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Battle Rapping (also known as "battle rhyming") is a type of rapping that includes a lot of braggadocio and insults, the latter of which is usually aimed at an opposing rapper. While battles between rappers can occur on recorded albums and/or singles, battle rapping is usually associated with live battles, though the verses are usually rehearsed or freestyled spontaneously in those cases.note Typically, standard battle rules say all rhymes must be memorized prior to the battle, but some battlers opt to freestyle instead. Obviously, using a notepad or other type of "cheat sheet" (i.e. writing your verse on your wrist) is against the rules in most battle rap leagues, and will get you disqualified. While battle rapping is still a relatively new phenomenon, there are many similar older traditions. As far back as the fifth century, a game existed called Flyting, a contest of exchanged insults performed in verse. The insults would be extremely provocative, ranging from cowardice to sexual perversion, not quite unlike the insults used in the rap battles of today. A more direct influence on rap battling is the African-American game called "the dozens", in which players take turns to come up with witty insults against their opponent to raise the biggest applause from a crowd. Rap battling and "the dozens" also influenced and were influenced by reading, an Inspirational Insult game popular in the drag community, due to the working class Black origins of ballroom culture. In the early seventies, when rap was still in its beginning, freestyle battles were largely about playing the crowd—specifically, which rapper could get the crowd more hyped up from their performance. On September 11, 1981 Kool Moe Dee created the modern style of battle rapping that's known today. When it was his turn to take on his opponent, Busy Bee Starski, Moe took everyone by surprise by roasting Starski with complex rhyme schemes that were almost unheard of at the time. This battle would single-handedly end the original style of battle rapping and laid the groundwork for the modern battle rapping. Between the early nineties and the early 2000's, the popularity of battle rapping started to decline and went underground, due to rap's ever evolving landscape. Battling started crawling back into the mainstream by 2002, spring-boarded by Eminem's hit film 8 Mile, which was based around Detroit's underground battle scene, and the various "Freestyle Fridays" rap battles hosted by BET on their show 106 & Park. These days, there are leagues dedicated solely to battle rapping, reality shows dedicated to battle rapping, and hugely popular online streams of battle rap and adjacent sports like Versuz. Battle rap has been parodied many times in various media, such as by Epic Rap Battles of History. Related to Freestyle Version, though in a more competitive sense. Compare Boastful Rap, which is a main component in battle rapping. Overlaps heavily with The Diss Track, though that trope isn't exclusive to hip-hop. Some variants of the Hypothetical Fight Debate are about who would win in a rap battle rather than literal physical combat. Note: Keep in mind that a battle rap doesn't necessarily have to be "diss" tracks, or just be restricted to live battles when adding examples. Artists such as Kool Moe Dee have put out several self-contained battle raps on their albums. |
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Rhett & Link: Their 2010 video, simply titled "Epic Rap Battle!", is considered to be the inspiration for Epic Rap Battles of History. Since then, they've made several more comedic rap battles, including Epic Rap Battle of Manliness, Nerd vs Geek and I'm a Textpert. They've also guest starred on ERBoH a couple times (and had Nice Peter and Epic Lloyd cameo in one of their rap battles). | |
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In Idol x Warrior Miracle Tunes!, the Miracle Tunes sometimes have to use the Hip-Hop Jewel to fight, and in such cases their fights with the Negative Jewelers are prefaced with a rap battle. | |
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Randal's Monday: At one point, Randal engages a rap battle to get a mask from a Jay cosplayer. However, saying that Randal is bad at it would be a massive understatement. | |
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Tupac releases All Eyez on Me, his biggest release during his lifetime. Still bitter over "Who Shot Ya?", Tupac released "Hit 'Em Up", a B-side to his number-one single "How Do U Want It". It contained vicious insults aimed largely at Bad Boy Records and The Notorious B.I.G., with Tupac claiming that he slept with the latter's wife, Faith Evans. It also contained shots at Chino XL and Mobb Deep member Prodigy, who was mocked for having sickle-cell disease. Evans would deny sleeping with Tupac, and B.I.G. continued to claim innocence to the shooting, but did not release a response. B.I.G. affiliate Lil' Kim, however, would respond with "Big Momma Thang", and Mobb Deep with "Drop a Gem on 'Em" (which got them serious heat as it was released just after Tupac's murder). | |
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Cool Cat and the Beauty of War and Destruction: In the country of Hollywoodistan, rapping is sacred, and whoever loses one is punished with death. Daddy Derek dies after losing one to Patrick Bateman. | |
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Mega Man Battle Network 2 has a variant that's best described as parodied. Near the end of the game, Lan is flying home from abroad,and gets involved in an attempt to collect a runaway spider (which is incredibly venomous and about the size of the average human head). The insectologist aboard the plane has Lan collect materials for a trap, which includes whiskey. Lan heads for the first-class section of the plane where the whiskey is located, but is (justifiably) denied it by its owner; who tells Lan the whiskey is too potent for a young child like him and should instead "go suck [his] mama's milk". When Lan persists, the man agrees to give it to him if Lan can match him line-for-line in a rap battle, which is full of barely subtexual sexual imagery (e.g. "Chicky-chicky baby, make me go kaboom!"). It must be seen to be believed.◊ | |
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Dr. Monster is a series made by LilDeuceDeuce that pits two pun-themed monsters (usually centered around a holiday) together in a rap battle. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Pranksta Rap", when Bart sneaks out of the house to go to a rap concert by Alcatraaz, the rapper accidentally drops his mic and Bart picks it up. | |
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The Way of the Househusband: In chapter 38, Tatsu and Goda have a rap battle on the sidewalk. Tatsu renders Goda speechless with an Armor-Piercing Response: "You dress weird!" | |
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Taskmaster (NZ): As a Shout-Out to 8 Mile, the envelope for "Create a diss track about the members of the other team" is located in a bowl of spaghetti labeled "Mom's." Of the five contestants, it's clear that David Correos is the only one with rapping experience, but the battle rap bent to his violently confrontational bars catches everyone by surprise because he's so good-natured and friendly. | |
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Horrible Histories featured three rap battles: One between two Celtic warriors, another between the major players of World War 1, and a "Manga Carta" battle between the Noble Men of England and King John. | |
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Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Trolls engage in rap battle contests, but being trolls the raps are all about complimenting each other the best. Poppy used to be a champion but quit in shame when she accidentally brought up something her opponent was embarrassed about. | |
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Verbal Ase's Cartoon Beatbox Battles are mainly centered around beatboxing, as the title implies, though battle verses are as much of a part of the fights as the beatboxing is. Everyone from Sonic to Thanos has shown up at some point or another. | |
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The Divine Comedy: Rap didn't exist in 1320, but that didn't stop humanity from engaging in vulgar, rhythmic insult contests. Dante engaged in tenzone, essentially battle-sonneting, in his youth and some of that genre makes its way into Inferno when the liars Master Adam and Sinon trade verses about how the other sucks harder. | |
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The Jackbox Party Pack 5: Mad Verse City is a party phone game in which the players rap battle each other as giant robots, creating their verses with Mad Libs-style prompts. | |
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In Assassin's Creed: Valhalla Eivor can engage in flyting with NPCs for cash wagers, represented as dialogue options with a timer to force the player to act quickly. | |
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The main climax of House Party has Kid and Play face off against each other in a rap battle. Kid, who was derided for his bad lyrics at the beginning of the film, ended up as the victor at the end of the battle. | |
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The final scene of Let It Shine between Cyrus and Lord of da Bling, which many even considering similar to the above-mentioned film 8 Mile. | |
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His breakout album The Slim Shady LP is hugely influenced by his past in battle raps. It contains multiple songs derived from his battle rapping style ("Role Model", "Just Don't Give A Fuck"); "Guilty Conscience" is a novelty song based on the idea of a rap battle between a Good Angel, Bad Angel pair, which Slim Shady (as the bad angel) wins by doing personals on (good angel) Dr. Dre; and the shock punchlines of Breakthrough Hit "My Name Is" were written in an attempt to make Dre corpse, as he was so used to playing to a crowd that he needed to see an audience reaction to know if he was doing a good job. The outrageous, self-deprecating shock-humour content, in which he boasts about ridiculous things like having STDs or being abused by his mother - a style he developed to force a laugh out of audiences sceptical of his whiteness without coming across as a white supremacist - caused a moral panic from white, middle-class audiences who had no context to understand that verbal aggression and shock content is typical of battle rap. Even though his followup album abandoned the battle-rapping style in favour of more typical songwriting techniques (while maintaining the gimmicky humour), the controversy created an image of him as a corruptor of public morals screwing up your kids, which remains his signature to this day, although muted with time. | |
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Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on YouTube and Twitch. In this video, Kitboga, as his character Viktor, manages to get a scammer boss to engage in a rap battle with him. The scammer claims that it's a tie, despite barely managing to rhyme and losing track of the beat. | |
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NBA Ballers: Phenom's story mode features a sidequest where your character can battle real-life battle rap champion Jin at an NBA Finals event. Winning the battle unlocks Jin as a playable character in exhibition mode. | |
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Golf Story: During the Tidy Park arc, the young hooligans from Wellworn Grove get into a rap battle with the old geezers of Tidy Park over the right of the former to use the Tidy Park grounds and courses. The main Tidy Park proprietor does remarkably well with this for an old curmudgeon, impressing the Wellworn Grove hooligans enough for the two sides to hash out a truce. | |
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The fifth season of Xena: Warrior Princess featured the Musical Episode "Lyre Lyre Hearts On Fire" that culminated in a rap battle/fight scene between Xena and recurring antagonist Draco. | |
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The Story Between a Dumb Prefect and a High School Girl with an Inappropriate Skirt Length: Tougo lays into some freestylers for blocking the sidewalk, and ends up convincing them to return to school and start a rap club to express themselves, by rap battling them. Poemu's dad Raimu also used to be a battle rapper, and we get to see him rap battle with Tougo's dad at the school cultural festival. When Tougo's dad meets Poemu, he's tongue-tied and can't think of anything to say. Then he remembers the Totally Radical way to talk to kids these days is through rapping. He improvises a Diss Track, but everyone else thinks he's just insulting her. Poemu shoots back with her own diss, and both of them apologize profusely later. |
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Starbomb made a parodic animated rap battle between Ryu and Ken. | |
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Whitney Avalon's Princess Rap Battles series is the most popular of Epic Rap Battles of History's numerous YouTube imitators. The series is built on the same premise as ERBoH, except it mostly features fictional female characters (not necessarily princesses): Snow White vs Elsa, Mrs. Claus vs Mary Poppins, Galadriel vs Leia, Cinderella vs Belle. Like ERBoH, it sometimes features celebrity guest stars. | |
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Smosh first included a rap battle in their 2011 Zelda Rap. Recently they created Smash Rap, which featured MegaMan Battle Rapping against several other Super Smash Bros. characters. Like Rhett & Link, Ian and Anthony have also guest starred on ERBoH. | |
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Stardust Telepath: In chapter 48, Umika finds herself thrust onstage during a rap battle at her school's cultural festival. Since she can barely speak, let along rap, she's totally at a loss. She's saved when her clubmate Haruno dons a cute wolf costume, strides onstage as "Fenrir", and effortlessly curb-stombs the competition with her sick rhymes. Then she and Umika do a rap about how great their club, the Rocket Research Association, is. | |
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In the second episode of Zombie Land Saga, Sakura and Saki get onto an argument on stage. The moment Sakura accidentally pulls out a rhyme, Kotaro starts beatboxing, turning their argument into a rap battle as the other girls provide backup. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (2016): In the first episode Buttercup and Blossom try to have a rap battle to decide who gets a ticket to their favorite boy band. Bubbles stops them partway. | |
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Chapter 108 of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War ends up becoming a rap battle between Hayasaka and Kaguya, where Hayasaka gives Kaguya a piece of her mind for how Kaguya takes Hayasaka and her services for granted. When the anime eventually adapted the chapter, the episode featuring it had a unique credits sequence depicting an actual on stage rap battle between Shirogane and Fujiwara with Ishigami and Iino as backup dancers. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: There's a rap battle (or, should we say, haiku battle) in The Tales of Ba Sing Se. Sokka stumbles into a house that contains a bunch of female haiku poets. When one of them tells Sokka to get out with haiku, he then responded with a haiku of his own... with rap twist. It then escalates until Sokka accidentally uses 6 syllables instead of 5 in his last line (it's a rule in haiku) which gets him kicked outside by the house's bouncer. | |
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"On The Floor" Keating! The Musical: Paul Keating and Dr. John Hewson debate Hewson's proposed GST via a rap battle. Note that most of Keating's insults are comments he really made. | |
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On a certain hour in Tomodachi Life, Miis will engage in Rap Battles at the fountain. There are two competitors, chosen randomly, and each take turns giving the other a line to rhyme. If one of them fails to rhyme a verse, he or she loses. This had replaced the Japanese game of shiritori, but the Pal version has both games. | |
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Animaniacs (2020): The short "Gift Rapper" is about a rap battle between a boastful rapper named JayPac and Yakko Warner. When one of JayPac's fans claims that he's bigger than Shakespeare, Yakko gets offended and gives the rapper an epic roast. | |
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Konnan and Ron Killings have dabbled in rap music before wrestling and even released an album together after wrestling. For the most part they are comedians and hype men, but occasionally a wrestler feels the need to prove he could be a better rapper(most famously William Regal) with predictable results. | |
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DJ Quik vs Mc Eiht. This one started a few years before DJ Quik hit the mainstream. On his 1987 mixtape The Red Tape, Quik's song "Real Doe" had a throwaway line that took a small jab at both N.W.A. and Eiht's crew, Compton's Most Wanted. Eiht and the CMW took the sight personally note Not helping matters was the fact that Eiht and Quik were members of rival gangs, the 159th St. Tragniew Park Compton Crips and the Tree Top Priu Bloods, respectively,, and proceeded to release what would become the first of two "Duck Sick" tracks on their debut It's a Compton Thang and again in 1991 with the first "Def Wish" song. Quik didn't respond on his 1991 debut Quik Is The Name, but proceeded to hit back with "Way 2 Fonky" from his 1992 album of the same name. CMW responded months later with "Dead Men Tell No Lies", from their album Music To Drive-bye. Due to label and music troubles, Quik didn't respond, and the majority of the hip hop community thought that Eiht had won the beef. ...Until 1994, when Quik came out of nowhere and roasted Eiht on "Dollaz + Sense", calling him a coward and mocking his role in the classic 'hood film Menace II Society, calling him a "movie script killer". Quik continued to fan the flames for a good part of the year, performing "Dollaz + Sense" live at the 1995 Source Awards, and dissing Eiht on the tracks "Let U Havit", "Get At Me", and the unofficially released "Boom". Eiht responded with another "Def Wish" song in 1996, but the damage was done, and his career went downhill since then. By 2002, both rappers mutually squashed the beef. | |
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No Straight Roads has the boss DK West, a famous underground rapper and Zuke's estranged older brother, whose boss battles, of course, involves rap battles between him and Zuke that act as a platform for them to voice their grievences at each other. However, their third and final rap battle is fought by Zuke’s partner Mayday, who isn’t a rapper but was taking notes during the first two, acting as an intermediary so the brothers can reconcile. | |
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Common isn't widely known as a battler, though the few emcees who did test him on wax came out as the loser in battle: Thanks to a Mondegreen taken out of context in Common's landmark single "I Used to Love H.E.R."note "I wasn’t salty she was with the boys in the hood" was misheard as "I was insulted she was with the boys in the hood.", he was on the shit list of a few west coast emcees for a time during the East-West Coast feud, despite being from the midwest. Ice Cube in particular took the most offense, and him and his crew Westside Connection attacked Common and several other east coast rappers on the track "Westside Slaughterhouse"; going as far as to boldly (and falsely) declare "Hip Hop started in the West!" Common quickly responded with "The Bitch In Yoo", ridiculing Ice Cube and his crew for taking his song out of context, repeated hypocrisy, lumping him, a midwestern rapper, with the east coast, and pointing out that Ice Cube relied on east coast acts like Das EFX and Public Enemy to help put his first few albums together. Eventually, the emcees squashed the beef with the help of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farhakan. Around 2011 and 2012, Common and Drake were beefing heavily, with the center of the conflict rumored to be tennis star Serena Williams, who was romantically linked to both rappers at one point or another. Common first took subliminal shots with the track "Sweet", particularly in reference to comments Drake had made about him during a show. In turn, Drake responded with his verse on Rick Ross' track "Stay Schemin'", making fun of Common's age (he was almost 40 at the time), and implied Serena had told him some very nasty stuff about him during pillow talk. Common quickly came back with his own remix of "Stay Schemin'", accusing Drake of biting styles (an accusation that's plagued Drizzy to this day), trying to create a hardcore persona, despite being the total opposite and not being able to respond without hiding behind his associates' songs. Like Ice Cube before, the rappers eventually squashed their beef, but Common was widely considered the winner of the feud. |
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The Warp Zone turned The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies into a The Rap Battle of Five Armies, and have also included Battle Rapping in several of their other videos (e.g. Batman Rap, Batman vs Superman). Recently they've released a seemingly parodic rap battle between Hodor and Groot, which seems to go as well as you'd expect... unless you rewatch it with subtitles on | |
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Boogie Down Productions vs. The Juice Crew. Aka, "The Bridge Wars", a landmark battle between the Bronx and Queens neighborhoods of New York. In late 1985, MC Shan and the Juice Crew released a B-side called "The Bridge", which sung the praises of their Queens neighborhood. Bronx natives KRSOne and Scott La Rock took exception to the track, thinking the song was implying that hip hop started in Queens instead of the Bronx (in reality, they were pissed because one of the Juice Crew's DJ's rejected a demo tape they showed them). In 1986, The duo, now known as Boogie Down Productions, released "South Bronx", which attacked the Juice Crew, and their "claim" that Queens was the birthplace of hip hop. KRS even went as far as to perform "South Bronx" at a live show immediately after MC Shan performed "The Bridge". The Juice Crew quickly responded with the track "Kill That Noise", which mocked Boogie Down for taking offense, with MC Shan making it clear he did not make any claims that Queens started the hip hop movement. KRS, however, refused to let the subject drop, and eventually, more artists from the Bronx and Queens got involved including Craig G, Rockwell Noel & The Poet, Roxanne Shantaé (who was already involved in the "Roxanne Wars" about a year prior), MC Mitchski, and several others, with Big Daddy Kane being the only member of the Juice Crew not to get involved in the wars directly. In the end, KRS-One emerged the victor, though this ended up being a Bittersweet Ending, as his partner Scott La Rock was murdered prior to the end of the Wars. | |
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The Cleveland Show: In the episode Brotherly Love, Cleveland Jr. and Kenny West get into an argument over a girl and throw down. The battle starts as a competition but both are so impressed with the other that it finishes as a duet. | |
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Red vs. Blue: Episode 20 of Season 14 is a rap battle between Church and Sarge with a sudden guest appearance from Felix and Locus. | |
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Hypnosis Mic Division Rap Battle is a fictional and nearly literal version of the trope, where the rappers form teams representing their prefecture and then proceed to have team-on-team battles using microphones that can hurt through suggestion. | |
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De Cape et de Crocs has one between a French aristocrat named Armand Raynal de Maupertuis, and a sailor on the moon in the seventeenth century that has all the gesticulating associated with hip hop. Armand wins. | |
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Kool Moe Dee vs Busy Bee Starski: On September 11, 1981, A series of rap battles took place at Harlem World in New York City. Starski, who was the headlining rapper that night, was challenged by Kool Moe Dee. Starski started the battle off with the typical battle rap of the time, hamming it up for the crowd and getting them on their side with his party rhymes. When Moe's turn came around, he utterly roasted Starski, making claims that he stole his rhymes from Spoonie Gee, a member of Moe's group The Treacherous Three. Not only did Kool Moe Dee win that battle, he changed the face of battle rapping forever. As the ''Dallas Observer'' noted in a retrospective: | |
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Scary Movie 3 features the battle between real rapper Fat Joe and the film's character, George, a hilarious parody of the rap battles in 8 Mile. | |
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Regular Show: In the episode "Rap It Up", Pops accidentally gets involved in a feud with a rap group called the Crew Crew after mistaking their freestyle battles for a poetry recital. The members of the Crew Crew are voiced by real-life rappers Childish Gambino, Tyler, the Creator and MC Lyte. | |
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And It Don't Stop mixes rap battles with robot battles, with good rhymes powering up the robots. | |
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Adventures in Babysitting (2016) features a rap battle between Jenny and Lola in which each one blames the other for their current predicament. | |
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In Drillbit Taylor, bullied kid Ryan challenges his aggressor Filkins to a battle rap in hopes that this would gain his respect. Ryan ends up definitively winning, but this only serves to make Filkins bully him more aggressively. | |
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In the series City Magic, demons summoned via a rap battle are more likely to respect the summoner. After all, if you've got the skill to out-rhyme a demon, you deserve their assistance. | |
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Since the Parappa The Rapper series is centered around hip hop, battle rap is to be expected in the form of boss battles. But one memorable level from the first game features PaRappa, in a serious Potty Emergency, going through a Boss Rush against all of his teachers from the prior levels to use the bathroom first before he craps his pants. Stage 7 of the sequel is an even stronger example, where PaRappa's lines are rebuttals to the Big Bad's ideals. |
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The Annoying Orange parodied Epic Rap Battles of History in the video Epic Rap Battles of Kitchenry, which guest starred Nice Peter as Orange's opponent. Later a sequel was made, appropriately guest starring Epic Lloyd as one of the characters. | |
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No More Heroes III presages the boss fight against Kimmy Love with a rap battle between her and Travis, wherein she takes pot shots at him promising to rematch her after the previous game, power-bombing her on her head, and the fact that it took ten years for the sequel to get made. | |
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Even a religious organisation called The Crossing Church got on the hype, releasing a Christmas-themed rap battle between Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch. | |
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Freshy Kanal is another ERBoH-inspired channel run by a German artist named Dustin. Unlike ERB however, his Rap Battle! series tends to give the spotlight more to fictional characters and pop culture icons rather than historical figures. | |
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Episode 28 If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device features a rap battle set to synth music between the Captain-General of the Custodes and Fabricator-General of the Mechanicus over the Proteus Protocol. | |
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Robot Chicken: The episode "8 Carrot" parodies 8 Mile, with Bugs Bunny as B-Rabbit versus Elmer Fudd as Elmer Phudd. | |
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In Hamilton, rap battles serve as representations of cabinet debates. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson have one on debt assumption by the federal government and one on the nation's neutrality policy vis-a-vis Britain and Revolutionary France. There’s also a cut rap where they discuss what to do about the slave trade. But of course, the debates are really about dissing each other personally. | |
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Epic Rap Battles of History: A comedy video series (2010-ongoing) that popularized Battle Rapping on YouTube and beyond, especially among people unfamiliar with the rap culture. An example of Nerdcore, it features historical and pop culture figures note (played by the show's creators Nice Peter and Epic Lloyd, or Guest Stars) Battle Rapping against each other, in anachronistic and fourth-wall-breaking combinations, similar in premise to MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch (but with less murder and more rapping). The raps contain a lot of witty references to real (and often obscure) facts related to the portrayed characters and personalities, making these videos not just funny, but also (in a sense) educational. While not being the first example of comedic Battle Rapping on YouTube (see below), ERBoH are definitely the most popular of their ilk, and have spawned lots of successors and imitators. Guest stars appearing on the show include both Real Life and YouTube rappers like Snoop Dogg, Chali2na, DeStorm Power, Dan Bull, Wax, George Watsky, Zach Sherwin, and a lot of other celebrities. | |
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The Foxy Bard: "Epic Verse Battles of Sterling" features Rabbi Shmuel and a Christian Puritan woman performing a "disputation" at a Renaissance Fair to determine whose religion is right — all in the form of a rap battle. | |
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Elena of Avalor: In Shapeshifters, "The Right Thing To Do" is a rap battle between Elena and Esteban regarding whether or not it's really right for her to go off and fight Shuriki. | |
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In the That's So Raven season two episode "Hearts and Minds", Corey used rap lyrics ghostwritten by Eddie to impress a girl named Danielle, but ends up attracting all the other girls in his class instead. When the all the attention goes to his head and he starts giving Danielle the cold shoulder, Raven (who has been releasing rap albums since 1993 in real life) crashes his Valentines Day performance and lays into him with some genuinely clever battle raps. Corey attempts to save face by freestyling a rebuttal, but botches it horribly, revealing that he couldn't rap on his own. | |
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In contrast to the Tupac vs. B.I.G. feud, Nas released It Was Written that same year, which contained the song "Nas Is Coming", a collaboration with West Coast producer Dr. Dre, signalling the beginning of the end of the coast-to-coast feud. | |
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1991: N.W.A. released Niggaz4Life, which contained insults aimed at Ice Cube in several songs, most notably the skit "Message to B.A.", where they compare him to the infamous American Revolution traitor Benedict Arnold. Ice Cube eventually had enough and responded with "No Vaseline", considered one of the most brutal diss tracks ever, from his album Death Certificate. He criticized Eazy-E for siding with Jerry Heller, and accused both of them of exploiting the rest of the group. There turned out to be some truth to Ice Cube's words. Dr. Dre would leave N.W.A. not long after the song's release for the same reasons Ice Cube left a year prior. | |
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YouTuber MBest11x produces a series of rap battles between different branches of U.S. Armed Forces (Navy Seal vs Army Ranger, Special Forces vs MARSOC, Marines vs Army), other manly occupations (Police vs Firefighter), and also a parodic ISIS vs USA rap battle that's only 16 seconds long due to USA shooting ISIS right at the start | |
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Straight Outta Compton dramatizes the real-life beef NWA had with Ice Cube after he jumped ship post-Straight Outta Compton. The group fires first with the track "Real Niggaz", calling him a sellout and a traitor. Ice Cube, upset at the unprovoked attack, promptly fires back with the absolutely scathing "No Vaseline", a diss track so nasty, even the group admitted they couldn't top it and disbanded largely because of it. | |
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Galavant: In the second season, Isabella and Madalena's pre-battle parley turns into the aptly-named rap battle/catfight "I Don't Like You." | |
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In 2015, Meek Mill, apparently in response to Drake not helping promote his album Dreams Worth More Than Money, claimed Drake used a ghostwriter on their collabrative track "R.I.C.O.". Hot 97's longtime resident DJ Funkmaster Flex also chimed in on Meek's claims, leaking out reference tracks to support the former's claims. Drake quickly responded with the tracks "Charged Up" and "Back to Back", the latter of which was widely considered to have easily buried Meek by fans. Meek would attempt to clap back with "Wanna Know", but the rap community didn't take to it, and WWE quickly forced a copyright takedown on the song, due to the song illegally sampling The Undertaker's theme music. Drake would go on a victory lap with "Summer Sixteen" prior to releasing Views, and also dissed Funkmaster Flex while on tour. After Meek was unjustly imprisoned in 2017, Drake publicly squashed the beef, and helped campaign for Meek's release from prison. | |
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DashieXP created Mortal Kombat: Epic Rap Battle as a sub-series to his regular Mortal Kombat shorts. Most of of the voices are done by Dashie himself, with the exception of Jax, who is usually voiced by J.D. Witherspoon. Frequent running jokes include: Raiden constantly losing to Baraka in the first round. Baraka winning all rounds, only to get knocked out (or worse) by the last person he beat. The exceptions to this rule are the Sindel battle, where he and Raiden got blasted out of the building before he could spit his verse, and the Montaro battle where he lost for the first time but still got electrocuted by Raiden for insulting him earlier. Raiden's sexuality being questioned by Baraka during their battles. Baraka's ugliness (which is a common running joke in the regular MK shorts) And Raiden, along with a few other opponents, being sore losers. |
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In the musical Something Rotten!, Nick Bottom and William Shakespeare do a tap dance while boasting about their accomplishments and insulting each other, in a combination of this trope and a Dance-Off. | |
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Epic Meal Time once had Muscles Glasses win a rap battle. You know, the guy who never speaks. His opponent goes first, then when it's his turn, he just flips off his opponent and the crowd goes wild. | |
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In On The Come Up, main character Bri goes viral for a brilliantly-executed freestyle takedown of her opponent in the local rap battle venue, The Ring. | |
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Episode 7 of Season 3 of My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected features a rap battle between Hachiman and Tamanawa, with Tamanawa winning. | |
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Econ Stories features rap battles in their videos "Fear the Boom" and "Bust". | |
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In the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend episode "Josh and I Go to Los Angeles!", Rebecca and her Sitcom Arch-Nemesis engage in a "JAP Rap Battle" (JAP standing for "Jewish American Princess"), where they diss each others GPAs and try to force each other to back down from their lawsuit. | |
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Heaven's Design Team: Inspired by frogs' mating calls, Mercury and Jupiter try battle-rapping while trying to come up with a "heart-thumping mating ritual", with Pluto acting as the judge. | |
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This is the basic premise of Friday Night Funkin'. The game's initial premise is set up as a rap contest between the Boyfriend and his girlfriend's parents over whether or not you can date their daughter. However, most of the game's "lyrics" are just Animal Crossing-style gibberish. | |
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In WarioWare Gold: 18-Volt's stage is centered around such a battle between him and a rival rapper named 13-Amp, with a kid's games that the latter took on the line. | |
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OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: In "You Are Rad", Radicles loans his name-tag to K.O., but forgets about it and later accuses K.O. of trying to impersonate him with a Paper-Thin Disguise. This leads to Rad challenging K.O. to a "Rad-Off" that culminates in a rap battle. | |
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