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Battle rap. Battle rap (also known as rap battling) [ 1] is a type of rapping performed between two or more performers that incorporates boasts, insults, wordplay and disses originating in the African-American community. [ 1][ 2] Battle rap is often performed, or freestyled, spontaneously in live battles known as Rap battles, where participants ...
Rap is a primary ingredient of hip hop music, and so commonly associated with the genre that it is sometimes called "rap music". Precursors to modern rap music include the West African griot tradition, [7] certain vocal styles of blues [8] and jazz, [9] an African-American insult game called playing the dozens (see Battle rap and Diss), [10 ...
September 26, 2010. ( 2010-09-26) –. present. Epic Rap Battles of History ( ERB) is a YouTube web series and music project created by Peter "Nice Peter" Shukoff and Lloyd "EpicLLOYD" Ahlquist. The series pits historical and pop culture figures against one another in a rap battle format. The characters portrayed are often determined by ...
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, [7] [8] is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community. Hip-hop music originated as an anti-drug and anti-violence genre [ 9 ] consisting of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around drum beats ) that often accompanies ...
Epic Rap Battles of History is a YouTube series created by Peter "Nice Peter" Shukoff and Lloyd "EpicLLOYD" Ahlquist. The first episode of the series "John Lennon vs. Bill O'Reilly" was released on September 26, 2010. All Season 1 episodes were uploaded to Shukoff's personal YouTube channel, Nice Peter.
Diss (music) A diss track, diss record or diss song (diss – abbr. from disrespect or disparage) is a song whose primary purpose is to verbally attack someone else, usually another artist. Diss tracks are often the result of an existing, escalating feud between the two people; for example, the artists involved may be former members of a group ...
Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is commonly considered a subgenre of reggae, though it has developed to extend beyond that style. [ 1] Generally, dub consists of remixes of existing recordings [ 2] created by significantly manipulating the original, usually through the removal of ...
Oxxxymiron is the 7th most viewed battle rapper in the world. Amount of views of his rap battles exceed 120 million on YouTube. [16] Oxxxymiron participated in the Russian battle rap league Versus Battle five times and won the first four of them. [citation needed] 2013 – Oxxxymiron vs. Krip-a-Krip (3:0) [citation needed]