those comments about Papa Doc's lines all being pre-rehearsed - I hadn't even thought about that but yeah - they only time we see him rap is at the beginning and most of his stuff sounds generic or pre-prepared - the only thing vaguely improvised/relevant-to-his-opponent was about him looking like Cris-Cros even though he didn't look that much like them.
So as stated above, when MC Bob mentions it, Rabbit realises that he'll have some pre-written (either by himself or maybe even by other members of Free World) lines about him and wont be able to deviate from it, so just goes first and pre-empts it all.
But even if he'd mis-judged it and Papa Doc was able to ad-lib some new stuff, the knockout blow was Cranbrook. If he'd just dissed his appearance or clothes or whatever, maybe Papa could have tried to come up with something to flip it on him, but exposing him as a fraud to the entire shelter - there's no coming back from that.
And I love how "his real name's Clarence" gets a bigger reaction from the audience - and from Papa Doc himself - than the Cranbook reveal ha ha!
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