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Epic Rap Battles of History (Season Five)

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Nice Peter has been killing it.
Kind of a weird one though, felt kind of weak overall, which is disappointing because I really like Jefferson. Some good lines in there though.

... Oh god why did I read the comments.
 
I don't know much about those 2, so much of the references are lost on me, but that was some awesome lines coming from Douglass !
 
Good battle. There was no way Jefferson was supposed to win that one and thankfully Douglas didn't hold back. For those who want to know more about what Frederick Douglas was about, here's one of his most famous speeches pertaining to America and her special brand of "freedom" during the slave days:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html
Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory....

...Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?

Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold, that a nation's sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the "lame man leap as an hart."

But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common.ÑThe rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!
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What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
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The entire speech is quote-worthy and has mic drops and truth-bombs galore. I suggest if anyone is not aware of it to take about 10-15 minutes out of your day to give it a read.
 
The response to this video and people making specifics edits that have Jefferson not apologize anymore make it obvious a lot of people are working against those they call themselves the allies of.
 
FyreWulff said:
The response to this video and people making specifics edits that have Jefferson not apologize anymore make it obvious a lot of people are working against those they call themselves the allies of.
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Do you think the people doing that stuff claim to be allies? That's not something I've really seen, but maybe I'm missing something.
 
"People want a hero with a little personality, no one wants to sit through your gritty reality."

I liked Austin Powers' lines more, not to mention he is just a far more interesting character to me.
 
Could have done with a little more Austin, and I think some of the lines were a bit weak, but the three-way at the end (pun fully intended) was top class.
 
Very awesome. Both bonds were great, but connery was the best. They nailed the accent. I was kind of hoping they'd bring In Flint fromOur man flint as the original "Austin Powers' but i guess hes not famous enough.
 
Okay, that Bond battle one was the best one in quite some time for me. It could have used some better lines, but I enjoyed the Connery bits. *slap*
 
Not sure using Austin was a great idea. Reminds me of the Napoleon one which is hilariously dated now. He just doesn't match up to the level of Bond and for the most part Dr Evil ended up being the more iconic part of the movies.
 
Bond vs Powers is such a strange choice given the fact that Powers is already a parody of Bond. It just seems like a superfluous battle. After the incredible Douglass vs Jefferson this one just fell flat for me.
 
1upsuper said:
Bond vs Powers is such a strange choice given the fact that Powers is already a parody of Bond. It just seems like a superfluous battle. After the incredible Douglass vs Jefferson this one just fell flat for me.
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Yeah, I didn't really get the concept of this battle until Connery showed up. It feels like they needed a fourth. I would have gone for Jason Bourne.
 
Hm, not sure how this would be received by the transgender community. I'm aware deadnaming is looked down upon, and this takes it further.
 
That was MUCH better than I expected !

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Hm, not sure how this would be received by the transgender community. I'm aware deadnaming is looked down upon, and this takes it further.
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Loved that they cast a trans rapper for caitlyn ... that will win LOTS of points to compensate for the small problems
Not sure if deadnaming someone with a name so famous like her would be a problem, specialy because after she appears they never call her bruce again.
 
The comments are the expected pool of hate.

...but it has some hilarious stuff like people saying "they liked more when they did not had political commentary on the rap battles"

...like WHEN was that ?
The first season had Hittler, Abraham Licon, Sarah Palin, Kim Jong-il, Benjamin Franklin and other figures that totaly count as political like Genghis Khan !

One of the best battles is a full on commentary on the political history of Russia !
 
Strange matchup. I like it better when the opposing sides are more closely related. Like Banner/Hulk vs Frankenstein/The Monster with a guest appearance of Edward Scissorhands would work out pretty fun.
 
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