♪ (ragtime music) ♪
Epic Rap Battles of History!
- George Washington... - Huh.
...versus...
- ...William Wallace! - (laughter)
♪ There's a difference between you and me ♪
♪ Willy ♪
♪ I fought till I was actually free ♪
♪ Willy ♪
♪ I got my face on a quarter ♪
- ♪ You got drawn and quartered ♪ -- - It's cute!
Love the costumes.
- ♪ A Mel Gibson movie is your legacy ♪ - Mel Gibson. (laughs)
♪ Stroke, roll up in a boat ♪
- ♪ You're sleeping, cut your throat ♪ - It's clever.
♪ Look at ya ♪
♪ In your little blousy outfit! ♪
♪ Looking like a stiffer white [bleep] ♪
- ♪ Than your monument! ♪ - (laughter)
♪ You died owning slaves ♪
♪ I died setting men free ♪
♪ That's Washington! ♪
♪ Such a [bleep] tactician ♪
♪ The [bleep] British Army ♪
♪ Didn't even want him ♪
I'm unclear on the need for them to have a rap contest.
♪ I chop down an emcee ♪
♪ Like an cherry tree ♪
(laughs)
♪ I'm fabulous ♪
♪ From my head to my shoe buckle ♪
♪ Step to me you catch a knee ♪
♪ To the Moose knuckle ♪
♪ I don't give a [bleep] ♪ --
Washington's probably turning over in his grave!
♪ Don't tee off with me, laddy! ♪
♪ If you held my balls ♪
♪ You couldn't be my caddy ♪
Silly. (laughs)
♪ You're the father of your country ♪
♪ But I'm your daddy! ♪
Oh dear.
Who won? Who cares! (laughs)
(Finebros) Who do you think won that battle?
I'd say George Washington.
Wallace.
William Wallace.
Good old George.
Washington, of course!
George Washington won.
Washington! 'Cause Washington always wins.
Physically, it was definitely Wallace.
I hate to tell you they're just both losers!
Disgusting.
Epic Rap Battles of History!
- Martin Luther King... - (laughs)
...versus...
- Gandhi! - Oh no!
Are you kidding?
♪ I fought the caste system ♪
♪ But you still cannot touch this ♪
♪ Everything you preach ♪
-♪ I said it first ♪ -- - This is true!
♪ Plagarize my whole verse ♪
♪ I admire the way ♪
♪ You broke the British power ♪
♪ But I have a dream ♪
- ♪ That one day you'll take a shower ♪ - (laughs)
♪ I've got so much street cred ♪
- ♪ They write my name on the signs ♪ - My name on the signs!
I love Key & Peele!
♪ [bleep], we got more beef ♪
♪ Than one of your sacred cows ♪
♪ But I'm about to forgive you ♪
♪ So hard right now ♪
♪ I am passively resisting ♪
♪ The fact that you suck ♪
♪ I am celibate because ♪
♪ I don't give a [bleep] ♪
(laughter)
Oh, Gandhi wasn't like that. No.
(Finebros) Who won this battle?
Martin won that.
Gandhi.
For me, Gandhi!
Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King, I'd say.
I'll diplomatic and say it's a tie.
I'd have to say Gandhi because he started the peace movement.
Gandhi, AKA either Key or Peele, I do not know which.
Nobody won anything there.
Epic Rap Battles of History!
- Darth Vader... - Darth Vader?
...versus...
- Adolph Hitler! - Oy god!
This is not something you should focus on.
♪ Commander of the Third Reich ♪
♪ Little known fact: ♪
♪ Also dope on the mic ♪
♪ I am a force truly evil ♪
♪ Even went back in time ♪
♪ And turned you wack in the prequel ♪
(laughs)
I have a hard time with them kidding around the whole Nazi thing.
♪ You can't rhyme against ♪
♪ The dark side of the force ♪
♪ Why even bother? ♪
♪ So many dudes been with your mom ♪
♪ Who even knows if I'm your father? ♪
Oh my god!
♪ You stink Vader! ♪
♪ Your style smells something sour ♪
♪ You need to wash up, dawg ♪
- ♪ Here, step in my shower ♪ - Ooh.
(laughter) That's terrible!
♪ Suck my robot balls ♪
Suck--(laughs)
I understand he only had one.
Hitler.
One ball.
♪ See who got the last laugh ♪
(laughs)
It's a cute way of getting kids involved in history.
I'm gonna give it to Darth Vader.
Darth Vader won.
Darth Vader.
Definitely Darth Vader.
Well, Darth had to win that one.
Darth. Vader.
Darth Vader!
Get rid of Hitler!
Hey, Hitler had it for a while, but Darth Vader took him.
Adolph. Oh god!
I hate saying that he won anything, but Aldoph Hitler--
I said it without even thinking. So terrible.
(Finebros) Can you break down your thoughts about this show?
I think it's clever.
It took good guys and made them foul.
They kept on making fun of the good guys.
The bad guys--eh.
All of it was absolutely hysterical.
Very entertaining and to think that they would be able to rap like that...
that's incredible!
People really look different! I can't believe I was laughing at Hitler.
It rhymes!
That seems to be more effective and more important
to the young generation than actually making sense.
(Finebros) So this show is the most popular show in the history of the internet.
Whoa!
That surprises me.
Get outta here!
(Finebros) Why do you think this show is so popular?
I don't think it requires much thought.
I think it's funny, I think they're really pushing the envelope
as far as the content is concerned.
Well, they pick good subjects. The subjects were great.
It's really sarcastic and you do take a nice, big, huge public figure
and you make him into mincemeat!
Makes you think that it's fun at the same time,
which is unusual.
It makes you think about things you've learned, and things you've known
and it's just a very original idea! And people like rap.
(Finebros) And do you think this is a good series for educational
aspects of history or do you think it's not educational?
Absolutely not!
Have you discovered history books in the library?
That might help you much more than this.
I think it could be seen as educational.
Might be interesting to open up a discussion with it
if you wanted to make somebody interested in what really happened.
As much as I love history now, I sure didn't like it at school.
'Cause it's boring!
And here you're actually getting some of it, but in a fun way.
As a teacher, a former teacher, I don't think it's that educational,
but if it would help someone look it up, that would work.
Boy, I'm torn on that. I was an educator for many years.
Would I myself bring that into the classroom?
Of course, I'd have to bleep out the language.
Perhaps I could use it in a classroom to start off a discussion,
to start off a unit, to get kids hooked on the idea.
I really wouldn't have thought of that aspect
until you mentioned it, but yeah. Put it in the schools immediately.
(Finebros) So would you say you liked the show?
Not really. I don't like the language at all.
It would be much more powerful if you really took the high ground.
I don't particularly like them.
Yes! (laughs) I like it.
Yeah, I did.
Yeah, it was kinda fun to watch.
They're cute, they're clever.
Sometimes it goes too fast for me, but that's why it's subtitled, I guess.
(Finebros) So YouTube recently has started promoting
some of its more popular creators with billboards in major cities
and even some television commercials, and Epic Rap Battles is one of them.
- What do you think about that? - I think it's fabulous.
It makes perfect senses. It follows.
I think it's wonderful! Is our show getting promoted the same way?
The internet is the future of entertainment.
I don't think there's any doubt about that.
Well, I think it's overkill-- judging from the people I talk to
in the retirement home in which I live,
I don't think they tune into computers that often.
I think that's where the future is.
I think young people are really into the internet and into YouTube.
I don't know that they watch much traditional television anymore.
Ten years from now, who knows what it's gonna be like.
Truth!
(Finebros) So the two guys who created this show
are named Nice Peter and Epic Lloyd.
(laughs) Nice stage names.
(Finebros) What do you want to say to Pete and Lloyd if they're watching
about the show they created?
Keep on bringin' it, but keep it clean!
I don't want to offend them, but I think they could raise the bar.
Great show. I wish you'd clean it up a wee bit,
but you got some good stuff there. It's very fun to watch.
This is wonderful!
I'm glad to see that they're using their imagination and their thoughts
to present something that's worthwhile.
Pete, Lloyd. Good, great format.
I loved it. It was awesome.
(Finebros) So, finally, every episode of Epic Rap Battles of History,
the narrator says the name of the show in a silly way.
So I'm going to play it for you again, and then you're gonna
- impersonate it for us. - Alright.
Epic Rap Battles of History!
What was that?
I can't understand what he's saying.
He may have had his hand over his mouth, eh?
(muffled) Epic Rap Battles of History!
Epic Battles of History!
(muffled) Epic Rap Battles of History!
Epic Rap Battles of History!
Ep-Ep-(stuttering)
Epic Rap Battles of History! (laughs)
(coughing) I've torn my lungs out.
- (Finebros) Are you alright? - Yeah! (laughs)
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Goodbye, everybody.
Have an epic day!
Goodbye!
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