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Katz The Virginian-Pilot/span idmorephotos View full-size photo Buy Pilot photos Bill Bonney, an Iraq war veteran, was shot to death in 2008 by his opponent in a battle rap lyrical duel. CORRECTION: Daquan Hill drove himself to a friend s home on Maltby Avenue, where he was later killed. An earlier version of this story identified someone else as having driven him to the home. Late one night at a the enemy below song party, Trey Pound and Stress spit insults back and forth to a hip-hop beat. The strangers, known by friends as sharp, freestyle rappers, rhymed back and forth, one-upping each other with verbal cuts. Pound delivered two slams during the battle rap, witnesses later testified, that the enemy below song Stress to a boil. He called Stress a hardback, an insult to members of the Crips gang, then said the 5-foot-3-inch rapper was short. Pound held his hands up, court records state, and asked Stress if he was going to shoot him over a rap. The two fought, and a court later found that Stress fired the single shot that the enemy below song Pound. The 24-year-old Iraq War veteran known to friends as Bill Bonney and Lil Bill to his mom collapsed on the front lawn. Battle raps face-to-face, lyrical duels featuring insults, boasts and rhymes have triggered two recent murders in Norfolk, including Bonneys death in October 200 In both cases, the men did not know each other well before they faced off. Details about the confrontations and underground culture have emerged in court hearings and trials. They reveal a passion that can be as common as playing video games or listening to music. Aspiring rappers spit out lyrics in living rooms, yards, open-mic clubs almost anywhere young, hip-hop poets gather. The in-your-face rhyming is fed by pop culture and the siren of fame. Young rappers say they also are driven by a desire to spontaneously express themselves. Seldom, however, do the raps turn violent. Police and prosecutors in other Hampton Roads cities reported no other serious incidents involving rap battles. The lyrical duels have been around as long as hip-hop, and figure prominently in such movies as rapper Eminems 8 Mile. The popular video music show 106 Park on BET features Freestyle Friday, with rappers dueling on a stage decorated as a boxing ring. Its a chance to be a star, to emulate what you see on TV, said Russell Hill, a radio host at Norfolk State University who goes by DJ Illmatic Beats. Hill, 27, won an emcee and battle rap competition last year at NSU.