Diminishment
"You think you’re so potent, you look like a mouse, you’re a rodent."
RA’SIAH opens by reducing SKAMZ from dangerous to small and weak.
Status angle
"You used to be the guy of the moment, but now you’re just some any opponent."
Strong status angle. SKAMZ is framed as someone whose hype has passed.
Image attack
"You wanna know about Sosa? Ugly you, you’re a poser."
Chief Keef/Sosa-style reference used to attack SKAMZ as fake.
Wordplay
"Not Keef, but you’re a chief."
Chief Keef wordplay.
Violence imagery
"I’ll kick out your teeth with a cobra."
Violence/image punch.
Death line
"You’re finito, shit’s over."
Early battle-death line.
Status question
"Who does he think that he is?"
Repeated rhetorical attack, questioning SKAMZ’s status.
Toughness check
"You act rough as if I won’t clap your wigs."
Threat against SKAMZ’s fake toughness.
Visual punch
"Put your nan in a headlock, rip off her wig till she looks bald like Markz on vids."
Family/visual punch with a Markz reference.
Violence bar
"Look at me sideways, I’ll knock your eyes straight."
Eye/violence bar.
PenGame callback
"Off to one side like Drizz."
PenGame reference and eye angle.
Appearance angle
"Put something shiny through your forehead since you wanna look like Lil Uzi."
Lil Uzi forehead-diamond reference.
Food/cartoon flip
"This mouse is cooked, Ratatouille."
Mouse/food/cartoon flip.
Fake-dark angle
"You’re not a ghoul, you’re a fool — stop acting spooky."
Fake-dark/fake-danger angle.
Cartoon punch
"Think you’re a big dog, more like Scooby."
Cartoon/dog punch.
Wordplay
"If you wanna shoot a movie, my guys will know clips."
Movie/clips/gun wordplay.
Rejection
"Fuck all that bad-boy chat."
Rejects SKAMZ’s tough image.
Focus pull
"We’re all here to spit some bars and rap."
Pulls the focus back to the battle format.
Trap wordplay
"Couple man here running tracks and trap, but you, my bro, you’re just running your trap."
Track/trap/trap-mouth wordplay.
Believability attack
"I don’t believe they believe you."
Believability/status attack.
Fake image
"You’re too see-through, you’re like plastic."
Fake/transparent image.
Background attack
"I’ll send you back to Angola when I beat you."
Country/background attack.
Technical critique
"Your bars are not cold, your flows are so shit."
Direct technical critique.
Decline angle
"Hype’s got old, nobody wants to hear you."
Decline angle.
Status separation
"PenGame Easton, leave SKAMZ in the rear-view."
SKAMZ is left behind.
Voice attack
"Your voice is feminine, G, but it suits ya."
Voice/masculinity attack.
Roster comparison
"We don’t need this bitch on the show, we’ve already got Miss Ink and Cucha."
Gendered insult and PenGame roster comparison.
Platform humour
"One follower on KANDI’s OnlyFans — can you believe it was only SKAMZ?"
KANDI/SKAMZ/PenGame humour line.
Fairness angle
"Even though he chanted your dad was dead, really, you should’ve got Brodie banned."
KANDI reference and platform fairness angle.
Platform attack
"I guess PenGame don’t like you, you’re their favourite slave, so they hype you."
Platform/status attack.
Voice angle
"Sound like a mouse, why’s your voice so squeaked up?"
Round-two opening continues the mouse/voice angle.
Threat line
"Chatting out your mouth is how you’re bound to get beat up."
Threat line.
Partner angle
"Go inside your house and find your spouse, she looking sweet."
Partner angle.
Sexual disrespect
"I make her eat my D up, then put my feet up."
Sexual disrespect.
Music scheme
"Living room, kitchen, bedroom, I disrespect her — do it all over the house like Skepta."
Skepta “Shutdown”/house-style reference, used as a partner disrespect scheme.
Protection attack
"Way too skinny little boy, you can’t protect her."
Size/protection attack.
Song flip
"You’ve got a song called Andy’s Coming — that sounds like you like naked boys."
Song-title flip into sexual insult.
Setup line
"Do you wanna battle up or play with toys?"
Toy Story setup.
Authenticity attack
"You’re not a killer, you’re a cool guy."
Authenticity attack.
Character punch
"Tell your sister to come play with this Woody."
Toy Story / Woody sexual punch.
Toy Story chain
"I’m Buzz around a potato, that’s a Bullseye."
Toy Story chain: Buzz, Mr Potato Head, Bullseye.
Card setup
"No games, got the cards, I’ll be showing you."
Sets up Yu-Gi-Oh/card references.
Card flip
"Take out your body parts one by one like Exodia."
Yu-Gi-Oh reference. Exodia is assembled from body parts, flipped into dismantling SKAMZ.
Death image
"Leave your body blue with your eyes wide."
Death/body image.
Anime reference
"Something like Shenron."
Dragon Ball reference.
Sin imagery
"I’m Satan, bro, I’m a man and a beast."
Seven Deadly Sins / demonic energy.
Anime reference
"Give you one punch."
One Punch Man reference.
Anime reference
"I’ll spray you with something like Bleach."
Bleach anime reference and chemical spray image.
Anime reference
"Take your ghost out the shell."
Ghost in the Shell reference.
Anime threat
"Like the Seven Deadly Sins, I’ma send him to hell."
Anime/religion threat.
Pokémon scheme
"Pikachu with a Poké, Charizard bars, it gets smoky."
Pokémon/fire/electricity scheme.
Pokémon wordplay
"Machop your mother on the lowkey."
Pokémon/Machop wordplay.
Pokémon punch
"Give her the Slowpoke."
Pokémon/sexual insult.
Pokémon comparison
"Underneath her church dress, your mumma’s built like Mewtwo."
Mewtwo body comparison.
Pokémon flip
"I took your mumma into Squirtles."
Pokémon/Squirtle sexual-water flip.
Continuation
"She used to blast toys, but now I be drilling her."
Toy/Squirtle/drilling continuation.
Setup
"SKAMZ came PenGame with plans."
Round-three setup, mocking SKAMZ for arriving with intent but failing.
Status attack
"Fat rich got no bands."
Money/status attack.
Hype angle
"I heard that REN took all of your fans."
Career/hype angle.
Name/app attack
"You catfish girls with scams, that’s why on Tinder you got banned."
Name and dating-app attack.
Appearance insult
"Your old girl looks trans."
Gendered appearance insult. Archive carefully.
Mental attack
"Your head needs scans."
Mental-state attack.
Drug insult
"I feel the weed that you smoke is sprayed up."
Drug-quality insult.
Fake persona
"Most of the shit that you say is all made up."
Fake-persona angle.
Threat image
"Your fam is staying prayed up."
Threat/religion image.
Career decline
"You got passed by Orion, passed by REN, passed by KANDI, soon passed by ZEN."
Strong career-status list. RA’SIAH says SKAMZ has been overtaken by everyone.
Social media angle
"Passed by F-DON on the reels — wait, I know it’s a trend."
Adds social-media visibility to the decline angle.
Positioning
"Can’t be letting it happen again."
RA’SIAH positions himself as the next person to pass SKAMZ.
New gen line
"RA’SIAH is here, up north new gen."
Self-positioning as new generation.
Growth arc
"They thought I was shit back then, I just sat back and watched them chit-chat."
Growth arc.
Disease image
"Came back scary, I sit like malaria."
Disease/threat image.
Readiness line
"Choose anybody, cut a pair, ain’t no preparing."
Readiness line.
Movie death flip
"Before you had Cool Runnings, but now it looks like Sanka — you’re dead."
Best bar of the battle. Cool Runnings / Sanka death flip. Sanka Coffie is a character from the film, and RA’SIAH flips the name into “you’re dead.”
Scheme continuation
"Put man in a bobsled and dash him in."
Continues the Cool Runnings scheme.
Food/gun image
"SKAMZ has got no bread, he wants to get fed, I feed him with lead."
Money/food/gun image.
Disney continuation
"Vlicky Mouse, what’s been going down?"
Disney/mouse continuation.
Child star reference
"He’s like Orlando Brown."
Disney/child-star decline reference.
Music attack
"He’s coming back to the show ’cause musically nobody likes his sound."
Career/music-quality attack.
Stage control
"I’ma slap him if he makes any more dumb faces during my round."
Stage-control warning.
Street scheme
"You don’t roam the streets, you don’t hold the heat, you just know defeats."
Street/weapon/loss scheme.
Technical claim
"My flow’s elite."
Technical claim.
Toughness attack
"You’re not bad, bro, you’re sweet."
Fake-toughness attack.
Computer reference
"Shut you down like control, alt, delete."
Computer shutdown reference.
PC flip
"I’m not PC, I’m sleazy and greasy."
PC/computer/political correctness flip.
Rematch call
"Before you get REALZ, I want the rematch."
iiiBEREALZ reference and rematch desire.