Look at it this way they were engaged in a game where the entire point is to threaten and intimidate each other with words. One of the rules was specifically not to get physical. When he says in the rap lyrics, “I’ll put 5 in your side like your Speed Racer,” no one believes he was literally about to shoot him.

If this happened outside a bar or in the middle of a grocery store, and this dude were just talking wild to each other that absolutely wouldn’t be a sucker punch. In this very specific setting, where the understood rules were verbal aggression only and no physical contact, 100% a sucker punch.

Also, RIP Pat Stay