KOTD - Head I.C.E. vs Cortez (Title Match) | #WD7
 

This might be the most average battle of all time.

The most dead I've ever seen a crowd...

yo cortez 3rd shoulda got this vaulted tbh

autonomy in opponent selection >>>>>>> a title that puts a great rapper in a position where he has to compete in predictably average battles

Had to give this to Head ICE. Also the fact that Knamelis voted for Cortez confirms that he lost...

I agree 100% with everything DBD said. Head edged the first, got destroyed in the second, and won the 3rd clearly. Tez' third was so out-of-nowhere and weird it made me laugh, but not in a good way. Since when has Tez been all about da culture?!?

This battle did just enough to keep me listening, but nowhere near enough to be really entertaining. This needed a really rowdy crowd to be half-way entertaining. This would have been way better on a league like GW.

Haven't watched yet. Ice won. Their first match up was shaky though.

Cortez robbed Ice of his manhood in round 3. That's type of shit that will make a black man reconsider life.

"In Harlem, niggas hear "Head Ice" and be like "we passed the phase"
The wolf, he don't get the same love on his ave today (wolf love)
So what he did? He got mad, complained
Moved out the hood, copped a passport, catch a plane
All for what?
To go and jump inside the master's chain
That's a shame" (KOTD chain/slave shackles)

That nigga Tez didn't just call Ice a slave, but a happy slave.

"Whatever happened to Malcolm, Martin, you know all the boycotts, the mass of slaves
Even Colin Kaepernick took a knee, that's how you stand for fame
You are the face of this league
And all you do is rap about dope and black 9s
Ice, when you gonna give us something dope bout black lives
See you know what rhymes with that?
Django, past prime, and token black guy"

Cortez completely obliterates Ice's character. Deconstructs his image as one that contributes to the death and incarceration of young black Americans all over the country instead of using his platform to promote something positive for his people.

"Now Organik, he tried to finess ya'll though, I'm gonna keep it a buck
Man what are they gonna say please
I'm the only black face KOTD got, straight cheese
I'm gonna go to UDubb, get this Shotgun Suge deposit, and rep for they league
and Organik was like (slave whip noise), uh uh boy, "You can't read?"

D.O.A. KOTD has Ice under a slave contract that prevents him from performing where he wants. What makes this really bad is that KOTD is owned by a skinny white Canadian kid that dresses and acts like Jamie Kennedy from Malibu's Most Wanted while Ice fronts like an O.G. from the block in Queens. I feel bad for Ice. He sold out to someone that would never get any respect in the hood.

Ayo! Put you're money where your mouth is! :funny:

This part of his round was genuinely fire. The best part was that you could see it was really pissing ICE off too. Cortez may have had the best angle used against ICE in a long time... and he threw the other half of the round away.

Both Rone and Tez only lost to ICE because of their bad battle tactics.

tez finally got some opportunities to prove that maybe he was overlooked / underrated but nah he's just another mid tier gatekeeper like dna

It sounded good but it didn't mean shit. Tez has always rapped about the exact same things he was shitting on ICE for. It's like Diz getting in Roc's face and saying I've never been one to hate on someone for their color or race, when that's ALL HE HAS EVER DONE. It makes everything he's about to say meaningless. Tez has never spit a round about raising his own race's profile, so how the fuck can he accuse someone else of not doing it? Garbage.

You have not watched J Murda vs Cortez, right?

Predictably horrible crowd/battle combination.

Abolish Toronto battle rap

got about halfway through head ice first and stopped watching , this might take a few times to get through

Every single black judge voted for Ice?

:controuble:

I had Ice taking the 1st and 3rd in a really underwhelming battle.

Did they expect Toronto to enjoy a head ice battle that wasnt him.vs a nerdy white dude?

It was funny that they both went street shit. The lack of reaction is probably because this sounded like a foreign language to them.

would hope it get's better after the first round but I couldn't make it further

that chain affect > title matches are weakkkkkkk

I got ICE clear win. 2-1

Can't believe Cortez had a "you're dogs in bags like rich white chicks" line. It's been said so many times, also Hollow said it vs Big T right in front of Cortez.

I really liked Cortez's second, I gave him that round clear.

But his third was poorly executed, seemed not thought out at all.

ICE was solid all 3 rounds.

Or you could just not watch it lol

I have FoMO even when i know a battle is gonna be trash i still have to watch it just so i know i have

It's hard to give this to Cortez with his 3rd round, but he may have won 2-1
I have no clue what Ice's first and second were about

Yo Rex said it vs him on Total Slaughter iirc

Worst title match of all time

Even more lackluster upon second viewing.

Dope battle, but the crowd sucked. Too many people only judge bars based on crowd reaction.

ICE was boring as fuck as usual (not my demographic by a long shot) and completely unconvincing - as was Tez save for the third. So Tez got robbed. But robbed of like a stick of gum.
What a shit show the chain is.

You are trippin, This was way better than Diz vs Arcane, Rone vs Illmac, and Charron vs Pat, and probably others.

skipped to see if cortez is as awul as i remember

stiick a knife ya flesh and have it BREAK IN BAD like u was supplyin me meth!!

lmao horrendous

Except Pat's first round, definitely Charron vs Pat was utter garbage. Diz vs Cane isn't as terrible as you probably remember, the drama of Diz's first and Cane's multi-spazzing actually make that an OK battle.

However, all of those are nowhere near the terribleness of Sketch vs Rich and Rich vs PH (Contender for worst battle ever).

PoRich vs. PH

:p