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Recap: In a competitive 3-rounder from Gates of the Garden that was dominated by spicy wordplay/punches/personals, glad-handing and a Mr. Biscuit trying too hard at times to imitate his opponent, the more condensed, witty and freestyle/rebuttal-friendly Quantum Physics does just enough to edge rounds 1 and 3 for the win.
Verdict: Quantum Physics (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Quantum Physics – “You get friend-zoned, I get yunno, fuck buddy!”
Recap: The most prolific battle rapper in the game, Dre Dennis, makes a return to URL on a Survivor Series card, and drops a hammer on Quantum Physics. The Gates of the Garden co-founder using a barrage of hard-hitting personals, stifling name flips, fiery gun bars and some fierce wordplay/punchlines to handily take the first couple of rounds before the SONS vet, inconsistent with the punches in the earlier rounds, puts it all together in the 3rd with a steady gang of sublime jabs to edge a righteous and heavy-handed turn by Dre and salvage the closing round of this App exclusive.
Verdict: Dre Dennis (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Dre Dennis – “Them long schemes got us kinda lost nigga, 8-second violation…you need to get your point across quicker!”
Recap: One could imagine how many past battles Quantum Physics, armed with one of the best pen’s in the game, would’ve won if he consistently lined up his effervescent rhyme patterns the way he does here in round 3 vs. Ish Mulah. Yeah, one could imagine. That said, taking advantage of QP struggling through his 2nd round (before calling it quits midway) and a solid 1st by the former S.O.N.S. member that could’ve came harder if not for the aforementioned lack of uniformity, the always believable, but this time consistently gritty with some excellent wordplay to match Ish Mulah, takes the first couple of rounds of this Massacre Battle Association 3-rounder for the win.
Verdict: Ish Mulah (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ish Mulah – “Fuck that, I bought a .380 for QP…that’s bad business!”
Recap: Another 1-round, Social Distancing battle from RBE, this time between Quantum Physics and Charron, gets a draw as on the creativity side any momentum gained from QP’s clever/witty Leave It To Beaver-like visuals and wordplay/personals gets deflected by a way-too-short turn when it came to the bars. And while Charron showed us once again what an awesome free-styler he is with the random word usage in his raps, an elongated turn combined with a bunch of so-so punches (tho he had a few hard-hitting one’s) was only enough to merit a tie.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Charron – “He’s Quantum Physics so it’s only right to have his body in two states at the same time!”
Recap: Forgive us for wishing the likes of Chef Trez versus 1st-timer-to-RBE Quantum Physics could happen on a big stage (and maybe one day it will) instead of a 1-round Social Distance battle. But in some abnormal times, you have to take whatever you can get. And both QP and the Chef still showed up with the latter dishing plenty of resident heat, some spitfire punches and fiery requisite name flips, while a wordplay-spazzing, pointed, punch-lit and performance-heavy QP made for a crazy dope debut. That said, with a little less filler in a battle that was pretty equal on haymakers, the edge here goes to QP.
Verdict: Quantum Physics (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Quantum Physics – “He got a extra round in the funeral home for trying to rebuttal in the casket!”
Recap: When he’s not writing for female battle rappers, Quantum Physics’ pen can hang with the best of them. As seen here, where QP drops a shitload of rich metaphors, forthright schemes/personals and wily wordplay on Emerson Kennedy in this rooftop battle from URL’s Standoff card. But reminding everyone that he’s no slouch either, EK more than holds his own against the SONS vet, using a bunch of stinging personals on his opponent’s battle career, fiery 4-bar set-ups/punches and some flexing play on words of his own to edge both the opening round and the deciding 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Emerson Kennedy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Emerson Kennedy – “You right, you are my biggest fear…and that’s being old with potential!”
Recap: With old personals rankling a few feathers here and there, GE versus QP (Quantum Physics) quickly turns from a battle of contrasting styles to a tension-filled bout that clearly got under QP’s skin after his opponent brought up some notorious sexual allegations during his 2nd round. Not that a QP tag-in and struggle with his bars the final round would matter anyway as a more consistently fire GE’s crime-riddled trap talk, witty barbs and expressive wordplay combined to beat back QP’s even more exotic punches/performance bars in the earlier rounds, before a non-competitive 3rd solidified the 30.
Verdict: GE (W) 3-0
Favorite line: GE – “Ain’t gonna say no names, when I come ain’t no games, see piping ahit, he turn Damon Wayans, start talking about his wife and kids, sitcom, they all on the couch, barely suffered major pain [Major Payne], if I don’t get every little ounce, they all dead, Get it?, That shit go together!, Damon Wayans, Major Payne…everybody on the couch got a bald head!?
Recap: When he wasn’t often hilariously mocking his opponent’s catchphrase/moniker (“Bar God!”), for the first couple of rounds during this matchup versus set-up crazy, rapidly (“You usin’ an old system, them played out schemes, you gon’ be sorry nigga, now the fuck you birthed the S.O.N.S. [sons] and still end up on Maury nigga?!?”) punching and rebuttal-heavy Danny Myers, QP keeps up with his fellow West-coast vet’s fiery punches and gritty punchlines with his own series of crafty (“Thinking like a caveman, my first thought was fire!”) wordplay and distinctively witty barbs. But as is sometimes the case, QP’s penchant for a lack of effort during battles appears once again, even during a solid turn in the deciding 3rd round that while lit with some dope punches still seemed more performance bent than prepped to win. And with Myers work ethic never coming into question, a winning 3rd round drenched with a litany of hitting braggadocios lines, gripping name flips, stinging freestyles and gripping personals, handily gives Danny the 21.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I am human fentanyl, I obliterate rappers, scientists taught me that quantum physics manipulates matters!”
Recap: Rare is a classic round from someone who ends up losing the match, but QP’s 2nd round here, dedicated to his opponent’s choice of footwear, was a fire tutorial on (“Size 12?, well, I guess you’re putting your best foot forward!”) off-the-dome acumen and delivery. That said, a 3-round close punch-fest with fellow vet Young Kannon equates to a whole lot of witty bars, dope wordplay, stinging (YK: “Black Ice, milking you for nothing…that’s a wig voucher!”) personals and fierce schemes on both sides. But at the end of the day it’s a more consistent and haymaker inclined YK who takes rounds 1 and 3 to earn the win.
Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Young Kannon – “Ever since you been hanging with Qleen, you been acting way too hard…off John Q, the nigger SONned you and gave you heart!”
Recap: Fun battle between an expansive (“Beat you like your mom when you forgot to let the chicken frost!”) Bill Collector and the always crafty (“Tongue’s hanging out, we”ll have Jordan jumping at these foul lines!”) Q.P., stays close and competitive through the final round, which a more consistent hitting Q.P., what with able freestyles and steady punches edges for the win.
Verdict: Q.P. (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Q.P. – “Talking trash to the pigs, I’m actually GLAD you squealed!”
Recap: A lame move by Q.P., distracting Craig Lamar while he was rapping into slipping up by pulling out a stack of $$$ in the middle of the 3rd round, is the only thing that prevents Craig from an flawless 3 rounds here. Indeed, that’s how bullish and multi-functional Craig’s punches were, gaining steam with each passing round, while his unnerved opponent became less and less caustic. With that, besides a too-close-to-call round 1, this one was pretty much all Craig.
Verdict: Craig Lamar (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Craig Lamar – “Special kids on a field trip, the whip short, but the bus[t] retarded!”
Recap: One would think a vet like QP wouldn’t be feening for crowd reaction as much as he does here throughout this RBE battle against 40 B.A.R.R.S. Of course, it could be that he’s just not used to battling in front of the laidback RBE crowd or he just doesn’t trust that, despite his notorious troubles off the stage, he still has one of the best pen’s in the dame (something you can tell even 40 acknowledged plenty of times during this battle). And yeah, Quantum was pretty nice here, dishing fierce schemes, witty barbs and loads of spicy linguistics with sometimes rapid abandon, that is when he wasn’t letting Qleen Paper tag-in to drop a couple of gritty haymakers in round 3. But when it comes to the pen, we all know 40’s no slouch either and the Boston spitter proved that once again via a gang of spicy wordplay mixed in with slick personals and righteous schemes with enough bite to edge rounds 1 and 3 for the win.
Verdict: 40 B.A.R.R.S. (W) 2-1
Favorite line: 40 B.A.R.R.S. – “Niggas seen me lose to Jaz and they was mad, but they ain’t see my stock drop, ‘cuz 40 still cooking on the low for a minute like crock pot!”
Recap: Dope punch-fest here on Black Cartel between JC and QP stays close and competitive throughout as the SONS member flexes throughout the bout with a gang of sizzling 4 bar-set-up, witty barbs and rigid wordplay. However, a more versatile with the punches JC, able to mix in some steely personals, crazy similes and righteous schemes along the way, does just enough damage to edge the first two rounds for the win before a more robust QP avoids getting shutout by taking the 3rd.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “Fuck your space, my whole circle clap like a huddle break!”
Recap: Marvwon overcomes a 2nd round slip-up with (“I will beat shit down your leg and use your daughter’s face to wipe it, nigga!”; “Yours is in your click, mines don’t stop until it click, nigga the bangs [Bangz] different!”) hard, aggressive bars, disarming personals and a bunch of real talk (“I’m pissed because what take us years to build take you a second to demolish!”) ‘Big Brother’isms to take the 3rd round and edge the cagey, punchline (“Nigga I’m a notorious drug user and pimp, what’s that, a B.I.G. fucking feen!”) acute and resident (“It smells like ballparks in this bitch mouth, everything you say to me is baloney!”) fat jokes-prone QP.
Verdict: Marvwon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Marvwon – “Nigga fuck a bag, everything I moved was weighed on a scale, I sold so much weed in high school, I got a different meaning of Saved by the Bell!”
Recap: Delivery and composition. That’s the main difference here as both Cortez (“Lyrically, I feel like I’m Drake when I’m inside booths, ‘cuz no matter what Quentin writes, I’m still gonna be cakin’ off my Views!”; “You told you the plug G, I said I wanted smoke, and this here is what you front me?!, a QP from Cali that’s homegrown and it comes cheap!”) and QP (“Cross me and get beat [bead] up on some rosary shit!”) brought some hot bars and excellent wordplay to this one-round battle from HomegrownBGCT. However, it’s QP’s lack of preparation–at least 3 slip-ups, substandard interchanges from Qleen Paper and some other dude and a hit-or-miss freestyle game–and Tez’s steady flow structure that hands the kid from Brooklyn an easy win.
Verdict: Cortez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: QP – “I said how you say Cortez in Spanish, nigga?…Uno Lavos!”
Recap: To let Bangz tell it, a lot of effortless wordplay and punches in this iBattle matchup between him and Q.P. Close throughout and clearly none-too-serious what with both battlers being a part of the camp R# squad, after Bangz edges the 1st round with overall filthier (“Get smacked with the heat, till this guy’s teeth smashed, Chinese ass, the butt was ugly!”; “…I don’t mean scrapping nigga, action figures, I fight with grit!”) punchlines, before Q.P. easily takes the second round with an exquisite turn of stirring metaphors along with a string of fiery (“The blade like, delayed flights, you’ll get stuck plane [plain]!”; “Your intuition leaking out, you’ll be stuck with that gut feeling!”) setups, a close 3rd round is separated by a fire rebuttal, an opening freestyle and more unorthodox (“Whoever on the side line can catch bullets like 3rd-string receivers!”) styling’s from Bangz.
Verdict: Bnagz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QP – “When Q toy around with them guns, you’ll see [Bangs] pop out with that white flag!”
Recap: A comfortable split of the first two rounds immediately gets fraught when (“His bitch gave me head under the table, what’s that?, off the books!”) Q.P. admits to forgetting his 3rd round and resorts to an imperfect freestyle spree that fortunately, he’s talented enough to pull off without a premature stoppage. Nonetheless, abled vet that he is, for Real Deal a well-written barrage of fierce personals and lofty (“If my whole circle clap like the cuddle break, you gonna make me raise this bitch in the air like I couple skate!”) quips had a pretty good chance at beating Q,P.’s forgotten round anyway.
Verdict: Real Deal (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Real Deal -“You and your baby mom’s put out a sex tape thinking that would do numbers, it was the first time in the history of porn the role of the plumber was played by an actual plumber!”
Recap: In a fire, crowd-friendly and wildly competitive battle from Black Ice Cartel that saw Quantum Physics seemingly put his battle career on the line (he’s battled plenty of times since, so there’s that), the edge here goes to Chilla Jones, who for all the witty personals, rebuttals and fiery wordplay his opponent was able to throw at him for 3 rounds, still won the battle with a more consistent, angle-savvy, punch-spazzing, personal-hitting and scheme-heavy effort that edged the Kingpen rounds 2 and 3 after a debatable first.
Verdict: Chilla Jones (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chilla Jones – “I’m just tryna beat my last performance; it seems cocky, got to make sure the punches heavy, the schemes godly, but you really think I’m focused on Q.P.?, hardly, I ain’t even see this bitch on the card; I’m Steve Harvey!”
Recap: Yes, you can be elongated with your rounds and still keep it spicy as QP shows us here versus Bonnie Godiva for what turned out to be a shrewd punch-fest between the two battlers on the Black Ice Cartel stage. A condensed Bonnie kept it gully, wordplay-lit and personal-savvy all the way through while spouting steadily hitting punches with nary a dry spot. Indeed, Ms. Godiva was even able to come up with some ill retorts at what she thought her old Innuendo team member might throw at her during a bout that stayed close with one battler rapping twice as long as the other. However, for all of Bonnie’s adept rhyme-slinging, a QP on his A-game (as well as a vet who takes a lot of credit for Bonnie’s pen) would be a little too much in the end, the never-lacking-for-confidence emcee/reality TV star delivering back-to-back-to-back with plenty of grit and constant flair when he wasn’t dishing a boatload of exemplary wordplay, fire name flips, hard-hitting personals and witty barbs that had the crowd lit. A battle drenched in haymakers from both sides, the slightly more sublime QP edges rounds 1 and 3 for the win.
Verdict: QP )W) 2-1
Favorite line: QP – “When you what I say with a little twist, bitch, that’s a remix!”
Recap: A long-awaited grudge match between QP (Qleen Paper) and Q.P. turns out to be a bit underwhelming on both sides as besides a fire (“Your mom look like a dried up grape, yep, the bitch raising [raisin] you!”) round 1, Quantum Physics usual pedigree for superlative wordplay were quite pedestrian in the latter two rounds, while Qleen’s boastful darts and gun punditry weren’t consistently noteworthy. Still, helped by an elongated turn by his opponent as well as some witty barbs and fiery (“Swave?, I would’ve laid that big nerd down, 3rd round?, my hands would’ve went around his neck, since I’m known for choking!”) personals/punches, a more condensed Qleen came back to edge the 2nd round before also edging the deciding 3rd with pronounced heaters along with a slightly more consistently potent output.
Verdict: Qleen Paper (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Qleen Paper – “Nigga, I’m the only QP you’ll notice, Temptations nigga, you been hating….nobody coming to see you Otis!”
Recap: How Hollow said it vs. Big T?: ‘Cause how you gon’ battle me with a style that I made up?!’ Yeah, in spite of a lackluster 2nd round by QP that helped Cali Smoov edge that round, why Cali (who when his punch & wit game are on point, can compete against almost anyone) thought going into this battle he could get away with a lame Conceited impression and on top of that try to outdo his opponent’s unique, drawn-out, wordplay-heavy style that QP and his SONS crew created is beyond me and probably any other serious battle head who watched this battle. Good thing QP (who despite his immense talent can sometimes seem disinterested in battling) had enough gumption to own his shit, take the 1st and 3rd rounds and get the win here.
Verdict: QP (W) 2-1
Favorite line: QP – “Your performance?, VMA award show, that untimely crisis, ‘cuz your performance is flat but [butt]…you ain’t Miley Cyrus!”
Synopsis: Swave Sevah’s reputation for administering bodybags was put on full display here. As the Team Homi capo tosses aside QP’s slick wordplay/punches and jokes with a plethora of righteous bully talk, rigid name flips, raucous punchlines, a classic 2nd round tutorial (‘Tell ’em…’) on exposing your opponent and witty barbs to boot. And with Sevah scoring even when breaking down his own bars, this Grind Time battle would become a one-sided affair with the more versatile and consistently hitting Swave handily taking all 3 rounds rounds over his topsy-turvy opp..
Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0
Best lines: Swave Sevah – “You waste of a SON, you that nut that should’ve bust on some titties!”
Recap: I have no idea how serious a battle this was. QP mentioned it being his 3rd battle that day, it’s only a one-rounder and it turned into a virtual PSA against DNA near the end. Still, combined with a couple of stumbles by QP, Dziaster spazzes on his opponent with enough psychedelic (“Psychological warfare, yunno I was obviously gonna go there, it’s something me and the Illuminati both share”) wordplay, crazy personals and a hilarious/dead-on Soul Khan impression to take first prize.
Verdict: Dizaster (W) 1-0
Favorite line: QP – “Krack City don’t get a mention now, why’s this?, and how come the only black in your circle is your eyelids?!”
Synopsis: Not to dismiss his talent, but with his nerdy aesthetics, Jewish heritage. gimmicks and shock value bars/theatrics, it’s easy to see why Soul Khan gets so much love in the battle rap circuit–after all everybody loves the underdog. Yet, here’s a sample of SK getting too much love against a cocky wordplay feen in QP. Of course, for whatever reason QP’s S.O.N.S. crew seem to forever get hated on and it wasn’t too long before this battle that SK put J. Fox in a bodybag on the URL stage. But all that extra shit aside, on bars alone, seems to me that QP just put on a better overall display, esp. in rounds 1 (“This faggot’s a maggot and magic couldn’t make this fruit fly”) and 2 (“But you a walking contradiction and I’m just now learning why, because you say you hate skinheads, why on the 8th day you get circumcised?”). Soul Khan would later take credit for this win (and with a clearly biased crowd one can understand why), but I got it the other way around.
Verdict: QP (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Soul Khan – “I’ll sunset the S.O.N.S set, dropping every man, your rap crew is some fat dude and some chocolate teddy grams”
