Recap: A couple of things that always leaves you shaking your head in battle rap: dudes who can’t separate street shit from battles and battlers who get pissed at the audience for cheering on one of their lines. That said, no contest here as Teewhy’s florescent gun bars, boastful darts, fiery name flips and sizzling punchlines/wordplay combine to easily beat back a mostly mediocre Chris Hood in this 1-rounder from GOTG.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Teewhy – “Buck-fifty to the face ‘cuz I’m generous, I come back to the hood with a smile…it’s a fundraiser!”
Recap: Dope 1-rounder from the Colisseum Battle League between Swagtanna and Teewhy offers up a competitive display of spicy set-ups/name flips and smooth darts from Swag, while Teewhy brought the heat with his own dose of blistering gun bars, a boatload of hitting name flips and fiery punchlines/personals. And while both battlers kept it on-point with a barrage of hitting lines, it’s Teewhy’s ability to outscore his opponent on the haymakers that made the difference here.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Teewhy – “Head shot on his sewing machine…mean, he was literally minding his business!”
Recap: Light-skin lookalikes J. Murda and Teewhy bring the heat, mayhem, hitting personals and gritty punchlines to this 3-round, iBattle matchup. And while it’s a competitive one throughout, a slightly more consistent with the punches as well as more intricate Teewhy, after a debatable 1st round, edges both rounds 2 and 3 for the win.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Teewhy – “Nigga, I’m a tool raiser, bust in the crib like where the loot playa?, two lasers, one on you, beam on a band, I’m a Room Raider!”
Recap: With each battler clearly motivated to alleviate their status in the game, both Truth Watson and Teewhy bring A-game material to this spitfire, URL “One Off” battle. South Carolina’s Truth, confident throughout the match, stays competitive with a wide array of stinging schemes, some intense personals, storied personals and especially during an almost flawless 2nd round, a gang of flexing (“His face on a shirt, soon as I unload the toy, I’ll put ‘T’ on a tee, I’m dressing like the old Soulja Boy!”) punchlines. But even with his opponent’s impressive taunts serving as pretty formidable, Teewhy would be undeterred. The Jersey rapper coming through with 3 consistently gritty rounds of mayhem, potent name flips, frenzied performance bars, standout personals on the battle rap genre, spicy set-ups and roundhouse (“Why battle me?, I’ll make you hold this ‘L’ and spin off like an Allen key!”) punchlines to edge both rounds 1 and 3 and gain the vic.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Teewhy – “What’s up with us?, dedicated years to y’all to get left in the fucking dust, trusted y’all vision and y’all out here booking one-eyed niggers…the fuck is up?!”
Recap: Close and solid 1-round battle between Showtime and Teewhy delivers aplenty on the mayhem, fiery gun bars and braggadocio lines. But even with Showtime coming hard on the aggression/performance axioms, eventually it’s a more consistent, versatile and wordplay/name flip/punch-heavy Teewhy who crosses the finish line first.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Teewhy – “I ride up, big blazer, I’m a risk taker, get kidnapped and hung up over a mountain in big danger, you gonna die like the movies, but right before I tell you how [bwoh!], I’m a end Show with a cliffhanger!”
Recap: Steams versus Teewhy would’ve been a better battle if the former hadn’t struggled with his flow in the 1st round and literally given up on his 3rd barely a minute in. Competitive, mayhem-friendly, punch/wordplay-heavy and name flip sauteed when they both were on point with the bars, a clearly more crisp with his flow and passionate with the punches Teewhy also dishes more haymakers to edge round 1, before a debatable 2nd and partly due the aforementioned capitulation by his opponent, easily takes the closing round.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Teewhy – “I’m a pop this thing, Glock’s will ring, thsi bicth fit for a body, I’m bringing bars back and leaving more Cakes stretched than squat machines!”
Recap: Similar, aggressive styles with a love for fiery punches and loaded gun bars, NXT and Teewhy not only deliver a dope and competitive one in this 3-rounder from Shots Fired Battle League. But after NXT drops a couple of more ringing haymakers to edge an electric-on-both-sides round 1, a slightly more consistently blazing, wordplay/performance-lit and versatile with the punches Teewhy edges the latter two rounds for the win.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Teewhy – “You ain’t no muthafuckin’ man, trying to belittle me, nigga, you a fan, you forgot that ya opp’s elite?!”
Recap: Solid, highly-personal themed battle between Teewhy and Trey 30 sees the former, even while getting laced with some fiery schemes and in-your-face blunt (“I mean, they even took you to the PG’s like you would really lay it down, but it was more like you only stuck arm out the window before we made our way to town, we went out convinced T would be enough heat since Breezy ain’t around!”) Breeze speak from his a-little-filler-prone opponent, get in his bag with a more consistent and aggressive palette of potent (“Who next trip?, I’ll murk your family, your pop pop, then 30 grams in a bag like I blessed the zip!”) gun bars, witty one-liners and his own lot of formidable personals to take round 1 and edge round 3 for the win.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Teewhy – “Tool rage, .38 pointing at the Trey like the Flu game!”
Recap: Loud, witty, highly entertaining and (Jerry Wess with the arguable Bar of the Year during what was a flawless turn: ‘…the bullet will spill out Tee [tea] like ‘Ain’t no sugar in this shit!’ haymaker and Teewhy with the superlative ‘Rap like Jerry Wess’ impression in round 2) sublime battle between Teewhy and Wess certainly got the crowd reaction’s it deserved and the competitive stamp it warranted. Indeed, for all of Teewhy’s fiery punches, aggressive (“Tool draw, snap shot, I’ll do a burger sloppy like food porn!”) gun lines and nifty wordplay, on this particular day his opponent just has as dope a gameplan. Wess going performance bar-heavy and coming over-the-top with the (“Every game I had, I never been ejected, somebody should recognize, they just gave me a tech [Tec], I gotta stop fucking with the ref [points at Teewhy] I got T’d up a second time!”) set-ups/name flips to overtake a pretty solid turn in its own right by Teewhy in round 1, before a nice rebuttal to the start of his turn along with a little less filer gives (“For even thinking he on my level, Y know he must be drunk!”) Jerry the 2nd as well. And while Teewhy would pull out a sorta embarrassing picture prop and attempt to get extra personal, the 3rd round was still the least eventful round of the battle. Yet, with Wess firing off more consistently spicy shiners, the Brooklyn battler gets the final round too and earns the 30.
Verdict: Jerry Wess (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Jerry Wess – “Bang!, bang!, bang!, I lost count, I put a lot in the grave, I just killed everybody in the Colosseum…are you not entertained!”
Recap: An apparent grudge match between Brooklyn Carter and Teewhy gets decided by witty personals from the NJ rapper, who after proving his mettle and matching his opponent in steely name flips, crazy (“Y’all thought this would be a classic?, I don’t see why [C Y], stop comparing me, the similarity literally ends with Teewhy [T Y]!”) wordplay, fiery punchlines and potent bars, stood out more when he called out BC’s URL standing in a wild 3rd round and flipped on BC’s infamous YouTube rant against Cortez. No doubt, Carter was solid throughout, (“‘Cuz where I’m from, less is more, he usually the first to take flight, like the 2nd floor!”) punching and scheming hard with venom, especially in the 1st (which he won clearly after Teewhy fumbled to the point of embarrassingly having to pull his phone out at the start of his round) and 3rd rounds. But a lack of overall versatility from BC along with a solid, but none too spectacular 2nd round, before stepping up with a ferocious final round that would’ve beat most opponent’s, should give Carter another look on the ‘main stage’. But it just wasn’t enough to overcome Teewhy’s steadier comeuppance and more multifaceted bars.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Teewhy – “That’s punching, your shit Instagram likes, they all love taps!”
Recap: An aggressive, (“You’re 22, a grown man, your mother want you out of her home!”) scheme-heavy Haixian splits the first two rounds with (“Keg stand, this bitch get lifted upside down with a barrel in a mouth!”; “All the DMV good for is taking head shits when they giving you plates!”) rapid puncher/performance-feen Teewhy in this PG battle from URL/Smack. Leaving it to the 3rd to decide matters, while Teewhy’s educational-themed bars made their points, it’s Haixian who switches up with a more consistently (“Head wound, what you ain’t peep the line?, this fake cake getting his ass shot for being a week behind!”) nice bar/punch-fest to take it in the end.
Verdict: Haixian (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Haixian – “We set him up, told this nigga to get in the ride, my partner told don’t kill him, we letting him slide, he got out, then I got out, Tee mind is two seconds behind…[BOW!!!], he don’t know he dead, Tee mind is two seconds behind!”
Recap:According to the host of this battle, both Teewhy and Serius Jones still wanted this battle put out despite the bad editing (which happens, suspiciously, mostly during Teewhy’s rounds) and lost footage, therefore a recap. Overall, neither battler particularly shined here esp. with a personal-leaning but (“Nigga, you look like Pinocchio just became a real boy!”) oft-witty Jones’ often (“Pistola”?!?) reaching with his punches and Teewhy, while more consistent with his flow, engaging in a lot of filler throughout his turns. Still, from what you see here, it’s hard not to call this for Jones as after getting edged in the first round, it looked like he easily took the 2nd, before edging the 3rd with more fiery punchlines, personals and wordplay. But it wouldn’t be fair to make a call a winner what with the aforementioned technical difficulties, missing bars from Teewhy and the allegation that a huge Jones slip-up got edited out. Of course, how you put on a battle with only one cameraman, much less no backup batteries is another story.
Verdict: No Contest
Favorite line: Teewhy – “Y’all got me really mad at him, Billy Madison, old nigga getting schooled by them young boy’s!”
Recap: Exactly what you want to see in a PG battle: both rappers giving 100%, no slip-ups or chokes and best yet, a sterling matchup that’s almost too close to call (even with Gwitty’s constant interruptions). Steady heat from Teewhy and Whosane in the 1st round, but Teewhy with a richer performance, exquisite (“Angel spitting up crazy, that’s some fountain shit!”) wordplay and less filler edges it. 2nd round went to Whosane, overpowering his opponent’s most fierce bars with delicious bully/gun (“When these Clips get Loaded, it ain’t two Harlem nigga’s bitching on the stage!”) bars along with a couple of wicked haymakers. But Teewhy gets the win by edging the 3rd round with a little more consistent bars/wordplay overall, despite a pretty electric turn from Whosane that was coupled with some elongated set-ups and a ‘lil too much pontificating that proved costly in the end.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Teewhy – “I got a glock, the other side got a rugar strap, my nigga’s in your area code letting the toolie clap, 15 of them in a group, it’s like a booster pack, with 8 45’s [845] where you stay, you should be used to that!”
Recap: What with Beasley co-hosting, one could garner a pretty good guess as to what contributed to Teewhy and Reepah Rell both making it to the URL stage. That’s how fire and competitive this matchup was, with punches galore from both battlers, the required split of the first two rounds and a pretty fire and tight deciding 3rd–that’s usually the prerequisite for dope battle. A more condensed, performance/wordplay strutting and a bit harder (“Rocket, long as hell, you’d think that I pack Yao!”; “Everybody want to be a hero till they find out how much the Subway [sub weigh]!”) hitting overall Reepah takes the first, before Teewhy comes back in the later half of his 2nd round with some rapid heat and loud (“You giving a shot?, how generous, I want you to keep it!”; “I wet God…he Poseidon!”) haymakers that got him the edge there. 3rd round, as a whole, was yet another punchfest. But with Rell offering up not only some hard shiners, but more steely name flips and personals that deftly landed, his versatility over a solid, but a bit elongated turn by Teewhy gives the former the win.
Verdict: Reepah Rell (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Reepah Rell – “You could tell a nigger that never shot a gun round just happy making up gun sounds!”
Recap: Besides a couple of ever-so-slight slip-ups, Mo Mula does his thing here with a confident flow that nicely combined fierce (“When I shoot around [a round] it make everybody in your circle leave, that’s a rec center”) punches with some dope performance bars and fervid (“I stay with the tre-pound, like a mom with a premature baby”) wordplay. However, overall Teewhy does his thing one better with aggressive name flips and (“For you, I had to write for real, and for me, the nigga had to write his will, the will to write got a nigga itching to kill, I will [throws right hand at Mula’s face] right Mula like I’m paying with a check for the bill!”) schemes that mixed well with salient braggadocio lines along with righteous (“These bullets donkeys in rewind, that mean they knock his ass backwards!”) gun bars in this fiery one-rounder between two of Colosseum Battle League’s best.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Teewhy – “See these Money schemes, y’all probably thinking stop it, but I’m just flipping Mula [moolah] to show y’all I’m a fucking prophet!”
Recap: Traphouse up-n-comers Teewhy and ZigZag duke it out for 3 salacious rounds with Teewhy more whimsical (“He food, he brake fast [breakfast] then a [dinner] nigga was ate!”; “I’ll never lose to no faggot, and we all know zigzags ain’t straight!”) bars and less filler edging the 1st round (despite some dope [“You’ll get the shotgun, but this here Bud, when I squeeze, it’ll pop seeds like I’m feeding the lawn!”] performance bars from his opponent) and a more charged-up and (“You don’t pay attention, so I ain’t register nothing!”) pronounced ZigZag taking the 2nd. Solid round by both battlers in the 3rd, but Teewhy gets a dub with continuously aggressive wordplay upstaged with a better consistency.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Teewhy -“I’ll pop chins like a Chinese father, nigga…apparently!”
Recap: With ‘weed money’ on the line in this judged battle, both Teewhy and (“After my last battle some bitch texted me, she said ‘ you did your thing, who ya got next’, I said ‘Teewhy [TY]’, she said ‘ya welcome'”) Aslan came with some pretty nice bars. However, split going into the last round, while each battler delivered a solid turn, it’s Teewhy who despite being a little lethargic at times, comes out on top and edges it with a little less filler along with a better flow in the 3rd.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Teewhy – “Y’all got me battling a nigga who use a Yugioh card to promote battling?!, well since this nerdy nigga like Yugioh, I figured I’ll use it to dismantle him!”
Recap: Battle of the braggadocio bars in this intergender matchup between Teewhy and Smooth. Harlem’s Smooth, who I don’t recall seeing on QOTR or any other battle leagues period, represented well and came hard with some aggressive (“You see me, you see P and the God Arty, I’ll put blood here and blood there, like a Piru party!”) wordplay and solid punches throughout her turn. But compared to Teewhy’s more consistent flow, fiery (“Feeling froggy, should’ve leaped. leave ’em froggy like Malignaggi when Porter put him to sleep!”) punchlines and heavier bar quotient, it’s the Jersey newcomer who gets this one.
Verdict: Teewhy (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Teewhy – “Mt shit infectious, spread it and I need a Benydril, you ain’t a fraction of my .6, so how could you half as ill?”
