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Recap: From Gates of the Garden, credit to Wise for making the Chef work hard for this one. Trez using a barrage of fierce gun bars, slick rebuttals, fire name flips and hard-hitting schemes/punchlnes to edge rounds 1 and 2 in this 3-rounder for the win before Wise, who was competitive, gritty and punch & scheme-lit throughout the battle, handily took the 3rd.
Verdict: Chef Trez (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Chef Trez – “His grave like the vein of a heroin user, the boy in it!”
Recap: From the Gates, both Chess and Wise put on dope showings during a 1-rounder that featured more than enough sizzling street bars, fiery boasts and hardbody punchlines to keep things competitive. But via a more timely efficient and versatile turn when it came to haymakers, righteous bangers and a gang of stinging wordplay, it’s the Young Gawd who takes this one in the end.
Verdict: Chess (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Chess – “Acting like you smart, but out here doing stupid shit, like calling yourself ‘Wise’, thinking you knew some shit, I mean you could know it all, but it ain’t effective if you don’t use the shit, ‘cuz knowledge is what you know and wisdom is what you do with it!”
Recap: From Gates of the Garden, Wise who made a nice impression against Tay Roc sometime back, does the same here versus O-Red, using a bunch of fiery schemes, boastful barbs and gritty punchlines to make things competitive in this 1-rounder. But equipped with a barrage of stifling wordplay, rigid sports bars, potent set-ups, sizzling trap talk/gun bars and hard-hitting punches/name flips, it’s a more versatile and steadier with the handle Red who ends up getting the win.
Verdict: O-Red (W) 1-0
Favorite line: O-Red – “Fuck humble Red, you’ll get the cocky side, in them Philly streets with the Tommy gun…it get Rocky 5!”
Recap: Don’t get to see 3-rounders from Gates of the Garden too often. But for the 3 rounds, Wise versus JC, is for the most part a doozy, as the former showed he deserved a shot at the vet by delivering a strong and aggressive performance (when he wasn’t taking too long to build to the punches in the earlier rounds) what with a sometimes mean punch-game and a gang of gritty bangers/personals that when consistently lit, made for a debatable 3rd. Good thing for JC tho that he didn’t come to play either. The newly recruited EFB member sticking it to his opponent with a plethora of lethal set-ups/punches, sizzling name flips, rich metaphors, stirring vet talk and bruising wordplay that spiced with the addition of a suprising, final round pop-lock got him both of the opening rounds and proved that whether it’s the younger JC or the older JC, count your blessings on the outcome.
Verdict: JC (W) 2-1
Favorite line: JC – “See, y’all just a copy photo image, y’all flip the same stories for a punchline, but we supposed to believe ‘cuz you so descriptive?!…nigga, so are snitches!”
Recap: Spouting a bunch of spicy name flips, grabbing your attention with some gritty wordplay and dishing a fierce/aggressive mix of grimy mayhem, punchlines and personals, in this 1-rounder from GOTG that featured Tay Roc making his 1st appearance in the Gates, an altogether pretty solid Wise certainly makes a name for himself. Yet, wasting little time (unlike his opponent, who did spit some filler here and there) with straight-ahead potent punches, wily name flips, fire set-ups, a conversational screed or two to go along with a gang of hardbody gun missives and righteous personals, even within the confines of a smaller league, Roc more than makes his presence felt.
Verdict: Tay Roc (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Tay Roc – “The gun lift, your mom’s won’t recognize you when that bag unzip, she like ‘That wasn’t Wise, you musta done some dumb shit!'”
Recap: After just completing a battle the previous day, Geechi Gotti makes his first appearance on the Gates of the Garden stage and despite an aggressive, gritty and pretty solid from his opponent Wise, it’s a variety of sizzling name flips and piercing punchlines/personals that gets Gotti the win in this 1-rounder.
Verdict: Geechi Gotti (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Geechi Gotti – “Hey, do you got kids, do they watch your battles?, nigga that’s beautiful, that’ll make it easier for them to deliver Wise words at a funeral!”
Recap: From GOTG, showing off some fire wordplay and consistently hitting with the punchlines, mayhem and name flips, a slightly more steady and condensed Bill Collector manages to edge a pretty solid and gritty effort from Wise in what was a competitive 1-rounder.
Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 1-0
Favorite line: Bill Collector – “If I catch you off base I’ll tag your block, turn your whole neighborhood to Ragnarok!”
Recap: After edging round one with better punchlines and some gritty visuals with the bars, Wise gets a little less potent and predictable with his bars/schemes in the latter rounds, thus leaving more than enough room for Big Hann to edge round 2 with steadier hardbody barbs and easily take the deciding round 3 with a nice mix of lucid personals and rambunctious punches.
Verdict: Big Hann (W) 2-1
Favorite line: Big Hann – “You’ll get [bwoh!] without me even looking….crock pot!”
