Over 4,000 Recaps!

Hazey

Hazey defeats Gwitty

by

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!”

E. Ness defeats Hazey Williams

by

Recap: Sometimes the other guy is just…more entertaining. Scoring with a load of rich performance bars, old-school dance moves and fiery/witty punchlines, E. Ness, while not as consistently punch-heavy as his opponent Hazey Williams here, still manages to squeak out a win over a more quotable foe who was a bit hurt by too many dated personals.

Verdict: E. Ness (W) 2-1

Favorite line: E. Ness – “Hazey can’t fool me, boy I know your kind, body parts everywhere, now you’ve been photo-bombed!”

Hazey defeats E Ness

by

Recap: Highly entertaining battle between E Ness and Hazey Williams is pretty even-handed through the first two rounds as Ness engages in enough rich metaphorical dalliances, nice (“Hazey can’t fool me, boy I know your kind, body parts everywhere, now you’ve been photobombed!”) punchlines and some old-school dance moves  to keep up with Hazey’s fiery performance (“I’ll hold a square up with the trey like a cheese plate, you gonna get a couple quick, that’s how you speed date!”) bars and salient personals. 3rd round serves as the difference-maker and Hazey takes it with a steady diet of trendy (“For mentioning with Haze niggas could could hang from trees they swang from…niggas could hang? that’s a cool way to say goodbye…Stay Up!!”) wordplay that topped an still eccentric, but on the bar tally, subpar round from Ness.

Verdict: Hazey (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Hazey – “Don’t start with me, cuz I’ll put a nickle in ya mouth nigga…talk is cheap!”

Hazey Williams defeats Bedaffi Green

by

Recap: We’ve seen a better (“I know your name Christopher and you supposed to be the wildest in ya city dog, but every fat rapper with a lisp and lazy eye ain’t Biggie Smalls!”) Bedaffi Green and a better Hazey Williams. But despite a sometimes indistinguishable flow, it’s Hazey wild assortment of rich (“You be like Roddy Piper died, I be like ‘So?’…niggas still getting killed in the ring!”) punchlines and nice name flips that gets him the dub in the end.

Verdict: Hazey Williams (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Hazey Williams – “…and face a sentence over your head, are y’all feeling my meme?!”

Hazey Williams defeats Xcel

by

Recap: A dope battle between (“Head shot, I done kill more dreams than sleep apnea!”; “Nerd rapper or street nigga, whatever the case, I eat ’em, like Mikey, life made me this way!”) Xcel and (“Every rapper he ate..ass, I could take it a step farther [step-father] like a play dad!”; “X, ain’t nothing God body about false prophets!”) Hazey Williams’ outcome is unfortunately decided early as the former chokes early in the 1st round. What with both batters equally dispensing fiery bars in the latter rounds, it’s Xcel’s lack of preparation that ultimately ends up costing him this one.

Verdict: Hazey Williams (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Hazey Williams – “That nigga prez was your brother, but he got to clap dumb shit, Merci disowned him, that made him a punk bitch, you co-signed it, praising that fuck shit, ‘cuz Five percenters were Islam niggas that jumped ship!”

Showoff defeats Hazey Williams

by

Recap: Don’t know what happened to Hazey Williams here, because after pretty much bodying (“Leave him alone? I’ll lend an arm to raise a stock then [Stockton] leave him alone [Malone]”) Showoff with steady name flips and hot performance bars in round 1, it’s like he just gave up, coming light in round 2 and just stopping in the middle of round 3. Not that Showoff didn’t step it up and straight spazz in the latter rounds here, but the way this battle just did a 180 so quick is kinda weird.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Hazey Williams – “I got a 9 to 5 and sell weed on my lunch break”

Hazey defeats Ah Di Boom

by

Synopsis: Decent battle and close throughout, but I got Hazey (more versatility, originality and ya’ love those “dumb it downs”) taking the 1st and 3rd rounds to edge it.

Verdict: Hazey (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Hazey – “You caca half breed, fuck I gotta say that in Patwa, you ass B, y’all praise dog and I’m gonna put a bullet in Selassie”

Nuborn defeats Hazey

by

Recap: Too much extra shit in the room somewhat spoils a good matchup between Hazey and Nuborn. Both rappers connect with nice punchlines, schemes and fleeting personals throughout, but Nuborn spazzed a little harder and used more angles. And despite negatively adding to his reputation by slipping-up (and bizarrely complaining about his opponent’s time limit) again, you can partly blame all the distractions and interruptions for this one.

Verdict: Nuborn (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Nuborn – “Nigga you so fat you look like you snore when you wide awake”