No Bias. No Narratives.
Recap: Against the underrated puncher Stricc, Young Kannon survives a spitfire 2nd round from his stoic, but still combative opponent with his own plethora of able-bodied punchlines, stinging personals, righteous mayhem and festive gun bars in both the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win.
Verdict: Young Kannon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Young Kannon – “We don’t care about your time in jail, ‘cuz all real nigga’s did time too for grinding sales, big ass bags…I could take T-Top’s mama from his clientele!”
Recap: If this 3-round, LABattleGroundz battle was just about jokes, Cali Smoov would’ve had this one easy as those racial angles he took with the quips were often hilarious. Unfortunately for Cali tho, outside of showing off his funny bone there really wasn’t much else he could bring to the table in terms of a robust punch game, leaving opponent Stricc, armed with a shitload of consistently nasty punchlines, some head-ringing wordplay, righteous struggle bars and his own slew of hitting personals, with a working man’s 30.
Verdict: Stricc (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Stricc – “Nothing stands out about you squares, I’m color-blind with a Rubik cube!”
Recap: B. Dot versus Stricc, the infamous race wars battle that made World Star and thanks in part to a classic and perfectly executed 3rd round from Dot, put everyone’s favorite Black activist/battle rapper on the map. A credit to LA Battle Groundz for putting on this battle, but for all the fame B. Dot got from this stellar performance, what easily gets lost in this matchup is just how dope Stricc was. The Texas battler with an almost perfect poker face, dishing 3 hot rounds of spicy (“Pay homage pimpin’, I’m droppin’ wisdom, if Lux taught him anything it should’ve been to bring that coffin with him!”) personals, pointed poor white man semantics, tailored rebuts on white supremacy and piercing punchlines that added up to a gang of haymakers throughout the match and kept things competitive. But with rich epilogues on Black history, systematic breakdowns on the benefits of white privilege, flexing (“Look Stricc, don’t bore me with the fuck shit, all that, “Oh you sound like Lux shit”, look the compliment is enormous, but it’s really not that important, they even told Kobe he play like Jordan but that ain’t stop him for scorin’!”) punchlines, mocking name flips and fiery schemes/punchlines that showcased both a scholarly and street degree for militant abolitionism, outside of a debatable 2nd round that was equal when it came to the ratio of haymakers, it’s B. Dot who takes the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win here.
Verdict: B. Dot (W) 2-1
Favorite line: B. Dot – “So what make you think you a part of this? Who gave you some “How to be black” starter kit?, I mean they whitewashed black history, it’s only right that I blackout and wash this white boy to re-author it!”
