Recap: Nu Jerzey Twork makes his debut on KOTD and it’s an impressive one. The former Goonie using a gang of spitfire similes, witty storytelling, boastful barbs, flexing punches and mocking personals to score a 30 on Pass., who while apparently replacing original opponent Thesaurus delivered a solid performance when it came to piercing punches and spicy name flips, overall couldn’t withstand NJT”s more haymaker-rich landscape.
Verdict: Nu Jerzey Twork (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Nu Jerzey Twork – “If you asked me about one Pass [past] battle I wouldn’t know the answer to it!”
Recap: Can’t front, before I came upon this 3-round GTX battle, I thought Pass and B. Magic had already battled too. Turns out that the two battle vets were scheduled to faceoff way back in 2015, but for whatever reason it didn’t happen. Still, it was worth the wait as both Magic and Pass came through with three rounds of pure heat. Magic intertwining a superb punch game with piercing shots of wit and sizzling name flips, while the ever-confident Pass ripped off a gang of flexing set-up/punchlines, stinging/versatile metaphors and a bunch of solid name flips/personals. A close one through and through with Pass edging the 2nd round, it’s a more condensed and consistently scoring Magic who edges rounds 1 and 3 for the win.
Verdict: B. Magic (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B. Magic – “You really need the work bad, you try to run up on me and get the works fast, I got a littel trick play that’ll reverse Pass!”
Recap: Competitive (esp. when Shotti P made use of some spicy personals to take round 2 after getting edged by a punch-heavier Pass in round 1) but still not too many highlights in this Season 1 tournament KOTD matchup that overall was way more regular weed than Afghan Kush. Either way, with a reliable mix of high octane braggadocios darts, a flexing rebuttal and a bunch of piercing punches/wordplay, it’s the more resilient Pass who takes the deciding 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “This a cliffhanger, I got the eagle eye on the kill, I’m living at my peak, you really wanna die on this hill?!”
Recap: Dope 3-rounder here from KOTD’s Season 1 tournament features Pass vs. Ciddy with both battlers bringing their A-games. What with an ever aggressive Ciddy scoring with sizzling multi’s, intricate/hardbody (“All I need is two fingers, Bruce Lee push-ups!”) punches and a bunch of hitting personals, while a just as combative Pass used a boatload of fiery name flips, boastful punchlines and piercing wordplay/style breakdowns to stay on pace with his opponent throughout the battle. Close throughout with barely any room for filler, had a slightly more haymaker-lit Pass edging round 1 before Ciddy returned the favor in round 2 to even things up. Last round might’ve been slightly edged by a still pugnacious Ciddy too if not for a hitting rebuttal by a still game Pass to start his round, therefore making this bout debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Pass – “You could never be on my level, you reaching still ain’t get it, he know this Town Bidness way beyond Ciddy [city] limits!”
Recap: Could’ve sworn that during their long battle rap careers Pass and Aye Verb had already crossed paths on the big stage. But surprisingly they hadn’t. So thanks to GTX the two vets finally meet up for a competitive matchup that featured a boatload of braggadocious darts, steely punches, solid wordplay and hitting personals/name flips. A close one that had them split (had Pass edging the opening round while Verb came back to edge the 2nd) the first couple of rounds, it’s a witty at times, more consistently-lit and personal-bent Pass who takes the deciding 3rd round for the win.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “This will be his obituary, big words in black print, this what it was vs. what it is, they said Verb in past [Pass] tense!”
Recap: From round 1 of KOTD’s Season 1 tournament, a close one between hard street rhymes and gritty punches of Clone and the rich metaphors, sturdy name flips and boastful rants from Pass comes down to round 2 (had both the opening round and the 3rd as debatable) which turned out to be the clear turn thanks to Pass’ stinging off-the-dome stylings and overall harder hitting personals/punchlines.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favoriet line: Pass – “They got me in front of a Clone, this whole season I’ve been battling my fucking self!”
Recap: In a dope KOTD Season 1 tournament battle for the championship that was littered with hot punchlines, fiery wordplay, feelgood metaphors, piercing personals and head-ringing name flips from both sides, after the two split the opening rounds (had Bill Collector edging round 1 and Pass edging round 2), in what was a crazy and punch-lit 3rd round to decide it all, it’s a slightly more condensed and performance-lit BC who barely edges the final round for the win and the $100K check.
Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Bill Collector – “You trying to get pass me nigga?, it’s tricky Pass…flea-flicker!”
Recap: Dishing a gang of fiery combo’s mixed with head-ringing personals, metaphors, set-ups, schemes and similes to increase the toxicity of the punches, in this KOTD Season 1, Week 18 3-rounder, Pass gets by a pretty solid, but oft-predictable rounds 1 and 2 from Cali Smoov to get the win before a round 3 debatable.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “You see when a fire blazing, high seas make the sky look strange, it was hot when those bullets drop, even in the summer time it rain, now your season short, it’s dark for Cail, this when the climate change!”
Recap: From KOTD’s Season 1 tournament, a solid-punching effort from F.A.T.E. (esp. like that ‘body…Hide-n-Seek’ line in the 3rd), gets beat back by a notably brazen throughput, versatile, metaphor spicy and consistently punch-lit showing from the vet Pass, who even after not battling for over a year and serving as a last-minute for Chubby Jag in this tourney, barely showed an ounce of rust on his way to a 30.
Verdict: Pass (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pass – “My mind intricate, two minute rounds, boy I need 5 minutes, why you trying to limit it?, I’ll kick that hour glass over sideways, my time infinite!”
Recap: Well, that was an unexpected turn. After a spitfire and debatable 1st round, filled with a boatload of fiery lyrical darts and gritty punchlines from both Danny Myers and Pass, the so-called ‘Bar God’ goes into cold turkey mode and pretty much throws in the towel on the battle, cutting short both his 2nd and 3rd rounds due to just ‘battling last night’. Not a good look for a West-coast vet, much less a disappointment to crowd members who expressed their feelings on seeing Danny concede defeat. For Pass too–who shined throughout the battle with a gang of stinging personals, braggadocios heat and some nifty wordplay–beating Danny when he was unprepared and not at his best, must feel a little displeasing.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “I’m whupping your ass for block ritual, I’m Shock G this old rapper Underground, but he not Digital!”
Recap: A Pass equipped with a bunch of mocking personals, hard-hitting history lessons, boastful barbs and piercing punchlines/name flips versus a well-prepared and clearly motivated Don Marino dishing a gang of versatile punches/personals, hometown heat, lofty name flips and well-oiled Mexican bars makes for a fiery, competitive and even split during the first two rounds of this URL/Smack Volume 5 battle. In the deciding 3rd round however, a solid and condensed effort by Pass would get handily beat back by a boatlaod of killer personals and set-up/punchlines by Mr. Marino, giving the Miami legend a well-earned win.
Verdict: Don Marino (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Don Marino – “Dan Marino in the shotgun, I hit the screen Pass!”
Recap: Solid, bar-lit 3-rounder from KOTD sees battle vets Pass and E. Ness go at it for 3 competitive rounds with the only occupational hazard occurring during Pass’ 2nd round, a couple of slip-ups that along with a turned-up (“They say you’ze a douche-bag, he’s a real asshole, hit Pass with the combination, got the pass code!”) and witty Ness cost him the turn after the two battlers both had an equally seismic, punch-heavy 1st. But with the ever-confident Pass rarely losing his cool, the Bay-area maestro came back with a sizzling 3rd, fresh with feisty personals, some potent wordplay and dope punchlines to edge the round over a much less formidable showing from Ness and earn a tie.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Pass – “Fred got you famous from a headlock, arms wrapped your throat, now Loaded Lux ain’t the only one with a classic choke!”
Recap: Good one between Pass and Ill Will on the KOTD stage with the former kicking a variety of fierce punchlines, nice name flips and nifty braggadocio lines that his Oakland hometown crowd more than appreciated. But Pass’ bent for filler and oft-pedestrian bars throughout his rounds combined with Ill Will’s gritty, performance-adept, rambunctious, satirical, gun bar savvy and personal/name flip heavy rotation of bars, no matter the round gives the Pontiac, Michigan rapper a well-earned 30.
Verdict: Ill Will (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Ill Will – “I learned at a young age when you pushing that rock, nigger’s will run and shoot and post up against you, that’s why it’s easy to put two arms to ya chest Pass, I know fundamentals!”
Recap: Cortez and Pass go back a long way’s so a little strange that it took them this long to battle. But with KOTD providing the platform, these two vets finally meet up on the stage and it’s a more consistent and versatile Cortez who takes this one in what was an entertaining and punch-heavy matchup with plenty of syrupy punchlines from both battlers, but also some quizzical moments like Pass wasting too many bars on not getting a chance at the KOTD chain and failing to be more crisp with his angles. The latter issue is something a confident Cort would take advantage of in the first couple of rounds with a deluge of fiery personals, flippant name flips, heated gun bars and other heated schemes/wordplay, all with an invigorating and tight flow that got him the aforementioned rounds, before an elongated turn in the 3rd (and Pass dishing his best round) cost him getting a shutout.
Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Cortez – “Boy, fuck your open nights at the Pit, cocky is how you come off, you from the era of Scribble Jam, but get treated like a jump-off!”
Recap: Tough one to call as it stayed close and competitive throughout. But after getting out-punched by a (“Put a nigger under those white sheets, he Clayton Bigsby!”) slicker, punchline/mayhem-savvy and more versatile Young Kannon in the first, Pass comes back with a more (“When my son was born, I had an AK under my bed nigger…he wasn’t scared of monsters!”) fiery, real talk spazzing and punch-heavy 2nd round to beat back a solid, but not-nearly-as-potent turn by YK. The 3rd and deciding round was a bit elongated on both sides, but still solid turn by each battler, that was tight enough to probably warrant a debatable if not for a couple of nice ‘Wakanda’ freestyles in the middle of his round by Pass. And while YK came back with a rare rebuttal, with an equal amount of haymakers and length in rounds, it’s the veteran Pass’ ability for off-the-dome shiners that gets him the edge and the win here.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “You Chicago niggers not even known for shooting, y’all known for dying!”
Recap: Dispensing a variety of (“I caught the BART with a Maggie, word to Homer Simpson!”) robust punchlines at will, Bigg K proceeds to out-punch a solid, but not as potent Pass for two rounds, before a wordplay-heavy, (“Bitch, you racist, I’ll hit in the face with the K, k, K?!”) personal-leaning and a little more consistent Pass edges round 3 to avoid getting shut out in this fire battle from KOTD.
Verdict: Bigg K (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Bigg K – “You 50 percent clown, but that ain’t the half of it!”
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!”
Recap: In a matchup that sort of came out of nowhere, as to be expected Brizz Rawsteen brings his rapid assortment of 6 million (“I’m back nerds, and it’s way worse and I’mma kill all you niggas and it ain’t a hate term, first I gotta write for him on the low like a Drake verse!”) ways to die, while veteran rapper Pass dishes his familiar palette of steady (“Nigga, I fucking hate when you rap, your voice is nails on a chalkboard, you sound like Craig daddy when he was talking on the toilet!”) jokes, nice wordplay and dope (“Ain’t no one checking for Brizz Raw, I can’t even continually say that Brizz raw, but a strong left will split the kid jaw, his muzzle will be a puzzle piece, this jigsaw!”) punchlines. And while a difference of styles bout is almost always intriguing, it’s an elongated Rawsteen’s showmanship, righteous name flips and splashier (“Please shorty, bring ya bitch, I’ll grow in 6 in ya bae [Bay] area with E-40!”; “You King of the Dot prostitute, but today Pass over, y’all better bring lot’s of juice!”) variety of bars that especially stands out during all three of his rounds, while Pass’ attempts of going outside the box with personals that mostly fell flat with too many going at T-Top and URL, instead of his opponent. For a consistent and performance-heavy Rawsteen attempting to make an impression on a loud West-coast crowd, there shouldn’t be any doubt that he’ll get an invitation back real soon.
Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “When he catch a head shot, I bet his neck roll, I told Smack for a pot of greens I’ll bring ya the nigga neck bone!”
Recap: In this nice matchup from Barbarian Battle Grounds, Pass’ (“[pounds chest] Old-school beatdown, I’ll boom bap ya!”) pretty solid, oft-rapid, sometimes intricate wordplay/punches lands him a debatable 1st round when matched with JC’s swagger boasts and otherwise ill punchlines/personals. But from there, a (“I execute with the ink, empty the pen faster than a prison break!”) bluster-happy, set-up friendly, gun bar-savvy and scheme-heavy JC just proves to be too much for his vet opponent, raining down haymakers with extra moxie in both the 2nd and 3rd, while displaying more consistency with the potency of his bars and taking the win.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “Trying to be a rap legend, you could meet a rap legend…[Bwoh!], bet he know the Proof when he see it!”
Recap: A pretty solid effort backed by a boatload of witty personals and stinging punches/mayhem from Pass would probably give the Oakland Vet a win on most occasions. But in this fiery 3-rounder from KOTD, a versatile and consistently spicy Money Bagz, banging out sizzling punchline after punchline to go along with some piercing wordplay and name flips, takes the first two rounds for the win before a debatable 3rd.
Verdict: Money Bagz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Money Bagz – “Nah, fuck that, I’ll wait till he in the hospital and then walk up to the respirator and press every button like a bad-ass kid on the elevator!”
Recap: After calling him out in a previous battle, Pass uses a fleet of blistering personals, fiery name flips and piercing punchlines to beat back a topsy-turvy Bishop Brigante in this 3-rounder from KOTD.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “This a roast, don’t nobody in here wanna see you rap, they just glad they ain’t gotta see you host!”
Recap: From the UK’s Don’t Flop league, a consistently-lit Pass dishes a boatload of fiery name flips, mocking personals and jaunty punchlines (esp. during a fire round 3) to take each round and beat back a lyrically solid effort from a gritty Raptor Warhurst.
Verdict: Pass (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pass – “For real my nigga, be original, you know what I’m speaking is true, ‘cuz if Shotty Horror didn’t exist then neither would you!”
Recap: In a battle filled with colloquial rhymes, scorching/witty personals, boastful darts, disrespectful punches (from Arsonal), some dope wordplay and telltale tests of manhood (from Pass), after the two split the first couple of rounds, a pretty righteous, Oscar Grant-elegiac and highly gripping turn by Pass in the 3rd gives the Bay-area vet the win in this competitive 3-rounder from KOTD.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “It’s a whole wave of nigger’s claiming to be Crip, but its just making us seasick [C sick]!”
Recap: Chilla Jones has what basically amounts to an off night, using way too many name flips, elongated schemes, lackluster bars and convoluted set-ups along the way and thus allowing seasoned veteran Pass to come from behind with enough nifty punchlines, fleeting (“See, I know why hoes won’t sleep with dude, soon as you take off your hat you look like black Beetlejuice!”) personals and aggressive bars/wordplay and score a win on KOTD.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass -“You get X’d from American History when they make this nigga bite the block”
Recap: Fresh off his somewhat disappointing battle with Hollow da Don, Charlie Clips gets right back on stage against a formidable opponent in the punchline-heavy, Oakland-based spitter Pass. From the start it doesn’t look too good for Clips as Pass (who clearly took a lot of notes from the Hollow battle) uses his opponent’s penchant for excuse-making to set up some nice punches and fiery (“You not careful where your Ice is [Isis] you get beheaded”) bars. But after using his first round to spit some mostly pedestrian freestyles in between pontificating on time issues, Clips gets back to battle mode and steps it up with a mean performance, steady schemes and a couple of righteous (“I’ll walk through your hood, no scratches on me, I’m a Foam Posit”) haymakers that easily takes out Pass’ fast-rap indifference and mostly stale darts. With the momentum back on his side, Clips edges a competitive (Pass: “Just cuz’ you .38 don’t make you special nigga”) round 3 with nasty schemes, festive (“You know Simon?. who gives a fuck, do what this gat say”) wordplay and a ‘Timbaland/Timberland/Missy’ line that was the best one in the round. Take in account Clips’ freestyle pedigree and how prepared he was for Pass’ angles and whoever Clips battles next may want to rethink the idea that he might be falling off.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “And my Cole, Shirley, when I bring these biscuits in ya mama Payne [pain] bitch”
Recap: Basement battle between two seasoned vets, Pass and Caustic, is highlighted by a boatload of pointed personals, freestyles, rebuttals and fiery punchlines. Close throughout and competitive despite neither battler really being on their A-game, a more condensed and consistent with the barbs Pass edges rounds 1 and 2 to take the win.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “Ill give this boy the biz-ness [business] like rich, white parents!”
Synopsis: Pass knows damn well that he didn’t beat no Hollow da Don (hell, his battle against Hollow is probably the main reason he shortened his name) when they battled a few years ago. But against DNA (way too much name flips, half of which just weren’t hitting) here he had enough variety with personals, punchlines and heavy bars galore to score da dub.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass- “It’s apparent that you’re a parasite, it’s HIV in your DNA that’s why your first name is Eric, right [Wright]?”
Recap: A love for switching flow patterns, speed rapping, wordplay and spicy punchlines by both RemyD and Pass makes for an intriguing 3-rounder on KOTD between these two and the battle lives up to the suspense, as two rhymeslingers keep it close throughout. However, after a debatable round 1, despite a pair of pretty solid, versatile and stylistic turns by RemyD, it’s a slightly more turned up, wordplay-lit, set-up/haymaker-heavy and scathing with the personals Pass who edges rounds 2 (a classic) and 3 for the win.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “You ain’t famous, but a pound in front of you will make your name a trending topic!”
Synopsis: K-Shine always puts forth a good (his “Pass” scheme in the 2nd round was crazy) effort, but coming from Harlem and not knowing that Tupac was born there is a never a good look. Still, Pass’ hard-hitting bars, rebuttals, wordplay and personals would’ve been too much to overcome anyway.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “Now you been doing this since Smack was on VHS”
Recap: Spirited, competitive and at times pretty witty KOTD battle between Pass and Brixx Belvedere stayed thisclose throughout as the two traded an almost equal amount of spicy personals/name flips, rich similes, potent wordplay and piercing punchlines in all 3 rounds. However, while Brixx scored at an equal clip as his opponent, the slightly more condensed with the haymakers Pass edges the deciding (call the other two a draw) 2nd round for the win.
Verdict: Pass (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pass – “When I put Brixx [bricks] in a bag that shit is vacuum sealed!”
Recap: Swedish battle rapper Henry Bowers uses a variety of nifty punchlines, witty shiners, a couple of nice rebuttals and some lofty personals to beat back a mostly subpar and seemingly just happy-to-be-there Passwurdz in this 3-rounder from O-Zone Battles Uptown.
Verdict: Henry Bowers (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Henry Bowers – “Sure, I painted my face green, but your’s is green of envy!”
Recap: From KOTD, after the two split the first couple of rounds (Passwurdz taking the 1st before Skeely took round 2), Passwurdz’s flow-istic punchlines and his opponent’s pointed, hardbody stylings/personals (“And I heard that bitch you got in Oakland will let the whole block bang, she be giving more neck than a King of the Dot chain!”) equate with enough heat in the deciding 3rd to make this one a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Passwurdz – “You bring a fat, black girl to every battle that you have and I think that’s just Precious!”
Recap: ‘It’s Dad!’ Philly Swain combines a bunch of piercing sound effects, some solid wordplay/similes, witty personals and bruising punchlines to beat back a so-so Passwurdz (who even when he hit on the right themes, couldn’t keep up when it came to the quality of his punches) in the 1st and 3rd rounds of a Grind Time battle that was a bit prescient in its undertaking.
Verdict: Philly Swain (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Philly Swain – “They say that PH beat me, beg ya pardon?, when do they ever cheer for Jordan in Madison Square Garden?!”
Recap: In this 2-rounder from a Scribble Jam event that took place in Cincinnati, OH, Iron Solomon dishes some scathing personals and piercing freestyles/punchlimnes at a pedestrian punching Pass to easily get the win.
Verdict: Iron Solomon (W) 2-0
Favorite line: Iron Solomon – “You could spit those multiple’s till your ???, I’ll be at the hotel giving your girl multiple orgasms!”
Synopsis: Passwurdz gave Hollow a worthy battle here, but to think Hollow flipped his name so well here that Pass would later change it–then too is the fact that to many of Passwurdz average lines got gassed up by the hometown crowd. Take in the boatload of dope rebuttals by da Don on display here too and he definitely got a road win here.
Verdict: Hollow da Don (W) 3-1
Best line: Hollow da Don – “Ignore his dickriders, they gonna hype him up like he tough. he’ll rhyme ‘hollow’ with ‘swallow’ and they’ll be like ‘Whoooo!!! How does he write this stuff!'” and “Last I heard he was a wack nerd that ain’t been seen since Chap shirts, I’m like y’all that’s normal, y’all ain’t supposed to see him, he’s a password”
Recap: More condensed and performance-heavy in rounds 1 and 3 with some fire quotables, witty barbs and rugged wordplay mixed in, Daylyt edges a mayhem-dishing and personal/name-flip spazzing, but a little less versatile and a little less intricate Passwurdz in this competitive 3-rounder from Grind Time.
Verdict: Daylyt (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Daylyt – “I X box cats, his boys will get a Halo 2!:
Recap: This 3-rounder from Grind Time finds the more crispy punching and witty Locksmith edging the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win versus a mostly pedestrian Passwordz.
Verdict: Locksmith (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Locksmith – “You thought you wouldn’t lose but your nigga’s probably did, they got ypu fucked up in the head like Whitney and Bobby’s kids!”
Recap: Equipped with a gang of flexing punchlines and funny jokes to offset his opponent’s witty barbs/personals and sexual innuendo’s, Passwurdz does more than enough to take each round and earn a 30 over Illusion-Z in this 3-rounder from Grind Time.
Verdict: Passwurdz (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Passwurdz – “When you were born your family piled 15 deep up in a Prius!”
Recap: Close 1-rounder between Passwurdz and Elfamail from the 2005 Scribble Jam Prelims features witty punches and flow spicy off-the-dome heat from the both battlers. However, it’s the slightly more consistently lit Passwurdz who edges the win here.
Verdict: Passwurdz (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Passwurdz – “Fuck that shit, you look like a crack pipe smoked you!”
Recap: From Scribble Jam 2005, while neither Passwurdz or Johnny Quest were on their A-game, it’s a more steadily flowing and crispy punching Passwurdz who ends up edging this 1-rounder.
Verdict: Passwurdz (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Passwurdz – “Your goatee looks like an old woman’s vagina bush!”
Recap: Two-round, mid-2000’s freestyle battle between a very young Passwurdz and Jay B contains a gang of personal disses and speedy lyrical burners to get your feet wet. An energetic and close one that had Jay B doing push-ups in the middle of Passwurdz’s 2nd round, the more punch/off-the-dome lit Passwurdz takes each round here for the win.
Verdict: Passwurdz (W) 2-0
Favorite line: Passwurdz – “You look like a little white bitch that just got her hymen split!”
Recap: Dirtbag Dan and Passwurdz go at it for a couple of rounds, freestyling over beats and competitively dishing a bunch of spirited punches, sardonic personals, aggressive lyrical banter and in Dan’s case a spicy 2nd round rebuttal that helped him take that round after getting edged in the 1st.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Passwurdz – “Your beard looks like a fat woman’s vagina hair!”
Recap: In this 3-round freestyle battle from 2004, both Passwurdz (who incredibly was in his mid-teens at the time) and The Saurus show off the ability to effectively punch and speed rap, all the while keeping their flows intact and mixing in some solid off-the-dome personals to punctuate their rhymes. A goodie when you consider the oft-middling turns of early 2000’s battle rap, an overall stronger punching The Saurus edges each round for the win.
Verdict: The Saurus (W) 3-0
Favorite line: The Saurus – “This kid barely graduated kindergarten!”
Recap: Damn, they sure did jump around in stage a lot back in the day. Still, despite a couple of witty barbs from his opponent Franco, a way more versatile and personal/punch-heavy Passwurdz easily takes this 2003 freestyle 2-rounder.
Verdict: Passwurdz (W) 2-0
Favorite line: Passwurdz – “Hey, I got your album for free but I still want a refund!”
