Deciding which battle to break down for my first write up was becoming a tricky endeavor, with me being caught between a few paths. Should I pick something new, an old classic or even maybe something from outside Ireland. It had to be an Irish battle for the first go, and which Irish battle was made a whole lot simpler when Micky Worthless made a game in the KOTR(King of the Ronalds) Facebook Forum about 5 battles you should see if you haven’t seen them. He tagged in Tony D straight away, and Uncle Tone didn’t disappoint.

This is what Tony D had to say about Nu-Centz Vs Nash: “When DFIreland was a thing this was the first battle I ever seen and the one that started me on the road to Don’t Flop.”

So could you claim without this battle there would be no Tony D, one of the UK’s biggest battling names ever. No, that’s a little strong but it does show that the Irish Battling scene can have far greater influence then we give it credit for.

Battle Break Down

As far as I can remember, this battle took place in the first Don’t Flop Ireland event, and was uploaded to YouTube on the 4th of February 2010. Both of the lads were debuts in this battle, the league was new and the scene in Ireland was yet to develop. No one knew what to expect. To break down a 6 year old battle will be a bit tricky as times change but I’m going into this fresh as if it was a battle released recently.

Round 1 Quotes and Winner

Nash – “Even on Sense the Terror, Terawrizt owns you on all that shit”

Nash – “Coming with them generic diss lines and Cork jokes, to be honest I’d rather be battling Rawsoul, or the Rapping Paul Scholes” (points at Redzer)

Nash – “…Change his name from Rawsoul to sore hole, cos they’re more than best friends, he even puts an X at the end of the text that he sends”

Nu-Centz – “…Hes From Cork I’m tryna find something Thug about it, the home of queer GAA players and loads of flooded Houses”

I give round one to Nash as he had a few more punches that hit at Nuies body of work, like the Sense the Terror punch and his general Class A slagging. Nu-Centz was a bit more timid than fans of his music would expect, but they both were funny and had the room listening.

Round 2 Quotes and Winner

Nash – No need to write the Quotes out for this round as it’s pretty much most of the start, Nash goes in on Nuie being the weak link in his groups.

Nash – “Trying on different clothes for the battle and shit” Funny as it could have happened

Nu-Centz – “Hands up anyone who knows the words to a Nash song”

Nu-Centz – “I heard he tried to finger a moth once, and its wings broke”

Round 2 goes to Nash for me as well. Feels like he has as much comedy as Nuie but lined with a few more personals that are swaying my opinion.

Round 3 Quotes and Winner

Nu-Centz – “…the only tracks I wanna see from Cork are my tires on the way out of it”

Nu-Centz takes round 3, felt he grew into the battle by this point and had some of his funniest lines in this round.

Over Time and Conclusion

Over Time back in the day was great as we were young teens getting to see more rapping, nowadays I feel it is a bit of a cop out. If you cant judge a battle in 3 rounds then you shouldn’t judge a battle, but back then Over Times were much more common until Don’t Flop started to phase them out. This battle I had Nash taking easily enough with a 2-1 but the judges went with OT. The OT went to Nu-Centz cos Nash “choked” but I personally felt it was harsh to go to OverTime in the first place. Shout out Redzer for saying OverDose instead of OT, that was odd.

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