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Chef Trez defeats Showoff

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Recap: Chef Trez versus Showoff. Security guard verssus security guard. ARP interrupting battles as usual…it’s all there for 3 rounds on RBE and it was a dope one. Showoff, aggressive, boastful and gritty as usual with his trademark ‘lingo’, delivered a standout performance with a gang of bodaciosu street raps, some sizzling wordplay, a couple of fire rebuttals, some straight ‘talking to’ personals (esp. in round 3) and a boatload of steely punches. While Trez, battling on RBE for the first time in awhile, came through with a shitload of fire punchlines, crazy name flips, hard-hitting personals, spicy schemes and of course, a handful of head-ringimg rebuttals. All in all, another ‘Blue room’ goodie, but at the end of the day it’s the more consistently-lit and haymaker-friendly Trez who manages to take all 3 rounds to score a shutout.

Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Chef Trez – “Quit bluffing, nigga all that tough seem fake, with that same blade I’ll pick ya side, we running screenplays!”

Rosenberg Raw defeats Showoff

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Recap: Against a brash, but highly perplexing and inconsistent Showoff who clearly came into this RBE battle with the wrong game plan, Rosenberg Raw spouts a gang of bullish barbs, mocking personals, righteous mayhem/gun bars and stinging storytelling bars/punchlines to score a 30 in a bout that was pretty one-sided from jump.

Verdict: Rosenberg Raw (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Rosenberg Raw – “Wasn’t Ah Di Boom your best friend in the world?, that’s unbelievable, he said he wasn’t a snitch then called him a snitch when it inconvenienced you!”

J. Murda defeats Showoff

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Recap: 2nd round KOTD Grand Prix tourney between two battlers, Showoff and J. Murda, who happen to close friends outside the sport, doesn’t quite live up to the hype (the personal’s weren’t as detailed as one might’ve liked), but does stay competitive with Show’s aggression and rigid wordplay (esp. in round 2) matching the heat from Murda’s gritty name flips and hardbody punches enough for the two to split things going into the 3rd. And while the final round was a bit underwhelming as well, it’s the rebuttal-tossing, ever-wily and more punch-heavy Murda who handily takes it in the end.

Verdict: J. Murda (W) 2-1

Favorite line: J. Murda – “You said I was the devil on ya shoulders Show, and that’s why you fuck with me, then turned around and told nigga’s flight your demons, so they threw you in front of me!”

Showoff defeats Bonnie Godiva

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Recap: Close KOTD Grand Prix tourney battle here with Bonnie Godiva flexing throughout via stinging personals, rigid name flips and some piercing punchlines, while opponent Showoff stayed lit with the gritty wordplay, boastful barbs and caustic themes/personals. A battle with an air of congeniality seeing as the two seem to be friends outside the ring, after a punch-heavier and more consistently hitting Bonnie took the 1st round, a less convoluted Showoff would step it up with the well-aimed personal and knee-deep verbal hijinks to edge both of the latter rounds for the win.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Showoff – “I be in knots when you talk about toolie gripping, but all jokes aside, yo Bon, you do be wigging!”

Mackk Myron defeats Showoff

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Recap: Apparently forgotten in ShowOff’s criticism here of Mackk Myron being strictly a dope puncher was just how witty and scathing with the personals Mackk can be. I mean, just ask Loso, who in Mackk’s recent battle against A. Ward, took a huge brunt of Mackk’s deceitful wit just for standing on the sideline to cheer his boy on. So while Showoff’s visceral gun bars and flexing wordplay made for a competitive battle here against Mackk (as well as a debatable 2nd round), Mackk’s underrated and versatile pen would eventually win him the day. The Pontiac, MI, rapper using a variety of stinging punchlines and raucous name flips to take round 1, before edging a pretty dope turn by his opponent with a rampant mix of performance-heavy bars, mocking personals and piercing punchlines in round 3 for the win.

Verdict: Mackk Myron (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Mackk Myron – “This nigga be like [sings] ‘My name is Sh-oh-oh-off!’, and you know what’s funny?, they support dude…pussy if you sing in a battle you’ll sing in a courtroom!”

Loso and ShowOff [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Entertaining battle between ShowOff and Loso features costume changes, high-energy faith-based raps, disrespectful Christian rebukes, fiery personals, lofty punchlines and aggressive testimonials on everyday struggles. All said, a competitive battle that saw a more well-versed and more consistent Loso take the 1st round, before ShowOff comes back with a high-grade, fanatical round that beat a less effective turn by Loso while earning Show a split going into the 3rd. That final round saw ShowOff literally go bad preacher mode, while staying downright disrespectful with a slew of otherworldly darts and unkind (“I’m killing you, and I don’t care if nobody care, ‘cuz on some real shit, I don’t even believe nobody there!”) pontifications that would make an atheist proud. On the other hand, a more personal-driven and punch-heavy Loso, confident in his raps throughout the battle, would, despite a few pedestrian bars here and there, match ShowOff’s efficacy with a pretty solid enough round to make this one a debatable.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Loso – “[He] the type to be like ‘Where was God at 9/11?’, nigga the same place ya left him on 9/10 and 9/12!”

O-Red defeats Showoff

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Recap: Like attempting a 3-pointer when your team’s already up 20 with a minute left in the 4th quarter, as shown here in a deciding 3rd round of what was for the most part a fire matchup versus an efficient and wordplay/punch-heavy, but not always potent Showoff, O-Red goes a little overboard on the extra bars in taking down his opponent. Still, besides a slip-up midway through the 2nd round and an elongated but consistently spicy 3rd, it was a pretty impressive and versatile showing from Red, who used gritty punchlines, aggressive heaters, some fly wordplay, a nifty translation, well-researched personals and some potent schemes to highlight a 1st and 3rd round that were both littered with haymakers for the win.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 2-1

Favorite line: O-Red – “And since you brought up my son, you know what?, all of your kids can get murked for what you talking bro, your oldest son [Bwoh!] to the neck, I mute his audio, your youngest son [Bwoh!] to the chest, reduce his cardio and then Bow’s [Bwoh’s!] will take your Princess from you, shoot for Omarion [more of you]!”

Showoff defeats Saint Mic

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Recap: Two crazy pen’s go at it on the WeGoHard stage and besides a disjointed 2nd round by Showff and too many slip-ups from Saint Mic in the deciding 3rd round, it still made for a close and fiery battle throughout. Round one is edged to Showoff, as despite his opponent having arguably the best line of the round (and perhaps battle), Show’s consistently potent (“Open my closet, a dead body is the only one a nigga found, but it’s a million dollars when I want a nigga now, ‘cuz I’ll leave a body with 6 0’s, I’ll be the 1, 2, calm a nigga down!”) bars, designed to boast his Brooklyn scorecard, set back a very hard and well-crafted turn from Mic who didn’t really heat up till the middle of his round. Second round saw Saint Mic come back to even things out with an intense and loaded (“Yeah, we rapping, Show, but I really came in the box on the low….I’m a date raper!”; “I cruised up, with them ‘matics, blued up, I’m Democratic!”) barfest that was littered with lofty wordplay and swanky gun bars. Going into the 3rd tied with each battler ready to take it, it was anyone’s guess who’d win. But it’s Showoff, after a bit of a slow start, who gets his hand raised in the end, overcoming a superb adn wide-ranged (“You cool on RBE, but to URL you still RPG!”) but gaffe-prone round by Mic to edge the final round with a better flow, steely, (“Midday, that .12 will lift him in the air…that’s how I knew him!”) animated gun lines and rapid heat laced with each dart.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Saint Mic – “You gay, bring a whole new meaning to keeping hammer’s on ya hip, the irony, we all seen Belly and I’m the Obama nigga, yet you the one out here with all the banana on ya lip!”

Showoff defeats Math Hoffa

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Recap: Too easy to speak on all the tension and other nonsense that went down here. But there was so much of it that it needs to be addressed anyway. I say the blame should go down to both rappers-Showoff, for speaking during Math Hoffa’s round and his insbility to control his entourage shouting during Math’s bars. And Math for letting his emotions get the best of him in reaction to some of Show’s more personal and upclose personals. As for the battle itself, I got it coming down to the 3rd round, which saw Show easily take after Math cut his short in an apparent haste to just be done with the battle (or, to be fair, he might’ve choked). Bar and angle-wise the first two rounds were both fire and debatable, what with Math’s going after Show’s alleged sexuality with some intense (“‘Cuz I was on your bucket list, this is where your death start, I heard you suck so much dick, you grew your beard to hide the stretch marks!”) flair and (“You a faggot and I’m a legend, you more like Magic’s son!”) savviness. While Show, for the most part, delivered with spitfire (“That shit he write, shitty right?, snuffed Dose, 75 pounds but still ain’t drop him…shitty right!”) wordplay, witty (“You went bald, grew a hairline and went bald right back!”) bars and intense heat. But the 3rd is where Show really stepped it up and won the bout, addressing what he had to know was going to be part of Math’s angle, but also eloquently repping for Brooklyn with elite showmanship and some personals that Math clearly let the world know bothered him a little bit.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Showoff – “You was riding Surf’s dick so much, he don’t need groupies, and then you threw Boom under the bus quick as the Speed movie!”

Showoff defeats Drugz

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Recap: Despite an awkward one-minute pause near the beginning of his round, Showoff still manages to dish enough delicious (“This .9 my favorite meal, I guess that’s why my finger-licking good!”) gun bars and aggressive punchlines to edge a win over a sometimes (“I’m surely inspired, that y’all thought I’d be moved by Omar from The Wire!”) nice, yet inconsistent (but heavily gassed either way) Drugz.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Showoff – “I’m just real nigga that act out and use a name, Drugz an internet nigga, trying to act out his username!”

QB (Black Diamond) defeats Showoff

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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!”

Bigg K Defeats Showoff

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Recap: Here we see the always competitive Showoff impressing with his usual (“Yo Bigg K?, just a bitch that be acting, he Gwyneth Paltrow, one thing y’all need to know about Show I only aim for the head, either put a bullet where his scalp go or face shot, that boy gonna whistle with his mouth close!”; “You a bitch that fear eye contact, you floor watcher!”) vigor, thematic aggression and urban flair–all the while staying away from lazy race angles. But too much filler and the combo of Bigg K, even at an ‘away game’ (when you consider that RBE is his opponent’s main stage), with a steady stream of prideful punchlines, witty (“When you out here it’s ‘Yo son!’, when you go home it’s ‘Yo diirrty!”) jokes/personals, festive (“I’ll [points hand like gun at Show’s head] shoot Show in the basement, Wayne’s World!”) name flips and scheming wordplay proves more than enough to take rounds 1 and 3 along with the win.

Verdict: Bigg K (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Bigg K – “Call me a white devil, say y’all the original man like that’s scaring me, I’ll run you over with a jeep…now your ass half Cherokee!”

Showoff defeats Krillz

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Recap: Krillz had some hot (“Unlike you, I ain’t a singer or a dancer, I’m a rapper nigga, but I will hit the milly rock…and then slap a nigga!”) lines, especially in a fiery 2nd round that allowed him to come from behind and gain a split going into the 3rd. But too many predictable bars from the light-skin dude in the deciding round, along with a way more wordplay-heavy and resilient (“It’s 2016 nigga, who fighting?, fuck punch drunk, I’ll dump him with a K, the K that I’m throwing up, lick a shot, buck it in his face, Punch. Drunk. Throw-up  Lick a Shot. Bucket in his Face!”) Showoff allowed for Brooklyn to one-up Jersey here.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Showoff- “Oh, you thought I’d take you light, here’s bars that you don’t deserve, poetry, watch I get to snapping after these spoken words!”

ShowOff defeats Jai

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Recap: Plenty of lyrical showmanship in this 3-round battle from RBE between Jai and ShowOff, which sees the two split the first couple of rounds, both of which were adept on wordplay with your resident mayhem, aggressive boasts and even a few personals mixed in. And while both battlers spit some solid punches and flexed some versatility in the deciding 3rd round, ShowOff’s more pointed personals and deft execution with the bars stood out a little more, thus giving him the win.

Verdict: ShowOff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: ShowOff – “I’m the same one hated by those who show me hell of love, bald head stay with a Shotgun…meet Elmer Fudd!”

Arsonal defeats Showoff

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Recap: In this highly contested and pretty tense 3-rounder, Arsonal somehow survives a trio of slip-ups (one in round 1 and a couple in round 2), a heated, but also hilarious back-n-forth with the RBE league owner ARP in the middle round and an aggressive and wordplay-friendly opponent in Showoff who clearly came to win. But while Showoff’s raucous street rhymes and often rapid-fire delivery raps scored here and there, overall his bar profiency was severely lacking, which in turn would benefit Arsonal. And while da Rebel struggled at times with his flow and had quite a bit of subpar bars himself, a spirited and multi-facated bag of disrespectful shiners, shrewd wordplay, righteous darts/punchlines and hard-hitting/witty personals would get him enough points/haymakers to edge rounds 1 and 3 for the win.

Verdict: Arsonal (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Arsonal – “Middle of the winter I’m on your porch with my coat off, ‘Knock Knock’ your mother open the door, I open-handed the bitch with a snowball!”

Show Off defeats E-City

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Recap: Newcomer E-City makes a name for himself with some nice name (“You wanna be a star, but you’ll never be a celebrity Show!”) flips and hard (“For you to Access Hollywood, you gotta blow like TNT, but I’m embarrassing you on cam, like TMZ!”) punches that landed well in this one-rounder against the favored Show Off. But too many average bars and lackluster setups from the Massacre Battle Association emcee couldn’t hold their weight when faced against Show’s aggressive performance bars, dope (“You a walking contradiction, like a white Latin King!”) lines/schemes and fiery wordplay.

Verdict: Show Off (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Show Off – “You talked all that you was gonna beat me shit…knock it off, my bars got your bitch on my dick, she will knock it off!”

Ill Will defeats Show Off

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Recap: As expected, plenty of vigor, steel-gripping lines and haymakers were dropped in this RBE battle between Show Off and Ill Will. First round sees Will score in bunches with plenty of neat name (“When that Mac pat him on the back, I ain’t showing Show showmanship!”) flips, bully bars, a stellar delivery and crazy performance (“If I go back behind my back two times, it’s gonna look like a Chris Paul meme”).lines. And while Show Off matched Will in performance, aggression (“On Big Mama, ya Soul Food, when it look like I pull from a round my Nia [need a] Long gauge”) and jaw-dropping (“I claim a .9 like it’s tax season!”) wordplay, his elongated round contained slightly more filler than his opponent’s as well as a couple of bars that didn’t hit quite as hard as they were delivered, giving the edge to Will. 2nd round saw Will continue to stay on top, mixing it up with steady hooks along with an added dose of witty (“Matter fact if anything pop off on this stage, I’m Qleen Paper after he get paid, I will knock [not] Show up!”) bars and rich personals. no doubt, Show Off dropped some (“I do dirt by my lonely, fuck a homie, 3 can keep a secret as long as two are dead”) gems during his turn, but too much roundabout pontificating and so-so-bars cost him any chance at winning the round. Crowd noise interrupted the final round, but still both battlers proved that they had plenty left in their tanks (Ill Will: “I told my young dog ‘Toy Story’, that mean lay everything down like when Andy walked in!”; Show Off: “I don’t just take ’em, i drop jewels”) while allowing Show Off to avoid a 3-0 sweep with more versatility bar-wise.

Verdict: Ill Will (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ill Will – “You gonna die my the Smif, but we brought the Sub in for the kids like Real deal called in sick!”

Showoff defeats Bangz

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Recap: First off, I have no idea where the Showoff/Tsu Surf comparisons keeps coming form because they really do not sound alike at all. Secondly, Showoff’s stylistic wordplay and fiery gun (“Left this body with nothing but holes, I borrowed Goldie’s mac”) bars easily got him the 1st round and edged him the 2nd here in this entertaining matchup versus Bangz. Lastly, while Bangz has plenty of charisma along with some hot (“I’ll grip the pipe or you’ll get the knife, I figure full pizza, ff you could give a buck, you could get a slice!”) bars, the hometown fans were clearly gassing up some of his lines at times and one can only hope that that shit Daylyt started with the collection cap getting passed around gets deaded quick by more promoters/battle league owners taking care of their performers pockets.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Showoff – “You the type to let outsiders come in and take over your land, you the 1st type of nigga”

Showoff defeats J Leggs

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Recap: Judging from the animated (“For thinking you the best, my bars will send you back home in a grave, [Pow!] that’s how you fly South West!”) bars, drips of sweat and constant aggression there’s no doubt that J Leggs was extra hype for this battle against Showoff. Plus, it’s hard to beat that real talk Leggs was spitting in round 3, which he won partly because of Showoff’s choke. But all that still wasn’t enough to beat two rounds of consistently dope wordplay, a sanguine delivery and uncompromising (“You a mark, in the flesh, like tribal status”) bars from the visiting team.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Showoff –  “Back to bubbling water, that was a Gremlin line”

Show Off defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: “Wordplay?” Nigga my words ain’t to played with!” LOL!!! Despite Swave Sevah making his presence felt with ‘new niggas’ affirmations, heavy name flips and aggressive bars, it wasn’t enough to beat Show Off’s gritty (“That’s why I decided to earth you, the led will blow, hella smoke, do you greasy, you old, live, all you see is glasses in the air, that’s a wedding toast”) polemics, self-deprecating (“I’m crazy, fit for what’s in store like I be shopping with Rex”) jokes, hitting personals and flat-out (“I run up on Swave with one arm cocked, he die comfortably only because he was raised that way”) haymakers. Credit to Swave for going with the direct approach dipped with biting tutorials throughout, but thanks in part to a shortened round 2 and some flat bars, yet mostly due to Show Off’s bouyant package, performance and delivery, the young’un decidedly took the first couple of rounds and with that the win.

Verdict: Show Off (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Show Off “‘How’ and ‘Who’ got the same letters, don’t question me Swave”

Showoff defeats Blaksmif

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Recap: Showoff more than makes up for his disappointing PG battle against Brizz Rawstein with a consistent and more focused performance against a quality opponent in Blaksmif. Both started off hot in the 1st round, a (Blaksmif: “You still fucking those dirty birds? grow up, that shit that that bitch be squirting look like throw up”; Showoff: “Tell his mother that Plan B should’ve been Plan one”) barfest of machismo rhymes, jokes and elevated wordplay. Come round two Blaksmif was still firing some heat, the “foundation when we land cum [come]” line serving as the highlight, but not delivering enough hard bars to keep the momentum he earned from round one. On the other hand Showoff stayed hot with mean performance (“I’m two-stepping with a snub nose, I let a bullet dance”) bars, festive wordplay and all-too-gritty punchlines. Last round the bout stayed close with Blaksmif snapping away, but only landing a couple of haymakers, whereas Showoff continued to well….show off, using just enough “lingo flips”, schemes and punches to edge this one at the finish line.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Showoff – “I got kids, we call those re-spon-si-bilities, headshot, he gonna lose his response ability!”

Showoff defeats Ab Eaze

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Recap: Not the best showing by Showoff what with a couple of near slip-ups. but he makes up for it by maintaining his flow and dropping some nice schemes along with stifling wordplay which over the course of this one-round matchup, was enough to beat Ab Eaze’s consistently basic punchlines.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Showoff – “He ain’t been cooked yet, fuck that’s supposed to make him, raw?”

Showoff defeats Hazey Williams

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Recap: Don’t know what happened to Hazey Williams here, because after pretty much bodying (“Leave him alone? I’ll lend an arm to raise a stock then [Stockton] leave him alone [Malone]”) Showoff with steady name flips and hot performance bars in round 1, it’s like he just gave up, coming light in round 2 and just stopping in the middle of round 3. Not that Showoff didn’t step it up and straight spazz in the latter rounds here, but the way this battle just did a 180 so quick is kinda weird.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Hazey Williams – “I got a 9 to 5 and sell weed on my lunch break”

Showoff defeats Tre Awthenicc

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Recap: Speed rap is cool, but when it gets to the point that people are having a hard time understanding your bars, you might wanna slow it down a little bit. I got Showoff edging rounds 1 and 3 here, but Tre Awthenicc definitely has bars and could be somebody to look out for in the future if he goes 55 instead of 90 and adds more dimensions to his raps.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Showoff – “Are you moving rock? Cuz’ from the looks of it nigga you don’t get no cash…without a doubt you gotta quit showing out Roscoe Dash”

Brizz Rawsteen defeats Show Off

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Synopsis: In this PG matchup between Brizz Rawsteen and Show Off, Brizz boasts the versatility with exquisite bars (“It’s ’bout to get live as shit, what I’m giving you ain’t a compliment, I’ll split your frame and take you outta the picture without cropping it”), nice schemes.and a top-notch performance to match. It’s a new jack primer that deftly displays who’s ready for the big stage and who (consider Show Off’s choke in round 2) isn’t quite there yet.

Verdict: Brizz Rawsteen (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Brizz Rawsteen – “His last battle he had on leather pants with zippers and leather sleeves, looking like he argue with bitches over who got the better weave”

Show Off defeats Dre Dennis

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Recap: Despite a couple of early skip-ups, Dre Dennis does show that he has some bars, but even without the fumbles no way he beats Show Off’s triple latte of dope schemes, fiery punchlines and personals here.

Verdict: Show Off (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Show Off – “Fat nigga, lift pounds off that waist, that’s a diet plan, no y’all ain’t catch it that’s my lingo, if I lift pounds off the waist and he die, it’s planned”

Show Off defeats Dose

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Synopsis: Let’s face it: word is Dose only got his first match with Math Hoffa all those years ago as a last-second replacement. And he only got his rematch with Math because of the infamous punch that got loaded up on that SMACK DVD. In other words, if not for Math would Dose have ever made the URL stage to begin with? Yunno, on skills alone? As this battle shows, probably not.

Verdict: Show Off (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Show Off – “Your bitch call me Quasimodo, that’s my lingo, I’m only known for hump”

M. Ciddy defeats Showoff

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Recap: M. Ciddy may not be a top tier battle rapper (yet), but he’s not a mid-tier either, more like somewhere in-between or better yet, a gatekeeper if you will for the top tiers, which should garner him respect wherever he battles. Like here against an able up-n-comer like Showoff, who had to know that he’d better bring his A-game if he was going to stand a chance against the likes of Ciddy. And barring a couple of minor slip-ups, Showoff does just that with fierce wordplay, name flips, performance bars, potent (“Why do you still write? I mean you had a couple of lines, but you don’t kill mics, made me wish I could fast-forward you in real life”) teasers and earnest bully (“You say my squad brought the singer with them, I give a right hook I ain’t trying to feature with him”) lines. Yet for all of his opponents efforts, M. Ciddy still does him one better with crazy (“Push was outshining you like Malice and Clipse”) personals, ill set-ups, a nice rebuttal in round 3, wordplay (“I’m blacking on the web like Eddie Brock”), aggressive punchlines and flat-out wicked (“We wouldn’t see Show guns with Japan leaders”) bars. A victory for M. Ciddy, but overall one of the better battles of 2013.

Verdict: M. Ciddy (W) 2-1

Favorite line: M. Ciddy – “John Heard you got bars and you probably nice, I let a shot go ‘By!’ [bi] like Wanda Sykes, and take herd out the game, Jumanji dykes [dice]”

Showoff defeats Pep

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Recap: Both Pep and Showoff dish on the usual street semantics with a load of braggadocio lines and gun bars mixed in. However it’s Showoff, styling with some sick wordplay and flexing with some mean schemes, who stunts with more versatility to take this one-rounder.

Verdict: Showoff (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Showoff – “You gonna get that Special Ed helmet, that’s a strap to ya chin!”

prez mafia defeats Show Off

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Recap: One of prez mafia’s best performances. While Show Off stayed with basic “I’m realer that you are and this is why” type bars, prez just snapped, releasing a whole arsenal of fierce wordplay, hard (“Boom told me to get busy when I’m slaying you dog, get wild like six fouls, I ain’t playing no more”) punchlines, personals and hot performance bars that almost had him pulling a bodybag. Indeed, this is the version of prez you expect to see on a more consistent basis.

Verdict: prez mafia (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Show Off – “The reason ya teeth twisted, with that ugly nigga smile, ‘cuz you fucked them up from biting all them other nigga’s styles”

Show Off defeats Ah Di Boom

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Synopsis: Crazy battle with Ah Di Boom and Show Off (“Well go ahead, lurk in them shadows, creep on me, I’ll pop and squeeze it, I’m Posterepedic, sleep on me!”) getting heated and delivering aggressive bars with dope flows and loaded schemes. However, Boom slips up in the 3rd, allowing Show Off to stay banging with the potent bars, come from behind and take the win. Indeed, Show Off’s comeback was so point that you can almost forgive him for pulling a Frank Ocean and singing to another man in round 1.

Verdict: Show Off (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ah Di Boom – “Walk on the scene, throw the shells in my jeans, that’s the definition of hot pockets”

Show Off defeats Push Pax

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Recap: Good battle, liked the aggressive bars, delivery and execution with both, too bad Push Pax saved his best round for his 3rd as I had Show Off edging the 1st and clearly taking the 2nd.

Verdict: Show Off (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Show Off – “And I ain’t spitting B.I.G when I say ‘Gimme the Loot’, like I’ll December 25th ’em, clap, shell from the biscuit fell, blast scorch knock half off, that’s a Christmas sale”

Dubb Da Feenom defeats Showoff

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Recap: When you spend more time writing standard bars to show how real you are instead of making sure you’re prepared, much less doing a little research and providing a little intricacy so you have a shot at beating your opponent, you’re probably going to end up with results like this. As a unprepared Showoff, when he wasn’t dishing mostly pedestrian bars and wasting time going at WeGoHard, chokes away arguably a couple of rounds and loses easily to a way more consistent, witty, aggressive and name-flip savvy Dubb Da Feenom.

Verdict: Dubb Da Feenom (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Dubb Da Feenom – “If you ain’t trying to fight, that’s cool, that’s what them 9’s for, run, bullets hit up your back and leave your spine tore, leave ya body covered in medal like you a cyborg, clap, put an end to that Show, who needs an encore!”

Showoff defeats Brooklyn Carter

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Recap: Showoff uses aggressively rugged, raw and rudimentary bars plus some ill schemes to easily take out an early in his battle career and not-quite-ready-for-primetime Brooklyn Carter, who’s clearly gotten a lot better since this one-round matchup from WeGoHard..

Verdict: Showoff (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Showoff – “I heard the nigga crip, cool, but he put in work for them blood niggas, I asked him ‘Why?’, he replied like a crip ‘Cuz nigga'”