Dope ass battle here. Clay i loved the smoke break bar, i'd advise some tweeks to the punchline execution. Rican some nice bars but way too nameplay heavy in my opinion. Clay aiken the pick of the bunch. Close one, feel Clay was fresher, Rican was cleaner. We're damn near in coin flip terrority. Fairs in. 

I think ill go with puerto RICAN over here,but i gotta say CLAYTHORNE was really good, fv in, killas 

-fv in

-Blood nigga troy

you forgot the HOE-KAY man

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Both lost some pionts here. Clay wit broken multies n Rican wit 2 syllable rhymes. That being said I'm picking my winner based on better set ups n a cleaner verse. Loser was dope dont get me wrong. This was a dope battle!

Fairs only fuck iiam

the sunday and the cherry on top play was so simple yet so damn witty and lucidly put up it was good but the sunday bit felt awakwardly obscure while rican went the personal way and his stuff was a lil predictable halfway through the bar as was the concept imma lean with the first one here.

smoke break was the BOTB for me so i had clay taking that one too but after a little bit of googling i kinda understood rican's clay reference a little better so imma give this one a tie too but in a good way.

flightless bird is way too played out so Rico got that part for me coz clay used a played out concepts and his celebrity concepts were one of the highlights of his verse too.

as for the closer the hassle hof has been used atleast twice in my time here for a hall of famer flip and a jimmy flip both had wording issues with their closers and did not justify their conceptual strength there as i expected them to eg acting bad on baywatch does not get you bodied, boycott of angry potters does not necessarily mean clay being thrown out of the window this could have been worded differently (something like - angry potters protesting or something) to be set up better but the baywatch pun needed a totally different set up angle itself from hassel hof onwards. i would give this one a draw.

SSSSSSMMMMMACCCKKK!!!  TBHC 

i forgot to mention lol in my last comment i wanted to conclude that this battle was a draw for me in all honestly hence i refrained from voting.

and also imo you guys are too good and seasoned to battle with 8s only a 32 or a 16 would bring out a winner between you two folks.

Read twice. Ima have to come back to this one later it's close

Expo -

1.) Rocky road is a type of ice cream, which you scoop. Sundaes have cherries, and whip cream on them(cool whip.) Rican said, "My word play's the cherry on top, I'm topping that." in his battle with Jimmy Hoffa.

2.) Hassle Hoff/Hasselhoff.

The rest should be self explanatory.

no loser in this both as good as you can get in the craft of rap but im only going with rican on the celebrity death line, good luck to both no losers hear trust me on that

Claythorne's verse I feel was a little better structured but Rican (as much as I hate to say it) outdid him in terms of conceptual creativity. Fair's in.

this was hella close. But the fairs in. Ones punches hit harder to to execution. Thought the flightless bird, hassle HOF lines were good. 

the celebrity death match line was good. 

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Dope read.. SMAAAACK

This battle was HEAT ROX! My winner took this with having creative punches, while I liked the loser's approach and personals, I felt like they had too many wording issues to take this. The flightless bird line was too played to hit hard imo. Good Battle here though, nice to see whoever Clay is + Chico still battling. Legit vote dropped.

Poorly worded first punch from rican that coulda been a haymaker, but the rest were alright enough to cover. Clay's best was the smoke break punch, but that's been done

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Clay verse is nice,directed at his opponent from the beginning to end with some cool punches 

Rican also came with a dope verse,both were consistent  in terms of multis,  it's a close one for me but clay gets my vote

I'm a big fan of multis

Clay verse is nice,directed at his opponent from the beginning to end with some cool punches 

Rican also came with a dope verse,both were consistent  in terms of multis,  it's a close one for me but clay gets my vote

I'm a big fan of multis

One was definitely a smoother read here, felt like everything flowed better and that made a big difference on the impact of the punches. Probably particularly noticeable in Rican's first bar, the spacing of the multies is too much imo. Great battle though. 

I felt that Clay has some decent creativity here but didn't do as good of a job as his opp w/ the rymes and punches and that's mostly what edged me toward Rican here, GB and GL both

No H8, FV in

tough battle. some nice personals and top tier punches from both sides, but clay's set ups and overall flow edged it out for me.

This was a difficult battle for me.... They both had some real nice concepts and clean punches...TBH... ima have to go with the one that flowed better...Both killed it FV

Two very solid and well constructed verses...some creatively original idea and a few quotables.

Stand-out lines:

Please, bro, who HYPED THIS NERD? He's trying to wing it, but it never takes off: FLIGHTLESS BIRD!!

I advised to obJECTIVELY STEP BACK but now 'clay Aiken with so many punches',& it's not CELEBRITY DEATH MATCH!

Winners punches were a little more stronger and consistent throughout, in addition to a couple concise, technical name-flips. Your opener was a bit extended, almost predictable.

Opponent had some great punches, but set-ups were a bit fragmented and seemed a tad underdeveloped. Example: Please, bro, who HYPED THIS NERD? He's trying to wing it, but it never takes off: FLIGHTLESS BIRD!! This was a very nice touch, dope idea...but left more to be expected.

Overall: Dope battle gentlemen, consistency and flips got the edge on this one!

Fairs in 👍

Good battle here fellas. Cant say I've ever read one of Clay's verses, but I was quite impressed with the smoke break bar, felt you had alot of fresh jabs but didnt have any punches that stood out as punches, if that makes sense. 

Rican had botb with that Clay aching/Aiken bar. Pretty creative stuff man. I'd say you had too many name flips, but they all were creative, aside from the opener,  which took up half your verse.  

Ultimately Rican takes this with better punches and creativity of conceptual ideas. Fair is in