Recap: From KOTD, in what was a gritty, aggresssive at times and competitive punch-fest, with the help of some fly name flips/schemes, a couple of solid rebuttals, piercing personals/gun bars and a festive parlay when it came to storytelling, an also steadier-hitting (esp. in round 2) Danny Myers does enough to take the first two rounds of this 3-rounder for the win before opponent Elijah Strait got back on his grind, after a mediocre 2nd, to out-punch Danny in the 3rd and avoid the shutout.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I smoek rappers, the Glock’s gonna touch ya, I got shots for this fucker, we hid bodies where nigga’s be parking at, it’s lot to discover!”
Recap: From URL’s Nexus card, going into this battle did Danny Myers (as he suggested in round 1) really think that Klutz belonged in the “lyrical miracle” camp?! Because if the Arkansas battler hasn’t already proven himself to be one of the more substantive emcees in the game, the Bar God just hasn’t been paying attention. But after this 3-rounder Danny (who was pretty solid and competitive throughout this bout) certainly knows what’s up now. Klutz, in both of the opening rounds, exquisitely using a gang of potent set-up/punchlines, fiery schemes, witty barbs, clever wordplay and in a superb 3rd round (after already taking round 1 and edging round 2 with more haymaker-rich tunrs), a systematic, righteous at times and personal-lit session on almost everything related to Danny Myers world to finish off the shutout.
Verdict: Klutz (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Klutz – “Nigga’s say I ain’t believable, but on the resume it’s how you meet the Reaper, plus I know a couple of nigga’s that got shot….they couldn’t believe it either!”
Recap: In this 1-rounder from the Hunger Gamez, Boze and Danny Myers both bring plenty of mayhem-lit darts, solid personals and piercing gun bars to keep things interesting. But with an added mix of pedestrian bars from both battlers, despite Boze scoring more haymakers during a longer round time-wise, Danny’s soldi punch game, an incredible amount of (“Nigga, I provide war, this the type of shit I slide for, nigga we going through the side gate, i don’t give a fuck about your garage door!”) spicy rebuttals (there was 5 or 6 of ’em) and a witty freestyle directed at his opponent’s GF in the crowd, allows for a debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Boze – “You’ve been prepping, chasing Lux for 10 years, Smack keep telling its levels in this place, typical Myers, keep taking a stab at it…but you’ll never see the face!”
Recap: In this 1-rounder from Kreo Battle League Danny Myers’ commitment to violence-prone bars, rugged storytelling and flippant name flips scores enough haymakers to edge out opponent Monsta, who after a bit of a slow start came back with enough grit and lyrical heat to make this one close.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “A rifle shot through his wisdom, I’ll make his muthafuckin’ jaw whirl, he’ll be the only nigga to end up in the backwoods for making a wrong turn!”
Recap: From URL’s Nome 14 card, utilizing a gang of gritty trap bars, a 2nd round angle so rich in grimy aesthetics that it certainly had this writer believing that Danny Myers and E-Hart were smashing and other solid personals and set-up/punchlines, T-Top drops a fairly easy 30 on a Bar God who while expansive with the lyricism throughout, couldn’t keep up with his opponent when it came substantive punches and pointed darts (esp. when Myers spent a quarter of his 3rd round going off on Loaded Lux).
Verdict: T-Top (W) 3-0
Favorite line: T-Top – “Knife to his chest, I bet the blood will scare Myers, doctors gotta pull it out from the front like a air fryer!”
Recap: A 1-rounder from Major League Battles, content with mixing in some excellent wordplay with his usual m.o. of hardbody punches, gritty storytelling and caustic, violence-prone raps, Danny Myers doesn’t break a sweat in handily beating back an aggressive and mayhem-lit, but overall pedestrian Jeuvry.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “A nigga said come see me with hands, I was on the way to unleash the can, till the plug called and said I got a new low, put the drake down and come meet the grams!”
Recap: From Bullpen Battle League, a lot of bark from Loso and Danny Myers in this 3-rounder. But not as much bite from either battled in a bout that was littered with a lot of reaches and subpar punches and personals. Still, with Danny getting by on his usual m.o. of fantastical street tales, mayhem-lit darts, bullish bars and a solid rebuttal game to go along with plenty of Christian-laced disses, it’s the more efficiently spicy Bar God who takes both rounds 1 and 2 for the win before a debatable 3rd.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “He said, he ain’t one of those don’t do nuthin’ if you touch me Christians, bitch you was bluffing, ‘cuz if I beat your ass and you call the police me, that’s doing something!”
Recap: Fire battle from URL’s Civil War 5 card between Awthentic and Danny Myers with the former’s amiable flow adding plenty of flair to his consisent barrage of stinging wordplay, mayhem-lit darts, oft-seismic punches and braggadocius bars. On the other Danny, even in the face of his opponent’s steady heat, Danny never wilt. The Bar God getting busy with a solid rebuttal game to go along with his usual m.o. of thought-provoking urban street tales, gritty punches, steely gun bars and lofty name flips that would were especially absolute during a sublime 2nd round (i.e. classic) that allowed Danny to split things going into round 3. But while the EFB vet gave a valiant effort in the 3rd (tho he was partly hurt one too many name flips again in the finale), ultimately it was Awthentic’s ability to stay on Danny’s neck with yet another firestorm of dizzying haymakers that would the We Go Hard alum the win.
Verdict: Awthentic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Awthentic – “I’ll be the only face you see when you die ‘cuz you see I only need God as my witness!”
Recap: Charron’s gotta learn how to leave them on a high. I mean, still rapping after that killer ‘7th Ward’ line in round 3 just made no sense. Either way, after (had Charron taking round 1 before the more efficient Bar God edged the 2nd) splitting the first couple of rounds with a pretty solid overall (tho his 3rd was mostly lackluster) Danny Myers in this rebuttal-lit, heavily N.O.-referenced 3-rounder from UDubb, a dominate jokefest drenched, personal-spazzing and punchline-crazy final turn by the ‘Smack Killer’ gets him the win.
Verdict: Charron (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Charron – “Fuck y’all crew, I’ll kill Danny then I’ll maul you, old-school Christmas lights, once one die they all do!”
Recap: A gritty, graphic/versatile-punching and pretty solid effort from Danny Myers, in this 1-rounder from iBattleTV, gets blown to bits by the richer combo of righteous similes, salacious gun bars, slick wordplay and searing punches delivered by Los Premee, giving the up-n-coming Brooklyn emcee a noteworthy win for his resume.
Verdict: Los Premee (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Los Premee – “Nah, you think you gonna put me in a plot, that’s a grave mistake, another opp getting tagged, colostomy bag I’m laying waste!”
Recap: From Mic Masters Alliance, serving up a spicy of plate of rich metaphors, aggressive boasts and peircing punchlines to go along with some crafty rebuttals, after losing out to the graphic mayhem and hardbody punches/personals from Danny Myers (who was also a bit prone reaching), Marv Won is able to comeback and take both of the latter rounds for the win.
Verdict: Marv One (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Marv One – “Nigga, watch how you speak to me, flower-child I keep the piece [peace] wth me!”
Recap: From URL’s Traffic 6 card, a goodie between Danny Myers and Sheed Happens features the latter’s effervescent, performance-lit shakedowns and righteous personals versus the former’s fiery name flips coupled with a gang of mayhem-lit punches/gun bars and storied narratives. Close throughout in front of a Phoenix, AZ, crowd in tune with every bar, with the help of some fly rebuttals, outside of a debatable round 2, it’s the slightly more haymaker-lit Myers who edges rounds 1 and 3 for the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “When you combine Bill Collector and Daylyt…THIS Happens!”
Recap: A 1-rounder from Get Money Drink Water’s Halloween Havoc card with wrestling bars as the theme, sees Chess handily get the win. The Bronx, NY vet (aka Tribal Chess) going berzerk with a barrage of killer 4-bar set-ups/punches that featured everything from grapple events, noted wrestlers, in-ring moves, referees and well-known groups when he wasn’t also offering up some other residue mayhem, leaving opponent (in what was a rematch from their previous URL battle some years back) Danny Myers with typical rage and rancor, but nothing nearly as consistently substantive on the thematic side.
Verdict: Chess (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chess – “Raising hell with the thing, it came with shells and a beam, start bucking in ya hood…JBL limousine!”
Recap: From HowYouGonAct Network, against the oft-witty, drawn-out, unorthodox stylings of O Solo, Danny Myers uses a boatload of graphic gun bars, some dope wordplay, mayhem-lit punchlines and wily personals/name flips to earn the 30 over an opponent who kept it competitive, but struggled too often with his flow and overall punch game.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “My pistol ain’t got nowhere to live and I STAY with it!”
Recap: Despite a gang of fierce (including a fire ‘God…GD’ line) punches and bodacious street raps from Bad Newz (who might want to update his personals on future opps), in this last-minute, but still competitive 1-rounder from M4M TV, it’s Danny Myers’ wicked combo of slick metaphors, consistently hitting punchlines, head-ringing name flips, piercing gun bars and fire rebuttals/freestyles (including a dope flip of the previously mentioned ‘God…GD’ bar that earns the Bar God emcee the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Speaking of switch, I’ll grab a stick from the trunk, I’ll lift and blast, face shot, coroner’s coudn’t recognize him but said ‘this is Bad’!”
Recap: In this 3-rounder from Takeova Battle League, Danny Myers takes advantage of a mostly subpar Theory Truth and uses a bunch of fierce name flips, piercing punchlines, hitting rebuttals and rugged/twisted mayhem to take all three rounds for the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “My pen is something you never seen before clearly, can’t even use my signature move…the parallel universe is a Theory!”
Recap: Featuring a bunch of fly rebuttals from a too cold Danny Myers and a versatile performance from up-n-comer Saflare Sole, this gritty 3-rounder from URL ends up as consequential as a debatable. The off-the-dome lit and more haymaker-rich Myers taking round 1 before (despite a small stumble) Saflare turned it up on the punchlines to force a tie against another rebuttal-lit (“Hey nigga, tonight you get slayed violent, they forgot to read that bitch Miranda rights, you got the right to remain silent!”) ..and mayhem-friendly turn by Danny. A battle that also spouted nicely-blended ‘Danny-ism’s’ from Sole throughput the match and some nifty wordplay from Myers would end up with Saflare earning a tie with another punch-crazy 3rd that coupled with a righteous Danny spending a little too much time pontificating, allows the newbie to edge the bout for a debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Saflare Sole – “I’ll clap this bitch, stomach, leg, arm, bullets even his back get hit, he shot in a private location like an App event!”
Recap: All Things Battle ‘Writer’s Room’ 1-round ‘Rap Off’ between Jenks and Danny Myers’ goes the Bar God’s way as his deft usage of spicy rebuttals combined with a more steadier stream of gritty punches/schemes, bombastic personal disses and rich storytelling/braggadocious rhymes gets him the win over an opponent who while delivering a solid effort overall, cost himself with too many subpar punchlines and rehashed personals.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “It’s a reason every bar hot, Bitch I’m an animal in these spaces like Starbot!”
Recap: From Body Bag Battles, a pretty good punchfest here between Danny Myers and Mr. Biscuit ends up going the Bar God’s way as despite his opponent taking it up a notch (after getting handily beat in round 1) in both of the latter rounds with some added wit and more sizzling punches, Danny’s continuously spicy punch game, sublime off-the-dome heat and exquisite name flips make the difference and gets him round 3 for the win after a debatable 2nd.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I should drop this man, rudely, with these knuckles I ended a few beefs, but y’all already know what comes with a Biscuit…a 2 piece!”
Recap: From BarYouTooDeath League, a pretty solid 1-rounder between Danny Myers and Vision Gvng with plenty of wicked gun bars and mayhem-lit punchlines goes the former’s way as the Bar God’s vociferous name flips and fierce off-the-dome heat during a more condensed turn helped him get the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Y’all gonna see me clapping him, soon as I spot him you’ll hear the .9 blown, I’m trying to put somethin’ in the middle of Vision head like the time stone!”
Recap: In this 1-rounder from Gates of the Garden, Danny Myers (who pretty much battles every day now) uses a steady barrage of piercing wordplay, bruising punchlines, boastful barbs, grimy gun bars and dope personals/name flips to get the win over a gritty and solid, but oft-reaching and mostly pedestrian Prep.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I’m from a darker side, even without a can you’ll get it, I’ll pull up with my homie’s baby…Andrew Wiggins!”
Recap: From BrooklynBorn MC’s/Verbal Warfare, Danny Myers uses a versatile performance of gruesome/mayhem-lit punches, bombastic gun bars, expansive name flips and hard-hitting/witty similes/personals to take the first two rounds and beat back a gritty and punch-heavy at times, but less steady (until round 3 anyway, which he edged) effort from Killa B.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Hold up your posture nigga, or get cracked until your head leak, big pistol, I keep fucking with the baby like a deadbeat!”
Recap: Turned up in front of a hometown crowd on the streets of Philly, Newz uses a fiery barrage of glistening street raps, hard gun bars and flexing punchlines/schemes to beat back a Danny Myers who was competitive at first, but severely slacking with the bars and flow during the latter half of his round in this 1-rounder from The Battle Academy.
Verdict: Newz (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Newz – “Fuck your parallel universe, nigga we living in reality, where this ain’t your little merry-go, these bells feel like carousel, while you was spinning in that parallell universe, we was spinning in this universe spinning having nigga’s playing parallel!”
Recap: From URL’s ‘Redemption 2’ card, after the two split the first couple of rounds with a gang of brash bars, a slightly punch-heavier, witty and off-the-dome lit 3rd round by Charlie Clips gets him the win versus an always gutsy and competitive Danny Myers.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “When your wife was at her lowest [Lois] who you think provided work when she needed blow?, I watched your whole family spin off the Brown like the Cleveland…”
Recap: From Taveova Battle League, all Danny Myers here as for 3 rounds the Bar God’s aggressive combo of raucous gun bars, graphic mayhem with the set-up/punchlines, steadfast name flips, boastful street raps and too cold schemes handily beat back an earnest, but mostly subpar effort from Gutta.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Reflect with me, when these leagues hit me with work I get the same feeling when the connect hit me!”
Recap: Rambunctiously lacing his punches with brutal set-ups, witty puns, flagrant personals and graphic/mayhem-laced gun lines, Danny Myers takes the first two rounds of this URL ‘Outside’ battle to gain the win over a much less punch-heavy J2 before a more scholarly 3rd by the Bad God helps a consistently gritty throughout, but at his most efficient J2 handily take the final round to avoid the shutout.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I done shot 7-footers like I can’t dunk!”
Recap: A dope 1-rounder from Hunger Gamez sees the underrated J Morr uses a steady plate of gritty trap talk, hard-hitting/nuanced personals, fiery street raps and some killer (including one of the best Friday lines I’ve ever heard) punchlines to gain the win over a pretty solid and often punch/name flip-heavy, but dry spot wavering Danny Myers.
Verdict: J Morr (W) 1-0
Favorite line: J Morr – “David didn’t beat up Goliath…he shot that nigga!”
Recap: From iBattle, against a pretty solid, punch-heavy at times and witty performance from Archduke Redcat, a more condensed Danny Myers uses some spicy off-the-dome theatrics, plenty of rigid mayhem with the punches, boastful barbs/storytelling and lucid wordplay/name flips/gun bars to score enough haymakers and edge the win this competitive 1-rounder.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “We don’t take chances, every day I keep a tool tucked, ‘cuz in Cali nigga’s beef on the corner like food trucks!”
Recap: Quban and Danny Myers do the fair one for 1 round at the Battle Academy and it’s a goodie as a versatile Bar God scores with a gang of fiery, aggressive punches, while a gritty and set-up lit Quban raps his ass off to the tune of some delicious (“I know he think he too cold, but do that make you heat resistant!”) haymakers and righteous darts/schemes. And while Quban had a stronger ending to his round, an elongated run combined with one too many dry spots by the former Goonie coupled with Danny suffering from some subpar bars here and there makes this bout debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “My nigga Jonny Ice exposed Surf was fucking your baby mama, I ain’t even have to ask if it’s true, my nigga told me she gave him head, butt…like Jaz special move!”
Recap: A 1-rounder from the Winter Soldier Event, Danny Myers uses a steady barrage of boastful barbs, slamming punchlines/name flips, random mayhem and hard-hitting amenable darts to beat back a hitting and wordplay-lit at times, but hiccup-prone and mostly basic XO.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorile line: Danny Myers – “Bar God, I stab his abdomen and test the annihilation, took me a minuet to bring it up…10-second violation!”
Recap: In this 3-rounder from WarTown Battles Clone delivers one of his best performances, 30ing a topsy-turvy Danny Myers with a boatload of hardbody punches, stinging similes, gritty street talk and piercing personals with nothing but sheer consistency to earn an impressive shutout.
Verdict: Clone (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Clone – “I’m not even flexing, you could see a grave right now, we not in Atlanta, don’t be cappin’ like you Brave right now!”
Recap: From URL’s Banned card, in this 1-round rematch Cortez a gang of stifling gun bars, gripping mayhem, lofty personals/punchlines and nasty boasts/wordplay to handily beat back a raucous punching and rebuttal-lit at times, but overall mostly pedestrian Danny Myers.
Verdict: Cortez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Cortez – “Llama’s hurl, erasing DM, I got a girl!”
Recap: From URL’s Lite Work card, both Danny Myers and Tink Da Demon spout a bunch of mayhem, gore, spiteful gun bars and spirited boasts/punchlines over the course of three rounds to keep you captivated. But in what was a close battle throughout, it’s the slightly more consistently hitting Tink who edges rounds 1 and the deciding 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Tink Da Demon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tink Da Demon – “Clip full of bald heads preying over your bald head like a skinhead convention!”
Recap: Overall, the name flips from the Bar God were kinda topsy-turvy. But after splitting the first couple of rounds with a bullish and boastful but witty at times Aktive (who also had a couple of surprising rebuttals), in the deciding 3rd round of this Bizzle Barfest battle, Danny Myers (helped a bit by a shortened turn from his opponent) continues with a steady barrage of stealth-worthy punches and blazing gun bars to gain the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “How the fuck are you active [Aktive], I know we both from the era of G-funk but this when I screw the silencer on the pump and boom-bap him!”
Recap: At first I thought that was Prep underneath the old man disguise. But it turns out it was actually St. Louis emcee Metaphor here in this 1-rounder from GOTG against Danny Myers. And while the former’s pointed gun bars and righteous punches made for a solid performance overall, one too many subpar bars from Metaphor and a Myers mired in raucous haymakers, stinging pontifications/storytelling, boastful barbs and aggressive personals/punchlines gets Danny the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “My nigga’s love thugging, ain’t no surviving on my block, we’ll turn this shit into White Castle if you bring rider’s on my block, I’m talking shooting K’s and grave chase ’em, that’s 30 sliders in a box!”
Recap: From URL’s Summer Madness 12 card, a close battle between Danny Myers (who could probably be a rock star on the side, the way he gets charged up and interacts with the crowd) and Fonz comes down to a rambunctious punching, more direct and spicy rebuttal game from Danny (after losing round 1 thanks to a stellar second-half to his turn in the opener by Fonz) that in addition to a couple of elongated rounds from Fonz, that while hitting at times punch-wise, couldn’t manage to keep up with the Bar God’s more steadily robust lines (esp. in round 2 where a longwinded and mostly subpar Fonz fought with the crowd over being able to spout a tired T-Rex angle), thus allowing the EFB battler to come back and take round’s 2 plus 3 for the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Hey, let me talk to my opposition, he look like one of them landlords that when a woman don’t have all the rent, he offers them a proposition!”
Recap: Cali vs. Jersey, prolific with the interviews vs. prolific with the interviews, bald head vs. bald head, Danny Myers vs. Jai 400 from the latter’s HowYouGonAct Network league serves up a steady mix of graphic punchlines, aggressive personals (esp. from Jai), pent-up set-ups/boasts and spiteful mayhem to the consistent delight of a well-tuned in crowd. But after a sublime and steadily hard-hitting Jai took round 1, a couple of fly rebuttals, mayhem-slinging (“This is a movie right?, well this clip hold 16 Blocks…Mos Def!”) and more versatile showing from Danny in round 2 would tie things up before the 3rd, which with an equally syrupy display of punches from both battlers would end up making this one debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Jai400 – “Parallel universes is not enough, ‘cuz parallel is all I did to get them numbers just to line him up!”
Recap: Ade proves himself formidable with a bunch of abstract, philosophical punches that featured some strong wordplay and stringent Danny-isms here and there. But in this 1-round CrowdShyt audio battle, it’s the Bar God’s surreal name flips, mayhem-rich punches, righteous personals/boasts to go along with a spicy rebuttal that gets Mr. Myers the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “You rap like you from a parallel universe where Carlton Banks went to public school!”
Recap: From URL’s N.O.M.E. 12 card, slightly more direct with his bars overall while proving to his opponent that he can also spout a nice freestyle game, a turned-up throughout and pretty peeved Nunn Nunn unleashes a gritty and superb punchline troupe in round 1 to take the opener before getting edged in round 2 to an off-the-dome spicy, mayhem/storytelling-rich, slightly more condensed and punch-lit Danny Myers to split things going into round 3. The final round while close and equally lit when it came to rebuttals, gets edged to Nunn Nunn here as the North Carolina rapper’s witty/rigid personals, stinging punches and lofty wordplay/schemes manages to edge another boisterous, but less punch-heavy/potent turn by Danny for the win.
Verdict: Nunn Nunn (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Nunn Nunn – “Like the Last Supper, when they made me a plate with God I thought of Judas!”
Recap: A blazing 1-rounder from TBG sees Danny Myers delivering a barrage of boastful (“My nigga’s asked me, ‘Are you done with OPP?’, yeah you know me for being treacherous!”) barbs, graphic mayhem, sporty personals and raucous lyrical darts to get his point across. But refusing to bow down in the midst of his opponent’s fiery comeuppance, Maryland up-n-comer Oppa, via a gang of mocking/hard-hitting personals, witty zingers and righteous set-ups/punches scores with enough bangers to make this one a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Oppa – “Danny Myers, father, battle rapper, two difficult roles you’re not balancing well, your son got a Danny Myers conversation at 22 and Lil Slap got a battle at 12!”
Recap: Participate in battle rap long enough and rematches are bound to happen. Still, while many heads consider Rum Nitty’s battle against Iron Solomon to be amongst Rum’s finest, for me it’s Rum’s 2013 battle against Danny Myers, a spitfire KOTD classic and was littered in sublime punches from both sides, that’s often overlooked and should be at a million views by now. Either way, with Danny battling like every week these days (and even calling himself now the ‘King of Rematches’), Myers vs. Nitty receives the sequel it didn’t need. And while Part 2 (aka the headliner from URL’s To Live and Die in L.A. card) is a goodie (and thankfully didn’t feature as much dapping as the 1st match did), it doesn’t come anywhere close to matching the consistent, punch-lit performance of its predecessor. An aggressive. off-the-dome spicy and punch-heavy Danny (who’s clearly changed up his battle rap blueprint ever since his Frak battle) offering up a sublime turn to handily take round 1 before Rum steps it up and just gets downright gully with it in the latter rounds, hitting on the rebuttals, fiery gun bars, witty/mocking personals, gritty mayhem and stifling wordplay/set-ups to take rounds 2 and 3 over a much less hitting showing from Danny to earn the win.
Verdict: Rum Nitty (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “Reckless, I’m a bury him. embarrass him, take the metal and crack his face till it start to Cave like I’m from Maryland, no comparison, they just don’t get it, till somebody die…like inheritance!”
Recap: Not to get emotional here, but let’s not front like seeing Danny Myers pay homage to B. Magic’s battle career the way he did in that 3rd round wasn’t touching (and deserving) to say the least. Back to the battle, tho. While Danny had some dope rebuttals and spitfire punches here and there, a flow-challenged round 1 to go along with a Magic on top of his game in the two early rounds via a gang of rapid fire punchlines that killed when it came to set-ups, wordplay, metaphors and similes, would give the St. Louis vet (who also surprisingly pulled out a new slogan) the win in this Shots Fired Battle League 3-rounder, before a slightly more potent Danny edged the 3rd.
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B. Magic – “You can’t see while I’m playing, I’m the 6th man!”
Recap: In a sane world, Danny Myers would probably battle a little less. As recent performances have shown that the Bar God’s immense proclivity for battle rapping can sometimes effect his preparation. Still, here in this dope 1-rounder from GOTG vs. the Gun Titles 1st Lady Pristavia, there’s no doubt that Danny came to win. The West-coast vet delivering a strong and aggressive showing that featured a bunch of raucous punches, grimy personals, nitfy off-the-dome theatrics and all sorts of mayhem to keep the crowd in tune. That said, it wouldn’t be enough. Because you see, there’s a reason Pristavia is a rising star in this game. The Brooklyn rhyme-slinger blowing past a pretty solid effort from her opponent with a fiery barrage of mega-lit personals that touched on everything from fatherhood to Danny’s battle career, while also putting up haymakers with a plethora of fiesty wordplay, stinging set-ups and righteous, Christian-laced burners that put the God in God for a well-earned win.
Verdict: Pristavia (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Pristavia – “Life is a parallel universe Danny, ‘cuz while you was an absent father who didn’t teach his son how to stand up, there was some stand-up dads showing his lil man how to slam dunk!”
Recap: Outside of Danny Myers reaching a bit with the name flips and Rolla (“They say never judge a book by its cover, but I could tell a story [points trigger finger] by its index!”) getting a little winded with the punches towards the end of what was a pretty dope turn, a 1-rounder from Tha Smoke Session that was equally littered a gang of well-laced street darts, brutal mayhem and gritty punchlines on both sides still comes up as a debatable nonetheless.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “You ever found out that your nigga got killed and your face was grim, but you refuse to delete his number because that erases him?!”
Recap: “Do you believe in a lyrical coincidence?!” LOL. Capped by a hilarious 3rd round that featured a gang of mocking personals and 2 rounds beforehand that were littered with biting schemes, braggadocious punches, witty barbs and ill breakdowns, in this 3-rounder from Rap Off, an angle-lit Frak (who also displayed some dope comedic timing here) beats the breaks off a hard-hitting at times (round 2 was his best), but slip-up prone to the point of choking away his 3rd round Danny Myers (who is clearly battling too much) to score a 30.
Verdict: Frak (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Frak – “It seems like all your friend’s names match their various actions…he had a friend named Carrie, he had to carry his casket!”
Recap: Did Danny Myers think that his opening rounds were so fire here that he get away with a lazy 3rd? Or is he battling so much (again) that he just didn’t have the time to conceive a better final round? I’d love to know. Because after splitting (had the more prolific-punching and slightly more haymare-lit Ave edging round 1, before a rebuttal-crazy, wordplay-spicy and versatile Danny handily took round 2) the 1st couple of rounds here vs. Ave on this URL Any Given Sunday card, the Bar God would surprisingly use the same metaphorical, name-dropping angle that he infamously used against Drugz in their battle a couple of years back. But this time with a topsy-turvy effect that clearly wasn’t suited for a large crowd. And with that, it’d be a personal-heavy, brazen and righteous punching Ave who would easily take the deciding round for the win.
Verdict: Ave (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ave – “The only way to take Ave light is in a funeral line!”
Recap: Effectively scoring with a gang of gritty/rapid one-two punches and a bunch of witty barbs, in this 3-rounder from The Battle Academy, Kaboom takes advantage of one too many slip-ups by Danny Myers in round 1 to take the opener and then after losing out to the more name flip/punch-heavy Bar God in round 2, edges the deciding 3rd with another run of piercing bars that haymaker wise out-lit his opponent just enough to get the win.
Verdict: Kaboom (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Kaboom – “Bitch, you’ll get leaned with a stick like a kickstand, I’ll shoot a couple in ya face like Kiss Cam!”
Recap: As entertaining as this one-round ‘Man vs. Kid’ matchup was between Lil Slap and Danny Myers, when it comes to experience, cognitive ability and verbal hijinks, is it really fair for a vet like Danny to be taking on a teenager in a battle? Of course not. But by now we all know that Danny will literally battle anyone and the fact is that even tho a bunch of his raps were clearly influenced by Geechi Gotti, all that gas from the crowd aside, Lil Slap wasn’t that bad here. The youngster going straight as at Danny with a plethora of fierce punches and personals with many landing on their mark. And while he does need to work on his stage presense, versatility and probably shouldn’t let his very pedestrian homies rap again, for a 1st-timer, Slap definitely showed that if he’s willing to put in the work, he can have a future in battle rap. Other than that, Danny was just Danny here. Leaving the intergalactic mayhem at home and going after Slap with a trio of fire rebuttals, hard-hitting personals, aggressive punchlines, witty barbs, some stellar wordplay/storytelling and well-oiled ‘grown man’ talk, it’s the Bar God who handily gets the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “All them times your tooth fell out and you found money under the pillow? that was your Daddy all them days!”
Recap: Two battlers from the school of unbridled mayhem, Danny Myers and Rio Nkosi, go at it for 1 virtual round on The Riot and it’s the veteran Danny who dishes a more substantial and punch-heavy discourse to earn the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “We don’t do paper work, we handle business off blood vials!”
Recap: A few weeks after his memorable battle against Tay Roc, Danny Myers returns to the URL stage for a 1-rounder against Charron and delivers yet another energetic, lyrically conceptual and dope performance (without the lazy race angles). And while Danny also gets credit for having the guts to go first (after winning the coin flip) against one of the best rebuttalers in the game, that choice would ironically play a part in his undoing as the Canadian Wild ‘N Out emcee took his opponent apart with a gang of extra spicy personals, some fire punchlines, witty barbs, ill breakdowns and of course, a couple of room-rocking freestyles/rebuttals towards the end of his turn just to put the icing on the cake.
Verdict: Charron (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Charron – “For better or for worse, that remains on the table, you’re supposed to make her a promise, not make her an angle!”
Recap: Tay Roc versus Danny Myers from URL’s Super Fight 6 card. Let’s deal with all the “controversy” first…well, for starters judging from the hearsay, clips and previews we saw from this battle, the drama that came with it was kind of overblown (and that’s including the argument these two had after their face-off). Accusations of Danny getting gassed what with his friends in the crowd over-reacting when he spit a fire bar? Honestly, outside of rapper Royalty (I think that was him), the feeling here is that Danny’s pals (whether they were going extra with the cheering or approaching him in the ring to dap him) didn’t anything more than what Tsu Surf did rooting on Roc (to the point where even Danny had to tell Surf to shut up). In other words, it wasn’t nothing over the top. Tay Roc using a recycled bar from a virtual battle he did last year against Rio Nkosi? So what. As I’ve said before concerning recycled bars…they’re YOUR bars. So let’s not go crazy and make it like Roc pulled a Prez Mafia here. Then too is the fact that if you go back to the Rio battle, Roc didn’t just go back and use the bars again verbatim. He re-arranged them and it was literally the last bar he spit in a 3rd round I already had him winning. My only issue with recycling comes when either the round is super close (as in a debatable, in which case originality always get first dibs) or if a battler gets lazy and uses a gang of (or in some cases an entire round) of recycled bars during a battle. That said, one could partly blame Roc for stirring the pot in the first place by going on YouTube and stating that he never recycled. Lastly, as we witnessed in the clips to this battle before it dropped, Danny’s rebuttals were superb (esp. the ‘Stop, Hammer Time!’ joint which got him a re-tweet on Twitter from Mr. Hammer himself). Too bad for Danny tho as the rebuts weren’t enough to win. Simply put, after edging round one (which btw was close, thank to a pretty dope turn from Roc) with a classic turn that even the ever-excitable Mr. Myers literally doing push-ups) Danny just got out-barred. Consistently-lit throughout the battle, Roc’s gritty punchlines, fire wordplay, aggressive set-ups, hard-hitting personals (esp. the brazen quips that went right at Danny’s wife and kids) and stifling gun bars were too much to handle in each of the latter rounds. Indeed, except for one or two subpar lines, Roc’s 2nd and 3rd rounds were equally sublime. And while Danny continued to fight hard, dish some fire punches/name flips/witty burners/off-the-dome heat and earn his stripes, one too many indirect bars, pedestrian lines and time spent in the weeds with the mayhem (which Danny is notorious for) would cost him, especially with the amount of haymakers Roc was dropping left and right.
Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tay Roc – “You probably hear those words ‘head wrap’ and feel sick inside, that head wrap symbolize all those rounds you couldn’t memorize, Eazy-E ain’t the only nigga from the West that got Real Sikh and died!”
Recap: From URL’s Traffic 4 card, outside of struggling a bit with his flow in round 2, Ace Amin gives a standout performance for 3 rounds here against Danny Myers. The Maryland gunner (esp. during a superlative round 1) delivering a boatload of hard-hitting punchlines, righteous but captivating street talk, wily/mocking personals, some killer wordplay and of course, a shoulder bump at Danny’s expense to make sure you’re paying attention. Besides his opponent tho, there was only one here for Ace: his longwinded rounds that not including the opening round, couldn’t consistently match his heat. And a more condensed Myers would take advantage of that, all the while dishing his usual array of thrifty mayhem, some stinging personals, fancy ‘parallell universe’ bars, sordid (“I’ll shoot him while he on the toilet, he finally got his ‘Holy shit!'”) punchlines/schemes, lofty personals and even a few spicy rebuttals to edge round 2 and tie things up before the two battlers had an equal proportion of syrupy raps in the 3rd to make this one debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Ace Amin – “You got all those muthafuckin’ kids…everyone in here know you don’t know how to use a Magnum!”
Recap: Pretty solid, gritty and versatile effort by Chuck Book, in this 1-rounder from GOTG, gets beat by a much more condensed, rebuttal-slinging, name flip/storytelling-lit, intricate and raucous punching Danny Myers.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “We could take it to the streets, but I got a group of men who voted to take Book out like the council of Nicaea!”
Recap: In this fiery 1-rounder from Ball Hogg Ent., a pretty solid Turk uses a gang of raucous punches (that Real Sikh line was crazy) and a versatile bars to keep it close. But a slightly more condensed, consistent, off-the-dome spicy, mayhem-rich, just as punch heavy and righteous when needed Danny Myers gets the edge here.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Me and your bitch, just like that coin flip, I got head twice!”
Recap: Danny Myers pays a visit to South Carolina and makes quick work of G Dot. The Bar God surpassing a mostly monotonous, but mayhem-lit 4-bar punching effort from his opponent with a fiery and aggressive mix of mocking personals, raucous punchlines and witty barbs to handily get the win in thsi 1-rounder from South Carolina Battle League.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “My nigga’s will shoot you because they need practice!”
Recap: Two of the most prolific battle rappers in the game, Danny Myers and Dre Dennis, meet up on GOTG and outside of clear win in the 3rd round or Dre (where he used a stellar angle dripped in spitfire personals that easily beat what was a throwaway/complimentary turn by Danny), this one was extremely close. Indeed, while in both of the opening rounds Dennis excelled at dishing hardbody set-ups with spicy punches, it’s the slightly more storytelling/punch-lit, witty and condensed Myers who edges both turns for the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Hey, I was about to battle this nigga right outside, but Dre got to him first!”
Recap: The Battle Academy 1-rounder finds Bill Collector, after a bit of a slow start, get back on his grind with some fierce back-to-back punchlines that coupled with some witty personals, made things close in the end. But it’s a steadier Danny Myers, flexing with a some fiery schemes, wicked punches/set-ups and gripping personals, who spouts enough damage to earn the win.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “Knocked him in a parallel universe where I ain’t got no kids…this shit quite boring, then I beat this pussy to death and the judge gave me 10 life for him!”
Recap: Wily effort here from Danny Myers, who during his 1-round turn keeps things interesting with a couple of spicy rebuttals to go along with a bunch of noteworthy name flips and gritty punchlines. But with the Bar God sporting some mediocre punches as well as Danny reaching a bit on some of his bars, it’s the aggressive, steady and bullish taunts, fiery boasts, vivid gun bars and steely punches/personals from Ton that allows the PyrexxBattleLeague battler to pull off the upset.
Verdict: Ton (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Ton – “Your bitch, a freak ho, specialize deep throat, no walls, off top…Gazebo!”
Recap: From Philly’s The Battle Academy, Danny Myers and E. Ness enlist in a competitive back-n-forth for 3 rounds that not only featured a host of fiery 4-bar set-ups/punches, but a nice Ness impression by Danny too. Yet while Ness entertained his home crowd with an assortment of witty barbs and some gritty bomb-throwers, it’s the more condensed, steadily efficient with the bars, rebuttal-drooping and gun bar/wordplay-savvy Myers wo earns the 30.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I’m 41, you 43, shit, you gotsa know your worth, all that’s telling me…you gonna see the .44 first!”
