Good battle, here! I got one taking this for what I felt was the better connections between setups and punches, along with the better, cleaner rhyming from start to finish. Felt the other had some good concepts, but wasn't properly setting them up to hit as hard as his opponent's did. Along with that, he didn't have as clean of rhyming as his opponent did, either, which was also key in my decision. Also, not gonna lie, that closing wordplay was absolutely terrible. 

Overall I thought this was an extremely close, high-quality battle. In the end I gave it to BURDENS because I thought his flow was a step ahead both in terms of execution and concepts. What I mean by that is that firstly BURDENS had a great deal more rhyming, particularly at the beginning of his verse, than g u t s did; but also that BURDENS would stick with a single idea for wordplay and set it up strongly and execute it in multiple ways over an entire bar or two; whereas g u t s more often tended to go for shorter, more frequent but less hard-hitting punches. For example, the wheel of fortune line was really great imo, but you just didn’t do enough with it for it to land as effectively as it could have.

PUNISH shit.

Squaaadddd

EoA

(The 100 is a t.v series that starts off in space until the leaders decide to send down 100 kids in order to find out if the ground is safe to live on. - Leave W The Chicken, Leave W The $ - Cold Bodies On Sight, Dead Bodies. Tuck N Bear Arms, Tuck In Bare Arms) 

EoA

PUNISH

Good battle, I'll be back to drop a vote.

Felt like both were coming with punches that looked "good" on the surface but when I dug in deeper there really wasn't that much of a relation between the setup and punchline. Or at least not a relation that I was able to catch. BURDENS' italics annoyed me but I do think his verse had a nicer flow to it, with better punches overall, and that's why I'm giving him the win. Fair's in.

PUN ISH

EoA

PUNISH shit !!