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- Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa. Epic Rap Battles Of History.
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Epic Rap Battles of History: Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa
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"He aint a Bezos his real name is Jorgensen"
hits like
"This guy is a gansta? his real name is Clarence"
that's what he was referencing! he says so in his reaction to his own battle
"And Clarence's parents have a real good marriage." Not so much for Jeff, though.
Mansa real first name or Scru? Scru’s government name is Darren
Fax
i also caught that reference lmao thanks mista!
"You gettin' ate up, you should've battled me on Ramadan" by the inflection in Scru's voice alone you can tell he knows that was fire
this was sooo fire
He absolutely knew that was fire th-cam.com/video/InsQQJWrsuk/w-d-xo.html
Hahah that was the line for me!!! I had to stop and rewind 😂🔥🔥🔥
He knows it’s a Don demarco
Scru sounded like he dose when he repaets a line in his review videos🤣 i love how passionate he is about lyrics. Modern day poet!
Mansa Musa saying "take one small step towards a different 'prophet'", with prophet being a homophone for "profit" completely flew over my head the first time I watched this. Scru is INSANE!
I only got that because the same wordplay was done in Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs.
Don't forget that "One small step" was taken from the excerpt of Neil Armstrong's moon landing clip, playing on Bezos' space exploration with Blue Origin.
Listen..... This whole damn thing was enjoyable af. To think this is my first ERB in yearsssss. I just decided to pull them up to see if they were still going. This vid did absolute justice and was the most ideal welcome back I could've ever imagined.
My jaw is on the floor.
@@liborkundrat185not really, “excuse me while I turn heaven to prophet” doesn’t work as a sentence and jobs wasn’t really a prophet in any sense. Don’t really think they said that with a double meaning
I think we could literally co-opt white people into converting from that little segment - 2:16
My guy Musa was so rich, that on his hajj, he made a “small donation” to Egypt. It was actually so much money, it crashed egypts economy
It devalued gold in the region for a few months to a couple years, if I remember correctly
Musa basically gave out gold or spent a bunch to build mosques, schools, etc to be charitable on his way to Mecca
@@WiseSageBum 12 years It devalued the economy for 12 years
@@becketthayes1855 Wow... I forgot it was that long...
@@becketthayes1855 Jesus christ..
i mean he had good intentions but uh.
EpicLloyd has officially performed as three of the richest people in contemporary history: Bill Gates, Musk and now Bezos
and also the officially recorded richest man in the history of mankind. Mansa Musa.
dont forget lex luthor in that one superman rap from warp zone
and Walter white
@@walterwhite5729 im starting to see a pattern
@@steamthoughts4424 lol who else is rich and bald
Nothing hits the same as seeing a new ERB in the recommended, a true staple of TH-cam greatness!!
based
Truth has been spoken. Take my like.
Love ya BlueJay!
ERB is the only channel of my hundreds of TH-cam subscriptions where I actually pressed the bell icon for immediate notification. The only one.
Nice
2:27 The first letters of this line spell out MILLIRAVI, which is an internal Amazon term for a banking error of $1,000,000 or more, very obscure and cool
@@olivender420all the words first letters are capitalized, it is a type of code used in old military think of it like Affirmative Resistance Except Your Own Use Of Knowledge And Yay (ARE YOU OKAY)
@@dvotion5819 plus erb captions never go above one line so you know something's up lol
Thanks. I was wondering what MILLIRAVI was.
I was wondering why they were capitalized, cuz I found that odd. Makes sense now.
As I understand it, the term was named for a journalist who early on claimed that Amazon would have losses in the millions in their next quarter, but they kept profiting instead.
The guy playing Mansa Musa absolutely killed it. Hopefully he comes back for another battle.
Scru Face Jean, he's so great
SCRU FACCCEEEEE MY BROTHAAA
@@theAlpha1031 still does he just wanted to wait till his was uploaded before he continued cause he knew doing this would get him more subs so people see the new reacts
He’s an actual rapper. He’s music is actually good.
Scru Face Jean sucks.
1. Scru did absolutely incredible
2. Lloyd continues to be a human chameleon in the best way
3. This instrumental is godly
4. The roasts were RUTHLESS.
4. All you folk out there watching are the best! New battle coming next month :)
@@ERB oh hey
@@ERB better drop it on my birthday lol
John Wick VS Ethan Hunt?!
when bezos says “Musa Im Lyrically Lethal I’m Relentless African Verse Immune” all the first letters make the word Milliravi, a word Bezos invented meaning ‘a significant mathematical error of 1 million dollars or more’.
wow, that’s crazy
You KNOW they've been waiting for someone to notice that
I can't tell if that's next level nerd logic or just billionaires making up crap for the masses to horf.
Wha- how the hell did you spot that?
@@MarcoTheGreat127 He's either a genius or he looked at the wiki
Can we talk about how Scru went all the way back to Little Shop of Horrors for that diss on Bezos's girlfriend?
We can. The internet needs more Audrey II love.
This is amazing, Scru sounds so natural rapping for ERB too!
damnb i knew it i saw this face before. im subbed to him for quite a long time
i was looking at the thumb like...waaiiit
i watched all of his erb reactions
@@shadow_b0itrash415 Yeah, can't wait for his reaction to this battle :D
@@dt0rk I wonder who he will think won :-)
One detail I don't see a lot of people mentioning is the repeated laughing during Bezos's verses. One thing a lot of people who worked with him have noted about him is his laugh. They describe it as disruptive, terrifying, sudden, and inhuman. Neat detail to include.
Yea his smiling and laughing the whole time was so off-putting but felt so correct
I’ve seen a few videos and it’s so goddam unnerving. Man’s an irl supervillain fr
Inhuman ? 😳
You want real nightmare fuel, it shoulda been Bezos vs. Zuckerberg.
oh my god i cannot stop hearing it now, at the end of each of his lines during the transitions! how did i never notice that before
I love that every bar uses their actual history. Nothing is random or just filling air.
That's why I love ERB
As all vids should be
that's ERB for you
The accidentally killing mom thing was new tho, I'm gonna have to look into that 🤔
Yup. They’ve grown so much since they first started with John Lennon vs bill O’Riley
Scru's rhythm and delivery is just so silky smooth. Should definitely invite him back more. He's a natural.
But it doesn't suit his character he's playing, like when you see key and peele, when they're rapping in character they changed their accents to suit the characters they're playing, scru is just rapping in his everyday accent
@@adamthomas1222Why did you randomly bring up Key and Peele as a comparison? But anyway it’s fine rapping in your own accent, rather than then putting on an accent you’re not using to and doing it badly.
Not tryna to hear some generic butchered African accent. Lots of other characters on this channel have the actors just use their own accent, it’s fine. Scru killed it🔥
@@ReblazeGaming Scru is from Nigeria though and he's displayed his accent a bunch of times in his vids, so he could have def done it.
@@adamthomas1222 He had some of the best verses in the season, he should at least come back to write.
@@Levon777614Mansa Musa isn't Nigerian.
When i was young i liked to say who won. But now i just enjoy
Im early to a pinned comment thats nice
Respect.
Agreed
I always just enjoyed 😂
I think you should do king aurthur vrs king tut
"I've never heard of you" proceeds to rap about very specific parts of Mansa's history
Heck, he even rapped about his predecessor (Abubakari II) sailing the sea…
I guess Bez is a Puppet History fan, too
Then later says he's "overrated." Which is it, Jeff?
I mean, it wouldn't be a very interesting battle if one person just went "who the fuck even are you" over and over.
to be fair honesty is not something i associate with him.
Not even gonna lie the amount of history that I’ve learned from this channel over the years is crazy been watching since I was like 9.
ERBH taught me more history than my history teacher
I agree today I learned that Mansa Musa gave back, where as Bezos just keeps taking and taking. And tax payers just gave him another 10 billion so he could land his little penis rocket on the moon. Why because apparently he doesn't have enough money.
Mission accomplished!
@@lloydahlquist7159 in the future, I want the current schooling system to be replaced with ERBH videos. No better way to PUNCH data into someone's head than just supplying the interesting bits and then making someone research the rest by themselves
@@jace8706 now that's how I'd want to learn.
"Ayo, Lex Loser
You look like a villain in comic-con,
You getting ate up,
You shouldve battled me in Ramadan"
This isnt a rap battle anymore, its first-degree murder
All his other roasts were first and second degree murder
Nah, It was a Major Third degree Beethoven style
@@BrightPhantomRockstar I see what you are referencing
Gettin' that ass kicked fast like Ramadan, it's that rap phenomenon...
Just noticed, Musa's rap was almost totally clean, no swears at all, and he still slays.
@@cantbefilmingmebrutha8538 Because swearing is a sin in both Christianity and Islam.
I love how Jeff also only swore once 😂
He said piss I don’t know it’s cussing
@@SavEncrypted nah piss ain't a cuss word. I'm a Christian and I don't even consider "shit" a cuss word. My Dad disagrees though.
@@CR7GOATofFootball I disagree with shit it is a cuss word but my children says SHIT ON PURPOSE oh of course the belt is coming their way
"He ain't a Bezos, his real name is Jorgenssen"
"He think he is a gangster? His real name is Clarence"
Classic never gets old)
Shit that one went over my head... Lol nice!
and Clarence lives at home with both parents
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who caught that reference, such a classic diss
@@Root_180 and Clarence's parents have a real good marriage
@@Root_180 and Clarence parents have a real good marriage!
The cross over we needed. Scru has been saying if he was in a battle he would go off. As usual he delivered.
Holy shit, just realized that was Scru!
This rap battle was more than fire. It was epic and legendary. Where is the fire screw face? These flows and disses were blazing and distructive. Someone call the fire department and the police. Someone got burned. I would like to report a rap murder. Why do I smell smoke? Why is it near my cellphone? Wait.!? Why ERB!?! My cellphone keeps smoking from the fire lines you battle with.
@@RaymondHatton-do4dp Mythbusters adjusting their goggles
All jokes aside, Mansa Musa is probably the most interesting historical figure you've never heard of
These two, it's true that each are both one's with the wealth of their times. Mansa will make our budgets look like sand and Bezos like a cheaper mansion costing half his budget.
Nobody had to Google who Jeff Bezos was.
@@robbob5302 I get not everyone's into history but you've never even played Civilization or at least stumbled upon one of those BBC articles or TH-cam videos breaking down Mansa Musa's wealth? He's been known for 700 years now and is still remembered, in the next 100 years he'll be just as relevant while Bezos will be forgotten and replaced by the next cookie cutter CEO.
@@robbob5302 Might have to do with the fact that he's alive right now and wasn't born in the 13th century. It's also no secret that historical figures of non-European descent are not considered as important to learn about as Western figures/history.
@@anyaw340 Touche
I’ve been watching these videos since 6th grade. I’ve literally gone through all of middle and high school, got married and served an enlistment in the Air Force, and these guys are still killing it. I don’t have the words to express how cool that is to me, keep being awesome everyone.
Sounds like you've been busy! ;) Respect. Thank you for the kind words.
Congrats!
@@ERB Feels. Literally been through 2 engagements, one marriage of 6 years and soon a divorce since I started watching you guys. Keep filming! I always come back!
GO ERB!!!
Came from twitter. Glad i did
It's rare to see both characters rapping like they're just having a good time. Usually one's grumpy or cocky, but this is just a feel-good episode.
Easy to feel good when you're literally the richest person in the world at your point in history.
@@wglowrey1 I mean, musk is definitely above but still
@@someoneontheinternet9462 but mansa musa still the richest
@@mynamejeff4642 …..yeah ik
They are billionaires, both have nothing to lose. Well, Musa's quality of life was much lower than Bezos.
Fun Fact: Mansa Musa, on his pilgrimage to Mecca, historically gave away so much gold, he crashed the economies of the communities he passed through and actually devalued the price of gold throughout the Arabian Peninsula. To fix the economy, he bought all that gold back at a higher price. The man was fucking swimming in wealth.
Glad that knowledge is out there and it's being shared
That explains why he's battling Bezos: Two rich people that influenced their world in a major way.
Richest guy in the desert
He was richer then bezos too
and he gave it to those thst have less.
bezos drops into a fit when hes asked to pay half a percent in tax
It took me a year and the many re-watches to realize that "Lord of the Rings" didn't refer to the TV show but the security system, even with that musical queue. God, Amazon owns too much.
I was wondering what that was a reference to, i thought it was a sound effect from an old LOTR game.
But isn't it a double reference to the Ring doorbells and the Amazon Prime Tv series LOTR Rings of Power ? or was that before then
@@snowfox6795 I think the show was at least announced before the video so yes but it's a double entender, in the first layer is the security system because grammatically it doesn't really make sense as a boast otherwise. Like he's making LotR references and ending with a justification for bringing up the franchise in the first place. Otherwise it's just a non sequitur that doesn't go anywhere.
I like how Jeff claims to not have heard of him then proceeds to list off Musa's life story
I thought the same thing. He lost right there lmao.
Nah he just asked Alexa to look him up
@Dante Toshiro64 why are you booing me? I'm right!
@@theholydoge7616 He's probably saying that you're right. He just means that it was a killer burn. That's why the dead skull emoji thing.
Thank you for listening to me redundantly explaining a comment in the most unfun way possible.
@@alexicon2006 you didnt explain my joke.
Or did you not get it either?
I seriously just got hit by a wave of nostalgia seeing a new ERB in my sub box!
You and me both
The crazy part is by the time they conceived and wrote the battle Bezos lost his crown as richest man alive to Elon Musk
Same
Brings me back to high school times
@@debodatta7398 to be fair Musk was already in a battle
I’m not even lying bro ERB prepared me for all of the history that was thrown at me thank y’all so much for the entertaining history
Comments like this make it all worthwhile. Thank you for watching Joe.
It's so fun reading up on the history of the characters
and then when you come back to all the disses it's like "OH"
"bro what was sick"
Ignaty Shadrin was here 😎😎😎
Bru love your reactions man
i literally learned so much from watching 2 figures rap it out, thanks erb. just to clarify, i didn't know anything related to the disses till i checked the wiki, the amount of genius in every diss and word makes my brain explode.
I keep revisiting this one. Scru’s delivery, groove, and presence. Lloyd’s hammed-up Bezos faces and unsettling laughter. Certified classic that’s a blast to watch
Me too
The fact that a guy who reacts to you is in your battle is amazing. That’s really awesome.
And he reacted IN THE BATTLE
... let me break it down cuz there's more to him! His real name is Jorgensen! But his daddy loved unicycles more than him....
He ain't talking to Bezos!
HELP!!! Everybody at my school cyberbullies me because they say me good good GOOD videos are extremely BAD!!! Please help me, dear the
@@AxxLAfriku god you’re insufferable
Jef Bezos reacts to ERB?!
The single line "King of Mali" sounded SOOOO FUCKING GOOD. Like it was perfect.
Seeing as he's a rapper he knows how to really deliver lines love Scru
Scru Face Jean is a KING. Only fitting that he'd play Mansa Musa.
I'm just here to support Scru and see people give him his props in the comments 😩
True you can tell he's a rapper some of the most random lines sounds great because of the delivery I guess part of that is him just having a really good voice
0:24 - For replay.
“You getting ate up, should’ve battles me on Ramadan” - had me 😲
Mansa Musa’s second verse is top 10 all time.
https:th-cam.com/video/KZYQTY5LZJ0/w-d-xo.html
RIGHT?!
I think that line won the battle for Mansa Musa.
@black king shredda i bet this guy doesnt know its the same god
Very nice religious references too.
Call me biased but man, Mansa Musa killed it.
Also the fact that everything about him was more aesthetically pleasing than Bezos and his bald head and cardboard boxes.
"you're overrated, like you leave economies, inflated."
Mansa Musa flaunted so much of his wealth whilst in Egypt on his way to Mecca that he devastated the regional economy.
And then restored it by buying the gold back, with interest, to take it out of circulation.
That's a fkex
@@Connor-ONeill lies
I don’t think that was his intention
It is said that wherever he walked, he crushed economies.
I love how ERB researches and puts actual facts in their rhymes. I have learned so much because of them. They have made me go and do my own research on all of their historical figures.
Same
This is why I like actual historical figures too, instead of people clamoring for "fake fictional movie character vs fake fiction movie character."
ERB of HISTORY, not pop culture. Yes and please.
The crazy part is by the time they conceived and wrote the battle Bezos lost his crown as richest man alive to Elon Musk
So what you're saying is they're the Iron Maiden of youtube rap battle channels?
True. I think a lot of people don’t know the story behind the “Your ship has sailed just like the dude who came before you” line. According to Musa’s own telling of the story. Muhammad ibn Qu appointed him his deputy to rule Mali while he left on an expedition of the Atlantic Ocean. He never returned and Musa became the new Mansa,
“You married one woman Jeff, and she cut you in half”
FUCKING BRUTAL
Why everbody represented islam is the religion of married
I sick of this shit
@@karellmpurwana2084 harem was a common practice in the Muslim world (and many other ancient cultures), they weren't even wives, they're technically slaves. Muhammad had 2 sex slaves too (Mariya and Rayhanah). Although I'm not sure if Mansa Musa actually had harem.
@@truthseeker1934 jews and Christian practices harlem back then
But why islam only got represented
Just because islam have a rule only have a maximal 4 wifes
@@truthseeker1934 I believe he had 4 wives, even if some of them were slaves considering he himself was born a slave and rose to power off of his own merit, I imagine he treated them well
Remember to love and trust yourself first
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The Mansa Muse 2nd verse is actually one of the best things ERB has ever made
That was Scru himself that wrote Musa’s lines
Each one of Musa's rhymes was a banger. Bezos rapped like I imagine the actual Jeff Bezos would rap.
This is gold. They captured the Bezos persona perfectly.
@@gregoriusandrianto6130 ahhhhhh gold i see what u did there
at least I love the bias because screw bezos
I actually thought Bezos won when I listened to the audio release a few days ago, but his choreography was really weak here and maybe that bled into our perception of his raps.
Dude ALLAH MODE was insane
The guy who played Mansa Musa has possibly the greatest flow in any of these. Dude was perfect
His name is Scru Face Jean
scru face jean. and he break down this very own video
Yep he's an actual rapper
Yea, lyrically on another level
Because he's an actual rapper. It's cool that he's there because he said he wanted to way back
As someone who loves history myself I always love how ERB will incorporate actual history into what they do. It’s a educational as well as lyrical lesson.
I learned how to pronounce bourgeoisie from one of their battles.
@@Sol_Invictus1997 I’m telling you. They drop some knowledge.
For real, I love that, they do there research like knowing how jeff real father was bike seller
You might also like Sabaton or their spin off band Civil War. They base their lyrics in military history.
Didnt you find it odd that they had one of history's most prolific slavers lecture bezos on treatment of his workers and bezos didnt push back?
Even almost 2 years later, this is still one of the best ERB's of all time. The lines were straight up godly, with both sides dishing out roast after roast, but the instrumental is what really brings this battle to god-tier. I like how in Bezos's verses, you hear more techno sounds than Musa's instrumentals. Also, I love the occasional church bell sounds. Overall great battle.
"Egghead, with a huge set of huevos" -EpicLloyd
“You gettin’ ate up, you should’ve battled me on Ramadan” was my personal favorite.
Decisive victory
That shit was fire 🔥
Savage bar!
brutal bar it was so good
"Your ship has sailed just like the dude who came before you"
Mohammad ibn Gao sailed west looking for new lands and disappeared. Man that's one helluva subtle zinger for the history buffs!
ERBs are also so well-researched. It's seriously impressive.
@@osco4311 Where more Americans get their history, than probably should. But any education is better than nothing! Provides a nice springboard.
I just realized when that Bezos said "I revolutionized delivery", he meant both Amazon's delivery and his rap delivery.
Genius.
Flywheel flows.
This was the closest comment I could find that mentions the random Star Trek character in the background
@@bryrinpedroncelli9362just noticed, thx
“Your getting eaten up, you shoulda battled me on Ramadan”
Holy Shit Mansa killed him
I dunno the Civ 6 thing was pretty good
@Jason Todd idk man the allah mode and Ramadan lines were insane
@@geert574 true bro erb is just so sick lol
Yeah ikr 😅
@Jason Todd manas' second verse is debatably better than his first, it was fire. On jeffs part, i only like jeff's audible line.
“You married one woman Jeff and she cut you in half.”
Hit hard with that one 😳
The rebuttal about getting it back in a month softened it up, still a great line though.
40 billion so what earning every penny took me 1 month lol😂
the most painful one lol
Ok but the "Musa I'm Lyrically Lethal I'm Relentless African Verse Immune" part was actually super clever.
It's all capitalized because the first letter of each word spells out "milliravi" which was a term Bezos once used as a clap-back to people saying Amazon would go bankrupt back in 2003. He said it meant a miscalculation of a million dollars or more, and also titled Amazon's next quarterly report "Meaningful Innovation Leads, Launches, Inspires Relentless Amazon Visitor Improvements" to make it an acronym. Subtle but genius line!
I knew there had to be something to that line I was missing. Cheers.
Wow 😯
Top tier explanation. Line went from weird to clever after reading that
Hat's off to you sir 🤠
I swear to god, those ar ERB know how to do their research AND implement that in their verses. They truly know how to make a difference.
The first two lines of Musa’s second verse are so catchy
Let's go!!! I love this!! so excited to see scru in one of these, and mansa musa vs jeff bezos is an incredible matchup!
Rustage!!
Rustagio my man im excited with you to see scru on one of these. We need to get you on one of these now.
Yeah man it's good to see Scru on one of these. Thanks for coming out to show some love Captain
Same! I hope he comes back for a second one like Dan Bull did!
They should get you next
I have to say, finally getting to see Scru Face Jean in a battle is just amazing. The guy has been breaking down ERB rap battles for over a year. He has definitely earned being a battler in one.
How did I not notice that!?!
Knox Hill should be in one too!
Epic Rap Battles rap battles?
@@justinl2009 knox vs sfj
@@droid8472 or knoxs and sfj vs Peter and Lloyd
I think Jeff's last verse was the best, but Mansa won with consistently good flow, flips, and wordplay.
agreed, the guy who did Mansa has a better flow than epiclloyd in my (non-expert) opinion
@@magmat0585 Scru Face Jean be fuckin' blushing to hear you say that I'm sure, he's a big fan of Lloyd.
Nice pfp
@@Throngler_ same to you
Did anyone notice that fenomenal instrumentation throughout the entire video? It made this battle especially epic.
Always good to see ERB in our Notifications!
Will always love our renegades!
@@ERB me to ERB
me to
Can't wait to see the reaction
ok
@Joshua EdwinRoehl clicked the link and I'm kinda disappointed it's not a rickroll
Bezos: Hey Alexa, what do we have that he lacks?
Alexa: Skills.
Me: Hey Alexa, what time is it?
Alexa: I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that.
Indeed
Facts
Jeff obviously has the fuckin Jarvis form of Alexa. Legit the only way she heard him first time.
@@Sotryn_Fox he has plainrocks alexa
My father is dead
The most impressive part of this rap battles is that they researched Mansa Musa very well.
Almost, if not all, videos of ERB are researched well. That's what make them so great!
@@ClarenceSampang in theory but they had made terrible representations from batman to cleapatra
@@KngJester I thought SFJ was from the Midwestern US?
@@The_One_In_Black He grew up there but im pretty sure he was born in africa, and this part may be wrong but I believe it was Nigeria
Kinda glanced over the whole slaver empire thing though, kinda a big minus there given how long that lasted until it was stopped, well in the west at least.
I am hard of hearing and my hearing fluctuates. This was the first song I listened to from you guys in a long time, and the beat I could hear in my hearing aids, like specific instruments or parts of the instrumental. and it was so fun to listen to, thank you so much.
Neat reference with the “ship has sailed like the dude who came before you” for those who don’t know, the previous king of Mali believed there was another world across the Atlantic.
He was right of course, but he sailed through some of the most dangerous seas in the world (Most hurricanes form there!) and perished with his entire convoy. Crazy story.
Actually he made it to America. The History channel did an episode about it; and you can read about it in numerous books. The Native Americans even made statues of him and his troop that I seen personally.
That's SO COOL.
@@localcelebrity2972 So that means there's two guys who made it to the Americas before Columbus?
@@rhunter42dragon Probably alot more than two to be honest. So much of it is not documented or just became lost through out the years.
@@localcelebrity2972 At the risk of starting a fight... can we please stop celebrating him then?
"A harem of women is what I had on my staff, you married one woman, Jeff and she cut you in half."
Musa killed it.
And before that, "Lex Loser".
"What's the long term play in giving your money away cuz now I feed your whole country for the price cup of coffee per day"
that's not what a harem is though.
our modern definition is a left over from Orientalism.
aka, what some wrinkly fellas made up after they were denied entry some place.
Musa's first verse was kind of weak, but then Bezos got absolutely rekkt in the second lol
@@qwertyman1511 Harem means wives or women in Arabic
Scru Face really did Mansa Musa justice with his verses, dude flows better than water.
You would've gotten way more likes if you didn't change your pfp, it was kinda iconic
Why’d you change your pfp it was iconic
@@samuelsteiner3854 what was his pfp before?
@@Ricky_019 jellal from the anime Fairy Tail I believe.
He can only flow when someone else writes his lyrics, his own stuff is trash because the only time he rhymes is when he says the same verse 4 times in a row.
"Wallah, by the holy Quran
I lay my hand upon
I blaze Bezos
Inflict inflamatory damage on"
god, his first verse goes absolutely insane. probably one of the best rappers in erb history imo
“You getting ate up , you should’ve battled me at Ramadan “ is a top tier line
Legendary line
To be honest, I didn’t know who Scru was. But I could tell he raps. His delivery and cadence with that confidence and skill is undeniable. 👏👏
Scru's pretty damn talented. I found him on TH-cam last year with a few other talented rappers. If you like him check out Knox Hill and Samad Savage.
Is it bad if ya find him because of VTuber ??
@@AlVonVo no because in the end, u still found out who scru was
I fucking love Scru, im so glad but shocked that they got him to be in this!
You really need to check him out he has some amazing songs
The guy who played Mansa Musa was incredible. So many layers to his flows. Supernatural musicality. He owned this.
His name is scru. He does ERB reactions and does street rap. He finally made it on their channel.
Yea but got destroyed by a country rapper lol
@@skywoods3684 😭 how are you still butthurt about that L he gave upchurch
Scru Face Jean, yo. He's an underground rapper and does a ton of rap reactions around here. Total bro. Check him out.
He makes the best reactions! And he makes great music too, as you can hear by this battle
This hit different when you put two weeks in at Amazon
“Your ship has sailed just like the guy before you” is an amazing line. The whole reason Mansa Musa became the emperor of Mali was because his predecessor went off exploring the Atlantic and never returned.
Jeff says he never heard his story yet he knows everything about him.
So his predecessor went to go get milk?
@@ET_FRB no.. he left to get cigarettes 👀
@@ET_FRB dude sailed the Atlantic just to get the best damn milk to ever exist
Or musa overthrew him, we don't really know. Only source we have abt his predecessor is some guy who said he talked to musa about it on his trip to Mecca. Bro said he had a fleet of like 400 ships which would be absolutely insane back then, even today it'd be a feat of logistics
I find it fascinating how Lloyd can simultaneously look like every known person on the planet, fantastic work I love you guys!
Wait, Lloyd isnt everyone?
I believe Matt Lucas said that being bald is like being a blank canvas that can be painted any colour.
Mind you, bald and white. Matt also did a lot of blackface back when we thought racism was basically over in the UK and that making obvious exaggerated racial stereotypes was basically a comic self-own.
He managed to play 3 Richest Men in the world so far. Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Bezos.
@@Kryojenix he almost got painted blue in doctor who!
Yes, he is definitely not Mr. 47. Lloyd I love you guys too!
“Alexa, what do we have that he lacks?”
“Skills.”
That’s easily one of my favorite finishers, very well done.
TIL fixing typos removes hearts
Killer indeed!
it had me screaming
That's still nothing compared to "Miss Carriage" in Cleopatra vs Monroe
@@texanplayer7651 even men felt that miss carriage line.
There aren't many woman vs woman ERBs, but when they happen, you just *know* it's going to be ruthless as fuck. When women fight, broooo, it's claws out lol
2:08 can’t believe mansa dropped “his name is Clarence”
I love how perfectly Mansa Musa was portrayed
Oh? Did you know the guy personally?
1/3 of his empire was enslaved. They’re not so different after all...
I'm a bit disappointed he didn't go for an accent
Oh you were there back then?
What a dumb thing to say hahahahah.
Ah yes, my favorite Epic Rap Battle of History, “Bezos vs Musa Final Full Rez”
Mine too
a very good battle.
Kung Fu Panda Vs. Maui
WITNESSED!
Early gang
Every time a new battle drops:
1) I listen to it over and over until it grows on me
2) Im always impressed by how the background instrumental is modified to match the environment and characters
3) The lyrics are KILLER
Anyone else think this one is criminally underrated? Like all the verses are dense asf.
ERB is the definition of "quality over quantity"
back then they had both
Okay.
Mr. Beast is pretty good at that
@@davidc. MRBEASSSTTTTT
2:58 "Your ship has sailed just like the dude before you" is actually pretty smart because before Mansa Musa ruled, there was another leader who went on a sailing expedition (and wasn't found); which actually led to Mansa Musa becoming an accidentally permanent fill-in.
That dude was his brother.
@@djantouahmed7319 yes lol
Mansa Abubakr was his uncle and probably ended up stranded in America
@@Beesah1000 If gettng stuck their counts
@@catsultan949 ofc it does…
I know I'm not the only one in saying that Scru Face Jean NEEDS to be back in another battle. He KILLED it as Mansa Musa!
IKR
I want him playing Candyman is a battle verses Willy Wonka
Hell yeah.
The same could be said for Jenna Marbles when she was Eve.
@@MsBrooklyn62 didn't she quit youtube like years ago? Doubt she'd return.
This is one of the best erb to be honest, deserves more than 8.8M views
not really
@@ShoeLobster45how not?
The “Musa I’m Lyrically Lethal I’m Relentless African Verse Immune” bar spells out MILLIRAVI (using the capital letters of each word), which is an acronym coined by Jeff Bezos meaning “Meaningful Innovation Leads, Launches, Inspires Relentless Amazon Visitor Improvements.” Amazing writing!
damn i never caught that
good catch!
Holy shit!
JoEbY-X
1 month ago
2:27 "Musa I'm Lyrically Lethal I'm Relentless African Verse Immune" forms the acronym "milliravi," a word Amazon execs used to roast an analyst named Ravi who predicted their doom early on, and they later snuck "Meaningful Innovation Leads, Launches, Inspires Relentless Amazon Visitor Improvement" in one of their earnings press releases to call him out.
@JoEbY-X Boy u honestly thought that your “1 month ago” BS was gonna work. Bruh
Jeff: I've never heard your story.
Also Jeff: (Proceeds to mention the things Mansa did)
He googled it.
Secret fanboy lol
@@Niphraz beat me to it
Deadpool did the same thing to Boba Fett in their rap battle.
He asked alexa
This has the hardest flow out of any battle ERB has ever done. Scru and Lloyd killed it.
for real this is sick, some good rappers and flows :)
Its good. But that award either goes too deadpool vs boba or freddy vs wolverine
My fav TH-cam video right now no lie th-cam.com/video/cc05a_tdrsU/w-d-xo.html 👋
@@raequanmosley2688 Fett definitely tore it up
You do realize Mansa Musa died in 1337 hundreds of years before America
The beat on this is fucking crazy
I can’t wait until Scru reacts to the epic rap battle of history that has Scru in an epic rap battle of history!
Ratio then
I was thinking the same lol
He gon Don DeMarco all his lines, and rightfully so
Oh yeah.
Surprised to see you here
I love how you guys made Jeff Bezos and Mansa Musa unashamed of who they are. Bezos doesn't shy away from flaunting his money and success, where as Mansa Musa doesn't hide away from showing reverence to his faith as well as his accomplishments with money. It creates a real contrast - they're both unimaginably rich, but one sees wealth as a gift from God and uses it as he believes God would like him to; the other sees wealth as his sole achievement and thinks he has the the right to do what he wants with it. It's, in essence, a battle of the objectively humble vs. the objectively arrogant.
Well said !!!
@Abhi Prakash lol
musa should have flexed his story more lol
YES!! Exactly!!!! so well said!!
Now that you said it, i just like this rap battle even more
This is so reference-heavy I actually got stressed watching it trying to pick apart the bars without stopping the video.
Amazing job, Scru and the ERB team!!
That's why you watch it again and again.
2:50 is honestly a big part of why jeff lost. top tier of the forbes list is significantly less impressive than being in civ VI at all.
The connection, in case people are wondering, Mansa Musa is often credited to be the richest man to ever live.
The richest man who ever lived is Prophet Solomon or Qarun and Qarun is not the Qur’an so as not to be merged ✅
@@mohamedexedell7973 Is there even proof they existed
@@tylerbland7498 Are you christian
@@tylerbland7498 There is evidence far from religious books, the Qur’an, the Bible, and the Torah of the existence of the Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, which are Egyptian manuscripts such as the Ebor papyrus, which is a papyrus that talks about storms and very strange phenomena, the turning of the sea into blood, the spread of locusts, the exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt, the death of the Pharaoh in a strange way, and the sea appeared in a strange way, which is the same miracles Prophet Moses the Nine, and this papyrus dates back to 1400 BC and the Prophet Muhammad also. Appearance and he was calling the children of Israel to follow him and suddenly, without any warning, this person disappears, a Christian will come now and tell me that he has risen and I will tell him, God raised him in his honor
@@mohamedexedell7973 If you call a book someone wrote hard proof, then you’re lying to yourself. I’m not taking some dudes word as fact and living by it. Sorry bud, but if you want to take things at face value with no real evidence, be my guest. Type all you want about magic skydaddy, but that doesn’t make it true. Believe it all you want, because in my books seeing is believing.
these verses are more fiery than a desert sun 🙏😭🚀
Y'all the 🐐s
absolute bars
ok
Schmoyoho??? Acent on the OOOOOOO???
Hotter than Arakis
2:24 the battle ended here let’s be real
2:12 is slightly better. Blue origin 😂
Wow, can’t believe after years of reviewing ERBs Scru actually became apart of one. This is crazy!
Still hoping for a Knox Hill feature one day. Getting these reviewers to participate in a battle is a genius move.
Yeah, I remember him commenting on why he wasn't making new ERB reactions because he was in a project with them. Now here it is.
ERB is a piece of internet history now. I watched the whole series a couple months ago and dang, so many pop culture references from back then that no one would get now. I hope they never truly stop
Oh like the fly on Biden? Or which video are you referring to exactly?
@@Deverik1981 he might be talking about the old battles with for example Miley Cyrus. The wrecking ball video was much more relevant back then. Also Skrillex.
They need to post more though imo I’d rather have more lower budget videos than one cool video a year ya know...
now you've got me thinking of what examples fit that description. Chuck Norris as an entity doesn't seem like he would make much sense in a battle nowadays.
@@ERB Chuck Norris is an institution. He built the house he was born in.
Best disses: Mansa Musa
Best flow: Also Mansa Musa
Last Laugh: Alexa
Verdict: Bezos still has more money than everyone in this comment section combined :/
Yep, and Mansa Musa still has twice as much as him in net worth, and he's dead :P
x100000
What you know, maybe our favourite Afro-American already left a comment
@@arkovi3643 I mean he did rule a country (that is now extremely poor) so it is possible that a lot of that wealth is the Mali Empire's wealth but not his personal wealth.
From the wikipedia page regarding Musa's wealth: "Though some sources have estimated his wealth as equivalent to US$400 billion, his actual wealth is impossible to accurately calculate. Contemporary Arabic sources may have been trying to express that Musa had more gold than they thought possible, rather than trying to give an exact number. Furthermore, it is difficult to meaningfully compare the wealth of historical figures such as Mansa Musa, due to the difficulty of separating the personal wealth of a monarch from the wealth of the state and the difficulty of comparing wealth in highly different societies."
@@0816M3RC what we do know, is that Mansa Sahib was way more generous with his wealth during his Hajj than Bezos will probably ever be
I feel like something that always get underappreciated is the editing. You don't realize all the subtle details they put in. Like at 0:36 where they zoomed out but kept him dancing in the backround. They spend so much time on the verses and the video it's just perfect
"You getting eaten up , should've battled on Ramadan"
Damn he killed it
th-cam.com/video/BXE-3YiPX2E/w-d-xo.html
Best bar, by far
Another banger by ERB, although I didn't know who Musa was, this was a cool historical nugget!
Don DeMarco Bang Bang!
There's a puppet history about him, huge recommendation
Musa was one of the wealthiest man in history
@@samirangel Not just one of, by pretty much anyones account THE wealthiest. Dude went on his pilgrimage with 21 tons of gold, a market price today of US$ 1.22 billion... that was his travelling money.
Dude gave so much away he crashed the gold economy in Egypt for 10 years
@@MrTheAngryLlama HAHAH
They both did great, but I truly love how good the ERB guys are at acting and capturing people's facial expression, body language etc. Lloyd's commitment to Jeff's facial expressions and eye movement is commendable and talented.
Ok whatever
Truly, they really do some great research and they really find people that is the closest looking to the one referred in the rap battle.
This is easily the best erb in all of history, both the flow and the roasts from both sides where amazing and Mansa Musa has the best rap and lines in all of erb
Man, not enough folks are talking about that sponsor plug skit. Hype for John Wick, and the banter between Lloyd’s Teddy and Pete’s Babbage was goddamn delightful. I always appreciate it when a channel can make a sponsorship plug fun
Wick vs Rambo, it’s gonna be fire
@@dannylmaoooo can't wait for that shit 😤🔥🔥🔥
This is why i love ERB. Because while they may do long breaks, it is always for the sake of amazing quality and this battle is the perfect example. Not a single poor verse, the whole battle was GOLD.
Was that pun intended?
@@deathscythe4553 You got it, bro :)
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@Minerales en rebaja Bro, you're confusing quality with personal taste. I personally find Roosevelt vs Churchill or the philosophers battle much more appealing than this one, yet the quality displayed here is completely undeniable.