♪ (light music) ♪
- (announcer, grumbling) Epic Rap Battles of History.
Bruce Banner...
versus!
Bruce Jenner! Begin!
- ♪ I'll school you in this battle of the baddest Bruce ♪
♪ The most overrated athlete anyone's ever seen ♪
♪ You need to carry fatherhood ♪
- Now, come on, you can't call him overrated.
Until Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk,
then, you know, that's it for Jenner.
That haircut though. That Jenner haircut.
Nobody else ever did that.
- Yeah, this look like the Partridge brothers.
♪ (dramatic theme) ♪
- Oh. (laughter)
There's the Hulk. - Nah.
Uh-oh. Gonna get into this.
- Oh. - Yep.
- Fingernails, eyelashes.
- Oh, Caitlyn. - All right, all right.
- ♪ That painted face don't give you class ♪
- They both went through big transformations. Good for them.
- ♪ Hulk SMASH! ♪
♪ That's my teenage... ♪ - Hulk got to work on his flow though.
It's a little GURGLY. - ♪ Without the decathlon ♪
- (growls) ♪ Hulk is Hulk ♪ - Whoa.
- ♪ No identify as man ♪
♪ Me thinks Cait might understand ♪ - (chuckles)
- ♪ No gender issue ♪
♪ This Jenner issue ♪
- Now, see, Bruce, if you took some steroids,
you probably would look like the Hulk
instead of looking like She-Hulk.
- I think Caitlyn Jenner's winning this battle.
- ♪ ...which means you need a new wardrobe ♪
- She's slamming the Hulk.
- (announcer) Epic Rap Battles of Historyyyyy!
The Wright brothers
versus
the Mario brothers! - (chuckling)
- ♪ We're the Wright brothers, and there can't be no other ♪
♪ We don't wanna cause trouble ♪
♪ Are you looking for your lover? ♪
♪ You shoulda would coulda come to lose an extra life ♪
- Oh, they're actually dissing. - Yeah.
- ♪ It's-a me, Mario ♪
♪ And Luigi motha[bling] ♪
- Their mustaches.
- ♪ Two dorky dudes ♪
♪ Named Wilbur and Orville ♪
- This is crazy.
- ♪ We're gonna beat you so fast ♪
♪ It's like we're holding down the B button ♪
- ♪ We're serving up an... ♪ - Wait a minute.
There were no joysticks in damn, uh-- - Now, come on.
- ...in-- what was it?-- '20s.
I'm sick of these rappers not being real, man.
They didn't have joysticks back then.
- Now, you think, since this guy's all in red
that he's a Blood? - Maybe.
He might be a digital Blood.
- A digital Blood, yeah. - 'Cause he's in a video game.
- But there's no green Crips, right?
♪ (rock interlude) ♪
- (FBE) So both of you have musical backgrounds.
What did you think of the production value
and talent of these creators?
- I think they need to work a little more on the rhyming
and the beats. But the production value? Off the chain.
- Yeah, the videos are well shot.
I would have to agree, the beat is a little
♪ Da, da-da-da, da, da-da, da-da-da-da ♪
which is kind of old.
- (FBE) So Epic Rap Battles of History
is created by Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD,
and they have over 3 billion total views
across all the episodes of the series.
Why do you think this has become such a huge phenomenon?
- It's funny, it's cool,
and you learn a little something about history.
You got kids who have to do their homework.
You know, parents sometimes, they don't remember all this stuff.
They don't remember who did what.
They don't remember, was the Hulk green or was he gray?
So when you see videos like this, you remember.
It brings you back, and then you can teach your kids the truth.
- Right. And when you're in class and the teacher says,
"Hey, what year did World War II happen?"
and you say, "Hulk was green," you get an F.
You know what? Good for them, man.
You write something people enjoy,
then I'm not gonna knock these guys, you know?
Way to go. Good work.
- (FBE) So in your movie Fist Fight,
you actually play a history teacher.
So what do you think about teaching history
through videos like this? - I think it's great.
You know, whatever you can do,
teach these bad little kids nowadays,
whatever you need to do to whip them in shape.
I mean, video games. You can make raps.
I say you use all techniques that you can think of.
- (FBE) And last question:
if you yourself got to be cast in one of these videos,
who would you play from history?
- Uh, I'll be God, and I'll battle the Devil.
- That's pretty... - Yeah, I'll battle the Devil.
- ...tough to beat that.
- He'd be Arnold Horshack from Welcome Back, Kotter.
- Yeah, no way. None of these kids know who that is.
- A weak dude like Charlie Day. - What?!
That's cold, dude. That is cold. - (snickering)
- Thank you guys for watching.
Make sure you go check out Fist Fight. - February 17.
- That's Friday.
And you can click the link below for the trailer.
- Bye, Felicia.
- See you, Felicia.
- "See you, Felicia." You just messed up the whole--
- Bye, Felicia! Is that how it goes? - The whole phenomenon
is gone now. - Yeah. Yeah.