Recap: From KOTD’s Season 1 tournament, Reverse Live gives a strong effort with a bunch of wily personals and brazen punches on his opponent Stuey Newton. But seemingly coming off a couple of battle losses, a determined Stuey, in his bag throughout the bout with a bunch of fierce name flips, more intricate punches, some stellar wordplay and stinging gun bars/personals, takes both of the opening rounds for the win before a debatable 3rd.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “Fuck the fan vote, I got the pole [poll] in the building!”
Recap: In a KOTD Season 1 battle that certainly lagged with the punches at times and saw Stuey Newton announce early on in round 1 that he wouldn’t be using any gun bars for the match (then proceed to use a gang of them), despite some lazy angles from both Stuey and the ever-witty (and at times here pretty lyrical) Caustic, a spicy rebuttal in the opener helps a more condensed Newton edge that round, before he also edges the deciding 3rd for the win thanks to a steadier hitting punch game.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “On the best white rappers list, even 100 Bullets is ranked higher than you!”
Recap: A couple of current day West-coasts elites, Stuey Newton and Yung Griz, meet up for the first time and while both battlers came with a ton of heat, it’s Griz who stands out a little more, using some hard-hitting personals, stinging name flips, a more consistently jarring punch game, rugged gun bars and a couple of flexing rebuttals to edge the latter two rounds after a 1st round draw.
Verdict: Yung Griz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Yung Griz – “[Bang!] [Bang!] till they both clicking, that’s two sticks, like I’m crocheting and that was so different!”
Recap: Dope, scintillating and punchline-heavy 1-rounder from Loewkey Battle League between Stuey Newton and Brixx Belvy features a gang of flexing personals, righteous wordplay, hard-hitting street missives, piercing name flips and slicing gun bars. However, with nary a dry spot from both battlers, the edge on haymakers goes Stuey’s way for the win.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “Be calm, act smart then let’s play stupid, Tek’s spray ruthless…steel… drum…banging…reggae music!”
Recap: Well…ummm….wow. Either Danny Myers was taking on too many battles or the parallel universe version of Danny showed up here against Stuey Newton and choked for 3 rounds. That’s the only way one can call it as Danny endures what had to be the worst showing of his battle rap career, stumbling, slipping up and eventually forgetting his bars in its entirety during each of his turns. A huge disappointment considering this was URL’s first show in Stuey’s home state of Washington and a big letdown that clearly bothered Newton as well as the crowd in attendance. Of course it should be said that with a sublime fleet of head-spinning gun bars, sturdy punchlines, braggadocios shiners and blood-dipped mayhem/schemes throughout his rounds, Stuey might’ve won this one anyway. But damn that he had to get the vic this way.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “I’ll do this pussy foul, like ho’s who gotta spray when they pee!”
Recap: Exciting Banned Legacy 2 battle between Ryda and Stuey Newton is high on the action, mayhem, punchlines, pontifications and gun bars. And if that’s not enough, Stuey also displayed a nice rebuttal game, while Ryda supplied plenty of witty personals to add some levity to the scene. A competitive battle throughout, it’s Ryda, coming back from a subpar performance in his last URL battle against Th3 Saga, who gets the win with a sublime 1st and 3rd rounds in which he flexed his versatility with nary a dry spot. And while the always fiery Stuey came hard with the punches and ringing wordplay throughout the match (esp. during a spitfire 2nd round), the West-coast vet hurt himself a bit with elongated turns in the aforementioned rounds that couldn’t keep up with his opponent’s overall potency.
Verdict: Ryda (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Ryda – “So I don’t wanna hear all that Black power shit that you be blabbing out ya mouth, because you can’t be on this stage screaming ‘Black Lives Matter’ when it’s ‘All Lives Matter!’ in ya house!”
Recap: It’s been said that in order to beat the best, you have to be the best. But then not everything in the world is as black and white as we like to believe or sometimes take for granted. Or in the case of this spitfire, 3-round battle between Stuey Newton and E-Hart, Newton, already a fire puncher in his own right, taking advantage of going second in each round with a pretty solid rebuttal game that especially worked to his benefit in edging the deciding 3rd round after edging a close 1st with more (.38 to ya chest, now I’ll always have a special place in ya heart [Hart]!”) haymakers. Granted, throughout this battle Hart was on top of her shit, dishing out rampant (“Twin pistols under the hoodie, but it looks like it’s one, if I start lighting one, you better have an iron lung, I’ll get every nigger in your circle smoked like the cypher’s done!”) heat, nifty wordplay and flexing punches at will. But except for a superb 2nd round that saw Hart literally overwhelm her opponent with too many haymakers, Newton not only took advantage of some reaches/redundant themes by Hart but stayed toe-to-toe with his opponent via his own fly composition of wily personals, hard punchlines, gritty gun bars/name flips and conscious bar flexing. The latter making for a nice comeback to Hart’s fiery attempt at going at Newton for being married to a white woman in spite of his moniker.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “I told you, I’m letting the body drop…I ain’t gonna hodl you!”
Recap: To be fair, I don’t think that Saint Mic’s flow is as slow and robotic as Stuey Newton would have you think it is. But other than the so-so impressions, Newton’s gambit on a lot of visceral guns bars, witty personals, righteous punchlines all coupled with a more condensed plus freestyle and rebuttal-lit 2nd round not only pays off, but more importantly gets him the win after a slow start from Saint Mic contributed to him losing the 1st round, before a dope and punch-heavy, but elongated turn in the 2nd helped the Nebraska battler lose the match. A pretty solid turn by both battlers in the 3rd round was equally potent enough to call a draw.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “You pop where?, I’ll sock him square in the eye, leave him sleep standing up…like a heroin high!”
Recap: Punching (“I know I’m a long way from home, but I’m far from pussy like a long-distance relationship!”) extra hard from the jump, Drugz’s first non-PG, URL battle goes pretty well and leaves a mark. But a slightly more consistent Stuey Newton, witty at times and dropping (“And next is the easy victim, I’ll swing Rome DMV by the arms and beat you with him!”) haymakers all over the place with reckless abandon, takes this dope 1-rounder that set off an Initiation card.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “I will scrape and stretch Drugs, I need all the extra’s!”
Recap: Strange to see Chilla Jones get so personal in a battle, but here against Stuey Newton he does just that and kind of cost him, rarely scheming, loading up his rounds with too much filler and overall, really spouting more bars to reflect personal animus rather than trying to win a battle. Not that Stuey would complain as after a couple of nice rebuttals edges him round 2 and gets him a split going into the final round, Newton’s continual penchant for gritty punchlines along with a stream of ill personals gets him the deciding 3rd round and an easy win after what was a haphazard turn from Mr. Jones.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “This flow kills, tell me how this losing your soul feels, your family get the news, they’ll be out of control….yeah they got no chill!”
Recap: If you were long anticipating Xcel’s return to the URL stage, it was well worth the wait as you certainly got a goodie here versus an also impressive Stuey Newton. First round was close, what with Newton’s hardbody barbs combining well with an air of (“I’m a make this Homie look bad…Poison Pen with the microphone!”) wit and steady aggression. However, with his own allotment of stinging (“Plus, the ratchet lick Offset’s [off set’s], it act just like Cardi act [cardiac]!”) wordplay and more potent punches, Xcel was able to do his opponent one better and take the opening round. Despite a solid turn by Xcel in the 2nd, there was just about no way he could beat an almost perfect mid-round by Stuey, who besides a nice freestyle and rebuttal to start things off, went with a personal-themed (“You ain’t been carrying your weight, so it’s clear XL [Xcel] doesn’t fit you!”) round that scored heavy when he wasn’t already bodying things with delicious haymaker after haymaker to come back and even the battle out. Tied going into the 3rd, Stuey Newton came back with another (“I can kill nigger’s with facts…the truth serum!”) hard and righteous round, all the while flexing his versatility, however, a few dry spots here and there would leave the door slightly open to defeat. And Xcel did just that. With a more condensed, even more righteous and straightfire (“See nigga, they gas you, I air it out ‘cuz I prefer less pollution!”) turn that spoke to every bar literally counting, the Team Homi linguist reminded URL viewers of what they’ve long been missing, while edging this altogether dope battle by taking the 1st and 3rd.
Verdict: Xcel (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Xcel – “Can y’all feel the gravity of this moment?, I’m here for the death of Newton!”
Recap: Stifling gun bars, visceral punchlines/4-bar set-ups, piercing name flips and rigid street missives, in this West-coast Traffic 3 matchup versus Reepah Rell, a consistently spicy Stuey Newton brings out the whole kaboodle and beats back an opponent who came nice with a variety of punches (esp. during a close 1st round) for the most part, but in the latter rounds succumbed to a couple of slip-ups, which in turn led to shortened turns and eventually a 30 for Stuey.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “You be painting your face like a weird bitch, tell ya makeup artist that bullshit don’t enhance your rounds at all, I mean you got your moments in the paint but it’s not enough…Pau Gasol!”
Recap: Legendary sports broadcaster Howard Cosell once said that ‘The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best’. That’s the takeaway you get here as despite Stuey Newton putting on a dope, repping-for-his-state, (“I heard somebody scream ‘Gotti coming!’, I said ‘So what, load up and tell God he coming’!”; “Flame to his nose, the only time I’m burning bridges!”) punch-heavy and versatile performance against Geech Gotti, for each round his opponent just kept doing him one better. Whether addressing hypocrisy in Newton’s more conscious raps or spouting some downright mean bars or dishing on real (“Where I’m from you can’t wear certain hats in certain hoods, we don’t give a fuck if you just like the team!”) gangsta shit or flexing with some ill wordplay/set-ups, for 3 rounds the ever confident and (“This, got a hundred rounds in the clip, you could pray all you want, bet it won’t save him, I’ll let off 50, even missed a couple of shots on purpose…I’m point-shaving!”) gun-savvy Gotti rose to the occasion to beat back a very worthy and fierce opponent. Indeed, a 30 on the books, but a well-earned one at that.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “You gonna try and condemn me for being a gangbanger?, but is you really in the streets making a difference?, I mean damn Newton, you promoting all this Black love but the fact at home you got a white bitch, got me questioning, if all that Panther shit is only for the Cam, Newton!”
Recap: Here’s a case where one-on-one tag-in’s get to be a little too much, as after getting hammered by a barrage of Stuey Newton’s scintillating punchlines and bully bars in this one-rounder from We Go Hard, a dogmatic, but inconsistent Gwitty tags in his boy Reepah Rell for what amounted to be a fiery minute of ‘old head’ bars that Gwitty can’t claim credit for. Thus, what turned to be a highly entertaining battle, is still, bar wise, an easy decision with Stuey the victor.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Stuey Newton -“When I spray necks, big enough to knock an organ back, but think safe sex….it got the rubber grip to absorb the clap!”
Recap: Stuey Newton uses stifling gun bars, flexing (“Tell ya folks, if you flex, you next, you’ll get back to back crosses…UTech, two-step!”) punchlines and dope name flips to edge the first two rounds and survive what was a crazy (“So you named yourself after a revolutionary black activist, you gotta be joking, so I get to blacking with these pounds in the air like a rally in motion!”) 3rd round from slick/gun bar aficionado Dre Vishiss in this West-coast PG battle.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “But the feeling from killing is no longer thrilling, the rubber grip make around get a kick out it!”
Recap: Edging the round with a nice rebuttal to start the first and taking advantage of Profecy’s lack of stamina in the 3rd with a (“….you must be Wile E. Coyote, fucked around and fell into a trap that wasn’t meant for you!”) teachable and overall stronger turn, in what was a pretty close and solid battle throughout, an aggressive and more versatile (“Go ahead, talk about how many times cats slayed when ya mac raised, ‘cuz even if Profecy [prophesy] comes truth, he’s in his last days!”) Stuey Newton ends up taking this West-coast PG matchup.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Profecy – “You see, everything Stuey says, he be trying to sound so tough, so I give Black rights, then the [motions hand upwards like fist/gun] pound go up!”
Recap: Well, Stuey Newton certainly earned this one. That’s how nice his opponent (“I’ll smack, Earth, Wind and Fire out this man, and I don’t care for oldies!”) Logic413 was throughout, but for a few predictable punches and some second round dry spots that cost him that deciding round. Still, for Newton to spit a barrage of (“Mac with the beam on it, I lean on it like it’s trustworthy”) haymakers in his opening round, before dishing an even more versatile, performance-heavy, bar-centric round that also got him the 2nd, it not for Logic’s resiliency along with pontificating a little too much in the 3rd, this might’ve been a close 3-0.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “Run inside his place, then annihilate him, it’s like ‘Good morning’ from a bitch that you finally dating, ya wake to the texts [Tek’s] with the smiley faces!”
Recap: Shortened name. A couple of super short rounds. Leads me to guess that Un is more of a battle rap hobbyist than a guy seeking to gain a name in the game. Thus, an easy win for a much more polemic and versatile Stuey Newton in this 3-rounder from Alliance Battle League.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “Of course you been through it all…you the oldest muthafucka around!”
Recap: In this 3-rounder from KOTD, the mostly stiff bars of Hipnosis fail to make much noise, even when faced by a Stuey Newton who was solid throughout, but whom we’ve witnessed come better.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “When I see you, you better do everything I say, ‘cuz when I snap, you’ll be under hypnosis!”
Recap: NorthWest Alliance Battle League matchup between Stuey Newton and J.U.S. stays close for 3 rounds with a nice mix of nifty punchlines, spicy name flips, solid wordplay and rigid mayhem/personals all there to keep you paying attention. Competitive throughout, it’s still a more steady with the bite J.U.S. who manages to edge the first two rounds for the win before a punch-heavier Stuey avoids the shutout by taking the 3rd.
Verdict: J.U.S. (W) 2-1
Favorite line: J.U.S. – “It only takes one phone call if I’m ever in a tough spot, the only time Stuey pulls strings is when his bus stops!”
Recap: Displaying some wit and some fire bars, Lil Decent was…decent, until he choked, 1st in the second round and surprisingly again in the 3rd. That’s a bodybag for Stuey Newton, who with some potent schemes, steely, aggressive bars, nice gun bars and a few Martin jokes, had this one in the bank anyway, even if he did rap too long in the 3rd.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “I ain’t gonna lie tho, I feel kinda bad for murking you, ‘cuz that peach fuzz said you just hit puberty and I know your ID still vertical!”
Recap: In this 3-rounder from Alliance Battle League, the standard, braggadocio raps of Yung Bank$ quickly melt in the face of Stuey Newton’s sizzling schemes, potent name flips and hitting punches.
Verdict: Stuey Newton (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Stuey Newton – “You look like a nigger who owe money, so I’m a do ya like a nigger who owe money [so] if I find out that you owe money, I’m a come rob you and put a hit out on you with your own money!”
