![]() For example, it takes a long time to become a real Dragon Ball Z fan. And we want to be authentic fans of the character before we start writing humor about it and making commentary on it. Now, a lot of times we go after characters we don't know that much about. We used to do characters we already knew enough about, so it was kind of in our bones to write jokes about them. How much time do you spend on each video? ![]() When it started to near 20 million views pretty soon after that, that was when we were shocked. We were aiming to get 1 million views with that video, and it went from zero to 1 million pretty quick. But the accidental result was that it became that much more popular. Our first battle didn't do that, but the second one did get to that front page, and then an interesting thing happened: It got blocked and banned in all the countries Hitler conquered, like Poland, Italy and Germany - they were understandably sensitive to the Hitler stuff. So even if you had 50,000 subscribers, if you made a video they loved and 10,000 "favorited" it, you could get to the front page of YouTube. You could make a video that connected with your audience in a certain way and get the top "favorited" spot on the front page. Shukoff: At that time, YouTube was a little more of a game you could play. In the span of about six months, I went from running a comedy theater to doing rap battles full-time. Bill O'Reilly, and the second one was Darth Vader vs. I brought Pete to the show and he said, "Hey, man - I think we should do that rap battle thing and make a YouTube out of it and call it Epic Rap Battles of History." He'd been making YouTube videos for a while, but I hadn't done any before. We would take audience members' suggestions - for example, Shia LaBeouf and Charlie Sheen - and freestyle a rap battle onstage.Īt the same time, Pete was starting a YouTube channel at a place called The Station, which would later become Maker Studios and after that would become Disney Digital. We regularly did an improv comedy freestyle rap show, and in it was one segment called Celebrity Rap Battle. It was me and one of our now-writers, Zach Sherwin - he played ERB characters like Einstein and Stephen King. Later, when I moved to L.A., I started a comedy theater called Westside Comedy Theater. We had both moved there independently to study improv comedy, and we started touring and doing improv together across the country in a group called MISSION IMPROVable. We met freestyling on a porch one night in Chicago, a big improv comedy town. Epic Rap Battles of History - YouTubeġ2- Michael Jackson VS Elvis Presley.How did you come up with ERB and get your start on YouTube?Īhlquist: Pete and I have been friends for about 15 years now, so we were friends for quite some time before ERB. Epic Rap Battles of History - YouTubeġ1- Artists vs TMNT. Epic Rap Battles of History - YouTubeġ0- Cleopatra vs Marilyn Monroe. Epic Rap Battles of History - YouTubeĩ- Goku vs Superman. Epic Rap Battles of History - YouTubeĨ- Moses vs Santa Claus. Epic Rap Battles of History - YouTubeĦ- Mario Bros vs Wright Bros. Epic Rap Battles of History - YouTubeĥ- Mozart vs Skrillex. ![]() Epic Rap Battles of History - YouTubeĤ- Master Chief vs Leonidas. Epic Rap Battles of History - YouTubeģ- Rasputin vs Stalin. Epic Rap Battles Of HistoryĢ- Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. Epic Rap Battles Of History Video series for Hip Hop fans and rappersĮpic Rap Battles Of History - Videos Offline is a video series created by Nice Peter, epicLLOYD, Dave McCary, and Maker Studios.ġ- Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney.
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