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Rad B defeats Brizz Rawsteen

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Recap: It must be nice to be Rad B. The face of the UDubb league. Good friends with Arsonal. Get to face top tiers battle rappers at will. And when one of those said top tiers pretty much shows up for a paycheck (as a mostly pedestrian Brizz Rawsteen does in this 1-rounder here), you can rap twice as long, hit with a boatload of hard and aggressive punchlines, win the battle and have something to tell your kids about. Indeed, if you’re a battle rapper it doesn’t get much better than that.

Verdict: Rad B (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Rad B – “Ironic, killing him is something I have to live with, but fuck it, the best memories come from bad decisions!”

Charlie Clips defeats Rad B

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Recap: Charlie Clips at his finest: a 1st round containing a gang of spitfire schemes and fiery 4-bar set-ups to take that one easy. Then a 2nd round dripped in crazy, versatile name flips to add another point to the scoreboard before opponent Rad B (solid but a tad inconsistent and pedestrian throughout the battle, not including a consistently hard-punching 3rd round that was easily his best of the night) made him earn the 30, which Clips did via a string of hilarious jokes, some sublime wordplay, piercing punches/personals/schemes and a couple of dope freestyles.

Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “You don’t hang put with bad people, nigga your braces get orange when you eat mad Cheetos!”

Gwitty defeats Rad B

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Recap: Rambunctious with the grimy set-ups, segueing nicely between punches and fanatical with the gritty flow, Gwitty easily earns his paper with a dominating, one-round performance over a sputtering and eventually choking Rad B.

Verdict: Gwitty (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Gwitty – “He the type to snitch, call the cops after work, caught him nice and jewelry, he got picked on the cover, like the Madden curse!”

Rad B and T-Rex [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Taking us inside the trap world for the umpteenth time, T-Rex’s comfort zone shines early on, but becomes repetitive later on. Not that it matters to Rex, even when he gets caught by his opponent here, the erstwhile Rad B, for recycling bars. Still, wouldn’t Rex have been better off spinning more lines on why an up-n-comer like Rad deserves with him in the first place? Or better yet, displaying more of his hearty (“I’m married to the white, it’s like Kanye’s wedding!”) wit and peep that, a cold (“If I wrote, if I feel like saying it, I’ll say it again!”) rebuttal game? But hey, word has it that Rex is retiring soon anyway and hell if we all don’t appreciate him doing this battle after he no-showed when it was first supposed to take place. That being said, while Rad B needs serious work on his monotone flow and penchant for mediocre bars, the yung’un still managed to put in enough work with some nice (“Last time a chick seen Rex bone, she was at a fucking museum!”) punches/wordplay/personals here to make it competitive and earn a split.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Rad B – “Are you gonna win? I already said birth control…no baby!”

DNA defeats Rad B

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Recap: After literally (“New hammer, and I’m hoping there’s bucks in it like Christmas cards!”) spazzing on relative newcomer Rad B in round 1, DNA pretty much takes the 2nd round off while allowing his opponent to get turned up, dish some nice (“Head shot, like convo’s with old heads, it’ll pick ya mind!”) gun bars and even things up out. 3rd round is close as Rad’s pointed (“How the fuck is Eric gonna pass it down if it ain’t in his jeans [genes]?!”) personals and wordplay not only continue to excite, but makes up for a lot of pedestrian bars that made you wonder how he got a battle versus a vet like DNA in the first place. Still, a top of the round rebuttal, crazy (“If he don’t jet, I’m gonna give this G 5, unless something Tiny ring…T.I.!”) punchlines and a couple of sizzling personals/freestyles towards the finish allows to DNA to edge it.

Verdict: DNA (W) 2-1

Favorite line: DNA – “I’m about this, he’ll be dead soon as the pound spit, treat him just like his T-shirt, your nigga’s dying soon as that sound click!”

Big T defeats Rad B

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Recap: In this competitive 3-rounder from UDubb, hometown luminary Rad B delivers a strong performance with a host of gritty punchlines and boastful darts spread out thru his 3 rounds. But opponent Big T, verbally combative throughout the battle with a fiery mix of rich similes, stirring/witty vet talk, piercing wordplay and rugged storytelling bars/punches and personals, does more than enough to take the first two rounds for the win.

Verdict: Big T (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Big T – “I pull bitches and don’t say nuthin’ to ’em, I’m like Jason to these ho’s!”