Real Deal Wins ‘16 Bars’ Tourney over Swave Sevah, Danny Myers & Lotta Zay

The Roots member Black Thought made a guest appearance at the BoomBox event held in New York City.

Last night (July 31), BoomBox held its “16 Bars” event in New York City. The event was hosted by Poison Pen, Rob Markman and DJ E Stylez with a guest appearance from The Roots member, Black Thought.

The event included Real Deal versus Swave Sevah and Danny Myers verses Lotta Zay. Real Deal and Lotta Zay, the respective winners of their battles, went on to battle each other in the final with Real Deal picking up the win.

Real Deal broke down the event on his Facebook artist page:

Damn man...what an event. On 9 days prep I went to new York and battled in a tournament for a major website opening with MTV reps there as well as Black Thought....I had 9 days to prepare 3 rounds (and potentially more if I win in the first round) for NY legend Swave Sevah and he had the same. Had an absolute slugfest with him and came out on top. Danny Myers and LottaZay Abbohomi Carter had a sick ass battle with Lott coming out on top. I had to battle Lotta 20 minutes later with some spare bars. Freestyling is not dead good people it in fact saved my life. This dude Zay was snapping. When the smoke cleared after heavy crowd back and forth I ended up getting the decision...yes people crowd judging for all battles. Can't front I'm proud of it. Beating those 2 with those circumstances is kind of surreal. Both are 2 of my favorites real shit. The love is always huge in NY. Shouts most of all to Pen Nostrand for making it possible. Also Sara Kana Tmoney Bagz pgbloggers chief TV the boom box all hip hop Rory Webb Artie and everyone else. In a day and age when some battles are booked half a year in advance it was good to see it come back to its roots...ah see what I did there.”

ThatShitIsHotSunLive! caught up with each of the battlers to get their take on how the event went down.

Real Deal admits it was tough to prepare on such short notice.

Swave Sevah, who, although losing the overall tournament, says he beat Real Deal 2-1.

Danny Myers, who lost in his battle against Lotta Zay, says his opponent cheated but affirms, “it’s all good.”

Lotta Zay says he only had 24 hours to prepare for his battle against Danny Myers.

The flyer for the event can be seen below as well a photo from the show from Goodtime Slim via Facebook (who also took the one at the top of this article).

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