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Swave Sevah defeats Remedy Loko

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Recap: From RBE, a crazy and sublime round 1 filled with a bunch of bullish punchlines, some fire wordplay, daunting darts and righteous boasts coupled with a second rich with a gang of aggressive haymakers, hard street rhymes and witty personals gives Swave Sevah the win over a gritty and unorthodox, but up-n-down Remedy Loko. And while the 3rd round was a wash as far as determining the victor, it was still a stellar turn on both ends with a rebuttal-lit Loko connecting more and unleashing a plethora of fire punches to avoid the shutout even while a pontificating Swave lit up the blue room with a bunch of fiery shots at the ongoing RBE/URL drama as well as scoring too with some more stealthy heat.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Boxing rules apply, why don’t you and I, hop in the right have a death match…win, lose or die!”

Zay defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: Highly consistent for 3 rounds with an aggressive, gritty/gun bar slinging, punch/wordplay-heavy at times and protean when it came to subject matter, after the two split the first couple of rounds while also being helped out by a personal and witty at times, but lazy 3rd from opponent Swave Sevah, Jersey up-n-comer Zay edges the finale of this RBE matchup for the win.

Verdict: Zay (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Zay – “I seen God on a block lit up in a Jesus candle and I came to shoot sever[ed] like Emmanuel Hansel!”

Moon defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: From RBE, just when you start to appreciate Swave Sevah battling more often these days, the Team Homi capo shows that his increased productivity could be affecting his preparation as a handful of stumbles from Sevah here against fellow OG Moon before a surprising choke in the (had Moon edging round 1 before Swave edged round 2) deciding 3rd round helps give Moon (who shined throughout with a host of gritty punches, witty personals and flexing grown man chatter) the win.

Verdict: Moon (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Moon – “…that means if we got any problems or complications, I’ll become your personal travel agent, I’ll put a nice little package together for you, I could make heaven or hell your next vacation!”

Swave Sevah and Bill Collector [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: A friendly-fire affair with a cameo appearance from Rosenberg Raw (whom Bill Collector, in a sudden change of heart, really wants to battle now) in round 3, this highly entertaining 3-rounder from RBE turned out to be a real goodie. Swave Sevah, excellently mixing it up throughout with a flexing punch game, pointed storytelling/street tutorials, witty personals and piercing set-ups, still came to win when he wasn’t constantly dapping up his opponent. While BC, ever the showman, parlayed his enthusiam for batlling his longtime friend with 3 sturdy rounds of rich performance bars, some dope chain punching/wordplay (including what seemed like a fierce Daylyt impression), fiery (“You should’ve just took on Bill…dine and dash!”) personals/punches and resident jokes. A fire battle all the way through the end, we got Bill edging a fire-on-both-sides round 1, Swave taking the 2nd and a debatable 3rd which fittingly makes this one a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “No discretion, heart turns cold when I hold the weapon, lead off and re-load the Wesson and commit stickup’s with snub noses like Covid testing!”

Swave Sevah and Anderson Burrus [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Newcomer Anderson Burrus versus the vet Swave Sevah on URL’s Super Fight 6 card turns out to be goodie. In 3 rounds Burrus, also a comedian by trade, uses his comedic talents to score with a gang of witty barbs, funny storytelling, fierce schemes and hitting personals, when he wasn’t also putting up points via some dope punchlines. And even tho he was a little long-winded throughout the match and had a bit filler here and there, Burrus’ ability to put up haymakers never wavered. However, while he still put up his share of hardbody punches and whined a little bit too much on the ‘old jokes’ and karate angles his opponent used on him (like every top tier battler doesn’t have to deal with that stuff), Swave Sevah’s approach to this battle is what kept him competitive. The Team Homi capo directly taking on the huge ‘monkey in the room’ (i.e. another white boy trying to make it on the grittiest battle rap stage, the URL) and instead of doing the typical, racist angle shit, applying his funny bone and using the race card to superb effect with some rich metaphors, scathing personals, battle rap 101’s for white battlers, too funny (“Shit, I’ll even accept that he the son of a Caffiene exec and it was ‘Bring Your Son To Work Day’!”) jibs and even a bit of self-deprecating jokes that to go along with fire set-ups/punches/wordplay in 3 more condensed rounds allowed Swave to stay even through and through and earn a debatable.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Anderson Burrus – “Swave, you remind me of a warm hearted janitor in a basketball movie!”

Prep defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: From the 1st round of URL’s Ultimate Madness 3 tournament. After a slightly more punch-lit and ill battle career breakdown/personal-savvy Prep edges round 1, opponent Swave Sevah uses a raucous, bullish and witty at times 2nd round to split things going into the 3rd. And that’s when Prep decided to leave earth what with a consistently blazing, personally hard-hitting and set-up/haymaker-rich final round that handily beat back a solid, but nowhere-near-as-fiery round from Swave.

Verdict: Prep (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Prep – “You was here before the T-Rex’s…you Ice age!”

Swave Sevah defeats Gwitty

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Recap: Pretty sure that Gwitty didn’t intend on being as funny as his opponent Swave Sevah certainly did in this witty 1-rounder from A New Era Comglomerate. But nonetheless he was, which while helping to keep things close, even with some nice punches mixed in, wasn’t enough to beat back Swave’s continual barbs on Gwitty’s alleged issues with hygiene.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Yo, this smell got me dumb mad bro, yo pass me the bag, I’m a splatter bum, no better yet, let’s put soap in a sock, wet it & beat him until he lather up!”

Swamp and Swave Sevah [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: Dope battle between Swamp and Swave Sevah on URL’s Born Legacy 11 card sees the two go at it full steam with a boatload of mocking personals, witty barbs, rich storytelling, gritty punchlines, bully talk, a spicy rebuttal by (“Nigger’s still getting at me about this karate shit, when that shit gonna pass?, yo, y’all realize y’all make fun of me ‘cuz I know how to kick y’all ass?!”) Swave to go along with a hard freestyle by Swamp and some flashy heat/gun bars. Despite a slight hiccup midway, Swamp with more haymakers takes round 1 before another condensed  and blazing turn by Swave gets him round 2. 3rd round was another goodie with Swave getting righteous on the angle tip while gamely utilizing his opponent’s born name throughout his final turn, while Swamp kept it a bit more condensed and versatile while delivering enough boastful darts and piercing punches to make this one a toss-up.

Verdict: Debatable 

Favorite line: Swamp – “This ain’t nuthin’ but the old head that pull up to the park, do nothing, make one shot, now he telling everybody to get back on defense!”

Swave Sevah defeats Big Hann

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Recap: After getting beat back by a superbly-executed, gritty and punch-heavy turn from Big Hann in round 1, Swave Sevah takes advantage of a less potent opponent and also uses a variety of witty personals, hardbody bangers, Philly trap talk and requisite mayhem to edge the latter rounds for the win in this Rookies vs. Vets 2, 3-rounder from Smack/URL.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – You?, you like the avatar for average bars!”

Swave Sevah defeats O-Red [Rematch]

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Recap: In a rematch from their infamously one-sided URL battle almost a decade ago, Swave Sevah uses 2 minutes of scintillating wordplay, hardbody punchlines and well-themed name flips to beat an O-Red, who while coming a lot better prepared here against Swave than he did all those years back, still couldn’t contrive up enough heavy punches to match his opponent’s overall versatility and potency in this 1-rounder from RBE.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Yo O, to obtain optimum omniscience is the overall goal of an Overlord, follow the manuscripts, man your ships, obliterate the opposition, offer the other one rowing oar’s or throw then overboard!”

Swave Sevah defeats Qleen Paper

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Recap: Since he probably wouldn’t have to leave his crib to do one, I’m guessing that league owners may want to think about getting more ‘Quarantine’ battles out of Qleen ‘Mr. No Show’ Paper while they can. That said, dope 1-rounder here between Qleen and Swave Sevah, but a slightly more gritty, personal and Coronavirus-themed-with-the-punches Swave gets this one.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “We’ll do Qleen [clean] filthy, see my fam with the shit’s, we been masked and gloved up before this Pandemic hit!”

King Kamonzi defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: With an elongated King Kamonzi spitting a gang of mostly mediocre punchlines while strangely drenched in themes surrounding time, one would think this 1-rounder would be a lay-up for the likes of a vet like Swave Sevah. But clearly showing he had close to zero interest in battling his opponent, Swave resorts to using his turn to pontificate on the state of battle rap, tag in one of his Team Homi bro’s for a minute of fiery punches and just in case the viewer thought that Swave didn’t take this battle at all seriously, toss in a few throwaway bars at Kamonzi for good measure before completing his round. In other words, a pretty lackadaisical effort from Swave that allowed his opponent (who, to be fair, did mix in some crafty punches that hit here and there) to get a win he clearly didn’t deserve.

Verdict: King Kamonzi (W) 1-0

Favorite line: King Kamonzi – “I’m 50, you 50, that’s a century let’s keep it a buck!”

Swave Sevah defeats Ryda

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Recap: Who doesn’t love a grudge match? With a storyline that goes back to each battler participating in a noteworthy URL 2-on-2 some years back, Ryda and Swave Sevah meet up again on the solo tip for 3 rounds on URL’s Smack Volume 5 and it’s a goodie. Team Homi capo Swave, bullish and aggressive as usual, scored aplenty when it came to flexing punchlines, witty barbs, brutal mayhem and gritty street raps. While Goonie squad chief Ryda, clearly bent on protecting his rep what with the ‘P’ word having been tossed around it in the past, kept things close with a gang of brash personals, rigid punches and fiery gun bars. A competitive battle throughout, it’s a slightly more condensed, original, funny and a little less filler-prone Swave who edges rounds 1 and 3 for the win.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Real nigga’s don’t name my guns, we too busy trying to get rid of them!”

Swave Sevah defeats Nu Jerzey Twork

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Recap: Crazy dope battle between Swave Sevah and Nu Jerzey Twork is only marred by Twork recycling some bars in the 3rd round. Nonetheless, with the veteran Swave dishing witty barbs at Twork’s notorious hand/gun gestures, pointed bully bars, fire tutorials on life, fiery (“Nigga, you wear hoods, I am hood and I’m still in the mud like I’m trying to ambush the Predator!”) personals, guns (esp. during a classic 2nd round that had the crowd mesmerized) and his opponent’s penchant for under utilizing his talent via sizzling punchlines, with Twork also spazzing with the (“It’s known, everybody moving right past him, you stuck on this silly rapping shit, the oldest nigga in your fucking class, you Billy Madison!”) personals, fierce set-ups, stinging rebuttals and rich gun-speak throughout the 1st and 2nd rounds, you’re still left with a couple of debatable rounds going into the 3rd. But thanks in part to the aforementioned reused lines from Twork as well as his own fiery turn of roundhouse punches and virulent mayhem, the deciding 3rd and the battle would go to Swave.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Shootouts with shotguns, let’s have our stocks exchange!”

Swave Sevah defeats Bad Newz

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Recap: Battling prolifically of late, this time around Bad Newz takes on Swave Sevah on the RBE stage for 3 pretty intense and competitive rounds. Round one was littered with haymakers and heavy-handed punches/personals from both battlers, but a slightly more prepared-for-his-opponent’s-angles and smoother with the flow Newz edges the opening round, before a more condensed, set-up/bully-heavy and street scholarly Swave comes back to even things in the 2nd. The deciding 3rd round was close, but with Sevah getting extra mean with it, intricate and witty with the personals along with mixing in some dope bully bars and punchlines, even with Newz dropping a solid and at times, punch-heavy turn, it’s the more consistently nice Team Homi captain who ends up taking this one.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “You got shot by your Ace?!…damn, King!”

Pep defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: Solid Verbal War Zone battle between Swave Sevah and Pep delivers on cadence, fiery lyrics and some nice wordplay. But even with Swave coming through with a clean and spitfire 3rd rpund that was arguably the best in the battle, it doesn’t make up for too many slip-ups in the previous rounds as well as a more flow-admissible Pep’s more veracious, braggadocio bars and stinging punches.

Verdict: Pep (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Pep –  “You dumb or what?, you don’t wanna play Ock, white boy wasted, Rum and Srroc [Ciroc] in the same shot!”

B. Dot defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: We’ve all heard the allegations surrounding B. Dot before–that he leads a ‘double life’, yunno, part-time gang-banger/part-time Pro-Black activist, hypocrite, Lux clone, etc. And Swave Sevah does a pretty dope job harping on that theme here, dedicating most of his lines to hardbody personals delivered to ‘expose’ his opponent being more talk than action or substance, while also making fun of Dot’s myriad of suspect ways, when he wasn’t dishing some fierce punchlines and witty barbs throughout the battle. But after a strong showing in round 1 by both battlers that made for a debatable turn, over the course of the latter two rounds B. Dot would prove to have more mettle. The West-coast spitter (despite 3 elongated turns) finessing between deft tutorials on what being a real O.G. means, stinging/witty personals, fiery rebuts for all the B. Dot critics, piercing gun lines and a series of hitting schemes laced with righteous missives to edge rounds 2 and 3 for the win.

Verdict: B. Dot (W) 2-1

Favorite line: B. Dot – “I’m that rude barking, and this old Yeller can’t bark with this, it go Mook, Lux, I.C.E., Swave, if you wanna Restore Order you should start with that Harlem list!”

Buttah From Da Block defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: Helped by a handful of stumbles by Swave Sevah, but also scoring with a bunch of piercing punchlines, some fierce wordplay and delicious/consistent flow on the infamous “The Bridge Is Over” beat in the deciding 3rd round, Buttah From Da Block does enough to edge the latter two rounds and take this entertaining Verbal War Zone battle.

Verdict: Buttah From Da Block (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Buttah From Da Block – “Pistol in ya mouth, Akinyele how I pop the trunk!”

Swave Sevah defeats Iam Marz

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Recap: A gritty, competitive matchup with plenty of mayhem and hardbody street rhymes to get your temperatue boiling, the more rigid, succinct, witty at times, storytelling and name flip spicy Swave Sevah manages to edge both of the opeing rounds for the win before a fire turn by Iam Marz in the 3rd allows him to void the shutout.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “You a candy rapper, ain’t nobody buying Marz bars!”

Swave Sevah defeats Serius Jones

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Recap: An entertaining battle doesn’t always add up to a competitive battle as Serius Jones versus Swave Sevah prove here. Granted, the two vets came with the (Serius: “Yunno, what’s fucked up?, sometimes I like this nigga ‘cuz his flow is tight, but I hate you ‘cuz your face is baggy!”) jokes, piercing personals, some hot bars and just for added kicks Jones gets into it with a heckler in the crowd. But when he wasn’t spitting a few shiners here and there, Jones is either reaching, dispensing dated bars or in a 3rd round that he had the potential to win, going on way too long with a gang of righteous filler. On the hand, Swave stays cohesive throughout, what with a dope performance to match as well as an ill (“Team Homi, he foolish, I’ll blow a hole in ya image till they all able to see through it!”) angles that increased his viability as the battle continued.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – [Bong! Bong Bong!] see, it’s the ego spitter versus the ego tripper, I see Red and knock you out before the Pops, it’s liek Debo hit ya!”

Swave Sevah defeats Heavy Half

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Recap: Dope 3-rounder from RBE between Swave Sevah and Heavy Half with the less experienced Heavy displaying a wide load of greasy gun bars, rugged street shit and some gripping storytelling with a spicy mix of piercing punchlines dipped in. Good thing for Swave he was all the ready for whatever his opponent brought him, the Harlem vet sporting a more versatile mix of witty personals, flexing boss talk, stinging punches/wordplay and wily name flips to edge the 1st and 3rd rounds for the win.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “I’m nice, hate it or love it I rap my way, name your price and I’ll slash in Half like it’s Black Friday!”

Swave Sevah defeats Shotti P

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Recap: When it ends up thisclose, the slightest mistake can cost you a battle. Such is the case here as an aggressively punch and extremely witty Shotti P takes the first round before just getting edged to a more versatile and aggressively potent Swave Sevah in round 2. Split going into the 3rd, both battlers keep it competitive with solid turns that were sparked by feelgood braggadocio bars and some dope punchlines. However, thanks to a Shotti P slip-up towards the end of his round, it’s a more steady with the flow Swave who manages to hold on and eke this one out.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “And yeah, I’m a Black belt, but people don’t fight with their fists now, so get down, when this Grandmaster flash…nigger get down!”

Swave Sevah defeats Tink Tha Demon

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Recap: A focused and undeterred Swave Sevah uses sizzling (“A demon is just a minion to the devil so…nigga, I’m a need to speak to your boss!”) name flips, raucous bully bars, fiery personals and a steady barrage of (“[BLOW!] oh the nigga got a slug proof?, [BLOW!] now he got a sunroof!”) heat to take out a (“Gather all of your family members in the living room….then tell them all they just ran out of living room!”) solid at times, but poor angle-drenched and too one-dimensional Tink Tha Demon in this battle from URL’s Born Legacy card. And tho Swave’s rambunctious, performance heavy (with an able assist from Th3 Saga) turn in round 3 (“Let any chump have it, semi’s, snubs, ‘matic’s, razor across your head like you 21 Savage!”) deservedly had the crown going bonkers, Tink’s understated wordplay, rich storytelling (“Mom left me in the streets like she was littering”; “As a child you took karate classes and played Sonic the Hedgehog, I was stealing work from my brother, busting traps, testing out a Mac on a dead dog, we play different!”) bars and step up in versatility was just enough to edge the round and avoid the 3-0.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Pick one! Nigga choose wisely, let dude try me, trust me, this kid ain’t worried about nothing…Blue Ivy!”

Th3 Saga defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: Take out the Th3 Saga slipping up twice in the 3rd round and what you have is a pretty dope and exhilarating matchup between him and Swave Sevah on the URL stage. Swave, confidently mixing it up with demonic (“You’ll help me bro?, yo that’s righteous…aight what if I say I confess, I’m possessed, but I like it!”; “Show up to your church sermon dressed as a voodoo witch doctor…and bless your collection plate with $6.66!”) punches that made you scowl, some (“You Christian right? yeah, you know who else claim to be Christian? Klan members….you know who they known for killing, right?…your ancestors”) food for thought, rich set-ups with even more profound angles and gritty street talk throughout his three rounds…had what most would say was more than enough to win. However, in rounds 1 and 2, Th3 Saga did just enough to do his opponent better. Delivering potent (“That’s straight work, you a Mase verse, I could see the fake past the rhyme!”) eulogies along with age (“Swave, you’re so old, I don’t even know if you’re African American!”; “Old rappers get rocked in the 90’s, I’ll FUBU fit you!”) jokes that hit, potent wordplay and jaunty (“Get tougher, you lost touch with the Faith…BIG’s mother!”; “You got back on Smack and died in front of his set…that’s Chris Tucker!”) punches from all sorts of directions, Th3 Saga edged (“You got cornrows and muscular dystrophy…”) the opening rounds, withstood a strong 3rd by Swave and hung on for the win.

Verdict: Th3 Saga (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah –  “You don’t get it, I would trade you for Mo, Arch, PH and Sean Price any day, and that ain’t even disrespecting, you wanna be in heaven anyway!”

Danny Myers defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: Assisted by a couple of Swave Sevah slip-ups in the 1st round as well as Swave getting off to an extremely slow start in the 2nd, Danny Myers’ stringent punch game combined with some witty old jokes, rampant mayhem and flexing gun bars manage to take the first two rounds of this judged battle from RBE. Swave’s 3rd, a near classic with its righteous takedowns of Danny’s narcissistic “King of Harlem’ catchphrase was a delight to see, but it still wasn’t enough to get him the win….here anyway.

Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Danny Myers – “I’ll grab the semi from the shoulder holster, then I bust 8, then I’ll sneak the arm over the shoulder like a first date!”

Swave Sevah defeats KH

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Recap: After taking some understandable time off from battle rap, Swave Sevah makes a triumphant return against another ‘new nigga’ in KH. An easy victory that was pretty much decided after round one, Swave’s bully (“Don’t get it twisted, we could rap, but let it be known I ain’t the on eto be clowning with, so basically your body language’s gonna determine what kind of rounds we spit”) bars, pointed schemes and Team Homi manifesto’s are way too much for what amounted to mostly comical and basic (“I ain’t eating rappers up no more, I’m inhaling them”) material from KH.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah -“If Biggie was right about you being nobody till somebody kill you, then my nigga…you about to have a name now!”

Swave Sevah defeats Metta

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Recap: Prolific bully bars are the answer here as Swave Sevah looks past the old man/martial arts jokes and other noteworthy punches from a way-too-lengthy Metta and combined with the use of some ringing name flips, boastful darts and mocking personals, takes the latter two rounds of this 3-rounder from King Juce Battle League.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Metta brave, but if Metta try to sever Swave, then Metta gonna need more than metaphors, he gonna need Medicaid!”

Swave Sevah defeats Ness Lee

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Recap: Sometimes a comedy (Swave: “Nigga you look like every picture you take should have a caption that say ‘Dark Skin Niggas Be Like…'”) roast and other times an actual rap (Ness Lee: “….you let him Jaden Smith ya, nigga you was sounding crazy nigga, on the spot looking uncomfortable like you played your sister in a game of Twister”) battle, thanks in part to his opponent’s round 1 choke, Swave Sevah outlasts Atlanta battle rap veteran Ness Less with better consistency on the bars, higher quality (“Respect me, I’m deadly, I’ll dead Lee, I’m the one they unleash when it’s war, you will probably Jet Lee [Li]”) wordplay and a nicer overall performance to get a win here.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ness Lee – “You’ll be the first to get it like we had an inside joke”

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”

Swave Sevah defeats Street Money

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Recap: Displaying the skills and confidence of a schooled vet, Swave Sevah drops a stream of brash (“Burn through your whole faculty, he won’t save y’all crew, i’ll slam Streets on the streets, give him de ja vu”) punchlines, bully bars, gripping schemes along with able name flips to take out an earnest (“Bitch nigga, Harlem full of snitch niggas, ya mam had three boys and you the bitch sister!”), but unprepared opponent in Streets and win this one-rounder.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “You? Choose your words wisely, this Sevah you facing, [or] I’ll leave marks on Money like a federal agent!”

Swave Sevah defeats Makk Mizzle

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Recap: Swave Sevah stops by in Baltimore to make good on a favor owed to Pit Fights Battle League and reverts to the old Swave by unloading 3 rounds of steady haymakers and hard bars with frequent punchlines to perform a body on Makk Mizzle.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “We roll deep, AR’s maggie’s, ski masks, black hoodies, looking like Daylyt at a Trayvon rally”

Swave Sevah defeats Eazy the Block Captain

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Recap: Swave Sevah isn’t just bullish with his raps because he has nothing else better to do. If you listen to Swave over time you get the feeling that being a browbeat lyricist just comes out of necessity. Really. And yet another example of that is this 3-round versus Eazy the Block Captain, where Swave does everything from breaking down the authenticity of his opponent’s moniker to delivering his own unique brand of proper street ethos to spouting a gang of boastful punches/schemes to dishing witty and aggressive personals that often reeked with intimidation hijinks. Now to Eazy’s credit, the Philly rapper didn’t seem to be at all unnerved by Swave’s strong-arm tactics and stayed steady with his punches throughout the battle. But battle rap being battle rap, when it came to bar efficiency, damn if Swave didn’t kill that man.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Hey yo, tell me I’m lying my nigga, look at E’s face, his teeth look like they got issues with each other…they need space!”

Aye Verb defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: Lame battle gets what it deserves with a wack crowd that seemingly couldn’t wait for it to be over with. Can’t blame them what with Aye Verb spending half his time telling sordid battle rap tales and Swave Sevah just coming off unmotivated while spitting generic bars he could write in his sleep. Give this one to Verb for putting on a better overall performance and for flexing that MC Hammer jacket.

Verdict: Aye Verb (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Aye Verb – “Karate only works on niggas that do karate”

Arsonal da Rebel defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap: Swave Sevah has gone on record stating that it’s hard to get motivated to battle dudes that he’s cool with outside the ring, and it shows here as he goes light and puts forth a couple of short rounds against Arsonal. Then too Arsonal, because of his friendship with Swave, admittedly didn’t bring the full artillery for him either, but he still brought enough heat, along with some nice personals and bars to take a battle that could’ve been a lot better if they didn’t like other.

Verdict: Arsonal (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “If God requires a sacrifice, you who I’mma offer. off ya, burst the desi, head shot, on the ready got your dreads looking like burnt spaghetti”

Rosenberg Raw defeats Swave Sevah

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Synopsis: Rosenberg Raw doesn’t get near the credit he deserves for being funny, having bars and performance, which makes it even more surprising that a seasoned vet like Swave would take him light. I mean Swave’s 1st round was so short and blah that he practically gave it to Raw on a plate. And Raw had some witty bars in the 2nd (“I’m the type to grab an ounce of soft and make him sell it for me, I always wanted to fuck QP in the mouth would you go tell her for me?”), but a couple of slip-ups and a more aggressive Swave evened things out. Yet Rosenberg stayed consistent in the 3rd with better bars to edge it out in the end.

Verdict: Rosenberg Raw (W) 2-1

Best line: Swave Sevah – “Rosenberg, the only nigga I know that caught feelings when a Bill Collector stopped calling”

Swave Sevah defeats Batas

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Recap: Harlem, NY battle vet Swave Sevah travels overseas to hip-hop hotbed Manila to take on local Filipino battler Batas and despite receiving star treatment in a stadium of onlookers, nearly blows it with a slip-up and near choke in round 1. Thankfully for Swave, his opening round hiccup would be slight and with a fine mixture of fiery personals, righteous bully semantics and witty but also rigid punchlines, the Team Homi leader would be able to easily take the opening rounds before a punch-heavier Batas stepped up his game and handily took the final round.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah –  “I was the toughest kid in the sandbox, by 16 I ran blocks, and I dare you to test my Will when that Smif [Smith] is in my hand cocked [Hancock]!”

Swave Sevah defeats O-Solo

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Synopsis: Certainly O-Solo was always entertaining in Fight Klub and there’s no way one can’t appreciate Arsonal’s dedication to Jersey (even he’s since moved to Louisiana and now Atlanta), but from jumpstreet this had bodybag written all over it and sadly that’s all it ended up being. If anything this is a lesson in leaving whatever little hometown respect your legacy has…to ya hometown.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Best line: Swave Sevah – “My nigga I’m a real nigga fam, I attack from a different standpoint, so fuck all these alien sound effects, talk to me in your man voice”

WTF Moment: That gay-ass slap on the back from O-Solo’s hypeman in round 2.

Swave Sevah defeats Shotgun Suge

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Synopsis: With his size and girth it’s easy to see why Suge would choose the “bully” lane while battling. But putting aside what he’s really done (or not done) outside the battle arena, not showing up in Detroit a couple of years ago after that disrespectful and distasteful Proof diss was another huge stain on his battle career and even his ghetto pass. Thus, seeing Swave pull Shotgun’s bully card throughout this battle had to be a delight for anyone outside of Jersey.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Best line: TIE – Shotgun Suge: “Swave you came with those gargles like you ready for combat, no, you wear glasses because you scared of contact” and Swave Sevah – “I bet if he read something out loud it would make all us laugh, the type of nigga you text him right and he’ll call you back!”

Instant classic: Math Hoffa cutting through the crowd and coming out on stage after being called out by Suge.

Swave Sevah defeats Young Kannon

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Synopsis: Overall, a good show from Young Kannon, but against this A-game version of Swave Sevah he would’ve needed to put on the performance of your life. And unlike his recent battle against B-Magic, Kannon just didn’t have enough stamina to deliver it here.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Best line: Swave Sevah – “You a young kannon [cannon], the fuck is that? a .22?”

Head Ice defeats Swave Sevah

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Recap. A couple of Harlem vets, Swave Sevah and Head Ice, go at it on the main stage and the angles are pretty noticeable here with Swave hitting with hardbody punches when he wasn’t getting metaphorical with pronounced schemes/break-downs of his opponent’s moniker. While Ice gets busy with righteous punchlines, able-bodied personals and in taking the 1st round, witty storytelling bars that were highlighted by Ice’s appreciation of Swave’s girl hitting him off with ‘home fries’ after a great night of passion. Judging from Swave’s inability to keep a straight face thru Ice’s more comedic barbs, it’s all in good fun tho, even after Swave easily takes the 3rd round with a load of stinging (“Your battles are like the rumors of you knocking Rex out, ‘cuz if it has an impact, it’s not from one of your punches!”) personals and other lyrical shiners. Thus, this one comes down to the 2nd, a solid turn from both battlers, but with Ice dishing (“You ain’t built for the streets say the punches that your jaw take, back to karate-chopping board games!”) straight heat more consistently with a little less filler, it ends up being a close win for Mr. I Control Everything.

Verdict: Head Ice (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Head Ice – “You probably feeling like we supposed to be friends, taking off ya glasses like we supposed to be twins!”

Swave Sevah defeats QP

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Synopsis: Swave Sevah’s reputation for administering bodybags was put on full display here. As the Team Homi capo tosses aside QP’s slick wordplay/punches and jokes with a plethora of righteous bully talk, rigid name flips, raucous punchlines, a classic 2nd round tutorial (‘Tell ’em…’) on exposing your opponent and witty barbs to boot. And with Sevah scoring even when breaking down his own bars, this Grind Time battle would become a one-sided affair with the more versatile and consistently hitting Swave handily taking all 3 rounds rounds over his topsy-turvy opp..

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Best lines: Swave Sevah – “You waste of a SON, you that nut that should’ve bust on some titties!”

Swave Sevah defeats Big Kannon

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Recap: Swave Sevah puts down the hammer on a somewhat (at least in round 1 anyway) distracted Big Kannon with plenty of fat (“The only gram he ever touched was a cracker, and the last raid he was in involved a fridge”) jokes, name flips and flat-out haymakers to score an easy 3-0 in this Grind Time matchup.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Sevah Sevah – “This fuck face walked into a buffet with the tough face like…[growls}’Gimme a plate!”

Swave Sevah defeats O-Red

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Recap: The one battle O-Red probably wishes he could wipe off his resume as he not only gets out-barred by opponent Swave Sevah throughout the match, but he rather embarassingly chokes in both the 1st and 3rd rounds. Swave, continually bullish and on top of his game from round 1, also does an excellent job here of playing to the crowd, all the while using a gang of stifling personals, fire breakdowns and hard-hitting punchlines to dig up what was ultimately a body.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “The bitch type, see, in beef I make nigga’s bleed and leave scars, in beef you wait till nigga’s leave and key cars!”

Instant classic: “There’s no crying in the URL” (from female fan in crowd)

Dizaster defeats Swave Sevah

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Synopsis: This could easily go down as “debatable”, especially what with Swave predicting how Dizaster would deliver his bars in round 1. But in front of a hostile crowd (watch Swave’s people’s clearly attempting to punk Diz while he rhymed) with some nice freestyle’s mixed in throughout and slightly better punches in round 3, I edged it for Dizaster (who deserves props alone for going after some boo-birds in the audience).

Verdict: Dizaster (W) 2-1

Best line: Dizaster – “If you and me had the same phone, I’d jack your charger!”

Instant classic – Cormega guest-hosting and Poison Pen’s big ass sandwich

Swave Sevah defeats Syd Vicious

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Synopsis: In a battle filled with hilarity Swave Sevah conducts a tutorial in career development, creativity, performance (the “candy bars vs. prison bars” narrative alone was fire) and personals to add another trophy to the shelf for Team Homi.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Syd Vicious – “Yo I’m a real nigga so I wouldn’t stand here and tell a boldface lie, but when you Google Swave Sevah the results say ‘Why?'”

Swave Sevah defeats Fredo

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Recap: I agreed with the judges on this one. Despite Fredo laying down a classic 3rd round of dope one-liners and too-funny (“Your dad’s a dumb cunt, your karate class was mad expensive, it cost him an arm and a leg, so he paid half upfront”) quips on Swave Sevah’s dad, overall his inconsistency in rounds one and two hurt him, therefore allowing Swave’s usage of brash (“Pen said they sleeping on you my nigga, I said yeah, on a bed of nails”) bars, nifty jokes and steady punchlines to edge those rounds and make it a case of too little, too late.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “Fuck a diet, this nigga when on a ‘Try It!'”

Swave Sevah defeats HighCollide

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Recap: Honestly thought there wasn’t any need for OT because Swave Sevah edged rounds one and three with a batter variety of bars versus mostly average punchlines from High Collide. Nonetheless, despite the slip-up, I thought Sevah landed the only haymaker (“I’m not feeling you cuz so I’m killing ya buzz like AA meetings”) in OT to win it, not that High Collide’s weak rebuttal and random bar at Dumbfounded helped.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) OT

Favorite line: Swave Sevah -“I’ll buy a bulletproof vest, make you wear it and test and see if it work”

Swave Sevah defeats Deacon Frost

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Synopsis: Sure, Deacon Frost can be a funny guy (“S.F. we mobbing deep on some Mexican shit, [while] you in your grandma living room dancing naked to Prince”) at times, but his serious lack of quality bars and/or dope punchlines usually makes for an easy win….if you’re his opponent. Such is the case here as Swave Sevah delivers roundhouse bars, jokes and a plethora of haymakers (“Y’all just put a featherweight in a death match against Leatherface”) to take up an easy body.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah -“You got a Tyrone Biggums swag….and a Trick Daddy face”

Swave Sevah defeats Knowledge Medina

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Recap: After splitting the first two rounds with an aggressive and solid-punching Knowledge Medina, Swave Sevah uses a grandiose variety of boastful darts, witty punchlines and stifling personals in the 3rd round to get an easy win.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “This nigger look like the missing link between human’s and penguin’s!”

Swave Sevah defeats Jay Focus

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Recap: Arguably the first Christian battle rapper, a very pedestrian and flow-challenged Jay Focus’ attempts to not curse did garner some laughs. That and Swave Sevah’s repeated mockery of his opponent’s more subdued raps along to go along with a mean punch game earns the Harlem battler an easy 3-0.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “I ain’t playing no games, this beat go in, if this was a game, whoever using me put a G-code in!”

Swave Sevah defeats Imaredo

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Recap: Three shortened, but highly efficient turns from Swave Sevah, filled with plenty of wit and hardbody punches gets the win over a mostly pedestrian Imaredo in this 3-rounder from Grind Time New York battle.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “No lie, this nigga is so skinny he could look through a peephole with both eyes!”

Z.M. defeats Swave Sevah

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OT

Synopsis: Swave got off to a hot start (“You might have a chance at winning if this was a pie-eating contest”), but lost momentum in the latter rounds leading to an OT that he clearly wasn’t prepared for.

Verdict: Yung ZM (W) OT

Favorite line: Yung Z.M. – “Bitch, you so dark it look like you stood outside for two summers…”

Swave Sevah defeats Chuck Black

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Recap: While Chuck Black came through with 3 solid, witty at times and gun bar-spazzing turns, in this Grind Time East battle versus Swave Sevah, the Harlem-nite’s rugged punches, mocking personals and boastful stunting were enough to take both of the opening rounds, before a debatable 3rd.

Verdict: Swave Sevah (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Swave Sevah – “See, you talk like you a wild cowboy, but where at?, Brokeback Mountain?!”