Epic Rap Battles of History , or ERB for short, is the YouTube webseries created by Peter Shukoff (aka Nice Peter) and Lloyd Ahlquist ( alias EpicLLOYD). This series places famous and real, fictitious, historical and popular pop figures and cultures against each other in the format of rap battles. As of May 2018, this channel has over 14.2 million subscribers and over 2.9 billion total video views. The series is currently in hiatus.
Although the first episode of the series featured only Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD, the next episode regularly featured guest appearances, and other internet celebrities such as Lisa Donovan, Timothy DeLaGhetto, George Watsky, DeStorm Power, Jesse Wellens, PewDiePie, Jenna Marbles, Lilly Singh, Ray William Johnson, Rhett and Link, and Smosh. Media celebrities such as rapper Snoop Dogg, Chali 2na and T-Pain, parody artist "Weird Al" Yankovic, and comedian duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele also appear in this series.
On July 3, 2013, "Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney", became the first of his single to be certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States. 10 other singles, including "Adolf Hitler vs. Darth Vader", "Albert Einstein vs. Stephen Hawking", "Dr Seuss vs. William Shakespeare", "Master Chief vs. Leonidas", "Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates", "Justin Bieber vs. Ludwig van Beethoven "," Mario Brothers vs. Wright Brothers "," Mr. T vs. Mr. Rogers "," Abraham Lincoln vs. Chuck Norris ", and" Hitler vs. Vader 2 ", also got a Gold certificate.
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The idea for historical figures fighting each other was conceived by the Ahlquist, who gave Shukoff an idea as an improvisation show, entitled " Check OneTwo "; when both worked on the improvisational drama, along with Zach Sherwin, who has appeared in this series. They encountered many difficulties at first and decided that it would be much better as a YouTube series than an improvised show. The first three rap battles were each done on a $ 50 budget. On September 26, 2010, the first rap battle was uploaded to YouTube, featuring Shukoff as John Lennon and Ahlquist as Bill O'Reilly.
Before the web series was on YouTube, Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD recorded their first song, which was a battle between Chucky's child's play and Chunk actor Michael J. Fox. The song is free and badly made; as a result, it was not released to the public. Instead, Shukoff and Ahlquist recorded their first official song for the first episode, "John Lennon vs. Bill O'Reilly"
Episode 15, called "The Last Battle", marks the end of the first season. This battle pitted EpicLLOYD and NicePeter against each other with the brilliant acting of all the characters they have played for 15 episodes. Epic Rap Battles of History was later restored on December 8, 2011, hosted on their new channel (moved from NicePeter's private channel), ERB , with behind the scenes videos on their second channel , ERB2 . Nice Peter and Maker Studios also created the official website for this series, where fans can choose the winner for each video, and read the first funny short biography of the first person by each character.
On September 27, 2012, after a four-month hiatus after the "Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates" episode, the video was released on the series' YouTube channel where EpicLLOYD (voicing animated Theodore Roosevelt) announced that the new episode will be released every two weeks until Christmas, starting with the 22nd episode of "Frank Sinatra vs. Freddie Mercury" (airing on October 1, 2012). "Moses vs. Santa Claus", airing on December 10, 2012, is the final battle before resting for the holidays.
On February 17, 2013, Epic Rap Battles of History was nominated for five Streamy Awards, winning four of them. Shukoff and Ahlquist also do part of the battle of Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates.
On September 9, 2013, ERB uploaded a trailer video on their channel announcing that Epic Rap Battles of History will return on October 7, 2013 for the third season. On October 14th, ERB released a second video with EpicLLOYD voicing Theodore Roosevelt, who announced the upcoming season schedule. The third season runs hiatus after the release of "Donald Trump vs. Ebenezer Scrooge" on December 19, 2013. In March 2014, an episode of Nice's weekly show Peter The Monday Show , was published on March 11, and the third announcement video < i Epic Rap Battles of History News, published on March 18, confirmed that Season 3 will continue on May 5, 2014. "Strange" Al Yankovic, Smosh, and Rhett and Link are also confirmed as guest appearances. The third season concludes with the release of "Artist vs. TMNT" on July 14, 2014.
On September 30, 2014, teaser video for Epic Rap Battles of History 4th episode, featuring Ghostbusters and MythBusters , was released; the series is back on November 10, 2014 with the 46th episode, "Ghostbusters vs. Mythbusters". On December 15, 2014, when "Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock" was released, the fourth season began to hiatus. The season continued on May 25, 2015 and concludes with the release of the last season, "Jim Henson vs. Stan Lee", on 3 August 2015.
This is confirmed in the podcast by NicePeter that there will be a fifth season, with pre-production starting in November 2015 after they returned from a world tour.
On December 16, the first off-season battle was released, titled, "Deadpool vs. Boba Fett".
On February 26, 2016, it was announced that Season 5 would begin on May 2, 2016, and on March 22 it was announced that production had begun.
Season 5 officially begins on May 2, 2016, with the release of the first battle of the season, "George R.R. Martin vs. J.R.R. Tolkien". ERB releases fighting every other Monday in the first half of Season 5. On July 12, 2016, Alexander the Great vs. Ivan the Terrible was released. This marks the midseason break. EpicLloyd then confirmed that they plan to return mid to late October. The filming starts for the second half of Season 5 on September 23rd. On October 26th, Season 5 followed by "Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton". The last episode of season 5 was released on January 9, 2017, where EpicLloyd and NicePeter battle each other once again, as this is the sequel to the Season 1 final. Shukoff states in September 2017 that the ERB is in hiatus.
In 2016, Epic Rap Battles of History was nominated for an Emmy Award in the newly pioneered Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series at the 68th Emmy Primetime Awards.
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Cast
Starring
- Peter "NicePeter" Shukoff
- Lloyd "EpicLLOYD" Ahlquist
Recurring cast
Guest appearances
Episode
Awards and nominations
See also
- Epic Rap Battles of History discography
References
External links
- Official website
- Official forums
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