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Alleged photo of Ryno kissing a man
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Official Crowd Decision
RYNO vs TYMELESS was a volatile three-round battle built around the word time, homelessness, family history and competing claims about credibility. RYNO treated TYMELESS's name as a writing system, repeatedly moving through time travel, clock faces, timelines, past, future and present. TYMELESS answered with direct lifestyle angles and a much more theatrical prop strategy. All personal allegations are indexed as unverified battle material rather than factual claims.
RYNO's strongest passages linked name flips to performance. A right hand made TYMELESS fly and created time travel; left and right hands became clock hands; and his second round expanded timing into rhyming, timelines, dimensions and a recorded timestamp. His best live moment came in round three when he asked for the actual clock, read the time and converted it into a time-of-death freestyle. It drew immediate recognition from the hosts because it could not have been fully pre-written.
TYMELESS's opening used homeless, hopeless, domeless, toneless and soulless to establish a rolling sound before turning RYNO's first-round racism angle back on him. Round two escalated through props: an alleged photograph, ashes and a series of personal attacks. Round three became a care-package concept, with socks, briefs, a toothbrush, Pot Noodle and soap each introduced as part of the homelessness angle. The gifts made his writing visible and gave the room a sequence of escalating reveals.
The battle was repeatedly disrupted by beat changes, crowd movement, requests for water and confusion about whether RYNO's second round had ended. Despite that disorder, the final call is explicit. Both corners received strong reactions; the host said TYMELESS had 'just scraped it' and announced that the battle went to him. The official Gzone record agrees, so the archive records a narrow TYMELESS crowd decision without inventing a score or vote count.
RYNO used TYMELESS's name as the technical centre of his performance. Time travel, clock hands, timing, timelines, past, future, present, timestamps and time of death recur across all three rounds, giving his writing unusual thematic consistency. He also responded aggressively to personal angles and recovered from a prematurely stopped second round. The spontaneous clock reading was his clearest proof of live adaptability, although audio trouble and disputes over timing repeatedly damaged his round structure.
Lyrical Themes: Time and clocks; ADHD; family and parenting; stage credibility; allegations and rebuttals; violence; homelessness; writing ability; live freestyle; opponent's real name.
TYMELESS combined direct rebuttal with increasingly theatrical props. His first round answered the racism angle and used a long homelessness rhyme family; his second introduced an alleged photograph and ashes; and his third converted socks, a toothbrush, Pot Noodle and soap into a connected care-package scheme. That clear escalation gave the audience something new in every round. His delivery drew major reactions despite several restarts and long pauses, and the prop-led close helped him edge the final crowd call.
Lyrical Themes: Homelessness; racism rebuttal; family and parenting; real-name flips; friendship and betrayal; photograph prop; ashes; bereavement; care-package props; NFA document rebuttal; Leicester identity.
Three-round time system
RYNO develops TYMELESS's name through travel, clock hands, expiry, timelines, dimensions, timestamps and death time. The repeated field gives separate rounds a shared identity.
Past, future and present
Past time, writing for the future and telling TYMELESS what is present use three grammatical time positions while present also means what is happening now.
Recorded timestamp punch
A physical attack becomes something recorded by the cameras and marked with a timestamp. The room's confusion over whether it was time adds unintended live resonance.
Clock-based freestyle
RYNO asks for the current time, reads the clock and calls it TYMELESS's recorded time of death. Host reactions confirm that the live reading was recognised as improvised.
Homeless rhyme family
Homeless, hopeless, domeless, toneless and soulless stack one sound while expanding the same lifestyle attack. The sequence is easy to reload after interruption.
Ryan and Winnie-the-Pooh
RYNO's real name becomes Ryan Winnie before soft like a teddy bear completes Winnie-the-Pooh. The name flip and character image support the same weakness angle.
Ashes prop close
TYMELESS claims the bag contains ashes, then uses in the bag and pipe-and-smoke language to make the physical object the endpoint of the scheme.
Care-package sequence
Socks, briefs, toothbrush, Pot Noodle and soap are introduced one after another. Each item answers a different part of the homelessness and hygiene angle, producing sustained visual escalation.
Round 1 — Bruce Buffer opener
"It's time to abuse this... your mum looks like Bruce Buffer."
Abuse and Bruce share the central sound, while Bruce Buffer is a recognisable combat-sports announcer. The reference suits RYNO's opening description of accepting a fight.
Round 1 — Eye and shades visual
"You wear shades inside most of the time to hide your eye running away from the other."
The sunglasses become a supposed attempt to conceal an eye condition. Most of the time quietly introduces the opponent's stage name before the explicit time schemes begin.
Round 1 — Right-hand time travel
"You're not winning in a fight. / If I hit him with a right, you'll fly — and see time travel."
A right hand sends TYMELESS flying, turning physical displacement into time travel. Fight, right and flight/fly provide the route into the name flip.
Round 1 — Clock hands
"Tell Time I throw my left hand then right, and now it will clock his faces."
Left and right hands are punches and clock hands. Clock becomes a verb for striking, while faces refers to TYMELESS's face and a clock face.
Round 1 — Expiry and date
"Talked about getting a life through expiry — dated. / Put you to rest where your granddad's grave is."
Expiry and dated both describe time limits. RYNO moves from an expired life into burial, keeping the death threat inside calendar language.
Round 2 — Timing and rhyming
"Watch how Time gets bodied... perfect timing, impeccable rhyming... Time's not surviving."
Time names the opponent and describes the verse's precision. Timing, rhyming and surviving sustain the ending while the content moves from technique to outcome.
Round 2 — Timeline dimension
"Show Time that timelines can't ever cross my dimension. / Past time, wrote for the future to tell him what is present."
Showtime, timelines and dimension evoke science-fiction travel. Past, future and present then cover all three standard time positions in one continuation.
Round 2 — Recorded timestamp
"Punch you to the floor, then jump on your jaw — call that a recorded timestamp."
The cameras make the attack recorded, while timestamp is a marker attached to recorded media. Stamp also suggests the downward physical action.
Round 3 — Marinated beef
"You should know that I'm cooking up beef. / Now I've got Time, let me marinate it."
Beef means conflict and meat. Marinating develops the food reading, while having Time means both having the opponent and having enough duration to prepare it.
Round 3 — Live time of death
"Look at the time... 21:52. / You're recording time of death."
RYNO asks for the live clock and converts the displayed time into an official time of death. Because the value depended on that moment, the punch demonstrates genuine freestyle adaptation.
Round 1 — Homeless rhyme stack
"You're homeless, hopeless, domeless, toneless, soulless."
Five adjectives repeat the same ending. Homeless begins the lifestyle angle, domeless reinforces lack of shelter, and toneless attacks performance before soulless closes more broadly.
Round 1 — Racism-angle reversal
"2MWAD called you a racist. / I don't agree — your teeth are black; get the dentist to clean your plaque."
TYMELESS appears to reject the accusation, then redirects black into dental staining. Dentist and plaque complete the oral-hygiene image instead of making a political argument.
Round 1 — Ryan Winnie-the-Pooh
"This RYNO's soft like a teddy bear — he's more like Ryan Winnie-the-Pooh."
RYNO's real name Ryan is joined to Winnie, then teddy bear completes the Winnie-the-Pooh reference. Every part of the construction supports softness.
Round 2 — Box rebuttal
"Funny how he puts all Black people in a box, 'cause when I put man in a box, he ain't back to his home."
The first box means stereotyping; the second becomes a coffin. TYMELESS turns RYNO's offensive setup into a criticism, then keeps box for the threat.
Round 2 — Children rebuttal
"Yeah, I do have kids. / At least mine didn't end up in a care home; at least I was there to see my kids grow."
TYMELESS answers RYNO's parenting angle directly rather than avoiding it. The repeated at least structure compares the two alleged family situations.
Round 2 — Friend and pen scheme
"You tried to get some dirt from a friend... but I'm one step ahead from the herd and the pen. / This whole time I was talking to your friend."
Friend repeats as source and counter-source. Herd and pen carry animal language, while one step ahead presents TYMELESS as anticipating RYNO's research.
Round 2 — Photograph reveal
"Go ahead, Brian, I'll explain this one: why are you out here kissing other men?"
The line cues a physical photograph shown in the room. Its impact comes from timing and reveal rather than complex wordplay; the image's authenticity is not verified by this archive.
Round 2 — Ashes prop
"You can say that I got this in the bag. / Put that in your crack pipe and smoke his ash."
In the bag means victory secured and points to the bagged prop. Pipe, smoke and ash form a second connected field around the claimed contents.
Round 3 — Leicester to Manchester
"That's how it Gets, bruv... I mark you from here to Manchester."
Gets/Ghetts invokes the UK rapper while Manchester supplies a place rhyme with the preceding Leicester-based setup. The locations expand the threat beyond the venue.
Round 3 — Care-package and heat
"Bought an extra pair that you can wear... a toothbrush... and a Pot Noodle when you wanna eat. / No kettle? Take my bars for the heat."
Each prop answers clothing, hygiene or food needs. Pot Noodle requires hot water, so bars for the heat turns TYMELESS's writing into the missing kettle.
The host called first for RYNO in the red corner and then TYMELESS in the blue. Both reactions were described as crazy, but the presenter concluded, 'That goes to TYMELESS' and said he had 'just scraped it.' The official Gzone record also lists TYMELESS. No vote count or round score is supplied, so the archive records a narrow crowd decision only. Photographs, ashes and personal documents are indexed as performance props; their authenticity or wider meaning has not been independently established.
TYMELESS — narrow crowd decision
RYNO delivered the battle's strongest pure technical concept through his three-round time system and capped it with an excellent live clock freestyle. TYMELESS created the more complete event: his homelessness rhyme family, direct rebuttals, photograph and ashes reveals, and final care-package sequence gave each round a distinct escalation the crowd could see. The reactions were close, but the host explicitly awarded the battle to TYMELESS and the official Gzone record agrees.