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JT Music (formerly JT Machinima) is a Nerdcore rap group who post their works on YouTube. Originally a channel used for Machinima, Skull (Skullkruncher13, real name Christian Ames) and Pat (Patfan8326, real name John Gelardi) eventually created a rap song in 2009 called "the Greatest Ever". Surprised by the popularity of their first posted rap video, the duo decided to make another titled the "World at War Rap" to find similar success. Since then, JT Music has been continuously producing video game themed rap songs on their channel and eventually became partners with Rooster Teeth.

You can find their YouTube channel here. You can also purchase their music on iTunes, GooglePlay, Spotify, Amazon, and Groove. You can also watch Skull and Pat play video games on their Let's Play channel, JT Gaming.

A list of games and shows featured in JT Music:

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Tropes found in JT Music's works

Actually Pretty Funny:
- This exchange from "One Helluva Pair."
  Roadhog: Still, without me, you would never win!
  Junkrat: And who's gonna help you? One of your chins?
  Roadhog: [laughs] Okay, I'll give you that one.
  Junkrat: Look, I squeezed a laugh out of the fat one!
- Also present in "To The Bone".
  Papyrus: Really, Sans?
  Sans: What?
  Papyrus: The last line of the chorus is a pun!
  Sans: Yep.
  Papyrus: You imbecile! That was very... Clever...
  Sans: Heh, thanks buddy.
Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: “The Circus of Value Song” features this trope in full effect - the voice from the titular vending machine telling you that it has all the supplies you could need to survive in Rapture, but if you don’t have the cash, you’re fucked.
Adaptation Amalgamation: "Devil of a Time" exclusively uses footage from The Cuphead Show! and was released not too long after the show's premiere. But the lyrics detailing the context behind the cups' Deal with the Devil use the backstory from the game^note instead of the cartoon^note.
Added Alliterative Appeal: Shows up once in a while, but the crowner has to be the three in "Rapture Rising" following each other:
splicers seek to satisfy their sick sadistic vices.
victims becomes villains, angry vandals turn to violence,
sickly children sticking by their less than gentle giants
Ambiguously Evil: Jevil lampshades his own mysterious nature in "I Can Do Anything."
Jevil: Am I your friend? Perhaps, perhaps not.
…And That Little Girl Was Me: 'Born of the Lion", which up to that point sounded like someone speaking to Ciri about the dream they had of Geralt, ends with this:
This Witcher I watched in my dreams was none other than the one I'd become.
The Anti-Nihilist: "I Can Do Anything" ends with this, after the rest of the song being about how nothing matters.
Singer: But if nothing matters, can I do anything?
Appropriated Appellation: In Doom (2016), "Doom Slayer" was a Red Baron given to Doomguy by the Slayer's Testament, but Doomguy claims it for himself in "Home to Hell"
I am entropy personified, Sentinel-qualified
Hell-raising, bell-ringin', Doomslayer - bonafide
Arc Number: Minecraft Mob Rap: Part 2 brings back the game's arc number of 11 as the number for Herobrine's verse.
Badass Boast: Doomguy delivers one at the start of "Fight Like Hell".
I told them one day, I'd become the most powerful being across the dimensions. They told me to go to Hell. So you know what? I did.
- The Chosen Undead ups the ante in Undead Lullaby: the entire chorus is about how he can't be killed, and just keeps coming back.
- Let Me Solo Her spends his song boasting about how he'll easily kill a Superboss in nothing but his undies and a pot for a hat, without needing any help.
Failure is foreign to me, I've never been felled in battle, no one has shown me defeat, so I'll slaughter them all like cattle.
- “J.O.E.L.” has The Automatons making several as befitting their reputation, but most notable is the chorus:
Our will is iron, we broke your fist/A new horizon, for socialists… You’re gonna join the order/Eliminate liberty
Bait-and-Switch:
- The Mandalorian Rap starts off very solemn and somber, seemingly about the Mandalorian's culture and status... for about twenty second, before it turns into (and stays) a ballad about being a single father.
- As One Door Closes has its last verse end on a bait-and-switch that references that of the game's ending:
  So let me test out your turret performance
  As you send me off with an uplifting chorus
- "Zarya Vs. Heavy" has the first half as a basic battle rap, but then turns into a love ballad between the two.
- "Ashe and McCree" builds to an argument between the two heads of the Deadlock Gang until McCree challenges Ashe to a Showdown at High Noon. After the music plays for a tense moment, McCree laughs and admits he was only kidding before offering to buy the next round of drinks for them.
Battle Rapping: Several songs feature characters or even game franchises rapping against each other to prove who's best.
Blasphemous Boast: The Doom Slayer enjoys these.
Have you ever heard of a crucifix? Nothing but a couple of useless sticks!
I don't need your hokey-holy bible bogus, homie, cause I'm through with it!
*Bleep*-dammit!: The very profane Bastion in "The Bastion Musical" is censored by Bastion's various beeping "voice lines" from the Overwatch game.
Boastful Rap: Naturally a number of songs are about how great the player or the main character is in their game.
Boisterous Bruiser: "Daddy's Home" has a Suddenly Speaking Subject Delta characterized this way, as opposed to his canon characterization:
Subject Delta: I'm the heavyweight champ; you won't even last a round!
Too long you brutes abused the juice; now you get smacked around!
Delta's held the belt so many years here in Rapture now!
Baddest motherfucker in the building; who's your daddy now?
Boring Insult:
- Doomguy says it during his battle with Master Chief, albeit not toward the Chief himself:
  Doomguy: If you don't put me to sleep then maybe Halo's story will.
- Ana Amari crashes the rap battle between Soldier: 76 and Reaper, adding boring to her insults against the two.
  Ana: Between petty insults, rhymes that are boring, I can't believe for once that I'm the one snoring.
Bring My Brown Pants: A Running Gag in the "Slender Rap" is how the singer keeps on "puking dookies on the floor" due to how much the game is scaring him.
Brooklyn Rage: Bendy is given a Noo Yawk accent in "Can't Be Erased."
…But He Sounds Handsome: Spider-Man does this in "With Great Power":
Spider-Man: I've never seen or heard of Peter Parker — bet he's a dead-ringer!
Call-Back:
- If JT Music has made a rap song for a game before, a song for a sequel game will occasionally have a verse or even the whole chorus of a prior song included. For example, in "Time to Die":
  Born into revolution, an industrial one...
- Taken further in "Embrace My Curse", where two-thirds of the chorus are direct references to the beginning of "Graverocker"
  Rise up from my demise/Awake from my demise
  With fire in my eyes/With empty spectral eyes.
  I'm leaving my mark should Darkness find us/Now I'll never have my days numbered
  I've shaken Middle-Earth/Strike fear in Middle-Earth
  Now I embrace my curse/'Till I am rid this curse
  It comes with a price, the light that binds us/The one that I bear as Gravewalker.
- "A Little Bit Insane" has a section of the "Ooda-Booda Boogie" as part of the bridge.
  I'm wound up like a tornado, babe
  Just cut me loose and I'll go insane
  Later, I may take a snooze on the beach
  But now's the time to move your booty
  Do the Ooda-Booga Boogie with me/If you wanna do it with me
- "Hello and Goodbye" opens with the protagonist mentioning how he just quit his job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, meaning he could be one of the night guards from the first two Five Nights at Freddy's raps.
Change the Uncomfortable Subject: In "Take A Leap Of Faith", Nathan sings about how he loves adventuring too much to settle down with a woman, hoping that Elena didn't hear that part of the song. She did, so now Nathan's trying to move the song along.
Elena: What?
Nathan: What?
Elena: What?
Nathan: Chorus!
Character Development: "No Hero" starts with Eddie Brock remarking how he's been taken by the symbiote and how it will destroy him, but to the end of the song he embraces being Venom and how they are better together than apart.
Chirping Crickets: In "The Amazing Digital Circus Rap", Jax describes the other performers as pitiful, saying: "If y'all don't applaud, I know crickets will."
Cluster F-Bomb: "I Told You So" has a chorus that is 30% F-Bomb.
Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Played for Laughs in "As One Door Closes", where Chell claims that "[GLaDOS] promised me cake, but I'm on a diet"
Comes Great Responsibility: "With Great Power" (of course). Played With in that the chorus only contains part of the phrase "you know what comes with this great power", but then stated (although in different words) in the second half of the song.
Hey, greatness is attainable, if you have the will to be
Just so long as you can haul responsibilities.
Counterpoint Duet: The bridge and hook of "Daddy's Home" use the same underlying theme. Subject Delta sings the bridge slow and quietly to reassure his daughter whose hook is faster and pleading for her daddy to save her. At the end of the song the bridge and hook lyrics overlap.
Cue the Flying Pigs: Both "Fight Like Hell" and "Home to Hell" have Badass Boasts that invoke this.
Fight Like Hell: They told me I could rule the world when Hell was frozen over! / Hold up, is it just me, or did it just get colder?
Home to Hell: They told me I'd be king when Hell froze over / So did anybody notice that the temp just dropped?
Curiosity Killed the Cast: "Hello and Goodbye" has the protagonist's self-destructive and dangerous actions motivated by his burning curiosity about his weird neighbor ("What's he up to? I can't ignore!"), even though he knows better. He even lampshades this:
Curiosity killed the cat
But I'll be next; I can promise that!
Cute But Psycho: Pyro and Mei are both portrayed as this in their rap battle, but in different ways. Mei is shown making violent threats and taunts in a sarcastically sweet, good-natured tone of voice, while Pyro randomly alternates between being a sweet, cheerful Genki Guy and a screaming psychopath.
Damned by Faint Praise: In "Zarya Vs. Heavy", after the Heavy is mostly through with his opening verse against Zarya, he decides to call on a teammate.
Heavy: Hey Scout.
Scout: Yeah?
Heavy: Thank Zarya, she makes you look intimidating!
Scout: Hey!
Darker and Edgier:
- The "Dirty Dish Remix" of the "Cuphead Rap" compared to the original.
- On a similar note, the initial version of "Welcome to My Apocalypse" is mostly an epic Boastful Rap consisting of the Sole Survivor bragging about how they're tearing through the Commonwealth like a hot knife through soft butter with only a few hints towards their Stepford Smiler traits and Dark and Troubled Past. The re-imagined version of the song is far more overt about the Sole Survvior's inner turmoil and in general has a bleaker tone as the Sole Survivor ruminates over the Crapsack World they've woken up in.
  - A good example of this change in mood can be seen in the different choruses for each song: The original song smugly proclaims "I don't want to set the world on fire! / I just want to start a flame in your heart! / I don't want to set the world on fire! / I only want to tear it apart!" However, the re-imagined version of the song instead somberly states "I don't want to set the world on fire / Just wanna start a flame in your heart / I don't want to set the world on fire / Can't help it if I tear it apart".
Disappeared Dad: In "Sombra vs Spy", Sombra responds to Spy's maternal insult by revealing that she (somehow) knows the Spy is Scout's long-lost father.
Sombra: You could never be a dad to me
'Cause you'd be the kind that would leave!
Sound familiar? Has to be!
I've Scouted out your family tree!
Dissimile: From "I'm a Capitalist":
Heister: I'm like Jesse James if Jesse James were super fly!
Distant Duet: The bridge and hook of "Daddy's Home" form a Counterpoint Duet of Subject Delta and his daughter being separated. At the end of the song when the two are reunited they sing their individual songs together.
Double Entendre: "I'm Kenough" is full of penis-related entendres.
You make it hard, so hard without you
I feel like I'm twice my size around you
You make it hard, so hard without you
But I can't be soft around you
Double Meaning: Best Served Cold being about Cuphead, contain a lot of reference to alcohol, cup and drinks as well as the titular character beating gambling addiction. While it's all puns and descriptions of the actual plot, it's also a way for Skull to announces he overcome his alcoholism.
The Dreaded Toilet Duty: Mentioned in "Rapture Rising" about those of Rapture forced into menial labor.
"In a utopia, who's gonna wanna scrub the toilets? / The people in Apollo Square got no other choices"
Eagle Land: "Rocking Purple" has this trope in full force, because you can't have a psychotic gang leader become the President of the United States and battle invading aliens and not play up the stereotypical American-ness. Best summed up by a bridge sung to the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner":
The Boss: O say can you see?
There is no place to hide!
Got my gun in your mouth!
If you move, I'll blow out your insides!
We're the land of the free
And the food that is fried
So wave your White Flag
If you really do not want to die!
Evil Versus Evil:
- The Freddy Fazbear Vs. Slenderman Rap, with two horror icons dueling to see who's the scariest.
- Darkseid and Thanos also have a rap battle in commemoration for their match in DEATH BATTLE!.
Explosive Breeder: The Mob Raps feature the chicken frequently boasting about his tendency to flood houses with boatloads of his chicks in spite of how many are killed. Eventually by part six, the pigs and cows have had enough and complain for him to stop.
Failed a Spot Check: At the end of "We All Evolve", JT is so wrapped up in playing Pokémon GO that he wanders onto a street and is run over by a car.
Faux Affably Evil: In "Now Hiring at Freddy's", the owners of Fazbear Entertainment barely hide their malice, incompetence, and greed behind a transparent veneer of cheery pleasantry and feel-good buzzwords.
Fazbear CEO: All these animatronics have made us so famous!
They've got a history - almost all of it's heinous!
But they make us so much money; how could anyone blame us?
Fragile Speedster: Briefly discussed by Let Me Solo Her, who fights in his underwear. This echoes a line from the real player, who explains his nudity by noting that in the soulslike community the naked players are the ones most feared, because it means they're confident you'll never hit them.
I don't plan to get hit, so why wear armor?
The Friend Nobody Likes: Ghast for the rest of the mobs. After a failed verse in the first Mob Song^note, every sequel song (save the second part where he is entirely absent, mentioning he was kicked out of that one in the third) has the mobs either openly antagonistic to Ghast or leaving as soon as he shows up. At least until the sixth part where he finally stands up to the other mobs and raps without a beat, proving himself to be talented after all.
Creeper: Eh, shut up Ghast, nobody invited you.
The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: At one point in "You're the Answer", Amanda directly asks the viewer if they clicked on the video to hear her story.
You want the story that we didn't show. Is that what for you clicked this video?
Geo Effects: In their rap battle, Demoman warns Junkrat not to try this tactic.
Demoman: You want the high ground? I wouldn't dare!
I can strafe while I'm in the air!
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: A strange Zig-Zagged occurrence is in the chorus of “Herobrine vs. Griefer Rap Battle”, where both characters tell each other to “Shut your pie-hole!”. This is in the middle of a Cluster F-Bomb-dense song, mind you.
Grand Finale: Minecraft Mob Rap: Part 6 serves as this for the Mob Rap series of videos, with Grampa Jenkins escaping to an island after finally standing up to Skeleton's band of mobs. In addition, some of the other mobs are showing signs they aren't as active as they normally are, Chicken's taunts about his breeding finally earning the ire of other farm animals, and Ghast turned the tables on his mistreatment to roast the other mobs at the end and proves to be a successful rapper.
Hope Springs Eternal: The message of the chorus for "Fireborn".
Humans Are the Real Monsters: As befitting of source material, both "Your Head Will Be Mine" and "Born of the Lion" have this.
"Your Head Will Be Mine": Legions of monsters I fought 'cross the land / the cruelest of all is the one we call man.
"Born of the Lion": Of the beasts I had killed, the most wicked / was one all too familiar, called man
If I Had a Nickel...: In "Say Goodbye to Batman":
Batman: If I got a dime every single time someone said "Tonight, Batman will die,"
Man I'd be set for the rest of life! I wouldn't even need Wayne Enterprise!
Immediate Self-Contradiction:
- Done in "Liberty and Beyond"; immediately after one singer is killed in the middle of a lyric, another chimes in with:
I'm sorry mate that was a mine (wasn't mine)
At least I can pick up what you left behind (okay yes it was mine)
- And later into the same song, to highlight the difference between what Super-Earth says about Helldivers and how they are actually considered:
A moment of silence, for the fallen at Malevelon Creek
Not that it's a loss, motherfuckers were weak!
Call in more guys, dropping supplies,
Kill Steal: Or, as said in "Time to Break".
Player: That was my kill! / Juggernaught: Negative, sir. Could've been your's if you were better.
I Told You So: The aptly named "I Told You So" is about how Green is ranting at his fellow explorers for being voted off when he was never the Imposter.
Laser Sight: The Sniper warns Widowmaker about the one he has on her in their duel.
Sniper: And mind that little red dot on your forehead. Not your goggles, love, the one that means you're dead.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Kind of a roulette. Some songs (like the Assasin's Creed songs) focus more on impressions and show trailer footage (which may be inaccurate to the final product), whereas others (like the Portal and Link's Awakening songs) give out major plot points or even endings. To be safe, know the game before you hear the song.
Letting the Air out of the Band:
- In "Don't Make 'Em Like They Used to", Reaper challenges Soldier: 76 to a rap battle. The tune that was playing in the background dies down when 76 says he won't perform to "that hip-hop garbage".
- "Can't Be Erased" starts with simple and cheery music befitting a cartoon as Bendy sings. Bendy then starts to laugh maniacally as the music becomes slower and more distorted.
Lighter and Softer: The Big Band cover of "Can't Be Replaced" keeps to tune upbeat and swinging while keeping the same message as before.
Light Is Not Good: The Chosen Undead in "Undead Lullaby" has a dim opinion on the Lord of Sunlight, blaming him and the Age of Fire for the curse, and makes it clear that he will not rekindle the First Flame.
Likes Older Men: Lara claims that she prefers Sully to Nate in their rap battle.
Literal Metaphor:
- Used in the opening of "Fight Like Hell".
  I told them one day I'd be the most powerful being across the dimensions. And they told me to go to Hell. So you know what? I did.
- Done again in the Engineer vs Torbjoirn rap battle. Engie suggests that they "let their handiwork speak for itself"... at which point their respective sentry guns start rapping.
Lonely at the Top: Lonely at the top, of course, has its chorus about this, only for the singer to admit that he likes it.
Lyrical Dissonance: "Now Hiring at Freddy's" is a catchy, upbeat pop song in which a Corrupt Corporate Executive convinces a franchisee to aid in covering up deaths and dismemberment occurring at their location.
Come on down to Freddy's! You ought to stay for a while!
If any children go missing, just don't let that go on file!
Don't get any blood on the carpet - it's easier cleaning the tile!
And if a kid ends up dead
Kill all the witnesses next
And make sure it's done with a smile!
Living Is More than Surviving: "Far From Alive" has Leon express this sentiment during a Title Drop.
Leon: Even of we are to survive, I'm feeling far from Alive.
- "Shadow of Myself" has Ethan eventually pondering if surviving the Baker house is worth it after enduring Sanity Slippage from all the horrors he's witnessed.
Mood Whiplash: Multiple times:
- "The Bastion Song" keeps alternating between peaceful Bastion talking about nature and Omnic crisis bastion trash talking about how much it loves killing.
- "One Helluva Pair" is a crazy rock song, until Roadhog reminiscences about his past, with an appropriate change in music.
- "They Don't Make Them Like They Used To" is the usual rap battle between Soldier: 76 and Reaper, right until Jack says "Who's your daddy?" near Pharah ^note at which points Ana shows up to berate them both.
- "To the Bone" is fairly silly and upbeat all around, except for a couple of lines. One among those during the second chorus.
  Papyrus: I am the mastermind, he's my accomplice!
  Sans: You're only still alive because I made a promise.
My Eyes Are Up Here: Lara Croft tends to catch a lot of attention around her chest and people need to be reminded about the rest of her.
On The Rise: Just try not to fall in love. Eyes up here. Come on, you dogs!
Mythology Gag: If they're making a song about an installment in a series, expect them to reference the rest of the series at some point.
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Andrea Storm Kaden voices Lara Croft in "Lara Croft VS Nathan Drake" with her natural Australian accent.
Obligatory Joke:
- In "Injustice", JT makes an ice-related pun when talking about Captain Cold, only to be chastised immediately afterwards.
  Tell Captain Cold I'm gonna kick his ice!
  (No more puns or tacky lines!)
- In "With Great Power", one of Spider-Man's enemies is named Scorpion, so of course Spidey taunts him by shouting "Get over here!"
Omnicidal Maniac: Darkseid manages to even one-up Thanos in this department.
Who would murder half a universe?
I'd rather wipe the slate!
Papa Wolf:
- "Daddy's Home" is about Subject Delta going on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue to save his "daughter" Eleanor from Dr. Lamb's cult.
  Subject Delta: Step between me and my daughter and you'll get bounced!
  Any ADAM that you had is getting ripped out!
  Who's you daddy now? Who's your daddy now?
  I'll run a rivet through your neck unless you'd rather drown!
- "Honor" has Corvo Attano, although it crops up in only a few lines.
- "The Mandalorian Rap" has the titular Mandalorian, of course.
  Don't touch him 'cuz I'm quick with my gun[...]
  If you try to swipe him, look out, I'll be soaring in[...]
  So much as look at him wrong, and you're gonna be dead!
The Power of Hate: What drives the murderous toons in "Can't Be Erased".
Shamed and defaced, scathed and disgraced
Tainted by hatred and can't be erased
Creators betrayed us, we've got it on tape
We've written your fate and it can't be erased!
Pungeon Master:
- You'll not be able to count just how many puns a song can have relating to the video game. This is lampshaded in the Cuphead Rap, and is far from the only instance in that song.
  Take a sip of this, I'm an itty bitty Cuphead
  One sentence in, I've already made a pun, Yep.
- Considering his home game, Sans also makes several puns in "To the Bone", even sneaking a pun into the chorus of the song to Papyrus' annoyance.
  Papyrus: Really, Sans?
  Sans: What?
  Papyrus: The last line of the chorus is a pun!
  Sans: Yup.
  Papyrus: You imbecile! That was very... clever.
  Sans: Heh. Thanks, buddy.
Pretender Diss:
- Doomguy toward Master Chief. Amusingly enough, during his last verse, Chief copies one of Doomguy's first lines.
  Doomguy: How many times you've ripped me off? I don't wanna sue ya'.
- As noted above, it's also one of Demoman's lines toward Junkrat.
Running Gag: In JT’s Five Nights at Freddy's raps, you can generally expect one of two things to happen: the new employee will request a raise and get shot down, and/or management will tell the employee that, if he gets hurt on the job, they can’t cover his loss.
Russian Reversal: Used often, as part of the boasting nature of most of their songs. Such as this example in "More than a Fighter":
Instead I prepared for the trials
but the trials were not ready for me.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- The various main characters of the FNAF raps try or express a desire to just leave at various points, but can't!
  - From "Five Long Nights":
    Mike Schmidt: Maybe the place is haunted, and all they want is closure
    But I really don't give a damn! I just want to clock out and knock back a cold one!
  - In "Five More Nights":
    Phone Guy: Now, the animatronics are known to bug out...
    Jeremy Fitzgerald: Isn't that enough reason for me to get the f**k out?
    Listen up, guy, this gig ain't for me!
    Toy Freddy: But we're having such fun, and we'd hate you to leave...
  - In "Another Five Nights":
    Fazbear's Fright Guard: Is this job even worth a damn?
    After tonight, I might not work again!
  - In "You Belong Here":
    Eggs Benedict: Just stuck down here, that would suck to be
    But I'm walking out of that front door
    To go home with a little bowl of popcorn
    Where there are no monsters
    Just me and my soap operas
    Then why do I keep on returning?
    You'd think by now we'd all be learning!
- In "Hello and Goodbye", when the protagonist meets the neighbor for the first time... and does not like what he sees.
  ''Who's that across the street?
  A strange man I ought to greet!
  I just hope he's not another freak...
  On second thought, I'll leave
  And try my best to go off to sleep!
- Throughout "Can't Be Erased," Henry states that he really doesn't care about the mystery and just wants to get out of dodge.
  Henry: Why did I come? Let me go home! I should be leaving! (Help me!)
  Whatever happened, don't wanna know! What are these demons? (No, no, no!)
  I guess if I gotta be stuck here, I might as well investigate.
  The secrets are unlocking, but too bad the exit ain't!
Shmuck Bait: At the end of ''"Don't Put Me in a Corner", the witch gets Ellis to turn and face her by seductivly mentioning she's naked.
Ellis: Oh, really? AAAAAH!
Shout-Out:
- Some songs will make references outside of the game being rapped about. One example comes from the Mei Vs. Pyro rap.
  Announcer: The Frosty Fiend and the Flaming Freakshow, A Song of Ice and Fire!
- "Five More Nights" opens with "Hi, kids! Do you like violence?"
- Another Eminem reference happens in "Junkrat vs Demoman":
  Demoman: You're not my rival; you're just a fan
  Junkrat's first name must be Stan!
- Yet another Eminem reference — this time to a certain part of "Without Me" ^note — pops up in "You Can Hang":
  The Doctor cannot start operating
  Wanna shock me, but I'm not cooperating
- "Honk If You're Hungry" includes the line "You'll dive right into my spider-verse."
- "The Amazing Digital Circus Rap":
  - Jax says "You won't have a mouth, but oh, how loud you cry," referencing "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", one of the influences for The Amazing Digital Circus.
  - Jax has the line: "So don't bug this bunny, I'm untrickable."
Sniper Duel: Well, more rap battle than sniping in Sniper vs Widowmaker.
So Proud of You: At the end of "Daddy's Home" Subject Delta expresses this sentiment for his daughter.
See the reflection of myself in how she's acting out
I'll watch my daughter become stronger than her daddy now!
Stepford Smiler: Bendy explicitly says as much in "Can't Be Erased":
Behind this mask of happiness, I drown in dark despair
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: A few characters catch themselves before rapping something inappropriate and have to break the flow.
- In Lara Croft vs Nathan Drake, Nathan is making a diss about how Lara only has one notable feature, but doesn't quite voice it.
  Nathan: If you got brains? Put 'em to use. The only good thing about you is your— eyes.
- In Rock N' Barrel Roll, Fox is bragging about how much more he has over Andross.
  Fox: I'm the flyest in Lylat, you just hittin' walls / You got the biggest head, but I got bigger... ears.
Superior Successor: Junkrat repeatedly declares himself to be one to Demoman. Demoman is unimpressed.
Junkrat: You laid the blueprint for me; you're truly a demo, man!
Demoman: If I'm your blueprint, why aren't you an improvement?
Take That!:
- Does the game they're singing about has a Fandom Rivalry with another game? Then it'll have a Take That! to them, even if JT already made a song about it, and the song included a take that to the game they're singing about now.
- "Injustice" and "I'm a Capitalist" contain brief Take Thats towards Donald Trump.
- "Injustice" also has a line subtly mocking an infamous DC property when JT is chastised for making a cold-related pun (one that was lifted almost word-for-word from the film, no less.)
- "The Amazing Digital Circus Rap" takes a jab at cryptocurrency.
  Consciousness just got cached
  Similar to crypto built for crashin'
Terms of Endangerment: The animatronics in JT Music's Five Nights at Freddy's raps tend to combine their threats with thinly-veiled, sweet-sounding euphemisms and terms of endearment. This is lampshaded in "We Don't Bite":
Nightmare Freddy: Come closer; we don't bite!
Child: I don't believe that for one second!
That Came Out Wrong:
- Gregory accidentally makes an innuendo regarding hiding inside Glamrock Freddy "The Party Isn't Over".
  Gregory: I better find anywhere to hide - Freddy please?
  I can even be in charge of your batteries
  I promise not to cross your wires
  Please just keep me deep inside ya
  My god that sounded wrong
  Nevermind, let's find the exit.
- Spartan Locke gives one to Master Chief in their rap battle.
  Locke: Reclaimer? Hah, reclaim my ass.
  That didn't sound right, I'm gonna take that back.
This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: In "Best for Last", Cal Kestis taunts Palpatine by declaring "You're 'bout to be real pissed off, 'cuz ya missed me, bitch!"
Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: "Tall Woman" which is about a comical crush that Ethan Winters has on Lady Dimitrescu.
Title Drop: It's pretty common for JT Music to sneak the game's title into a song subtlety if they aren't being up front about it. Special mention goes to "Home to Hell" for making the Title Drop a Badass Boast.
I am an amalgamation of Hell's nine circles!
I am your Doom! I am ETERNAL!
- Another in "Dreaming of Me":
  With the rising tide, the shore will shrink
  It's clear this city is sure to sink
- Another sneaky one in "You Can Hang":
  Mr. Killer, can you cut me a deal
  And let me live if I'm not dead by daylight, fair?
- And another in "Hello and Goodbye":
  Just quit my gig at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza
  And I'm starting over fresh — hello neighbor, nice to meet ya!
- Done subtly in J.O.E.L. and combined with some Fun with Acronyms, the title standing for:
  You’re gonna Join the, Order
  Eliminate - Liberty
Took a Level in Badass:
- "The Beast Within" in a nutshell, where a hunter goes from being scared shitless to scaring the monsters shitless.
- Ghast in the Mob Rap series. After bombing a verse in the first song, he's been shunned in all other attempts until he forces his way into the sixth go. He proves to be able to rap very well now, even free versing when the other mobs cut the song short. In the end, he's given a round of applause for his performance.
Top-Heavy Guy: Zarya mocks the Heavy for his disproportionately small legs in their rap battle.
"Tell me, do you even lift? / Leg day wasn't made to be skipped"
To the Pain: "Fatality" consists entirely of the narrator describing all the brutal ways he executes his enemies.
Villain Song: Several songs are sung about or from the perspective of video game villains.
- "Video Game Legends Volume 2" is probably the best example as it features several villains across several games.
- "Say Goodbye to Batman" is an interesting example; while the verses are delivered by Batman, a villain (presumably The Scarecrow) sings the chorus:
  Gotham, say goodbye to Batman; he had a real good ride!
  The Caped Crusader sends a message: "Sorry. but I've died!"
  The Arkham Knight's gonna take it from here
  By the end of the night, we'll have you shaking with fear
  Soon, no one will have to ask
  Who's that man behind the mask?
- The third verse of "Don't Put Me In A Corner" is sung by the Blair Witch as she taunts her latest victim.
- The chorus of "Shepard of this Flock" is sung from Joseph Seed's point of view with his radical preaching.
- "Would You Kindly" is sung by Frank Fontaine about how he tired to usurp control of Rapture from Andrew Ryan and how he manipulated events as Atlas to finally win.
- Most of the Five Nights at Freddy's songs are sung by the animatronics as they try to claim their newest victim, sometimes singing with said victim in a duet.
- "Ready Or Not" is sung by Mr. X as he brags about his invincibility and how he's coming to kill the protagonists.
- "What You're Scared Of" is Pennywise singing about how much he enjoys the taste of human flesh and fear.
- "Gun Show" is about the Predator and how he will effortlessly hunt his prey.
- “J.O.EL.” Is about the Automatons desire to destroy democracy and liberty once they conquer Super Earth and free their creators The Cyborgs from slavery.
"The Villain Sucks" Song:
- In "The Ooda-Booga Boogie", Crash and Coco rap about how they'll tear through Cortex and his minions, with several insults to Cortex himself.
  Coco: Your head looks massive, but I bet it's empty.
  That N looks more like a L, you get me?
- "The Bat Rap" and "Say Goodbye to Batman" both have Batman switch between a Boastful Rap about himself and dissing the various members of his Rogues Gallery. An example from the latter song:
  Batman: Harvey Dent, you'd better have a plan!
  Compared to me, you're half the man!
  How have you been since you got burned?
  You got two faces; want a third?
  Dr. Crane, I'm gonna stop your fun!
  Drop the toxin; start to run!
  Even in your dreams, I'll be haunting you
  When I lock you up back in Arkham, son!
  Cobblepot, quit dawdling!
  Is that the fastest you can waddle, man?
  Go back to the zoo you belong in, man!
  You look like you were born in a garbage can!
- "With Great Power" has Spider-Man occasionally trash-talking the various mooks he fights throughout the game; towards the end, he lets off against the super villains he fights:
  Spider-Man: Listen up, Mr. Negative
  I'm an optimist so you better split
  Norman Osborn - who elected him?
  Forget Oscorp, I got web to spin
  Time for Rhino to hit the bricks
  He's thick in the skin, but dim in the wits
  Shocker just botched a robbery job
  Good luck getting loose when I'm lockin' you up
  Scorpion, get over here
  Your toxin just got me snoring here
  I'll pluck the Vulture's feathers and then
  I'll send him soaring - clear
  Crank the voltage and get results
  Electro's shocked - better check his pulse
- The Survivor in "You Can Hang" finally starts fighting back, starting with snarking at the Killer's attempts to intimidate him, and then mocking every Slasher trying to hunt him down, ending with a Badass Boast.
  Survivor: Oh please, you'll need more than a bear trap to snag me
  Keep in mind, even The Hag couldn't bag me
  I could be bleeding, this crappy Trapper couldn't track me
  Should've asked the Huntress to chuck some hatchets at me
  Wait, I see you Wraith, you ain't sneaking past
  Cannibal, want a snack? You can eat my ass (*pbbbbt!*)
  Inbred Hillbilly, ugly country bumpkin
  That's a burn, ask the Nurse to prescribe you something
  The Doctor cannot start operating
  Wanna shock me but I'm not cooperating
  I fell asleep on Elm Street 'cause it was boring
  The Nightmare stopped when I started snoring
  Mike, you're in bad Shape, you took a bad turn
  What's the matter, someone smash your Jack-o-lantern
  I'll Clown on you and have the last laugh
  With my power jukes, you got bad gas
  This little Piggy ain't fit for the Jigsaw
  Put me in a jaw trap - I just took the thing off
  I'm the hero of the story, make a villain quit
  Was a survivor, now I'm the one killing it
Violation of Common Sense: The opening of the Secret Neighbor song "No Keepin' Secrets" hangs a lampshade on the less than intelligent premise of the game.
Attention kids! This is a song about Stranger Danger! If you have a creepy next door neighbor... break into his house with all your friends!
Voice of the Legion: Monstrous characters like the FNAF animatronics or Bendy will have multi-layered voices to highlight their otherworldliness.
Was Once a Man: The last line of Herobrines verse in Mob Rap ends on him regalling how he used to be a man. Note how he sounds suprisingly somber when he delivers this line.
Wham Line: The very end of "Spy Vs. Sombra" changes the entire song's premise.
Sombra: Sorry but it's Sombra who will dominate this song
The only reason why, I was a Spy all along.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The Ink monsters from "Can't Be Erased" claim that they were not always evil, but became that way when they got too drunk off the unholy power the Machine gave them:
I was not always a monster; once I was somebody's muse
Innovation made us stronger, but that power was abused
Would Hurt a Child: The executive in, "Now Hiring at Freddy's", as could be expected, has litte care about if children die at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, as long as it doesn't go on file (even if that means killing the witnesses). The most incriminating part is when he explains how to murder the kids and get away with it, justifying it by playing into the sympathy of having to work with rowdy kids.
Oh, children love to play, boy, can they make a mess!
We know how much you'd love to strangle them by their necks
Just tell those little (Verbal Backspace) brats to give Freddy a hug
And when it's done sweep whatever's left of them under the rug!
Your Mom: Spy (naturally) does this to Sombra in their rap battle.
Spy: I'll sweep your mother off her feet; then, you can call me Father!

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