Recap: A vet like Spee Dolla can serve up gritty rhymes for days on end. But in this BlessDaMic 1-rounder that also featured a couple of yahoo’s in the crowd who apparently missed out on the memo of not speaking during the battler’s round, one too many mediocre punches from an elongated Spee to go along with an also aggressive Fonz dialing up a consistently fiery turn of rich schemes, some formidable wordplay, plenty of graphic mayhem and bruising punchlines, adds up to another win for the Big Dawg.
Verdict: Fonz (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Fonz – “I really spazz on bitches, blade to the face then slash through the eye like the password hidden!”
Recap: Gonna take a wild guess and opine that it’s probably some behind-the-scene politics that’s kept NJ vet Spee Dolla off the URL stage, as the talent and immense amount of work he’s put in over the years certainly warrants him a shot. That said, while Spee’s boatload of flourescent gun bars, aggression and gritty punches makes this Kill Switch Battle League highly competitive, it’s a slightly more condensed, versatile and punch/name flip/personal and mayhem-lit Ryda who also scores a couple of more haymakers to edge the win here.
Verdict: Ryda (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Ryda – “You fucked today, I up and spray, as soon as he hit the ground [stomps foot] put my foot down on Dolla…this my lucky day!”
Recap: This 1-rounder from Kill Switch Battle League features another nice effort from Jersey vet Spee Dolla, who uses a gang of gritty punchlines/wordplay, some ill sacrilegious lines and a consistently spot-on flow to stay in the mix. But Th3 Saga, fresh off his battle on URL with Chef Trez, shows off his ability to bring his A-game regardless of what stage he’s on, combining a high energy performance with fire set-ups, some heated struggle bars/personals, devout religious speak, fiery punches/schemes and to his opponent’s chagrin, a boatload of potent name flips to get the win.
Verdict: Th3 Saga (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Th3 Saga – “Get in my face and B. Dot me the death, gonna be a tragic fate, ‘cuz everybody claim to be woke till I’m at a wake!”
Recap: Dre Dennis (“Like a little white lie, I been [bend] the truth”!) can rap often and forever, but elongated rounds can work against him as is the case where after splitting the first round with a just as solidly nice (“Flow illegal, plain [plane] outta here, Muslim people!”) Spee Dolla, Dennis easily takes the 2nd round with way more fiery (“It’s a wrap with a hand on my hip, like the old Tsu Surf!”) punchlines, hitting gun bars and a nice rebuttal at the intro. Going into the 3rd with the lead, it’s more of the same sizzling (“I’ll swing them arms back like George Jefferson walking!”) lines for Dre in the 3rd…except for him once again rapping too long and really lacking variety with the bars, which in turn waters down his consistency as his punches aren’t always hitting with the same impact. And that leaves Spee Dolla, while dishing fierce wordplay along with some nice (“Grab a street sweeper, barrel look like a Louisville, water Tommy gun, that clip could make a movie reel!”) performance bars in what was his best round despite a shorter turn than his opponent (with but with a higher bar quotient), with enough will and a little more variety to take the round and earn a debatable.
Verdict: TIE
Favorite line: Spee Dolla – “Different picture, you chumps will be slumped if I looked to hit ya, shortie riding, she fixing to rock it [rocket], he Hidden Figures!”
Recap: Not that a handful of reaches and a shortened 3rd round by an otherwise solid (“Now y’all could look at Spee Dolla as Kerry Kittles, ‘cuz we know the nigga name but we don’t remember any highlights!”) YaBoyClip didn’t help, but Spee Dolla’s nimble execution of pent-up (“Gun so BIG, D-Roc took it to trial!”) gun bars and exhilarating (“Ask ya bitch, that booger knows [nose] I ain’t nuthin’ to sneeze at!”) wordplay steals the show and scores him a well-earned 30 on the RBE stage.
Verdict: Spee Dolla (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Spee Dolla – “It’s getting ugly…that’s Whoopie in boy shorts!”
Recap: Neither Danja Zone or Spee Dolla impress much in this Block City matchup. But thanks to more variety as well as some ill (“How the fuck are you supposed to control streets, when it’s probably hard for you stand on your own feet?”) personals from Spee along with Danja’s mostly elongated schemes and righteous filler in rounds 1 and 2, it’s Spee who manages to hang on for the win.
Verdict: Spee Dolla (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Spee Dolla – “We only aim for the head when we drive up, and leave one side hanging like a bobcut!”
Synopsis: A little weird seeing T-Rex hosting a battle in Pittsburgh?! But anyway, a slow start by Spee Dolla in the 1st and a slow start by Real Deal in the 3rd allowed the other guy to take those rounds. So the difference here was the 2nd, which saw Spee drop some nice (the “looking for deals everywhere like Black Friday” line was fire) bars, but not enough to overcome Real Deal name-flip zealotry (“Your real name is David Edwards, you could’ve used that shit to pop, was it views? cuz’ if so we’ll swing on you, we’ll get ’em dog and we’ll make a star of David like a Jewish synagogue” and personal (“Your chick can get tagged like a Facebook pic”) haymakers.
Verdict: Real Deal (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Real Deal – “They only put a dollar on the stage to see a pussy pop”
Recap: It’s pretty much a roasting session in this battle between Jai and Spee Dolla, with Jai mercilessly dissing everything from his opponent’s skin tone to his alleged (“The only time you doubling stacks is when you adding fries with that!”) occupation. All in all, it’s more than enough for the guy from 400 Block to easily take the 1st two rounds and the win.
Verdict: Jai (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Jai – “Black son of a bitch, when you sweat you look like a wet grape!”
