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BIGGA VS FOREVER TAPPED

Battle Result

Official Battle Result

Clash Summary

BIGGA vs FOREVER TAPPED, also referred to as **F.T.** in the transcript, took place during **PenGame Rap Battles Season 1**. The host introduces it as the **second semi-final**, with BIGGA on the left and F.T. on the right.

After the coin toss, BIGGA goes first.

BIGGA opens round one with a confident and dismissive tone. He attacks F.T.’s look, status and threat level, saying F.T. should forfeit so BIGGA can walk away with the win. He brings in tuna tin, Cassanova, tick list, skunk, marrow, Halo, Big Narstie, heavyweight power and Professor X / rolling 60 imagery. The round is not overly complicated, but it immediately establishes BIGGA as the stronger and more comfortable rapper.

F.T. responds with a shorter and more basic first round. He uses David and Goliath imagery, stones, arrows, Matrix, blades, Hadouken-style fighting references and direct violence. The material has energy but lacks the structure and depth of BIGGA’s opener. It feels more freestyle-like and less developed.

BIGGA’s second round is stronger. He opens with vampire-life imagery and says he is controlling the battle like the father while F.T. is the orphan. He uses Infinity Gauntlet / Thanos imagery, Bird Box, baggage, independence, family, pain, YouTube deal, and directly states that in his opinion it is already 2-0. He then attacks F.T.’s credibility, calling him a “shot round the corner,” saying he lies when he rhymes, and framing him as someone who cannot climb to BIGGA’s level. This round gives BIGGA clear separation.

F.T.’s second round has some better moments than his first. He calls BIGGA “big for nothing,” says he is not really on stuff, brings in coffin imagery, vampires, headshots, ex-girl material, riddles, Ganja, machines, trap days and Gangway references. However, the round becomes repetitive in places and does not fully close the gap.

BIGGA’s third round is aggressive and direct. He uses street imagery, plugs, gang, floods and Crips, vampires, Westfield, Boko Haram, tag-team material, A10 McDonald’s, bad B’s, car damage and Cat D write-off references. He sounds more polished and more dominant than F.T., and he keeps the pressure on through the final stretch.

F.T.’s final round is very short and openly freestyle-based. He says he is freestyling, uses “usual test,” Wayne Rooney, magic pot/cauldron, worker, holding, shaping/moulding, rocks/sculpting, strip/work, big money, Jamaican-style chicken and bacon references. It has some flashes but does not feel like a completed battle round.

The judges then begin giving their decision. One judge says BIGGA has “been there, done it” and that F.T. controls a crowd but lacks the same bars. Another judge calls it **3-0 BIGGA**. The visible judgement clearly favours BIGGA.

Official visible result: **BIGGA wins**.

Performance Analysis

BIGGA

BIGGA wins clearly because he is more polished, more structured and more complete across the battle. He sounds like the more experienced battler from the first round. His first round establishes the level difference. He uses direct insults, status claims and physical imagery to make F.T. look outmatched. The “forfeit” line sets the tone: BIGGA does not treat F.T. as a serious threat. His second round is his best complete round. The vampire-life opener, Infinity Gauntlet / Thanos reference, Bird Box material and “in my opinion, it’s 2-0 still” line all make the round feel controlled. He also attacks F.T.’s credibility and makes him look like someone lying in his raps. His third round keeps the aggression up. It has street references, threats, Westfield, Boko Haram, tag-team and car-damage imagery. Even if some lines are rough in the transcript, the delivery and confidence clearly separate him from F.T. BIGGA’s biggest strength is control. He sounds like he knows how to win a battle round.

Lyrical Themes: Forfeit, W, tick list, skunk, marrow, Halo, Big Narstie, heavyweight power, Professor X, vampire life, Infinity Gauntlet, Bird Box, baggage, family, pain, YouTube deal, credibility, trap days, Gangway, Westfield, Boko Haram, tag team, car damage, Cat D.

FOREVER TAPPED

F.T. has energy and some crowd-control instinct, but he is not as lyrically prepared as BIGGA. The judges recognise that he can perform, but the writing is not strong enough. His first round has basic battle imagery: David and Goliath, stones, arrows, Matrix, blades and fighting-game style attacks. It is energetic but too thin compared with BIGGA’s opener. His second is better. The “big for nothing” angle is direct, and the coffin, vampire and trap-day material gives him something to work with. However, it becomes repetitive and does not land as a full rebuttal to BIGGA. His third round is the clearest problem. He openly says he is freestyling, and the round is short. There are ideas around Rooney, cauldrons, moulding, rocks and Jamaican food, but it feels unfinished and gives the judges very little reason to swing the battle back. F.T.’s biggest strength is raw confidence. His weakness is preparation.

Lyrical Themes: David and Goliath, stones, arrows, Matrix, blades, Hadouken-style fighting, coffin, vampires, ex-girl, riddles, Ganja, machines, trap days, Gangway, Rooney, cauldron, moulding, strip work, Jamaican food.

Key Technical Highlights

BIGGA

Best round

Round two.

Strongest trait

Battle control.

Best angle

F.T. is outmatched and should have forfeited.

Best technical section

Infinity Gauntlet / Bird Box / 2-0 control run.

Battle-winning factor

Better structure, more complete rounds and stronger authority.

FOREVER TAPPED

Best round

Round two.

Strongest trait

Raw performance energy.

Best angle

BIGGA is “big for nothing.”

Best technical section

Coffin / vampire / headshot section.

Battle-losing factor

Too much freestyle energy, not enough prepared material.

Indexed Bars & Breakdown

BIGGA

Round 1 — Tuna-tin opener

"Probably why I think a tuna tin would fit your face so well."

BIGGA turns F.T.'s facial shape into the circular image of a tuna tin. It is a simple visual opener, but his slow delivery makes the comparison easy for the room to picture immediately.

Round 1 — Forfeit framing

"You should just forfeit... so I can walk with this W."

BIGGA refuses to present the semi-final as competitive. Asking F.T. to forfeit lets him claim the win before either man has completed a round and establishes the hierarchy his performance keeps returning to.

Round 1 — Halo stomp

"Stomp on your shit like Halo."

Halo supplies the video-game image of overpowering an enemy at close range. BIGGA uses the compact reference as a physical punctuation mark inside a round otherwise driven by conversational dominance.

Round 1 — Heavyweight contrast

"Only time I'm Big Narstie is when I fight... heavyweight shit, I bring the power."

BIGGA connects his own name and size to Big Narstie, then converts 'big' into heavyweight fighting status. The line argues that his physical presence carries functional power rather than being appearance alone.

Round 1 — Professor X

"Wheelchair shit... be Professor X or rolling 60."

The wheelchair threat leads into Professor X, the wheelchair-using X-Men leader. 'Rolling' then keeps the chair moving while introducing crew and street language, allowing one image to bridge comics and threat.

Round 2 — Vampire premise

"This vampire life got a nigga moving haunted."

BIGGA opens the second with vampire and haunting imagery to make his street history sound nocturnal and predatory. The supernatural premise prepares the Infinity Gauntlet, vanishing and Bird Box references that follow.

Round 2 — Father and orphan

"I'm controlling this battle, I am the daddy, you are my orphan."

The family roles are a hierarchy device: BIGGA claims authorship and control while denying F.T. even the protection of being his son. Calling him an orphan makes the status gap feel absolute.

Round 2 — Infinity Gauntlet

"I hold the Infinity Gauntlet power. Snap like that, you vanish."

Thanos erases half of life by snapping with the Infinity Gauntlet. BIGGA casts the battle result as equally effortless, with the hand action providing a visible performance cue for F.T.'s disappearance.

Round 2 — Bird Box

"If you see the light, don't panic. Bird Box ting, go grab it."

In Bird Box, seeing the supernatural force drives people to death, so characters survive by covering their eyes. BIGGA uses light as danger and tells F.T. that even recognising the threat is already too late.

Round 2 — Score call

"In my opinion, it's two-nil still."

BIGGA steps outside the imagery to score the battle in real time. The declaration is a room-control tactic: he tells the judges how to read the first two rounds before F.T. has delivered his second response.

Round 3 — Westfield and map

"Catch you in Westfield, you'll get dropped from the map."

A recognisable London shopping centre grounds the threat in a real location, while 'dropped from the map' enlarges it into complete removal. BIGGA moves from local specificity to total consequence.

Round 3 — Cat D write-off

"If I smash your head through the front window, then your motor's a Cat D."

Category D historically described a damaged vehicle written off by an insurer. BIGGA makes F.T.'s head hitting the window the event that changes the car's classification, joining violence to precise motoring language.

FOREVER TAPPED

Round 1 — David and Goliath

"Big for nothing... God's power, David done up Goliath."

F.T. answers BIGGA's size with the biblical underdog story in which David defeats the giant Goliath. The reference gives him a logical route to victory: being smaller becomes proof that BIGGA can still fall.

Round 1 — Matrix danger

"Don't get trapped and lost in the Matrix."

The Matrix represents an artificial world that is difficult to escape once entered. F.T. uses it as a warning that BIGGA has stepped into a controlled environment where appearances—including physical size—cannot protect him.

Round 1 — Fighting-game burst

"Hadouken... take him out of this planet."

Hadouken is the projectile attack associated with Street Fighter's Ryu and Ken. F.T. uses the shouted move as a performance effect, turning his next threat into the result of a fighting-game combination.

Round 2 — Size and activity

"Big for nothing, you ain't really on stuff."

This is F.T.'s clearest recurring angle: BIGGA's body and voice suggest danger, but F.T. claims there is no matching action behind them. The line attacks the exact physical presence that powers BIGGA's performance.

Round 2 — Vampire rebuttal

"Telling me about vampires and all of this... stop telling man all these stories."

F.T. responds directly to BIGGA's supernatural opening by classifying it as fiction. Rather than entering the vampire scheme, he uses its unreality to support his claim that BIGGA tells stories about a life he does not live.

Round 2 — Machine and clean-up

"If I rise the machine up, I'll clean up."

'Machine' carries weapon imagery, while 'clean up' describes both removing the aftermath and decisively handling the battle. The compact internal sound gives F.T. one of his cleaner threats in the second.

Round 3 — Freestyle admission

"Man's freestyling."

F.T. openly identifies the final as improvised after repeated starts on 'no usual test'. The honesty explains the loose structure, but in a judged semi-final it also concedes a preparation gap that BIGGA has already framed as 2-0.

Round 3 — Sculpting chain

"I shape man like I'm moulding. Chop them rocks... he start sculpting."

Moulding and sculpting share the idea of controlling a material's shape, while 'rocks' introduces street-product language. F.T. uses the craft process to claim he can reshape BIGGA, though the freestyle delivery leaves the chain less developed.

Clash Highlights

  • BIGGA performs the Infinity Gauntlet snap as a visible claim that F.T. can be erased from the battle.
  • F.T. directly rebuts the vampire scheme by dismissing BIGGA's supernatural threats as stories.
  • BIGGA calls the battle 2-0 during his second round, and F.T.'s openly freestyle third makes that prediction increasingly credible.
  • The judges praise F.T.'s ability to control a crowd but consistently separate that skill from BIGGA's fuller preparation and punch writing.

Post-Battle Context

The judges visibly favour BIGGA and describe the result as 3-0. F.T. is credited with energy, crowd control and the ability to improvise, but his final round begins with repeated starts before he admits he is freestyling. BIGGA advances from the second semi-final to face AYMUNI in the Season 1 final.

Judgement Summary

BIGGA wins the semi-final 3-0

BIGGA wins all three rounds through preparation, control and more complete writing. F.T. has energy, direct rebuttals and enough presence to keep the room involved, but his material becomes increasingly loose and his final begins with repeated starts before an open freestyle admission. BIGGA establishes the hierarchy in round one, calls the battle 2-0 during round two, and closes with the more structured Westfield, tag-team and Cat D material. The judges credit F.T.'s crowd control while clearly advancing BIGGA to the final.

Battle Stats

Date20-09-2020
Views3K
LeagueSeason 1