Recap: Scotty versus Charlie Clips in a 1-rounder from Houston Bar Code sees the latter use a plethora of brazen schemes, stinging 4-bar setup/punchlines and witty personals/freestyles to handily gain the win over an opponent who’s punches couldn’t keep up in tenacity or efficiency.
Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “Fuck your bitch, that ain’t ya bitch no more nigga that’s the crew thang, we was deep in her like the Wu-tang, in New York that’s the 2 train, saved her under my phone like the SWV, not ‘cuz she got me Weak in the Knees or that’s my boo thang, she been on so many nigga’s microphone singing I had to save her under a group name!”
Recap: Seen thousands of battles over time and can’t recall a battler sitting down while he spits his raps as Scotty does for half the bout here. He’s different! Ok, but let’s not get carried away. As while the Houston vet did kick some gritty and brash punches here and there, it’s a multifaceted O-Red, armed with a bag of nimble translations, acute wordplay, sturdy punchlines, off-the-dome heat and flexing mayhem, who handily gets the win in this 1-rounder from Houston Bar Code.
Verdict: O-Red (W) 1-0
Favorite line: O-Red – “This fraud rambling, I done caught more bodies than Charles Manson, with a large cannon, headed to Texas like Arch Manning!”
Recap: While Swamp’s slip-ups are becoming a little too habitual, the South Carolina battler’s ability to dial up a variety of gritty/descriptive punchlines, raunchy/flexing personals and stinging gun bars/street darts are enough to beat back a pretty solid and witty at times Scotty in this close 1-rounder from Houston Bar Code.
Verdict: Swamp (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Swamp – “The clip in this bitch [holds out arm like gun] longer than a bus ride from school and you know you got a fucked up report card!”
Recap: On visuals alone, Scotty’s music video backdrop gets this one. But creativity aside, Scotty also gains the vic bar-wise, using pointed punchlines, a gritty flow that encapsulated his rhymes and some hot name flips to beat back a mostly pedestrian, hallway rapping E. Ness in this 1-round Social Distance battle from RBE.
Verdict: Scotty (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Scotty – “I been killing rap nigger’s from A to Z, we talking alphabets but I remain a G!”
Recap: One of the nicest things about these Social Distancing battles is getting an opportunity to see some of your favorite battle rappers from the past come back and battle again. Such is the case with Syah, a battle vet who goes back to the days of Grind Time and now comes back here against Scotty for what turned out to be a pretty dope matchup. Scotty, fierce with the aggression, creative with the visuals and piercing with the punches/comedic bars, scores well here. But then so does Syah, who came equipped with a gang of flexing wordplay, righteous mayhem and fervent (“I heard Loso beat your ass so bad, he made you Christian!”) boasts that were consistent enough to earn a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Scotty – “Shoot the clip and die laughing…this a comedy skit!”
Recap: No, they’re not battling in a church (after viewing what looked to be two crosses stationed at the top of the stairs, had to scan the Comments to verify that this battle actually takes place in a Houston club). That said, in this 1-round battle between T-Top and hometown fave Scotty, the latter’s penchant for wit and dishing entertaining narratives/personals remain indisputable. However, when it comes to Scotty’s weakness: lack of potency/intricacy with his punchlines, well, that’s another story and more importantly here, the difference-maker, even against a slip-up owning, B-grade T-Top who’s redundant themes was still gritty, personal and consistent enough to help supply him with the win.
Verdict: T-Top (W) 1-0
Favorite line: T-Top – “I really tried to lose wight, but I’m a hustla dog, so every pound you see me with, I tried dumping it off!”
Recap: Houston’s Scotty, who oft-times struggles with consistency, makes for a more steady, solid and at times gritty effort here in this 1-rounder against Charron. But for all of Scotty’s effort, the visiting Canadian opponent still proves to be too much, dishing a quartet of fire rebuttals alomg with witty self-deprecating punchlines, stinging hometown heaters, random shots at other battlers and a boatload of fiery barbs/schemes during his turn to warrant the vic in the end.
Verdict: Charron (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Charron – “This ain’t the old Charron, do your research, I got the confidence of T-Rex buying smedium t-shirts!”
Recap: In a battle that came together out of nowhere, Ill Will validates there being different levels to this shit with a consistently hardbody, verbal luminary, personal-savvy and performance-heavy showing versus Scotty. Somewhat competitive at times with the Houston battler showcasing the ability to display wit and even drop some shiny haymakers now and again, unfortunately for Scotty his pen game would be prove to be unreliable in light of so many subpar punches and very basic schemes. For Will, who added in a handful of nice rebuttals in the match and clearly did his research on his opponent, ruthlessly mocking Scotty’s rap persona as well as his Proving Grounds loss to Loso throughout the battle, this 30 was well-earned.
Verdict: Ill Will (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Ill Will – “I did this for the money my nigga, I just saved the day, this ain’t even a real meal, this a little cookout, that’s why it’s just a paper plate!”
Recap: The talk here of course, will be Loso finally doing a PG. But here we also find yet another lesson in how getting away from what works for you can put you on the losing end of the stick. As Scotty, loose, witty, entertaining and creative in the 1st round to force a debatable, switches up for a plethora of pedestrian bars and otherwise redundant themes against an opponent, who while hitting consistently with a variety of solid punches and hometown shiners, wasn’t quite on his A-game throughout. For the latter two rounds anyway, it was still Loso by a wide margin for what ended up being a solid win in what was a long-awaited URL debut.
Verdict: Loso (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Loso – “See, the first part of my movie, left an impression on you, adn although it took you a long time to see it, now you know I’m Incredible 2!”
Recap: Scotty’s wit and fiery (“I go everywhere with this stick, you gonna think that I’m flying!”) punches keep this one-rounder close against DNA. But with the NWX spitter already in relax mode with the robe on, for the Houston rapper there just was no beating a sizzling display of sporty schemes, feelgood wordplay and potent punchlines.
Verdict: DNA (W) 1-0
Favorite line: DNA – “I only took this one round ‘cuz I love wreck, you could only afford a sample of DNA…drug test!”
Recap: Squeako and Scotty put on a dope 1-rounder for the 7 Shark Cities battle rap fans with plenty of boastful shiners, spicy punchlines, rigid name flips and witty personals mixed in. Consistently nice on both sides, it’s the slightly more versatile and haymaker-lit Squeako who gets the edge here.
Verdict: Squeako (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Squeako – “When your mom’s used to say look both ways before you cross…well I’m the streets she was talking about!”
Recap: Crazy Proving Grounds matchup between Houston’s Scotty and Jersey’s Dre Dennis with too many dope bars to list here. Close throughout, this battle comes down to slightly less filler and more hitting (“This the nigga that said, ‘who got the best lines, Dre’, that’s a Victoria Secret’, no, you’re lin-ge-rie [lying Dre] that’s some extraordinary reaching!”; “What you rock a x x x x x xl?, some big shit we ain’t never seen, well I’mma give your Big T the best Hollow rounds we’ve ever seen!”) personals from Scotty. Along with rich storytelling lines and more condensed/fire (“I’m trying to kill me a nigga, I’m thinking like one of these cops today”) bars in rounds 1 and 3, despite Dennis’ litany of festive performance (“Everybody claim they got guns, but me?, I really bang mine…[extends arm] BOW!!!, the impact will knock the beans offa ya man’s hang time!”) bars, a stupendous 2nd round, nice wordplay, pouty name flips and jaunty (“…you can’t top Official, so you gonna brawl with Double D?!”) punchlines throughout, a little more consistency on the side of the kid from H-Town gets him the win.
Verdict: Scotty (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Dre Dennis – “Growing up, we had to choose one of three choices just to pass and go forward, it was either squeeze gats or move PCP or weed packs taking orders, it was like the beginning of Pokemon when we was back on the corner, cuz we ain’t know to pick the flame, grass or the water!”
Recap: D.O.T. and Houston’s Scotty hash it out on The TrapNY stage and leave with a split. Round one sees Scotty get off to a robust start with speakeasy (“Don’t point between numbers, ya name D.O.T. not decimal!”) reprimands and rich (“You got it before it came out, damn I’m leaking this pistol!”) gun speils that made their point. Howeverm they’re they’re matched by D.O.T.’s aggressive wordplay, lofty (“I’m trying to catch a Goofy-ass slipping, like Disney On Ice!”) punchlines and urban street theatrics. Second round is an easy dub for Scotty as his punches and schemes continue to hit and land with more than enough (“They don’t know what to do with Scott, well I’m a talk this game till I die, I’m Stuart Scott!”) heat to take out what was a pretty inconsistent turn from his opponent. But thanks in part to a lethargic round from Scotty, D.O.T. gets back to basics and takes the round with steadier wordplay and relentless (“They gonna be moaning by your coffin, y’all know I hate deadbeats, [well] tell ya mama I was trying to box somethin’!”) shiners that left a huge mark and gave him a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: D.O.T. – “Neck shot, they ain’t gonna do shit but watch you bleed out, what’s that tough act ’bout, .38 snub nose, plus it’s one in the snout, all them niggas know all that acting will make a nigga like me, act out!”
Recap: A lot of gassin’ for the hometown spitter (“He tried to run, well that was a no go, I stretch the back of his head like the Patriots logo!”) Scotty and a slightly close 2nd round, but other than that JC’s usual assortment of exquisite wordplay, righteous name flips and at times fanatical (“Fuck is you fooling?, you don’t let off one pump, every cartridge that come with your gun…say Duck Hunt!”) gun bars does the job and it’s yet another win for the kid from Yak-town.
Verdict: JC (W) 3-0
Favorite line: JC -“A shot to the back will make his heart go out to his family…,my condolences!”
