Recap: Plenty of ‘lyrical’ dick jokes, reverent punchlines, funny impressions, nice rebuttals and clever zingers in this 3-round Barstool Sports Compliment Battle between Pat Stay and Dunsh. A close one throughout, it’s the more experienced austere of flattery (as well as a master at making his opponent feel totally uncomfortable) Pat Stay who out-punches Dunsh and edges the 1st and 3rd rounds (call the 2nd debatable) for the win.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Bond forming tighter than his immaculate Windsor knots, I can’t even tie a tie, you probably practice it with your cock!”
Recap: Taking advantage of Real Sikh’s mostly pedestrian schemes and punches (as well as one too many personals on his opponent’s last battle against K-Shine) in both the 2nd and 3rd round, after a versatile and spitfire opening round 1 from both battlers that made the opener debatable, Pat Stay uses with a gang of mocking/hard-hitting personals, braggadocios punches, some stinging wordplay and piercing name flips/wit to handily take each of the latter rounds for the win in this Drake-sponsored, URL/Til Death Do Us Part card.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “You got a lotta punches but you’ll never have a stronger impact, that last round fucked him up! I was hopin’ you’d get mad!, I’ll smack the fuckin’ dishrag offa Sinbad’s bitch ass!”
Recap: In this long-awaited, Smack Volume 6 battle between K-Shine and Pat Stay, the usually gritty Shine does a solid, 3rd-round impression of his opponent but wouldn’t need it (or the final round race angles) as beforehand a performance-heavy Shine, helped by a witty at times, but less prepared Pat, would use a boatload of fiery gun bars, well-executed punchlines (esp. in a sublime round 2) and righteous set-ups to handily take the opening rounds for the win.
Verdict: K-Shine (W) 2-1
Favorite line: K-Shine – “I knew you would come here talking about your size, that shit is gay, [switches voice to do Pat impression] ‘I’m 6-7, 200 and something pounds’…sounds like you looking for a date!”
Recap: Take away the dude with no shirt on in Shotgun Suge’s entourage and you have a spitfire, near classic battle here between Suge and Pat Stay. Kidding aside, it’s been quite an impression that the battle vet Pat Stay has been making since he recently entered the URL and in squaring off here against a Shotgun Suge that stayed on point throughout the battle with his aggression, grittiness and a fire (“I’ll let the Wave hit you, he a castaway, to beat me, you’ll need the luck of the Irish, and this ain’t (Saint) Patrick’s Day!”) punch game, the white guy dressed in the flower jacket would need to pull out all his tricks to win. And that he did, edging the highly potent Suge in both the 1st and 2nd rounds for the win with a consistent mix of flexing personals/narratives, banging (“I don’t care if you 6’9” [6ix9ine], I’ll do Shotti dirty!”) punchlines, stinging name flips, witty banter/impressions, a couple of fiery rebuttals, a rich performance game and an epic Shaq dunk for those who still think white boys can’t. A more condensed and still punch-heavy Suge would take the 3rd round over an opponent, who while still funny and fierce with his bars, came with a little too much filler.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pay Stay – “I’m up here fuckin’ flexin’, I’m gettin’ drunk in Texas [drunken texts] like messages from my ex’s!”
Recap: Rare to see the normally cool and copacetic Tay Roc stumble, much less get out of his comfort zone when it comes to staying professional on stage. But that’s the case here as after a debatable 1st round that saw both Roc and Pat Stay put forth equally hit-n-miss, elongated turns in which they both coincidentally attempted to try out their opponent’s style, Roc literally loses it. Starting with his temper during the 2nd round in the face of Pat Stay’s downright mean personals, smart aleck zingers, dope performance lines and aggressive punchlines. Then when a still heated (and behind one round thanks to Pat’s aforementioned comeuppance in the previous round along with his own penchant for redundant personals and mostly standard punches) Roc finally returned to his gun bar itinerary in the 3rd and despite a stronger turn bar-wise throughout, surprisingly slip-ups twice, leaving Pat Stay, already commanding the stage throughout with epic showmanship, more versatile his bars and schemes, stinging with some fly wordplay and finally with the verbal stamina to drop freestyles and haymakers at random with yet another opportunity to take the round, which the Canadian rapper obliged in kind to win the battle.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “People used to fuck with you serious, but nowadays in the URL you don’t get no W’s period!”
Recap: Putting aside all the queasy (but expected with these two) shots at their respective kids, Pat Stay and Arsonal put on another highly entertaining and competitive show in this rematch from their somewhat controversial 1st bout several years back. After splitting the first two rounds with the most steady, well-rounded and witty Pat edging the first round before a slightly punch-heavier and wordplay-bent Arsonal took the 2nd, despite a strong and at times gut-checking turn by Ars, an even more sublime, uber-funny and punchline/personal-lit turn by Pat gives the Nova Scotia superstar another win over his New Jersey rival.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Arsonal, Arsonal, see I know the real Arsonal, vulnerable, depressed cause ya baby mama won’t talk to you, I heard it in that song from you, wasn’t worth cheatin’, aye?, lost custody of his daughter cause too, now he’s a seedless Grape!”
Recap: “I’m a man of many hats and you’re just Sway on the Morning!” No discredit at all to Danny Myers who was excellent here, raining down some superb (“One .80 [180] split your circle in half, stay out my radius!”) punchlines, fierce wordplay and aggressive haymakers throughout his 3 rounds. But that aforementioned bar by Pat Stay, a dope metaphor when it comes to battlers displaying versatility with their bars versus being more one-dimensional, sums up why Pat’s 2nd round–a searing ode to breaking down n opponent’s style, getting mean with the personals, showcasing crazy comedic wit, dishing raucous crowd-pleasers and an ability to punch with the best of ’em–gets him the win after taking the 1st, before a still turned-up Danny salvaged the 3rd.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Let ’em know, we could’ve did this battle awhile before, but you can’t cross the border cuz’ you don’t pay your child support, poor kids, don’t when they’re gonna eat next, because daddy robbed all their piggy banks and gave it to T-Rex!”
Recap: I’m guessing that there’s a pretty good reason, even tho this battle took place before his battle with Murda Mook, that RBE chose to drop this battle on YouTube afterwards: Pat Stay just kills Verb here. At his wittiest and punch-heavy best, the Canadian vet took the over the crowd with a swarm of too funny personals, mean (“Make him look like a little boy, like Jaz naked!”) barbs and spitfire punchlines throughout his 3 rounds, leaving Verb, while mostly solid but with too much of a bent towards lyrical showmanship (with little haymakers), preachy soundbites, 2 subpar ‘Showtime’ schemes and of course, when facing a white battler: race quotables that we’ve long heard before. But hey, with Mook up next, it’s hard to be too mad at Verb for not giving this battle his best effort.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “I ain’t got one person here with me, but look at me dog, seriously, If I kill you right now…when the cops come, they’ll just think I’m security!”
Recap: With 3 rounds of basic raps that might’ve worked in say….2005, Germany battle rapper Tierstar not only fails to provide any competition in this TopTier Takeover battle versus Pat Stay, but such a poor effort here can make one re-think watching battles in which a no-name, wannabee up-n-comer pays to battle a top-tier. As for Pat, tho we’d get the usual gang of derisive jokes/personals, performance-enhanced barbs and hardbody punches in the 1st round, from there, matched up against such a subpar opponent, who could blame him for getting bored and just wanting to be done with this thing what with his continued crowd trolling, sometimes lazy raps/freestyles and condensed turns in both rounds 2 and 3? Indeed, so bad was Tierstar that Pat caught another bodybag anyway.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Tierstar, who gave you that name?, take off ya hat it should be 50 shades of gray!”
Recap: Clearly more adept with the punches than his opponent, Pat Stay uses a plethora of ‘tranny’ jokes, some genuine circumventing of identity politics and a host of fiery punchlines/schemes to lay down the hammer on transgender rapper No Shame.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Deep voice yet soft spoken, right there for you when your heart’s broken…or need a jar open!”
Recap: In a KOTD battle drenched with personals, a much harder hitting Charlie Clips easily outperforms a pretty lackadaisical Pat Stay over the course of 3 rounds, breaking down his opponent’s recent battles and battle theatrics when he wasn’t scoring with some piercing punchlines, racial barbs and some hot gun bars/schemes. On the other hand, a mostly pedestrian and filler prone Pat Stay depending on requisite fat jokes and not much of anything else, allowed Clips to pitch a pretty easy shutout.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “A shot will lift you in the air, you and your organs is trying to stick together, put a dot in the middle of PS, it took like I’m trying to extend the letter!”
Recap: There’s lopsided and just a plain old bodybag in this rematch from a battle that took place 10 years before this one. Indeed, a Pat Stay that wasn’t even on his A-game uses proverbial wit, witty personals and fierce punchlines/schemes to easily take out a very basic with the bars and awkwardly ‘pause’-worthy G Duble. The latter of whom making his mark with the unique inability to drop a single haymaker in the entire battle, thus showing that he really had no business sharing the stage with the likes of Pat Stay regardless of what happened in their previous battle.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Heard you just put a ring on that bitch, poor girl, if she leaves with half, she’ll get garlic fingers and some cinnamon sticks!”
Recap: Dope, competitive KOTD battle between Bigg K and Pat Stay ironically comes down to K, a battler rarely known for rapping longer than his opponent, getting edged in the 3rd round for doing just that. Indeed, while K’s punchline/wordplay game was rousing at times and his personals often hit with amusing narratives, rapping almost twice as longer as Pat in the 1st round with lesser overall bar efficiency would hurt him there and one too many redundant heaters and as well as some surprising shots at KOTD (tho they were mean) would cost him in the deciding 3rd. For the performance-heavy Pat Stay, who for the most part impressed throughout the battle with stinging breakdowns of Bigg K’s style of rap, a couple of spicy rebuttals (as well as a spitfire, mid-round rebut in the 1st), witty anecdotes/punches and a host of boastful barbs, an ability to dish 3 condensed turn against an opponent who’s long noted for doing the same, would end up in his favor.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “[Bigg K kicks imaginary garbage after a line from Pat] You okay there, bro?, what are you, a fucking angry baseball coach?, well, I got that Slugger for next time you interrupt me, and I’ll let that Louie see K if this ginger thinks he’s funny!”
Recap: After impressing the normally passive UDubb crowd with a spitfire, haymaker-friendly, punch-drenched and near flawless 1st round, DNA’s prolific use of gun bars would come back to haunt him in this 3-rounder as Pat Stay would use a witty, raucous at times and anecdotal-lit 2nd to go along with a hard-hitting, personal and punchline-crazy 3rd to complete a comeback for the win. Ironically, DNA would get off to a fierce start in the deciding 3rd round, but instead of continuing with more gripping personals on his opponent, his choice to resort back to a boatload of steady gun lines and other redundant street missives would assist in his loss.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Battle rap is all you watch, battle rappers is all you hang with, bunch of law-abiding citizens with violent imaginations!”
Recap: Even in front of a Don’t Flop crowd that seemed enamored with just about anything a mostly subpar Tony D spit, Pat Stay still survives his opponent’s hometown fans as well as his own knack for pedestrian bars (in what altogether was a pretty tedious battle) with just enough hitting braggadocio bars, random jokes, witty punchlines and stinging personals to pull off the win.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “You thought that Marvwon shit was rough, know what rhymes with Autism Awareness Month?…who gives a fuck!”
Recap: This Don’t Flop 1-rounder between Pat Stay and John John Da Don features a solid and competitive performance from both battlers. But with more intricacy to his bars, schemes and name flips, nice with the boastful punches, shining with his well-known sarcastic wit and dishing slightly less filler than his opponent (who as predicted by Pat, went with a race angles throughout his turn), it’s Pat Stay who gets the edge in this one.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “[pretending to be JJDD] ‘Yeah, white boy what you know about being poor and all you get to eat…is a gun!'”
Recap: It’s funny how much criticism Pat Stay gets for being…well, yunno a funny guy. Because yunno battle rap was created for the sole purpose of mean mugs, ice grills, gun bars and 6 Million Different Ways On How I Can Kill You. That’s it, right? Nah, screw that. There’s as much room for the Pat Stay’s, Charron’s, Tech-9’s and Charlie Clips of the world in battle rap as there are anybody else. It’s called diversity and that’s a good thing. So sure, give Serius Jones the 3rd round here, thanks in part to a boxing-themed, word association round that was pretty solid as well as a personal-driven, but one-dimensional Pat struggling mightily with his flow. But no matter what Jones tells you, that’s all he got here with a punchline-savvy, more intricate and yes comical Pat easily taking the 1st round, before also taking the 2nd with another well-crafted, personal and scathing turn that beat back what was an at times, punch-heavy, but largely inconsistent turn from Jones.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “It’s ok to be vulnerable sometimes, let him be honest with you, his pockets are tight and for a rapper his age this is the only thing profitable, there, it’s out, it’s cool dog, my pockets are too, think about it, why the fuck would I go from Hollow to you!”
Recap: Scintillating, punch-heavy and aggressive rematch between Hollow da Don and Pat Stay gets decided by the only round that wasn’t a debatable: the 1st, as Hollow’s showmanship, fly performance bars (even if there’s some controversy over the originality of the ‘look like I’m backstroking’ haymaker), rich (“I’m just wondering, how the fuck you let me 3-0 you in a one-round battle?”) anecdotes and fire set-ups make hay of a mostly indirect/pedestrian round from Pat. So while Pat’s rebuttal game, exquisite (“I ain’t racist, nah, but my shank is, ‘cuz the blade tip brown from all the dried up blood that it’s stained with!”) bully bars and witty shiners would get him a tie with Hollow’s (“I could’ve said ‘deuces’, me getting back on this card is just pity Pat!”) well-rounded, personal-drenched 2nd and a pontificating, but (“But bro, we are your peers, we’re all we have in this business, you are the exact definition of everything you used to stand up against, man, listen!”) hitting with the personals Pat would do the same versus a slightly less fiery, but still solid 3rd by Hollow, it’s the aforementioned 1st round that gets Hollow yet another win over his always formidable opponent in this one.
Verdict: Hollow da Don (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Hollow da Don – “I live for this shit, nigga, I die for my ‘respeck’, I’m talking to all ‘tree’ of y’all!”
Recap: Another example of why it’s so risky to book big battles on smaller/new leagues. In what should’ve easily been a 3-rounder, somehow two of the best battle rappers on the planet, Hollow da Don and Pat Stay, get their much anticipated battle reduced to a one-rounder. And to make things worse, Pat for some inexplicable reason, gets his one round cut short by the timekeeper despite attempts by the crowd and even his opponent to let him keep going. Call it sloppy, call it disorganization or even blame the rappers failing to get their terms straight before signing the paperwork. Either way, it’s always the fans who get the short end of the stick. As for the battle itself, It’s Hollow’s versatility, that included everything from wild gun (“When I was young, I was a heat blower, revolvers with speed loaders, now it’s a drum and tommy gun, look like I’m [swings hands] swinging a leaf blower!”) bars, to wicked ‘knife bars’ to crazy (“The steel will erase his [racist] thoughts like the old Pat!”) wordplay to dancehall riddims to fly off-the-dome personals that outshined what was mostly the usual stupendous (“He’ll watch a porn like, ‘this guy ain’t even a real plumber'”, “Hollow da Don?…What’s your mother’s name, Donna da Mom?”) jokes and standard bully bars from Pat Stay. Still overall, a huge disappointment for fans and a battle that demands a 3-round rematch on either URL or KOTD.
Verdict: Hollow da Don (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Hollow da Don – “Oooohhh I hope you get Aids and Alzheiner’s, so you can forget you have Aids till all your ex’s start dying!”
Recap: In a battle for the KOTD chain, after being eclipsed by a barrage of short jokes and boastful barbs by champion Pat Stay in the 1st round, Illmaculate ups the ante and adds witty personals, piercing schemes and some fly rebuttals to an already substantive punch game to take the 2nd. That’s before Mac repeats the same formula of slick wordplay with edgy personals and bouyant punches to edge an opponent who while still competitive through the rest of the battle, for the most part ditched the humor and personals in the latter rounds for steely pontifications and lyrical darts that while more condensed and solid throughout, couldn’t quite match Illmac’s more well honed polemics in the deciding 3rd.
Verdict: Illmaculate (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Illmaculate – “That Ed Hardy belt style of yours I’m way beyond, say I’m wrong, you are one Affliction shirt away from being a walking Jager bomb!”
Recap: Put aside all the silly antics here, especially on Calicoe’s part, as a poor display of showmanship was made up by the fact that when it came to bars and performance Calicoe actually did really well. First round was pretty much a wash as Pat Stay’s aggressive wordplay and rich (“If you really trapped so much, you wouldn’t open your trap so much!”) personals overmatched what was a pretty ubiquitous round angle-wise from Calicoe. 2nd round saw a more focused Calicoe spit some nice bully bars, step up his performance, deliver some dope punchlines and efficiently mock (“These King of the Dot niggas, they just seem hot, they living like they married to the game, but got on ring pops”) Pat’s intimidation tactics. Surprisingly, for a guy renowned for his pen game, consistency and ability to stay focused, as the battle progressed Pat Stay seemed to get more spent, what with nice bars and witty lines surrounded by (“Even on a rag-you-later, you like Nate Dogg”) reaches and elementary rhymes pulled from 2005 instead of 2015–then too, an overkill on attempting to show just how real he is. Indeed , the “I’m just as real as you are” shenanigans just seemed too forced on Pat’s part, when in the past his mere poise always came off as organic. Last round Calicoe continued to come with it esp. on the personals tip, effectively mocking Pat’s (“You from Canada, you couldn’t make it to the CFL?’) stature, race and battle rap (“But you 6″6′, but that don’t matter cuz you still a big bitch!, I don’t know if you Kurt Angle, William Regal or Rik Smits!”) aura to trounce what was pretty much a wasted round by Pat–more attention on spitting jokes and spouting recreation bars than anything direct at his opponent. All said while many will watch this battle and solely base their decision on Calicoe’s tomfoolery, at the end of the day once you’re in the ring it’s all entertainment, thankfully no punches were thrown and overall Calicoe clearly had the better battle.
Verdict: Calicoe (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Calicoe – “You probably would block a shot like [waves hand like a girl] this, fucking with me you gonna have a block a shot like [falls back and cowers] this!”
Recap: More serious of a battle than a jocular, punch-fest that you might’ve expected to see, KOTD champion Pat Stay does enough in the 1st and 3rd rounds with his rugged bully bars, righteous personals/schemes, solid rebuttals, fiery braggadocio lines and spicy flashes of mocking wit to keep his title after beating back a pretty committed, but overall less potent with his 4-bar set-ups, too pressing at times and not as consistent Charron.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Dog, you can’t fuck with me, I’m Sucker-free, you gluten-free!”
Recap: Well known for gimmicks and not caring too much about wins or losses, of course it’s only right that Daylyt gets a title shot for the KOTD chain against the champion Pat Stay. And just in case you thought that there would be any chance of an epic battle, Daylyt ixnay’s that idea with the quickness by coming to the stage dressed as a slave and even goes so far as to bring his own ‘slave master’ with him (with a fake whip too, yunno, for crowd effect) to instruct him during the battle. Right. Well, at least Pat Stay showed up to battle and when he wasn’t dissing Charron or Charlie Clips, for 3 well-equipped and versatile rounds the Nova Scotia vet proceeded to use a sizzling performance and some potent lines to mock his opponent’s contrived stunts and rhyme patterns, pull rank with a host of ill bully bars and score aplenty with righteous/witty punchlines. And while Daylyt did somehow rap his way through his tedious rounds, during a performance that might’ve worked better as part of an elementary school play instead of a rap battle, his occasional abstract wordplay and other verbal hijinks were mostly pedestrian, leaving Pat Stay with a pretty easy defense of his title.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “You see before the Spawn shit, he was nothing special, just a regular guy, it’s sad that you had tattoo your entire face just to get recognized!”
Recap: Take away the annoying and way-too-involved host and you have an epic and hilarious “Compliment” battle brought to you from KOTD between Pat Stay and Rone. A welcome respite from the usual insults we see battle rappers hurl at each other, this 3-rounder was entertaining as hell with Rone and Pat doing their best to out-praise their opponent, using witty storytelling/schemes, silly anecdotes, whimsical gay innuendos, amusing personals and some deft, but still hysterical wordplay to do so. However, after an equal amount of humorous barbs in the opening rounds made for two debatable turns, it’s a more consistently comical and performance-heavy (presents included!) Rone who outlasts his opponent in the deciding 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Rone (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Rone – “I felt trauma cause I was ostracized for all of my life by the popular guys, but your positive vibe, your positive vibe, whoopsies…I just forgot all my lines for a second right there cause I was lost in your eyes!”
Recap: Champion Pat Stay versus longtime battle vet Dizaster for the KOTD chain makes for a curious style clash and incredible battle, but overall doesn’t quite meet up to the expectations. And that’s partly due to the battle being almost an hour long, thus making for both battlers while getting a lot off their chest, being a little bent with filler and/or pedestrian bars, especially on Dizaster’s part. Still, while Diz wasn’t always on his A-game, even struggling with his flow at times, using lazy personals (including way too many Golden Retriever/Charron references) and not being as consistently aggressive as we’re used to seeing him, for the most part Pat Stay was, with the Nova Scotia spitter dishing his usual assortment of jocular stylings, hard bully bars and gritty punchlines with the flair of a defending champ. Overall, a solid battle that sees a more polished and condensed Pat Stay hold onto his belt by taking the first two rounds before a debatable 3rd.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Check it, see you wild, but I got more style than you, I’m so nice my rap name should be ‘How Are You?'”
Recap: With his chain on the line KOTD champion Arcane faces off with challenger Pat Stay for the title and the bout turns out to be as one-sided as a rap battle can get with Stay using fierce personals that included stinging lines on his opponent’s alleged pilfering of bars from another battle rapper in the past, witty schemes and a host of bodacious shiners, all the while commanding the stage, captivating the crowd and easily beating back Arcane’s pedestrian raps to become the new champ.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “His name is ‘Cane ‘cuz he don’t stand a chance on his own!”
Recap: Poor sportsmanship on the part of Pat Stay, unnecessarily touching his innocuous opponent Nils m/ Skils time and time again during the first two rounds, doesn’t take away from Pat’s myriad of witty punches, boastful shiners and stinging personals out-pointing the awkward and sometimes monotone, but understated style of Skils. That said, for those who didn’t appreciate Pat’s bullying tactics in this battle, it would only be a couple of years later before Pat got hit with some karma during his battle with Calicoe.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “He dives in feet first with a straight face when he jumps in the water!”
Recap: In a shortened 1-round battle that begs for a rematch, Shotty Horroh makes up for forgetting his rhymes by free-styling some solid punches and witty (“Who the fuck gave Organik loads of protein?!”) personals that had enough bite to earn a draw against a hitting at times, but also not on his A-game Pat Stay.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Only thing you have in common with Wolf, is your flow backwards!”
Recap: Even with the usual narratives we witness with these two: Math Hoffa “bully”-semantics and Pat Stay’s alleged drug use/topsy-turvy friendship with Hollohan making appearances, these two top tier battlers still put on a dope, competitive showing in this entertaining 3-rounder from KOTD. Pat, with plenty of boastful shiners and witty personals included in his repertoire consistently wrecked havoc, while a wily and aggressively stunting Math impressed throughout the battle with a gang of slick wordplay whether it was directed at his opponent or at KOTD. Still, after a debatable 1st round, it’s Pat who manages to lay down a higher quotient of haymakers in each of the latter rounds for the win.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Everyday you gotta put on that tough mood, God that must bug you, his mom’s be like, ‘Love you!’, he be like, ‘Whatever. Fuck you!'”
Recap: Two top tier emcees with the ability to readily mix in searing bully bars, fierce punchlines with adept wit in their bars, Pat Stay and Head ICE battle to a highly entertaining draw on the KOTD stage with an equal amount of haymakers making round 1 a tie, before a more gamely comedic, personal-driven and consistently fire Stay edges the 2nd. Down one going into the 3rd, ICE makes what would be his longest round count with some classic stunting that was backed by some salacious (“You’ll get chased in my hood, I’ll put money on it, just for stepping in them Esco jeans with your spandex shirt like ‘Let’s go eat!'”), punches to beat back a solid, but elongated and beatable turn by Pat and force a tie.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “I mean it’s just weird, he gets charged with a felon, but his record is crystal clear, it’s like he slipped and dropped in quicksand, he fell and [felon] he disappeared!”
Recap: Fresh off a short-term retirement and against a condensed and funny at times, but mostly pedestrian Jimmy Pistol, Pat Stay feeds the rumbles in his stomach due to his layoff with a load of aggressive punchlines, boastful schemes and witty personals/one-liners to easily score a 30.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “My frozen stare make a polar bear be like ‘damn, it’s cold in here!”
Recap: Yeah, Thesaurus’ 3rd round ‘Why would you question my parenting faggot?, I fathered this entire scene’ rebuttal should go down as one of the best and most classic rebuts in battle rap history. But at the end of the day it was just a line. And I’m puzzled how one line within a very shortened turn supersedes the extra witty punches and personals Pat Stay was spouting earlier in what was a deciding round 3. Same goes for the 1st round as well which saw Pat lay down a flexing combo of piercing punches, rigid wordplay and boastful barbs over an opponent who while hitting at times, was pretty pedestrian with the raps otherwise. Indeed, if not for Pat struggling with his flow a bit in round 2, this could’ve been a 30, but instead the judges somehow gave Thesaurus the win.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “His baby’s mom will send him to the store to buy his daughter some diapers, he’ll come home late all awkwardly hyper, like, ‘Sorry baby. I got caught in a cipher!'”
Synopsis: Marvwon got the empathy votes from the judges but not me. Yes, Pat Stay’s personal bars were super mean, but being able to say the most disrespectful shit possible (Pat Stay: “I’m a fucking battle rapper, we’re the rudest fucking people on earth”) is part of the essence of battle rap. For that reason, along with the hilarious jokes and personals, it was Pat Stay who clearly got this.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Marvwon – “Look, he looking sad right now, he gonna front like he can’t get a cab right now”
Synopsis: How hurt was Arsonal by not being allowed to deliver his usual 10-minute rounds? Judging from his taking off his sweater in round 3, he was ready to fight. Of course, when somebody gets out of character during a battle rap that could also be a sign of them knowing that they’re losing. Granted, da Rebel put up a decent fight and came out the gate swinging (the “10 Ways to kill a Canadian” scheme was nice, but could’ve been so much better), but as seen here too much filler: “I keep 2 dessert eagles cocked on the dashboard of your dream car”, doesn’t bode well against the likes of Pat Stay whose steady and pointed (as in breaking down Arsonal’s gangsta image) jokes, personals and flat-out bars left da Rebel whining.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “His mom’s is a Crip too, it all started when me and the click slid through, she was on her red rag so the bitch just blew [blew]”)
Recap: A couple of ex-best friends, Hollohan and Pat Stay, battling on the KOTD stage makes for a gang of mean personals, witty barbs and belittling narratives on what being a true friend means. A competitive dance throughout with some fierce punchlines from each battler thrown in, after splitting the first two rounds it’s a more consistently spicy Pat Stay who edges the deciding 3rd round for the win.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “And you say you write my shit? Yeah right, I can’t even show my raps to Jeff, shit I be telling him one of my new lines and he’d be like ‘hold up let me grab a pen!'”
Recap: For two rounds anyway, it’s really a battle of ‘Who’s the funniest?’ as Pat Stay and HFK trade personal insults, witty schemes and aggressive jokes with reckless abandon to the delight of a very captive KOTD crowd. However, it’s a more consistently funny Pat Stay who with the help of a couple of nice freestyles, who takes this one before a more condensed HFK salvages the 3rd round.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “He’s from Scarborough, but he ain’t never been in no trouble with the law, if he’s got his hands behind his back, he’s just unbuckling his bra!”
Recap: In a battle that early on looked to be a one-sided affair what with Pat Stay’s hardbody, but also jocular stylings easily taking round 1 over a mostly pedestrian turn from Miracle, Pat’s opponent uses some spicy punchlines of his own to edge round 2 before–with some help from Pat forgetting his rhymes and having to freestyle his way through the deciding round 3–Miracle again snaps with a bunch of fiery personals and punches to win the match and complete an impressive comeback.
Verdict: Miracle (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Miracle – “So answer me this, Pat if you a Sucka-free boss, what does that make me when ya mom’s sucking me off?!”
Recap: Pat Stay’s 1st appearance on KOTD is a scintillating one as the Nova Scotia, Canada rapper uses a boisterous mix of mean personals, wild jokes and raucous schemes to easily beat back a mostly oft-killer Bartone.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “He’s so skinny when he burps it hurts him!”
Recap: A ‘Sucka-free’ Pat Stay uses a wide load of piercing fat jokes, brutal sexual deviant barbs, boastful shiners and other hardbody punchlines/personals to easily take this Elements League 3-rounder from a started-off-nice, but incredibly waning as the battle went on Cronic.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “If I’m a pedophile then you’re a necrophiliac because I heard your girl’s a dead fuck!”
Recap: Did those judges really need to think about this one or were they just playing for the cameras? Had to be the latter as Pat Stay’s hard-hitting punches, stinging personals and boastful barbs clearly beat an over-matched and flow-challenged Critical in this 3-roudner from Elements League.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Straight-up, if I was you right now I’d just say I’m finished, unless you looking to get eaten up [8 up] like R. Kelly’s age limit!”
Recap: Overwhelming his opponent in this 3-round bout from the Elements League in both stature and bar efficiency, Pat Stay doesn’t hold back with the righteous rancor, using a gang of flippant personals, penis jokes, boastful barbs, rich storytelling lines and rudimentary punchlines to score a bodybag on an opponent, Jesse Ito, who when he wasn’t choking away his 2nd round, couldn’t ring up a single haymaker with his bag of subpar lines during the entire battle.
Verdict: Pat Stay (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Pat Stay – “Me vs. you?, that’s a no-brainer like a lobotomy patient!”
