I have discussed Epic Rap Battles of History before, ERB, is a YouTube series where they take suggestions about two famous people in History, both real and fiction and match them up in Battle Raps, most of the time it is pretty good.
Funny, and informative some of the match up have been obvious and others surprising. Today I am just going to talk about the ones that deal with the Holiday season. They did the first one in Season two, there was an Easter Bunny one but not the right holiday.
So in Season 2, Episode 12 they do Moses vs Santa Claus. Now in most of these unless they need a female or a different race usually Nice Peter or Epic Lloyd, but now and then they bring in a special guest. For this one they brought in Snoop Lion as Moses.
The other fun part of these is you decide who wins. Give it a watch, and see what happens when the two clash.
In season three, Episode 6 we see Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge which had several guest stars as it turned into a Rap Battle version of the Scrooge story. A new take on the normal Rap Battle, and had a past, present, and future ghost rappers.
They are only a few weeks into Season 4 and as of yet have not done a Holiday rap battle. Nor does it look like they are going too for this season. Still even with only a few this is a fun series to watch and they have some fun and sometimes clever Rap Battles
I am a reader, and a movie collector/watcher, and to a lesser extent a fan of YouTube, with what it has now, Black Nerd Comedy, Epic Rap Battles of History, Death Battle to name a few, and I have or will cover most of these at some point or another but today I am here about Dis Raps For Hire.
The idea is fairly simple, EpicLLOYD is one half of the main duo who works on Epic Rap Battles of History. He also does several things over on his channel. Epic Lloyds Youtube but the one I enjoy the most of his is Dis Raps. He gets tweets or letters or Facebook posts about some shitty stuff or crappy behavior and just unloads on the people who treated the other person wrong. So far its only 2 seasons and its VERY inconsistant with long breaks just between episodes.
Starting towards the end of Season one and most of season two he has tried to give it some twists, keep it fresh, guests such as a member of the Wu Tang Clan and fellow Youtuber Zach to help out in one of the dis raps.
He covers a wide range of topics from a whole school with piss poor attitudes to a rich kid whose money and daddy keep him out of trouble, even when he buys a girl away from a fellow classmate. Even more serious topics like a women who cheated on her man while he was overseas fighting and took their kid and left to a guy really trying to get his life on track and a shitty landlord.
Some are of course better then others but overall they are all at least fun. Seeing people who did crappy things to others getting some comeuppance is always nice.
Here are a few of my favorites for Season One:
"EpicLloyd, I was a combat medic during the Iraq war. I married my
highschool sweetheart before I deployed. While I was gone, she moved a
fat dude with no job and a kid into my house with her while I
unwittingly financially supported both of them. I actually found out
about it from her sister when Jennifer (my ex wife) stole several
thousand dollars from my bank account and disappeared. She ended up
showing up at her family's house with this guy for Thanksgiving."
djvapid
"Hi Mr Lloyd
My name is Simon, I live in the UK and work for a large international bank. Thats my background.
This is - my bro, Jim (James), hasn't had a job for like 10 years. Ever since he quit his job he's been leeching off of me. Rent, taxes, bills - you name it. He doesn't even try to find a job or claim job seekers allowance or any benefits.
If it were anyone else they would have got kicked out long ago, but alas he's my twin brother with nowhere else to go. So it's hard for me.
I'm not on massive wages, really quite the opposite. I barely scrape by yet he doesn't give a shit and if I moan, we fight.
I'm that depressed - diss the fuck out of him, hopefully he'll change his ways.
Cheers dude. I'm a huge fan."
"Dear EPIC LLOYD
Every day for the last two years of my high school life ive had to put up with Three guys (Tyrance, William, Reshad) making fun of the way I walk because i Have to wear leg braces. They are all 19 have screwed up teeth with braces. Tyrance
still sleeps with his older sister bc he's afraid. Reshad claims he
shaves his head but he's bald. As for Will. He'll cry when he gets a
paper cut And claim hes the greatest rapper that ever lived. He sucks...... Please LLyod Help me out.
dagimmpy1"
No copy of the letter in this one, though they are all in the video. The basic idea is this guy has gone to rehab, gotten clean, found a job, a place to live and gotten his daughter back, worked through alot of stuff and his landlord does not like him and/or his lifestyle. She wants to kick him out. There are 10 episodes to season one, the last one is a twist on the whole Dis raps.
SEASON TWO:
This season so far only has four episodes. I enjoy 2, 3, and 4.
"hey epic lloyd,
man i just cant. my little cousin derik has had 3
best friends he made in 6h grade till now. they have all been best
friends (Derik, Sammy, Jason and Ramone). Derik just told his three best
friends that he was gay. when he did sammy was totally cool with it and
was happy to know that he was comfortable telling her. Jason and Ramone
pushed him and called him faggot and buttlover. 2 of his best friends
are now his biggest bullies and it sucks!
please epic lloyd destroy these guys!" Nick Diforte
This one, while I enjoy it just pisses me off EVERYTIME, I know this stuff happens but man its pissy and shallow.
Dear EpicLloyd,
My name is Jonas, I have these 4 guys in my class
(nelson, mark, steven and lucas) who are the worst freaking bullies
man. They like to pick on me for being Dislexic. They force me to
read these ungodly large words that they now i can't say just to mock me
and if i don't read them they beat me up or stuff me into lockers. I
tried talking to them to make them stop but they ended up breaking my
wrist. I tried everything to get them off my back. I just want to feel
like at least someone cares. Please destroy them!
LSDreamscape"
Dear Lloyd,
I would love to see you dis this guy who started
messaging me online maybe a year ago. He has the exact same name as I
do, and without introduction came out saying, "U fukin pussy u make my
name look bad". And I have no idea who this guy is, but he sure thinks
he's cool taking fake gangster pictures of himself in the bathroom. He
called me pussy lips, a bitch and even congratulated me for being "twat
of the week", how nice of him. Please show this wannabe cyber bully to
step off."
- EthanAlways
He does several others throughout. Its fun seeing him take on several different kinds of insults and disses. You can buy all the songs on ITUNES.
In part one I posted some of my favorite ERB's and while this blog is not yet taken off, I am not giving up hope.
The concept is a solid one for Epic Rap Battles of History, they take usually two famous or semi famous people from history, they can be real people, such as Lady Gaga, John Lennon, Freddy Mercury or famous from movies or books, such as Darth Vader, Batman, Sherlock Holmes, and etc.
The two people will battle rap style, some of the pairings make more sense then others, but they take YOUR requests for future rap battles. Last time I put some of my favorite rap battles but in case your tastes or the opposite of mine I will put some of my least favorite up now so you can get a taste of all types.
So now some of my least favorites from the first two seasons, as Season 3 just started and only has two battles.
Season One: Easter Bunny vs Genghis Khan
This was just a weird, weird pairing. While the Khan parts were not bad and the Easter bunny had a clever line or two it is in my opinion one of the weakest of the whole series.
Christopher Columbus vs Captain Kirk
While this was fun and had some clever lines from both sides, it never quite hit the level with me as some of the others do. Its really on the fence for me, I don't hate it but its not in my faves either.
Napoleon vs Napoleon
Title really says it all...Just paired up due to same names.
SEASON TWO: This season is harder to find ones I don't like as they had really started getting into the swing of it, so while I don't find any of season two bad I will put the ones I feel are the weakest and why. Mario Brothers vs Wright Brothers
While I REALLY wanted to like this one as it also stars youtubers Rhett and Link who I also like. But this was just another too weird a pair up for me to really get behind. Its fun but not all that clever considering the talent involved. Cleopatra vs Marilyn Monroe
Again, not awful and the pairing makes a sort of sense but its just not my favorite overall. But its not all bad. Batman vs Sherlock Holmes
Okay, calm down, let me explain. While BOTH sides have good or great lines I have a few issues with this one, The writers know more about Batman then Sherlock giving them more to work with on that side, they have knowledge of Sherlock but its limited, or maybe there is just more to work with in Batman. Either way Sherlock gets the best lines and while I love both people I really felt Batman got the short end here. Thats really my main issue with it.
So that is some of the ones I felt were weaker, Season two is great overall as they knew what they were doing by that point and really had fun with it.
So give them a follow on Twitter(see previous entry) or Youtube and see what Epic Rap Battles is all about. http://www.youtube.com/user/ERB
So I am staring a new blog today, just about random cool/fun/interesting things I see or do or that others see or tell me about. Some will be stuff you can look up on the Internet, others will be things around town, maybe even other blogs or things I or others have done elsewhere.
I will try to limit as many to Austin or the Net so if you feel like checking it out you can. I will be open to ideas on this one and please share cool or fun ideas you wouldn't mind sharing with others.
Today though I am opening with a favorite of mine and Shana's and a few other people I know, its a You Tube show called EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY.
@Nicepeter and @TheEpic LLOYD from twitter do this show. Its on its 3rd Season and has paired up some really funny people, some WTF pairings and some that didn't seem like they would work but did. This blog is going to be in two parts, this first part is going to be my personnel favorite ERB's Try to do one from each season at least. No more then 6 just to give you a taste.
Part two will be about my least favorite ones, maybe the ones I dislike will be the ones you enjoy, whatever gets you watching. Now for some History.
The battles seem to have stared with an idea by Epic Lloyd but Peter does the sound and most of the chorus with each person usually playing one of the people. They take both real and fictional people from history, even calling on help when needed, They have had Keel and Peele on the show as well as Snoop Dogg(Lion) doing people, they call in fellow Youtubers to do woman and MJ.
So just to show you a taste, here are a few of my favorites in no order whatever...
From Season One: Chuck Norris vs Abe Lincoln
This one has Chuck Fucking Norris taking on the man who freed the slaves and may have fought vampires...
Season One: Gandolf vs Dumbledore
Two powerful wizards of different schools battle it out to see who magic raps are more powerful.
Season Two: Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates
This one makes total sense and has a perfect ending.
Season Two: Adam vs Eve(Man vs Woman)
This was coming and you knew it, Men vs Women. Took almost to the end of Season two but it happened. Season 3: It only has two videos so far so Al Capone vs Blackbeard
This was done as a sort of crossover with Assassin Creed 4. They wanted a pirate. Now they take requests on who to do next, you just leave it in the comments below the video. There is a free app for your phone and you can download the songs themselves off of Itunes now. To see more go here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ERB Bonus they have a trilogy which I will be posting below. Its a three part Hitler vs Darth Vader that has gone on all three seasons. Part One and Two:
Two men of evil going at it, this is the first and second time they met, next up part three.
