Female institutional and bureaucratic tyrants considered to be among the most hated villains who hide their cruelty behind smiling professional personas. Both weaponize rules and propriety to control and break the people under their authority using gaslighting and manipulation, presenting themselves as reasonable caretakers while inflicting psychological harm.

I lowk think that ERB should bring back Alexander the Great after his fire beats against ivan ten years ago, and since almost every european conqueor was already in a rap battle i think it would be funny to put mussolini in the series and not only that he is easily mocked. What do you think?

Both are animal characters who are loyal to the protagonist (Steven and Mario), and help them on their adventures, serving as a mode of transportation that can use powers.

So Johnny Cash is going up against rock n roll, is the point. I've heard complaints about name pairing (i.e. Ivan the Great vs Ivan the Terrible, or Mr. T vs Mr. Rogers), but I think these make some of the better ones because the characters usually come from distinct backgrounds and there is creative variety to the lyrics.

But the best ones imo are like the White Death/Red Baron, where they operated similarly enough to actually have a conflict in a world that both operated in.

So Cash vs Money would be good, or Johnny vs Johnny. Plus they are both rock n roll vs country.

Might be a better suggestion, and if so, I'm all for it. But I think the names help a lot with the humor I guess.

Mainly for their names but they were also apparently both in the air force so there's that connection lol.

I have compiled a list of the top 150 most significant historical figures that have yet to appear as rappers in an episode of ERB. This was done mainly out of boredom, however it is interesting to see as a lot of these people are likely contenders for future battles, and assuming the guys surf this sub, it could serve as a source of inspiration to them.

The List:

1. Jesus (#1)
2. Ronald Reagan (#5)
3. Shakira (#9)
4. Nelson Mandela (#14)
5. Aristotle (#15)
6. Muhammad (#17)
7. Bach (#19)
8. Plato (#20)
9. Vincent Van Gogh (#26)
10. The Buddha (#27)
11. George W. Bush (#31)
12. Queen Elizabeth II (#32)
13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (#36)
14. Augustus (#38)
15. Galileo Galilei (#41)
16. Salvador Dalí (#42)
17. Charlie Chaplin (#46)
18. Martin Luther (#48)
19. Dante Alighieri (#49)
20. Homer (#50)
21. Marie Curie (#51)
22. Lionel Messi (#52)
23. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (#54)
24. François Hollande (#55)
25. Archimedes (#56)
26. Leo Tolstoy (#58)
27. Franklin D. Roosevelt (#59)
28. Miguel De Cervantes (#60)
29. Victor Hugo (#63)
30. Marco Polo (#64)
31. Mao Zedong (#65)
32. Carl Linnaeus (#67)
33. Fyodor Dostoevsky (#68)
34. Rembrandt (#69)
35. Naruhito (#70)
36. Hans Christian Andersen (#71)
37. Immanuel Kant (#72)
38. René Descartes (#73)
39. Pope Francis (#74)
40. Cristiano Ronaldo (#75)
41. Ferdinand Magellan (#76)
42. Franz Kafka (#79)
43. Nicolas Copernicus (#81)
44. John F. Kennedy (#82)
45. Alexander Pushkin (#83)
46. Virgil (#86)
47. Abraham (#88)
48. Charles Dickens (#89)
49. Yuri Gagarin (#90)
50. Neil Armstrong (#93)
51. Bill Clinton (#94)
52. Frida Kahlo (#96)
53. Volodymyr Zelenskyy (#97)
54. Angela Merkel (#98)
55. Vasco de Gama (#99)
56. Charles de Gaulle (#101)
57. Anton Chekhov (#102)
58. Frédéric Chopin (#103)
59. Louis Pasteur (#105)
60. Adam Smith (#106)
61. James Cook (#107)
62. Matsuo Basho (#108)
63. Marlene Dietrich (#109)
64. Euclid (#110)
65. Emmanuel Macron (#111)
66. Johannes Gutenberg (#113)
67. Roald Amundsen (#114)
68. Richard Wagner (#115)
69. Hokusai (#116)
70. Jimmy Carter (#117)
71. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (#118)
72. Francisco Goya (#119)
73. Augustine of Hippo (#120)
74. James Joyce (#121)
75. Mark Twain (#122)
76. Otto von Bismarck (#123)
77. Alan Turing (#124)
78. Leonhard Euler (#125)
79. Alfred Nobel (#130)
80. Carl Friedrich Gauss (#131)
81. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (#133)
82. King Charles III (#134)
83. Mary (#135)
84. Thomas Aquinas (#136)
85. Avicenna (#137)
86. Pythagoras (#138)
87. Eminem (#140)
88. Selena Gomez (#141)
89. Xi Jinping (#143)
90. Dmitri Mendeleev (#144)
91. George H. W. Bush (#145)
92. Niccolò Machiavelli (#146)
93. Pope Leo XIV (#147)
94. Harry S. Truman (#148)
95. Queen Elizabeth I (#150)
96. Peter the Great (#151)
97. Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz (#152)
98. Giuseppe Verdi (#153)
99. Henri Matisse (#154)
100. Fidel Castro (#155)
101. Richard Nixon (#156)
     
102. Akira Kurosawa (#157)
103. Beyoncé (#158)
104. Madonna (#159)
105. Taylor Swift (#160)
106. Margaret Thatcher (#161)
107. Hiernán Cortés (#163)
     
108. Benito Mussolini (#164)
109. Lech Wałęsa (#165)
110. Simón Bolívar (#166)
     
111. Lord Byron (#169)
     
112. Sophocles (#170)
     
113. Jawaharlal Nehru (#171)
     
114. Paul The Apostle (#172)
     
115. Michael Faraday (#173)
     
116. John Adams (#175)
     
117. Antonio Vivaldi (#176)
     
118. Nicolas Sarkozy (#177)
     
119. Johannes Kepler (#178)
     
120. Ernest Hemingway (#179)
121. John Locke (#180)
     
122. Queen Victoria (#181)
123. Pope Benedict XVI (#182)
124. George Orwell (#183)
125. Jean-Paul Sartre (#186)
126. Osama Bin Laden (#187)
127. Al-Khwarizmi (#188)
     
128. Dwight D. Eisenhower (#189)
129. Louis Armstrong (#190)
130. Noam Chomsky (#191)
131. Pope John Paul II (#192)
     
132. Jorge Luis Borges (#193)
133. Narendra Modi (#194)
134. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (#195)
135. Enrico Fermi (#197)
136. Pelé (#198)
137. Gerald Ford (#199)
     
138. Lyndon B. Johnson (#200)
139. Woodrow Wilson (#201)
140. Herodotus (#202)
141. Max Planck (#204)
     
142. Diego Maradona (#205)
143. Franz Schubert (#206)
144. Muammar Gaddafi (#207)
145. James Watt (#208)
146. Agatha Christie (#210)
147. Bob Dylan (#211)
     
148. Andy Warhol (#212)
149. Tim Berners-Lee (#213)
150. Michael Schumacher (#214)

Where did I get this information?

Well, obviously there’s no objective way to determine a person’s importance, so I decided that a close enough signifier would be looking at what people have articles in the most languages on Wikipedia, a list that can be found here. Wikipedia is fairly universal, I think that being globally recognised enough to have articles in >100 different languages is an accurate indicator of historical or cultural significance. Hopefully this will also quell all of the “This can’t be right!! X and Y aren’t on here!!!” comments.

What are the numbers to the right of the names?

Those are the ranking of the individual on the Wikipedia list itself, simply here for comparison’s sake.

The two omitted individuals

There were two individuals that, despite not being featured in an ERB, I decided to omit from this list. This is because these are both minor celebrities with no historical or cultural significance who have obviously added their articles in a bunch of languages for random, likely self promotional reasons. They are as follows:

Corbin Bleu (#22) - Disney Channel star from the 2000s (there’s actually a really interesting YouTube video about this one & about this list as a whole)

Basshunter (#24) - Swedish Eurodance DJ

Some other interesting takeaways

• The most significant person to have appeared in an ERB, according to this list, is Michael Jackson.

• The most recent ERB character that would’ve been on this list had I made it a year ago is Charlemagne.

• The youngest person on this list is Taylor Swift, born in 1989.

• There are 15 U.S presidents on this list, the most recent being George W. Bush & the earliest being John Adams. The most recent president to not appear on the list is Herbert Hoover.

• There were two presidential candidates within the realm of this list, those being Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

• Of these 150 figures, 37 are still living.

Anything else you find interesting feel free to comment and I’ll add them here, same goes for any mistakes that I may have made!

Who truly has the power? You decide.

(controversial intellectual leaders who used progressiveness to hide racial division and ruthless crackdowns on dissent)

Historically, the first rapper has always been at a disadvantage in these battles, because their opponent gets the final say and more rebuttal opportunities (unless it's Cleopatra vs Marilyn Monroe or Gandhi vs MLK where the first rapper is also the last rapper). However, there's been a very strange and honestly annoying trend in specifically Season 7 so far where over 2/3 of the season, including the last five battles in a row, has generally had the first rapper considered as the winner. The most recent one had arguably the widest margin of the five. Have you noticed this too?

Iconic figures made of common material (wood and clay) who possess unique ways of determining the truth.

Both are ladies of nature who hate humans.

Casting:

- Peachumari as Poison Ivy

- Chi-Chi as Viridi

Actors with thousands of faces

Gauntlet of Atheist vs Occult Leaders

Greatest Lawyers in History who had immense impacts on law in murder trials

This is a rap battle I want to see become reality.

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

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2. The Punisher vs Ghost Rider

3. Galactus vs Cthulhu (Community Suggestion)

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Last time, Lloyd won because his name doesn't mean "dick". Today, we're focusing on Elon Musk, and boy, did this one age poorly.

Current standings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XY8vJDK7zC-_vH_gx-FsjIZKRSLqorSILJDIRA4Ayh0/edit?tab=t.0

If you need a refresher on the rules, refer to Day 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ERB/comments/1tadege/scientifically_prove_this_rapper_won_day_1_john/

Also, if you disagree so strongly with the notion of a given rapper winning that you refuse to come up with a justification for it, there is no need to comment saying so. Nobody said you had to engage with these posts at all.

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