Bamalam vs. Briggzy

Who: Bamalam (London, England) vs. Briggzy (Manchester, England)
Where: Don't Flop's "MCRvsLDN" event at The Ritz in Manchester, England
When: Oct. 11, 2014

Here's Adam "Mos Prob" Felman's review of this battle. Check out his review of the whole event here.

Otherwise blighted by the aforementioned camera mishap, this battle was a startling return to form for Briggzy. Absent for a while, the tiny ginger man best known for being Shotty’s Mosh Team cohort fully laid into Bamalam and, while the crowd was doing a whole lot of snoozing on Bamalam’s material, Briggzy just overpowered him from about two feet below eye level.

For an event typified by intensity, and the tantalising prospect of the onslaught that was about to be the main event, Bamalam’s delivery simply didn’t fit. One of the most notable parts of the event was the way certain rappers used the performance space: Shotty, Raptor, Take Note Tox and Briggzy owned it. Bamalam was static and stilted, and didn’t look like his heart was in it.

No discredit from Briggzy. His light-hearted comedy moments missed the mark in my eyes, but the adaptation of the URL style into his delivery brought him bang up to speed. This was historical for being one of the most surprising comebacks I’ve seen in recent years.

Cover photo by Rob Clayton for Don't Flop.