Recap: From The Riot Network, a fire battle that was close and intense throughout, Charron still manages to edge earn the win. The Canadian battler even beating back yet another sublime 3rd round from Ooops (who came 3 of his strongest, punch-heavy, consistently-spicy and righteous rounds ever) with a scathing, highly personal (he even brought out the paperwork) and punch-lit final round that capped a 1st and 2nd round filled to the rim with a boatload of fiery name flips, some stellar wrodplay, more scorching personals and hard-hitting/witty punchlines that with its ability to score one or two more haymakers in both of the latter rounds (score round 1 debatable) allowed Charron to get the vic.
Verdict: Charron (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Charron – “You beat cancer? I’ll murder ya crew, now we battling at the airport, your death could be Terminal 2 [too]!”
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: With the heartfelt past struggles he’s long shared from his personal life, a well-noted service to social activism and a plethora of righteous punchlines over the years, the idea that Ooops, win or lose, couldn’t make a bigger name for himself on URL was always nonsensical. And as Holmzie Da God (after out-punching a flow-challenged Ooops in round 1) finds out in this 3-rounder, the St. Louis Superman’s vivid storytelling, fierce wordplay and ability to parlay hard-hitting personals and scintillating schemes into a win, by edging rounds 2 and 3 here, shouldn’t be underestimated either.
Verdict: Ooops (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ooops – “Depression, suicide, anxiety, bipolar, that’s what they expected us to talk about, I hate that this had to be you, ‘cuz we one and the same, I fought through Ultimate Madness too!”
Recap: Just because you know what’s coming doesn’t mean that you can always prepare yourself for it. As Quban finds out here, what with the DMV battler (who altogether gave a dope effort with some sizzling name flips, rigid wordplay and gritty punches/personals throughout) sighing out load upon hearing the first few words from opponent Ooops in round 3, knowing damn well what was coming and still, after the two split the first couple of rounds, falling victim to another gripping, poignant and socially-conscious final round from an activist/battle rapper who’s made his 3rd’s a must listen.
Verdict: Ooops (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ooops – “I get it, you did what you had to do and shit happens, Uncle Sam pointed and said he wanted you, but we know that was big cappin'”!
Recap: Sure, some of the punches can be a bit obscure, but think harder and don’t let that minor factor diminish M. Ciddy’s ability to land his bars effectively, Add to that some rigid personals and strong wordplay during the 1st two rounds here against Ooops and before the slightly more punch-heavy, righteous and condensed ‘Superman’ edged the 3rd, it’s a solid win for the Detroit vet.
Verdict: M. Ciddy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: M. Ciddy – “The whole truth is that you really out the whole loop, you style like Batman Beyond…it’s getting old Bruce!”
Recap: Outside of a minor couple of slip-up’s in round 2, St. Louis vet Ooops really impresses in his URL debut. The 10-year rhyme-slinger and former politician pouring his soul out with a blistering barrage of righteous punchlines, hard-hitting personals, solid wordplay and other impactful conscious-lit/fealty raps to get past a steely, rigid gun bar-savvy and personal/gritty/name flip-friendly TruFoe in the 1st and 3rd (a superbly-executed and an indisputable classic from Ooops, who’s long-known for memorable closer’s) round’s and win what was overall a dope battle from two of the Midwest’s finest.
Verdict: Ooops (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ooops – “I never voted for Trump but I kept a .45 in office!”
Recap: Dope, 1-round RBE Social Distance battle between Ooops and Rosenberg (“I’m a shooter, I stay with the Tek, put three O’s [holes] in ya body, P.S. I just put ya name in the flesh!”) Raw has them both kicking a load of hot punchlines with a nice mix of stirring wordplay, witty personals and hitting name flips. With about 2 minutes each and an equal amount of haymakers and very little filler, let’s not only call this one a draw, but hopefully when things start getting back to normal, bring ’em back for 3 rounds.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Ooops – “Just cause you look white and animated don’t make you King of the Hill!”
Recap: Scoring left and right with boastful punchlines, righteous gun lines, stunted schemes/name flips and a boatload of pointed personals, in this 3-rounder from SupaNova Rap Battles, Ryda keeps the heat on a gripping and punch-heavy at times, but also flow-challenged Ooops to easily take the first two rounds before a debatable 3rd allows his opponent to put one up on the scoreboard.
Verdict: Ryda (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ryda – “Something just wasn’t sitting right, I could just tell you wasn’t living right, had the nerve to call your movie the ‘St. Louis Superman’ and the whole time the green was your kryptonite!”
Recap: Ooops: “I’m just up here trying to save the life of another purse-snatcher!” LOL!!! Even Nu Jerzey Twork had to laugh at that one. But in this dope 1-rounder from Street Status, it’s a condensed Twork who gets the last word (even with a few recycled bars), dishing out a consistent barrage of utter mayhem, stinging name flips (that included both his opponent Ooops moniker and his gov’t name), wicked personals and fierce punchlines during his round to beat back an at times stirring and punch-heavy, but also a bit filler-prone turn by Ooops.
Verdict: Nu Jerzey Twork (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Nu Jerzey Twork – “I don’t know nuthin’ about no Democrats, no Republicans, but I know the sound of a Mac when it dump, I don’t give a fuck about no donkey or no elephant, ‘cuz I’m a put yuur ass in a trunk!”
Recap: Civil rights battler Ooops versus conscious rapper B. Dot had all the makings of a goodie and this 3-rounder from KOTD didn’t disappoint. B. Dot, with turned-up screeds on his opponent’s real life bouts with politics and activism, gave it all he had, dishing a plethora righteous schemes, a fire 2nd round rebuttal, pointed personals, plenty of nifty (“If I hear one gun bar, I’m a slap the pistol out your hand before you speak up on it, look you dead in your eyes, as soon as you blink I’m on it, grab your gun, don’t even know if it’s empty, but shit…don’t I always think I’m Loaded?!”) punchlines and fiery “woke” speak for all 3 of his rounds. Still, one particular note here and yeah we get it, it’s a battle. But considering all the work Ooops has done in the social justice field, does B. Dot go overboard with the personals (esp. politically) when these two share the same cloth when it comes to battle rap? That being said and perhaps motivated by battling a fellow ‘conscious rapper’ who happened to call him out, this is one of the best Ooops you’ll ever see. The St. Louis battler consistently spitting a wide load of blistering heat, fire-set-ups, crazy personals at B. Dot, scorching barbs on police brutality and a boatload of spitfire (“They say the revolution will not be televised, well thanks to us it’s getting You Tube’d!”) punchlines that lit the room. A competitive and fire battle throughout often makes for a tough call. But with B. Dot almost rapping twice as long as Ooops in both rounds 1 and 2, both dishing an equal amount of haymakers during the rounds and Ooops displaying more versatility and intricacy with his bars in each round, the edge here goes to Ooops. And while B. Dot again had an elongated turn in the 3rd, his straightforward, conscious, direct and potent series of polemics would be enough to beat a round by Ooops that while dope and determined in its own right, was mostly directed at Charron.
Verdict: Ooops (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ooops – “Anybody that think I didn’t stand a chance, here’s the retaliation, they said onscreen I can’t touch Dot…well, I recalibrated!”
Recap: A pretty solid, at times punch-heavy and oft-righteous showing by Ooops gets beat back in the 1st and 3rd rounds by a boatload of nifty punchlines, head-on personals, fiery schemes and some spirited wordplay/name flips from Emerson Kennedy, thus giving the Utah lyricist a successful debut on the RBE stage.
Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “Where I’m from, only snitches go to therapy Ooops, even tho we close to a brink, jealous of Ant-man, when I’m in trouble I can’t go to a shrink!”
Recap: An extra dope Black sitcom scheme in round 3, a gang of fierce/righteous punchlines, fire set-ups, some excellent wordplay, spirited lines on real-life urban drama and a couple of major slip-ups from an otherwise punch-lit Craig Lamar, gives the Ooops a well-earned (1st round Craig, 2nd & 3rd Ooops) win in this competitive 3-rounder from RBE.
Verdict: Ooops (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Craig Lamar – “Take the cool route, ‘cuz if I tune out, nigga I’ll bang the .3 [trey] like I’m trying to get the last ice cube out!”
Recap: With Big T unable to get in his bag while transfixed on hit-n-miss punches throughout this battle, a civic-minded and nice with the punches Ooops survives a couple of near-chokes to take advantage of his opponent’s mediocrity and edge rounds 1 plus 3 for a win on the KOTD stage.
Verdict: Ooops (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ooops – “I’m the man in my city and yours, you ain’t the one they admire, you Stefon Marbury you’ll have to move from the crib ti get your jersey retired!”
Recap: The activist bars of Oops versus the God-complex rituals and acute wordplay of Xcel makes for a fierce and close battle on the KOTD stage. A match that was almost a debatable, if not for the Oops struggling with his flow a few times during the decisive 3rd round after taking tying things up with a magnificent 2nd round after Xcel edged the 1st. Granted, this is the best (“I remember needing capital for an office, now my office is in a capital!”) Oops we’ve seen in awhile, but the decision here is a slightly more consistnet Xcel by a nose at the end.
Verdict: Xcel (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Xcel – “I was never rushing [Russian] to be in the stars, I ain’t a cosmonaut, I’m a rapper than been in the field since Rock ‘N Jock!”
Recap: His opponent being well-known for elongated rounds, I’m guessing that Shotgun Suge knew what he was doing when he allegedly requested 90 second rounds here against Ooops. And while Ooops came through with another enlightening (“You telling niggas that you riding around with like 8 burners, and then you tell everybody like you beat like 8 murders, we don’t condone that Suge, I mean that don’t make you a real nigga, that’s real filler, you ain’t beat 8 murders, they just found the real killers”) 3rd round, that wasn’t enough to make up for a couple of slip-ups, but moreso Shotgun Suge’s copacetic (“40. hit him with a combination like a gym lock!”) gun bars, gripping personals and animated shit-talking in the first 2 rounds. In other words, looks like Suge played his cards just right.
Verdict: Shotgun Suge (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Shotgun Suge – “What your life like nigga? Ferguson? Protesting? Marching, you the show setter, I’m from Newark nigga, the cops? Know better”
Recap: As Florida Evans would say: ‘Damn! Damn! Damn!’ Ooops and Daylyt match up on the RBE stage to put on one of the realest rap battles ever, kicking so much emotions, real rap talk and soliloquies in their lines that you couldn’t ashamed to say if you were brought to tears. Not that really matters who won, but after Daylyt’s punchline game and rip-shredding bars edged him round one, Ooops continuous name flips got him round two, a deadlocked battle became a near-classic with a gut-wrenching 3rd. First, Daylyt (who perhaps inspired by Ooops conscious/poetic rap stylings decided early on to drop the antics for this battle) drops what is arguably his best round ever, with a consistent barrage of haymakers that gamely ripped apart all his naysayers, while giving you new understanding of what makes Daylyt so (“Steve Urkel should y’all that if a square randomly get a machine, then out of nowhere he a cool nigga”) gifted, controversial, (“It was pops at my front door every day, it was never dad!”) nuisanced and borderline schizophrenic. So stupendous was Daylyt’s round that the stunned look on Ooops face alone spoke volumes on the impact. Still, when he was finally ready to begin his round, Ooops used his turn to hit hard with some sentimental (“See you talking all that protesting shit, but we ain’t have to go to Selma to see what they went through”) analysis and personal real life gab that just as gamely moved the crowd. Daylyt’s delivery and righteous bar quotient got him the round and won him the battle but either way Daylyt vs. Ooops is another contender for Battle of the Year.
Verdict: Daylyt (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Daylyt -“When y’all say I’m stupid, God is the reason I got the face tat”
Recap: O-Red uses some some hard (“You’ll get X’d over the green, Jamaican flag”) bars, winning personals, nice rebuttals, a stunting Maya Angelou (“You like poetry? BOW!!!, say hello to Maya Angelou nigga, naw naw I ain’t trying to be that disrespectful, I was only calling her Mya, she with Ill and Huggins, say hello to Maya and ya Lou niggas”) flip, a funky translation scheme and aggressive wordplay to come from behind and edge a (“We seen y’all in Detroit that’s why I question your credibility, I mean y’all say he’s top tier but I don’t see Red’s ability [credibility]”) game, but stumble heavy Ooops in this entertaining battle from RBE.
Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-1
Favorite line: O-Red – “Yo bitch love daddy style, pull them khakis down, she feel the peen O [Filipino] get the box, I’m Pacquiao”
Recap: A slip-up prone Ooops more than lives up to his name with a plethora of unexpected visits from EARL during his 2nd and 3rd rounds, after spitting what was solid, but pretty short 1st. But then with Mike P’s continual assault of fiery words, white-boy (“The right [makes hand like a fist] deadly as Oxycontin in a white kid’s hand!”) drama and punches throughout his three rounds, even if Ooops had managed to spit three clean rounds, he still might’ve been better off staying at home.
Verdict: Mike P (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Mike P -“You food on my plate, shit you looking like the ref’s look, when then Tek’s book, it’s textbook, dude cock it and shoot two rockets and shove it back in my pocket…I’m Russell Westbrook!”
