EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY

Eh. Douglass started and ended strong (his middle in both verses were here and there). That + Thomas going all mea culpa in his second verse = Frederick gets his hand raised.

I have no idea who Frederick Douglass is, but he just kicked Thomas Jefferson's ass verbal and beautifully. This was one of the most one-sided battles I've ever heard, and the best this season so far. It's awesome, quite frankly. I loved it.

Basically, his ideas were influential to America eventually ending slavery.

edited 1st Jun '16 8:21:12 PM by SpaceWolf

He was bromigos with Lincoln.

And we got a pick em. Lloyd finally nailed an accent!

Nailed is a streeeetch. He spent like half of his lines as Alfred Hitchcock.

Who I've always thought Connery sounded a little like, so sticking with nailed.

Lord knows, Lloyd has fucked some accents in this series.

It's better than some wherein they didn't even bother with the accents. Philosophers, I'm looking at you.

Hulk's verse was what I wanted.

I saw the title pop up on my phone and I got worried. But this was pretty good, albeit one-sided. I mean, that DOES make sense on some level (Hulk isn't exactly the talkative type) but still.

And that one line about Kylie....on the one hand, funny, on the other hand, HULK PEDO. (Kylie Jenner is technically still underage.)

I honestly thought this was one of those weird fan-made fake ones when I saw the thumbnail. I guess it was alright but I think it's the weakest of this series.

This season's battles feel kinda one sided.Except the 1st,somewhat.

It's REALLY awesome that they got No Shame, a transgender rapper to participate :D

I like that they generally do that; i.e. find the right rapper for the job. Only time I can think of when they didn't was Hawking v. Einstein, and that's only because I'm reasonably sure there aren't any rappers out there that have whatever Hawking has.

I imagine an ALS patient whose paralysis has progressed to the point where they can't speak anymore would stop rapping.

There's also the point that Hawking has a strange variant of ALS that basically no one else has ever been documented having. If he had regular ALS, he would have been dead decades ago.

Also that rap battle was way earlier. I do wonder what they would do if they had to do that battle now. (I could see them getting a wheelchair bound person, for example)

edited 6th Jul '16 7:08:28 AM by MrAHR

They also got Lloyd to play Genghis Khan who is distinctly not white so I wouldn't say they've always been good about that stuff.

Anyway being the creepy stalker-y information gatherer I am I know a pretty good amount of stuff about the mid season finale. I don't think you people will be disappointed with the match-up ;)

Oh. Yeesh. Forgot about that. Glad they have improved on that. I find it very admirable that they are willing tot do that.

New one is up.

Gonna hand this one to Fredrick, with Catherine coming in second. Pity Peter got left out though.

Wellp now I want to learn more about history. I suspect that due to less cursing and stuff they're hoping for it to be used in class settings and TBH I don't mind that at all. This one was rock solid.

Oh wait more cursing than I remembered, man I'm desensitized.

edited 12th Jul '16 9:25:45 AM by MrAHR

It's schizophrenic. Don't see the sense in using four different people connected only by an epithet. Shoulda stuck with one on one.

Still better than Banner vs Jenner and Douglass vs Jefferson, not that that's a terribly difficult hurdle to jump. And I did like Frederick's part.

I still think the Apple of Discord/Judgement of Paris would make a great ERB.

Eris gets a verse to throw down about not being invited to the wedding and plots to ruin it with her apple.

A verse were all three goddesses in the dispute steal the flow from each other trying to argue it's for them until deciding they need a neutral arbiter.

Each goddess gets a verse to make their pitch and offer their bribe.

Paris makes his choice, and the spurned goddesses declare the aftermath.