Recap: From URL’s “Nexus” card, in a pretty competitive and all-around dope 3-round battle between Jakkboy Maine and Arsonal, the former Goonie gets busy with a gang of wild, sonic-indused punches, spicy/nimble wordplay and boastful barbs. While da Rebel kept it gully with a boatload of witty/mocking personals, fiery anecdotes, piercing street darts and fiendish braggadocio lines. Close all the way through, it’s the slightly more haymaker-rich and condensed Arsonal who takes rounds 1 and 2 for the win before Jakkboy returned the favor in the 3rd to avoid the shutout.
Verdict: Arsonal (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Arsonal – “You are literally the illest nigga in the room and it’s all in your body language!”
Recap: 3 rounds from URL’s ‘Civil War 5’ card sees Klutz’s clever punches, rich metaphors and exquisite wordplay take on Jakkboy Maine’s wicked darts and performance-heavy ‘Jakanese’-speak. And it’s a goodie. The two battlers displaying plenty of moxie and crowd-plessing bars while sticking with their game plans to split (got Jakk edging round 1, before Klutz retunred the favor in round 2) the opening rounds before a slightly more efficient and punch-heavy Klutz took the deciding 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Klutz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Klutz – “Nigga’s talk shit like me working at a dealership was funny, but when I hit ya block in a new Charger, watch how fast it go from zero to a hundred!”
Recap: Ummm, not exactly sure what happened at the end there, but all in all Tay Roc vs. Jakkboy Maine on URL’s ends up being a fire battle. Roc, almost exclusively in kill mode while changing cadences with the punches, delivered 3 rounds of straight heat with a shitload of graphic, mayhem-laced darts, gritty name flips, and flippant personals/gun bars. While Jakkboy met the top tier challenge with a fire wordplay throughout, some scintillating personals and fiery set-up/punchlines that with its accompanied soundscape oftentimes wrecked the room. A close bout throughout, it’s the slightly more haymaker-lit Roc who takes rounds 1 and 2 for the win before what looked to be clear vic for Maine in round 3 was spolied by a couple of last-minute slip-ups, making the final round a debateable.
Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tay Roc – “Buck-50, cut the brim, I’m talking grab a razor and Flip…Above the Rim!”
Recap: In this fire, App-exclusive 1-rounder from URL, a slightly more condensed overall, flow/wordplay-lit, punch-heavy, sizzling/wildly expansive when it came to food themes/metaphors and other salacious punches Jakkboy Maine manages to edge a Chef Trez, who while hellbent on delivering fiery tropes of mayhem, a gang of sturdy gun bars and a bunch of wicked punchlines, lacked enough firepower (and rebuttals, of which he surprisingly only had one) to keep up with the former Goonie’s efficiency and revelry.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “Them Christmas carols end with a scream, so my past, present and future Chef seen all 3 of them thangs!”
Recap: A URL Kings vs. Queens 3 battle that might have given the hardcore battle rap fan a little wariness what with Jakkboy Maine and First Lady Flamez being a couple in real life (‘Could they really go full throttle on each other considering that they live together?’), Jakk via a gang of hard-hitting punchlines, piercing performance bars and witty/slick personals and Flamez, armed with a bunch of stifling personals, bruising schemes, slick wordplay and gritty set-ups/punches, still managed to put on a dope and competitive show that kept the crowd captivated. Still tho, after a more haymaker-lit Flamez took the opening round, an equally entertaining, punch-lit and aggressive on both sides round 2 made for a debatable. But helped a bit by a still scoring Jakk letting his foot off the pedal bar-wise towards the end of his turn, a turned up, versatile and more consistently brazen Flamez woud handily take the 3rd for the win.
Verdict: First Lady Flamez (W) 2-1
Favoriet line: First Lady Flamez – “Jakk, you got me fucked up, exactly why I’m snapping, single black mom on Christmas, I make a lot happen!”
Recap: Now arguably one of the top 5 performers in the game, Jakkboy Maine’s oft-electrifying execution of his bars plugged in with a vocal sound system that’d make Sgt. Larvell Jones proud has definitely helped raise his stock in battle rap. However, here in this one round Banned against Chess, while Jakk served up plenty of surreal moments (including an elastic Bronx dance move that even had his opponent showing love), an elongated turn with a little too much filler plus a more versatile, witty at times, personal/punch-heavier and wordplay/name flip spicy Chess would give the latter the win in what overall was one of the better battles from this last-minute card.
Verdict: Chess (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chess – “All these made up words and never slang shit in your life?!”
Recap: With the ability to make every bar or riff count, even during a shortened turn Jakkboy Maine’s piercing wordplay, lively gun sounds and hitting punches are enough to beat an aggressive and gritty, but mostly subpar Mega Da Savage in this 1-rounder from Smoke Room Battle League.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “When I pull it you getting stabbed or shot up in the face, nigga ask Giannis, that Hawk ain’t shit without the .3 [Trey]!”
Recap: In an inquisitive battle between a couple of battle rappers/sound systems, Lu Castro delivers enough brazen punches, stinging wordplay, rim-rocking haymakers, some righteous ‘Big Dog’ barbs and graphic mayhem to outlast his opponent in the latter two rounds (after Jakk edged the 1st) and get the win over his former Goonie brethren in what was altogether a pretty competitive and fiery matchup.
Verdict: Lu Castro (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Lu Castro – “Let’s set this wolf trap, line the flex, 9’sand Tek’s, dull-ass blade, fucking boring, condom sex!”
Recap: A couple of Goonies for one round on 3 days prep for only 7 minutes? I’m all in. And despite the shortened time, it’s still a goodie. Jakkboy Maine with the performance-heavy/sing-song deliveries and fly (“When it tik tok, i’m turning Twork into a silhouette!”) lyricism, while Nu Jerzey Twork provided the rambunctious punches/personals and even brought out a belt to keep Jakk in line. That said, with an equal amount of haymakers, call this one a debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Nu Jerzey Twork – “I’m the head of the Goonies, you know that’s fact, I’m the one that put Jakkboy on…like Kodak Black!”
Recap: In this Born Legacy NW matchup from URL, Jakkboy Maine takes away opponent Ooops’ biggest calling card, righteous and sublime 3rd rounds, by using a gang of mesmerizing performance bars, unorthodox name flips, stinging personals, witty barbs and hard-hitting punchlines to edge the first couple of rounds for the win before the 4 Horseman rapper (who had a strong and personal/punch-lit rounds 1 and 2) surprisingly faltered and choked in the final round, helping Jakk score a 30 after a dope, stirring, highly personalized and ironically classic turn of his own.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “And this why I pray with my eyes open God…I don’t trust you!”
Recap: Rapping, at times, with the speedy, mayhem-lit flow from his old Grind Time days, but in this case a bit more versatile (esp. with the personals), scheme-friendly and rigid with the wordplay, an overall more condensed Cortez does enough in the 1st and 3rd round to beat back the oft-biting, unorthodox, but not-always-stealth 2-step styling’s of Jakkboy Maine in this 2nd-round Ultimate Madness 3 tournament.
Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Cortez – “Yellow tape the body he could model for oft-white!”
Recap: One-rounder from GOTG sees the ever-unorthodox Jakkboy Maine comes through with a fly rebuttal, some solid name flips and whimsical wordplay during his turn. Yet, while he did rap nearly twice as long as his opponent, a consistently gritty, name flip/personal-savvy and steadier flowing Zay Smoove does manage to stoke enough heat to make this a draw.
Verdict: Debatable
Favorite line: Zay Smoove – “We wanna know how God let you survive lupus just to cause the culture cancer!”
Recap: Dope Ultimate Madness 3 opening round matchup here between Jakkboy Maine and T Top has the more consistently hitting, wordplay/name flip-spicy and metaphor-rich Jakk taking the only clear win in round 2 to get the dub and move on to the round as while Top’s dizzying angles, rigid trap talk and piercing punches kept things close and competitive, some redundancy/laziness with the personals would cost The Bear in the end.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “;Cuz y’all lookin’ at a Bear in a hat, so what’s next is the forest fire, nigga no survivors, the steel’ll air, third eye, I’m still aware, I was out in Memphis, gettin’ arms with legs and muzzles so I could Build-A-Bear!”
Recap: In this competitive 3-rounder from Bars Over Bricks, Jakkboy Maine survives a superbly punch-lit Kush in round 1 and comes back with a couple of gritty punching, personal-savvy, gun bar/name flip-bent and condensed turns in the latter rounds to edge an opponent who while still supplying two rounds of punch-heavy linguistics, became a little predictable (as well as elongated) and couldn’t quite match the consistent potency he delivered in the opener.
Recap: Flexing throughout with a barrage of unorthodox punches and resonating yarns that can originate from anywhere, Jakkboy Maine gets back on his A-game to hold back a fiery, name flip-rich and pretty solid effort from Ru Bando, taking the first two rounds of this URL Survivor Series Onyx matchup for the win before Bando’s highly proficient 3rd did enough to avoid getting shutout.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “Yunno, the scariest thing about Jack in the box…yunno, the [Pop!] up!”
Recap: Although he did go a little overboard with the John John angle, when it came to the personals, Jai 400 still hits with enough salacious/mocking personals, rigid name flips/schemes, fiery set-ups, witty barbs and consistently spicy punchlines/gun bars to take the 1st and deciding 3rd round and win this matchup over the solid unorthodox stylings of a Jakkboy Maine who did put forth a captivating and quality effort despite struggling with his flow a bit here and there.
Verdict: Jai 400 (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jai 400 – “Watch him for the backstabbers, for the Love of the Money, you’ll take the Stairway to Heaven if ever you owe Jai [O’Jay]!”
Recap: Back on his grind with that mischievous wordplay, flashy gun semantics and rich metaphors he’s known for, a more consistently spicy Jakkboy Maine dispenses with enough heat to take this 1-rounder from a gritty, but also topsy-turvy King H.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “Lions, tires, bears, you think one of them the king of the jungle…nope, then I swing back ‘cuz the true King of the Jungle came from off the ropes!”
Recap: Surviving a 2nd round choke and also helped by his opponent struggling with his flow at times, Jakkboy Maine uses some finite wordplay, stinging name flips and a versatile mix of ringing mayhem and rigid personals to beat back a confident and pretty-solid-when-on-point Hefe in this 3-rounder from GOTC TV.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “I’m a kill every female in ya family, resuscitate em and then give em a new death, then beat you black, blue…man I’m changing your hue Hef!”
Recap: Rare forfeit here as an emotionally bent Jakkboy Maine (who also got booed at the end of hsi 2nd), the brunt of a classic 2nd round by opponent John John Da Don, gives up his 3rd round (ironically, this blog had the battle tied 1-1 going into the final round) by jumping into the crowd in an attempt to confront a heckler who kept interrupting his turn. Jakk’s refusal to return to the stage would in turn give JJDD the round and the battle in an entertaining grudge match that featured a plethora of heated personals from both sides, some dope punchlines, a pretty excited Tay Roc, , a bunch of head-ringing gun bars, a well-executed 1st by Jakk that deftly played to JJDD’s rep for copying his peer’s style and of course, a sublime, punch-heavy turn by JJDD in the 2nd that was highlighted by a $79.99 ‘Black Wealth’ chain, courtesy of Walmart, being hurled into the raucous crowd by John John.
Verdict: John John Da Don (W) 2-1
Favorite line: John John Da Don – “You fuckin’ fruit! 12-gauge will bust his grape, vital signs go ‘Wooooooop’, let’s just say that Shotgun got one thing straight!”
Recap: He should have stopped after that spitfire ‘Fe Fi Fo Fum’ line. In yet another case of a battle rapper doing too much, Dre Dennis (already slighted by a Jakkboy Maine imitation that while entertaining, didn’t score any points in the original category) is still ahead in this 1-rounder 75% of the way thanks to a gang of salacious gun bars, fierce punchlines and a fire, mid-round rebuttal. But just as he has the battle practically won, Dre’s penchant for elongation comes back to bite him as the last quarter of his turn sees him dish mostly solid, but redundant heat that essentially cost him the battle. Oh yeah, that and a consistent, punch-efficient, sound-effects-a-blazing, scheme-potent, performance-stunting and back in his bag Jakkboy Maine.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “My mind got a little shady ‘cuz I drew the .80 and forgot about Dre!”
Recap: Couple of near slip-ups here and there still doesn’t stop a gritty, punch/gun-heavy and shrewdly personal Tony Gwapo from beating back a solid and lit at times, but too shortened turn from Jakkboy Maine in this 1-rounder from Body Bag Battle League.
Verdict: Tony Gwapo (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Tony Gwapo – “Fuck security, I’ll let the .80 show…Matlock!”
Recap: Against a totally unprepared and capitulated Jakkboy Maine, Franchise’s gratuitous forms mayhem go on full tilt via a shitload of potent gun bars, fiending set-ups, some witty punchlines and wicked personals/name flips. Add to that a spirited Franchise coming extra vigorous with his performance throughout the battle plus coming better with his angles and an opponent willfully conceding defeat at the end of yet another shortened round and you’re left with a rare body shipped overnight and overseas from Canada to Virginia.
Verdict: Franchise (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Franchise – “You not ready, two hands on the bitch, I hold my Glock steady, big-ass gun, and the clip sticking out like Rex belly!”
Recap: That’s the problem with one dude liking to take his short off during a battle, the other guy might get motivated to do the same thing too…and well. Moving on, the gritty unorthodox/sound effect stylings of Jakkboy Maine meeting up with the sheer raucous, but at times witty and punch-lit modus operandi of Shotgun Suge in this Banned Legacy 3 battle on URL (after the two split the first couple of rounds) ends up with the more spicy and name flip/wordplay/personal-lit Jakk taking the 3rd round for the win.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “Nigga, fuck the Jonas Brothers, Frank Sinatra and since the — didn’t, I’m a buy a rocket launcher and finish the job on Jersey that Chief Keef didn’t!”
Recap: No doubt you will probably never see someone win a battle 3-0 with less effort than this one. With opponent LT choking away his first two rounds, instead of Jakkboy Maine going into his written’s for the kill, he mockingly freestyles a shortened 1st, before doing the same and tagging-in LB The Boss to finish his 2nd round. And in case you didn’t already know that it wasn’t LT’s night, upon finally producing a quality round, the St. Louis battler suddenly quits halfway in the 3rd allowing Jakk to drop the off-the-cuff lines and give the fans a measure of original lyrical showmanship along with fire punchlines/name flips for a win that will never come any easier.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “[Bwoh!] Basically, if Lil’ T wanna be Big T he gotta raise the bar!”
Recap: Steely name flips, flexing gun bars, fiery wordplay and potent performance lines, it’s all there as a way more condensed Jakkboy Maine easily does enough to beat back a witty at times, but elongated and too oft-pedestrian with the mayhem K. Walker.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “How he died?, well they’ll never get to ask K Y Jelly!”
Recap: With barely 3 or so minutes of material in a 1-round battle he seemed to give 2 shits about, the only hope for an ultra-condensed, but performance and bar-heavy Jakkboy Maine winning here seemed to be his opponent, AP, either choking or slipping-up numerous times while kicking a load of pedestrian bars and weak personals during an elongated turn that one couldn’t wait to end…well, at least AP didn’t choke.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “See, now he standing there with the face like what the fuck, but usually shit that’s under sea level don’t dawn on a duck!”
Recap: A ready for action Jakkboy Maine uses sizzling name flips, raucous gun bars, loaded sound effects and a steady stream of fiending punchlines to easily take out a slip-up prone Ceph Deezy in thsi 1-rounder from No Filla Battle Grounds.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “Notice, I shot him in the face…he said he was wide open!”
Recap: With similar compositions of rich, anecdotal bars, performance and a shared love for sonically-inclined, verbal hijinks, Jakkboy Maine facing off against battle veteran Big T was only a matter of time. And besides a lopsided 1st round that a more consistently spicy, frequent Chicago-dissing and oft-mean with the punches Jakk clearly won, this one was a competitive one with Big Terrence coming back from a somewhat lackluster showing in the previous round with a performance-heavy, name flip friendly and wordplay (“Now Smack gonna lose Ciroc sponsoringship, ‘cuz Jakk spilled with the 5th and the blood in the mirror smeared off [Smirnoff]!”) sizzling turn that forced a debatable 2nd after his shirtless opponent’s intricate and flashy punchlines equally made their mark in the round. Still up a round going into the 3rd, Jakkboy continued to flex, dishing rapid mayhem with visceral punches that contained some nasty set-ups, crafty wordplay and heated (“Pistol in his mouth, now he Quiet…on the set!”) gun bars, another fire turn that beat back a solid and personal/punch-heavy, but not as consistently potent turn by Big T.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “…and fuck Kanye West, ‘cuz if slavery was a choice, so was his mother dying!”
Recap: Perception can be a little blinding. With Jakkboy Maine readily dominating both the 1st and 3rd rounds, one can easily come off thinking that (as he did in his recap, where he even talked about retiring) this battle versus Nunn Nunn was a lopsided affair. But it really wasn’t, especially seeing as a more consistent and punch-heavy Nunn surely took the 2nd and wasn’t too shabby with his bars and schemes in the other rounds. But putting aside a solid mid round, a performance rich Jakkboy Maine was just stellar here, dishing richly potent name flips with ease, shooting up his opponent with the stinging gun bars, serving up righteous heat with epic punchlines and for the coup-de-grace, a sizzling Little Richie ‘A-Wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop-bam-boo!’ punch that not only brought the house down in the 3rd, but solidified Jakk’s victory.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “See a white boy in 2018, now anything I pull look like a gun!”
Recap: Jakkboy Maine versus Steams reps for the first URL/Smack “Banned” battle and it’s a doozy as Steams’ crafty wordplay for the most part, competes well with Jakkboy’s electrifying darts and righteous performance bars. Looking back however, this one comes down to the second round as a tight and sizzling on both sides 1st gets edged Jakbboy’s more potent, versatile and consistent heaters, while Steams takes the 3rd with a more condensed, lyrical and gritty turn to beat back what was a less satisfying and elongated round from Jakkboy. And while a dope and competitive throughout Steams came through with a solid 2nd, it’s Jakkboy’s exhilarating set-ups, witty N.Y. trolling, fiery name flips and the scintillating execution of his bars that makes the round the only decisive one, with the Richmond, VA rapper getting the win by taking it easy.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “[Bwoh!] his name Steams, but when it disappear, who really miss it that much?!”
Recap: Jakkboy Maine pollutes the air with ringing gun sounds, salient name flips and stirring (“I caught him a Home Alone set-up y’all…and my trap now Booming like a bitch!”) punchlines to beat back a gritty and (“This shit will kick off from the door…Mister Rogers!”) punch-heavy, but elongated and not as consistent Kaboom in this one-rounder from The Battle Academy.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “He started croaking, then I let go of Boom under water, that’s an implosion!”
Recap: Did all the smiles give it away? Yunno, that while impressed with opponent In$ight’s stifling punchlines and piercing gun bars throughout his turn, that Jakkboy Maine was totally unprepared for this battle? Yeah, looking back at one of the quickest chokes on record…probably so.
Verdict: In$ight (W) 1-0
Favorite line: In$ight – “They say every body got an addiction, right? Well my vice, grip!”
Recap: Speaking a wide load of ‘Jakkanese’ which seems to include stirring cartoon references, fanatical song bars, local hometown heat, explicit gun bars, dazzling sound effects that’d make Big T smile, yodeling and stinging (“I’m armed and reckless or put my dick in your bitch and make ya mother nut, giving her everything like blossom, bubble and buttercup!”) performance bars/schemes, Jakkboy Maine manages to outshine a witty, (“I was sneaking up on nigga’s before I heard of Chilla [Dome shot!], put Maine head on another body…Terrence Howard meme!”) punch-heavy, crowd friendly, freestyle loading and often wordplay spazzing, but also a bit filler-prone Jerry Wess in the 1st and 3rd rounds to take this entertaining and competitive ‘Survivor Series’ battle from Smack/URL.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “I’m equip the beam, yunno shit get hot from the red light like Krispy Kreme!”
Recap: Fire match between Jakkboy Maine and Young Kannon ends with a win for YK, who overcame Jakkboy’s stinging performance bars and salient sound effects with a more spitfire turn of fiery (“Call a spade a spade, they threw Jakk on the table knowing the King will cut him!”) punches, rich personals, frenzied set-ups and witty, yet hitting gun (“Weapons signing, second-stringer, I don’t play till a nigga get hurt!”) bars to edge the first two rounds. Jakkboy, who wasn’t helped by a bit of a struggle with his flow in round 2 and one too many darts spent on the likes of Tay Roc and JJDD during the bout, still held his own throughout the battle, even doing enough to avoid a sweep and salvage a dope round 3 from both battlers, with a more condensed turn than his opponent.
Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: -Jakkboy Maine – “Have you ever seen a nigga, see his nigga’s, fucking eyes closed [bwah!] then make sure that nigga see you before his fucking eye’s close!”
Recap: Solid turns from both (“You will get snapped on in one round, that’s a hubcap!”) (“Now I would call you a moolie, but you look like some shit I ain’t make up yet!”) Primetime and Jakkboy Maine in this one-rounder from Body Bag Battle League, gets edged by Jakk, who along with a gift for lofty punches and some crazy schemes, came one better when it came to fiery wordplay and overall, a more sporty performance.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine -“What, you talking shit because I’m out of town, well I got the pund up in here too, and since I’m the elephant in the room [Boww!], now who in here is a whom?!”
Recap: Superblack dispenses a load of mean bars during this one-rounder from Body Bag Battle League. But overall, Jakkboy Maine’s sterling performance coupled with some exquisite wordplay was just too much to handle.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “I tossed one, then tossed son, you Lost One, you peep the grammar, stay in that field, Lauryn Hill [BOP!!!] and Nothing Even Matter!
Recap: Crazy, dope PG battle between Fettuccine20 and Jakkboy Maine has it all: hot (Fetty: “Yeah, I Bugs on the mic, but my monsters will shoot this place up like Space Jam!”) bars aplenty, stifling wordplay, nice rebuttals, pointed disses at each other’s girl, gas masks, jaunty (Jakkboy: “What you gonna say? ‘Fettuccine, Linguini…’ then I cut him and keep hooking, like pre-cooking, ‘cuz when shit’s boil, hen you crush them all!”) set-ups, potent schemes, fiery (Fetti: “So throwing up your fist at me is sort of a slap in the face, I’m mad harder, bad barber, I’ll give you a bald head of you ask for the fade!”) gun bars, lofty sound effects and if all that wasn’t enough, a couple of dance moves just in case you needed a little more. But who won the battle? Gonna have to go here with Mr. Maine, who certainly earned this one over a valiant and resilient Fetti, one-upping his opponent on (“Hey, what’s your equation?, state it and maybe you won’t hold the thoughts, the beef with me different and don’t nobody try it like Stroganoff!”) haymakers, performance and versatility, Jakkboy manages to edge the latter two rounds and probably would’ve had a tooclose 1st if not for a few too many wasted bars directed at DNA.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “So cut it out, I was young, dummy and dubbs, so what the fuss about?, just bugging out, and when mom’ said beat the streetlights home, I’d bust them out!”
Recap: Can’t knock Barz Major’s Michael Jackson impersonation, but other than that too many lackluster bars versus Jakkboy Maine’s consistently stellar (“You did that Shawn Michaels shit and then bodied the pose, do it again, 9 in the win, this M bodied the pose!”) performance bars and steely gun bars/punchlines makes for a complete domination in this one-rounder from Body Bag Battle League.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “What you know about remodeling steel, putting this serial over this serial like we looking for bargain deals!”
Recap: Get past host Norbes and Jazz the Rapper dressed in their PJ’s and way too many sights of Nu Jerzy Twork’s underwear and you’re left with a barfest of a PG battle between Jakkboy Maine and Drugz. Start with the fact that Drugz, steadily aggressive with surefest punches and gritty (“I’m showing him why Drugz is one of DMV’s well-known soldiers, when it’s wartime, you a cannibal late to dinner, you get the cold shoulder!”) shiners, did much of anything wrong in round 1, but an oft-understated, but highly polemic with fine-tuned (“These [points up two guns] like kids at a puddle, they jump across!”; “Gun up, but a big let down like something for what you wasn’t expected!”) gun bars Jakkboy did way more to take round one. If you thought the first round was fire, the second round was even better, but moreso for Drugz, whose steadier flow raucous gun bars and audacious (You was up there talking about my debatable’s right? knowing damn well you in a relationship with a debatable dyke!”), personals gained him a split going into round 3. Which while solid on both sides, significantly lacked the consistently flagrant verbiage of the previous two rounds and contained some stumbles from each battler as well, so call it even.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “MJ impersonation, it ain’t right [points up fingers like gun] without the spin, 6th man, ya face will see ya backboard when ya meet the rim! !”
Recap: Clearly, from the direction a wide percentage of his bars was headed, this battle was a lot more personal for Peedy Westro than it was for Jakkboy Maine. Still, even with Peedy efficiently (and loudly) getting a lot off chest regarding Jakk’s alleged shenanigans outside the ring, Jakk’s more steady and intricate punches, lofty gun bars and fanatical wordplay wins the day in what was overall a pretty dope 1-rounder from Bars Bendas Rap Battle League.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “Look, a redneck in tobacco, you asking him, I’ll jaw crack him, a bulldog, K-9, Paris Hilton, I’m a dog catcher!”
Recap: Hip to pointing out how many ways (“But what it do, right left, pick a direction, hang your life right in front of you, give a different perspective!”) he can destroy his opponent, a confident and assertive Jakkboy Maine makes quick work of a competitive, but not-quite-ready-for-the-main-stage Cae Krueger.
Verdict: JakkboyMaine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “I’ll bust his wig and like Dad’s seeing they kids, I’ll throw it up in the air…Yeah!, that’s a nice visit!”
Recap: Using a fluid cadence to spit plenty of nifty punchlines and nuanced mayhem, against the subpar and pretty basic raps of Leem, Jakkboy Maine marks an easy one down on the win ledger in this 1-rounder from 7 Cities Shark.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “How many seconds will it take before my bullets him?, it’s like a kid in the corner…a smart mouth gets extended time!”
Recap: Scintillating (“And I know y’all can’t see his soul, but hear it linger, cuz these hands will sit ya with your creator, they spirit fingers!”) wordplay combined with a plethora of intoxicating performance bars by Jakkboy Maine makes for an easy bodybag over a stumble-prone Goldie in this one-rounder from the Quiet Zone.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “I’m hot headed, juggling gravel, I’ll rock steady, Before and After pictures, back words, because they got heavy!”
Recap: Dope, 3-rounder between Barzz McKay and Jakkboy Maine sees each battler flex with the wordplay throughout the match, while also delivering intrinsic punchlines that kept the battle competitive. Still, for all the hoopla from the crowd and performance-heavy bangers from each side, after a more potent Jakkboy easily took the 1st round. But with slightly more consistency rich lines in both the 2nd and 3rd rounds, it’s Barrz McKay who ends up edging this one for the win.
Verdict: Barzz McKay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Barzz McKay – “In the hood, you don’t exist…you are the 9 train!”
Recap: A hot 3rd round by Moon, who along with his wily OG talk and braggadocio bars went personal to edge the round. But by then it was too late as Jakkboy Maine’s more graphic punchlines, potent schemes and fire set-ups got him the first couple of rounds for the win.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1 Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “Yeah, I listen to my elder’s advice, but not because he always right, but because he got more experience at being wrong!”
Recap: Relying on a boatload of visceral heaters, frenzied name flips and nimble punchlines/schemes that hit with plenty of force, Jakkboy Maine earns a 30 over the gritty, but too often pedestrian bars of Jerz.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “I sell spleens, once I get to fisting and clapping, shells kiss him from a mile away, distance attraction, it hit you and your man’s, y’all brains in each other’s hands, so when Forensic’s came, they just got mixing and matching!”
Recap: Using a magnanimous play on words that stayed upbeat throughout the first two rounds before settling down a bit in a less potent 3rd, Jakkboy Maine’s forte of rampant boasts, head-ringing mayhem and unorthodox punchlines prove to be too much for the charismatic/gritty flows of an uneven A Train in this 3-rounder from L.O.C (League of Champions).
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “This the hook up, when it bang it’ll be right by your side, it’s like you secretly agree that’s consensual crime!”
Recap: Tru Life lookalike ALR Tone is (“Nigga, only ratchet you got is your new bitch!”) opportunistic at times, but for the most part lacks the ingenuity bar-wise to beat the nifty wordplay and speakeasy hand (“These two [balls fists] is like saying your grace, they come together just to make your head nod!”) gestures of Jakkboy Maine in this 3-rounder from Supreme Battle League.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine – “Flow like dropping shells in the snow, I got the coldest round!”
Recap: Not as close as the crowd would have you believe as Jay Dash’s most impressive bars were surrounded by a lot of reaches and pedestrian lines. For a way more consistent and performance-heavy Jakkboy Maine, that’s more than enough to get the win.
Verdict: Jakkboy Maine (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Jakkboy Maine -“Wanna fight?, I’ll knock the sense out you, give a reality check and knock the bitch out you!?
Recap: Assisted by a Jakkboy Maine choke in the 2nd round (which the unorthodox punches from Jakk was ahead on till he forgot his words), but mostly scoring points via a slew of slinging punchlines, witty barbs and hitting schemes/freestyles, Roc Raw puts up a 30 in this Supreme Training Camp battle.
Verdict: Roc Raw (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Roc Raw – “If you sitcom [sit calm] and the Price is Right I’ll Drew [makes motion with hands as if pulling weapon out] Carey nigger’s!”
