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B. Magic defeats Ness Lee

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Recap: In this close 3-rounder from No Coast Raps, veteran battler Ness Lee’s lyrical dexterity, mocking personals and at times effective punchlines keeps things competitive throughout. However, armed with his usual assortment of stinging one-liners, razor-sharp wit and gritty back-to-back punchlines while assisted a bit by Ness Lee’s up-n-down efficiency with the bars, it’s B. Magic who takes rounds 1 and 3 for the win.

Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Magic – “If my people kill you, the shit didn’t end, the hospital bring you back?, we gonna kill you again!”

Rum Nitty defeats Ness Lee

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Recap: Super annoying co-host aside, veteran battle rapper Ness Lee and Rum Nitty (making a rare appearance outside of URL) put on a punch-heavy, wordplay banging, braggadocious and gun bar-lit show that much to the delight of the crowd at this Red Clay Entertainment & Rap Grid’s Atlanta vs Everybody battle, stayed close and competitive throughout. That said, it’s a more intricate-punching Rum who edges the 1st round, before a consistently nicer and gritty Lee takes the 2nd. However, in light of both battlers feasting on heavy punchlines in the deciding 3rd round, a it’s still more pointed and condensed Nitty who does just enough for the vic.

Verdict: Rum Nitty (W)

Favorite line: Rum Nitty – “Gun line king, I passed Roc, that’s a kidney stone!”

Chilla Jones defeats Ness Lee

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Recap: Even without the trademark towel on his shoulder, Chilla Jones proves he’s still the ‘Kingpen’, slicing up a witty and punch-heavy, but sometimes elongated Ness Lee with a slew of fiery wordplay, lurid schemes and fierce personals to take the deciding 3rd round in an entertaining battle from VDM5 in Chicago,

Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “Nigga, you look like Mr. Clean….fell asleep in a tanning booth!”

Ness Lee defeats Bonnie Godiva

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Recap: When he wasn’t giving a serious talking too to Bonnie Godiva’s ass, a smooth as ever Ness Less combines some shrewd personals, boastful barbs, piercing punchlines, witty darts and sizzling 4-bar set-ups to beat back a pretty solid, but not as versatile or consistently hitting turn from Bonnie in this 1-rounder from Rap Grid.

Verdict: Ness Lee (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ness Lee – “You ’bout your little women’s independnce hard until you gotta come to a nigga for a pickle jar you can’t open!”

Chef Trez defeats Ness Lee

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Recap: Two of Southern battle rap’s finest, Ness Lee and Chef Trez, get together on ABR for a competitive 3-rounder that except for Lee’s mostly futile attenpt to match Chef’s rebuttal/freestyle game, stayed close with a gang of hardbody punchlines/name flips, witty barbs, gritty personals, dialed-up machismo fiery gun bars and stifling wordplay from both battlers. Still, helped by the aforementioned off-the-dome theatrics and a little more subdued 3rd round by his opponent, it’s a more punch-lit Trez who takes the deciding final round for the win.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “I hope you brought your best shit and some of the craziest Chef flips, but most of the shit you put on display plate been seen before…word to Netflix!”

Pass and Ness Lee [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: A couple of old Grind Time vets, Ness Lee and Pass, go at it on the KOTD stage and put up what turns out to be a pretty dope fight with the more lyrical-leaning (and witty) Lee using a rapid stream of hot, polemic jabs to come back and make for a 2nd round tie (after the word-savvy and [“The only time you had dough on a brick, it was a pizza oven”] punch-heavy Pass easily took round 1), before continuing with the verbal shiners in a 3rd round to beat back a shortened turn by Pass, which overall equates to this one being a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Ness Lee – “You old, whenever you hear a cop say ‘Chase that nigga!’, your black side run, your white side chase that nigga!”

Swave Sevah defeats Ness Lee

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Recap: Sometimes a comedy (Swave: “Nigga you look like every picture you take should have a caption that say ‘Dark Skin Niggas Be Like…'”) roast and other times an actual rap (Ness Lee: “….you let him Jaden Smith ya, nigga you was sounding crazy nigga, on the spot looking uncomfortable like you played your sister in a game of Twister”) battle, thanks in part to his opponent’s round 1 choke, Swave Sevah outlasts Atlanta battle rap veteran Ness Less with better consistency on the bars, higher quality (“Respect me, I’m deadly, I’ll dead Lee, I’m the one they unleash when it’s war, you will probably Jet Lee [Li]”) wordplay and a nicer overall performance to get a win here.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ness Lee – “You’ll be the first to get it like we had an inside joke”

Real Deal defeats Ness Less

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Recap: A real good one here from Grind Time as Ness Less and Real Deal (esp. during a brazen and classic round 2) get really spicy with the personals when they weren’t dropping a bunch of solid rebuttals and hard-hitting punchlines. An ill battle straight through that also featured some dope wordplay and similes from both battlers, we got Ness taking round 1 before Real Deal came back to edge the latter two rounds for the win.

Verdict: Real Deal (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Real Deal – “Loose cannon, I’m deadly, Bruce, Brandon, you deal Lee!”

Ness Lee defeats Marv Won

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Recap: No disrespect to Ness Lee (the “produced by Jazzie Phizzle” line was funny), but Marvwon has too much experience in the game to be fumbling around as much as he did (I had the battle split after two) in round 3, spouting so much filler and losing here.

Verdict: Ness Lee (W) 2-1

Favorite line: MarvWon – “You probably still call your pistol a jammie”