Recap: From Kill Switch Battle League, a lot of nasty work with the 4-bar punches and a fleet of spicy gun bars makes this 1-rounder between Cortez and Gwitty both entertaining and competitive. However, even with a couple of dry spots here and there, it’s the more performance-lit and slightly more haymaker-friendly Gwitty (while also taking advantage of a more flow-challenged Cortez) who ends up getting the win.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Gwitty – “I shot a Spanish at a wedding all you saw was rice and beans!”
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Gwitty defeats J. Murda
Recap: While J. Murda showed off a nice rebuttal game, offered up a dope cameo from Showoff and added his usual assortment of gritty bars/wordplay to the mix, in this 3-rounder from Kill Switch Battle League, Gwitty did something that’d probably guarantee him bigger plates in the future: unleash 3 consistent rounds of fierce name flips, entertaining wordplay, flexing gun lines and piercing punchlines to take rounds 1 and 3 (call the 2nd debatable) for the win.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Gwitty – “My beams, only seen on DVD, they blue ray!”
Gwitty defeats Prez Mafia
Recap: From We Go Hard, a dope 1st round by a punch-heavier Prez Mafia is met with the same treatment by a punch-heavier Gwitty in round 2. The deciding 3rd however, while it had its moments, ended up being pretty mediocre on both sides. But with Prez struggling to remember his bars and then deciding to end his round early, it’s the more dependable and cleaner Gwitty who outlasts his opponent for the win.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Gwitty – “Ratchet on a President, Olivia Pope, this is a Scandal!”
Steams defeats Gwitty
Recap: Good thing he caught himself and got back to spazzing as a near choke midway through what was a fierce, punch-heavy, wordplay-nice, name flip-lit and electrifying turn from Steams almost prevented this We Go Hard 1-round win over a pretty solid and ever eccentric, but not as consistently biting Gwitty.
Verdict: Steams (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Steams – “Midterms coming up, I’m a finish you Paper, you got a problem? Doctor’s appointment, It’ll get physical later!”
Swave Sevah defeats Gwitty
Recap: Pretty sure that Gwitty didn’t intend on being as funny as his opponent Swave Sevah certainly did in this witty 1-rounder from A New Era Comglomerate. But nonetheless he was, which while helping to keep things close, even with some nice punches mixed in, wasn’t enough to beat back Swave’s continual barbs on Gwitty’s alleged issues with hygiene.
Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Yo, this smell got me dumb mad bro, yo pass me the bag, I’m a splatter bum, no better yet, let’s put soap in a sock, wet it & beat him until he lather up!”
Awthentic defeats Gwitty
Recap: From WeGoHard, Long Island, NY versus Long Island, NY aka Gwitty vs. Awthentic stays close for a couple of rounds before a sublime 3rd by an already up 2-0 (thanks to a couple of steadier-hitting and more efficient turns in both of the openers) Awthentic, via a gang of intricate/boastful punches and that more than sizzled with its stream of killer wordplay/similes serves as the coup de grace over an opponent who while clearly prepared with a steady bag of crowd-pleasing euphemisms, gritty street tales and other performance-rich darts, was way too pedestrian overall to keep up.
Verdict: Awthentic (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Awthentic – “3rd round, it’s time to show the nigga he not tough, I’ll put a taser ro this Grape and turn Watts’ up!”
Ryda defeats Gwitty
Recap: In this solid 1-rounder from Kill Switch Battle League, Gwitty’s mostly anecdotal bars/residual mayhem/name flips are hit or miss. But a more versatile and consistent Ryda, confidently segueing from witty barbs to stifling gun bars to dope set-ups/schemes to rich personals to righteous pontifications on the state of battle rap takes this one.
Verdict: Ryda (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Ryda – “Bigger 9!…nah, I rather use some shit that’s mine, little blade…keep swiping like my shit’s declined!”
Gwitty defeats Moon
Recap: Both having had beef’s with Drugz alone makes for a compelling battle, but personals aside, in this 1-rounder from Kill Switch Battle League, it’s Gwitty’s potent name flips, fiery punchlines and righteous mayhem along with a solid, O.G.-bent turn by Moon being cut short, gives Paper the win.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Gwitty – “Arm strong, we could jump him it’s smooth, he out of space, stomp his face…first nigger to walk on the Moon!”
Gwitty defeats Mo Mula
Recap: Against a mostly unprepared, mostly stale with the jokes and all over the place Mo Mula, a hyped up Gwitty, via a fresh plate of rapidly fierce punchlines, piercing personals and some head-ringing wordplay, makes for easy work to score the win on this 3-round We Go Hard Love Day card.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Gwitty – “All you got is the Cakes, you a basic bitch!”
Drugz defeats Gwittty
Recap: Fire battle between Gwitty and Drugz, what with plenty of dope personals and real tension in lieu of past drama between the two for the past year or so. Drugz shines hard in the 1st round, dishing steely punches and stinging gun (“Mini rocket launcher look like a news camera!”) bars left and right with wild-eyed intensity on his mark, while easily beating back a mostly pedestrian turn by Gwitty. 2nd round, however is all Gwitty, scoring at will with crisp (“This the dirtiest matchup on Smack…Xcel verse Anubis!”) jab after (“You out here acting reckless, they think he wilding, his record clean, that’s why they call him Drugz [drugs], he non-violent!”) jab, all the while slumping his opponent to the point of pretty much giving up the round and evening up the match. A solid, (“Have my bitch suck his dick, my ratchet head-tap him…blow his brain!”) punch-heavy, personal-drenched turn from Gwitty in the 3rd and final round gives him a nice chance to take a win here. However, Drugz wouldn’t be having it, dishing exquisite (“But my daughter was born yesterday, y’all seen Final Destination? the only think that could stop death is new life!”) set-ups in-between witty pontifications and grandiose braggadocio bars, it’s the more versatile DMV rapper’s vic for the taking.
Verdict: Drugz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Drugz – “Now I bring death upon Paper…a eulogy!”
Gwitty defeats So Severe
Recap: Accusing a battle rapper of being gassed isn’t always easy to do, but once So Severe had the audacity to spit, in 2018, a Busta Rhymes/Spliff Star bar and get away with it, you just knew that something ain’t right here. Besides that, even a Gwitty on his B-game has enough puchback to beat the mostly light bars his opponent was kicking.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Gwitty – “Another cat, with a chihuahua face, looking stupid, Ren and Stimpy!”
Gwitty defeats Badd Newz
Recap: Funny how nice Gwitty can be when he dispenses with the gibberish for wit and fiery punches that actually make sense. The latter is the case here and against a very underwhelming opponent in Badd Newz, that’s adds up to an easy vic in this one-rounder from The Trap..
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Gwitty – “From zero to negative 10, what I rate you, you a Smickie D’s burger, Mercy!, I mean fake food!”
Brooklyn Carter defeats Gwitty
Recap: Deftly using props, more prepared with the personals and all in all more direct with approach than his anecdote-heavy opponent and coming off a couple of subpar performances on the URL stage, a consistently nicer Brooklyn Carter gets back in his bag all the while spazzing astutely on a seemingly lesser inspired Gwitty.
Verdict: Brooklyn Carter (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Brooklyn Carter – “I ain’t take this battle because it was him, I took this battle to get under your skin and boooyyyy you’ll be bubbling then!”
Gwitty and Zeus da God (Debatable)
Recap: Gwitty’s rampant and elongated anecdotes versus Zeus da God’s hard and schizophrenic (“You get cracked baby, I been known to live the 80 life!”) rap stylings make for lots of noise and some witty bars, but not much in the way of steady, consistent heat from either battler. Thus, call it a 1-rounder that didn’t really prove who was better.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Gwitty – “I be rebelling, while smoking the weed I’m selling, I can take an ‘L’!”
Swamp defeats Gwitty
Recap: Dope battle between Swamp and Gwitty, sees them both packed with heated bars, rich set-ups, witty lines and various methods of destruction. Still, while Gwitty for the most part came (“I’m mad skinny, I need a country girl to get with me, I beat all in her face, I heard y’all eat good in the country…I expected more on my plate!”) nice with his despite struggling with his flow here and there, a slightly more consistent with the punches and more (“‘I said ‘cuz this is not an act, I’ll pull up where you popping at and pop a gat, have the cig tucked behind a nigga ear like its the last one from out the pack!”) haymaker dropping Swamp ends up taking this one-rounder from No Ransom BL.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “I hope you came on your A-1 shit, no slip-ups or stumbles, I hope you came with balance, ‘cuz I got beams, machines, bars, schemes, set-ups…this shit look like the ‘You Name It’ challange!”
Pakistan defeats Gwitty
Recap: Before Pakistan switches it up for a nice gangster movie scheme towards the end of his round, both he and Gwitty revel in unique ways to use their toolie’s. Altogether nothing epic, but less dry spots for Pakistan along with the aforementioned scheme warrants a little more versatility, a win and perhaps a forthcoming PG.
Verdict: Pakistan (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Pakistan – “I’m in my bag, watch me flip, this a County move, ain’t nothing good about this plate, it’s like County food!”
Charlie Clips defeats Gwitty
Recap: The underlying message here: if you’re a lower tier battle rapper with a rare shot at battling a legend, don’t make a rookie mistake by predicting what said legend will rap about you. That and Gwitty mostly spitting a whole bunch of filler, gives a Charlie Clips, no less on his B-game considering that he battled earlier in the day, an easy vic what with is arsenal of jaunty punchlines, dope wordplay and witty (“You look like you get your shape-ups in the car seat!”) personals.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “Your grandmom’s is the next to die, for a peek at my rhymes I should run her over in an Access-A-Ride!”
Gwitty defeats Rad B
Recap: Rambunctious with the grimy set-ups, segueing nicely between punches and fanatical with the gritty flow, Gwitty easily earns his paper with a dominating, one-round performance over a sputtering and eventually choking Rad B.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Gwitty – “He the type to snitch, call the cops after work, caught him nice and jewelry, he got picked on the cover, like the Madden curse!”
Stuey Newtton defeats Gwitty
Recap: Here’s a case where one-on-one tag-in’s get to be a little too much, as after getting hammered by a barrage of Stuey Newton’s scintillating punchlines and bully bars in this one-rounder from We Go Hard, a dogmatic, but inconsistent Gwitty tags in his boy Reepah Rell for what amounted to be a fiery minute of ‘old head’ bars that Gwitty can’t claim credit for. Thus, what turned to be a highly entertaining battle, is still, bar wise, an easy decision with Stuey the victor.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Stuey Newton -“When I spray necks, big enough to knock an organ back, but think safe sex….it got the rubber grip to absorb the clap!”
Gwitty defeats PG
Recap: Not much separates Rum Nitty-soundalike PG and Gwitty in this super close, West-coast PG matchup from URL. Atypical, but fiery (“Gwitty: “He rap good, on the mic cool or get hit from the blind side, this glock from New Jersey twerk, cock mines!”) gun bars from both (“PG: I’m talking curb stomp, hustler, you don’t really stick to the block, with your name on a bullet, that’s a signature shot!”) battlers, an equal amount of (PG: “A head shot will have him sharing memories like the Facebook option!”) haymakers, excellent (PG: “Watch the punches, metaphors and similes, ‘cuz you could get punched over meta 4’s that this assembly!”) wordplay from each, name flips, funny (Gwitty: “You famous?, hey miss, give him a swirly, face in the toilet, he won’t say shit!”) anecdotes and a few personals here and there and finally, consistent flows that matched their energy. That being said, the feeling here is that upon close inspection of the bars and overall performance, there was just a little bit more originality to his bars and a slightly better showing from Gwitty, who with a bigger battle rap name, had to know a little less about his opponent than vice versa. Thus, Gwitty is Paper…2-1 with PG edging the 1st round and Gwitty edging the latter two.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Gwitty – “Tek’s blam, cabal rings hit your best man, blam, blam, I walk with the arms…headstand!”)
Gwitty defeats Staccz
Recap: Some hard bars spit by both Gwitty and Staccz throughout this battle, still sees ‘Paper’ delivering a 3-0 with a more cohesive flow and a much higher bar quotient–not that a couple of shortened rounds by Staccz helped any.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Gwitty – “You banging, Red? dot on your flag, Japan on ’em!”
Presidential Dubz defeats Gwitty
Recap: Despite scoring with some gritty punches (“These shots, go behind ya back, like a bad friend!”) here and there, once again Gwitty’s laidback, oft-monotone delivery belies an undercurrent that probably holds back the Reaction King’s battle career. In addition, a lazy 3rd round that saw him step aside and let a crew member deliver half the bars?!? All that to say, another 3-0 for the altogether (“A hypeman couldn’t react to a silencer!”) solid Presidential Dubz.
Verdict: Presidential Dubz (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Presidential Dubz – “Hypeman reaction?, you get the throne for, Dammit Scotty!, That Boy Good, but what else! is he known for?”
Gwitty defeats K.O.
Recap: After edging the first round here against K.O. with overall more potent (“I’m cooking raw, well done, cans rung, stupid bullets out of nowhere…he ran dumb [random]!”) bars, Gwitty’s unorthodox flow and shout-rap style reaches overwhelming heights in a stellar round two that sees bar after bar dished with pointed (“Another pussy eating a big ratchet…get Ya Boy Clipped!”) flair and rich (“Buck 50 ya jawline, that change hang low from ya jibs, ya dig?!”) pedigree. And it’s needed too as after an inconsistent 1st round, a consistently hyper and swiftly snapping K.O. gets better (“I’ve been hood all my life, my mom’s showed me how to rip the top off the Chinese tray to make an extra plate!”) and better as the battle goes along, taking the 3rd round (“You and your homies, the dot’s will find a way to stitch up his face…you gonna be the newest emoji!”) easily after a solid turn by Gwitty–but by then it’s too late.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Gwitty – “URL give me all bread, get shot with a Norbes, a bald head, Smack got more in the vault…like Cortez!”
Hazey defeats Gwitty
Recap: Even with the lisp, Hazey’s lofty (“Ain’t no such thing as a good morning [mourning], you’ll be at your wake alone!”) wordplay and flexing punchlines contain plenty of potency. Indeed, enough here to take rounds 1 and 3 over a sometimes (“My partner in crime, a Calicoe [Cali cold] defendant, they’ll landslide ya, real violence, they known on the block, QP and his baby mother on Maury, I know who to pop!”) biting/witty, but often laborious Gwitty.
Verdict: Hazey (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Hazey -“He could put on a vest and still die [waves hands like gun], nigga that’s laser tag!”
Jerry Wess defeats Gwitty
Recap: Other than biting an old (…’I’m a bomb threat’) Conceited line, it’s all (“It’s suicide time, he gonna skit his wrist watch [wristwatch], you ain’t gotta be constipated to get your shit rocked!”; “The difference between me and you? I’ll do things and never regret it, pull his card and swipe Paper, what’s that?, credit or debit?!”) Jerry Wess here in this one-rounder versus Gwitty. Who while more known for his sideline interruptions than what he actually does in the ring, delivered a solid (“I’ll punch him like the NBA logo, you’ll see Jerry Wess [West] leaning!”; “Lynch him, grab the rope if it’s meant to be, put the beats on him and tie the knot like Alicia Keys!”) first-half of his round, before succumbing to repetitious one-liners, some nonsensical bars and personals that had nothing to do with his opponent. Still, if this is the battle that really (to paraphrase Gwitty) ‘raised the stock’ of (“His team jump in?, head shot, roof blaming, Nick banging on the Wildin’ Out girls.,.I’m a loose Cannon!”) Wess, then it was well worth the look.
Verdict: Jerry Wess (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jerry Wess – “If it’s about Dead Presidents then it’s a difference, I’ll swing that .22 over your head…[raises arms then points them at Gwitty] like Richard Nixon, I aim at his face, I’m trying to smoke somethin’…squeeze that .22 I’m trying to [squeezes fingers like quotes] quote somethinn’!)
Chess and Gwitty [DEBATABLE]
Recap: Judging from the brimming tension throughout and the boatload of material dropped, it seems like Chess and Gwitty had a lot on their mind before they battled here on WeGoHard. That makes for a competitive battle with a load of stinging personals, heated wordplay, showmanship, gritty street lines. nice (Gwitty: “Punches lumping up Chess….breast cancer!”) set-uos and of course, rich gun lines that at the very least, kept you entertained. Still, in the deciding 3rd round, what with Gwitty delivering consistent fire with anecdotal verbal theatrics and Chess coming just as uncouth, but scoring with real-talk urban drama, best to call this one even with a rematch being a possible necessity.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Chess – “Dickhead, since when the fuck did the streets have a age limit?…since when did I need an ID to get a gauge lifted?!”
Moneyy defeats Gwitty
Recap: Another intense and entertaining battle from the good folks at WeGoHard. Gwitty’s first round was epic with hard (“I grab the ratchet, like breaking up a fight with two bitches”) bars and hitting (“Your bitch she not popping, I took her sis [assist] to play with Jazz like John Stockton”) personals, while Moneyy countered with heavy wordplay and performance (“That gun from Korea it speak Chinese, it’s my money machine, it go cha…ching…POW!!!”) bars–edge to Gwitty tho for more consistency. Second round is where Moneyy took over as Gwitty bars weren’t always matching his intensity and he seemed to lose steam as the round went on. Then too, Moneyy stepped it up with enough “easy” schemes to win the round and tie it up after 2. 3rd round saw Gwitty spit from witty (“This pump, a long jump, knock your body across country”) punchlines and talk that real shit for those in the crowd that can rock with that, but overall it wasn’t nearly enough to beat Moneyy’s steady (“That fifth caaaaaammmmmmmeeeeee with a kick, like when Mike got back with The Jacksons”) haymakers and real bar execution.
Verdict: Moneyy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Moneyy – “Fuck a big gun, this shit so little you’ll think it’s disposable”
Gwitty defeats A.K.
Recap: A.K.’s laidback flow reeks of urban flair that often hit their rmark. However, an inconsistent 1st round and a choke in the 3rd allows for a pretty average overall Gwitty to squeeze out a win.
Verdict: Gwitty (W) 2-1
Favorite line: A.K. – “Always screaming out ‘Gwitty is paper!’, nigga from the looks of it, it looks like Gwitty is labor!”
Bishop White defeats Gwitty
Recap: Lots of mediocre/predictable bars on both sides, but a Gwitty choke in the 2nd along with a shortened 3rd, allowed for Bishop White’s more consistent flow and random haymakers to garner extra shine and in turn, an easy win.
Verdict: Bishop White (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Bishop White: “Your mars like Math Hoffa’s right hand…bad for the culture!”
Mias Lanskey defeats Gwutty
Recap: Despite some dated bars throughout, Mias Lanskey dishes enough haymakers along with spirited, aggressive shiners to take the first two rounds and the win versus an inconsistent Gwitty.
Verdict: Mias Lanskey (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Mias Lanskey – “It don’t matter where we at, I’ll always be me, You’ll get dropped in Long Island like I’m spiking the Tea!”
