| Napoleon vs Charlemagne | |
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| Battle information | |
| Release date | February 12, 2025 |
| Number | 90 |
| Views | 2.9M |
| Length | 3:17 |
| Timeline | |
| Previous | Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris |
| Next | Epic Rap Battles of History 91 |
| Beat Information | |
| Beat(s) | Custom produced |
| BPM | 96 |
| Beat producer(s) | Nice Peter EpicLLOYD |
| Other information | |
| Actors | EpicLLOYD Nice Peter |
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| Location(s) | Palace of Aachen Fire of Moscow |
Napoleon vs Charlemagne is the ninetieth episode of Epic Rap Battles of History, and the eighth episode of Season 7. It features the French general and statesman, Napoleon Bonaparte, rapping against the King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans, Charlemagne. It was released on February 12th, 2025.
Cast
Rappers
Nice Peter as Napoleon Bonaparte
Others
Nice Peter as Himiko, Augustus, Pachacuti, Viracocha Inca and Napoleon Bonaparte
EpicLLOYD as Niccolo Machiavelli, Isabella I of Castile, Frederick the Great, Ben Franklin
Lyrics
Charlemagne:
Who's the Europe-conquering king par excellence,
Who fathered his own renaissance and gave birth to fonts?
It is I, Charles the Great, son of Pepin the Short torturin'
This overblown war-horny bicorne-sporting Corsican!
The Pope's eyes? Saved 'em! Holy Roman Empire? Established it!
It lasted a thousand years until you pranced up and savaged it!
Egypt, Haiti, Spain! Your campaigns are too elaborate!
Your bubble of an empire popped like an ABBA hit! (Ha!)
I strike the fear of God in every land I take!
Leavin' pagans quakin', makin' em do the Charlem-shake!
The bloody verdict of this battle has already been decided!
Like the love between you and Joséphine, it's one-sided!
Napoleon:
Oh, Charlemagne, you cringe Carolingian charlatan,
I'm the genuine article military artisan!
You're a clanky old suit of armor!
I'll bombard the janky monarch of the Franks and the Lombards!
Your joyous sword tore hordes asunder,
But war's a bit more hardcore now that the years have four numbers!
That is canister shot and you'll receive those balls
When I blast you with my 12-pounder Gribeauvals!
Le Petit Corporal here to get my groove on!
Even if I lose I come back and get my coup on!
I'll subdue you brutally like a royalist in Toulon!
I'm the smoothest French thing in grey since Poupon!
Charlemagne:
Oh, that flow! You can't quite rock it!
That must be why you keep your hand like that: no pocket!
You are nothing but a whiney little egotistic swine
Who got sunk by a Brit with a bullet in his spine!
And your Russian debacle was even worse!
You got beat by lice! You should've enlisted an elementary school nurse!
People still place my name next to God: Charlemagne!
Now pretend I'm Moscow and retreat from these flames!
Napoleon:
I kept a vial of poison around my neck in case of capture
And I almost just drank it, you are that bad of a rapper!
I'll outflank you with ease, your losses will be costly!
Like the Alps in winter with your pregnant wife, you shouldn't cross me!
(Eugh!) When I conquer I don't need a pope's help!
I'll grip a diamond-dripped hilt and put your crown on myself!
The only throne you belong on is the latrine!
You might be King of the Franks but you can suck beans!
Scrapped lyrics
Charlemagne:
Your marriage to Josephine was seedy like a ripe fig
And your forces got treated like a floor-wipe in Leipzig.
Civilization VII Sponsorship Rap
[Note: Himiko is in orange, Niccolo Machiavelli is in red, Augustus is in tan, Isabella I is in blue, Frederick the Great is in dark blue, Pachacuti is in brown, Viracocha Inca is in yellow, Ben Franklin is in light brown, and Napoleon is in dark red. All rapping together is in regular text.]
(Civilization VII! Sid Meier’s Civilization VII!)
Build an empire that stands the test of time!
With gorgeous detail and lavish design!
Evolve your empire as each new age dawns
With the revolutionary new Civilization!
(Civilization VII! Sid Meier’s Civilization VII!)
It’s strategy! It’s diplomacy and war!
Explore a world brought to life like never before!
Pachacuti, I’m a gold wearing cutie! (Bleh!)
Lead the Inca’s and get all that booty! (Booty!)
Play as visionary leaders of progress.
Rise to the duty with me, Pachacuti!
Or big Ben Franklin and if you’ve got scores to settle
Go to multiplayer and test your mettle!
You can play cross-platform as me!
Xbox, PlayStation, Mac, Switch and PC!
Call-to-action:
The Collector’s Edition has physical collectibles. Players who play with a linked 2K account will receive Napoleon Bonaparte’s Emperor persona as an exclusive reward.
Sell me Missouri!
Oh, misery I have in spades!
Trivia
General
- This battle was sponsored by the strategy game, Sid Meier's Civilization VII, which features both rappers as playable leaders in the game.
- The Civilization franchise was previously referenced in Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa.
- This is the second battle to feature two historical figures as rappers due to their presence in a video game that sponsored the video, after Ragnar Lodbrok vs Richard The Lionheart.
- This is the sixth battle to not include any profanities, after Albert Einstein vs Stephen Hawking, Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison, Wonder Woman vs Stevie Wonder, Jacques Cousteau vs Steve Irwin, and Mother Teresa vs Sigmund Freud.
- This is the seventh battle to feature a title rapper returning as a title rapper.
- This is the first that is neither a sequel nor an election battle.
- This is the second battle of Season 7 to not share its release date with a previous battle, after Godzilla vs King Kong.
- Near the end of the "Who won?" sequence, a render of a lighthouse on a flowery hill that resembles the painting Houses at Auvers flashes on screen, possibly teasing Vincent van Gogh.
Production
- As a result of 2K Games (the publisher of Civilization) requesting that this matchup be kept a surprise, this battle was produced entirely without the Patreon's knowledge or input.
- This makes it the first battle to feature no Patron involvement since Guy Fawkes vs Che Guevara.
- In the behind the scenes for this battle, Nice Peter says that when presented with a list of potential rappers based on leaders in the game, ERB initially started working on Charlemagne vs Pachacuti, but thought that this pairing of characters would be too obscure for audiences.
- According to Peter, Napoleon was brought back because there was so much about Napoleon to discuss in a battle that was not mentioned in his first battle. EpicLLOYD was against bringing Napoleon back until Peter volunteered to portray him instead.
- The "Sponsored by 2K" song when promoting the game has a beat called Heuss l'enfoire Aristocrate Remix by Djette Lady Souka.
Errors
- During the line "Your bubble of an empire popped like an ABBA hit!", the band name "ABBA" is written as "Abba".
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