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Recap: Strong showings by both Ish Mulah and Mr. Mills in this 1-rounder from Smoke Room Battle League. But a mayhem-lit, overall punch-heavier and more consistently spicy/versatile Ish gets the edge here.
Verdict: Ish Mulah (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Ish Mulah – “Raising hell, put a stop to your show…Dave Chappelle!”
Recap: Nice 1-rounder from RBE’s Social Distance battle’s between Mr. Mills and Moon goes the ‘Old Man with the Cold Hands’ way as Mills’ standard name flips and ringing mayhem, while spicy throughout his turn, still didn’t have enough bite to beat back his opponent’s more versatile lines, piercing punchlines, righteous heat and visceral screeds.
Verdict: Moon (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Moon – “Act like somethin’s up, broad daylight you’ll have Moon on your block while the sun is up, the drum on the Ak is kill, this shit will turn Mills into a hundred bucks!”
Recap: As usual, another solid effort from Gary Indiana’s Mr. Mills, whose rambunctious (“Y’all thought I was gonna lose, wait [weight], y’all just be saying shit for cheap thrills, till I wound him and ask him are you gonna die yet?, then give him another Sub for trying to cheat Mills [meals]!”) wordplay/schemes and raucous gun bars were enough, here against Dre Dennis, to even things up after a 2nd round he needed upon surviving a superbly spitfire turn from Dre in the 1st. But with Mills delivering a shortened, but still sound turn in the deciding 3rd, after a somewhat subdued (for him) 2nd, Dennis turns it up again with a nice combo of righteous (“Extended clip, I just need 30 for Mills, I’m on my lunch break!”) gun bars, steely name flips and a host of potent punches/personals to easily get the win.
Verdict: Dre Dennis (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Dre Dennis – “Spine shot, running in back of Mills [meals] like nutritional facts!”
Recap: Solid 3-rounder from RBE sees both Mr. Mills and B-Magic struggle a bit with their flow’s, but still deliver on hard-hitting punchlines, righteous name flips and gritty street fare for the masses. Split going into the 3rd, while also taking advantage of his opponent’s nimble slip-ups, a more consistent with the heat as well as fiery scheme-dishing Mr. Mills takes the final round and gets the win.
Verdict: Mr. Mills (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Mr. Mills – “You ain’t never met a nigger like me, I’ll shoot up your whole set, I’m a mini Spike Lee!”
Recap: Long armed with a sizzling performance game that’s now a staple of his resume to go along with a boatload of feisty punchlines, stunted wordplay and fierce name flips/personals, in this entertaining 1-rounder from Streatz Entertainment, a consistently scoring Big T handily beats back the gritty, but flow-challenged raps from Mr. Mills.
Verdict: Big T (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Big T – “I’ll bring Mills to ya door super cheap…like Uber Eats!”
Recap: After a rambunctious, scheme-savvy and punchline-spazzing Mr. Mills takes round 1 and a set-up crazy and an aggressive Craig Lamar easily takes round 3, this one comes down to the 2nd round. Which thanks to a surprising choke halfway in by Craig, gives what was a solid, but beatable and personal-drenched turn by Mills, the round and the win.
Verdict: Mr. Mills (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Mr. Mills – “That bitch you be kissing, got the best mouth in America, when me and her role play, that’s the only time you’ll see me come out of character!”
Recap: Despite almost rapping as twice as long as his opponent, a more versatile and habitually robust Young Kannon is able to beat a not-quite-as-focused Mr. Mills in this one-rounder from Gorilla Warfare.
Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Paralyze him for charity, that’s how you get the meals [Mills] on wheels!”
Recap: Good shit between Mr. Mills and Ill Will in this lively one-rounder from Midwest Alliance that featured plenty of heated gun bars from both battlers. But with the ability to display more personals, some funny jokes and a plethora of fiery punchlines, a more versatile Ill Will, who apparently ran into some drama with po-po on the way to this battle, at the very least leaves with a victory under his belt.
Verdict: Ill Will (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Ill Will – “…let him owe me, I’ll fire a shot in the middle of Mills [meals] like Frank Lucas at lunch!”
Recap: Heated punches from both sides allow (“It’s like I’m a youth minister how I reach the kid, transfer into an unfit parent and beat the kid!”) Mr. Mills and (“Mills, you can rap my nigga, but not quite a boss, you take shots but got no special powers…Natasha Romanoff!”) Aye Verb to split the first two rounds here in this 3-round battle from STL Street Report. But with Verb gamely schooling his opponent on his legacy in the game as well as saving his ‘Showtime’ signature raps for the final round, after a shortened (tho he had a nice rebuttal to start it off) and a little lackluster turn from Mills, Verb gets this one clearly
Verdict: Aye Verb (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Aye Verb – “Look at me King, tiem to reach inside yourself and find the higher you, you too old to be doing this Mills, but it’s my fault bro ‘cuz I inspire you!”
Recap: Hey rules are rules, so seeing a veteran like Mr. Mills in a PG might be suspect to some, but he still made the most of it. Indeed, displaying consistent focus with steely raps and sanguine punches that kept in this matchup versus a rapid R Streetz. An equal amount of bullish raps makes for a debatable first round, before Streetz edges a fire-on-both-sides 2nd with a slightly more consistent flow, better performance and one more (“I load the clip like easy on the salt, a couple of tips for Mills [meals]!”) a haymaker. However, going into the 3rd behind by a round, Mills continues to score with some stifling (“Don’t look now but the ratchet got your back, that’s loyalty!”) punches and dope punchlines/personals that increase his chances of getting a tie…except when almost halfway through his round, out of nowhere R Streetz chokes. Unfortunately, the ultimate screw-up doesn’t just make for a loss of the round, but with a technical added to the foul, the battle as well.
Verdict: Mr Mills (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Mr Mills – “But in this telegraph, I figured I’d use murder to start the letter off, so when I put the nina to whom it may concern, think [points at R Streetz] ‘To Whom It May Concern’ when I start the letter off!”
Recap: A hot start that featured some aggressive shiners along with a sputtering Mr. Mills gives (“You only cereal [serial] killing at breakfast, you not a General Mills!”) Bedaffi Green round 1 in this matchup from CGBL County Ground Battle League. Yet proven able to the task, Mills uses a nice rebuttal game and steely (“….he come off the top rhyming, soon as they put him in hot water, stick a fork in him!”) punchlines/schemes to easily take round 2 over a filler-prone turn from his opponent. Split going into the final round with the battle on the line, neither battler really stepped it up too much bar-wise. Yet, a fiery freestyle and more steadier punches from Mr. Mills, edged him one for the win column.
Verdict: Mr. Mills (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Mr. Mills – “If you ain’t think I got shooters…well godammit that nigga stay masked up like that nigga behind you!”
Recap: For a couple of rounds anyway, Mr. Mills steady mix of vociferous (“You don’t get no love [makes like gun at JC’s head] from the Pop, you must be the second child!”) punchlines, name flips and fleetingly ambitions angles are enough to keep up with JC’s wicked pen game. However, after yet another solid (“I’m me everywhere, you gotta acknowledge that, if I don’t got the strap, my son on top of the arm like a Rasheed Wallace tat!”) round by JC, a surprising 3rd round choke by Mills does him in and hands his opponent the win.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “This wasn’t the best decision, direction’s missing, and that’s something I hate to see, Birdman with the respect [Respek], when I use the ‘K’, you know it came from me!”
Recap: Some suspenseful punches and nice (“Mills, you way too big to have glitter on your shirt!”) freestyles by Tone Montana keeps him in this battle with the uber-aggressive Mr. Mills, But after breaking down (“What good is having great credentials, when the fans put you in the category of wasted potential?!”) Montana with hitting personals in round one, Mills totally switches it up, dishing random punches from every which way, that for the most part landed hard and got him a well-earned win.
Verdict: Mr. Mills (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Mr. Mills – “I ain’t gotta go get a gun, I’ll pull up with an old ratchet in the back seat, that’s Stifler’s mom!”
Recap: Thanks in part to a round 3 choke by Mr. Mills, a back on his mean grind J Murda survives a couple of slip-ups with a steady dose of gritty (“Hey yo, I almost couldn’t write for you bra, too busy getting that green off of the trees!”) anecdotes and eerie (“I’ll bust at ya mother, step pops, I’ll clean the room and have it stinking after, like a wet mop”) gun chatter to come from behind and get a much needed win. Mr. Mills came nice with consistently potent storytelling (“Who say chivalry is dead, I know a bad bitch that got a fucked up attitude and that hold big burners, but she’s ready to settle down and give you a ring…that mean she ready to commit, Murda [murder]”) bars and set-ups to take round 1 and some fiery OG talk in the 2nd made ti close. But in the end Murda’s persistent delivery and (“You like my wifey’s new Ford, my main focus, you could get a round within a round, a train token!”) execution was just too much to overcome.
Verdict: J Murda (W) 2-1
Favorite line: J Murda – “I’ll bang him and get back to work, a sick stripper!”
Recap: Rarely seen judged battle on the RBE stage is a dope one between Big Kannon and Mr. Mills. 1st round was Kannon’s…clearly, a combo of nice punchlines, hard name flips and excellent (“But Gracie say ‘Don’t battle him bro’ yunno, trying to save the day, well pray before Mills [meals] get ate, you know what I’m saying, Grace”) wordplay that stayed a step ahead of Mills aggressive personals and rigid (“We been killing over Jordan’s and I send my prayers to heaven, ‘cuz if it was 12 new bucks pointing infrared shit, I probably bred 11!”) bars that got restrained a bit by elongated set-ups and some filler. With a tighter delivery, killer wordplay and a steady stream of (“Try to run up on me, you gonna fail B, before they see you beat my ass they gonna see hell freeze, a right-left combo will have your face looking worse than NuNu Nells knees!”) haymakers, Mills took the second despite a solid (“It’s like a halo, even my light rounds go over heads”) go from Kannon. Tied after two, the always confident Kannon went back to basics, earning the win with airtight (“This 3rd round sure to be crazy, if y’all don’t know what I have in for Mill, peep the formula baby!”) rhymes that had the crowd spazzed, a frenzied performance, more delicious name flips and wicked (“You know what? you rap and you fat, you got my life, he has no talent until he in another nigga’s shoes, that’s why I don’t Like Mike”) schemes that spoke to Kannon’s prestige. Mills’ made it close with dope screeds on Kannon’s authenticity and his own real-life (“See, I handle my business on the inside, that’s how I can get you clapped on the outside if shit get insane, even in New York I could have nigga’s on the inside place your body in the attic ‘cuz niggas in Attica love my [slashes neck] love my pen game!”) urban theatrics, but a little too much pontificating combined with Kannon’s overall potency and delivery, got him the loss.
Verdict: Big Kannon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Big Kannon – “I’ll let that bitch peel, aim at his shit and he’ll get killed, blow the pump bullets are going dutch, they split bills!”
Recap: Fire battle between (“…well I can’t front pimp, I got a gun like that too, they just shipped it in from Spain nigga, on the box it says ‘Big Fucking Gun’, it ain’t even got a name nigga!”) Mr. Mills and (“50 nigga’s outside waiting for Mills like a soup kitchen!”) Danny Myers sees the two use some crazy schemes, dope set-ups, potent gun bars, comedic wit and fiending punchlines to split the first couple of rounds. 3rd round however is a different story as Danny’s continued prowess for spitfire punches at a rapidly consistent pace easily beats a solid, but slightly pontificating and not nearly as strong a turn from Mills.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “You was never known for being on the corner, you a cul-de-sac!”
