Words First x Don't Flop - Poets vs Rappers - Battle (WARNING: CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT).

WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE LANGUAGE.
1 ) Blizzard VS Shonda Rhymez (aka Vanessa Kisuule)
2 ) Quill VS Shawgi Bear
3 ) Paul Cree VS Bru-C (Compliments Round)
4 ) Shuffle-T & Marlo VS Harry Baker & Craft-D (Doubles Round)
Words First is 1Xtra's year-long season celebrating spoken word.
www.bbc.co.uk/wordsfirst

[@harrybakerpoetry]

'be sure to tell her what the weather's like in loserville' is maybe my fave insult in a rap battle ever

[@kanedoherty3727]

"you have irritable owl syndrome" is far better

[@natgeo3323]

It was wack

[@mikeo5003]

you must not watch much battle rap

[@danielogorman2843]

This is clearly more of a poetry crowd than a battle rap crowd which was a smart move

[@Welyn]

Damn this came out nicely, i was skeptical when i read about it.... shonda could do well on DF tbh

[@jermainebrixton7559]

pro trick: you can watch series on flixzone. Been using them for watching lots of of movies during the lockdown.

[@seanmisael8769]

@Jermaine Brixton Definitely, been using flixzone for since december myself :D

[@moopieboop9517]

Again but with pedro vs everyone

[@baronz555]

BEST COMMENT IVE EVER SEEN MADE MY YEAR

[@UrbsLive]

Blizzard been eating well big up him

[@Mcfc2Rich]

Bit too well*

[@benakam101]

HAhahahaha omg that had me in stitches :L

[@potnoodles4life171]

man's gotten chubby

[@FB-mw5gv]

Been eating the gourmet steaks!. I rate that tho cos in one of his tracks he says he lost weight cos he ain't had money for food so atleast the brudda is financially healthy

[@josiah_holla]

"Liam zoom in on her. Now zoom out on me.... I am out of her league" BODYBAAGGG

[@sebgale82]

"Let me eat man, let me eat" Someone doesn't know when to stop....

[@joshking7800]

Shonda Rhymez was unreal! Much love to her

[@BattleRapResume]

These battles are excellent. Great look for DF

[@TheDroneZoneIRL]

Yeah the rappers smashed it!

[@iambru_uk]

Lolol good vibes big up Don't Flop & 1Xtra

[@evanoleary7721]

Really interesting concept, this is a great style contrast. Obviously the battlers have a huge advantage, this is their turf and it shows, but it's still interesting to see how the poets approach it.

[@JDLegal7]

Blizzard got merked so hard he's banned from poundland

[@skibbadabba]

lmao!!!

[@roronoadzoro9429]

not realy tho

[@roronoadzoro9429]

its a 1-1 in my opinion shondy rhymez is just rhyming not scheming like blizz

[@kmint5]

Way better than I had ever expected.

[@jayboxingmma5918]

lunar c v a feminist would have been brutal

[@arise2]

This was a pretty good and interesting crossover event, more of this 1xtra/dontflop.

[@RSProduxx]

no way the first gal didn´t have rap experience...

[@YTtunes222]

him keep saying "let me cook" & "let me eat" after allllll the fat jokes is killing me. Loved this crossover, big ups DF

[@thegent6134]

Marlo and Shuffle= Undisputed Tag Champs of fucking forever.

[@char1408]

Shonda Rhymez tho

[@NewPink14]

Shonda Rhymez lets get to transitioning to DF girls on point

[@gwilson3149]

Would love to see all of these poets on the Don't Flop platform. Mailny Shonda. Shonda vs Soweto Kinch would be a sick match up.

[@examper22]

Them together though.

[@se13bmg]

Did blizard eat mark grist

[@samueljones8629]

Who's Mark Griest?

[@zticeballin751]

He got fat fam

[@arsenalmanic]

hahaha!

[@snowy_beats5715]

W

[@arsenalmanic]

Samuel Jones Legend!

[@mikebeon2539]

Quill's "Out her league" line had me cracking up

[@mattlyons9027]

yo blizzard snowballed

[@mattlyons9027]

good to see him back tho

[@mattlyons9027]

he kinda got bodied again tho

[@MrKeepthebeatz]

he certainly got bodied. and he bodied himself.

[@ItsTonyMc]

See Ruse facts his voice is mad annoying

[@tismon]

3-0 Bagnall for carrying that camera the entire time

[@Slademoses]

looked intense

[@ivanq8569]

This like that regular show episode fam😂

[@fpizzi8172]

haha haha good show old boy

[@keithyp8427]

That was completely new on me, thought it was hilarious, especially the dudes complementing each other cracked me up.

[@MrKillacus]

shes brilliant. she needs to be on dont flop for real!!

[@TJdeluxePc]

They should bring in Diz vs Shonda!

[@francisjamesjupiter9376]

that girl is fire..fire..fire..fire !!!!!!!!!!

[@victoriaappiagei1482]

woman love poet powerful Cool good lyricism girl go

[@AhsokaTano36BBY]

Wtf I love this, plz make more of these.

[@sheepinthemidst]

I'm 10 minutes into this video and its absolutely brilliant. It's a shame that rap has lost its poetic roots, with commercial hip-hop being more about the beat and flow-with little effort on the lyrics.

[@adifferenthumandesign]

OMG Shonda! Poet and rap style you are now my newest idol!!

[@natrixxirtan]

blizzard has evolved into iron solomon

[@GameMinds]

enjoyed this

[@dunknwitsiffy]

this is sick .. i liked the compliment battle

[@grmsets_]

Next up: King of the Ronald's vs BBC Radio 1????

[@UrbsLive]

no

[@dec4130]

hahaha would love to see micky vs a poet loool

[@zticeballin751]

+Declan Corrigan Micky is useless

[@crepcollect317]

Whoever made the decision to put quill up against that poor girl k ew there would be a murder

[@Zarelhunter]

the first battle featured a Female Arsonal vs a british Iron Solomon

[@mikeyplondon]

Been watching Don't Flop for quite some time. First battle I've actually attended. Shonda was probably the highlight actually.

[@cornejof3]

THIS CONCEPT IS AMAZINGLY CRAZY GOOD IDEA

[@specifictubes]

I'd like to see Shonda battle Innuendo. Probably wouldn't be the way DF would want to promote themselves on the BBC but it would be a funny battle.

[@MASTERTMUSIC]

PLEASE UPLOAD MORE OF THIS STUFF!!!!

[@victoriaappiagei1482]

Dope music rap vs poet Good rap battle good Cool Awesome hip-hop history poet vs rapper

[@Leru175]

It's fucking hilarious that harry and craft-d used shuffles website against him. That was great.

[@Shayor100]

the compliment round was the funniest

[@lamp8207]

"Let me wrap, let me cook, let me eat"? 8:50 Transcript of blizzard moments after being caught at production area of mcdonalds while working there.

[@ImortalPkin]

Did Blizzard eat Unanimous?

[@returnoftheredeye]

This is cool, but we been doing this poets vs MC's shit in Brighton for 13 years now.

[@WayneTWparkour]

Blizzard should change his name to avalanche

[@killerdrew99]

Shonda Rhymes is up there like Goodz with the Rosé

[@shitguy7615]

They need to bring Akala in.

[@lolll3360]

😭😂that would be murder

[@kamikazinutter]

Shonda Rhymez was clearly better than everyone there combined. Not biased I swear!

[@ArcienPlaysGames]

"Bet you couldn't tell a clitoris from a big toe" I lost it.

[@cobenavente]

“Its his favorite bit of chicken” 🔥

[@pEr5on4LLy]

I got Blizzard winning this pretty easily. Shonda Rhymes was gassed. She's got stage presents, but them bars are light.

[@pEr5on4LLy]

That's light (Tay-Roc voice)

[@benlove8861]

nah mate that little boy got taken down. easy.

[@whatdididotodeservethis1419]

That Shonda Rhymez and Paul Cree should go on don't flop

[@deschanelgordon7564]

this is nice and all but half the crowd are overeacting to simple bars/rhymes lol most probs dont watch battle rap.

[@_RRTHPT_]

They do that to hype up the performers.

[@thebest12700]

thats why they were recting. a casual crowd is going to be easier to imrpess thats why they made sure it was a crowd like this .

[@sjohnson5594]

Respect to df and those poets bro

[@Aixzeh]

Harry baker would have been a better opponent than blizzard

[@samueljones8629]

Had to rewind quills verse 🔥

[@thetinman5297]

don't flop stays innovating big ups from America

[@ahmedj2458]

The two are damn brilliant!

[@jacekmichalski5052]

I WAIT FOR THIS MOVE...TOP LEVEL...CONTINUE...SHUFFLE T VS CARTER¿¿??¿¿??GREEE

[@RaitonStorm]

Why do they make so much noise at EVERYTHING she says?

[@chillingwithdaps]

First guy got bodied son!!! Sheeesh. But props to him. I felt some of his flow too.

[@soliduchiha6972]

That black bald guy in the front looks like her BF and he gets secretly offended 😂 with that evil grin

[@AtroxBeats]

some of the poets should be rappers haha

[@mountainrock7682]

poets tend to target the emotions. rappers tend to target who they're rapping to. but that doesnt mean poets cant roast someone througg their words as seen on this video.

[@davidjoost]

aint battle rap the only kind of poetry that should be celebratedby... battling? every other kind of lyrical expression misses the aggressive characteristic battle rappers put in their words... on purpose?! i dont seem to understand it myself but this comparison is pretty fucked up, because the so called poets are certain to make the bigger impact on people because they are spectacularly taking a step out of their comfort zone, meeting the rappers on a level on which the rappers in return appear normal and kinda boring. feels like a handball team challenging a basket ball team

[@MalcolmJosephMJCross]

i wouldn't necessarily say that are dramatically different. poetry and rapping are same. I completely agree. stupid to separate the two. while battlers have an objective of winning or defeating on opponent, poets don't. it's more artful I'd say.

[@victoriaappiagei1482]

cool Awesome skills beautiful poetry performance vs rapper poet

[@Intersexashleyleeanntv]

I always saw rap as poetry without the beat

[@ohrightok9750]

a poet can can be fake and you wouldn't know - a rapper HAS to be real... that isn't me talking some kind of "yo respect the streets shit" ... i'm saying that; for its sincerity to be accepted, then it needs to be delivered with an acute degree of authenticity... and in my opinion, that is what seperates the 2. This is why people like Mark Grist and Harry Baker can cross over, but others fail to find their feet. It's about being true to yourself. No amount of aggression or slang words will compensate for what looks false, in the eye of the audience.

[@philbright7389]

blizzard finally blew up. just in his own way.

[@Inkulabi]

That compliment battle though!👏

[@ethanlikes64]

whys blizzard battlin mchonne?

[@notificationmail9220]

Yo the sister in the first part of the video, is on point, and fine too!!! whats her name?

[@Alec30]

It was cute hearing all the poetry fans gas up the poet's for no reason 😂

[@Alec30]

That second woman was cringey. Just pure trash

[@kevhart3464]

What happened to Blizz?

[@DunKnoThaMySpace]

Quill better not make choking a habit

[@Lon3Starr]

All that’s missing was the “D-D-D-D-Don Demarco!” 😂😂😂😂

[@JackTheTool]

imagine pedro here

[@Metaltrippin2]

Yo that first battle that poet wasted him 😂😂😂

[@davidgreen4132]

Oh my God Blizzard turned into Big J

[@AnDyPCLAM]

shuffle and marlo are out of this world.

[@SinisterAnimationS]

blizzard turned into a snowman , still got the bars tho lol

[@MaSsiVeGaming1]

Shonda 'Rhymez' nicely. Love the flow.

[@WattzArtist]

Enjoyed this lol

[@burtthe3rd744]

Cuz you're the king of the what? I'm the king of the crop, And if you're clippin the Charlie then I'm rippin the sloth... idk why that's sick, but that's fuckin sick

[@taylorbenson6284]

Bring em to the U.S.

[@chrissim4115]

I’m so mad I’m only seeing this after 3 years

[@jimthompson9175]

I must say for such a short "battle" Quill killed it

[@FlowShowGaming]

So were those made on the spot and simultaneously surpassing Eminem or were they pre-written? What follows on from 37:40 kinda makes me think they're pre-writter.

[@lilbro1984]

FLOWSHOW - TheGamingPole Good way to tell: heavy use of multis/ complex bars. Go watch Pedro Vs Dotz or Pedro vs Charron, you can tell the content becomes less conplex when it's spontaneous. You can even spot prewritten lines in those battles.

[@FlowShowGaming]

So the final verdict is...

[@wesmatron]

So it was Blizzard who ate all the bloody pies... and she bodied him. She was class and he got schooled.

[@kbunitkid]

shondas alright specially for her first battle...she sud carry on with dont flop and go for people like like marlo and calcium kid

[@JamesCleary202]

literally when the battle started I was like, "where is blizzard and why is he battling this fat guy?"

[@OKG2000]

loll she smashed it, quite a good battle actually

[@calumbarnes5651]

When did Blizzard morph into Unan's old body structure

[@Jambit2550]

Based off the thumbnail I thought Pedro was gonna come shut this event down;[

[@wrmitole]

that was fire!

[@ReezyMCarter]

Blizzard making me reconsider what I'm eating, what the fuck happened

[@BoneIdolUK]

Akala vs Oshea, set it up DF & Radio 1! P.S. Has anyone got Shawgi Bear's number?

[@abdullahwright3266]

She’s vicious with it

[@denden51]

the black woman is fire