It was a homecoming of sorts for Shukoff, who grew up in Rochester in western New York. King Blues Club during New York Comic Con in October. “It was always the number one thing: before families, before friends, before health.”Īfter ERB went hiatus in January, Shukoff and Ahlquist briefly parted ways, before reuniting in the spring for a live tour featuring the show’s hits, which culminated at the B.B. After six years of creating YouTube content - “feeding the machine,” he calls it - he was feeling burned out. ![]() “We both felt, Lloyd and I, it was time to take a real step back,” Shukoff says. What were ERB’s creators - Musician Peter Shukoff (“Nice Peter”), improv comic Lloyd Ahlquist (“EpicLLOYD”), musician Dante Cimadamore, and producer Zack Sherwin - up to, anyway?Īs Shukoff told Inverse in September, ERB is on an extended break, and there are no immediate plans to re-enter the studio. Today, months after their most intense and personal episode, fans are still waiting for a new song, a new season, for a new anything. The battle, which has been watched more than eight million times, ends with Shukoff and Ahlquist making peace before getting to work at their next song. “Don’t take this battle there dude, you don’t want that at all,” raps Ahlquist, “Let me guess, right now you’re on two beers and a pill and a half of Adderall?” EpicLLOYD II,” two of the show’s pioneering personalities drop the costumes and characters to play themselves, where they vent professional frustrations against each other for more than three minutes. ![]() The rap battle in that final video is also weird compared to the rest of their releases: In “Nice Peter vs. “Is this channel still alive?” reads a comment on the Season 5 finale, the most recent video released in January. Left without a proper goodbye, fans have been confused regarding the state of ERB. It’s also been eleven months, an eternity in internet years, since they last uploaded a video. With an audience of 14.2 million subscribers and over three billion views combined, Epic Rap Battles of History (“ERB”) is one of the most popular YouTube shows of all time. Created by four friends, the musical web series pits two or more figures from history - Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, Batman and Sherlock Holmes, Miley Cyrus and Joan of Arc - in a war of words where textbook footnotes and sophomoric humor are weaved over rhythmic, genre-defying beats. I got a second breakfast for all them goofy fucks!ĭonald Trump vs Hillary Clinton.The internet was made for Epic Rap Battles of History. You got Bafurs and Bofurs and Brandybucks. I’m rock and roll, you’re a nerdy little nebbish,Īnd I may be dirty, but you got a hairy foot fetish, dawg! It’s meant to be unrealistic, you myopic manatee! So yes, it’s true-to-life for characters to die randomly,īut news flash, the genre’s called fantasy! Oh, we all know the world is full of chance and anarchy You’re a pirate, you even stole my “R.R.” I’ve got the prose of a pro, your shit’s subpar I’m number one and two, you’re under Fifty Shades of Grey. John Bonham, John Paul Jones & Jimmy Page: Dante Cimadamore The President shall not be the shiniest of two turds! ![]() ‘Bout to get smacked by my stimulus packageīy the power invested in me by this giant bald bird I’m the head of state, you’re like a head of cabbage Got their hands so far up your rear, call you Mitt! So rich and white it’s like I’m running against a cheesecake! You’ve got the momma jeans, and a Mister Fantastic face Need to stop hatin’ on gays, let ’em teach you how to dress They say your father was a great man, you must be what’s left I’ll go Bain Capital on your donkey ass, restructure your face! You feel that Barry? You’re old news, everyone’s having doubtsĪnd your rhymes are as weak as this economy that you’ve done nothing aboutĬall me a vicious business man cause Romney’s stealing this race Took you four years to drop unemployment down below 8%! You see this silver spoon, this the mass out of debt Knocking you harder than front doors in my ol’ mission days Raw rhymes stronger than my jawline when I spit a phrase Let me remind you who you’re messing with,īarack Obama vs Mitt Romney. To celebrate the release of the much anticipated Epic Rap Battles of History Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton – and yes, to celebrate passionately the bitter rivalry in 2016 Presidential Election, too – here are some of the best epic rap battles by popular YouTube channel, ERB.ĭarth Vader vs Hitler.
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