Recap: From Chrome23, the gang of hitting name flisp were to be expected. But the consistent ability to also score with a boatload of righteous darts, some fire wordplay, witty personals and gritty punchlines (as a pretty solid throughout, aggressive and often pumh-lit, but a bit pedestrian and flow-challenged at times ShooneyDa Rapper finds out here) is not only what separates E-Hart from the rest, but earns her a gentle lady’s 30 here.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 3-0
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Y’all were best friend goals, all ya pics I was hitting ‘likes’, thinking to myself me and my honies gotta get it right!”
Recap: Not sure why a battle of this magnitude, between two top tier femcees, didn’t receive the proper promo it should’ve received. But nonetheless, Coffee Brown versus E-Hart for 3 rounds gets platformed on Black Ice Cartel and while Coffee seemed on a hundred throughout when it came to a will to win…E-Hart? Not so much. The veteran Bronx, NY emcee getting by on sheer talent moreso than moxie as her gritty punchlines, gun bars, wordplay and name flips edges her round 1, before the more aggressive and bombastic Coffee’s graphic punches, wicked set-ups, witty (“Standing there, looking like everything they put our people through”) personals and other mayhem-lit darts helped her edge round 2 to tie things up. However, Coffee’s mid-round slip-up in the third round, despite her excellent start, ultimately cost her. This allowed E-Hart, who delivered a strong but beatable “AMG mode” performance, to even the score, resulting in a tie.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Get back-slapped for the cap and I stay with it tucked, I got one arm and I’m right here saying ‘What’s up!'”
Recap: As long as they’ve both been in the game, it’s a surprise that QB and E-Hart hadn’t met up yet one-on-one. But here they finally are for a 3-rounder on Chrome 23 and as it turns out, it was certainly worth the wait. QB keeping it competitive with a piercing assortment of mean/witty personals, hitting name flips and gritty punchlines, while an aggressive more than usual and in-ya-face Hart wilded out with a gang of stinging/sporty wordplay, fire name flips of he own, boastful darts and in a departure from her usual m.o., a cluster of pent-up personals. Add in a pretty solid 2nd round freestyle/rebuttal from Hart and QB failing to meet the bar Hart set when it came to punches and it’s the Bronx vixen to does enough to take both of the opening rounds for the win before a more efficient QB salvaged the 3rd.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Fake nigga, you sneak bitches afraid to knuckle up, play nigga, I sleep bitches, I make ’em cuddle up!”
Recap: SMH. I’ll never understand battle rap hosts (esp. those who are battle rappers themselves) disrespecting the artform by talking through a battlerss round. Like, make it make sense. Either way, while the needless chit-chatter caused her to stop her 2nd round short and quit, E-Hart’s 1st and 3rd, in this 3-rounder from OSBL, filled to the brim with a bunch of stinging punchlines, heated wordplay/gun bars and raucous name flips, still gets her win over a gritty and solid at times, but mostly pedestrian Don Ladyii.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “This battle y’all should call me E. Corleone, ‘cz it’s lights out I’m killing the Don then I’m going home!”
Recap: Nice vet move by E-Hart there in the 3rd round, putting some bars together at the end of her turn to avoid the choke. Still, considering the big hiccup in round 3, it’s a good thing Infinite-E already had this mayhem/punch-lit Bullpen Battle League 3-rounder against Cashflo Rizzy in the bag. Ms. Hart using a boatload of hard-hitting name flips, flexing gun bars and stinging wordplay to take the first couple of rounds for the win before the gritty and often-spazzing with puchlines (tho a couple of slip-ups in round 1 did hurt her a bit) Cashflo stepped it up and literally went ham in the final round to avoid getting shutout.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Even tho I have a bag, I’m still strapped for Cash!”
Recap: Rarely do I go there, but despite a pretty solid effort overall from Chetta, E-Hart clearly got robbed by the judges in this Chrome 23 tourney battle. And that’s even while giving Chetta the edge in round 2. But while the battlers were pretty equal on the name flips during the 3 rounds, Hart’s more intricate punches, clever wordplay, a spicy freestyle to open her final turn and heavy-handed personals/boasts/gun bars definitively added up to more haymakers in the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Move quick [bobs and weaves] or crack her [cracker] in the mouth, it’s communion!”
Recap: While the slick wordplay and fierce punches/name flips we’ve come to expect from E-Hart were for the most part there. In this 3-rounder against Ryda from Bring Ya Bars Battles League, the Bronx vet’s noted consistency and preparation weren’t, leaving the Maryland emcee, armed with a barrage of fiery punches, boastful barbs, scathing personals and flexing gun bars/name flips throughout the battle with a Gentleman’s 30.
Verdict: Ryda (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Ryda – “Save it bitch, one bullet will turn Hart foundation into Make-A-Wish!”
Recap: As per usual, E. Ness’ rambunctious, old-school cadence and barrels of wit kept the crowd entertained and scored him a few haymakers here and there. But in this dope 1-rounder from Step Your Ink Game Up, it’s a consistently-lit, gun bar blazing, wordplay/name flip spicy and personal/punch crazy E. Hart who cooks up more than enough heat to earn the win.
Verdict: E. Hart (W) 1-0
Favorite line: E. Hart – “So many guns in the car, the nigga Reed will get mad!”
Recap: From QOTR’s Heir To The Throne card, spitfire and haymaker-drenched battle between a (“So I be by the door with the hoodie low, lacking confidence, giving good pussy energy tho, I got the wildest grip!”) gun-ba/punch-heavy and often stifling First Ladii Flamez and an ever gritty and wordplay-lit E-Hart, comes down to the more condensed and versatile (via a bunch of righteous banter, fiery punchlines, head-ringing name flips and gripping personals) Hart taking round 2 (after a debatable round 1) while the heat-fortified and slightly more punch-lit Flamez edged the 3rd to make this one a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: E-Hart – “If you want beef over buns, I might let Jakk in the box!”
Recap: Verbal War Zone 3-round battle on beats between E-Hart and Young L has the former delivering a steady dose of spirited punchlines, some piercing wordplay, a standout performance and gritty mayhem, while rapping in sync to each of the beats. An aggressive Young L, however, after spitting enough gritty name flips and heated gun bars to make for a debatable 1st, would choke away his 2nd round to his opponent before getting beat again in the 3rd thanks to a versatile and dope showing by Hart..
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “20/20 vision, [points hand like a gun at Young L’s head], I hit it, it won’t be a good year!”
Recap: A closer battle then what the reactions and recaps have showed, a performance-rich K-Shine’s raucous rhythms, nasty personals, witty anecdotes, flashy gun bars and piercing punchlines/schemes are enough to give a punch-heavy, but wordplay-moderate and a bit slip-up prone E-Hart, a rare loss (debatable 2nd, but Shine took the 1st and 3rd rounds) in this Kings vs. Queens 3-rounder from URL/Smack.
Verdict: K-Shine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: K-Shine – “I changed the game, you ain’t got the same passion as me, Johnny Tapia, about to fill the whole casket with E!”
Recap: Close one-rounder from Step Your Ink Game Up between E-Hart and Dubb Da Feenom features a gang of raucous raps and brazen punches, but in the end while also taking advantage of Hart’s less-than-usual buzzing wordplay, the more steadier hitting and name flip/personal-lit Dubb gets the vic at the end.
Verdict: Dubb Da Feenom (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Dubb Da Feenom – “I came strapped for this occasion like a lesbian date!”
Recap: Pretty good effort here from Melato Black, who despite struggling with her flow at times, for the most part spit some ridiculous/flexing punchlines to make things competitive in this 3-rounder versus E. Hart. But after taking the 1st round and getting edged in the 2nd, Hart (who was surprisingly heavy with on the performance tip throughout the match) takes the deciding 3rd round with a roundhouse of grandiose name flips, stinging punchlines/gun bars and enough verbal dexterity that beats back another solid, but not as potent turn by her opponent.
Verdict: E. Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E. Hart – “First it was Boom then it was Kannon, you starting to sound like that nigger, everybody in the game that she fucked…black mirrors!”
Recap: One-rounder from 1 Grind Battle League sees E-Hart turn around a gritty and solid, but elongated showing from Hoodie Cruger with a lucid display of grimy street darts, daunting punchlines, mocking personals and stifling name flips to give the Bronx bomber the win.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 1-0
Favorite line: E-Hart – “What you spent to get me here?, major loss, you could call him Twerk apparel cuz Hoodie’s never taken off!”
Recap: Even if it’s over beats here on Verbal War Zone, it makes sense that if E-Hart and O’fficial were going to battle again, they do it for 3 rounds instead of 1 like they did the first time. And while the selected beats could’ve been hotte and both battlers brought plenty of gritty lines, the final result is the same as their first battle from 4 years ago: a more potent bar-wise Hart getting the win by this time taking the latter two rounds after getting edged by a more flow-proficient and condensed O’fficial in the first.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Running through shit, I’m in my terrible two’s!”
Recap: After a debatable 1st round that saw them both toe the line on potency, E-Hart’s stinging wordplay, gritty name flips and searing punchlines (that even included a rare rebuttal) are more than enough to beat back the boisterous and oft-witty, but hit-n-miss and a bit flow-challenged stylings of Drugz in the latter rounds of this 3-rounder from Bring Ya Barz Battle League.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Drugz, if I’m offended by anything you said today, weapons spray, your last good day will be yesterday!”
Recap: It’s been said that in order to beat the best, you have to be the best. But then not everything in the world is as black and white as we like to believe or sometimes take for granted. Or in the case of this spitfire, 3-round battle between Stuey Newton and E-Hart, Newton, already a fire puncher in his own right, taking advantage of going second in each round with a pretty solid rebuttal game that especially worked to his benefit in edging the deciding 3rd round after edging a close 1st with more (.38 to ya chest, now I’ll always have a special place in ya heart [Hart]!”) haymakers. Granted, throughout this battle Hart was on top of her shit, dishing out rampant (“Twin pistols under the hoodie, but it looks like it’s one, if I start lighting one, you better have an iron lung, I’ll get every nigger in your circle smoked like the cypher’s done!”) heat, nifty wordplay and flexing punches at will. But except for a superb 2nd round that saw Hart literally overwhelm her opponent with too many haymakers, Newton not only took advantage of some reaches/redundant themes by Hart but stayed toe-to-toe with his opponent via his own fly composition of wily personals, hard punchlines, gritty gun bars/name flips and conscious bar flexing. The latter making for a nice comeback to Hart’s fiery attempt at going at Newton for being married to a white woman in spite of his moniker.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “I told you, I’m letting the body drop…I ain’t gonna hodl you!”
Recap: In this 1-rounder from Premiere Rap Battle League, a mayhem-lit Zan and a fiery E-Hart trade a bunch of hardbody punchlines. But it’s the slightly more consistently lit and name flip stunting Hart who edges things for the win.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 1-0
Favorite line: E-Hart – “I’ll Black on her, full-blown tan on Zan, 2 kicks, size 8 put both Zan’s on Zan!”
Recap: Unafraid to stamp her mark in the female battle rap game, hitting with visceral punches left and right all the while dishing some extra heat with piercing name flips as well as hard gun bars, E-Hart easily beats back a solid at times, but inconsistent Ms. Miami in this 1-rounder from Step Your Ink Game Up.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 1-0
Favorite line: E-Hart – “I threw her in the trunk, where no one could hear the screams, then burnt the body, in a dark place where nobody care or seen [kerosene]!”
Recap: Showing off her versatility with some flippant schemes, that when added to an already winsome collection of fiery punchlines, gripping mayhem and piercing name flips makes her almost unbeatable, E-Hart easily beats back the bullish, but inconsistent stylings of Panic in this gritty 1-rounder from Bar4Bar Rap Battles.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 1-0
Favorite line: E-Hart -“Y’all thinking I’m a need a gun for Panic? that’s just wrong, the blade is not a missed shell [Michelle], I’m Michonne!”
Recap: Hey, it’s 2018, so I guess it was only a matter of time before gay dudes started battle rapping, especially what with the female battle rap side being dominated by so many lesbians for so long. That said, take away the annoying voice and Flyking wasn’t half bad, using repeated personals/pontifications, style (“They thinking ‘cuz I’m gay I can’t withstand a Bronx gangsta, but there’s faggots and fruits standing in front of every Bronx bodega!”) bars and name flips to score here and there, before getting stale with too much usage of the same themes. Still, on experience alone, one had to think that there was no way E-Hart was losing this battle and you’d be right. Casually riffing with sheer (“You look like your mom’s nicknamed you ‘Buttercup’!”) wit, nifty personals, sizzling wordplay and fiery bars, Hart was so nice in the first couple of rounds, that one can almost forgive her for pretty much taking the last round off and not getting the 30.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “He don’t know if he wanna be King or marry one, he don’t know if he wanna suck dick or helium!”
Recap: The Trap NY 1-rounder between Young Bmore and E-Hart sees the former deliver a solid trilogy of pent-up pontifications/schemes, fiery punchlines and stinging personals/name flips to make things competitive despite a couple of slip-ups and some pedestrian bars here and there. But flexing throughout the battle with a fire punchline game, stifling gun bars, gritty name flips and a rare, but hilarious roasting session on her opponent’s hairline (or lack thereof), a more condensed and spitfire E-Hart takes this one.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 1-0
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Pass the 5th, I dumb out like I ain’t pass the 5th!”
Recap: They put the vet E-Hart in the ring with a rookie, Uneek Fatal, and the results, surprisingly, turned out to be a mixed bag. As for the first two rounds, the newbie impressed with some consistently hot bars that were only set back by Hart’s more versatile palette of fiery personals, rigid gun lines and charming wordplay. Still, competitive entering the 3rd despite being edged in the early rounds, Fatal would falter under her own bravado, choking mid-round to warrant the 30, but overall still showing enough potential to get another looksee.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 3-0
Favorite line: E-Hart -“Long rams, you’ll get blocked, you should’ve never tried to shoot ya shot!”
Recap: Pretty solid, aggressive, raucous and competitive effort by Bad Newz here. But outside of a surprising 2nd round choke, E-Hart’s piercing pen game, fiery wordplay, gritty personals/gun bars and stinging name flips prove to be too much in both the 1st and 3rd rounds for her opponent, thus giving the Bronx, NY, spitter a win in her first intergender battle.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Loso 3-0, now me, you been getting bodied since, there’s levels when you building and you been in the lobby since!”
Recap: The O.G. Moon and the O.G. E Hart hook up for this intergender, one-round matchup on the Bring Ya Barz Battle League stage. Moon, after proclaiming at the start that he’d be challenging his opponent’s G-status, undoubtedly came fierce with a barrage of ill (“I put nigga’s in the ground, ask the last asshole, only thing is, you’d have to dig him up to ask the question, ‘cuz when the gun’s in my hand, it sings like a white boy band, but I pointed it at more then One Direction!”) street chatter that validated his resume. However, Moon’s propensity to go a little overkill on Hart’s looks would end up hurting him a bit as a slow-to-start-but-eventually-turned-up Hart steady dalliances of potent (“They ask if Hart can spit with these nigga’s, who’s a wrestling fan?, check my record, E C W’s, Yes I can!”) wordplay, lofty name flips and gritty street ethos not only got the crowd hype, but more importantly, edged Hart the win.
Verdict: E Hart (W) 1-0
Favorite line: E Hart – “Bitches knwo what really the deal, why he sleep?, you was thinking that E light, I’m Elite!”
Recap: After years of chatter, Jaz the Rapper and E-Hart finally meet up on the URL/Smack stage and as each battler’s immense talent and track record would lead you to expect, it’s a fire battle throughout. As for who won? The verdict here essentially comes down to the closest round, the 1st. That said, while E-Hart’s 3rd round was her shortest, the Bronx vet did spit some witty (“You been to more URL battles than Smack!”) lines in the last round that often hit their mark. But versus a thunderous (i.e. classic) round from Jaz that featured some fiery wordplay,, mean, body-dropping (“I’ll kill your daughter then you’ll die right after her…Debbie Reynolds!”; “Why that man let you keep it?, Oh I know ho…the 1st baby-mom always ugly, that’s a broke ho!”) personals and a funny appearance from pop dukes, Hart had no chance there. However, with Hart utilizing some elite wordplay to land (“I’ll catch Jaz wherever she at, like this block is mine, hit her with .9 and then walk away like I copped a dime!”) haymaker after (“You’ll get these bars like I wrote for a nigga…that’s equality!”) haymaker after (“Get it poppin’, I give it up like it’s forgotten, we questioning if you thoting, but that’s a different topic, the K low next to one Tray, that’s Tristan Thomson!”) haymaker with effortless proficiency in the middle round, she’d handily beat back what was an altogether (“So try somethin, ‘cuz I’m hunting, got beef and I invite myself to the cookout, like ‘Hi cousin!'”) solid turn from Jaz. Which brings back us back to the opening round, which saw both rappers mixing it up with an equal amount of stifling punches, stinging bars and hitting personals. And while Jaz was ready with a spicy (“O’fficial did not kill me, so y’all can stop the hating, it was the first time a bitch fought back, so it shocked the nation!”) shot at Hart after the latter went at her loss to O’fficial and kept it close with her own zesty (“The only match to see this Crown Royal is E and J!”) shiners and loaded schemes, it was Hart who was a little more direct and consistently (“Two guns, that’ll sing to ya, meet R and B, not one Bone, Thug in you, don’t speak to Harmony [harming E]!”) fiery with the punches, which in turn enabled her to get the win.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “You tried to explain your death, I was like stop it with the tweets already, after O’fficial fucked your night up, you was Ayesha Curry!”
Recap: Pretty good battle between the subtle, but deadly E-Hart and the never lacking for confidence 40 Barrs on the Queen of the Ring stage. I got them split after 2 rounds with Hart taking the 1st with a tighter delivery while edging it on the ill punchline and (“It’s no mercy or sympathy when this bird gets cooked every round, like rotisserie!”, “Tonight is like you coppin’ a molly, you get a different E!”) haymaker count, but 40 coming back deftly with some dope schemes, gritty (“My trigger history E, no mystery, I’ll put a finger on it”) gun bars and brash (“This guerrilla warfare, so fuck you and that monkey, it’s a must-see, I bust E, leave both y’all bitches funky!”) personals to even things out. Last round goes to Hart, who despite an admitted slight stumble, still delivered better wordplay along with more potent (“What real bitch woulda owned being homeless?, not this one, i would’ve respect you a bit more if you ain’t rap about a gum, while you was applying for shelters, i would’ve robbed the state out of one!”) personals to get the dub at the end.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “I’m back on my job, you was only a temp hire, now you gonna have to Cook e [Cookie] to take over this Empire!”
Recap: Landing (“You lucky bitch, this should have been on a different card, it’s like you moved up on the donor’s list, is how you was given Hart [heart]”) haymakers without conscious, dropping hard (“They said shit I could expose but why bother, you’ll turn Clips and scream you was raised by your mama, salute that, she taught you morals, how to stand up with honor, but all that ass, they say you got it from your father!”) personals that literally had her opponent get caught up in her emotions and spitting a higher (“School’s in, recess over, who’s next in line?, everybody gotta learn, it’s no child left behind!”) bar quotient throughout with a flourescent flow and agile delivery, E-Hart delivers the goods with enough fire in rounds 1 and 2 to take out a highly (“‘Cuz I came to bomb on you, in this letter I wrote, every page grenades, strapped with razor blades, to cut Hart like we playing spades”!) competitive, but not as consistent C3. Obviously still thinking she could take the match, a more aggressive C3 saved her strongest (“…’cuz I wanna know, how you make it so far E, when you never been charged up enough to go Back to Back?”) round for the 3rd, but despite some (“But keep up with me, because MC squared, that’s a two, but what happens when you give that emcee 3?, she getting cubed”; “If y’all thought she was gonna school me like Joe Clark, I guess everybody on E side [Eastside] high”) shiners and crazy wordplay here and there, a little too much filler, elongated set-ups, schemes that failed to land and Hart’s dazzling performance cost her early.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “I’m laughing at how these hoes be acting, I’m twice as real, if I ain’t got it, I’ll reach for your gun, like I like to steal, y’all like that ignorant shit, but I’m righteous still, the left keep the peace, but nigga I got a right to kill!”)
Recap: Nice amount of witty (“Call me Ms. Hustle, ‘cuz I ain’t start punching yet”) jokes and gritty bars from O’ffcial in this one-rounder against E-Hart. But some weak name flips on top of some ample filler hurts her.when confronted by Hart’s better display of consistently (“Tough if you like me or not, you better ask and fear, 50 bitches jump on you like they smell Axe in here”) hot bars, wordplay and aggressive (“When them nina’s start clapping asses, that’s what I call twerk”) gun lines that gives her the win. Still, these two have put in too much work to just be battling for one round only.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 1-0
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Funny she from Louisiana, but she ain’t seasoned right”
Synopsis: Wow. No surprise to see E Hart put on her usual clinic: gritty line after line, mean schemes (“Nom4 I’m watching, the shit was a shame, crowd went crazy for your nonsense, the shit gotta change, that Tomb Raider thing was cool but it was lame, because Lara Croft was never the first bitch in the game”), grown-ass woman bars that’ll leave you shook, etc. But this battle will probably be more remembered for Gattas putting on her worse show ever, from constantly letting the crowd get to her (and they weren’t even that bad), weak bars, little to no performance, a slip-up and on top of that a choke–name your worst female battler and it’s almost like they over Gattas’ body for 3 rounds here.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 3-0
Best line: E-Hart – “On any given day shooters getting patient with that thing, yunno calm, mellow (Carmelo) just waiting for that ring”
Recap: Chayna Ashley uses delicious (“I brought niggas that lft spirits like choirs do, these unemployed men [unemployment] still send bucks when they fire’d you!”) wordplay, lofty swag and nifty (“And y’all gave her the corwn, then who had it before E”, how is she the answer, when A through D come before E?”) punchlines to give E-Hart a fight…that is, until surprising slip-ups in rounds 2 and 3 ruin any chance she had of winning this battle. Besides that, it was toe-to-toe elite gun chatter, fiery bars and nice braggadocio (E-Hart: “I’m too quick, I don’t think you can jab with me, big bitches like you be resorting to grabbing me, well grab and I’ll grab back,if I fall you’ll get dragged with me, they’ll think I’m leaving the lab because I’m taking those tracks with me!”) lines on both sides. But Hart’s unwavering flow and potent personals end up securing the win.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Hand out the window like I’m dumping the ashtray…no hand out the window start dumping and give Ash trey!”
Recap: Ms. Fit and E-Hart go toe-for-toe in a highly entertaining batting on the Queen of the Ring stage. Probably the closest Hart has come to losing at this point, as despite some filler here and there Ms. Fit’s witty (“And what’s the ‘E’ stand for anyway, Eric? Elgin? Elvis? Edwin? [points at Hart and smiles]…Edmund?”) performance bars and jaunty (“See, I grew up in a home you get your shit pushed front if you ain’t fight back, so while your granny was screaming ‘Get in the crib before shit get worse’, my daddy was screaming ‘You better hit that bitch first!'”) angles equaled Hart’s caustic “(Ms. Fit did this…man stop fronting, when it comes to heat play, she’s Tre’ like ‘let me out I’m not coming'”) wordplay and sharp (“You expect me to believe that you be letting your Tek blow, when you aspire to be a nigga named Ernesto?”) one-liners in rounds 1 and 3. So it’s the second round that made the difference here as Hart stayed with an aggressive flow that combined with dope braggadocio (“You got a little bit of heart, but it’s Micro soft, if we heard you moving that Game boy we in your pockets like a Dx, P.S. it ain’t a Game Boy!”) bars that consistently scored and outperformed a shorter round by Ms. Fit that was doubly hit and miss.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “I don’t respect you for one reason, you send your bitch to get the pads when you be the one bleeding!”)
Synopsis: Unlike, say women’s basketball, female battle rappers have long proven that they can put on just as good a show, and/or competition, as their male counterparts. That’s more than the case here as Ms. Hustle and E-Hart go toe-to-toe during all 3 rounds in what was Smack/URL’s 1st ever female battle. I got Hustle taking round 1 as her stage presence, performance and bars were so wicked and raw (“I wouldn’t fuck her with Wendy Williams dick”) that early on E-Hart didn’t stand much of a chance. However, thanks in part to Hustle’s obsession with wanting to battle QB, Hart came back and edged round 2 by staying consistent and continuing to style on Hustle’s realness, alleged promiscuity and money in the bank. The 3rd was classic, with Hustle telling joke after hilarious joke on Hart’s livelihood, but an elongated round and a brief stumble gave Hart a chance for the dub, which she took with ample jokes (“stop it you’ll never be poppin’, you Babs Bunny”) along with lethal personals to win it on points.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Best line: Ms. Hustle – “I’m Ms. Hustle, they know I push that white so they get it from me, so her real reason for coming here wasn’t to battle, it was to see if her crackhead ass could get a sample or get it for free, ‘No Bitch, 25 for 3!'”
Recap: E-Hart successfully displays that she’s not your ‘average bitch’, dishing a scathing mix of brash (“It’s too easy I’m murdering every thing ’round here, no disrespect but next time I might have to come at the king ’round here”) punchlines and fiery (“Lyrically, she Muggsy Bogues trying to get at Mike”) bars to take the first couple of rounds here easy versus a struggling Trice. And while Trice was jokingly (“You look like a spokesman for Newports, you got that bogie look”) on her way to salvaging the last round, a trio of visits from Earl ended up giving Hart the 3-0.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 3-0
Favorite line: E-Hart – “The only way you gonna win tonight, is if everybody that watch the shit hit the pipe!”
Recap: Bronx versus Bronx sees a confident E-Hart totally annihilate Ladi Treez for 3 rounds with a steady stream of bully (“I’m from New York, but I’ll A-town stomp a bitch!”) bars, assertive street (“I’m from Cortlandt, and niggas know what we about, been in them streets since you was afraid to leave the house!”) chatter and rich schemes. Ladi Treez, who mostly freestyled her first round and clearly pulled her second from a song, never stood a chance when faced with Hart’s aggressive flow combined with gritty polemics.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 3-0
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Those was warning shots, next time I’m on ya block, and you won’t have a chance to call ya fam before they call the cops, then I’m off ya block, run and toss the glock and where you stand is where you land, that’s where they gonna pour Ciroc!”
