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Rich Dolarz

J. Murda defeats Rich Dolarz

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Recap: No Yankee fitted, but it’s still nice to see Rich Dolarz back in the ring again after a long time away. And here in this opening round KOTD Grand Prix tournament versus J. Murda (tho overall he did better with the personals, hence taking round 2) Rich showed that his aggressive bangers can still compete with the newer guys. But the ever gritty Murda, while often prone to one too many antics and pedestrian punches here and there, emotionally stays pretty straight-laced here (of course, having $50K on the line will do that to you) and after taking round 1 with a punch-heavier turn, uses the latter half of his 3rd to do a nice Daylyt impression with the ski mask and proceed to get extra busy with episodes of graphic mayhem, performance lit heat and fiery gun bars to take the win.

Verdict: J. Murda (W) 2-1

Favorite line: J. Murda – “We got two minutes to shoot it out, I light it up, over his eyes, it’s a unibrow!”

Rich Dolarz defeats Jimz

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Recap: Good battle between the supremely confident Jimz and a just-got-back-from-his-latest-vacation Rich Dolarz. Both dropped some crazy bars (Jimz: “Testing me is something you’ll regret, that’s a Daylyt tattoo”; Rich: “So when I see him I’mma fire on him, cuz’ he like Pinocchio, he was made to have wires on him”) and kept it competitive throughout with nice wordplay (esp. with Rich), performance lines and nice (esp. on Jimz part) personals. However, as is often the case with Jimz some of his bars didn’t match his agression, the “What You Know About…” lines were a clear cop from Shotgun Suge and at times his lines just didn’t add (even if the biggest Rich Dolarz hater could admit that his battle vs. Daylyt was dope) up. On the other hand overall Rich was more consistent with his bars/flow, came with more haymakers and spit a little variety more variety in his rounds to take rounds 1 and 3 to edge the win.

Verdict: Rich Dolarz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Rich Dolarz – “You screaming ‘Fuck da police!’, nIgga stop that, cuz a gun in in ya face, will have you asking ‘Where the fuck the cops at?'”

Rich Dolarz and McKims [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: If Rich Dolarz is going to waste some bars and throw some shots at his peers in a battle, he might as well do it in a one-rounder here against a relative unknown in McKims. Still, for all of Rich’s (“It’ll make you commit suicide, not because you ain’t feeling well, my honey cocaine [Honeycomb] make a nigga wanna kill themselves!”) swagger-jacking, too many lines here just didn’t quite add up to the deft of his sheer intensity. Thankfully, for McKims that’s just enough room for his witty, but filler-prone banter to score a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: McKims – “I forever hold the peace [piece] like I didn’t have anything to say at the wedding!”

Daylyt defeats Rich Dolarz

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Recap: Now who doesn’t long for the days of dope, under 20 minutes, 3-round battles? ‘Cuz that’s what KOTD gives you again here with Daylyt taking on Rich Dolarz in a gritty and lyrical punch-fest that should also be noted for taking place pre-“antics” stage if you’ve been a follower of Daylyt’s battle rap career and need another reminder that the notorious, West-coast spitter can actually rap really well…when he wants to. And while Dolarz gives Day all he can handle with a boatload of solid schemes, piercing gun bars and fierce name flips/punchlines, it’s a nice-with-the-cadence, wordplay-vicious, incredibly witty, mayhem-inducing, without-the-ski-mask Daylyt who takes the first two rounds for the win, before a turned-up with the punches and more condensed Dolarz edges the 3rd.

Verdict: Daylyt (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Daylyt – “Round of applause, everybody crying, bullets like a funny joke, they got everybody dying!”

Tay Roc defeats Rich Dolarz

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Recap: With Tay Roc and Rich Dolarz battling each other you’d expect a good showing and they did exactly that. Rich built his rounds around themes (Roc being “dirty”, joining Dot Mobb because he wants to be Mook, stealing ideas for bars and allegedly “lying” a lot in his rhymes) that for most part worked, especially in round 3 which saw Dolarz drop this gem: “When people hear Tay Roc the first thing they hear is Dot Mobb, I built my own name, you wouldn’t even fucking try, it’s Mook, Rex, K then you, for me that wouldn;t fucking fly, you below the son and for you that’s fucking fine, so even when it’s cloudy out you’ll still be under shine”. Still, for all of Dolarz’ originality and subject matter, his set-ups took too long and outside his motifs, there wasn’t much bite in his bar game (that is, outside of repeating other rapper lines to make a point). A worthy performance still by Rich, but with the type of heat Roc was spitting in the first couple of rounds, winning was not an option. If Roc’s first round wasn’t enough in hard-hitting (“Tried to tell you I’m a Hitman you could holler if you want, if you owe me I’m find him with the pump, it’s like I’m St. Louis in ‘Players Club’, I’ll put Dolarz [Dolla] in the trunk”) bars and execution, his second was a pure classic with a steady of name flips, (“i seen you out in Detroit I know your hood’s mad, Factor should drop the ‘X’ off his name you made it look bad”) personals, (“Look at Smack like Alpo because he set up Rich to get killed!”) haymakers, tutorials, jokes, (“…knock his box off the screen like we playing X-box Connect”) execution and even a few shots at Calicoe just in case he wasn’t paying close enough attention. Roc all day.

Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Tay Roc – “Two battles ago you was fucking dead, word up, you heard what the fuck I said, I’ll Pop off, dump the lead, knock off a chuck his head or I could put the dots on him like Wonder Bread”

X-Factor defeats Rich Dolarz

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Synopsis: Not much to see here as X-Factor did a total demolition of Rich Dolarz, who after almost choking in round 1, put on a decent comeback (you could argue that round 2 was debatable), but still couldn’t handle X’s overall tenacity, bars, joke-telling (tho that “You so much of a bitch I had plans on mating you” line was kinda teh ghey) and of course, “priority” darts. Give Rich credit tho for coming through in front of a clearly biased crowd against one of Detroit’s most notable vets–perhaps choosing not to wear the stanky Yankee cap did him in.

Verdict: X-Factor (W) 3-0

Best line: X-Factor – “I’m from Detroit where hustling’s a profession so for that work they let off rounds, they carry wessons so will smith you for 7 pounds”

Tech-9 defeats Rich Dolarz

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Recap: Rich Dolarz came nice here, esp. in the 3rd round, delivering his usual aggressive bars, hard (“So you better stop all that brave shit, ‘cuz I’ll show you how sharp a nigga’s blades get, your niggas blood, my homies represent the same shit and they’ll still put a .9 to five, no day shift”) punches, some keen (“Like Jamie Foxx, I don’t stay in a hotel unless its Fancy in it”) wordplay/schemes and even a joke or two. But against a Tech-9 who’d just about reached his peak (that’d come later in the Midwest Miles match) here, Rich really didn’t stand much of a chance. From the stellar jokes to wicked setups, personals galore on Rich’s Popoff squad, punchlines, epic performance (“I do drive-bys, no face, all you see is the arm”) bars and crowd pleasers, hell even a turkey breast sandwich to keep you paying attention, it was all there, 3 rounds of enjoyment that more than proved that it’s not always bars over jokes.

Verdict: Tech-9 (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Tech-9 – “I’m old school like peanut butter on a mouse trap”

Rich Dolarz defeats Yung Ill

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Recap: In one of the early “One-Off”‘s from Smack/URL, a steadily aggressive and oft-jocular Yung Ill snapping on Rich Dolarz’s “stanky, Yankee cap” is the most memorable moment of this battle. But besides getting edged in the 2nd round, this battle was all Dolarz, who when he wasn’t going random with shots at Aye Verb and Tech-9, proved to be way more consistently nice with his punchlines, personals, steely wordplay/schemes and pointed gun bars in the 1st and 3rd rounds. It also needs to be said that for all their competitive bravado throughout this match, the underlying humor within this battle doesn’t get enough credit.

Verdict: Rich Dolarz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Rich Dolarz – “You soft, but you be acting hard tho, a St. Louis nigga that reminds me of Nelly…Furtado!”

Goodz defeats Rich Dolarz

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Rest of round 2 and 3

Recap: After Rich Dolarz uses a stirring mix of aggressive, braggadocio rhymes and swift (“He said he getting money, yeah he a fast spender, he was the same one complaining when the price of the gas went up!”) wisecracks to easily take round one, Goodz lyrical meanderings finally catch up to his swag in round two and three. Indeed, for Goodz there’s enough deft (“I keep chickens in they place, that’s coup control!”) wordplay to edge round two. And thanks in part to Rich going overkill on the gay bars, but mostly due to some dope (“I done killed so much tracks, I pay child support, too many deadbeats [dead beats]”) punchlines from Goodz, it’s a come from behind win for Da Animal.

Verdict: Goodz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Goodz – “I snap box fools with biscuits, I’m too vicious, there’s more hunger, y’all scrape the plate, I chew dishes!”

Rich Dolarz defeats Calicoe

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Part 2

Part 3

Synopsis: So this battle starts off with Calicoe just spazzing, dissing New York heads (“All my victims got somethin’ in common, a bunch of New York niggas born rich with a silver spoon”) in a room full of Yankee fitteds, dealing out that gun talk, clearly taking over the room and well on his way to a win on the road no less. But credit Rich for staying consistently aggressive throughout, delivering schemes (“That Calicoe will put him 6 deep, for thinking he I’ll, he catch a Holla in his Big Tee”), disrespectful bars and that straight BX gutter (“Ask the Jacksons I kill mics [Mike] no prescription drugs”) talk, all the while a clearly unprepared Calicoe looks up to the sky so he can remember and start spitting lyrics from his music library. BX all day.

Verdict: Rich Dolarz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Calicoe – “We only watch Richie’s battles to hear him say ‘Chill!'”

Rich Dolarz defeats DNA

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Synopsis: When it comes to aggressive bars I don’t know if anyone beats Rich Dolarz. Of course, the problem for Rich isn’t wordplay or performance, but whether or not he can go 3 rounds without choking. That said, this battle with a not-quite-yet-at-his peak DNA was a solid show from a couple of east coast battle rappers in their own, grimy backyard on Grain Time. I thought Rich easily took round 1, while DNA landed batter jabs (“not even the president wanted dolarz, that’s why he wanted to make change”) in the second. However, Rich’s third, which featured a crazy nice A-to-Z scheme and some solid personals, gave him the edge in my book.

Verdict: Rich Dolarz (W) 2-1

Best line: Rich Dolarz – “he gay, not joyful happy, he gay, boys and ass cheeks”

Midwest Miles defeats Rich Dolarz

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Round 2

Round 3

Synopsis: Credit Miles for handling Rich’s choke in a commendable way, other than Tech-9 being so on point, there’s really not much else to say here.

Verdict: Midwest Miles (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Midwest Miles – “You the worst rapper from the Bronx since Drag-On”

Hitman Holla and Rich Dolarz [TIE]

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Recap: From the same Street Status card that featured Aye Verb vs. Hollow da Don for two rounds, a more gritty and mayhem/punch-lit (“Y’all got the best room at the Hilton going against a Motel 6?!”) Hitman Holla takes round 1, before a more nuanced and brazen Rich Dolarz took the 2nd to make this battle a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Rich Dolarz – “St. Louis how could he win?, I mean Chingy hotter than him!”

Arsonal defeats Rich Dolarz

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Part 2 Part 3  

Synopsis: A battle that deserves a rematch if only because I think both Richie and Arsonal would agree that they could put on a lot better show now compared to this early Sub Zero matchup. Filled with way too much filler, lame lines, not enough hot bars and a crowd that was clearly there to see Rich take out a body, Arsonal only won because Rich was that bad.

Verdict: Arsonal (W) 2-1

Best line: Arsonal – “I’m the only rapper selling swag on Ebay”