Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 57/@comment-68.98.17.221-20150722235401/@comment-4920659-20150723015906

Astronomers vs Astronauts seems like a rehash of East vs West. It's basically an idea that was already popular, but it adds two more rappers in to make a bigger battle that there seems to be not enough material for. However, I think Galileo vs Armstrong is still better than it, because the ERB crew has shown they can work hard enough to provide enough lines for a single battle, and they wouldn't need to include more rappers just like they did for the philosophers.

About Archimedes being in the astronomer section, he would be much better off in a mathematician battle, since that's what he's much known for. Googling "famous astronomers" for me brings up Galileo, Copernicus and Ptolemy. I don't even see Archimedes in the list, despite his astronomy career.

As for Apollo 11, I don't think it's all that necessary to have the whole team over Neil Armstrong. Collins may be a part of it, but he is not known to people for anything he's done besides piloting the spacecraft, and nothing much that he can be dissed or referenced towards. Buzz Aldrin is usually considered a backup for Neil, but it's better if the battle was just Galileo vs Armstrong.

And as for the "rappers are singers" argument, there is a very big difference between singing lyrics and rapping lyrics. I've never seen Eminem being called a singer before, and he's listed as a rapper by Google. There may be some rappers with singing careers, but rapping is a gray area between singing and talking. They can be listed as musicians, and most of them songwriters, and but they're not exactly singers.