2015년 3월 17일 화요일

Epic Rap Battles of History









So this is 'Epic Rap Battles of History,' made by one of the most popular youtube uploader who call themselves Nice Peter and Epic LLOYD.

The video shows 2 historic people doing rap battle, and ends with a comment saying 'Who won? who's next?' to encourage people to leave comments.

It's not always about history. There are videos like Dumbledore vs Gandalf, Mozart vs Skrillex, and Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters.

Since it's a rap battle, the language used in the videos are usually vulgar. But they use facts to make the lyrics, so you could say it's educational.

In these videos you can actually learn some historical facts, and they use the key words related that figure within the lyrics.

For example, on the Nikolas Tesla vs Thomas Edison video 00:28, Edison says [I don't alternate my flow, I diss you directly]. It has 'alternate' and 'direct' which are terms used in electronic engeneering, and is spoken by Edison, who's very famous with his inventions including lightbulbs.


On the second video for example,

Jobs: you will never ever catch a virus on apple

Gates: well you can still afford a doctor if you bought a PC



On that part of the video, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates starts fighting, and they tell you some truths about the facts about the differences between Apple computers and ordinary PCs.

Jobs say that apple computers don't catch virus, which is usually true, and then Gates say 'you can still afford a doctor if you bought a PC,' talking about the fact that apple computers are very expensive, and the fact that Jobs died from his sickness.

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  1. I Love epic rap battles. I wonder about some of the words that students might be interested in.

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  3. I also knew these rap battle videos, and liked it.
    But I didn't know that they used so many techinque in their lyric and there are some metaphors like what you explained . Thank you for these detailed explanation!!

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  4. I think stop having windows vs apple wars. I personally like windows better but I recognize that Steve Jobs was an amazing computer scientist!

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  5. I watched this for the first time. what a fun rap kkkkkkkkk

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