I've been away for sometime. Not just from this blog but from the battle scene in general. I've not had much time or battles I wanted to write about, till the last couple of months made me compelled to do so.
In this blog post I'm going to judge two HUGE battles: Lux v Clips and Illmac v Pat Stay.
I'm also going to follow up these two with a string of others in the next few days as I look to get more active again. Battle rap took a lul for a while but there's been a re-ignition in recent months that's got me writing about it again. Plus my blog is fucking awesome.
Lux vs Clips
This was a close battle between two heavyweights. I felt going into the battle Clips was the favourite. He ain't lost yet as far as I've seen and Lux took recent L's from Hollow and Mook so he wasn't in his best shape.
All seemed to be going as I thought as Clips certainly took the 1st. Hard hitting punches and broke down Lux who didn't really make the recovery with hard enough shit to counter attack.
Round two was when the battle started to take a turn. Lux seemed to get better as the battle went on and a big thing was consistency of good bars. He just kept pluggin away with clever lines and started to cut a little deeper winning the 2nd round. In the 3rd he continued to break down Clips, it had something of the Calicoe destruction about it how he got right under that guys skin using his fathers past as a reason why Clips is a certain way and even though it was indirect I think it really worked. Clips was clearly pissed off when he started his 3rd and didn't recover from it. First time I've seen Clips genuinely angry at his opponent for cutting him so deep.
Clips is usually the clever guy in the battle but Lux was smarter. Who better to outsmart a smart guy then Lux who does that kind of thing better than anyone. A HUGE win for Lux which keeps him right at the top of the pile with the rest of the legends. He needed this win to still be regarded by alot of people as the GOAT.
[My verdict: Lux 2-1]
Illmaculate v Pat Stay (KOTD title)
We all know what happened, but I just wanted to chime in with my verdict in this epic title battle. I really enjoyed this one. More than the battle above, it was a great match up of two totally different styles and statures of men. However as short as Illmac is, he's a giant in this game. He showed why he is regarded as one of the best ever and respected by every battle rapper in the game. He is that good. This was a big test for him though. He had been a little quiet after losing some battles he shouldn't have, only to pop up last year with that enormously popular battle with Bigg K which was a classic. More importantly he won; with one of the best third rounds I've ever heard. After that buzz he got this title shot. This is how it went from my perspective...
Pat Stay being the much larger, taller guy in the battle, in a home crowd and on an unstoppable streak was always going to have a psychological advantage. You'd think at least and he did take the first round with just pure dominance, crowd control and almost controlling illmac to the point his first was barely heard. He had a decent round but Pats opener was so strong that he couldn't spit past it.
The second Pat had ok bars but that ain't gonna hold up in a battle of this magnitude. He did some of his cocky style but I think he shoulda just been flat out intimidating all battle. Taking his foot off the gas brought Ill right back through the door. His second was on point. Some awesome bars and at one point calling Pat a tribal tattoo was pretty funny. Illmacs whole style was clowning on Pat and the angles were so on point that it really started to win over the Canadian crowd. So round two went to Illmac. The 3rd round was close but Ill definately took it. Pat spent his whole round about not needing the chain that the weight of it was tiring that he is bigger than it etc. Illmaculate geniously predicted this and his whole 3rd rebuttled it beautifully and by the end of the 3rd it was a clear win for Illmac. Great battle, Illmaculate has a 'New Chaaaaiiiin' and we have a new KOTD champ. Salute. I just hope Illmac gets a big match over at URL next. He's gunning for Lux and I think he deserves it.
[My verdict: 2-1 Illmaculate]
Let me know what you thought! Who you got winning for these two battles?
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