Whitney Avalon seems like a bit of an undiscovered treasureājust spent 30 minutes going through everything in her channel. Why havenāt I heard of her before? Her voice is pretty fantastic, and the production values and writing of pretty much every video was spot on.
Itās like you always choke,
Once you make it to the balls.
ROTFLMAO
Theyāre OK, but no Keynes and Hayek.
That was so well done! Iām only sorry about the Disney subtext. There are plenty more interesting interpretations of Cinderellaā¦
Wait. So they just ripped off Epic Rap Battles?
or Tesla and Edison.
Well, no, I donāt think they ājustā ripped them off. They used completely original words, characters that to my knowledge never appeared in ERB, and the concept of battle raps have been going on since, what, the 80ās?
But, yeah, if you think any use of fictional/historical/celebrities in battle rap is now solely the territory of ERB, and any riff on the concept regardless of quality should be dismissed as ājustā a ripoff, thenā¦ um, OKā¦I guess?
(Come here often, do you?)
Iām pretty sure Epic Rap Battles āripped offā actual rappers.
Do you really think ERB created rap battles? LOLOL
You donāt know much 'bout hip hop, sir. 
Who based their styles on something else.
Everything is a derivative work.
Wow. Really? I had no idea!
(I take it you missed my use of scare quotes around āripped offā and missed the snark?)
Dear poster your snark
Was so softly implied
It read as ignorance
Or not ā which is lies
Did this you intend
Or was a point to be made
No matter, Iām out
Cuzā trolls live in the shade
Itās not a proper rap battle until someone gets accused of biting rhymes.
looks around thread
Ah, good to see you all got that covered.
Cheerio!
Was there a video of them?
āFear the Boom and Bustā a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
Yep, itās the first of the Epic Rap Battles that I saw. Itās great, none of the others have matched it, although Hayek and Keynes is fairly great as well.
Looks like I ruffled a few feathers. I completely understand ERB did not invent the rap battle, however the formatting of the Princess Rap Battles is nearly identical to ERB. In fact, when I watched it I thought that it was the same people. Itās like they watched ERB and said, āLetās make the exact same thing but with princesses! Same announcer, same credits, all of it!ā
The content was great. I lulzed a bunch. (especially at the Galadriel vs. Leia battle) Originality, not so much.
Simple memetic theory, my friend.
When someoneās YouTube video style/format reaches a certain threshold of popularity there seems to be a moment when a critical mass of homages and copycats sort of coalesces into a formless, vague but implicitly accepted genre, completely dissociated from the original creators. This is know as viralizing the intertubes, or āhacking the gibsonā. It is known.
Or not. Iām just amused at the angry responses.
ā¦besides Iām only down with Chap Hop.
Where was the bawdy? I think I missed it.
Bawdiness might be a bit subjective, but I thought there were tons of lines that would qualify. The aforementioned line about choking on balls, directed at Cinderella, for instance, definitely pinged my bawdiness meter.
