Released: August 17, 2011

Featuring: Nice Peter EpicLLOYD Watsky

Songwriter: Zach Sherwin Greg Owens EpicLLOYD Nice Peter Watsky

Producer: Edward Cayce

[Intro: Announcer (Nice Peter)]
Epic Rap Battles of History
Dr Seuss vs
William Shakespeare, begin

[Verse 1: William Shakespeare (George Watsky)]
Come bite my thumb, I hope you know the stakes
I'll put a slug between your shoulder blades then ask what light through yonder poser breaks?
I hath been iambic on that ass, ye bastard
My rhymes are classic, your crap is drafted by a kindergartener high on acid
Ye hoebag, you're an old white Soulja Boy who has no swag
And no gonads, egads, it's so sad
And to top it off, you're not a doctor, I've never seen a softer author
You crook, you, I bet you wrote The Twilight books too

[Verse 2: The Cat In The Hat (Nice Peter)]
I would not could not on a boat read any of the boring ass plays you wrote
Even Horton doesn't want to hear you and Cindy Lou Who is afraid to go near you
You bore people to death, you leave a classroom looking like the end of MacBeth
I entertain a child of any age, you gotta translate what you said on the opposite page
How you gonna battle with the Cat in The Hat? Little kids get scared when I step on the mat
You think your ruffled neck ass gonna rap to that? I got a best selling book about me coming back

[Verse 3: William Shakespeare (George Watsky)]
I'm switching up my style like the Beatles with my pieces, each is such a wonder with a plethora of features
You're pathetically predictable, you think your new book might include a trisyllabic meter and some ghetto Muppet creatures
The Bard is in the building, it's a castle, I'm a boss, I bet I'm Parliament, I'm positive, I'm killing it, I'm iller
Than the plague I never caught or cholera, a baller baller on some cricket bowler business while you're sitting in the bleachers

[Verse 4: The Cat In The Hat (Nice Peter), Thing 1 & Thing 2 (Epic LLOYD)]
You rap fast, you do, yes, you rap fast, it's true
Now let's see how you rap versus Things 1 and 2!
Oh, no, we'll smash your Globe
Yo, you may have wrote the script but now we running the show
You can take your fancy words and send 'em back home to your mama
Break our foot off in your ass with our feetie pajamas
Man, we'll cook you up and eat you with some ham and green eggs
We'll break off'a your legs, make no mistake, we in a rage
All does not end well when we bust out our cage
You gettin' upstaged Bill, yo, you just got played!

[Outro: Announcer (Nice Peter)]
Who won? Who's next? You decide
E—
Pic Rap Battles of History

Epic Rap Battles of History

“Epic Rap Battles of History” is a 7xStreamy Award-winning, 2xEmmy-nominated YouTube series led by comedy/rap duo Nice Peter & EpicLLOYD. Their channel dedicated to ERB on YouTube has over 14 million subscribers as of June 2019 and 2.1 billion video views. The series has featured fellow YouTubers, prominent actors, and legendary musicians as guest stars, including PewDiePie, Rhett & Link, Key & Peele, Snoop Dogg, Lilly-Singh, T-Pain, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Each Epic Rap Battle of History installment, referred as an ‘episode’, features two or more historical or famous characters having a rap battle that is filled with historical references and jokes. The first 5 seasons were produced in cooperation with the former YouTube production company Maker Studios. As of December 2018, there are 5 complete seasons (along with 3 unofficial episodes and 2 bonus episodes, and other bonus content) and 71 official episodes, each available for sale as seasons on CD and each episode on digital and streaming services (To date, Season 1 is the only one available via streaming service as a collective). The 6th season of the series is set to begin release in the Spring of 2018. At least 11 installments, starting with 2012’s “Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney”, have been certified Gold in the U.S. by the RIAA.