Michael Jordan vs Muhammad Ali

"Hit nothin' but net! You ain't seen nothin' yet!"

- Michael Jordan Michael Jordan vs Muhammad Ali is the 38th installment of Epic Rap Battles of History and the fifth installment in Season 3. It features five-time NBA MVP Michael Jordan against world heavyweight champion and civil rights leader Muhammad Ali. It was released on December 3rd, 2013.

Cast
Jordan Peele as Muhammad Ali

Keegan-Michael Key as Michael Jordan

Lyrics
Michael Jordan:

Why don't you dodge this battle like you did Vietnam?

Cause you've got as much chance of beating me as LeBron

I'm a flying machine, like the world has never seen!

You can fight one man? I can drive through a whole team!

I choke a dope with his own jump rope!

You'll get smoked when I flow, you Kentucky fried joke!

Used to float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

Now you double dribble balls that nobody can see!

Muhammad Ali:

Here comes Jordan, big tongue wobbling,

Flying through the air like a big dumb goblin!

You're the only Bull that's uglier than Rodman!

Messing with me is gambling, you got a problem!

Your whole basketball career turned whack

When you came back a Wizard like Gandalf the Black!

You should have kept your ugly sneakers packed up on a shelf

Stick to golf, you can keep the ball to yourself!

I'm so pretty, my hands are so fast,

I'll whup your face back to your Hitler mustache!

Now your daddy got killed and I feel for your family,

But your baseball career, now that was a tragedy!

Michael Jordan:

Man, you make me sick, but I'm better with the flu!

You should let the Fresh Prince do your rapping for you!

I would pass the mic to Pippen but I'm not done scoring!

Stay all up in your grill like my name was George Foreman!

Muhammad Ali:

I saw you slapping Reggie Miller, boy, what's wrong with you?

You fight like the little girls who make your Nike shoes!

McDonalds and underpants as corporate backers,

You stay at the Ritz 'cause you sold out to crackers!

Michael Jordan:

So Cassius wants to talk about cashing checks!

I'll school you through your bug spray, off your Broadway play, over the Japanese dude sittin' on your face!

Hit nothin' but net! You ain't seen nothin' yet!

Man, you needed a movement because you're so full of shit!

I'm a better athlete and a better MC!

Battle me two more times, watch me get a three-peat!

Muhammad Ali:

Beep beep! Why don't you back up that trash?

I'll leave you like Liston, flat on your ass!

You need to bounce back to North Carolina, kid,

Cause your rapping sucks more than Space Jam did!

Poll
Who won? Michael Jordan Muhammad Ali

Trivia

 * This is the fifth rap battle to feature at least one African-American rapper.
 * This is also the first battle to feature two African-American combatants.
 * This is the second battle to feature famous athletes (the first one is Babe Ruth vs Lance Armstrong).
 * It is the 7th battle in which guest actors have been called back to play other roles (Zach Sherwin, thrice; George Watsky, twice; Dante Cimadamore, six times).
 * This is the second battle for professional comics Key & Peele.
 * It is the fifth battle overall in which both combatants are living.
 * This is the first battle since Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney where both original combatants are still alive (Lincoln having been historic and brought in only as a mediator).
 * This is the sixth time a previous rapper was mentioned in a battle. Ali references Gandalf and Hitler.
 * Although average in length, this is the first battle since Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney whereupon each rapper takes more than two turns, making it the fourth battle in which this occurs.
 * It is the shortest of the four.
 * This is the first battle where Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD didn't appear or voice any character, excluding the Announcer.
 * This is the first battle where EpicLLOYD didn't appear at all, and there are also no physical cameos.
 * Although a picture of Peter as the Cat in the Hat appears in Jordan's background.
 * Ironically considering the aforementioned lack of cameos, this battle's lyrics mention the most people by name of any episode.
 * In.png is the sixth battle where a rapper crosses the "line" in the middle of the battle, which separates both rappers from each other, the others battle being John Lennon vs Bill O'Reilly, Darth Vader vs Adolf Hitler 1, 2, 3 and Gandhi vs Martin Luther King Jr.
 * This happened in both battles featuring Key & Peele.
 * The sky outside of the window on Muhammad Ali's side is the same sky used in the background for Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * Both characters are played by Jordan Peele. This is an inside joke.