Recap: From RBE, against a mostly pedestrian Aye Verb, who outside of some unflattering shots at URL, seemed like he’d much rather be back at home on Twitter Spaces doing his usual raving and ranting at anyone willing to listen, Mickey Factz uses a steady stream of solid punchlines, hard-hitting personals and feelgood boasts/wordplay over the course of 3 rounds to earn a shutout.
Verdict: Mickey Factz (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Mickey Factz – “You retire every year from battle rap, you can’t even successfully quit!”
Recap: His best effort coming in the 1st round via a mix of fierce (“Okay, you let your let machete spray, I get it, ‘cuz some rifles gotta blade on it, but when a fan recite it, they look stupid and get blamed for it!”) punchlines, even-handed sermonizing and some to-be-expected personals, overall, a confident Mickey Factz makes for a pretty solid effort here against DNA. And that’s a good thing for performance artists looking to get into battle rap. But this version of DNA, aggressive throughout, heated with the punches, flexing on the mayhem, potent with the name flips, rich with the (“It’s too late to revoke, I got nothin’ but hate for this vulture and the beam on the side of Mause [Mouse] gonna change the state of the culture!”) storytelling bars, consistently nice with the heat and blessed with a pen game that was clearly motivated by a long-held dislike for his opponent, would’ve beat just about anybody on their best day, recording artist or not. Add to mix Factz’s bent for pedestrian bars displaying itself more and more as the battle proceeded and this long-anticipated grudge match ends with a 30 for DNA.
Verdict: DNA (W) 3-0
Favorite line: DNA – “You like do to do metaphors and tell Black people about their credit scores, like ‘You’ll be left in a slum, If you don’t got 720 or better you’ll be dead in a month, well that’s a lie ‘cuz with a .357 I can get whatever I want!”
Recap: For all the talk building up to this battle, on Mickey Factz possibly ending Daylyt’s career by calling out all his battle rap antics (something he, ironically, hardly does anymore) over the years, this matchup actually ends up accentuating the idea that Factz might want to consider battling more often. That is, when he’s not taking himself a little way too seriously the preachy hijinks–as here we see Factz mixing righteous pontifications with fierce personals and lofty wordplay altogether with an aggressive performance. Take in Daylyt dishing a half-assed 2nd and 3rd round along with Factz gamely calling out his opponents propensity for sputtering (“He’ll say something like ‘If I could blink, with my ghetto eyes I’d see we’ve been hoodwinked!”) gibberish and you’re left with a clear bodybag for the BX.
Verdict: Mickey Factz (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Mickey Factz – “From the beginning [word] I saw D was an idiot with my two eyes, you 3rd string thinking your verb’s [or ‘verse’] clean, you and your hurt queen, verbal machete split him down the middle…he’ll B [be] in half looking like the number 13!”
Recap: With so many artists wanting to try their hand at battle rap these days, it’s funny how this one-round matchup between Mickey Factz and Danja Zone gets slept on. Factz came off a little rusty with a couple of bars here and there that clearly could’ve been tweaked/updated, but for the most part he did pretty well esp. considering how he hadn’t battled in like 7 years (tight stage presence/performance too, but that’s to be expected from any artists used to hitting the stage regularly). And while Danja Zone hit with some nice bars and (“Album called The Achievement but ain’t accomplish shit, what the fuck you handing out, blank discs?”) personals, esp. towards the end, too many stretched out schemes and filler through out his round did him in against Factz’ hard-hitting bars, personals and punches.
Verdict: Mickey Factz (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Mickey Factz – “My ‘Paradise’ video?, two million views, yours total? don’t make up that equation, you just bringing my numbers down, fans gonna think we in the Matrix”
