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I think this is an extremely important subject, and more attention should be devoted to scientific research on Epic Rap Battles of History. And many more extremely relevant information!! The most verbally mentioned character is Napoleon Bonaparte (three times).Of the 63 verbal mentions made in the series, 49 are callbacks and 14 are foreshadows.

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There are 148 cameos and 63 verbal mentions made throughout the series.With this dataset, many other curious observations can be made: This may sound frustrating, but it should be noted that the biggest group contains 164 nodes - which means that approximately 81% of all characters are connected!! This one information, in and of itself, is already very amusing. 'weakly connected components') if everything were connected, there would be only one. Please understand).Īs you can see, there are 16 different connection groups (a.k.a.

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Feel free to close this window and explore the network! You can click on the edges to view the segments where the references were made (I know they're not perfectly synced. After many hours of watch time and many more hours of data processing and programming, the result is what you see on the background. I also used the Epic Rap Battle Wiki to corroborate some of my annotations. Using the above framework as a guide, I watched all 82 Epic Rap Battles (at least two times each) and pored over them sick lyrics. Winston Churchill': during Churchill's verse ' If Rushmore was a band, then you'd play bass!', three previous characters appear: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. An example would be in ' Theodore Roosevelt vs.

Cameo: a character A appears in the background of a character B's verse, or in some cases, during the whole duration of a battle where B is a protagonist.

Pennywise', through the verse ' You're a sewer troll that Mr. Ex.: The Joker mentions Stephen King during ' The Joker vs.

Verbal mention: a character A verbally mentions a character B during one of its verses.

Battle: two characters are connected through a battle when they've appeared in the same battle at least once.

The nodes in the network are characters, and the edges are references. To answer that question, I created the network you see in the background. Dumbledore'!Īt some point, I inevitably started to wonder: Are they all connected? Can I get from Picasso to everyone else, using a reference at a time? However, the really interesting thing is that in that battle, Ali says to Jordan: ' When you came back a wizard like Gandalf the Black', which is a reference to Gandalf, whom appeared two seasons back in ' Gandalf vs.

Muhammad Ali'), creating a sense of foreshadowing which I find amusing. This may sound trivial, but I find it interesting because Ali appeared as a character in the next battle (' Michael Jordan vs. Pablo Picasso', Picasso says: ' I am the greatest, the modern art Muhammad Ali', which is an explicit reference to the boxer champion Muhammad Ali. In its decade-long existence, the series has featured more than 200 characters throughout 82 episodes, and during that time, it has also aggregated 37 billion views.ĭuring a rap battle, it's common for a character to reference someone.

Famous episodes include ' Adolf Hitler vs. Every episode, two (or more) historical and pop culture personalities face off against each other in rap battle style. Surprisingly, most of them are, and the network looks very cool.Įpic Rap Battles of History (ERB for short) is a YouTube music project created by Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist in September 2010. Tl dr: I made a network to see if all Epic Rap Battles are connected through references.

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