History AwesomeMusic / EpicRapBattlesOfHistory

* "Mozart vs. Music/{{Skrillex}}". One of the best music beats in ERB, it combines dubstep with Mozart's music to create a seriously awesome beat.

* "Mozart vs. Skrillex". One of the best music beats in ERB, it combines dubstep with Mozart's music to create a seriously awesome beat.

* "Burger King Vs Ronald [=McDonald=]" has a great, techno-esque beat, which is guaranteed to stick in your head.

-->[[https://youtu.be/7Bx7CFiWfU0?t=50 "OOOOOOOOOH IT'S YA BOI FROM PEORIA, ILLINOIS, ONE HAND'S ON THE MIC, ONE HAND'S ON THE GROIN!"]]

* Any "Darth Vader vs. Adolf Hitler" match. The first has a significant improvement in musical and lyrical quality over "John Lennon vs. Bill O'Reilly", the second has the soundtrack of ''Film/VanHelsing'' as its background music, and the third has some particularly memorable lyrics.

* "John Wick vs John Rambo vs John [=McClane=]". ''The first three-way battle in [=ERB=] history'', and it happens between iconic cinematic heroes! It is no slouch compared to usual 1-on-1 showdowns: the special effects are on point, characters themselves were portrayed in greater detail, and - just like in case with previous battle between Bezos and Musa - the beat gets distinctive notes pertaining to each side.

* "Jim Henson vs Stan Lee". Amidst a very sweet beat, we have Stan the Man with fast wordplay and amazing flow. Jim, on the other hand goes along with an eerily calm flow while still dropping in some nice burns. [[spoiler: And then, there's Walt Disney's awe-inspiring dubstep...]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yis7GzlXNM Sir Isaac Newton vs Bill Nye]]. The beat starts off slow, but it definitely ramps up throughout. Isaac Newton's section starts off fast yet simplistic, complementing his MotorMouth verses. Bill Nye's segment is more relaxed, but gets faster in the second half, with the music getting an upgrade as well. [[spoiler: It also foreshadows NeilDeGrasseTyson's segment, which in turn is heralded by the music getting ''another'' upgrade.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yis7GzlXNM Sir Isaac Newton vs Bill Nye]]. The beat starts off slow, but it definitely ramps up throughout. Isaac Newton's section starts off fast yet simplistic, complementing his MotorMouth verses. Bill Nye's segment is more relaxed, but gets faster in the second half, with the music getting an upgrade as well. [[spoiler: It also foreshadows Neil DeGrasse Tyson's segment, which in turn is heralded by the music getting ''another'' upgrade.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noLKTNmmy10&list=PL96675BDF95286773&index=3 Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula.]] A subdued, suspenseful and utterly creepy beat sets the tone for this Halloween matchup perfectly. Special credit must go to the wolf howl before the announcer starts doing his thing.

* "Burger King Vs Ronald McDonald" has a great, techno-esque beat, which is guaranteed to stick in your head.

* "George Carlin Vs Richard Pryor"'s third half, featuring Robin Williams has an arabic sounding song which perfectly fits for the Genie, Williams' most beloved character
** That's without mentioning Joan River's trumpet-heavy intermission
** and for that matter, the first half, which feels like a bombastic orchestra building up for a hilarious routine
** [[https://youtu.be/7Bx7CFiWfU0?t=50 "OOOOOOOOOH IT'S YA BOI FROM PEORIA, ILLINOIS, ONE HAND'S ON THE MIC, ONE HAND'S ON THE GROIN!"]]
* "Jacques Cousteau Vs Steve Irwin", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-QjRTz-TII they made a song]], ''using a submarine's sonar'', enough said.

* "Bruce Lee vs. Clint Eastwood". While Lee and Eastwood's flow is great on its own, the dramatic backbeat is what truly ties the rap together, [[spoiler:and it ends on the whistle from Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly]].

* "Mohandas Gandhi vs Martin Luther King Jr.", the first rap to have Series/KeyAndPeele as the rappers, and it arguably one of the only cases of a hard rap between ''two pacifists''.

%%* "Genghis Khan vs The Easter Bunny."

%%* "Michael Jackson vs. Elvis Presley".

%%* "Bruce Lee vs. Clint Eastwood".

%%* "Mohandas Gandhi vs Martin Luther King Jr."

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njos57IJf-0 Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates]] [[spoiler: vs. HAL 9000.]], in addition to having an awesome beat, also has the honor of winning "Best Original Song" at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Streamy_Awards 3rd Streamy Awards]]. Even the ''announcer'' sings along to it at the end!

* "Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock [[spoiler:vs. Quentin Tarantino vs. Stanley Kubrick vs. Michael Bay]]" has five separate beats, something that Lloyd points out in the BTS. Each one is absolutely great. Special mention to the strings in Spielberg's verse.

* [[spoiler:Fredrick the Great's]] intro from [[spoiler:"Ivan the Terrible vs. Alexander the Great"]] is pretty awesome. And most of the lyrics of the final set are ''sung'' R&B-style. It's one heck of an enjoyable and well-performed change-up.
-->[[spoiler:[[CrowdChant OLD! FRITZ! OLD! FRITZ! OLD! FRITZ! OLD! FRITZ!]]]]

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcTLJ692F70 Justin Bieber vs. Beethoven.]] "My name is Beethoven, mothafucka, maybe you've heard of me!

* "Mario Bros vs. Wright Bros". It sounds exactly like a soundtrack from a typical Super Mario game.

* "Theodore Roosevelt vs. Winston Churchill" has an epic beat for an epic battle, infusing a bombastic percussive march with orchestral brass and strings (for Churchill's verses) and electric guitar and ragtime piano (for Roosevelt). According to ERB Behind the Scenes, they used the hook section of their sample beat for the verses and faced a lot of difficulty putting it together. But they ''definitely'' made it work.

* "Theodore Roosevelt vs. Winston Churchill" has an epic beat for an epic battle, infusing a bombastic percussive march with orchestral brass & strings (for Churchill's verses) and electric guitar & ragtime piano (for Roosevelt). According to ERB Behind the Scenes, they used the hook section of their sample beat for the verses and faced a lot of difficulty putting it together. But they ''definitely'' made it work.

* "Theodore Roosevelt vs. Winston Churchill" has an epic beat for an epic battle. According to ERB Behind the Scenes, they used the hook section of their sample beat for the verses and they expressed how difficult it was to make. But they ''definitely'' made it work.