Recap: QB vs. T-Rex, the headline battle from the former’s Black Diamond Battle League, features a gang of hard-hitting, gritty punches from battlers (including a fly freestyle by Rex after some weirdo approached QB to hug her mind-round) that kept things competitive for the one round these two vets agreed to spar. But while Rex’s hardbody darts and a slam dunk on the cap were worth the price of admission, it was the fiery wordplay-dishing, more versatile, rich personals and clever, mayhem-lit raps of QB that scored enough haymakers to get the win.
Verdict: QB (W) 1-0
Favorite line: QB – “See, I been gettng slept on, and I’m pissed off for real, I don’t know what you thought you was getting pussy this ain’t Netfliz and chill!”
Recap: As long as they’ve both been in the game, it’s a surprise that QB and E-Hart hadn’t met up yet one-on-one. But here they finally are for a 3-rounder on Chrome 23 and as it turns out, it was certainly worth the wait. QB keeping it competitive with a piercing assortment of mean/witty personals, hitting name flips and gritty punchlines, while an aggressive more than usual and in-ya-face Hart wilded out with a gang of stinging/sporty wordplay, fire name flips of he own, boastful darts and in a departure from her usual m.o., a cluster of pent-up personals. Add in a pretty solid 2nd round freestyle/rebuttal from Hart and QB failing to meet the bar Hart set when it came to punches and it’s the Bronx vixen to does enough to take both of the opening rounds for the win before a more efficient QB salvaged the 3rd.
Verdict: E-Hart (W) 2-1
Favorite line: E-Hart – “Fake nigga, you sneak bitches afraid to knuckle up, play nigga, I sleep bitches, I make ’em cuddle up!”
Recap: From RBE, of course what ends up being the irony here is that this version of QB (90% bars, 10% disrespect) was actually beatable. But leave it to Charlie Clips to revert back to days of old, lackadaisically freestyle an entire battle and then make it worse by pulling out his phone to read a silly ‘dyke poem’. Talk about going out of your way to sully your legendary status in the game (but as long as those ‘Wild ‘n Out’ keep getting cashed, what does he care?). Either way, after a debatable round 1, QB with a bunch of solid schemes, gun bars, classic Charlie-isms and punchlines, handily takes both of the latter rounds for the win.
Verdict: QB (Black Diamond) (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB (Black Diamond) – “I ain’t gotta guess which room he in, nigga the living room is where the arm bang and leave DNA on Charlie couch, I got him feeling like the good ole days!”
Recap: From RBE, clearly on a mission to showcase her lyrical dexterity and remind everyone that she’s not just about the disrespect, for a trio of rounds QB uses a fiery barrage of gritty wordplay, piercing schemes. witty personals and hardbody punchlines to score more haymakers, take rounds 1 and 3 for the win and beat back a pretty solid, versatile (esp. during a round 2 that she edged with a couple of dope rebuttals) and name flip-lit effort from RX.
Verdict: QB (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB – “We had a time I wanted to front like she creeping up, then it’d be Birdman collabo’s, I’m fucking every single feature up!”
Recap: From RBE, a competitive Robin Rhymes makes her name heard with 3 elongated but pretty solid rounds that flexed her versatility (esp. in round 2, where despite a few hiccups when it came to flow, she was able to edge thanks in part to a gang of sublime personals/bars). But opponent QB, continuing to show off in what’s been a dope 2023 for her, not only takes advantage of Ms. Rhymes prolongation with a 1st and 3rd round’s that were moreso efficient, but with a rich palette of stinging wordplay, fiery/aggressive name flips/bars and crazy, hard-hitting personals (esp. during a classic finale) handily earns the win.
Verdict: QB (Black Diamond) (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB (Black Diamond) – “Bitch your career will never prosper, off your petty drama, fucking nigga’s in sewer leagues, Robin rhymes more like Robin Williams ‘cuz she be hung on the wrong things!”
Recap: Never one to keep it nice and timid, once again QB goes the total opposite route, using a gang of vicious/witty personals, steely gun bars, stinging name flips, solid sport bars/wordplay and hard-hitting schemes/punches to take all 3 rounds for the win in this RBE matchup versus a gritty and pretty solid overall, but simply overmatched Kausion.
Verdict: QB (W) 3-0
Favorite line: QB – “So how the fuck y’all gonna let her question me, when she ain’t got the answers?, up here looking like Swave Sevah if he had cancer!”
Recap: From Chrome 23’s $25K tournament, in a rematch from their RBE matchup back in 2019 Chayna Ashley with her bullish punches, fierce wordplay and boastful darts/wordplay and QB with a versatile showing of spicy bars, solid freestyles and fiery (“So Chayna, gimem about a few feet, or it’s gonna remind you of when you bathing suit shopping, I know you scared of the two-piece!”) personals proved that she’s more than just the most disrespectful female battler in the game, put on a competitive and aggressive showing that was close throughout. A cutthroat battle fitting for a tourney setting with a lot of money on the line, after a debatable round 1, QB edging the 2nd and Chayna edging the 3rd, it’s only makes sense that this one ends up a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Chayna Ashley – “And I’m a chanel my anger straight to the source, before Roe vs. Wade I told these bitches abort!”
Recap: From RBE, relying less on shock value in light of more potent punchlines, spicy religious darts and crafty personals/braggadocious zingers, after taking an L in round 1 to a punch-heavier A. Ward, a slightly more condensed and consistently hitting QB comes back to edge both of the latter rounds of this 3-rounder for the win over an opponent who despite some hard-hitting punches and personals in rounds 2 and 3, could never get back in the same steady groove as he displayed in the opener.
Verdict: QB (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB – “So my razor gonna carve him in a perfect scuplture, ARP offered me a plate, I what’s on the menu?, he said a culture vulture!”
Recap: A grudge match long in the waiting, it takes Remy Ma’s new league, Chrome 23, to set up and stage QB Black Diamond vs. 40 B.A.R.R.S for 3 rounds. And while the face off between these two opps was crazy and lit, outside of a pretty dope round 1 (which an unabashedly disrespectful, totally vicious and punch-heavy QB edged), the battle itself turned out to be pretty one-sided as a mure steady with the heat 40 just proved to be too much in the latter rounds. The Boston native (who’s only flaw here was a bit of longwindedness with her rounds) flexing in rounds 2 and 3 with a gang of potent punchlines, spirited/nifty wordplay and in giving her opponent some of her own medicine, a bunch of hard-hitting personals that combined to handily beat back a couple of topsy-turvy turns by her longtime rival and earn the win for 40.
Verdict: 40 B.A.R.R.S. (W) 2-1
Favorite line: 40 B.A.R.R.S. – “Who say Diamond studded, buddy was always at the clinic ‘cuz that kitty had a leak, shit was like Remy prison visit’s gotta Pap every week!”
Recap: Chayna Ashley versus QB on the RBE stage is a goodie that pretty much gets decided by one too many indirect shots by QB–whether it was QOTR, ARP or other members of Dot Mob–as well as a slightly more consistently more hitting, gun bar-savvy and metaphor-lit Chayna. Though QB dropped her usual assortment of disrespectful darts and boastful spins on her opponent and made for a witty barb here and there, after the two split the first couple of rounds, a name-flip/wordplay rich, mayhem spent and punch/scheme-friendly Chayna would take the deciding 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Chayna Ashley (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chayna Ashley – “Power moves, understand I be ghosting bitches, Keisha getting with Tommie, no more choking bitches!”
Recap: RBE ‘Closure’ battle fittingly serves up Bonnie Godiva versus QB, what with the two finally facing off after exchanging some fisticuffs following a QOTR card almost a decade back. As to be expected the battle was littered with personals, Bonnie boasting about winning the fight all through the battle when she wasn’t dissing her opponent’s looks and lifestyle in and outside of battle rap. While QB remarked on how Bonnie’s used the fight to boost her career, when she wasn’t flipping on Bonnie’s recent domestic abuse issues, sex life and the help she received in the earlier fight from her ‘tranny’ uncle. Then too, the match would also see a gang of punch-heavy theatrics and wordplay-lit maneuvers from both battlers. However, with the help of Bonnie having some dry spots here and there and at times miss timing her aggression, a more witty, condensed and haymaker-savvy in all 3 rounds QB would earn the win.
Verdict: QB (W) 3-0
Favorite line: QB – “Now you YTG?, fucking crew hopper, tell me which one’s you following, you rap like whoever dick you swallowing!”
Recap: Whew! Not sure if it can get any more disrespectful than this as Shooney Da Rapper and QB trade the most scathing personals on sick relatives, kids, hygiene, friendship drama and vulgar sexual dalliances that all gave new meaning to insolence in battle rap. And while QB may be used to getting it back from a style she helped birth, seeing a just-as-brazen Shooney go after her gf’s dead grandma like that was still a sight to behold. A close battle that also contained some fiery punchlines and dope name flips from each battler, the more cleaner flowing, witty at times and more haymaker-lit QB wins the battle by taking each of the opening rounds, before a more condensed and bar efficient Shooney took the 3rd.
Verdict: QB (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB – “You need God, but you won’t repent, you a slob, turn into a ho for rent, you fucked Rex, Fetti, Twork, Factor, with them kind of names she could’ve fucked around and thrown her own event!”
Recap: When you admittedly refer to a battle as meaning ‘nuthin’ to you, you might not be as motivated to write your best bars. That seems to be the case here as Ty Law’s notorious punches are frequented by too many listless dyke jokes and ‘over-ya-head’ bars that bordered on reaching when he wasn’t scoring with definitive (“Chrome bitch spitting, I shoot till it’s hot as hell fire, give it to Q to cool in the mouth like a nail-biter!”) shiners here and there. On the other hand the always confident QB, seemingly (“He a faggot, his real name by law [bi Law], they can’t charge me with a crime, and that’s by Law!”) punching a little more these days than flexing with the personals, ably stood her ground in a one-round bout that on paper anyway, looked to be more competitive.
Verdict: QB (Black Diamond) (W) 1-0
Favorite line: QB (Black Diamond) – “That’s why real nigger’s don’t fuck with you and my presence got you feeling uncomfortable, I bust pistols, crazier than a Spanish bitch with trust issues!”
Recap: Much anticipated battle between “The Queen of Disrespect” (QB) and “The King of Disrespect” (Arsonal) for the most part lives up to its theme what with each battler literally (yes, there was plenty of ass-grabbing) and figuratively with some scathing disses towards Arsonal’s daughter by QB and some pretty hilarious rants by Arsonal towards QB’s sex life. That said, while both rappers were on their A-game with the personal scorn and contempt throughout the battle, each was also hurt by one too many pedestrian bars as well as a bit of overkill on their favorite go-to themes. And while Arsonal was a bit flow-challenged at times, not including a spitfire and fairly consistent 3rd round, QB’s elongated turns in both the 1st and 2nd rounds combined with a more condensed opponent who had more piercing haymakers allowed da Rebel to edge each of the opening rounds for the win.
Verdict: Arsonal da Rebel (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Arsonal da Rebel – “Little girls grow up dancing, yunno, trying to do the heel toe, you taking this being a guy shit way too far, you out here putting condoms on a dildo!”
Recap: Closer than one would think going in as a bar-heavy Flawless for the most part stays away from the usual (“You wasn’t fucking with Jaz like Hillary!”) personals you see against QB, which makes for a solid performance and a competitive one-round match. But QB being QB, witty and disrespectful with personals, nice with the (“I click clowns with big rounds, I took you and everybody in your team out, y’all have permanent red necks now that I’m in Hicks town!”) wordplay and fly with the name flips, proves to overall be too consistently nice for her opponent to pull off the upset.
Verdict: QB (Black Diamond) 1-0
Favorite line: QB (Black Diamond) – “Get buck-fifty, scarred up, I ain’t talking a clothing line, when I take her weave and smoke on Von dutch!”
Recap: Even with a slip-up towards the end, in a last-minute, one-rounder on the RBE stage, QB with a much cleaner round than her opponent, continuously spits fiery (“I’ll throw a dildo in your son room and watch him act his daddy, nigga!”) disrespectful darts to outshine a humbled Showoff.
Verdict: QB (W) 1-0
Favorite line: QB – “So why the fuck you want to bring the drama to me?, I ran up on Show [raises arm like gun] like this the show I wanted to see!”
Recap: Close and mostly fire battle between QB and O’fficial hits on a variety of cylinders including some nice schemes, downright (QB: “You old q whore slut, type of bitch that let Nuborn fuck!”) mean and witty personals, feisty (O’fficial: “So go ahead and grab a stick, I wish this bitch would, [points arm extended like a gun] shotgun in her mouth like she trying to kiss Suge!”) gun bars, fierce punchlines and salacious wordplay. However, tied going into the 3rd with QB dropping more haymakers to take round one, before a more condensed and potent overall O’fficial takes the 2nd round, even with an elongated turn and a solid run by her opponent, it’s QB (who overall in this battle wasn’t as disrespectful as we’re usually used to seeing) who drops a couple of spicy rebuttals to edge the round and gain the win.
Verdict: QB (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB – “You talk about when I ain’t got the strap, I used the pickle, bitch I’d rather use a banana!”
Recap: Granted, No-A-Lot did himself no favors quickly going from misogynistic punches (which sometimes landed) to a lame Loaded Lux impression what with a Bible reading that was ‘complimented’ by a passing put of a collection plate. But if there was ever an example why small, independent battle leagues fail, this was it. From absolutely zero crowd control to having to hold a mic to her head so QB could rap to an audience that talked all through both battlers round’s, clearly HeaviiTV didn’t put in the leg work to put on a battle. Other than that QB’s boatload of raucous shiners and piercing personals win the day in this 1-rounder.
Verdict: QB (W) 1-0
Favorite line: QB – “I’ll have this white boy bowing down to a black bitch with power, I’m Olivia Pope!”
Recap: Putting aside the incessant crowd noise (including, surprisingly some on stage), QB and Morawsha engage in a dope and highly entertaining 3-round battle for Bosschick Battle League. Morawsha would stay competitive with a fly rebuttal game (esp. in round 1) that along with a gang of bruising name flips/schemes, witty burns and piercing punchlines/personals let the audience know that she’s a problem. However QB, flexing throughout the battle with a boatload of disrespectful darts, hardbody punches, some stinging wordplay and boastful barbs, gets the win here, taking each of the opening rounds with a couple of condensed, haymaker-lit turns that secured the vic before a more consistently spicy Morawsha took the 3rd.
Verdict: QB (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB – “I’m like a bitch with no ass, I’m just not gonna switch!”
Recap: Female battle rap is so drenched in ‘who’s screwing who’ semantics and ghostwriting allegations that when it comes to originality and genuine personals the lines can often get blurred. That aside, as a re-capper who only cares about who rapped better, the idea that Phara Funeral can’t spit her own shit (as QB claims time and time here) just doesn’t hold much weight when you look at some of her past battles (her Viixen The Assassin battle being the best case). Instead, Phara’s main flaw has been a lack of preparation (hence, past chokes and slip-ups). Yet QB, while also dishing her usual m.o. of disrespectful zingers, boastful barbs and resident mayhem, went there with the wordmonger stuff repeatedly, which makes you wonder if that was about ego or the idea that she didn’t pay enough attention to why she lost the Jaz battle. Because lyrically speaking Phara Funeral won this battle. The Bronx emcee taking a page from the Jaz playbook (and also taking advantage of two elongated and often redundant rounds from QB) and using fierce schemes, pretty solid wordplay, fiery gun bars, piercing punchlines and some grating personals to edge rounds 2 and 3 (with nary a slip-up after a debatable 1st) for the vic.
Verdict: Phara Funeral (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Phara Funeral – “The wrong word will get you shot, them slugs burning you out, my shit clickin’, if I’m lickin’, no studs turns turning you out, I send my chicks in to get the kids and my nigga’s fuckin’ ya spouse, everybody will be trading places if gotta usher you out!”
Recap: The female version of Arsonal with her elongated rounds, disrespectful bars and aggressive delivery (but less filler), beating QB in a battle takes an enormous effort. And for two rounds Stargirl Ladyred almost pulls it off, matching QB’s ruthlessness with a plethora of ill (“By looking…I could tell you don’t keep up withcha hygiene, pussy-licking cottage cheese smelling like fried beans!”) bars, dope schemes and hitting personals. But in the 3rd QB whipped out her entire bag of tricks and came out with a classic, landing (“But you frail, when the last time you was in some beef?, you somebody son, I got a Scooby snack for you Scrappy since you the spitting image of Mama Dee”) haymakers, delivering rapid personals (to her opponent and Cortez) and getting extra nice on the wordplay to pull ahead and take the win in what was otherwise a really good battle.
Verdict: QB (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB – “You ain’t built for the street life, why you trying to be hardcore?, just ‘cuz you look like Chewbacca doesn’t mean that Star Wars!”
Recap: This was unfair. For all the talking these two did before this battle, the results are a one-sided affair that had you wishing someone had thrown in the towel for Don Ladyii after round 2. Funny too to see that Don Ladyii’s attempt to put QB’s alleged criminal past on blast didn’t go over well with the crowd…at all. Only Couture could pull that shit off. Again this was unfair….QB all day.
Verdict: QB (W) 3-0
Favorite line: QB – “So when that Mac-11 click shit, I been a feen, squeeze on a boss like Rick Ross in skinny jeans”
Recap: Besides a close 1st round this one was really no contest as Jaz The Rapper’s seismic schemes, potent wordplay, well-lit personals and piercing punchlines easily beat back a QB (Black Diamond) that you rarely see: little on the disrespect and more focused on bars that in this case were mostly pedestrian. Not that QB lacked on her notorious aggression, but a strategy that seemed bent on bully semantics and her opponent’s sex life, while hitting here and there, just got redundant over time and especially cost her when it came to elongated turns in both the 1st and 2nd rounds. On the other hand, overall a more versatile Jaz just had too much in her bag what with not only the aforementioned darts, but also witty barbs, fire rebuts for the virgin angles, fierce storytelling lines, scheming tutorials on battle rap and to the surprise of some, a pretty hip knowledge of football (and more) which would lead to some flexing sport schemes and ably assist in Jaz earning the 30.
Verdict: Jaz The Rapper (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jaz The Rapper – “You said you’d kill me?, you lied, but you said you would kill me without talking about my virginity?, so those was both lies, ‘cuz if you had [???] at a horror flick you would know that virgins don’t die!”
Recap: Dope battle with lots of personals, stage presence and aggressive bars on both sides. However, QB wasn’t at her best (too much filler) here and I don’t know if we’re supposed to believe Hustle about all those dudes QB allegedly smashed. That said, first two rounds could go either way, but QB, thanks in part to Hustle keeping it so short, definitely took the 3rd for the win.
Verdict: QB (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB – “So what the fuck you mean if I talk about your daughter you gonna punch me in my face?, bitch I’ll turn that little bitch upside down like I’m looking for change”
Recap: Dutchess has enough potent bars, wordplay and a dope delivery to be a problem for any female battle rapper. And the Bronx battler showed it here, going toe-to-toe with the forever disrespectful (as shown here, even the kids can get it too) QB on Queen of the Ring for two rounds of straight heat. I got an aggressive and straight venomous QB clearly taking the 1st round (a classic) and the more heavy punching Dutchess clearly taking the 2nd (“Talking about I suck dick and kiss my daughter and brother in the mouth, bitch you a yung’in, you suck dick and kiss your mother in the mouth!”). But after the ladies spent so much energy in the first couple of rounds, they both would barely limp through the deciding round 3. And without either one doing anything spectacular, we can safely call this one even.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: QB – “You got a 5 dollar foot long face!”
Synopsis: Even without a prepared 3rd, QB has enough potent bars (“You in the ring with a monster, I dare you to look under that bed”), aggressive lines and biting personals here to easily take the win.
Verdict: QB (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB – “You got your hair flipped now you think that you fly, I know some Spanish twin bitches that’ll put the Nina to Sky”
Recap: Would love to see these two go at it today as Ms. Fit has improved so much since this battle. But still, besides a close middle round, QB clearly took rounds 1 and 3 to take this.
Verdict: QB (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QB – “You talking about my teeth, but your shits look like you’ve been chewing on cable boxes”
Synopsis: Monie Love’s reactions throughout this battle are hilarious. That said, A smiling (and very colorful) Young Gattas performs a body on QB (who literally gave Gattas the 1st round, rapping for like only a minute or so) with venomous bars so tight that QB, wanting to fight and all, seemed to forget that she was in a rap battle. Indeed, Sara Kana was just being nice when she said this was “very close”.
Verdict: Young Gattas (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Young Gattas – “You look like a man…Wendy Williams!”
Recap: Need further proof that QB has always been (“You’se a faggot rap bitch, you’se a dude with a husband, two niggas fucking in New York, streets is disgusting!”) disrespectful? Check out this early battle against an earnest, but clearly-unable-to-keep-up-with-the-shitstorm-that-hit-her Sara Kana. Indeed, it got so bad for her here that I think Sara retired from battle rap after this.
Verdict: QB (W) 3-0
Favorite line: QB – “I should fuck you up Rosie for trying to impersonate Ricky Lake”
