[Critical Analysis] East vs West Philosophers. Epic Rap Battles of History. Chisel This! 

Personally, I think Sun Tzu's sneaking around wasn't meant to be Timothy De La Ghetto being funny, rather Sun Tzu demonstrating his principle of scouting the enemy as stated in "The Art of War".

*_Let me be frank,_* *_don't start beef with the Frank._* *_Who hangs with B. Franks,_* *_giving ladies beef franks!_*

Cause I'm N-I-E-T-Z-S-C-H-E!!!

I thought that the ''get out the way'' line was made to reference Dao'ism (as Dao/T'ao means ''the way'', or ''the path''), though I can understand how that could seem less obvious to people who aren't knowledgeable on Lao-Tzu's work.

Just so you know Voltaire was in no way humble.

The "I'll not be taught camaraderie from a frog who rigged the lottery. You make a mockery of ethics, so keep your fat nose in your coffee" line is EVEN better than you presented it to be. Not only is "mocking ethics" a perfectly derogating way of describing Voltaire's work, and "fat nose" mocking the facial features of a person that is so vain and precious, but Voltaire is also reported to have drunk over 50 small cups of coffee each day. While you drink coffee (or "keep your fat nose" in it) you can't rap and need to shut up.

Quick correction: Aristotle was not a student of Socrates. Plato taught Aristotle. Maybe ERB got this wrong too, but I prefer to think of 'both your students' as Plato and Xenophon.

Just one thing about the "A bowl is most useful when it is empty" quote. This is explained in a book called The Tao of Pooh (a fantastic reference that I was genuinely surprised to see - it's a book from the 80s that explains taoist philosophy using the characters of Winnie the Pooh) as being a really simple concept - if you have an empty bowl, you can put something into it. If there's already something in the bowl, you usually can't.

Socrates was in Lewis and Clarke vs Bill and Ted

Amazing analysis. I just have one remark that you didn't mention which kinda joins your claim that Voltaire's character wasn't put forward enough (or sth like that). Since I'm french, I've studied a lot of Voltaire texts, and THE typical characteristic/thematic proper to them was irony, which I didn't find at all in his lines of the battle, which kinda saddens me. He was a very cynical, even mean person (he ruined the life of his rival, Rousseau, to a point where he had to make a book called "the confessions" or something like that). Maybe he could have been a bit more sarcastic when telling Socrates and Neitzsche to work together. Also, the french stereotypes like the accents are not my favourite things, so I'm glad they were toned down in the battle.

One thing you might missed, "Now the Sun's out" is a play of his name, "Sun"Tzu.

"Ubermensch/driven only references the company" not really, check up on Nietzsche's concept of what he means by Ubermensch and actualisation of the self.

Your lyrical analysis always amazes me.

Maybe I'm missing something, but when you say the "driven" reference is _only_ about the driving company, it makes me think you don't know that "driven" is also a personality trait, ie highly focused and ambitious. "Someone who is driven is so determined to achieve something or be successful that all of their behaviour is directed towards this aim" (Cambridge dictionary)

I think the "new golden rule" line was twisting it to mean "you all are beneath me, therefore I *rule* over you and my rule is golden" or... something. I dunno.

What sort of bothered me is that Nietzsche explicitly did not consider himself a Übermensch

I knew all of these philosophers before I watched this rap battle. I have always loved history and been blessed with history teachers who shared my passion and therefore taught me well. Keep in mind I couldn't freestyle if there was a gun to my head... I greatly admire lyricists for this reason. I retain info in a weird way.. I can remember many things, but can't use it to spit a rap, just write a paper. This battle was a real treat for someone like me who can pick up on ancient and modern references just watching it. I like how they ALL fought with each other- their philosophies would've clashed, even within their own teams. I didn't like the "you can all hold these fortune cookies!" Line myself. I thought the ones with deeper meanings into philosophy just did a better job making a point.

I saw the "A bowl is more useful when it is empty" line as meaning that "Look at this opportunity we have, and all that we could do with it," while Sun Tzu wants to seize the moment, Lao wanted to think things through more, and what else can we do with this 'open bowl', as Sun wants to 'fill it' with whatever attack, thus using the opportunity, and filling the bowl with an attack, when it could have been filled otherwise, maybe with some sort of outreach.

This is an amazingly thought out and well constructed analysis using in depth knowledge that show cases not only the lyrics and rapping itself, but the other side of the coin as well: the philosophies and underlying meanings that go along with the characters and historical contexts. I really hope these videos get the recognition they deserve.

You are my new favorite person.

@christopher schriever thank you! yes I do have those plans, and I will be making a lot more original content very soon.

Eastern Falafel is best Falafel But in all seriousness, great video! It's awesome to see you not have anything bad to say about a battle, it's a rare sight xD Also it would be awesome to see you chisel more ERB's (older ones) but I guess you will do that after the storm. Great videos! Good job

Hey, I just discovered your videos and they're great. I hope to see you in an ERB episode one day...

Really liked this one! You went full in depth!

I am glad that my english teacher taught me Nihilism and Nietzche cause i can somewhat understand and appreciate the rap battles

Just a little contribution: I dont know if you noticed but the beat used in the rap battle have to parts: the first one with westerns which is very energy and upbeat while the eastern one is very dry and lowkey, playing well with the diferente beween them. Also when Sun zu atack socrates saying is his fault he should apologies is a direct inversion of what you said earlier about him consider even better than his parner in the battle. Also Nietzchie let the stage at the end XD

Yay, I've been waiting for this! :D

I'm really loving your Critical Analysis series. Really interesting and to see the critical view of these rap battles and it makes me appreciate the rap battles themselves and your thinking even more.

I think you misunderstood the thing with Sun Tzu "taking photos," I don't think that's what he was doing, I thought he was using the vision scope that Wesley Snipes was using in the movie Art of War, another modern version of Sun Tzu.

I'm sharing your video on Facebook. I hope you can get more subscribers and become an even bigger entity. :P By far, you are one of my all-time favorite RU-vidrs. You put a huge amount of thought and work into every single one of your videos. Thank you, Matteo :) I really enjoy Chisel This, maybe you can go back and review some older ERBs? Also, I'm sorry you can't directly respond to my comments (I dont know how to enable it xD)

Lately I've been really getting into this series! Ever since the Houdini analysis I keep checking for the next Analysis. I hope you're going to keep this up

SO. I knew this video existed a long time before I watched it. Which as last year. But what brought me here, not just onto this video but your channel, is Cam from VGRB. Yes you killed the rap as Gold and as Grookie in the Gen 8 Starters rap. But finding you here and seeing you being this anaytical and taking the time to break the ERB videos this well... Dude. Good job. Yes, it's impossible to break down absolutely everything, but you stillcovered a lot of ground. I'll be honest, most of the things you mentioned I really had to double take and watch the original video to understand. Mad respekt my dude. Add me to your subscribers

Ok, first of all I was looking for something LIKE THIS! (Using Voltaire's free speech xD) Really liked the analysis. Keep it going and would love to see the analysis of their newest battle ^_^

9:45 It's wrong though, since Nietzsche simply wasn't a Nihilist. His philosophy is exactly the opposite. The mentality of the Übermensch lets him overcome the nihilism and be godlike himself since god is dead.

These are always great!

are you aware that Nietzsche is considered INTJ, who are generally driven in their goals. I think in Ubermensch was relating to his personality type rather than the company uber.

Can't wait for you to do Shaka Zulu vs. Caesar - just finish watching all your chisel-vids and subscribed right away :) - keep up the great work, you're awesome.

man you are awesome !! i have been looking for an awesome thinker&analysis for ERB for so long haha u are funny hehe your reactions are really really AWESOME and come from the HEART!! thank you for being awesome ^:^

Adding your reaction vids from your first time watching is Brilliant!

Really enjoying the analysis of the ERB stuff. (Along with your latest battle) One thing that I thought was missing here is the line by line analysis that you have done before, this I felt was more jumbled just going to lines you liked the most. Anyways, I hope you can produce the content fast, it is very enjoyable.

I really enjoy your analysis videos of ERB and ive spent loads of hours checking out clever puns and that stuff. Im here 1) to congratulate you on your success and 2) to ask if you plan on analysing some of their older videos?

keep it up dude you're going to be big one day

@bigginger kc thank you for all your support! it has something to do with linking your google and youtube accounts. look into it. I appreciate everything you do and say!

This was great! Really enjoyed watching it! The spelling bee line was my personal favorite as well! Keep up the good work. I can't wait to see your Worst/Best ERBs video, do you know when that is going to come out?

Fantastic analysis, once again. This was definitely worth the wait. Oh, will the top 5 worst and top 5 favorite ERB analyses be weekly releases? sorry if I absolutely butchered the English language there.

Love the lyrics analysis, it is certainly way beyond anything i could do myself. And it made me watch the battle again, over and over and analyse deeperly the own behavior of the characters, actually just the western characters, once i am a philosophy student at university, and noticed a lot of stuff that passed unnoticed by me at a first contact. The dinamics ERB puts is really great,but i honestly think they should have make Voltaire try to ally with Nietzsche instead of socrates, and later it will be clear why. Anyway, first there is the use of the word symposium, it's great because it is the name of one of the most important platonic dialogues, hence one of most remarkable socratic apparition. This dialogue is an attempt to find an answer to what is love, by the way, and also features Aristofanes, one of the greatest cricticists of Socrates and his methods and investigation goals, it would divert too much explaining how and why, but i'd love to see some reference to "The clouds" on the eastern philosophers lines. When Voltaire says "droping western medicine on this east infections" is actually a bit confusing. Well, during the 18th century there was this huge discussion, on wich pretty much every relevant thinker took part on (Voltaire, Rousseau, Hume, La Bruyére, Mandelville, etc, etc) regarding weather or not luxury was favorable to mankinds development. There were two parties, one that said no, there is a huge need of a certain measure of adversity to make a man's life honorable and to make this man improve itself as a man, an example of this party, perhaps the most remarkable presently, is Rousseau, and his arguments on this point are in pretty much the entirety of his work, particularly on the two speeches, concerning the arts and sciences and concerning the origin inequality between man. The other party, of course, claim that it did help manking, and that's Voltaire party. And Voltaire himself puts that the circulation of luxury implies the circulation of culture, that is, commerce with the "east infections", for Voltaire would mean connecting distant cultures and distant types of knowledge, improving manking by that. Besides that he made a good amount of money by commerce sooo yeah... Now on to Nietzsche, when he says "take control of the life you're given" it's a reference of major importance, and it is actually way in door to the use of the word übermensch. I like the mention you've made about the parallel between übermensch and the company über company. I didn't actually seen it prior to you mentioning it, but it makes complete sence. The übermensch is a key term to understand Nietzsche thought. It is a character, in a certain manner (Nietzsche is particularly complex on what comes to writing style, you take the birth of tragedy, it's a certain style, you take zarathustra, it's totally different, you take the twilight of the idols, it's also way diferent) on the book Also spach Zarathustra (don't know the tittle in english, and dont think there will be much use saying it in portuguese) this book is the narrative of the tale of a man, a reclusive, that's spent many year in complete reclusion, having only an eagle and a snake as companions, then he decides to go back into civilization and teach people how to... drive.. their lives in order to reach a next step in their personal development, that is, become the übermensch. He fails, by the way. Also, and here i am fowarding a bit, Confucius says to Nietzsche "you killed god". Nietzsche killing god is not necessairly a religous position actually. The actual quote, and i think it's from the antichrist is "God is dead, and we killed him." That "we" is fundamental, Nietzsche is a very striking critical on the christian institutions of his time. When he says god is dead, it is not a refusal of the bible itself with the teach of Christ, the person of Christ actually, it is rather a refusal of christian institutions, that are, for him, the ones guilt of killing god, and corrupting the whole message. The reference of to god's death in his work is also found, again, in the zarathusta, right when he is leaving his reclusion the first person he meets is also an heremite, but a very religious one in oposition to the main hero, they talk a little, i honestly dont remmember the actuall conversation, but when they say their goodbyes they leave each other laughing, then the main character says, to himself "what a fool, doesn't he knows yet that god is dead". Back to Voltaire, i remmber once a professor of mine saying that his complete works when lined up would possibly be longer than the building we were at. That is a massive amount of stuff, and if you take, for instance, his english or philosophical letteres (it depends on the edition you have, at least in portuguese) you will find he goes throught and really wide range of themes, passing from the quakers to comparing Descartes to Newton, and that's a very bold move of anybody. But it also means that it is hardly reaching any depth on his thought, he is so a very good crictical, and also made some interisting arguments himself, but if you take the bigger picture of his work, and this is just an opinion i tend to have about Voltaire, much of what his done seems a little he is just yapping actually. You can't go too far on a "voltairian theory". But the guy still is brilliant and certainly should still be respect and read with the deserved care and credits. Just not as much as if we were still on the 18th century. Socrates next line, i honestly think ERB is being ironical when they make Socrates say to Sun Tzu "luckly you didn't author...". In fact all we have left of him is what was written by others (Plato, Aristofanes and Xenofonte) and because of that is hard to differ who is Socrates and who is Plato, or Xenofonte. And when you take Aristofanes's Clouds for example, the way he portraits Socrates is radically diferent of that in platonic dialogues. While in Plato he is that brilliant orator that using the dialectical method (by the way, great exposition of it, you pretty much coverd it's form, pun intended, but i would only add what was the goal of this method. But that perfectly understandable, because this goal actually chances during what is classically put as Socrates lifeline on the dialogues... The first type, when he is younger, shows a Socrates trying to learn by others what is that special think he is trying to learn, so he goes and ask to authorities on the subject. Learning that those self proclaimed authorities didn't know the answer he creates the actuall dialectical method, that is what u pretty much described, a confrontation of two diferent answers and looking to weakspots in order to, in a way, unveil the truth about that matter, normally here his interlocutors are sophists, that is, professional orators, so the dialogues here look a lot to the rap battle, they are quite aggressive, gorgias for instance is even funny because of how Calicles and socrates mistreat eachother. Specially Calicles, Socrates keeps a more altive position. And the last type is that of his maturity, when he actually have disciples, and is also we he become to treat matters in a more methaphysical way, the most dense dialogues, like meno, thaetetus (my personal favorite), the seven books of the republic and phaedo, are found in this phase, also is where u can find a bigger number of definitions, like the theory of forms, or knowledge being true justified belief (that was only answer a few decades ago, by Gettier, on a three page article) ) in Aristofanes he is pretty much a freeloader, taking advantage on his pupils. And i was forgeting Conficius line. A: Voltaire was actually really arrogant, just see his letters to Rousseau, luckly Rousseau had quite a great sense of being a dick himself. B: It is claimed that Hitler was a great fan of Nietzsche and believed his ideas could help making Germany a sort of "überland", but Nietzsche was a misanthrope, he didn't hate just minorities, he hated pretty much everybody. Now, the key line, in my opinion, in the battle is Sun Tzu "i think you owe both your students here an appology". That's the ultimate provocation on them all, but specially Nietzsche. He really, i mean REALLY, would hate being called Socrates's student. You can find the reason why on his first work: the birth of tragedy. On this work he analyses the plays of three greek writers: Ésquilo, Sofocles and Euripedes; this analysis is based on the identification of two extremes of their way of writing, Esquilo is dyonisiac, that means he doesn't actually holds on to a formal manner, it's more intuitive, more animal, and therefore for Nietzsche more purely human, closer to a real portrait of what mankind should keep on being. Then appears Socrates, his search for a universal truth, his ideal of knowledge is what allows the appearence and rapid popularity growth of Euripedes, an apoliniac writer, more glued to a form to something more artificial, and distant to what Nietzsche's views as an ideal path for people conducting their lives. So, basicly for him Socrates is responsible for the corruption of easter civilization, being associated with such pervertion is untolerable for him. And i believe it also explains Socrates overreaction to being called plebe by someone who clearly declares himself not to look for truth in the socratic manner. Also, continuing with this it's nice to take a look on other nietzschenian text, the twilight of the idols, one chapter more exactly, one you just have to take a look on the title: "Socrates's problem". Actually this entire book consist on attacking Socrates legacy as a father, painting a portrait of him more as a destructor of reason. There is also a very famous quote of his, i honestly don't remmember where it is, sorry for that, on which after doing a whole history of knowledge, and how since Socrates things got progressivly worse, he, and i actually think that right here this quote is more of a trivia, he describes Kant, father of critical philosphy and author of the critics of pure and practical reason, the chinese of Könisberg, i kinda expected an apparition of Kant on the eastern side because of that. :P Moving on, i said Voltaire would possibly try to ally with Nietzsche instead of Socrates, well, first they do have more similar personalities, second, Socrates was certainly not known for appealing to a confortable life, third, there is Socrates answer about Voltaire making a mockery of ethics. Also, in Socrates, specially on the republic, there is a bigger sense of comunity than in both Voltaire or Nietzsche, those are more individualist thinkers. Anyway, here is why i thinking Socrates gave that answer to Voltaire's approach. First, Voltaire did have inherited a lot of money, but still dedicated part of his atentions to business, that as i said, influenced a lot on his thinkings. Second, he was possibly the most cafeine addicted person to ever live, he drinking gallons after gallons on daily basis. Third and most important, making mockery of ethics. For this one it is necessary to go back to the discussion about luxury. The main diference between the ones contrary and those against luxury was on how did they base their arguments. I mean, if you take for example Gibbon, one of the greast historians of english language, if not the greatest, contrary to luxury, that is visible on his history of the roman empire, more precisely of the decay of the roman empire. He points out that when Rome was a republic the luxury trades were rare, romans had to make things themselves, becomingo stronger, more focused, better, after while, and that after becoming and empire, and expanding it's territory, including new cultures and new luxurious goods, the romans began to have an easier life, becoming weaker, and falling to the hands of a bunch of simplistic barbarians. If you look close enough you can notice where Gibbon takes us, is to a moral argument of why there should be no luxury on people lives. Then you look to Rousseau, possibly Voltaire biggest oponent, and you find whom as role model for a perfect, honored and strong life? Socrates. He always been depicted as living a way simpler life than the rest of the athenians. So his refusal of Voltaire's values is pretty much to be expected. And if i was Voltaire, i certainly wouldn't even try to be pals with Socrates, i would just battle the easterns and move on to my next bottle of coffe. I probaly am overthinking the video, but anyway, i really this battle, not only for treating a subject most dear to me, but just take a long at the ridiculously long text i've to respond to a three minute video haha And i've just covered half of it, and shallowly, i believe.

Now I recognize you! You did the "SM4SH GOD" song. Love your work, man. Keep it up.

Interesting to see you do a character section, wonder if anyone inspired that ;) Great video as always.

Holy Video Necromancy Batman! (One of the few breakdowns I found of this battle) - A note as to the stability of Eastern Philosophy vs. Western. It is likely intentional as, while the East had intense internal competition, it never allowed such competition to spill out to the outside world and the Chinese world that they are all from were all about peace and unity. This made it easy for the nation to come together against outside threats. And then fall apart to internal disputes when the outside threats had been removed.

Amazing video man

Kid, you have shown passion and love for art within your video. You have earned my respect. I think your doing great, hope to see more.

First time commenting, awesome as always, waiting for your top of best ERBs! You have your first Peruvian fan

this channel derserve more viewers and subs this is really good stuff :)

Was waiting for this!! Can't wait to see what you've got to say about it. Thanks for pumping these out pretty quickly :D

I was checking my subscription box every 5 minutes to see when this video would be uploaded :) And now i'm 10 IQ points smarter. Thanks Matteo!

Maybe, now that S4 is ending, you can make a video of your perfect season 5. Mostly because i love the way you talked here about the connections between the rappers, and i would actually like to know your thoughts on that. Again, big fan.

Great opening. it gave me a mental picture that caused me to pause the vid so I could laugh.

stumbled upon this at random always nice to see and recognize another brilliant mind thank u my friend u will go far dovetail with the theme a word of advice focus is all u need to see ur goals through to the end never lose it for a sec a blunt sword needs power to cut focus is ur edge and a fine edge cuts effortlessly warning it is fickle as flame control is how u keep urnfocus and keep ur mind sharp haha just like ur edge k that's all I can come up with in 60 secs enjoy

I love this video, it's really interesting. I'll definitely subscribe. :) Also, out of curiosity, will you be making these videos for all of the epic rap battles? I'd love to see your analysis of the other ones, such as Al Capone vs. Blackbeard, Cleopatra vs. Marilyn Monroe, etc. :)

Hey Mat4yo, also love erb from the beginning and new to your chanel. Love your work, both artistic and critically. I'm not a rapper or a lyricist but what advice would you have to someone who wants to learn more ?

I've been trying to make my own rap battle lyrics again and was wondering if you could help me out a bit? I have one that's in the making and one i want to heavily revise. What is your google account by chance so I could share them in Docs?

Wow there's a science into this, good job! :)

Beautiful analysis there! Also: is this Chad Feifer's music in the "idle" background music? ;) Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

You knot Mat, you really have a good eye for analysis and thought, I am curios how you performed in your political theory class. I am a political scientist myself and respect your ability to critique. Great Job and Good Luck!

Yo congrats for getting to 5k

I'll be honest, I don't know anything about philosophy. This video was both entertaining and informative. Congratulations on getting a shoutout from ERB, by the way!

Great video, your shirt collar is really distracting of how it’s kinda folded in though aha

I have waited for this one, I really wanted to see a detailed explanation for this battle, since it had really detail-heavy people.

Cant wait for your top 5 least/most favorite erbs. Well im gonna go watch some Criss angel maaaateeeee. Boi mate

Great video as always, but I (and most likley others) would greatly appreciate it you posted your "timestamps" or "ToC' in the description for mobile users like me.

On your analysis of the use of the word ‘golden rule’ or more specifically ‘rule’; I think you may have missed the angle of rule as its second meaning, as in being a ruler, someone of power and authority. when one is considered a ruler, they are often considered elevated over all others, hence the phrase ‘to rule over’. So looked at in this context the phrase ‘way above you weak rookies’ could make more sense. Additionally as I understand it the use of the word ‘golden’ in the phrase ‘golden rule’ is not just to emphasize how Important the rule is but how absolute it is gold, so I interpreted him as saying ‘I’m the absolutely ruler, dominating you weak and childish armatures’, or something to that effect at least. But hey what do I know I’m just growing this out after finding the video years after it was posted lol

May be with the "Übermensch" line, when Nietzsche says he is "driven", he then could've mentioned that since they are Asians, they crap drivers, but maybe not since one knows what a car is, and maybe a little racist

This was a pretty good episode. By the way, what exactly is "the storm" doing to prevent you from doing your top 5/bottom 5 video? You were able to make this video.

this is late but as a big reader of art of war and have done some studies into Sun tzu the creeping around and takeing photos and such is a direct thing how he fellt about war . he said in the lines of War is won before the battle takes place. he also was extremly for spying and saboteuring and that was not something many was thinking at the time.

I have never heard a more articular spectre in my entire online career. Have my sub and like.

Is it weird this battle and the ivan the terrible vs alexander the great battle helped with my WHAP test?

This is a great analysis of this rap battle. A few things that were said that may have had a deeper meaning: "I'll put my knee up in your chi..." Chi is believed to be the state in which Sun Wu was born and may have been a reference to his home state as well as what you mentioned. "I'll knock your war mongering head out your to go box hat." Sun Tzu was condemned by many Confucians by virtue of being a member of the "Militarist" school of thought, which didn't adhere to the Confucian ideal of culturally overtaking enemies. and were condemned as "Warmongers" and "Deceptive".

i am psychic and i see that in the future you will work with erb

0:00 “Confucius say, ‘baseball is wrong, man cannot walk with four balls’” 😂😂😂😂

Not sure it adds any to the discussion but, at around 22:20ish? I'm pretty sure the reference was about Nietzsche's idea of Übermensch or "above mortal man" and not really the Uber company..

Wait they watch these? How do you know? Did they tweet about it or something? Also, keep up the good work!

Hey Monday was 2 days ago! Lol seriously though another great analysis. I always learn a lot about what the lyrics in these battle really mean from you, it's awesome. :) This was lyrically one of the best Erbs to date. Glad to hear that you are getting recognition by Erb themselves. You deserve it. I hope they hire you to help write their lyrics. ;) Maybe you and Zach could write a song? If you did, the amount of lyrical epicness would be off of the charts. Keep up the good work man.

I would LOVE a Critical analysis of RAP!

If you came up with that joke in the intro my love of this channel just grew immensely.

One of the main principles of Daoism was going with the flow, moving around the obstacles in your life, as opposed to the Nietzschean philosophy of powering through them (the "Ubermensch"), making them an even better pairing than you gave credit for in your character analysis section, and adding an extra layer to "get out the way."

How exactly do you know Epic Rap Battles of History is watching these videos? Have they said this in a video? Have they commented on one of them? Anything?

Come to think of it, Voltaire did nothing but roasted by that egg noodle hair joke!

I've watched the battle a few more times with your own analysis in mind. I think I have something to add about the final line (although it's pretty trivial). When Confucius says "You can all hold these fortune cookies", I felt like the word 'hold' could've been replaced with the word 'eat'. As fortune cookies are a type of food, and obviously they were using a more modern insult for this line, saying 'eat' instead, would be even better because it would reference both the food and the insult, simultaneously. If the line was reversed, and one of the Western philosophers was insulting Confucius instead, they could also do the same thing (make a reference to the food, as well as the modern insult), by saying something like "I'll break/crack/smash your fortune cookies". It would address a stereotype, considering fortune cookies are associated with China (even though I think it was a western creation). But anyway, I'm getting off track. I mainly just wanted to bring up a minor adjustment that could've been made to the final line.

I Liked that you showed the connection between Uber and driven. I am just not sure you knew that ubermensch is German for Superman; a term Hitler used to describe his so-called Master Race of Germans. So there is a double meaning to that phrase as "driven" would mean "committed" in an obsessive-compulsive fashion.

Before I start watching, in one of your older CAs, you mentioned that a specific ERB wasn't special, and every other is special in it's own way. What was that specific ERB?

What do you think about Epic Rap Battles of Christmas Scrooge vs Grinch?

One reference you missed "Keep your fat nose in your coffee" which is a reference to the fact that Voltaire was a coffee addict

Dr Who and Doc Brown its my favorit, I would glad if could [Critical Analysis] it =)

“Baseball is wrong. Man can not walk with four balls.” XD

Can you please upload your whole reactions?

I like these

May not get it on the first listen? I didn't get half of those subtle things, like path, way, or Uber until watching this video. Gonna watch it again after this. :)

Shaka Zulu next!

"his anger manifests as the result of his anti-belief" that's not coherent with Nietzschean philosophy. I understand that your error likely stands with over-simplified explanations of Nietzsche's philosophy or someone's misunderstandments, but Nietzsche's whole end-goal was to eliminate the nihilistic despair that came with the death of God and skepticism, preaching thus life-affirmation and the awaiting of the Ubermensch.

Did he ever make the top 5 best erb battles? I cant find it