Talk:Zeus vs Thor/@comment-82.169.204.169-20141206125916/@comment-8639262-20141212020552

we're in the fourth season, so I hope you notice by now that there's a pattern: none of the characters battling are rappers*. that's important, it's part of the theme, it's part of the humour behind the original ERB concept. you have historical or fictional characters WHO AREN'T RAPPERS engaging in a rap battle. justaposition. pitting an actual rapper against anyone would be redundant and predictable (half the jokes could be lifted directly from the rapper's own songs, fans of that rapper would probably see most of the jokes coming).


 * - don't say Justin fucking Beiber, he's not a rapper, he's a pop singer who sometimes raps.


 * - don't say Lady Gaga. again, she has sort of rapped in some songs, but her role is "singer"


 * - okay, Kanye is a special case; Trump vs Scrooge was an ensemble piece, where everybody but Scrooge only had one chance to speak, and Yeezy was 20% of the cast. also, his role in the battle wasn't as the rapper Kanye West, but as the "Ghost of What's Right Now", a modern rich guy. on the other hand, any time someone suggests a rapper for a battle, it's pretty much a given that they mean they want that rapper to be one-half of your basic two-sided battle. that's not a comedy video from Epic Rap Battles of History, that's a fucking rap battle. there are loads of rap battles on YouTube, look for them, and please let the ERB guys continue to do the comedy videos their way.