chef Trez’s wide assortment of fluorescent gun bars, over-the-top mayhem and fiery name flips/punchlines combine to make easy work of a performance-heavy, but flow-challenged and lyrically unsteady Chris Trotter.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Chopper rounds make his head spin, Dead or what, Alive? [Bwoy!} they found him dead then!”
Recap: Two of the best free-styler’s/rebuttal feen’s in the game, Chef Trez and Bangz, go at it on the iBattle stage and for the most part it’s a goodie with each battler flexing their off-the-dome skills (which allowed for some entertaining crowd participation) in between written’s that mostly engaged in your usual assortment of fierce mayhem, braggadocios lines and gritty punchlines. That said it’s Trez–way more consistently nice with his punches in the deciding 2nd round, while matching his opponent in impromptu shiners here and there, who takes the match in the end after also winning round 1.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Speaking of bitches, your’s can learn this death lesson, I’ll body him then assault Bae…who think the Chef flexing?!”
Recap: Weird to see Chef Trez only dish one rebuttal during a 3-round battle. But here against a pretty solid punching, Asylum The Crow, he wouldn’t need them as the Chef went haywire anyway with a gang of potent punchlines, flexing gun bars and some piercing name flips to take each round for the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You from Arkansas, you said right?, whoop-die doo nigga, the shit is great, Ar’s ya state’s initial’s?, [well] my AR could change ya initial state!”
Recap: From URL’s Born Legacy 7 card, a super-competitive, hard fought and overall dope 3-rounder between Th3 Saga and Chef Trez. A consistently aggressive Trez edges round 1 over a brazen, religious-laced and set-up/punch-lit Saga with a slightly more versatile, punch/wordplay-crazy, gun line-bent, religiously-tinged and personal/scheme/freestyle spicy turn of his own before a surprisingly off-the-dome-lit, 4-bar set-up/punch-spazzing, personally/Cave Gang-angled and simile-lit Saga edged round 2. Helped by some rare displays of wit and a spicy rebuttal, a slightly more condensed Trez would take round 3, using a gang of graphic mayhem, ill set-ups and fiery punchlines to edge another dope, righteous/storytelling-rich at times and Christian-bent, but a little filler-prone Saga and gain the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I could body a Horseman like BoJack!”
Recap: In this 3-rounder from Gates of the Garden, Buttah From Da Block puts on a solid effort with some nice, aggressive punches here and there. But too many reaches and predictable/pedestrian bars from BFDB along with a more condensed Chef Trez who consistently killed it with fire name flips, steely gun bars and fierce punchlines/rebuttals over the course of his 3 rounds, gives the Chef another $30 meal ticket.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “No bragging, but I’m the real plug, I do the dope rapping, how you want it, throat-slashing or straight-faced like no passion?, it’s just you and my gun…butter-n-toast, old-fashioned!”
Recap: In sports, just because you know what play the opposing coach is drawing up, doesn’t guarantee that you’ll win the game. And the same theory applies to Franchise, who despite almost always slinging 90% gun bars, still makes for a formidable opponent with his graphic punches, rich performance bars and at times witty verbiage. That said, the Canadian battler’s commitment to dispensing heat is what gets him the edge in this URL/Born Legacy 6 battle against Chef Trez. A consistently energetic, gun line-centric, punch-drunk and haymaker-drenched round 1 goes Franchise’s way before Trez (who despite losing the opening round, still had a pretty dope turn) went ham in the 2nd round with what might be a record ‘5 of those things’ (aka rebuttals) that along with some spicy name flips, fire gun lines and fierce personals/set-ups, nicely combined to tie things up heading into the 3rd round. The last round was a close one with Trez delivering his usual tasty combo of rich punches/personals and off-the-dome burners. But despite getting off to a bit of a slow start, Mr. No Lacking uses a series of gritty street darts, power punches and steely mayhem to edge the final round for the win.
Verdict: Franchise (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Franchise – “Dump the body, toss the heat, talk is cheap, creep up with the ladder like Dawson’s Creek!”
Recap: In what was a pretty solid battle overall, Chef Trez’s spitfire guns bars and stinging punchlines/wordplay over the course of 3 rounds, coupled with some fly rebuttals and feisty schemes are enough to earn the Cave Gang member a clear win in the 1st and 3rd rounds here over a Danny Myers, who outside of a crazy and versatile 2nd round (which only did enough to force a debatable turn, in light of the sizzling round the Chef had too) and a boatload of personals, just couldn’t bring enough consistent heat to avoid the loss.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I keep one .9, one .40, this shit a safe code, then I’ll put a pound to one [2,1] this shit a gate code!”
Recap: As proven once again here, it takes more than just a solid effort to beat the likes of a top tier dude like Chef Trez. And certainly a confident YBS tried, delivering rapid punches throughout his elongated turn in this 1-rounder from Locked In LetsTalkAboutIt. But even with a few quality haymakers landed here and there, too many pedestrian bars and a lack of intricacy with many of his punches would hurt the We Go Hard stalwart, before a gritty Chef Trez, loaded with opening round rebuttals, spitfire name flips, toxic gun bars, fiery punchlines and even a few spicy personals, got the kill.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I said I’m loaded with a chopper bitch, rock ya shit, drop him quick, cock the grip..shoot BS down like I’m focused on the positive!”
Recap: Salacious, hardbody guns bars rain down aplenty in this solid, 1-round battle between Chef Trez and Goddie Lumenati. But a more consistently potent Trez, mixing in some fiery schemes, stinging name flips and righteous braggadocio/struggle bars throughout his gun-centric turn, ends up taking this one.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Nigga said, don’t step in my lane, you’ll hear a loud blast, I’ll let a round skip through your lane…that’s a bounce pass!”
Recap: Come-n-comer Erky Law shows a lot of potential in this 1-rounder against Chef Trez, flexing with a load of nifty punchlines, sporty wordplay and a variety to his bars. Still, never one to take anyone for granted regardless of what tier they’re on, a more condensed Trez’s more potent name flips, jaunty gun bars, lofty personals and consistently bodacious punches are all too much to overcome.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You should just act, do comedy, we don’t believe that you spraying, I know that he was a grown kid soon as I spotted little man on his way in!”
Recap: Slinging fire gun bars, festive name flips, wicked punchlines and a head-ringing rebuttal to start things off with vigorous abandon, in this 1-rounder from Capital Battlegrounds, Chef Trez beats back Friday fan King Esco, who while aggressive and solid with his punches throughout, just didn’t have enough potency to his raps to keep up with his opponent’s more spicy lay work.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “The shit you spit?, they hype it, but it is your hometown, well this chopper ain’t Shine, from this K you getting a whole round!”
Recap: Anyone who’s ever peeped the punch-lit Brixx Belvy before would know that he’s more than capable of bringing that competitive fire to Chef Trez. And that’s the case here as in this 3-rounder from Rap Grid, the SONS vet delivers a fiery dish of standout (“Push a plate back on Chef, I ordered fries wit it!”) punches and nifty wordplay that more than met the crowd and his opponent’s approval. However, Trez being Trez, was just too much here what with the Cave Gang general dropping haymakers with ready abandon via a stinging mix of jaunty name flips/personals, heated (“If plotting what you trying to do, you’ll get one .40 put to ya brain, you got a genius I.Q.!”) gun bars, potent trap talk and of course, a couple of fire rebuttals and other lofty punchlines. Mark it down as a debatable 1st followed by the Chef earnestly taking the latter two rounds.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Fuck it, I’ll stick a knife in Brixx [bricks] like I’m testing the quality!”
Recap: All the while proving himself to be unworthy of saving, Chef Trez cooks up a devilish plate of nasty punchlines/personals, salacious schemes and seedy gun lines to easily take the first two rounds and beat back a solid overall, but too hit-n-miss in the early rounds and none-too-Spiritually-connecting till the 3rd Loso in a long-awaited matchup between two ATL battlers with similar histories in the game.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Let’s talk, I battled DNA, Nitty, Chess, I faced real tiers, even Ryda, Mike P, Prep, some fire mid-tiers, so I’m not worried about facing you and your savior, I don’t feel fear, plus, I already stood in front of JC once…and I’m still here!”
Recap: Don’t know what, if anything, happened between these two before the battle, but whatever the case the raspy, struggle life stylings of Boss Status sure did light a fire under Chef Trez, who delivers a 1-round ‘ass-whipping’ to his opponent with, to start things off, ‘3 of them thangs’ before proceeding to dish a shitload of spitfire names flips, red-dotted gun bars and a plethora of righteous punchlines.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Who the fuck told you could battle me?, dog just stop, I ain’t hearing nuthin’ Boss saying, I’m off the clock!”
Recap: Even with some reaches here and there, a pretty confident and aggressive Ian B matches his swag with enough fiery mayhem, solid punchlines and slicing gun bars to edge round 2 and make things interesting going into round 3 of this World War 478 matchup against Chef Trez. But after a subpar (for him anyway) middle round (that followed a stellar 1st), Trez turns it up in the deciding 3rd, using more revved up guns bars and a gang of steely punchlines to easily take the round and earn the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You trying to bend a word, I bend the block, extended shots and put that good milli into ya stomach, it hot the spot!”
Recap: Confidently dishing a cocky load of personals, residual mayhem (“Nigga just a sacrificial lamb, he gonna die being the goat!”) and fiery punchlines, for two rounds anyway Kush impresses enough to put up a serious fight with Chef Trez. But elongated turns from Kush that lessened the impact of his haymakers and a mediocre 3rd round, plus a more condensed Trez who stayed on point with a series of salacious (“He try to run through and zip-zag, my nigga that’s good, till I hide him in a forest, but we all know Kush can’t last in them backwoods!”) name flips, a couple of nice rebuttals, stinging gun bars and some fire schemes throughout the battle, gives the Chef yet another vic.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I raise the pound well, and it’s my color…that’s Black excellence!”
Recap: A 1-round grudge match from CGBL Battle league features a solid showing from Remedy Loko who in-between some filler here and there, spouts a host of fierce name flips and hot punchlines against the ever ready Chef Trez. But even with an able effort from his oppoenet, in the long run Trez takes this one, proving to be overall more consistent with the bars as well as nicer with the spicy gun lines, virtuous punchlines and potent schemes.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I’ll put the gun to your own head while you stand over your friends, damn the nigger bled on me, I thought he wasn’t going to do it, but he put it all on his dead homies!”
Recap: Sometimes one side just does a little more. Pretty solid overall with the bars, extra (“I handle llama’s and send the drama, to end the karma, have the Chef surrounded…reservations at Benihana’s!”) fierce with an aggressive performance, mocking his opponent with witty schemes/personals and willing to take a few risks here and there with the pen (tho I’d x-nay rebutting yourself), Mr. Wavy edges rounds 2 and 3 and pulls off a minor upset over the favored Chef Trez, who while finessing with spicy rebuttals, some fine freestyles and fiery (“But it’s Mr. “Debatable”, till I squeeze a K, it’s gonna hit you, or your people’s face, now it’s really debatable, ‘cuz I’ma put it two one (2-1) either way!”) schemes/personals/wordplay throughout, would fall victim to not only a fight that occurred in the crowd midway thru his 2nd round (that admittedly threw him off, tho he had a fire [“I had this crafted perfectly, but nigger’s sabotaging the fucking picture…all that fighting in the crowd, whatever dog, y’all some sucker niggers and Smack, I’m sorry that shit had to happen, you know I’m fucking with you, but when you punch like this, it usually got influence on other nigger’s!”] rebut for it), but a few too many predictable punches/gun lines, personals themes that became a bit redundant and a sometimes flat (and distracting) pen game.
Verdict: Mr. Wavy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Mr. Wavy – “I’m strapped in…nah nigger I already clapped him!”
Recap: If Swavatar Jack really was waiting to a long time to battle Chef Trez, it certainly showed as the Atlanta Battle Rap spitter came through with some fire (“Bon appetite, put the Mil in a Chef plate, feast your eyes!”) punchlines (mostly in round 1) and gritty wordplay to make this 3-rounder competitive. But a few too many dry spots from Jack and Chef Trez being Chef Trez what with a boatload to rich set-ups, fiery gun bars, spirited name flips, stinging (“You was bugging me for years about being Chef Life, I did the nigga foul, put up a ‘Not Hiring’ sign, when Jack put in the app, I shut the kitchen down!”) personals and just to throw them in there, a couple of fire rebuttals, just ends up being too much for the begrudging Jack to pull off the upset.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “We can’t get real jobs, a drug test?, nigga we passing scales!”
Recap: Dealing all sorts of mayhem and dishing on some eerie situations with his massive load of guns bars, Chef Trez easily puts a hurting on Dubb Da Feenom’s loud, but less potent raps, that is before a late round choke by Dubb ends things for good.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Let’s switch the plot, I’m in front of his doorsteps, through his house giving shots, the irony, as soon as the pound hit the door, the nigga knock!”
Recap: In this rare battle over beats, both Chef Trez and Bandana Boogie show off their ability to switch up cadence’s and spout rhymes over a variety of popular Hip-Hop rhythm’s from days past. Close throughout with each battler dishing a barrage of rigid braggadocio lines, stinging name flips, spitfire punches and fiery set-ups, it’s a standout 2nd round turn by Trez that edges out the battle when you call the 1st and 3rd debatables.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Old school shooter with revolvers, keep a magnum like your big sister dresser!”
Recap: Houston Bar Code 1-round matchup between Chef Trez and Sire sees a Trez who’s not-quite-on-his-A-game still use some stifling gun bars, fierce punchlines and 3 head-ringing rebuttals to beat back an overall alright, but sometimes lackluster and definitely elongated turn from Sire.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez -“I got a .9 and a .45, I’ll switch the tool, it’s vicious nigger, it is duck-duck-goose, a head tap can lift a nigger!”
Recap: Chef Trez uses salacious gun bars, potent name flips and wicked punchlines to make quick work of a solid, but slip-up prone (and eventually choking) T Dubb O in this 1-rounder from Street Status.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I took real losses, you get it shorty?, I went from ash to a beer belly, I done lost a pack and still had connections with the .40!”
Recap: These two met before, in a Smack/URL matchup a few years ago that Trex won pretty handily. This time around? It’s Chef again, tho a little closer than last time as Dre Dennis scored well with some elite gun bars. But as Trex has shown time and time again, not only can he do dope gun lines, but he can mix it up too with fiery punchlines, fire performance bars and when it comes to personals, some timely wit. That versatility and a more condensed turn, allows Chef to go up 2-0 in this rivalry.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Let him act hood, he’ll get tossed behind the venue, but it’s supposed to be Loud in the back wood!”
Recap: Normally not one to rely too much on the personals, Chef Trez gets busy with plenty of them here and that along with a gang of stinging name flips, fiery punchlines and scattered street missives allows the Chef to score a 30 on a hard-punching at times, but wildly inconsistent Rashaad Miller in this 3-rounder from Houston Underground Rap Battles.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You fake brother, like your first cousin!”
Recap: You’d think that most objective battle rap fans would put Chess in their Top 10 for best lyricists, as even while struggling so much with his flow here, his overall palette was impeccable. Still, this battle rap and stumbles, slip-ups, chokes…well, they all matter. As they should. And lately, it’s becoming too much of a problem for Chess. And while, some could say that with Chef Trez spazzing, clearly on his A-game while spouting a potent [“…9, .44…Tyrese nigger, what more do you want from me!”) ‘3 of dem things’ in a ridiculous 2nd, I’d say that if not for Chess struggling with his flow at times in the first, he would’ve at least been able to edge the 1st round despite Trez’s opening round (“…he struggling to breathe? [hiccups] sound like I’m in his rounds when he fucking up!”) comeuppance and we would’ve had a tie going into the 3rd as overall, Chess spat slightly better (“30 shooting at homes like Steph playing in the Oracle…I like Trez tho, I know he pussy, but his aura cool [oracle]!”; “Step back or get a wet back [wetback]…immigration!”) bars and showed a little more versatility than his opponent did. Of course, there’s no excuse for Chess choking in the 3rd, a round he probably would’ve lost anyway what with his slow start and yet another (“You speak brave, you from the PJs, you got a lot of lip!”) spitfire turn from Trez. But moving forward I’d still recommend Chess work on shortening his rounds to avoid the slip-ups and let’s definitely not give K-Shine’s constant interruptions a front row seat.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Gun butt him, leave a kid with the shitface…he the seed of Chucky!”
Recap: Once again Chef Trez makes it look easy, running circles around an inconsistent and to put it blunt, overwhelmed Young Smurf with spitfire punches, fiery set-ups, witty personals and of course, a handful of dope freestyles and rebuttals that warranted a few shirt pull-ups from the back from host Miltown Bloe.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez -“Everybody running off on the plug….I just pull them bitches!”
Recap: Dishing a load of dope (“Your bill’s due nigga, looking like real food, health inspector, shut the Chef down when he see what the mill [meal] do!”) name flips and punchlines, Jo Cool proves that he can hang with Chef Trez…for a couple of rounds anyway. Still, not to be intimidated by a nice up-n-comer, a confident Trez stays on his grind, dispensing speakeasy (“Long rifle, I’ll put a sniper to Kool, I got him reminiscing!”) gun bars, steady punches that scored with ease, a nice rebuttal or two and a handful of righteous haymakers to edge the first two rounds before easily overmatching his opponent in the 3rd.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You have no supporters or a brand, but think you the truth, but on the ceiling spinning, what I’m staying is my fanbase is through the roof!”
Recap: A bit of a weird and a bit of an underwhelming battle here between Prep and Chef Trez. A few rebuttals here and there, but no ‘3 of them things’ from Chef. Prep, despite losing the battle, arguably dishing the best round in a (“…they don’t get why I call them that, man y’all be bugging, Th3 Saga will leave ’em holy, but Jaz just started busting!”) turned-up 3rd. Etc. Etc. Like Prep, once again, just doing too much in round 1 (and even a bit in round 3) and Trez, tho dispensing enough (“Talking about you ain’t trying to go back to where Rich Dollarz at…bitch, you never left!”) room-shakers and rapid punches to edge both round 1 and 2, overall, just seeming like he couldn’t wait to get this battle over with.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Gun to the back of his head, put the machine behind him…like a record deal!”
Recap: In this 3-rounder from Smack/URL, a plethora of weak rebuttals/personals, inconsistent with the heat, a handful of reaches and elongated with his turns, despite a solid (“For his style you just gotta watch movies, to get my shit, you gotta go through something!”) showing overall, a Chef Trez that wasn’t on his A-game throughout the battle makes for an easy vic for a seemingly way more confident, consistent and over-the-top with the punches Rum Nitty. The Arizona spitter flexing hard for 3 well-crafted rounds with sterling name flips, eccentric (“Raise the arm on a Chef if he throwing salt, who the fuck want it!”) gun bars, ill wordplay, fiery personals, a fire rebuttal and spitfire, often back-to-back punchlines to beat back his former Writer’s Bloque brethren and score a well-earned 30.
Verdict: Rum Nitty (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “I barely gotta squeeze to let it off on ya set, ‘cuz the trigger like a hair on a meal…let me talk to the Chef!”
Recap: Two of Southern battle rap’s finest, Ness Lee and Chef Trez, get together on ABR for a competitive 3-rounder that except for Lee’s mostly futile attenpt to match Chef’s rebuttal/freestyle game, stayed close with a gang of hardbody punchlines/name flips, witty barbs, gritty personals, dialed-up machismo fiery gun bars and stifling wordplay from both battlers. Still, helped by the aforementioned off-the-dome theatrics and a little more subdued 3rd round by his opponent, it’s a more punch-lit Trez who takes the deciding final round for the win.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I hope you brought your best shit and some of the craziest Chef flips, but most of the shit you put on display plate been seen before…word to Netflix!”
Recap: If this was Chef Trez with one-day preparation, can you imagine what kind of annihilation he would’ve put down if he had…say, a week instead? Dishing witty rebuttals, dope freestyles and steady-as-you-go (“I dare a nigga try to break in my spot, don’t worry I’m loaded, scope beside the bed, i sleep with an eye open!”) haymakers with ease, for a performance-heavy and gun bar drenched, but not always consistent Barz Major, it’s an in-ya-face tutorial on the fact that they’re levels to this shit.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “But niggers be sleeping on me, but that I got a handle on, every round staid and strong, y’all gonna love what I’m whipping up, I’m like the uncle at the cookout with the sandals on!”
Recap: You expected a spitfire punchfest, but instead JC versus Chef Trez is arguably a classic with each battler bringing their A-game and dropping haymakers and other noteworthy schemes with rapid abandon. Round one saw Trez immediately go for the jugular with an elongated turn that was littered with lyrical bombs, versatile heaters/personals and some fire (“We was raised different, the shit we go through day to day different, God told you get baptized, he told me to get a gun…we was saved different!”) wordplay. Chef’s fire palette was met, however, by a just-as-fire round by JC, who upon making his return to Smack, delivered what the fans were craving for: seismic (“Nigga, ask the docs about the patients I left ‘em, and I won’t quit yet, I got more clips left, and the cap will swallow his head like the old Dipset!”) gun bars and adept lyricism in a more condensed turn that earned him a draw for the round. The 2nd round is where Trez turned it up, showing off multifaceted hijinks with freestyles, rebuttals and a robust mix of fiery (“You dying sucker, see how my lines structured?, my mind gutter, .9’s touch ya’, since JC is God’s Son, his background get blew [blue] like Nas cover!”) punches, lofty name flips and witty shiners that easily beat back a pretty solid, but not nearly as nice turn from his fellow Writer’s Bloque opponent. With Trez up one round, the ATL spitter kept the pressure on, continuing to dish standout heat, gritty performance bars and potent schemes with self-assured poise. However, sticking in cool-headed vet mode, JC went back in his bag and came out with another condensed and flexing turn that was rich with stinging set-ups, fire braggadocio lines and jaunty (“Your bitch catch the heat from these straps…she not walking out of there with tan lines!”) punches to edge the round and make this superb battle a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “And what’s up with these niggas with struggle and gangsta bars? these dudes clueless, niggas got shotties in their pants legs, deuce deuce in their boots, but they move stupid, I had the pack in my briefs, AR in my jeans…and I walk regular ’cause I’m used to it!”
Recap: Solid, punchline-heavy turn by J Morr, but Chef Trez’s variety of fire (“You put on this facade, like you really out here killing shit, photobomb, you could catch a deuce behind the images!”) performances bars, potent schemes and jaunty punchlines was just too much to overcoem in this one-rounder from Body Bag Battle League.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You trying to put an end to me?, keep distant, heat spitting, pin a clip to the dreds, he getting them re-twisted!”
Recap: Strong, raucous and punch-heavy performance by Mike P gets edged by a stronger showing by Chef Trez, who starting with his spitfire ‘Don’t none of y’all nigga’s pop those K’s, ‘I’m strapped in’, it’s like Twork, the wrong stair get you dropped on stage!’ freestyle early in round 1, dishes nothing but straight heat as well as a couple of more haymakers for 2 rounds to take each of them and beat back an opponent who certainly did enough to win, but just couldn’t quite match the Chef’s pen game until salvaging the 3rd with a cleaner, (“I took blood from his head and did his boo greasy, slapped a hand print on that ass, too easy, she ain’t recognize the bald head, I thought she knew Beasley, chin shot, turned the whole cheek red, now she Glueazy!”) scheme-heavy and more versatile turn.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I’m cuttin’ ya life shorter, get ya brains pushed back, you can’t see the gun?, try harder, ‘cuz the .44 still [steel] in reach like my father!”
Recap: Featuring the birth of Chef Trez’s ‘3 of them things’, a boatload of elite gun lines, crazy performance bars, 3 consistently punch-heavy rounds from Ryda, some dizzying wordplay and a couple of Prez Mafia quotables, this PG matchup between (“Why Reepah Rell a nigga, when I could steal him and paint the whole face!”) the up-n-coming DMV battler and the returning-to-the-PGs Trez was dope till the end. Indeed, this was a close as for every terrific, punch-lit and bar savvy turn by Ryda, Trez would come right back with an aggressive and gritty turn that coupled with a handful of dope rebuttal’s/freestyle’s, kept him in the mix. This was especially highlighted by a sublime (“LeBron signing with Nike, I put a check on the witness!”; “Now they trying to figure out who killed the Chef…it’s like the Clue game!”) 2nd round by Ryda with so little filler that you wouldn’t be too off if you thought he had the round running away. But then, there was the Chef again, showing amazing poise, much less enough confidence in his pen (and brain) to meet his opponent at the end with enough hot boastful (“I feel like the cameraman with the Cheater show..I’ll catch him with the side piece!”; “100 rounds, let’s build a suspension, watch the drum roll!”) darts, freestyles and rebuts to edge the round. Ultimately tho, Ryda’s ability to stay on his opponent’s neck with stifling (“Head shot, flip the body, left the nigga San leaking like a hour glass!”) punchline after (“You a Chef, your occupation is to cook for other people’s pleasure, ain’t a secret food, but watch who you speaking too, ‘cuz Blood I’ll eat ya food!”) punchline, would be too much for even Trez as the La Familia capo’s contnuously fire wordplay/similes/personals during yet another haymaker-drenched turn, over what was a pretty solid and gripping round by Trez, would get him the win.
Verdict: Ryda (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You probably think you could hold a gun sideways and not miss a shot, well I’m honest, first time I gripped and popped, heart dropped, eyes closed…it felt like I was getting shot!”
Recap: The shitload of head nods alone should tell you that this one was a goodie as Bad Newz and Chef Trez go at it for 3 spitfire rounds on the Bullpen Battle League stage. The edge goes to Newz in round one, who even after a bit of a slow start and a consistently cooking turn from his opponent, uses the latter half of his turn to deliver righteous haymakers what with fire (“I’m that athlete on the bench in the suit, I did not come to play!”) punchlines, stinging wordplay and some aggressive personals. And even with Newz continuing to dish plenty of fiery punches in the middle round, it’s Trez who takes the 2nd with raucous gun lines, loaded schemes and some more fly (“The best gossiper, Newz not safe with me!”) name flips. Split going into the 3rd, both battlers stayed on point, with Chef sporting an entertaining/personal-heavy turn that even featured a game newscaster impression as well as some nice (“I do shit he can’t do and honestly nigga it’s over with bars, peep his shirt, you see the league right, why you put this bull over the stars?!”) freestyles that might’ve beaten most opponent’s if not for Bad Newz coming right back with a hardbody, street-savvy and wordplay/punch-lit round that mixed in with a couple of his own freestyles, allowed for a draw to the match.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Bad Newz – “Young nigga, with a lot of .40s, I’m where the cougars at!”
Recap: Chef Trez visits opponent Fonz’s home league, Bar4Bar Rap Battles, and impresses throughout, delivering a gang of slicing punchlines, flagrant gun bars, some fire rebuttals and a boatload of gritty 4-bar-set-ups to beat back a pretty solid, raucous, witty and personal, but also elongated 3 rounds from Fonz. The Cleveland spitter, who kept things competitive for the entire match, did manage to put enough haymakers together in the final round to score a draw after getting edged in the prior two rounds.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I warned him that my flow is dangerous, word to the Caution signs, I took a pay cut, you getting whipped for cheap nigger, it’s auction time!”
Recap: Exquisite wordplay, fiery (“[points hand like gun at opponent’s head] Blow his body on the food and yell ‘Easy [Eezzy] on the sauce!'”) name flips and potent punchlines, it’s all there as Chef Trez makes quick work of a flow-ready, but substance-light NLS Eezzy.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I’m head ripping, they don’t fuck with you, they send you on dead missions, you get the least support from your Family Guy, you Meg Griffin!”
Recap: One wouldn’t expect anything less than a dope battle between DNA dn Chef Trez and you definitely got your money’s worth here. And what with Trez using a crazy rebuttal and (“I’m going Above the Rim, but I forget bro stupid, I’m nut so [Nutso], so if I clap a square, the 5th go through him”; “Please have a mind of your own, let’s say DNA slap me, I’ll put the .9 to ya dome, a slap withh get you 3 rounds, that’s Shine and Charron!”) spine-tickling bars to dominate the 2nd round (thanks in part to a shortened, but still solid turn by DNA) and DNA easily (“There’s panic when I’m gripping the .4, if it’s about money I’ll have this cat over the bread, that’s a Dominican store!”; “You been sucking dick to get every battle you got, with no pride, so it’s crazy how John John took Bloe job!”) taking the 3rd with crazy punchlines, this one comes down to the 1st. Which I got Trez winning what with better consistency in terms of the quality of his bars and more diversified lines as well, over what was an times (“With these two trey’s I’m shooting, when I bring Chef closer to you God [U-God], that’s a Wu-Tang reunion!”) superb, but mostly underwhelming turn from DNA.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “But what your hat say?, ‘PG Killer’, that’s what they call you in these mean streets?, nigga that’s equivalent to being the best player…in the D League!”
Recap: Mostly making use of (“You mad sweet, only time Chef peel off with the burners is [for] banana souffle!”) jokes, it’s an oft-solid turn by UK rapper Magz, but Chef Trez’s stifling barrage of rich jokes, delicious set-ups, aggressive (“I got a Mag and a mag for ya bitch, either I’m fucking something or I’m clutching something!”), name flips and fiending wordplay prove to be too much in this one-rounder from Don’t Flop.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Your sister a thot, she could suck the evil out of Ouija boards!”
Recap: Syah stays competitive with some nice name flips, (“They ain’t really want me to Black here, this some Oscar shit!”; “You should hire a new manager and stop staring at me for real, matter fact hire Norbes, at least he can tell you what can happen over a grill!”) punches and winsome (“Any thoughts of running up on me, just dead it now, I sleep with more .45’s [4, 5’s] and .9’s [9’s] than a pedophile!”) gun bars throughout his three rounds. But other than a close 2nd, none of Syah’s turns could stand up to Chef Trez’s ever-flowing (“Your mom’s mom dead, for grams of 40…moon rocks!”) heat and rich performance. Indeed, a constant barrage of fiery personals, frenzied (“You only talk, you ain’t about action, I know what dog ’bout, like a freak bitch on her period, you all mouth!”) haymakers, dope set-ups and fluorescent (“The gat spitting, but when this bitch touch you, you won’t catch feelings, I told him I’mma hit you with a clean nina, but gave him a dirty .40…I’m cat-fishing!”) wordplay that reminded us all that Trez more than belongs on the big stage–and that’s no gassin’.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “You been battling for how long and still got no fame?!, you John John Homeboy nigga…that’s your name!”
Recap: Wow! Two of the South’s best, Chef Trez and R Streetz, put on what has to be one of 2016’s finest battles, going toe-for-toe with an equal parlance for lyrical acumen, while also delivering a gang of crazy, dope punchlines/similes, piercing name flips, some scheming personals, boastful shiners and hard-hitting gun bars. Oh yeah, and the wordplay was on point throughout as well. That said, with each round being super tight and nary a slip-up (we’ll chalk up a slight 2nd round hiccup by Streetz on Trez talking while he rapped) from either battler, Streetz’s ability to get a little more versatile and witty in the 2nd round and come with a slightly more condensed 3rd, all the while equating his ever-gunning opponent on haymakers, gives him the edge (after he got edged by Trez in the 1st) in both of the latter rounds for the win.
Verdict: R Streetz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: R Streetz – “You’re not the best, get it clear, catch him in traffic…buck at the front of his car like he hit a deer!”
Recap: Coma is aggressive, witty and perceptive, but spends way too much time (“You’re just another fake-ass rapper that’s responsible for all the kids who got a sentence, but couldn’t read one!”) pontificating here in this Don’t Flop matchup against Chef Trez, who in turn is given plenty of time to cook and dish out his usual rounds of spitfire gun bars, flatline (“You said you ain’t been drunk in years?, I’ll give you a shit from the .40 to bring your past back!”) rebuttals and persistent punches. Ironically, even though Trez was a last-minute replacement, the only thing that saves Coma from getting 3-0’d is Trez tripping over himself free-styling in round 3.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I got a head head, don’t be the one I get to airing on, ‘cuz I’ll come to ya block and blow in the crib like the air is on, have you and bitch in the same casket…sharing stones!”
Recap: Chef Trez dominates this one, using a variety of fire schemes, action packed gun bars, piercing name flips and a gang of rigid punchlines to easily beat a mostly subpar Mr 16 over the course of 3 rounds in this one-sided battle from ATL’s Cage Rap Battles.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “See, I’m past nice, on this battle scene this gonna be your last night, your father left you so I’ll pop you and leave…you lost your dad twice!”
Recap: Less filler, more potent (“The kid strapped over all [overall], but I don’t see the menace in Dennis”) rhymes, sanguine angles/set-ups and a few (“”You a bitch, so stay in ya place like a ho should, I use the toast good and I’ll raise and let it go like ‘Welcome to Adulthood’!”) haymakers mixed in gets Spit Dat Heat’s Chef Trez the first two rounds and a win over the ever aggressive and (“The kick back done left my wrist damaged, so like I’m using tally marks, I can’t help but draw the fifth slanted!”) bar-heavy, but this time around less consistent Dre Dennis.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez -“This left [holds up left fist]? Chinese porn, it get nasty with the chin!”
