No Bias. No Narratives.
Recap: From TBL, flexing throughout this battle with a boatload boastful barbs, witty personals, stinging name flips, gritty gun bars and well-crafted punchlines, a more versatile and consistently hitting Xcel does more than enough to take rounds 1 and 3 (call round 2 debatable) for the win over an aggressive and piercing at times, but less substantive Snake Eyez.
Verdict: Xcel (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Xcel – “You said I don’t have impact, it don’t matter my guns do!”
Recap: from URL’s Redemption 3 card, one of the best openers in the game, Snake Eyez’s 1st round is nothing but hard-hitting street rhymes, aggression and bullish boasts. But as per usual, the former Dot Mobb head 2nd and 3rd rounds, while remaining gritty, don’t meet up to the sheer intensity and efficiency of his round 1. Thus, the ability of a more versatile, lyrically adept, name flip-crazy, trap talk-lit, set-up/punchline rich and witty with the personals when necessary T-Top to score more haymakers and edge the first round, before handily taking both of the following rounds for the 30.
Verdict: T-Top (W) 3-0
Favorite line: T-Top – “On dating sites, all his pictures got a dark disguise, he gives awkward vibes, and his description says ‘snake skin’ and ‘marble eyes’!”
Recap: In this ‘1-off’ 3-rounder from URL, Ave uses a piercing and electric punch game, fire wordplay throughout and some witty/mocking personals to handily get the 30 over a gritty and aggressive as usual, but not nearly as steadily hitting Snake Eyez.
Verdict: Ave (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Ave – “Fuck is y’all saying?, y’all let him keep playing like he that guy, that’s like homeless nigga’s bragging about ‘I be outside!'”
Recap: Funny how after pushing Snake Eyez halfway across the stage, Coffee Brown expected you to hear whatever bar she uttered in the moment…like we weren’t a little distracted. Anyway, from URL’s ‘Outside 2’ card, while Snake dished his usual assortment of gritty lines and even stepped it up with a boatload of piercing/witty/wicked personals throught this 3-rounder, it’s Ms. Brown’s just as flexing personals, head-ringing gun bars, brash trap talk, hard-hitting punches (that included a dope mid-round rebuttal in round 2) and well-finessed name flips that earns Coffee the 30.
Verdict: Coffee Brown (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Coffee Brown – “If this nigga bump me, he better know what he doing, get [swipes at Snake’s arm] your shoulder cut off…that’s highway improvement!”
Recap: From URL’s ‘Outside’ card, using a gang of nasty schemes that would make Chilla Jones proud, while coupling them with a plethora of slick wordplay, hitting name flips, sneaky but delicous metaphors, spirited gun bars, graphic odes of violence and enough righteous personals to raise the temperature in the room, a steadily bent Tay Roc takes the first couple of rounds here for the win over the ever raucous, in-ya-face punching and street-bar slinging, but less consistent/competitive (esp. during a surprisingly shortened 2nd round) and dry spot prone Snake Eyez before the Harlem rhymeslinger scores with just enough haymakers to edge the 3rd round and avoid the shutout.
Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tay Roc – “You trying to fight? expect the gadget [Inspector Gadget] to come out the coat pocket!”
Recap: While Tsu Surf and all the drama that came with Midnight Madness deserve the majority of praise for getting Twitter Battle Rap Spaces popping since the beginning of the year. Outside of Aye Verb, there’s been a handful of lesser-known names who deserve their kudos too. Namely Stumbles and Snake Eyez, both of whom have recently taken getting online and talking shit, promoting upcoming battles and speaking on potential matchups with fans to new levels (and yeah that even includes Snake Eyez and his manager Tony Bro getting into it with Stumbles’ crew in person before a recent URL event). And while it’s always a stain on battle rap in general when fisticuffs between battlers get exchanged, now it’s only right that these two go at it on the big stage here for URL’s UM5 card. Unfortunately for Snake tho, if he thought he had an advantage coming with Stumbles becoming notorious for choking, that wouldn’t be the case here. As the Springfield, MA battler, clearly confident, stepping and motivated to beat his longtime adversary, was able to dish 3 clean and crispy rounds of slick punchlines, real street talk, witty/hard-hitting personals and steely gun bars to beat back a gritty-as-usual and aggressive, but in this bout, too often topsy-turvy Snake for a well-earned 30.
Verdict: Stumbles (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Stumbles – “I wanted the money, you wanted the belt, this is what you asked for, y’all had me fighting Jake the Snake in that ring…but I was worried about the bag more!”
Recap: From Hoc Rap Battle League, a surprising amount of witty personals from both battlers makes this 3-round Cortez vs. Snake Eyez even more entertaining. Yet, after the two split (had the heavier-punching Cortez taking round 1 before a harder-hitting and Spanglish-lit Snake took the 2nd), Tez’s continually fiery braggadocios lines, mocking personals and hard street rhymes in the final round added up to a gang of haymakers that coupled with a short and mostly pedestrian turn by Snake gives the Brooklyn capo the win.
Verdict: Cortez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Cortez – “Nigga’s swear they Hardcore ain’t never get their belt took!”
Recap: There’s no denying that Midnight Madness (with a pugnacious assist from Twitter Spaces) has provided a competitive lift to battle rap and this much heralded matchup between Nu Jerzey Twork and Snake Eyez pushes the case as both battlers get busy throughout with a plethora of hard, aggressive rhymes and fiery personals laced with all sorts of steely command and mocking tones. A battle that also provided a rudimentary backdrop of Twork coming off a choke in his last bout and Hardcore belt champ Snake (who didn’t put the belt on the line here) participating in a brawl when we last saw him, stayed close throughout even while NJT rapped longer than his opponent for all 3 rounds. Still, after a crazy dope-on-both-sides, but debatable round 1 Twork’s more direct heaters, gang of gritty punchlines, wicked gun bars/schemes and head-ringing haymakers would edge him both of the latter rounds the win over over Snake’s often raucous, but not as steadily hitting punches.
Verdict: Nu Jerzey Twork (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Nu Jerzey Twork – “Fuck you being locked up, you not tough, I don’t wanna hear no jail stories from the top bunk!”
Recap: Embracing his sight disability with both self-deprecating and fiery bars, but most of all impressing throughout with an aggressive and flexing punch game that also contained a slew of witty/hard-hitting personals and boastful barbs, a long-winded at times, but consistently lit Snake Eyez handily takes this RBE 3-rounder from a solid and gritty, but overmatched Dev The Demon.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “You a pair of shorts at the 99 cent store…no pockets!”
Recap: Pretty much taking round 1 off to kick back, get his feet wet and let the Detroit crowd know that he’s in town, Snake Eyez quickly gets back to form in the latter rounds while using a consistent barrage of fiery name flips, some stinging wordplay/schemes, steely punchlines, witty personals and boastful barbs to take both turns and get the win over a raucous and consistently hitting in the opener, but topsy-turvy with the punches in the proceeding rounds Times.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “How our stats natch?, you already failed with errors, it don’t matter how hard you hit, you ain’t gonna take Detroit to the promise land…you Miguel Cabrera!”
Recap: From KOTD, liked Dot Everything’s meandering flow/wordplay and the fact that he’s a stickler for non-personals. But a 3rd round choke from Dot and a Snake Eyez on his A-game with an aggressive, consistent and gritty mix of fiery punchlines, dope name flips and bruising gun bars leaves Mr. One Eye Willy with the 30.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “Remember when ya mama told you mind ya business while she talking?, Everything ain’t meant to be heard!”
Recap: If only Bad Newz could match his heat and aggression with more consistently hitting punches more often. Indeed, his battle rap career could be on a much different path. Because when Newz lands his haymakers, more often than not they shake the room due to the Bronx-to-ATL rapper’s sheer intensity and steely set-up ability. That being the case, taking advantage of a Snake Eyez who was a bit too bent on rundown Dot Mobb personals when he wasn’t spitting a gang of aggressive, but lukewarm darts in the opening rounds, a more momentous, brazen, at times wordplay/name flip-lit and personal/street-savvy Newz gets the win in this 3-round, crowd-audacious from Bullpen before Snake would get his comeuppance in a fire and steady-hitting 3rd to edge the final round and avoid the 30.
Verdict: Bad Newz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Bad Newz – “You know you can’t believe nuthin’ that come outta Snake’s lips, them bitches tongues is split!”
Recap: A battle 3 years in the making, Snake Eyez versus Geechi Gotti, finally takes place on Gotti’s ‘The Riot’ league and while the final score might not be indicative, for the most part it’s a goodie. The ever-aggressive and raucous Snake, amped up from jump for a battle he’s long wanted, came through with a hardbody and personal/punch-heavy 1st round that seemed to provide proof that he’d be on his A-game throughout the battle. Yet, a more condensed, witty, brazen, metaphor-rich, personal-lit and spitfire turn by Gotti would not only edge Smake’s stellar opening round, but would lead to a battle that was on its way to being a classic, to becoming tense at times and bar-wise, pretty ordinary. Snake, seemingly bothered throughout the battle at the ‘gas’ his opponent was receiving, would let the crowd effect his game plan, often talking through Gotti’s raps, stunting unnecessarily and while his latter two rounds were cold at times, spoke up for Harlem and delivered a talking too when it came to the personals, overall nothing Snake could produce would equal what he dished in the 1st. Meanwhile, confident throughout the battle with an Afro-pick in hand to back his swag, Gotti just kept impressing, scoring with more ‘one eye’-jokes, systematic breakdowns on Snake’s inability to reach top tier status, that ever-ready gang talk, freestyles and piercing punchlines that more often hit than not for the win.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “But don’t you still live with your pops?, you gonna fuck around and get your daddy clapped, weird ass think he an official Crip just because he handicapped!”
Recap: Plenty of fire moments in this gritty 3-rounder from RBE between Snake Eyez and Heavy Half (who replaced Head Ice for this match) with the Chicago rhyme-slinger throwing some fiery shots at URL while defending his home RBE turf when he wasn’t spouting a gang of rigid name flips, hitting gun bars and flexing punchlines throughout the battle. Snake Eyez, however, took it up a notch during his turns. The Harlem battler not only scoring with his usual mix of prison life exploits, but also tossing in a slew of spicy wordplay, piercing name flips, boastful darts and hardbody punches to make for a debatable 1st round, before taking the 2nd round and edging the 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “I said little nigga, be happy for this card you on, Omarion…Ice Box!”
Recap: No slight to Rosenberg Raw, who’s super-witty (“When they knocked that fucking pupil out your head, you was traumatized!”) personals on Snake Eyez’s eyes stood out throughout this battle and kept things close. But if not for Snake Eyez kicking a gritty and hardbody, but elongated 1st round, this would’ve been a 3-0. And Snake almost getting a 30 just speaks to a highly versatile and potent punch game here as whether it was aggressive darts that more than hit their mark or a strong scheme presence, piercing gun bars, capable defenses of common Dot Mobb narratives, stinging name flips or random, but (“A bitch told me your belly stink!”) humorous anecdotes that had the crowd buzzing, Snake’s 1st appearance on the RBE stage was a stellar one. Rosenberg, on the other hand, when he efficiently showing off his funny bone, just didn’t have too much to offer outside of the usual Dot Mobb jokes, resident name flips and bully themes we’ve all heard before. So edge the 1st round to a way more condensed Raw before Snake, with an almost flawless 2nd round and a more potent 3rd took the latter two rounds for the win.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “Fat nigga, I’ll clap, leave Rose on his stomach!”
Recap: Dope 3-rounder from Bullpen between Clone and Snake Eyez stays close throughout with a fiery barrage of piercing punchlines, fiending name flips, rugged gun lines and witty barbs from each side. But after Snake takes the 1st round with an aggressive and more prolific on haymakers turn, a 2nd round that saw both battlers spout an equal amount of steady heat and punch-heavy theatrics is edged by a more condensed and personal-lit Snake Eyez. A more potent and consistent Clone avoids the shutout by taking the 3rd.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “I don’t understand how you ever been booked but this how a veteran cook your bitch keep asking me how my scheduling look, when you get home, ask her do she miss me, John Wick 3, I’m a make arrangements for her neck to get booked!”
Recap: Open question: when Chef Trez does a 1-round battle, how much does his opponent’s chances of winning go up, knowing that if Trez loses the coin flip, they can take away his rebuttal game by picking him to go first? An opponent confident enough in his pen would probably disagree, but I’d say it does. That said, putting aside the crowd-pleasing moment of Brizz Rawsteen coming to the stage just as the ever brazen Snake Eyez just happened to mention his name, there really wasn’t much to see here as even without the ability to dish any of them thangs, assisted by Snake starting his round off strong before it became too Tay Roc-centered (and lyrically subpar towards the end), a way more versatile, gun bar-slinging, punch/wordplay-heavy, personal-lit and consistent Trez takes this one easy.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “And you could miss me with the stories about how you was eating in jail, ‘cuz I was locked in like a SIM card, calling shit, the most important piece in a cell!”
Recap: Surprisingly, plenty of wit displayed during this battle between the normally gritty, gun-a-blazing and rambunctious Snake Eyez and Shotgun Suge. A stretch in versatility aside tho, also unexpected was a usually steady his bars Snake Eyez struggling with his flow, especially during an erratic 1st round that the Dot Mobb member would later apologize for. Still, with Shotgun Suge spouting an almost unbeatable and consistently spitfire with the punches 1st round and continuing his amped up flair for stifling personals/name flips, rich metaphors, jaunty bully bars and brazen punchlines in the 2nd round to beat back a pretty solid, but less condensed and not as potent turn by Snake, this battle was over before a 3rd round that while dope lyrically on both sides, still gets edged to Suge thanks to one more haymaker as well as Snake’s choppy flow.
Verdict: Shotgun Suge (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Shotgun Suge – “You know why you don’t get booked?, because it’s an automatic loss when you roll the dice on Snake!”
Recap: Recall the slick way Snake Eyez called out Mike P during his Ryda battle, thus setting up a potential goodie that this One Off from URL certainly turned out to be. Aggressive on both ends and a close bout throughout, while Mike’s penchant for ill set-ups, speedy, but unorthodox punches and rich similes were on point as usual, some mediocre punchlines/name flips here and there would hurt him in the long run. Those misdeeds along with a consistently hard-hitting with the street missives, personal-lit, wordplay-spicy, set-up friendly and yes, surprisingly funny at times Snake Eyez managing to light the room up with a versatile effort that would lead to the Harlem capo edging rounds 1 and 2 for the vic, before a rousing 3rd round on both sides gets scored a debatable.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “I really had to dance with devil’s, you was in the crib playing Rock Band, I was outside holding heavy metal!”
Recap: A real lively and lengthy one here as Ace Amin and Snake Eyez meetup for about an hour on the URL Summer Impact card for 3 rounds of fiery punchlines, pushing and shoving, Gooonie/Dot Mobb/Cave Gang drama, chain tossing, gangly street missives, prison war stories, stinging gun bars, gritty personals and piercing name flips. A couple of high energy battlers who both need to work on their professionalism and temperament’s when on stage, in the face of an elongated, a bit filler-prone and at times redundant-with-the-mayhem Snake Eyez in the first two rounds, a more condensed and crowd-controlling Ace’s ability to consistently bomb on his opponent with repeated 2-bar bangers, witty barbs, some fierce wordplay and mocking personals allows the DMV emcee to take the first two rounds for the win before a righteous and electric 3rd by both Ace and Snake gets scored a debatable here.
Verdict: Ace Amin (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ace Amin – “Listen duke, do you think that going to prison is something more than something I had to do?, I’m not proud of it, I don’t even want the URL listing ‘Convictions’ as one of my attributes!”
Recap: Prez Mafia’s battle rap career has been filled with so much drama off the stage that coming up with dope personals on him shouldn’t be hard for any opponent. But in this 1-rounder from Kill Switch Battle League, Snake Eyez doesn’t just come at Prez’s neck with the personal stuff, but also a trip through Spanish Harlem that included some quality Spanglish, mocking schemes/punches and shout-out’s to past Harlem legends. That along with aggressive/bullish punchlines aimed at taking out Prez’s soul made for a pretty solid battle even with Prez rapping too short. Yet with all the haymakers Snake was dishing, it’s a clear win for Dot Mobb.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “It’s all gimmicks, he not live, get in here rapping in the voice he don’t talk with outside!”
Recap: Snake Eyez uses gritty schemes, a host of salacious punchlines and sizzling gun bars to easily take out a loud, but low-grade GL in this 1-rounder from Gates of the Garden.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “I’m not the one to test, like Grandma making cake in the kitchen, watch where you step!”
Recap: Outside of Hitman Holla, Ave, Glueazy, Charron and Pat Stay, I can’t think of anyone who consistently brings stellar 1st rounds like Snake Eyez does. And here against Jai 400 Block, the Dot Mobb soldier does it again with an uber-gritty, street-gripping and (“Beasley, last time my money transfer wasn’t convenient so tonight I’m a make Jai pay [Jpay]!”) punchline-ringing opening round that would’ve beaten almost anybody…if not for being elongated, containing one too many Shotgun Suge references and a just-as-spitfire, punch-lit, name flip/personal-spazzing, mayhem-slinging, witty and condensed turn by Jai which forced a tie. The latter two rounds, however, were both pretty cut and clear with a versatile Jai dropping rugged haymakers with reckless abandon to easily beat back a mostly pedestrian turn by Snake before a strong start by Jai in the 3rd round is ruined thanks in part to a midway slip-up which led to a subpar latter half of the round. On the other hand, Snake would get back on his grind in the final round with a barrage of more piercing personals, when he wasn’t delivering more of that epic street shit along with daunting punchlines that earned him the round and made the battle a draw.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Jai 400 Block – “If I ride out and you try to hide out that’s just gonna get ya mother touched, bullets will tattoo ya face, a closed casket will be the cover up!”
Recap: Now we’re pulling out snakes for props?!? I don’t know. Might’ve worked better if Bedaffi Green had applied a couple of bars to it, instead of waiting till the end of his turn to pull it out. Still, that was one big-ass snake and while this sizzling 1-rounder had Snake Eyez rapping nearly twice as long as his equally aggressive and fiery opponent, a slightly more consistent Snake, with a plethora of hardbody punches, hitting personals, stinging set-ups, fire schemes and stifling gun bars, gets his hand raised for what was an elongated, but impressive 1st time appearance on We Go Hard.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “What you gonna talk about, how my eye wander nigger?, well that shit ain’t gonna save you from this loss, and at the same time it let’s you know I’m good in these streets, ‘cuz I could look both ways, so don’t cross!”
Recap: A pair of gritty, hardbody battlers, Snake Eyez and a rarely seen Brooklyn Hanz, go at it for 3 rounds on the 7Cities Sharks stage and results are a bit mixed with Snake at his gulliest, (“You stopping cabs Brooklyn?, because that’s the only time we see Hanz [hands] waving!”) name-fliiping, scheme-savvy best dishing raunchy punches with consistent flair to beat back an aggressive, but less potent Hanz in the first. Things would flip a bit in the latter rounds, however, with a more condensed Hanz stepping up his game by adding a bit of wit to his bullish repertoire, thus forcing a debatable 2nd round with a sometimes fire, but less consistent Snake, before Hanz edges the 3rd over what was a pretty uneven turn from his opponent.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Brooklyn Hanz – “You certified when your OG’s reference me!”
Recap: Yunno, this talking through someone’s round thing needs to be taken more seriously. Most professional battle rappers already have a hard enough time remembering their raps for the ring and add to that an often noisy crowd and/or entourages that could throw you off at any moment, the idea that Th3 Saga (even tho he was complimentary) would dismiss an important unspoken rule like that and talk throughout Snake Eyez’ raps, just did his opponent and the battle itself a disservice. That said, even without getting too spiritual or biblical in this battle, Saga’s consistently fire punchlines, fiery name flips, righteous gun (!?!) lines, God-body screeds and deft wordplay gets him rounds 1 and 3 here to get him a win over a solid Snake Eyez, who while gritty and flexing with his bars as is his m.o., just wasn’t able to bring the consistent heat and unforced wit that you normally see from the Harlem rapper.
Verdict: Th3 Saga (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Th3 Saga – “Leg shot, made his ACL stop, Broadway Junction!”
Recap: Judging from his smile’s and head nod’s of approval throughout the battle, you just knew that Snake Eyez kicked the kind of shit that the veteran Math Hoffa likes: gritty street bars, flexing punchlines/gun bars, steady in-ya-face aggression and little to nothing when it came to the resident name flips Math normally hears. However, after splitting the first two rounds with Math, Snake’s elongated rounds, quixotic personals and lastly, a surprise tag-in by Hoffa’s ex, Bonnie Godiva, would slowly lead to his downfall. First Hoffa, who has struggled with keeping his flow together of late, managed to stay in his bag with enough witty barbs, potent personals, steely bully/gun (“I’ll raise these two arms and have them kicking like a musty nigga!”) semantics, nicer angles and haymakers to edge a more condensed round 1, before a solid round 2 is only edged by Snake having the (“Morgan Freeman, Mountain Dew [claps his hands], I’ll show you how to put a legend on ice!”) best bar of the round. The deciding round 3 is a competitive and a highly entertaining one with both battlers spitting juicy punches, rich performance bars, fiery schemes and visceral (Snake Eyez: “Nigga’s have all those blind jokes, till they eating smushed down pea’s!”) jabs. But after already dishing a hard turn, Snake’s choice to go extra with a blown-up photo prop, unexpectedly getting his Young X on with a ‘Get ‘Em!’ roast session and the aforementioned cameo by Ms. Godiva would backfire as a Hoffa not known for a rebuttal game, would start his turn with a couple of fire (“And as far as Bonnie, you really wanna go the rhyming route?, you taking about eating ass?!, I watch your battles, you got other nigga’s shit coming out your mouth!”) rebuts before seguing into a plethora of nasty written’s, Lux-inspired pontifications and real street banter (altogether a classic turn) to edge the round and take the battle.
Verdict: Math Hoffa (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Math Hoffa – “See, what you do with your battle money, you go buy some clothes, maybe cop you a chain, so ya bum ass could look fly while you hopping the train, nigga, you real corny, for everybody that take care of their kids, that’s real glory, you can’t feed yourself, what you gonna feed a kid, a jail story?!”
Recap: Snake Eyez clearly did his research for this one, using some fiery personals to go along with his usual assortment of gritty punchlines and stinging gun bars to beat a pretty solid throughout, but not near as potent Shawn Hoffa in this dope one-rounder from Showtime Battle Arena.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “When it gets real, keep your lips sealed, or get your shit spilled, puts your hands up little nigga, I wish this bitch will, this right will give you your eye the best cookie ever…Ms. Fields!”
Recap: 3 elongated rounds from Snake Eyez, but nary a bar wasted as the Dot Mobb general puts on a fire and versatile show, dishing straight heat with gritty urban semantics, aggressive bully bars, rich personals and that tough jail shit that you ‘had to be there’ to truly grasp. In the face of Snake’s gripping polemics throughout, Mack Mel still came through with a performance and punch-heavy palette that at times shook the stage, when he wasn’t delivering stinging (“Spine shot [Bhow!], nah y’all too used to that, blade out, drag it down his back like a Yakuza tat!”) punchlines and some casual wit that made this bout competitive, while also edging him the 2nd round. However, after forgetting his bars at the start and almost choking away his entire 3rd round, the newest Goonie member pulled it together and stood tall with a solid, gun-savvy turn that gave him an honest chance at winning. But after getting off to a bit of a slow start in his final round, Snake Eyez, just as he did to take the 1st, used a steady stream of wicked punches, more grandiose (“The clip longer than an O-Red translation!”) heaters and some flexing performance bars to take the deciding 3rd and gain the win.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “Lying all in your raps, I’m with all that tho, you ain’t never been up North, nigga’s trying to get waves off Corcraft soap!”
Recap: Gritty 3-rounder from Pit Fights Battle League finds the visiting Snake Eyez get busy with a gang of bruising/mocking personals, spicy set-ups/punchlines and flexing street missives in a condensed effort that manages to beat back, in each round, a pretty solid, raucous and punch-lit at times, but not as consistently hitting Murda.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “I got a youjg nigga, with a blue face, he’ll bust a shot for me, I’m talking no more than a buck, everybody could get a bag like it’s Dollar Tree!”
Recap: Surely, in lieu of his notorious ‘choke rep’, one could understand the thought of Tone Montana shortening his rounds so much here versus Snake Eyez in order to lessen the risk of choking. But other than a solid and gritty 1st round that while he still lost, displayed some competition, Montana’s condensed turns in the 2nd and 3rd, mixed with few fire punchlines here and there, but also questionable angles and random personals, stood zero chance against a Snake Eyez who consistently came hard throughout his 3 rounds with fierce struggle bars, fiery punches, heated gun bars and potent schemes. But hey, for what it’s worth, at least Tone gave you 3 straight rounds.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “100 in a drum, trying to leave 50 of ’em in you, and leave your body with a smell like Gwitty in the venue!”
Recap: A little shaky with his flow at times, but that still doesn’t stop Snake Eyez from delivering enough consistently spitfire punches and steely set-ups to beat back a solid and witty at times, but too filler-prone Philly Haze in this one-rounder from Bar Warz NY.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “I need answers, you trading in EBT cards, smoking the shit up knowing your kid need pampers!”
Recap: A more versatile, (“You don’t buy no milk, put food in the house, true story, talking crazy, when I’m the reason your son got them new Jordan’s!) personal, condensed and punch-heavy Snake Eyez goes in on a (“It’s ironic how my reach got longer after I ate a thot, now I gotta play Snake games!”) solid, gun-bar heavy, but elongated Eazy the Block Captain, scoring a victory on yet another Philly battler with erstwhile sports bars, flexing wordplay and a steady stream of menacing bully bars.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “Run up on me while I’m leaving, I’m clapping, Larry Bird, ’88 3-point contest…I’m shooting with the jacket!”
Recap: Snake Eyez welcomes Blaq Mugga back to the URL/Smack stage with a heated barrage of feted Philly personals, head-ringing (“I call this smif Stephen A., so we could skip the bullshit and head straight to the Max!”; “Fuck that classic shit, I ain’t having it, you trying to show your townhow you still keeping it real?, well I’m Colin Kaepernick, ‘cuz I ain’t gotta try stand up, I’m knee-deep in the field!”) wordplay and a steady diet of stinging punchlines. All necessary. when taking in account Mugga’s solid and uber-aggressive performance, an execution that especially shined in a well-balanced and forthright (“I’m in Harlem, with a pistol, is this Goofy out his mind?, you better shield if you cross Snake, that’s an Illuminati sign!”) 2nd round. Still, when all was said and done, too bad for Mugga, as an overall solid turn in both rounds 1 and 3 was peaked by Snake’s peak panache and well-oiled pedigree.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “Miss?, never, I could pull a blade, I ain’t gotta let the heat lift, poke one eye out, now you could see how I see shit!”
Recap: Put aside the jokes as Big Hann and Snake Eyez kick that struggle rap, real street talk, prison semantics and other assorted high crimes and misdemeanors throughout this URL/PG battle from Smack. Indeed, both (“Old pistol with the duct tape, so it’s either you dead or your family in ICU waiting on the update!”) Snake and (“Nigga, I’ll even draw on ya kids, that’s face-painting!”) Hann, competing to the tee on who can spit the most genuine urban ethos, let you know early on that they ain’t here to play games. But it’s an elongated, but more consistently fiery Snake who edges round 1 with more steely haymakers that were backed by consistent aggression and moxey. Round 2 was more of the same with Snake Eyez again going slightly longer than his opponent and taking the round (and the win) with more gripping punchlines, fiending (“Nigga, I’ve been nice since we was using aluminum foil from the gum to make the grills with it!”) braggadocio bars and less filler before Hann salvages the 3rd round and avoids a 3-0 loss with tight storytelling bars and straight-fire (“Nigga, you ain’t no cobra, you a garden snake that probably Harlem shake!”) punches.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “You know the drill, no games, this pain, come from the soul, you could feel the hunger, I’m on parole, so I’m still a number!”
Recap: No wonder hardly anyone is clamoring the Top Tiers, what with hardbody PG’s like this one…who needs them? DMV’s Ryda versus Harlem’s Snake Eyez is straight fire throughout, haymakers galore with little room for filler. 1st round edged to Snake Eyez, as his ability to consistently kick (“Think Louis Vuitton when I head shot him, ‘cuz his family ain’t know he was dead till they read about [red bottom] him!”) flashy, urban street (“But ain’t shit changed in my hood, nigga’s love me, I’ll probably get you smoked for free, I’m at momma crib, she still got the old Kool-Aid picture with the scratches on it., that shit about as old as me!”) flair along with some nice personals and authentic (“If we was on the Island, I woulda took this nigga commissary!”) bully bars was literally too intense and enough to beat what was a solid turn from (“I’ll dig a ditch, can’t catch the body?, then my lady will do it, they couldn’t get Snake up out this hole with Arabian music!”) Ryda. However, after barely losing round 1, Ryda stepped up the versatility, outshining a still (“My freedom?, I enjoy with a different demeanor, ‘cuz I still could’ve been locked away, mad at breakfast that I woke up late and missed that coffee cake with the Verena!”) fiery, but a little too one-dimensional opponent with a litany of crazy performance bars, frenetic (“Jesus Christ!…I’m the one who brought that twelve to the table…last supper!“) wordplay, dizzying (“The gun like business with Diddy, it did them all bad!”) punches, fierce (“Ironic your name is Snake, but you have yet to wrap around and body something!”) name flips and (“You the type of nigga that want to go to war, but forgot that you left your clip out, the type that’ll buy a house but still let ya bitch tell you ‘Get out!'”) jokes to take round 2 and 3 as well as the win.
Verdict: Ryda (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ryda – “I’m known to black, but keep one eye open, like the Raiders man!”
Recap: Some hard (“Y’all just a bunch of battle rap strippers, y’all don’t accept the change”; “I’m Crip, but if he want the beef I’m [waves arm like guns] I’m hitting Five Guys!”) lines midway by Kiing Capo, but taking a little too long to get into his groove and a last-minute slip-up prove to be costly as they allow Snake Eyez’ somewhat inconsistent, but still mostly (“You wasn’t even on the radar, you got forced on the killer list, if you owe me bread and ain’t got it when I come to get the chips, Metro-North workers on the train, I’m a just walk through clipping shit!”) hardbody, aggressive bars/punches to eke this one out.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “He just a nigga that talk for the nigga’s that really put it in, you Paul Heyman!”
Recap: Despite both needing some work on their delivery, Snake Eyez and Pirelli put aside the small talk, jokes and personals for mostly straight punches and braggadocio bars in this aggressive one-rounder from BattleCity TV. Going second after a solid round from his opponent, Pirelli spits a dope South Park scheme and does just (“You died before I wrote to you, do y’all recall Stan?”) enough to make it close, but it’s Snake Eyez who gets the win in the end for delivering more consistently fiery and colorful (“Find out where you live and swerve through, give it time?, fuck it, I’m in the crib by 9, like I got that curfew!”) content.
Verdict: Snake Eyez (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Snake Eyez – “So don’t stand there with the sad face, I’ll make your girl get low like the start of a track race!”
