Ok lets take a look at this one. Rai: Opening scheme into the green card bar was real solid, cartridge / nintendo stuff hella played imo. Fancy silverware was nice. Lock: Choppy flow throughout, onion scheme was decent. Import / export scheme was nice. Library bar was funny. Overall: tough one here, disapointed tbh both had a LOT of really basic / played concepts. Between the 64 lines i cants point to one bar that was really eye catching. I feel Rai was smoother and more consistant while Lock had higher peaks and lows. Edging SLIGHTLY to the verse was stronger concepts. Not by much tho. 

Good battle, Rai. Almost got me.

Rai: Not a bad drop at all. One or two played concepts (cartridge blow/nintendos & the duck hunt). Other than those, some fresh ish in there. I liked the personal flips. Will Smith bar was nice as well as your ending piece too. Others where decent too. Overall: A pretty solid drop, enjoyable read. Jimmy: Opener was dope. Following bar was equally nice. The rest of your stuff is nice and cretive in thought. Some concepts where stronger than others. If i had anything 'bad' to say it's that sometimes i do find there is a lack of smooth flow in the bars due to long worded set ups/build ups between the rhymes, other than that a pretty solid set of bars too. Overall: a strong piece, punches where nice and creative. Good use of personals also. Winner: this is a close one here, gentleman. Both brought some strong elements to this and also brought one or two factors that hurt/hindered their pieces also... Hmmmm. ...I'll be back to this one, lads. 

One gave harder punches. Delivery and set ups. I enjoyed the schemes and flow of verse. And always enjoy 16s. 

Other did well just feels like half way through started to fall off and didn't end with the aggressiveness he started with. Fairs in

i got hoffa winning by 1 punchline the african home line... close as a mother fucker both skilled to the fullest 

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KILLERS.

Neat to see these guys battle for the first time.

Exceptional battle, phenomenal read from both...winner: concepts, multis, and some serious personal punches, structure and readability was on-point. Opponent: solid scheming, started off very strong but had begun to lose steam towards the end. Great punches and meaningful setups...this particular battle was littered with quotables and plenty of original/creative concepts. Overall: I had to go with consistency, endurance and connections (setups)...a 32 isn't an easy task...big ups to both!

Fairs in 👍

This was a lot closer than i had thought prior to reading first time... both had some fresh concepts in this one. It's a slight edge for the winner here.. the ending bar is what won it for him. Fairs in, i'm out. 

hmmm this is very hard decision b ecause really great here, both used good metaphors, decent structure, effort , and talent. Not alot of negative things to say here, I respect both MCs on this battle. Rai displayed I think was good on the punchline side while Jimmy Hoffa was more gpod on the personal attack side. I think the "smokey mountain theme park" ine really resonated w the ghost line in a nice way. For Jimmy, the John Wick Under the Table line was very creative and relevant to movie entertainment of today. Both did their thing, I just felt one was a little bit more consistent w the flow, from i personally read. but the other was amazing too. No h8, Fair Vote. great job guys.

I will come back to this

Holy shit....... are we in Miami? Blazin with the heat! 

Good battle from both....... Keep grinding

Wow this battle was hard to judge honestly both were throwing haymaker punches. Jimmy I liked your personals u used thought they were pretty dope I liked that onion line I think the best from you very good verse man. Rai had some creative shit in there as well I liked the benzo line and the boro line was nice to at the end. I am giving this to the one I thought was a little more creative and the punches connected more nicely this was a really dope battle fellas. My fair is tossed always. 

Diss Respekt non-expoed vote removed due to request. 

A mixed bag from both here, with some inconsistency in their content. Rai, a lot of your wording was really awkward to read at times, and didn't sound natural. (Dart frog pours? Lol.) That in conjunction with a few really awkward concepts, and flips that seemed slightly obvious made your verse read a little more up and down to me. Though, there were some highlight bars. Lockhart, you started out strong with the heavy personal angles, and probably some of the best worded material I've seen you come with to date. But, you started to lose a lot of steam to be toward the latter part of the verse. Where it seemed like you were struggling to reach the bar you set with the earlier portion of the verse. Overall, I've got to give it to my winner based on the cleaner read, and what I think were the more impactful lines. 

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i kinda understood Rai's style to it's fullest here esp coz he pretty much seemed at his best, his whole style of writing is kinda most suited for 32s and the lucidity in his verse this time was just flawless dope shit here man. could be one of the dopest verses in an LBT final during my time here easily too. way too many quotables from that verse man damn !! (smokey mountain, fancy silverware, motor mounts, will smith, women with big bood LMAO.didn't feel the closer much though)

jimmy dif the opener impeccably worded and set up the onion bit felt a little stretched african home and Mr. scrub parts were the fucking highlights of your verse. john wick felt underdone for me but overall this was a pretty good verse from you too holding it's own all the way uptil the 32nd line, pretty much your witty self with the humour element to your punchlines which is always nice to see, the only dips was with the import and exports set up for me technically it wasn't sound at all and the area 51 raid was a nice punch cum set up but the librarian bit felt lackluster compared to it and i didn't dig the last 2 or 3 bars.

Overall - felt like Rai was a litt more consistent and jimmy's longer set ups and sometimes the end punch being a little too ambitious hurt him here coz Rai was like almost going flawless with his verse for me except for two places while jimmy had 4 areas with similar kinda disappointments which made all the difference here. good LBT final here.

BOTB -

Last time you "put in a cartridge and said fuck the system" you had a "PROBLEM WITH OLD NENTENDOS!!" & If asked about the tag finals? You'd COMMENT WITH NO COMPRENDO Coz you couldn't "get a high rate for that depressing stuff" with "a conCOCTION OF COKE AND BENZOS!!"

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So-What you got a Mod spot? KILLERS. body you 'n you could never FUCK W/ THE STABLE, plus ya music's trash so it's "Mr. Clean" if we get-to-see this "SCRUB 'N A LABEL"!

Both definitely slacked in certain areas such as syllable counting. I’ve read quite a few bars that were completely controlled by very long wording. Like I’m not a huge fan of the long bar if that’s what was attempted. Which is probably the only issue here because I liked this battle. To me both had creative concepts and did their thing, especially for a 32 liner so props to both for sure. The first read, I had Lock winning clearly because he did indeed hit harder. From buildup to punch. But after the second read, it pretty much evened out due to a few of Rai’s lines completely going over my head (I apologize Rai lol I get them now) Both was dope but Lock takes this.

Yezzir. I'll gladly take this loss and learn from it. Wish there was more people like yourself to battle these days.