I still think the Artists clearly won, but to truly appreciate how clever the lines in especially the Turtles' first verse were, you need to know a bit about the Artists they were based on, and their works. Plus it's all a series of "blink and you'll miss it moments", making it even harder to catch them (meaning I don't at all blame you, or anyone else for that matter, for missing this). But you see, each of the Turtles takes the Artist they were named after, and references one of that Artist's most famous works, making fun of that work in the process. Here they are: • Leonardo: "Hop in your floppy helicopter, fly away!" - Da Vinci's helicopter design. • Michelangelo: "I'm a pristine Sistine nun-chucka." - the Sistine Chapel (much of which was painted by Michelangelo). • Raphael: "Put you back in school with the tips of my two sai." - The School of Athens (by Raphael). • Donatello: "Because I don't Gattamelata clue what you do." - the Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata (by Donatello, obvs.).

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

We for Leonardo and Michelangelo and just figured Donatellos was a reference as well, but didn’t know about the Raphael one and what it was referencing. Admittedly Raphael and Donatello are the two artists we know the least about 🤗

@AlexanderAzarov

Жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2 To quote from the ERB lyrics definition wiki, for Raphael: (The opening theme song from the 1980's TMNT cartoon states, "Raphael is cool but rude". Raphael says he is a cool and rude guy.) (One of Raphael Sanzio de Urbino's most famous frescos is "The School of Athens", in which Raphael also painted himself in the background. The sai are Raphael's weapons of choice. He is also saying that the artists are no longer talked about in schools, and possibly that they would be if their deaths were caused by the Turtles.) And for Donatello: (Of the four artists, Donatello Bardi is fairly less well known, with many younger people only knowing him because of his Ninja Turtle counterpart. Donatello doesn't know who his namesake is, thus creating a pun on "Donatello" and "tell". Meanwhile, Donatello is known as being the smartest of the four turtles, so here, even the smartest of them doesn't know who Donatello Bardi is to show how unknown and obscure the artist is.) (Continuing how he has no idea who Donatello is, Donatello is best-known for making a statue of "Gattamelata" riding a horse, and the line is a pun on "got a lot of a". Also, considering that Donatello knows "Gattamelata", he's just stating that Donatello is too obscure for the turtle to know or remember.)

I remember when this came out 8 years ago, kid me was so excited because it was the first time I had ever seen Rhett & Link and Smosh together (The YTubers playing the artists) and they were my favorites to watch back then. Now in the modern day, Rhett and Link's company literally owns Smosh, it's kinda crazy

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

😎🤟

@chrys_stone8716

Жыл бұрын

8 years ago was still modern day... stop making us feel old lol 🥺

@anthonydeadman

Жыл бұрын

@@chrys_stone8716 Dude our skin is already wrinkling up. We have to accept our fate.

My favorite rap battle, I really wish it went longer.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

Man! This was my all time favourite ERB song, its so catchy and nostalgic for me lol

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

😎🤟

Favorite battle as far as production value. Rhett and Link PLUS Ian and Anthony from Smosh. And the costumes and stuntman for the turtles were amazing.

I’ve always loved the ERBs back in the day like this one. They would get fellow KZreadrs involved. Like the artists were Rhett and Link/Anthony and Ian from Smosh.

OMG ! I remember watch and put in loop so many days after , one of my Top 10 ERB.

Has anyone else realised that barely any disses are actually thrown in this battle? Artists: Turtles are gross. Turtles live in sewer. Turtles are “uncultured”. TMNT NES game is impossibly hard. TMNT: Leonardo’s (Artist) failed Helicopter device. Donatello (Artist) being not well known compared to the other artists. Artists draw Penises a lot. That’s it. Aside from those disses, most of this battle is just filler lines. I’m honestly surprised given these characters have such a rich history. Still, this battle is fun to groove to.

@SCP.343

Жыл бұрын

The Donatello line is also a pun.

@AhsimNreiziev

Жыл бұрын

@@SCP.343 As are Michelangelo's and Raphael's. • Michelangelo: "I'm a pristine Sistine nun-chucka." - the Sistine Chapel. • Raphael: "Put you back in school with the tips of my two sai." - The School of Athens. • Donatello: "Because I don't Gattamelata clue what you do." - the Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

Yeah there weren’t a ton of disses thrown in this one. It’s was more just of a fun one then a savage one 🙂

@CloverPandaQ

Жыл бұрын

Italian Boot is also a decent boost

Great choice! TMNT are awesome, and for a long time I wondered how they got their names. I did some research and eventually found out about the Renaissance guys.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

Nice! That’s cool that cartoon characters can make us want to learn more about art 🙂

I would like these ERB reactions to be more frequent. Maybe at least once every 2 weeks?

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

We like hearing that you want them more 😅

This is one of my favs!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

🥳🥳

Having played the Turtles NES game as a child, can confirm, that game was hard lol.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

😅😂

This is one I wished ERB would remake from scratch. This one has the potential to be a trilogy like the Hitler vs Vader one.

The Artists may have won overall but the Turtles had one of the best disses.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

Which is one of the rare cases where the best diss doesn’t equal automatic win 🤔

The Turtles NeS game really is hard to beat. I usually bring out my old Nintendo-8bit to try and beat it on a regular yearly basis. That one and Ghost's & Ghoblins.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

Ghosts and Goblins. Bringing me back ☺️

Donatello and Leonardo on the artists side is Rhett and Link from GMM

this one had a lot of potential. i don't know what kind of time crunch they were on but there's 8 damn contestants and it's one of the shorter battles

I just remembered a great one, Dr Sue's vs Shakespeare.

ERB Wolverine vs. Freddy is a good one.

Rasputin vs Stalin & Stephen Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock ERBs are a must.

@v.emiltheii-nd.8094

Жыл бұрын

And Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters.

Smosh and Good Mythical Morning Vs mutated turtles.

I haven't seen this is a good long while , it was amazing xD before this rap I genuinely never put together that the ninja turtles were named after great artists !! P.s could I please make a request for you to react to 'DC Showcase : Death' it's a short film from DC and honestly it's more beautiful then you'd think , though as a struggling artist it hits my harder then most but it's beautiful nonetheless :')

I am writing this to help out ken and Bethany and this video and this channel with the algorithm ✌️❤️😚☺️

Love the reaction as always. If I had to recommend to you some ERB battles I would say the western vs eastern philosophers or Mother Teresa vs Sigmund Freud one

Santa Vs Moses is a must watch Mr T vs Mr Roger's and Shakespeare vs Dr Sue's are two my favorites.

Cowabunga! This slaps!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

😎🤟

Ayyy another ERB! I always liked the beat of this battle, always a bop.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2

Жыл бұрын

😎🤟

Leonardo and Donatello are played by Rhett and Link and Raphael and Michaelangelo are played by Ian and Anthony from Smosh (The Artists not the Turtles, the Ninja Turtles are all played by NicePeter and EpicLloyd).

Cant wait til you react to Julius Caesar vs shaka Zulu

This is my favorite one, mostly cause Smosh is in it.

@earendilthemariner5546

Жыл бұрын

I like it because of gmm

The artist are all youtube celebrities

NES = nintendo entertainment system ; SNES = super NES

Epic rap battles of History Ken versus Bethany.... begin LOL 😂🤣✌️❤️😚☺️

Artists lost automatically as he said the turtles were "three toed freaks" but they have two toes....an epic fail if I ever saw one

Very good very nice

Artists because of Rhett, Link, Ian, and Anthony.

Zeus vs Thor Erb

Guys I need one every Friday or I unsubscribe.

I think Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rafael & Donatello won

This is one of the most unbalanced ERBs ever made, because it feels like the people who wrote it did next to no research on the Ninja Turtles at all. Like, they've traveled to space, fought and defeated alien invasions, traveled to other dimensions to fight in marital arts tournaments, and a whole lot more. And that's all from just one of the television series. It feels like the writers for this one had some surface level knowledge about them at most.

@HB-fq9nn

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be the first time. Remember Doctor Who vs. Doc Brown?

@MoostachedSaiyanPrince

Жыл бұрын

@@HB-fq9nn True, but I'm pretty unfamiliar with either series since I haven't seen either, so I only have other people's words to go on for that ERB.

@leonardfeuerstein

Жыл бұрын

Neeeeeerd

@zayn659

3 ай бұрын

Calm down Ricky😂 its just a KZread video

nope turtles win they know there staf alredy all that they sed

While I enoyed this (Rhett & Link are awesome) I can't help but feel like the one who wrote the TMNT part wasn't really a fan... either you watched any of the cartoons, movies or read the comics you know how they stopped interdimensional terrors like Kraang and his Technodrome or Saanti Romero or the Triceratons or won pandimensional fighting turnaments, but there... it's just... maybe the writer watched the opening of the cartoon from the '80s... once?

@AhsimNreiziev

Жыл бұрын

I think it's the opposite. I think the ERB guys are definitely TMNT fans, and suspected their audience would be too, while said audience wouldn't care too much about the Artists initially. So I think they felt they needed to compensate for the possible inherent bias in favour of the Turtles, by giving the Artists the better bars.

@brotquel1592

Жыл бұрын

@@AhsimNreiziev That doesn't make any sense: since you are a fan and suspect that the audience members are fans too... you give them vague and unimaignative lines? "You already know you like this characters, so why even bother?"