The Xcel battle is like many of his smaller battles he doesn't go as hard but comes with something and it's usually to give shine to them.
The Chilla battle is debatable imo.

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Let's talk about Xcel being underwhelming since then.
Daylyt has everything to outshine verb other than Verb's rhyming and flow.
I feel you on the part where he gives shine to smaller leagues but that reasoning is flawed fam..
are we battling or not? a loss is a loss, it doesn't matter which league you battle at
let a small league book Mook/Lux/Hollow battle and let him take a loss like Day did against Xcel and see what happens..
Day is just smart enough to have these antics and interviews to let nikkas overlook his losses and be like
"well, it's on a small league.." Xcel
"but the antic was crazy tho" B Magic
He just wants to confuse the battlerap community to a point where he never "loses"
cause if he wins, the fans wiill be like "told ya son got bars"
but if he loses, the fans will be like "well the antic was crazy/he helps the league he didnt go hard on purpose"
see where I'm goin? it's a win/win situation he has planned for a long time
he'll mix lies with real shyt to a point where people will see one, and convince themself of the other, it ain't that difficult
Xcel has been mad underwhelming since then indeed, I actually saw nikkas comparing him to Big L LOL