The Trenches: Pray For My Enemies Recap

By / May 7, 2025 / Editorials

LTBR Award Recipients

Battle of the Night: 1)  K1NG vs Danny Myers 2) Snake Eyez vs Tex

Performance Of The Night: #1 Eazy  | #2 K1NG | #3 Danny

 

Staff Writers: France, Q Moody, & J Smo

Snake Eyez vs Tex

3.75 ☆ Rating Recapped by France

Snake Eyez vs. Tex was more than just a rescheduled grudge match — it was a tone-setter for the entire event. Originally booked as a road game for Tex and a homecoming bout for Snake Eyez, the dynamics flipped when the battle was moved, creating a new layer of intrigue and pressure. Instead of letting the circumstances dictate the energy, both emcees embraced the moment and brought a level of intensity that not only elevated their individual brands but added real value to the overall card. From the face-offs and promo to the last bar, this matchup exceeded all expectations.

It had everything — grit, aggression, tension, and high-level rapping — delivering the kind of raw energy that sets the tone for an entire night. Snake Eyez once again showed why he’s a valuable utility player in the culture: from the rollout of the battle, the engagement he garners, the consistency of wanting to get people to see him, and his ability to draw out great performances from opponents by antagonizing them, while still maintaining his sharpness in the ring. His value isn’t just in the rounds he raps, but in what you get when you book him. As the opener, he embraced the role of a Gatekeeper and see’s it as a badge of honor.

As for Tex, this was a breakout moment in his career.  He stood in front of his 2nd veteran opponent and delivered what many call the best performance of his career thus far. His third round, in particular, was a powerful shift in momentum, where he addressed the criticisms tied to his name and flipped them into a moment of redemption and clarity. The powerful punches, quotables he left with, some refreshing Snake Eyez name flips, and most importantly, the angles were personal, mature, and effective, showcasing that his potential extends far beyond what we’ve seen. Tex is evolving in front of our eyes, as he just rapped on the best round of his short career. His ceiling is still undefined. As he continues to climb the ranks of higher levels of competition, I wanna remind all of you to have patience with his development, as he still hasn’t even registered 10 battles in his catalog. So he will. Continue to grow as he gets more experience.

Though the winner of the battle can be debated, and I personally have Snake Eyez winning the first two rounds, what’s undeniable is how both artists walked away with a stock-raising battle. This was one of the better back-and-forths of the night, and more importantly, a reminder of how battles like this can set the tempo for the night to come.

Dre Majesty vs Preezy

3.00 ☆ Rating Recapped by J Smo

In one of the many grudge matches of the night, Dre Majesty took on WeGoHard’s Prezzy after almost a year of back-and-forth within the Trenches roster hierarchy. This battle was about how Dre would handle a battle with extra animosity and execute through the tension and lead up that a grudge match entails. While Prezzy brought entertainment and laughs through ad-libs and over-animation, Dre showed complete separation in skill and got one of the night’s clearest and most dominant wins. From the 1st to the 3rd, this was the best Dre has looked so far, and the key is how comfortable he was in his delivery. 

His passion for the game has always been shown clearly in his delivery, but at times so clearly that it could also be considered a bit over animated or disorganized. This time, he was able to put together high-quality haymakers along with his stretches of real talk and drug talk, but his rapping ability and pacing looked so much more polished and at times were really styling on Prezzy in all facets of rapping.

This is another big Win for Dre, and while the opponent isn’t anything career-defining, a performance of this level and the constant improvements from battle to battle show that it is time for Dre Majesty to start battling true name value and higher-level competition. It appears the South has another promising talent to give to the overall landscape of battle rap. While Dre has been cooking for a few battles in a row now, this most recent outing shows he may be even better than some thought and is looking as good as almost anyone on the Trenches roster right now. 3-0 win with his best performance to date. 

I’m looking forward to him getting bigger plates in the near future. It’s time, and he’s ready for the next level.

Danny Myers vs K1NG

4.25 ☆ Rating Recapped by J Smo

In what will not be a shocker to many, K1NG vs Danny lived up to the barfest many saw and ended up being Battle Of The Night from Trenches: Pray 4 My Enemies. The first thing to address is the great start to 2025 from Danny Myers continuing. After a 2024 that left a lot to be desired, especially in the Win-Loss column from a battler with a usually game-type record, Danny has led off 2025 with some standout outings on cards of value, such as vs Quest on Apollo and now K1NG on the Trenches. Particularly in the 1st two rounds, it was vintage Danny Myers. The nuclear energy puncher was chaining together bombs and performing up a storm, giving K1NG the top-shelf Danny performance that has inspired K1NG as an artist and makes this the challenge that K1NG needs to see if he’s ready for battling the best at their best. But for every punch Danny threw, K1NG had a response. 

The 1st and 2nd rounds of the battle are very close, with matching energy and bars, and giving the best back-and-forth of the night off just the 1st two rounds alone. They also matched each other in the chaotic style of rebuttaling that both use, with a quantity of approach that leaves you with some misses but also a few insane haymakers built off improv and response to the opponent’s best bars. While this can be judged in various ways (Danny 2-0 or K1NG 2-0), I found myself edging K1NG the 1st and Danny the 2nd, giving this a very evenly matched 1-1 going into the 3rd. 

The 3rd is where K1NG reaches his peak and has been the best round of his career up to this point. Combining very meticulous angling and a variety of flow switching and scheming in the 3rd, K1NG takes an opportunity to show every skill he has outside of punching. It does it at an extremely high level, breaking down Danny’s career choices and image in Battle Rap while still being extremely lyrical and switching up flows and pace to create a much different and exciting round that flips the script from his patent punch-heavy approach of the 1st two rounds. Danny Myers has already called it “one of the best rounds I’ve stood in front of”, and it will go down as a career highlight for the Michigan talent.  

While Danny’s 3rd is still decent, this was the clearest round of the battle and goes to K1NG, leaving me to edge the battle to K1NG 2-1 (1st and 3rd). Debates will be had for either side, and in a struggle this close is understandable and part of the fun when you get this level of quality on both sides. But for both, the great recent trends in performance continue. Danny, as stated, already having a good bounce back 2025 and K1NG not only still showing why he’s the Trenches #1 talent right now, but also another boost to his case for the best new talent in battle rap as a whole, with a Battle Of The Night on Trenches vs Danny following his previous outing, one of the Battles Of The Night vs Cortez on Chrome and still continuously coming out of his battles as one of the main talking points of the event. 

Coffee Brown vs Bonnie Godiva

3.25 ☆ Rating Recapped by France

Coffee Brown and Bonnie Godiva are no strangers to making their presence felt on the Chrome 23 stage, but this time they both make their debut on The Trenches together. They delivered a solid back-and-forth, and the ladies gave a goodie to the card as they were the only women featured for the event. Bonnie opened the battle with intricate schemes centered around “coffee,” flexing her wordplay and pen-heavy setups in a way that immediately grabbed the crowd’s attention. In response, Coffee’s first round was filled with various topics, touching on personal angles, subtle jabs, and direct punches. While her structure sometimes felt slightly scattered, each setup paid off with impactful punchlines that gave her a confident edge in the first.

The second round brought a shift in momentum, as Bonnie ramped up the energy and took a more focused approach. She locked into a specific angle and expanded it with schemes, humor, and sneaky punchlines that took a moment to land but paid off with delayed crowd reactions and a few standout haymakers. It was one of Bonnie’s stronger rounds in recent memory — composed and clever. Coffee matched her energy, staying consistent with her style from the first round, but this time Bonnie’s pacing and material gave her the edge, making it feel like a clear 1-1 going into the third.

In the final round, Bonnie’s third was noticeably shorter than her first two rounds and didn’t carry the same impact as her second, though it was still a respectable effort. Coffee’s third continued in the same rhythm as her second — composed, clean, and steady. While she didn’t deliver any haymakers on the level of her earlier rounds, the consistency and completeness of her material stood out. It wasn’t a round that blew the roof off, but it was effective and beatable — and in this case, it beat Bonnie’s third. The battle has no low points, and there are moments when the crowd seemed to be distracted, which affected some spots of the footage. Still, both battlers brought quality material in a closely contested battle, which could be argued either way. I walk away with Coffee Brown edging the third for a 2-1 win in what turned out to be a strong showing for both women and a great addition to the Trenches platform.

Coffee is shaping up to be a good year in 2025. She had one of the best battles so far this year with Pristavia and a quality win over Swamp, and she will be back outside in two weeks. Bonnie is fairly active herself in 2025, coming off a dope one-round battle on short prep vs. J-Morr and coming back from overseas. She is constantly active, and I hope she keeps this consistent production level.  

Rosenberg Raw vs Tru Foe

3.00 ☆ Rating Recapped by Q Moody

This battle came in with an additional level of intrigue because of some of the animosity and tension building between the two on social media. And with the whole history of Tru Foe backing out of the first Trenches card and this being his debut, there were a few reasons to be into this battle. We wound up getting a fight with the best Rosenberg Raw performance in a good bit, maybe back since his battle with Mike P. There’s a good bit of playing to the Philly crowd, but Froze is supposed to make full use of any sort of thing he can use to swing the battle in his favor. 

Some of the biggest highlights in this battle come from Rosenberg’s Raw 2nd round, with some of his storytelling, angles, referencing Philly legends, and the culture around Philly battle rap in this round. He tied it into a major moment with a Rashad McCants bar that ultimately parlayed into a Twitter battle with McCants! Tru Foe’s 3rd round had some dope pockets of rapping, and he opened up an angle about the attention and desire Rosenberg wants and brings to himself as a voice of the media now. I thought it was a clever flip on how you can perceive Rosenberg as a blogger/Media member.

Beyond that, though, he just had 3 rounds of pretty dope material. Foe was far from bad, he wins the first round in my opinion and the second round has some room to be debated, but I left the battle being super impressed with Rosenberg. Very solid battle overall, though. 

Eazy The Block Captain vs Swamp

3.75 ☆ Rating Recapped by Q Moody

One of the most common criticisms of Eazy The Block Captain during his stardom over the last 5 years has been that he “doesn’t battle within his class”. Outside of Ultimate Madness 1, he hasn’t tested his metal against the people he grew up in battle rap with, which was seen as a rite of passage on the way to becoming an elite battler years prior. 

Eazy made his way up the ladder by battling people with significantly more time in the spotlight than he had. And he had overwhelmingly positive results. But there’s always a counterpoint or a hole to point out when someone is at the top. And for Eazy, what would he look like facing someone of his era? Someone at he couldn’t take decade-old angles on and repurpose them to be still effective? What would Eazy do if forced to be more creative?

Swamp has worked his way to a point of being undeniably top-tier. A collision between the two had been brewing for years, and after the best year of his career in 2024, it was bound to happen sooner rather than later. 

Eazy’s first round was powerful. The point can be made that it may take a little bit of time for him to heat up, but that last half of the round is consistent with the level of battle rapper he’s been since 2020. But Swamp quickly took hold of the round with how explosive he was from the start. The “home field” advantage or “gas” people might have expected for Eazy didn’t factor much into the battle, as seen by the reception Swamp’s first round got. It’s not the widest margin in a round for this battle, but I think Swamp will take the first round here. 

But this sport is based on pacing yourself and writing uphill, and Eazy is one of the best in the world at that. His second round is significantly stronger than his first, with Eazy dipping into some career talk, woven in with talking about Swamp backing out of the first Trenches card. He turned that into some compelling content, and in return, Swamp’s round is noticeably weaker and drier than his first and is no match for Eazy’s 2nd round at all. 

It’s cliche and said a lot of the time when it’s not true, but this clash was now 1-1 heading into the third and the deciding round. Eazy’s 3rd round was great, maybe not as good as his 2nd. But he still left that round with something highlight worthy when he turned his attention towards Swamp’s manager, DuhBoss. This being the first time Eazy could target someone on his opponent’s side, the way his opponents have been able to use Remy was a moment of the tables turning. Swamp’s round starts strong, but while trying to return to his material after crowd reaction, Swamp lost his place and unfortunately started his material back from the top. And I’m sorry, but that is a choke. And what makes it even more frustrating is that Swamp’s third is actually excellent. Without the choke, Swamp might have been on his way to making that round debatable or even possibly winning it. As it stands, though, as much as I love Swamp’s material in the third, there’s no way to give him the round when he wasn’t clean. Therefore, I have this as a clear win for Eazy 2-1 in the 2nd and 3rd.

The ending puts a damper on what was a dope battle. For Eazy, this was a step at building some momentum again after the Suge battle, with the Chrome anniversary card still looming. But for Swamp, it feels like the continuation of a disappointing start to 2025. He’s coming off his best year in the game, and he’s still dealing with some personal situations. I hope Swamp can find that same groove he had in 2024. He’s battled Coffee, Marv Won, Chess, and now Eazy, with a resume like that, he should be at the top without question for any way too early COTY projections. But he’s not, and that’s entirely on his performances not matching up so far this year.

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