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The Punchline Summary:

Grind Time East Coast brings you a new match up between two top tier competitors.  Detroit’s Marvwon, who gained much visibility in battle rap after participating the in the WRC’s, takes on the self-proclaimed “best in the South”, Atlanta’s Ness Lee.

Marvwon was very solid in his three rounds, with lines like “change his like-ness”, “identity fraud, he get credit he don’t really deserve”, “change the name from Syd Vicious to Marv”, “maybe a Poisen Pen comparison”, “you aint got a leg to stand on since I took away both of your crutches”, and “I clicked that Paypal….you are literally biting the hand that feeds you”, regarding the donations Ness Lee received after his apartment burned down this past winter.  Marv also had lines like “I thought he be used to the whipping, he got the face of a slave”, “Denzel in Glory, Lamar Burton ass n*”, “you fucking house n*”, “Syd the fuck you think of your general now”, “you and Swain….look like 2 shadows boxing”, “you probably call the Jake on this fat man”, “I got a white boy that shoot in n* faces, I call him Jimmer Fredette”, “you’re Larry David, Im Larry Davis”, and “this is the Eve of his death, since he was made from my rib”.

Ness Lee had a lot of great lines in this battle.  He had bars like “can i get something for you, you hungry”, “he look like a hair salon the way i have him bobbing and weaving”, “he gone eat her out of house and home, property seizure”, “problem this weekend scheme”, “out run your big ass in my orthopedic boot”, and the end of the first round pattern which had incredible delivery and rhythm.  Ness also had lines like “this battle is a Jazzy-phizzle….”, “you old Chef from South Park face having, parfait having…..you 48 rapping and still aint great at it”, “your age is wearing a cape, my dude, you’re super old”, “Twittering (Royce) like don’t forget me”, “the Pistons broke, yall need a mechanic for the Motor City”, “I’ll make the D leave the stage, I am not DNA”, “if I was made from your rib, I’d be a much bigger n*”, “he got put a # or an @ in front of his mouth before he speaks”, ‘yall be catching strays- animal shelter”, “house your little 16′s like Lil Farnums apartment”, “I’ll school you kids just about the point where you’ll need Arsonal to park it”, and “his inner self has an inner self, that has triple chin as well”.

The Punchline Count:

Marvwon – 18

Ness Lee – 22

The Judges Decision:

Ness Lee

The Report:

This was a battle I was definitely looking forward to, with both Marv and Ness being two battle rappers that I think are really talented and watch out for.  I thought Marv was dope when I watched him in the WRC’s and Ness has really become one of my favorite battlers recently.

Ness Lee has been putting in the work to boost his resume over the last year or so, taking on tough competition, whether judged or not.  He battle Philly Swain in the East, Illmaculate in the bay, Dirtbag Dan in California, Syd Vicious, and now Marv.  He either beat or gave each one of those guys very tough competition, where you could make a case for him winning.  He’s one of the most versatile rappers, who’s foundation is his rapping ability and delivery.  He then mixes in wordplay, stop pauses, and as he showed in this battle, he could drop some gun lines, and all that usually builds up to a win for him – its a very tough combination, when a guy can first just out rap you, and also has the intelligence to intertwine clever lines.

I was very curious to see what kind of bars Marv would bring to this match up.  Marv is also a very versatile battle rapper.  He can “out-street” a lot of dudes, but is eclectic enough to be able to entertain and connect with the “nerd” crowd.  Look at his whole WRC campaign, it was a lot of clever and hilarious lines, and then watch his battles with Famous, Nems, or Cortez, and you see a whole different kind of battle rapper.  In this one, he mixed it up, he had some guns bars, but also had a lot of jokes.  Thats what makes him such a talented MC, he can play to crowd that is watching the battle, and just has a lot of ammunition in his arsenal.

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