Recap: A mayhem-lit 3-rounder from URL’s ‘Banned’ series, Chess uses a gang of potent rank-n-file name flips, consistently raucous punches, a few solid personals, hitting wordplay and a boatload of gritty gun bars to take the first couple of rounds for the win. Before Tink Da Demon, earnest throughout with the caustic bars and name flips, but much less substantive overall with the punchlines, came back with gripping and steadily hitting 3rd to avoid the 30.
Verdict: Chess (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chess – “He walked in thinking he the shit, then realized he’s number two and that’s where he gets deterred!”
Recap: From URL’s Lite Work card, both Danny Myers and Tink Da Demon spout a bunch of mayhem, gore, spiteful gun bars and spirited boasts/punchlines over the course of three rounds to keep you captivated. But in what was a close battle throughout, it’s the slightly more consistently hitting Tink who edges rounds 1 and the deciding 3rd for the win.
Verdict: Tink Da Demon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tink Da Demon – “Clip full of bald heads preying over your bald head like a skinhead convention!”
Recap: Capped by a superlative opening round that was as punch-lit, mayhem rich, fire personals and metaphorically heavy as one would expect from him, after dominating round 1, a still hard-hitting Fonz then edges both of the latter rounds to get the 30 in this URL/Initiation 2 matchup vs. Tink Da Demon. The Delaware rapper getting off to a hot start in each round, but struggling a bit with his breath control and consistency in the first round and despite making things more competitive with his gang of torture racks and morbid polemics in rounds 2 and 3, just couldn’t keep up with his opponent’s more steady burners and rigid name flips.
Verdict: Fonz (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Fonz – “Blast the heat, with this chopper I’m Th3 Saga, fighting demons with a magazine!”
Recap: In this 1-rounder from GOTG, a semi flow-challenged and bit reach-bent Tink Da Demon still made things close with a slew of graphic, mayhem-lit punchlines. But in the long run it’s a more versatile/hard-hitting with the punches and personals, witty and righteous when need be and most importantly for him, consistent with the heat Chuck Book who gets the edge here.
Verdict: Chuck Book (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chuck Book – “So let this nigga give me problems, the semi popping, then dump him on the side of the highway and leave a Demon on the shoulder like a guilty conscience!”
Recap: Heinous and rigid when it comes to delivering mayhem, all the while sporting some insidous wordplay and effectively pronounced punchlines to keep you paying attention, Tink The Demon scores with enough heat to take round 1 and edge round 2 of this Born Legacy NW battle and get the win over gritty and lyrically stunting (esp. in round 3), but too topsy-turvy early on Steams.
Verdict: Tink Da Demon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tink Da Demon – “Jesus turned water into wine, I turn beef into vegetables!”
Recap: Bars littered with plenty of graphic mayhem everywhere you look, but also throwing off the competition with some hard-hitting personals and flexing punchlines, Tink Da Demon takes a solid at times, but overall inconsistent Big Kannon to task with a bunch of hardbody rhythms to take rounds 1 and 3 of this Close Quarters/URL matchup for the win.
Verdict: Tink Da Demon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tink Da Demon – “Fuck Jesus and a pendant, you gonna need him in attendance, shotty spitting, the ghost up but the body didn’t meet him at the entrance!”
Recap: In a 2nd round Ultimate Madness 2 bout already filled with plenty of nihilism, visceral mayhem and head-twisting punchlines, Danny Myers also adds some piercing name flips and dope wordplay to the mix to help him edge all 3 rounds against a topsy-turvy and sometimes flow-challenged Tink Da Demon.
Verdict: Danny Myers (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Danny Myers – “You don’t like how Ryda name his guns? me neither, but I will introduce you to my blade…meet [meat] cleaver!”
Recap: Tink Da Demon’s return to battle rap is a successful one…but barely as with an able assist from the efficiency of opponent Franchise’s prolific gun bars lessening and lessening as the battle continued, Da Demon’s fabled tributes to debauchery, fiery schemes/wordplay and pointed personals do enough to edge the latter rounds (after Franchise took the 1st) of this Ultimate Madness 2 matchup and keep him in the tournament.
Verdict: Tink Da Demon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tink Da Demon – “The reason you gonna die tonight is that ego, not knowing that I control whoever I mettle [medal] with like Magneto, get your soul lifted, pole shifted, you done shook the hand of every man that had a style you liked and went Rogue with it!”
Recap: In a battle that was 15 to 20 minutes longer than it should’ve been and was suddenly interrupted by Tink Da Demon literally throwing up backstage midway through his round 1, a mercurial Th3 Saga uses a boatload of God-fearing raps, stealth punchlines/wordplay and some shiny haymakers to beat back an opponent fanatically rich on diabolic behavior and witty barbs, but mostly underwhelming on angles that hit on Th3 Saga’s spirituality. For Th3 Saga, oft-elongated and unnecessarily combative at times with a crowd that went ham on his more eminent raps, coming off a raucous Chess battle that saw him stay competitive but humbly lose, a 3-0 here makes for the perfect bounce back.
Verdict: Th3 Saga (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Th3 Saga – “I get the call in, bodies disappear, I’m trying to leave the Matrix!”
Recap: Drawing out the mayhem like he enjoys the kill, in this pretty solid 1-rounder from Body Bag Battle League, a loudly visceral Tink Tha Demon serves up a slicing of consistent and utter pandemonium on Kid Chaos to take it in the end. The rapid flowing, sound-effects slinging and at times punch-heavy Chaos put on a quality and competitive show overall, but besides his opponent’s comeuppance, he was also hurt by one too many predictable fat jokes and some pedestrian bars here and there.
Verdict: Tink Da Demon (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Tink Da Demon – “You know what happened to a nigger that get hit with a ghost pellet?, full body Tourette’s to let you know that the ghost felt it!”
Recap: Horrible showing by a slip-up prone Tink Tha Demon, that’s further cemented when he almost chokes on his 1st bar before giving up the round halfway and cutting short his next two thereafter, For the energetic and witty Squeako, for three rounds it was almost like he was battling himself, what with catching a bodybag with little very wear or tear.
Verdict: Squeako (W) 3-0
Favorite line: Squeako – “So pop shit and the automatic, automatic, automatic we gonna spit, big shit, look like I walk around with a tablet on my hip!”
Recap: To borrow a phrase from Young Ill: ‘Who is this nigga?’ Dishing (“Tink, why fight to be the center of attention, just to end up the center of a Caution tape!”) mark-for-death bars at his leisure, performance-heavy, Las Vegas up-n-comer Shi Dog makes easy work of a fiery (“Tell ya bitch before I sweat her [sweater], I’ll take a pocket knife and make a v-neck!”) at times, but slip-up prone Tink Tha Demon in this one-rounder from The Trap NY.
Verdict: Shi Dog (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Shi Dog – “Flex for nothing, your bitch will get a breast reduction, play nice, we might just send a tittle to you!”
Recap: When your opponent doesn’t seem to understand the use of non-personals and gritty metaphors, much less has the gall to spit lame lines like ‘And I’m great like Alexander’, you know (esp. if you’re a URL rapper) that the battle has the potential to be a bodybag…and Tink da Demon does just that, dishing, from jump, hardbody (“Scream RIP to PH as I spark his pumpkin!”) punches, soul-snatching wordplay and a steady mix of fiery (“This gonna be overkill till the kill over!”) bars to take out a clearly overmatched Xman Xcon.
Verdict: Tink da Demon (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Tink da Demon – “I drown a chicken in warm water and bring a bird back!”
Recap: Tink Tha Demon uses rambunctious punchlines and spirited (“You was raised by trans parents that blew [blue] stones, ain’t that a sapphire?”) wordplay to survive a couple of mid-round slip-ups and beat a solid (“…if that was me and my .9 ain’t barking, then I’ll put the silencer on that bitch like ‘don’t speak when a man is talking!”) at times Em_Are, in this one-rounder from Spittaz League.
Verdict: Tink Tha Demon (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Tink Tha Demon – “The difference between us is an ‘It’ factor and I got it!”
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!”
Recap: In a battle that’s pretty evenly replete with fiery and aggressive gun bars, Luck Dollaz’s more consistent flow outlasts a slip-up prone Tink Tha Demon’s.
Verdict: Luck Dollaz (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Luck Dollaz – “Nigga you wants no part of the cannon [Canon], like you camera shy!”
Recap: Neither Tink Tha Demon or Gamble do much to set the world on fire during this matchup from Cabin Fever 2. But after going toe-to-toe with a lot of righteous filler and aggressive bully bars, it’s Tink who after a slow start uses better punchlines and more fiery lines to sneak ahead in round 2 and easily hold on for the win in the 3rd.
Verdict: Tink Tha Demon (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Tink Tha Demon – “I heard you was a smoker on the low, is it true?, ‘cuz shit I’ll make you spend a bill, then whistle for that white like Emmett Till!”
Recap: A spitfire punch-wise (and less morbid) 3rd round by Tink tha Demon isn’t enough to save him from Big Hann’s more condensed, rigged and punch-heavy 1st and 2nd, thus giving Hann the win in this nice, competitive battle from World Battle League.
Verdict: Big Hann (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Big Hann – “You Delaware nigga’s is pussy with no hammers, Me? I keep the ratchet cuffed like I’m slow-dancing!”
Recap: “Committed murder in the first degree before I got my first degree, I’m hood smart and book smart, but y’all act like it hurts to be, so y’all praise niggers who only know these guns and cigs, but I’m soft for trying to educate y’all dumb-ass kids?!” With cerebral haymakers like the aforementioned along with wicked (“Y’all niggas piss me off because you so lame, but like space jam water, when I got bottled up could change the whole game”) punchlines and a swarm of ill gun bars that’d make Tay Roc proud, Dre Dennis takes the first couple of rounds against an (“I’ll play Jenga withcha vertebrae”, the Nuborn scheme, etc.) earnest and performance-heavy, but inconsistent (state schemes are always ill-advised and the round 2 choke killed any chance of evening the match) Tink da Demon, to get the dub in this Proving Grounds matchup.
Verdict: Dre Dennis (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Dre Dennis – “My squad is reckless, nigga damn straight, we’ll clap then look the other way…that’s the Fresh Prince handshake!”
Recap: Tink da Demon had some nice braggadocio lines and funny (“This mission suicide, they got me battling a half-white, black, German, Jewish guy!”) barbs, but a couple of slip-ups along with Rosenberg Raw’s variety what with rap battle tutorials, spirited gun bars and wicked personals were so hot that the damn ring broke.
Verdict: Rosenberg Raw (W) 2-0
Favorite line: Rosenberg Raw – “Head shot, simple, that’s how I’m getting busy, bullets will go in one ear and out the other, be like ‘Nigga, you should’ve listened to me'”
Recap: Nothing like getting in some practice before a battle on the main stage as Tink Tha Demon eschews formalities and tosses out a fierce litany of ‘throwaway’ (“Soon as I blast the shot, it’ll open your fucking earth to the point that an astronaut can feel the aftershock!”) bars at opponent Monstar, who had his (“Buck 50 nah this shit is getting old…give this nigga a hashtag!”) moments of crowd-pleasing theatrics, but spouted too much filler to have any chance of withstanding Tink’s barrage of demonic wordplay and rueful (“Twin .40s, life on the line, peep how I’m squeezing ’em!”) gun lines.
Verdict: Tink Tha Demon (W) 1-0
Favorite line: “I’m war-bred, a war vet, your mother will get th efeeling that you dead, but she ain’t for sure yet….till I ring the doorbell and throw the whole left arm on the doorstep!”
Recap: It’s another day at the office for Tink Tha Demon whose ‘6 Million Ways I Could Kill You’ (“Boxcutter to your face like I’m ripping carpet!”) ethos makes quick work of a simply outclassed Hue Hef.
Verdict: Tink Tha Demon (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Tink Tha Demon – “I’ll knife your name in bubble letters across your chest and rip the meat out!”
Recap: In a one-round battle of two emcees spitting a lot of aggressive lines, but not really saying much, Tink Tha Demon has just enough (“I seen niggas with loud mouths turn casket shy!”) shiners left in the tank to beat a cocky and aggressive, but mostly bland LB Da Boss.
Verdict: Tink da Demon (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Tink Tha Demon – “All I know is shoot to kill, all I seen is bodies, bullets with no names, just ifs, and’s and probably’s!”
