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Calicoe defeats O-Red

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Synopsis: This is a tough one, because bar for bar O-Red (“With that being said it’s one rule if you wanna pass this nigga, don’t spit it like the last bitch nigga, cuz the way I left that faggot in a casket laying on chin chilla, even Gaylord Focker couldn’t have Ben Stiller”) had the better material here. But rap battles shouldn’t be judged on just bars as creativity, rebuttals, performance, delivery, etc. have to be taken into consideration too. And that’s why Calicoe gets the win here, winning rounds 2 and 3 with amazing performance lines, freestyles, jokes (even O-Red later admitted how over-the-top and funny Cal was (‘…Cal, you’ve done enough!’) in that classic 3rd with the storytelling), shit-talking, personals and rebuttals in front of a hostile Jersey crowd. Then too, anyone who’s seen the run O-Red’s been on of late knows that this wasn’t one of his best performances overall. Cal edged it.

Verdict: Calicoe (W) 2-1

Best line: O-Red – “You stealing from a seed that you raised?, I should open-hand you, you got your power from your son, you a solar panel”

McKims defeats O-Red

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Recap: A bit of a slow start from McKims doesn’t stop him from dishing enough scheming wit and lofty wordplay to beat back a pretty pedestrian and perhaps uninspired O-Red in this one-rounder from BlockCityTV.

Verdict: McKims (W) 1-0

Favorite line: McKims – “Lines go over the top of they head like words that Common say, so if I spit something, they’ll get nuthin like Joe Jackson on Father;s Day!”

Aye Verb defeats O-Red

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Recap: Aye Verb struggles a bit with his delivery, but still has plenty of juice (“Mixing all types of shit up, lyrical gumbo!”) in his tank to cook O-Red, who along with spitting mostly light bars during his turn here, makes the brutal mistake of trying to get off a gimmick (i.e. ‘Translation’) in front of an away crowd (in this case, Detroit) who clearly had no idea what the hell he was doing. Then Red makes it even worse by begging for a 2nd round after Smack announced a strict one-round, time limit at the start of the battle…smh.

Verdict: Aye Verb (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Aye Verb – “You ain’t got the heart and you ain’t gonna shoot, you Rondo in LeBron mode!”

O-Red defeats Rosenberg Raw

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Recap: Here we see Rosenberg Raw make for a solid effort with his usual firestorm of cocky punches and shit-stirring mayhem. But a more versatile and aggressive O-Red, flippant with the personals, hilarious with the pictorials, gritty with the punchlines/name flips and festive with the gun bars, delivers too much rampant heat for his opponent to have a chance in this 3-rounder from Block City.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 3-0

Favorite line: O-Red – “On second thought why waste ammo to shoot his ass?, you’ze a fag there’s no need to let that Ruger blast, counter left, up it, nice hook with a truthful jab, I will beat the shit out of Seth from Superbad!”

Scripts defeats O-Red

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Recap: Moreso an O-Red tripping over himself and never getting up than getting beat by his opponent, after easily taking the 1st round here on this 3-rounder from Block City TV versus Scripts, an O-Red who was vigorously punch-heavy in the 1st round, flips the switch and surprisingly succumbs to a host of subpar freestyles and pedestrian bars in the latter rounds. And for Scripts, who stayed steady with the mayhem, bully talk and raucous personals throughout the match, even while not doing much in the way of bar efficiency to earn the win, still squeaks this one out thanks for the most to Red’s sudden downfall.

Verdict: Scripts (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Scripts – “It’s UFC when you step into this octagon, I spray wigs, this .8 kid is not Octomom’s!”

Tay Roc defeats O-Red

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Synopsis: I loved Tay Roc’s aggression, performance and consistency in delivering hot lines in the first couple of rounds. Roc not only hit O-Red with great bars, but nice schemes and personals….to the point that it made you feel that he wanted this win more than Red did. O’Red had a hot first two rounds too, but wasn’t quite as consistent as Tay was in round one so I gave Roc that one. The second round was Red at his best, in-ya-face aggression, cracking jokes and delivering straight heat (“marksburg open ya chest, I got that asthma pump”) and tho I’m not sure if those personals he hit with Tay with here were true or not they still worked, so Red edged round two. As for the 3rd round, while both calmed down a lot, Roc stayed consistent enough with better bars to get the win.

Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1

Best line: Tay Roc – “What you think of that?, nigga think Tay trippin’, niggas try me before so if they catch Tay slippin’, I’m a catch him outside, go to the whippin’, start bangin’ over top of the cars, Blake Griffin!”

Swave Sevah defeats O-Red

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Recap: The one battle O-Red probably wishes he could wipe off his resume as he not only gets out-barred by opponent Swave Sevah throughout the match, but he rather embarassingly chokes in both the 1st and 3rd rounds. Swave, continually bullish and on top of his game from round 1, also does an excellent job here of playing to the crowd, all the while using a gang of stifling personals, fire breakdowns and hard-hitting punchlines to dig up what was ultimately a body.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “The bitch type, see, in beef I make nigga’s bleed and leave scars, in beef you wait till nigga’s leave and key cars!”

Instant classic: “There’s no crying in the URL” (from female fan in crowd)

O-Red defeats Young Kannon

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Recap: Here we find Young Kannon basically sticking to one (“Get you fucked up while I’m tuxed up, that Tommy out that white suit won’t be a Power Ranger”) script: 101 Ways To Bully and Kill O-Red. which worked towards the beginning, but for the most part got tired and repetitive towards the mid and later chapters. Meanwhile, O-Red’s consistency and versatility was stayed (“I’m five notches above God status!”) lofty with a rapid mix of entertaining (“Gotta clip that’ll Pick 6, I play the Lotto with the .8”) wordplay. bully bars, name flips and wicked punchlines to earn the win.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-1

Favorite line: O-Red – “Hey Verb, he swagger-jacking your style, I just called him AdVerb and that faggot’s cracking a smile”

O-Red defeats Black Haze

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Recap: O-Red ends this one early with a crazy dope Uno (“It’s like I’m playing Uno when them Tek’s spit wild card, Red draw two, shoot, walk in reverse and make ya set skip”) scheme, which surrounded by constant fluorescent wordplay and aggressive, hard-hitting bars makes for an easy win against an overmatched Black Haze.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 3-0

Favorite line: O-Red – “That mag clap, you and your niggas better Aflac or get wetter than Goodz armpits at the last Smack”

O-Red defeats T Money Bagz

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Synopsis: Not sure if this was a 3 round battle because the vid seems to be missing a round, but nonetheless it’s an easy win O-Red whose aggressive heat, punchlines and gun bars wiped away Money Bagz’ basic filler.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-0

Favorite line: O-Red – “That shotty blast, knock the Rocky out your cocky ass, heat burst till the beef jerk, teriyaki swag”

O-Red defeats Lance

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Synopsis: In this epic “Battle of the Hats”, after a close round 1, O-Red takes it up a notch and rips Lance apart with rapid punchlines, jokes and mean personals.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-1

Favorite line: O-Red – “The fire-starter, lion heart, there ain’t no taming me, speech like brushing your teeth, I’m what you Aim to be”

O-Red defeats Spunk Whop

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Recap: Gun bars-a-blazing and painting some epic pictures of the type of mayhem he can create, outside of a debatable 2nd round, a boastful O-Red easily beats back a punchline-heavy at times, but too gay joke-centric and mostly pedestrian Spunk Whop in this 3-roudner from Waa Battle Circuit.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-1

Favorite line: O-Red – “I’ll kick in your mother door popping the mag, out two in her head, your father?, 4 shots to the ass, your grandmama watch me reload, I cock it and blast, that old hag catch a slug through her oxygen mask!”

O-Red defeats Joe Lite

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Synopsis: As much as you like to think that two dudes who really don’t seem to like each other would put on a good show, this has to be one of the worst body bags ever. To think O-Red wasn’t even on his A-game here, that’s just how basic Joe Lite was.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 3-0

Best line: O-Red – “Move your lips too quick, you get pistol-whipped with a rocket launcher”

O-Red defeats Young Greg

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Recap: Both O-Red and Young Greg repeatedly blast the heat when they’re not spouting boastful barbs and lyrical shiners at each other throughout the 3 rounds of this raucous battle from BlockCityTV. But Red, more condensed at times and stunting throughout the bout with more clever lines and consistently spicy punchlines, does enough to take each round for the win.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 3-0

Favorite line: O-Red – “We the only two nigger’s rapping and he in 3rd place!”

O-Red defeats Hann Smith

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Recap: Unintentionally funny at times and showing off an ability to spit ‘more bars than Rahway’, throughout this battle, Hann Smith’s freestyle acumen was pretty impressive, however long-winded it certainly was as well. But outside of a 3rd round in which he mistakenly thought he could bring as much quality, off-the-dome theatrics as his opponent, a way more condensed O-Red was still able to utilize a gang of boastful darts, plenty of drawn-out but spicy mayhem and some fiery wordplay/punches to take both of the opening rounds for the win.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-1

Favorite line: O-Red – “Throwback Trigger [Tigga] nigger, your rap’s in the basement!”