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Bigg K defeats X-Factor

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Recap: Said it before, race angles against white battle rappers, for the most part, just come off as lazy penmanship. In other words, unless you’re a B. Dot or some other conscious battler (where it’s already part of your repertoire), unless you can kick some really unique or otherworldly shit that’s never been done before (or, be adept enough to incorporate race bars around one of your noted signature moves, which in X-Factor’s case would be his ‘Priorities’ lines and while he tried to do so, overall it just didn’t work), angling an entire round (as X-Factor does here in his 3rd against Bigg K) towards race just to score some points with the politically correct crowd and maybe get a win, almost never works. That said, even with a so-so 2nd round, it’s all Bigg K here. The Dawg striking once again with a gang of piercing punchlines/name flips, witty personals and stinging storytelling rhymes to beat an X-Factor who after a pretty solid round 1, just landed in a cesspool of nothing but filler and pedestrian punches thereafter.

Verdict: Bigg K (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Bigg K – “You work out?, big flex, I caught him at mid rep, pulled a p-90 X, it ain’t part of yoru gym set!”

Shotgun Suge defeats X-Factor

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Recap: Another dope BANNED battle sees a focused Shotgun Suge steady dismantle a hotter-as-the-battle-progressed X-Factor with a series of aggressive punchlines, some fire wordplay/gun bars and a boatload of fierce name flips/personals. X-Factor, who literally gave away the first round with a sermonizing half that went nowhere, went on to stand his ground and make things competitive with some set-ups/punchlines of his own. But with too many hit-n-miss stylings in round 2, the battle was already lost for the veteran Detroit rapper before a sterling, real talk friendly 3rd round allowed a non-Priorities spitting X to take the 3rd round and avoid getting 30’d.

Verdict: Shotgun Suge (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Shotgun Suge – “If I lap Miles I’ll put X on his back like off white!”

Jerry Wess defeats X-Factor

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Recap: A ‘Priorities’-missing and (thankfully) ‘pause’-less X-Factor returns to the URL stage from a brief hiatus and puts forth a strong showing here against Jerry Wess with a gang of stifling punchlines/schemes, heated (“That Glock .20, long clip, it’ll finally hit his scalp and bullets will spit out Jerry like Tom finally caught the mouse!”) gun bars and some fire name flips/metaphors that more than proved that if there was any questions about ring rust, the Detroit vet had none. That said, Mr Wess was just better here…in every round. Using an entertaining mix of fiery wordplay, witty (“If it wasn’t for me, Smack would be denying you, with a nose like that, I envy whoever supplying you!”) punches and sometimes with the help of his friends, salacious performance bars that had the crowd roaring, Jerry Wess does it all while earning a 30 in a battle that to give X credit was still closer than the final score indicates.

Verdict: Jerry Wess (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Jerry Wess – “Just ‘cuz you never seen me before, don’t make me new nigga, your new girl my old girl, I was X [ex] before you nigga!”

Ill Will defeats X-Factor

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Recap: Never a surprise to see a couple of Michigan heads get in the ring with each other regardless their stature in the game. And that’s a good thing as X-Factor and Ill Will put on a dope show for their hometown fans. Still, Will gets the 3-0, scoring more points in each round with feelgood (“You shouldn’t be talking about dumping the rocks, when them little niggas fought at our last event, you damn near jumped in my pocket…”) personals, stinging gun bars and fierce (“He scared to throw a bullet like Revis lurking”) punchlines to overcome a comedic and at times hard-hitting (“I got the .9 and before I bust, watch him straighten up, that’s a well alignment”), but too inconsistent with the bars, often elongated with the set-ups and (“I hate you so much that if you was a bitch I’d rape you”?!?) nonsensical X-Factor.

Verdict: Ill Will (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Ill Will – “I done done shit that your ass don’t know about, he getting paid? I’m taking ‘x’ amount of dollars like I don’t know the count”

Goodz defeats X-Factor

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Synopsis: No battle rapper gets booed outside his home turf more than Aye Verb. Yet, I can’t see Aye Verb ever letting booing stop him from delivering a round like X-Factor does here. Shame too, because this isn’t even Goodz at his best and after the 1st round it was kind of close. And while X-Factor’s 2nd was just wack, a real vet wouldn’t let the crowd get to him like that. Clearly unprepared combined with a “priority’s” angle that went nowhere fast, X-Factor should lose a lot of fans for pulling this crap.

Verdict: Goodz (W) 3-0

Best line: Goodz – “And I heard your tenderoni was a sleaze, she a golddiger, I could mac your roni with some cheese, bake her, until she oven hot then I leave her, you open, so you take her out then you eat her, that’s crazy”

O-Red defeats X-Factor

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Recap: Yeah, I gotta agree: taking care of your family is a much bigger priority than fixing your teeth. Still, for all his sometimes witty, but redundant tooth jokes, a mostly tepid X-Factor, while seemingly having the tools (personals, jokes, etc.), just didn’t know what to do with O-Red, who with a fiery barrage of mocking personals, fire schemes and fierce punchlines/wordplay, took out his opponent’s moxie early, left him talking to himself and left with an easy win.

Verdict: O-Red (W) 3-0

Favorite line: O-Red – “I’m a muthafuckin’ boss, Rick Ross couldn’t see O [C.O.]!”

X-Factor defeats Aye Verb

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Recap: Mostly running with a storytelling theme of how bizarre it is for two prominent members of the so-called ‘Midwest Movement’ to be facing each other works well for X-Factor, who despite Aye Verb’s blindfold and fiery (“…I can’t go back, it’s like my transmission slipping!”) comeuppance in round 3, does enough with mild-mannered, but potent schemes, hard-hitting (“You was a ‘Hey Yo Big Gerald!,’ ‘Yes Sir!’ away from being 3-0’ed!”) personals and some jaunty wordplay to take the first couple of rounds and claim his due for the fictional Midwest crown.

Verdict: X-Factor (W) 2-1

Favorite line: X-Factor – “I’m hood here and this jealous would probably hate on your tires if they was having a Good Year!”

Charlie Clips defeats X-Factor

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Recap: Take away the 1st half of X-Factor’s round here versus Charlie Clips and you have a pretty exhilarating (and very long) one-round matchup on the URL/Smack stage. For Clips, in only his 3rd on-screen battle, as far as making an impression goes, all bases were covered: from witty personals to goading off-the-dome lines that no one was safe from to quintessential (“This is what you wanted nigga?, you wanted me to be disrespectful, put my dick in ya niece fish tank, dump the water on ya nephew!”) schemes to flat-footed (“I’m the controller, I leave squares like you so dead, so if X care to the triangles [try angles] like Verb, he’ll get an L too and have to battle U-Red!”) haymakers, all in a battle that he was clearly motivated for as he literally took the crowd chants of “Keep going!” to heart, rapping for like 20-plus minutes. Clearly without a clue of what he was in for, after Clips was finally done, X-Factor still managed to give the crowd a worthy performance…when he got into his bag. Dishing amusing (“Against Tay-Roc about 200…against Verb, 305!”) ‘priority’ bars, feelgood name flips along with requisite (“I be going HAM, up dumping, squeezing that pump, Clips be going HAM…add bacon, cheese and croissant!”) fat jokes that made their mark, Factor’s execution was only hurt by a filler-drenched first few minutes of his round as well as wordplay that didn’t always land hard. That said, altogether Clips’ overall performance combined with better consistency was enough to score a win.

Verdict: Charlie Clips (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Charlie Clips – “It’s been 5 battles straight and you have yet to take that hat off, now either Blind Fury is your barber, he did you and took your back off or you got a hairline that’d make LeBron happy, but piss Smack off!”

X-Factor defeats Rich Dolarz

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Synopsis: Not much to see here as X-Factor did a total demolition of Rich Dolarz, who after almost choking in round 1, put on a decent comeback (you could argue that round 2 was debatable), but still couldn’t handle X’s overall tenacity, bars, joke-telling (tho that “You so much of a bitch I had plans on mating you” line was kinda teh ghey) and of course, “priority” darts. Give Rich credit tho for coming through in front of a clearly biased crowd against one of Detroit’s most notable vets–perhaps choosing not to wear the stanky Yankee cap did him in.

Verdict: X-Factor (W) 3-0

Best line: X-Factor – “I’m from Detroit where hustling’s a profession so for that work they let off rounds, they carry wessons so will smith you for 7 pounds”

X-Factor defeats DNA

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Recap: Like a Mariano Rivera cut fastball, even if you know it’s coming, doesn’t mean you can hit it. That’s the theme here as a hilarious, crowd-pleasing X-Factor loaded up on the tooth jokes to help him come from behind and beat a versatile, but stamina-lacking DNA. Indeed, after (“Nigga, you so old when you battled Nemysys I had a tooth!”) out-snapping his opponent to take an all-around fire 1st round, DNA, while still solid for the latter two rounds, just couldn’t match X-Factor’s comeuppance, which included a multi-faceted, (“DNA stand for Dentures Not Around!”) punch-heavy 2nd round and a superb, personal/priorities-drenched and witty 3rd round that continued to rock the crowd and more importantly gave the Detroit emcee the win.

Verdict: X-Factor (W) 2-1

Favorite line: X-Factor – “If you walk into an executive office, they’ll beg your pardon…they’ll look you square in the face and say, that’s nothing we can market!”

Tsu Surf defeats X-Factor

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Synopsis: A biased crowd and Suge proving to be a dope hypeman could easily cause one to give this matchup to Surf. But upon closer inspection, this battle was pretty close throughout with Surf (“What do you think of X?, ‘Oh’ hugs and kisses!”) and X-Factor clearly splitting the first two rounds. Round 3 being the deciding factor, give Surf the edge for staying consistent while slightly better overall bars. X-Factor was funny throughout tho and definitely represented for the Midwest.

Verdict: Tsu Surf (W) 2-1

Best line: X-Factor – “Stop all this fictional shit about your glock-9, how you whipping the rock and seen more pots than a nigga dyslexic staring at stop sign”

X-Factor defeats Amzilla

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Synopsis: So at the beginning Poison Pen clearly yells (twice) that this is an unlimited battle, X-Factor goes unlimited and somehow Amzilla still gets cut off?! Anyway, considering that X went ham with the jokes and delivery and Amzilla admittedly stumbled (which he to make up for a lil’ bit with a freestyle), I highly doubt that Amzilla had enough left in his tank to catch up to the overall zealotry X-Factor displayed in his round. So give X the win, but with an asterisk.

Verdict: X-Factor (W) 1-0*

Favorite line: X-Factor – “When you see his mom and dad, smack ’em…cuz’ they’re cousins”

Tech-9 defeats X-Factor

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Recap: Tech-9 puts on one of his better shows entertaining the crowd with consistently hilarious (“Plus you got your style from me stepson so pay respect to your dad, and stop sucking your teeth when I slap your mom on the ass”) bars and adept storytelling, while breaking down X-Factor’s steeze and street acumen. While X-Factor made it competitive at times, his choke in round 1, overall inconsistency and stumble in round 3 made this an easy win for the kid from Philly.

Verdict: Tech-9 (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Tech-9 – “All my dimes live and they all wanna fuck me, I tell them hoes close they eyes and pick a number to fuck me”

Cortez defeats X-Factor

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Recap: Take out X-Factor’s choke in round one and you have a pretty good battle between him and Cortez here in this early URL/Smack battle. Both came hard with plenty of personals, working punchlines and heavy bars, but Cortez took it overall by adding better wordplay, more consistent lines and continual name flips that repeatedly scored. However, besides the kid from Brooklyn getting the win, this battle should also be noted to refute those who still say they’ve never seen what’s under X-Factor’s cap.

Verdict: Cortex (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Cortez – “Just to get a head [ahead] he be giving neck, only time’s X’s on paper when he incorrect”

X-Factor defeats Nymesys

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Recap: Nymesys goes one-topic with street yarns that were at times (“When ya riding around town in the drop, man the ladies love you, now ya bitches like ya chain, I’ll pop her and take her from you!”) …fire. But a little too much filler and a more (“When guns pop, this nigga jeting, he’ll turn his New Balances’ into old equilibrium’s!”) versatile X-Factor gives the Michigan cat this one.

Verdict: X-Factor (W) 1-0

Favorite line: X-Factor – “You a nice joke and he must be a welder, shit, that’s the only time he let his pipe smoke. Is he nice? No. But he smoke weed and he a fag so I guess this nigga might blow!”