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Your Honor defeats Loso

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Recap: How many times during a battle do you hear someone in the crowd tell a battler to ‘turn it up’? Well, after getting out-punched by a grittier Loso in round 1 of this ‘Banned’ URL bout, Your Honor does just that, but on his own. The DMV rapper speeding up his flow in light of a strict time clock and delivering a couple of spitfire rounds filler with piercing trap talk, graphic boasts and hard-hitting 4-bar set-up/punchlines to land more haymakers and take both of the latter rounds over consistently solid, but less efficient Horseman.

Verdict: Your Honor (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Your Honor – “I be shooting the shit out of light-skin nigga’s, no bluffing, it’s vertical for accuracy, horizontal for when I’m stunting, you wanna die or you wanna almost die, ‘cuz that’s a lower button!”

Don Marino defeats Your Honor

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Recap: Granted, a few slip-ups, coming off less witty than usual and a couple of oft-tilt themes by Your Honor certainly didn’t help his chances. But altogether, a focused Don Marino, spouting a series of rich name flips, captivating struggle bars, piercing personals and fiery punchlines/gun bars/self-deprecating lines, while a bit on overkill at times, still manages to put forth enough steady heat to earn the 30.

Verdict: Don Marino (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Don Marino –  “They gave the Honor to a Mexican like Cinco De Mayo!”

D.O.T. defeats Your Honor

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Recap: Close and highly entertaining (don’t believe me then just ask Bill Collector, who at times looked like he might blow a gasket laughing so much throughout the bout) battle from URL’s Born Legacy 12 card between D.O.T. and Your Honor features a gang of dope name flips from each side to go along with plenty of loud gun bars, piercing punchlines, witty barbs and performance-rich antics that kept the crowd glued. A really strong 1st round by Your Honor gets edged by a slightly more punch-lit, eccentric and condensed D.O.T., before a more consistently spicy YH edges round 2 to split things going into the final round. And while a pretty solid YH would come through with another congenial turn of whimsical punches to highlight his 3rd, a more versatile D.O.T. would get both real and personal while addressing the small elephant in the room, that is D.O.T. being a former member of Dot Mobb while in turn YH recently joined the legendary collective. The change in subject matter would allow D.O.T. to get intuitive and take some time and share some intriguing war stories concerning the group before moving on and unleashing some more resident heat to win the round and the battle.

Verdict: D.O.T. 

Favorite line: D.O.T. – “Let’s see if you can handle bars…that’s two grips!”

Jimz defeats Your Honor

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Recap: A returning-to-battle-rap Jimz and Your Honor face off in a set-up lit and highly-entertaining at first, but then more subdued 3-rounder for URL. And thanks in part to Your Honor being less steady with his punches and a bit flow-challenged in the latter (after an outstanding, but debatable 1st round) rounds, but also Jimz’s less predictable and hitting personals/wordplay, witty barbs and righteous screeds/punchlines, it’s a solid win for Mr. Stop Being Dirty.

Verdict: Jimz (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Jimz – “Who are you to talk about me getting sucker-punched?, that happened because I’m a one-on-one veteran, so they sneakin’ [sneak in] Jimz [gyms] like they can’t afford a membership!”

Ill Will defeats Your Honor

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Recap: Can’t front, I was looking forward to seeing a version of that ‘Squad’ scheme Your Honor has made famous. And while we missed out on that, The District’s favorite did give us a newfound (and hilarious) way of talking through your round when you’ve forgotten your bars, as he did here vs. Ill Will in the 3rd. Not that better preparation would’ve mattered much as outside of a dope opener to force a debatable 1st round, this one was all Ill Will as Yak-town’s finest pulled off yet another sublime display of stifling punchlines, raucous darts, sizzling name flips and festering personals that more than left their mark to handily take the latter two rounds for the win.

Verdict: Ill Will (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ill Will – “Already killed John John, now I’m putting Honor amongst thieves!”

Ru Bando defeats Your Honor

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Recap: Your Honor (who after a crazy dope 1st round seemed to use some recycled bars in the 2nd before giving away the 3rd) going on record and stating that he wasn’t that prepared for this battle due to some real life drama, does take some of the glare off of this win for Ru Bando. But for Rando, after all the heat he received from a subpar showing in round 1 of this tournament, at the very least, his ability here to put forth a solid performance and go back to that flexing, gun-bar happy and rapid-punching Bando we’ve seen before, might give him a shot in the next round of this tournament.

Verdict: Ru Bando (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Ru Bando – “They gonna charge me with murder in the 1st or the next degree, but I’m still gonna beat ya honor and still get the .25…double jeopardy!”

Your Honor defeats Squeako

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Recap: Helped by the use of some redundant themes used by his opponent as well as a Squeako choke in the 2nd round, Your Honor also utilizes a quality composite of eccentric name flips, witty barbs and boastful punchlines to take the first two rounds and win this Smack/URL Ultimate Madness match, before a punch-heavier Squeako gets back on his grind to easily take the 3rd round.

Verdict: Your Honor (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Your Honor – “Now you know that, the Glock 9 down, it need Prozac!”

Your Honor defeats PG Skillet

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Recap: After PG Skillet kicked things off in this 3-rounder from Bullpen with a raucous, mayhem-drenched 1st round that edged a salient, witty and versatile, but flow-challenged turn by Your Honor, this battle would immediately turn its head as the always performance-heavy and conversational YH’s half-jocular/half-hardbody stylings would score him an easy vic over his more pedestrian opponent in round two. In spite of a fierce tag-in on YH’s side from the-one-and-only T-Rex, the deciding 3rd round would still go to Your Honor, who with some pretty rugged trap talk and pronounced punches, had just enough in the tank to beat back an uninterrupted, but less potent turn from Skillet.

Verdict: Your Honor (W) 2-1

Favorite line: Your Honor – “There was always that one feen that came super late, but it’s ok, microwave, 4th {???] bowl, water, good plates, 3 minutes got you creamy chicken…the hood way!”

Bill Collector defeats Your Honor

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Recap: A more condensed, punch-heavy turn to edge a favorable round 1 for both battlers, a gang of stunted ‘Your Honor’ flips, spirited gun bars, witty barbs/personals and some righteous undercutting on the vet tip, for Bill Collector it’s all there in this Banned Legacy 3 matchup against an opponent who after dishing a dope opener, faltered by relying too heavily on dated personals, which in turn contributed to a pair of sluggish rounds 2 and 3 as well as a 30 for BC.

Verdict: Bill Collector (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Bill Collector – “I woke up snapping…like a tough guy in the 50s!”

Swamp defeats Your Honor

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Recap: In one of the better PGs from 2019, it’s a flawless 2nd round that along with some surprising (“And you was just a Lunchable, I was always taught to cover my own ass, like if you say “grace” I say one right after you, just in case God don’t fuck witchu!”) wit and extra spicy personals/name flips that stand out for the normally gun bar/punch-heavy Swamp here as the South Carolina battler used a condensed and punchline-lit turn to edge round 1, before the aforementioned 2nd also earned him that round. And while the witty/slick storytelling (“I seen a nigga who had nothin’…still get bitch-slapped!”) backstylings of Your Honor had at the very least kept things close in the earlier rounds, the DC rapper could only muster (bird sounds included) a half-hearted effort in the final round, which in turn would help a still-on-point and gritty Swamp get the 30.

Verdict: Swamp (W) 3-0

Favorite line: Swamp – “You play with me I’m a grip the thing, the drum stick [drumstick] will leave ’em all flat like most bitches like they chicken wings!”

Your Honor defeats Bear Witnez

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Recap: Assisted by an up-n-down, name flip excessive opponent who rapped twice as long as he did, a more condensed Your Honor also supplies enough fiery wit, mayhem and righteous punchlines to beat back a solid Bear Witnez and take this 1-rounder from Bring Ya Barz Battle League.

Verdict: Your Honor (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Your Honor – “I’m from the District, with a 4-piece on me and a McChicken, sitting in his car, waiting on the nigga…like a ticket!”

Ralphy Gabbana defeats Your Honor

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Recap: Highly entertaining and performance-heavy 1-rounder between Your Honor and Ralphy Gabbana goes the latter’s way thanks in part to Y.H.s elongated turn that while laced with plenty of humorous barbs and piercing personals, also sported way too much filler. Gabbana, on the other hand, hyper but condensed with his raps, while also scoring left and right with ringing gun bars, gritty name flips, lofty punchlines, well-research personals and animated schemes, put on such a crowd-pleasing show that he’d literally run off the stage, game-winning, buzzer-beater style at the end of his round.

Verdict: Ralphy Gabbana (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Ralphy Gabbana – “Hyperventilating, the streets was cold, and we live by the Honor system and by the code, I had shitty grades in school, never seen a 3.0,, but if he don’t have that 3.5…[Bow!] you still gonna see that Honor roll!”

Your Honor defeats Briscoe

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Recap: 1-rounder from Don’t Choke Rap League sees Briscoe spit your usual assortment of rapid boasts and mayhem with continual flair. But helped in part by an opponent who was mostly mired in pedestrian punches, even with a few recycled bars here and there, a more versatile, witty and scheme/punch-heavy Your Honor gets this one.

Verdict: Your Honor (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Your Honor – “Fat ass, be sad as shit, always wanna play quarterback but mad when we blitz!”

Your Honor and Paine The Poet [DEBATABLE]

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Recap: In this 1-rounder from Bring Ya Barz Battle League, Your Honor and Paine The Poet exchange a gang of boastful barbs, heated personals and residual mayhem that all make for a competitive match. And while Paine The Poet, more condensed with his turn and slightly steadier with the punches/personals/name flips makes a solid case for the win, even with an elongated round that was littered with filler, some added wit, dope (“I ain’t from the DMV, I’m from the District, get it right, for y’all rooting for him and praying that he probably win this fight?, I ain’t scared of ya, Miss America, this gonna be the body of the night!”) set-ups and the ability to drop roundhouse punchlines throughout his round, allows for Your Honor to do just enough for this one to be called a draw.

Verdict: TIE

Favorite line: Paine The Poet – “Keep it handy, hit his crib, kids tied up in the pantry, mule kick your mom, snub pointed at granny then it’s Blue Ivy looking at daddy, you better pray this nose don’t run in the family!”

Your Honor defeats Free Murda

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Recap: Dope 1-round, style clash here as Free Murda’s straightforward, but also lyrical and hardbody lines take on the fiery, but also extra witty and enriched gun bars from Your Honor. A competitive battle that kept the crowd in tune throughout, flexing with more versatility, storylines and performance, Your Honor gets the edge here.

Verdict: Your Honor (W) 1-0

Favorite line: Your Honor – “I’ll take your banger, smack you with it, give it back and dare you to pull it!”