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Epic Rap Battles of History, or simply ERB, is an American video series created by Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist, and produced & distributed by Maker Studios until 2018, after which it has been produced independently.
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Over 10+ years we have created over 80 rap battles featuring both historical and fictional characters which have amassed over 3.5 billion views on YouTube.
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, officially shortened to ERB or ERBoH, is a YouTube web series created by Peter Shukoff (Nice Peter) and Lloyd Ahlquist (EpicLLOYD). The series pits notable historical and pop culture figures, real and fictional, against one another in a rap battle format. The characters portrayed are determined by suggestions from viewers in the comments sections of the channel's videos.
The ERB crew conducts meticulous research in order to glean obscure details to use as references in the lyrics and are known for having pushed the quality of digital video to new heights even in the early stages of the YouTube era. The channel currently has over 14.4 million subscribers and approximately 3 billion total video views.
Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist first met freestyling on a porch in Chicago. Ahlquist recruited Shukoff to join the improv comedy group Mission IMPROVable, which he helped found at the University of Massachusetts and later expanded across the country.
The idea for historical figures rapping against each other was conceived by Ahlquist, who gave the idea to Shukoff (the two later created a demo track: Michael J. Fox vs Chucky) as an improvised show, which was titled "Check One Two", as the two worked on improvisation skits, along with Zach Sherwin. They were met with lots of difficulty at first and decided that it would fare much better as a YouTube series than an improv show.
The first three rap battles were each shot on a $50 budget. John Lennon vs Bill O'Reilly was the first official rap battle of the series, and it was uploaded on September 22nd, 2010, under the title "Bill O'Reilly Flips Out on John Lennon". The official video was released on September 26th, 2010. The series' second installment, Darth Vader vs Hitler, skyrocketed the series' popularity, as well as the viewers for Nice Peter's and EpicLLOYD's channels. Albert Einstein vs Stephen Hawking, which is the most viewed battle of Season 1, was the first one to feature recurring crew member Zach Sherwin.
After fifteen battles, the series ended its first season with "The Final Battle: Nice Peter vs EpicLLOYD", which announced that there would be a Season 2 and showed a sneak peek of the Mario Brothers, King Henry VIII (who was later scrapped), Ludwig van Beethoven (who would not be reused for the season), and Master Chief.
A preview of Adolf Hitler frozen in carbonite was uploaded on November 18th, 2011, and the first battle of Season 2, Hitler vs Vader 2, premiered on December 8th, 2011, from ERB's own dedicated YouTube channel. The season consisted of eighteen battles, released in sets of six. The first six were released a month apart, and it was then announced that the following sets of battles would come out once every two weeks. The season ended with Rasputin vs Stalin on April 22nd, 2013.
ERB later returned with Season 3 on October 7th, 2013, with Hitler vs Vader 3.
•There have been a total of 28 battles with Peter and Lloyd as the main actors and rappers.
•There have been 31 if the times where Lloyd voiced Leonidas and Deadpool while Jesse Wellens and Robert Hoffman physically portrayed them and Peter voiced Nikola Tesla and Boba Fett while he was portrayed by Dante and Ivan "Flipz" Velez are included.
•The series was mentioned by Walt Disney in Jim Henson vs Stan Lee, referencing the Walt Disney Company buying Maker Studios (now Disney Digital), which used to own the ERB franchise.
•The series was also listed in Mark Zuckerberg's org chart in Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg.
This is a wiki about the Epic Rap Battles of History that anyone can edit. Have fun, and as always, edit on! Before you continue, please make sure to follow our rules here. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS WIKI WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS REGARDING UPCOMING EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Below is the list of characters who have appeared in the official Epic Rap Battles of History series. This includes both main characters and cameos. In some battles, the characters transform into different versions of themselves (examples: Gandalf, the Doctor, Goku), and sometimes they simply change outfits throughout (examples: Chuck Norris ...
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