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Battle rap was loosely described by 40 Cal, previously a member of American hip hop collective The Diplomats, in the book How to Rap (2009) as an "extracurricular" display of skill, comparing it to the dunk contest in the NBA. Battle rap has been developed into highly organized league events drawing in significant revenue and attention.
Epic Rap Battles of History (ERB) is a YouTube web series and music project created by Peter "Nice Peter" Shukoff and Lloyd "EpicLLOYD" Ahlquist. The series pits historical and pop culture figures against one another in a rap battle format. The characters portrayed are often determined by suggestions from viewers in the comments sections of the ...
The video contains a parody of a rap battle scene from 8 Mile in which it is Eminem, as B-Rabbit, versus Eminem, as Slim Shady. It also contains several scenes where Eminem walks down the streets naked. As he does this, Dr. Dre drives next to him, looking disgusted. For the music video, the lyrics were edited slightly, notably the phrase "shake ...
In the 1980s, diss tracks began to feature prominently in the hip-hop genre. The first known hip-hop feud (or "beef") was the Roxanne Wars. [20] The Roxanne Wars began in 1984 when Roxanne Shanté and Marley Marl released the song "Roxanne's Revenge", a diss track aimed at the trio U.T.F.O. "Roxanne's Revenge" was a quick success, leading U.T.F.O. to compose a response: they joined forces with ...
The creators of Epic Rap Battles of History, Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD, battle against each other as fictionalized versions of themselves. The battle ends with KassemG intervening to resolve the conflict and suggest to Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD to make a second season and also to create an own YouTube channel for the series. The video ends with ...
Lyrics in the song are mainly aimed at Mitchell Johnson after his English teacher, Debbie Pelley, testified to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that lyrics from The Art of War as well as Tupac Shakur and Marilyn Manson inspired Mitchell to commit a school shooting. [74] [75] Mar 14, 1999 "Quiet Storm"
“Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng on Wednesday mocked Penelope Hegseth, the mother of Donald Trump’s embattled defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth, after she went to bat for the former ...
Tupac's fatal shooting in September 1996 and Wallace's in March 1997, both officially unresolved, drew speculations partly blaming the "rap battle". The track was reissued in 1999 on the posthumous Biggie album Born Again , in 2001 on a "Big Poppa/Warning" reissue with remixes, in 2004 on a remaster of his 1994 or debut album Ready to Die , and ...