whoever wrote “i’m a man who comes from a higher ground, and i say dc is a whole step down” deserves several awards. i don’t know which awards, but they deserve them
@@derekhandson351 In music theory, each key, like C and D are something called whole steps apart. Therefore, playing a D then a C key, DC, would be a whole step down.
@@stevekeiretsu I never realised the electricity part! I remember watching this the first time, thinking 'Good diss'. Then I read some comments much later, and realised it was also a pun on D->C being a whole step musically. And just now I rewatched the video, read your comment and realised that AC->DC converters are also often step-down transformers. Plus the 'ground' pun. Oh my God. That's just gotta be the best line ever written for ERB.
@@daidarabotchi3891 top 5, but i would say the, "im dope as two rappers you better be scared, because that means albert E equals M C squared." is also up there. along with the 3rd darth verse. also the sherlock last line, and the first Shakespeare verse being a slept on one
"You couldn't walk in my shoes, so stick to your re-boots. With plots so thin, even I can see through." That was genuinely so well delivered by T Pain.
This has got to be one of my favorite ERB verses ever. It’s so short, but so perfect. “You couldn’t walk in my SHOES, so stick to your reBOOTS, with plots so thin even I can see through! It’s not a Superstition, I believe you got dissed....not even your tiara is coming back from this, Aha!”
Now *THAT"S* a killer line because I'm not sure if many people here knows this but Wonders is blind, he can't see; so boy oh boy was that a good roast. =)P
@@ghost7747 Got it, I just didn't know who did or didn't because it's a large world out there and maybe some people didn't know. I just wasn't takin' any chances, that's all. =)P
"Your Mrs. Independant but your first story is you running off with a guy" "With plots so thin even I can see through" "... never knowing how stupid you look in your airplane" "I have more grammies than your panties got stars" Wonder Woman stood no chance
This is honestly one of my favorites. WW comes in hard and actually puts up a good fight, but Stevie just absolutely deletes her chances of winning with every diss
@@horatiohuskisson5471 no no, the man who wrote her "MAN" as in one guy, was barely a man at that point, he lived with TWO female DOMS who pretty much told him what to write when it came to her, calling it his creation is hardly the truth of the matter, the guy was as submissive to women as they get.
Well one of the cores of Wonder Woman's character is that she always takes fights seriously and never backs down from them. Batman even planned to use that against her incase she went rogue.
@@superawesome5780 I think its also because she spent her entire life up until a while ago on an island with no contact with the outside world. It stands to reason that she lacks the ability to pick up on modern day humor and social cues that we witness damn near every day.
@@michaelfawcett7791 For the most part, yes he did, but WW also has a good point. If he slept around and had multiple baby mommas, then hes pretty bad all things considered. Now if he was a decent dad and used his money to help those kids then he wins a few points back. You can be a terrible husband but a great father.
they actually did! Wonder Woman looked directly at the camera the whole time, while Stevie Wonder would look around and end his punchline looking somewhere she wasn’t standing.
@@Palepetal some fights are written as not fair. I.e Justin Bieber vs Beethoven or Skrillex vs. Mozart comes to mind While the actors are for both Peter vs Epic they lines were written one sided to make a joke at the dislike it was for artists like Justin at the time and or for Skrillex’s music In this case while one is BY FAR the better wrapper they wrote lily some good lines in her verses. So while most people vote for T-Pain both on his fame and his verses had great disses. That’s not to discount what lily managed to do as well
Your family ditched you while you were alive, ohh shit world war two soon. Is defs up there for season 5, tp and scarlet fever, gotta catch em all, mighty morphin Micheal Vic, as hard as the wood that oak gave your mother. Season 5 has had plenty of hard bars.
Every. Single. Line. Of Stevie Wonder/T-Pain's segments is so savage, so well researched, so on point that each one is a greatest hits diss. Just one of the most one-sided annihilations in history. WW isn't as weak as Thanos in his match against Oppenheimer, but Stevie is hitting with pinpoint accuracy and lethal power every time he opens his mouth.
It's also the fact that stevie is literally having fun but slaying her at the same time that makes a whole lot worse. WW is waaaay better than thanos in fact she is actually really good, it's just stevie.. Is too much.
Yeah if you just consider her bars in a vacuum they’re actually quite good, it’s just that Stevie was just way above with his lines, not to mention the fact that his swag just diffuses any serious attacks on him
"I'm a man who comes from a higher ground; I say DC is a whole step down." T-Pain took this to unprecedented places with, arguably, the most layered diss/pun, ever. - He's rapping over a beat, but singing/rapping TO the melody of Stevie's classic, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." - Higher Ground was a big hit from Stevie's iconic "Innervisions" album. - The "step down" fits the Higher Ground reference. - DC is widely viewed as C is a whole step (note) down. - When T-Pain raps/sings the words "whole step down," he descends a half note (step) in the transition to each new syllable, thus going a whole step down. There's levels to this game. This contest was over right then.
This is what happens when everyone involved are professionals. In other words something you will no longer see in Hollywood or any other Mainstream Media production ;-;
There's also a buck converter, which is a *DC-to-DC* power converter which *steps down* voltage (thanks, Wikipenis), tho IDK how that relates to this rap battle, other than that line.
Peter: "So, Lloyd, what's the next battle?" Lloyd: "Wonder Woman VS. Stevie Wonder." Peter: "What? But the only connection is that they both have 'Wonder' in their na-" Lloyd: "DOESN'T MATTER! WE CAN STILL MAKE IT EPIC!"
The Cape on Wonder Woman is kinda dope. Normally the reason she doesn't wear one in her design normally because of her long hair, but that cape kinda pulls her whole outfit together.
I watched the wonder woman movie yesterday and halfway through the movie i finally got what Stevie Wonder meant when he sad ''your first story is you running of with a guy''
So, something I've always wondered, and Stevie here really brings it into question... Do the guests sometimes write their own verses or have some things to add if they're experienced with music or the character? Because this verse feels like something T-Pain had a hand in. Newton's verse felt like it was completely written by Weird Al.
Yeah a lot try the times the people playing the character will have suggestions and help with the writing like in the Santa vs Moses Snoop dogg had a big part in his own lyrics that’s why his version sound a lot like his own music And the boy that played Edger Allan Poe and Shakespeare was very knowledgeable in poems and the structure of how poems were made so he actually wrote both Pos and Shakespeare first versus in the style those original poets would write their poems it’s actually extremely fascinating and makes the battles way more better with the knowledge of how they’re made I recommend watching behind the screams of po vs king and he explains it
Even better is that it 1) Follows upon Stevie's "higher ground" remark 2) He sings the line so that nearly every syllable is a whole note down from the other which... 3) Means that he further emphasizes his original line and thus concludes his references Top 10 line for sure.
Imagine they're filming the rap battle...he delivers that line, then you hear: "CUT! That's a wrap people, we're done here. Come collect your check for this project and I'll see you all next time."
Wonder woman lost, but let's be honest, she did not suck at all. Stevie just had it from the beginning with the "I'm a man who comes from a Higher Ground, and I say DC is a whole step down." There's just nothing she could say after that about Stevie to top the flow, layers, and cleverness of the line, even if her rhymes were in fact, signed, sealed, and delivered on time.
Geoge McFry well if you think about it that's what ERB is, seeing what a rap battle between 2 random people will be. i mean who would've thought that a rap battle between Gandhi and martin luther king jr would be so good. just because some of the match-ups have been with relevant characters people forgot that ERB is a channel that makes rap battles between 2 similar people and see what happens
It's a catch-22. Honest Trailers recently called Wonder Woman an incel. Yich! Whereas that first story is sex positive and ahead of its time! Yet this number blasts her for not being independent. A girl can't win! What's her 2nd story, @@davidcelona8167?
From a different view maybe, I'd rather see Arnold vs. Sigourney though. Badass american Predator hunter vs. Stoic space pilot that survives possibly the most deadly alien species to be thought of
+Mabel Pines I watched that battle when it originally came out. That's why I said this was ONE OF the best lines. Not, THE BEST. There's a difference between the two.
Swagducks you're completely right. Two people sharing literally no similarities beyond their names and the fact that they're both carbon based life forms, other than that it was pretty far off.
“I’m a man that comes from a higher ground,” “I’d say DC is a whole step down” Triple entendre heard after years of listening on and off. 1. Physically higher ground to lower ground by one whole step 2. DC separated into letters and then viewed musically - D one whole step down is C. 3. When T-Pain sings “whole step down”. ‘Step down’ is sung F#m to E (a whole step down).
He's actually singing Bb to G, which is a minor third i.e. a whole step and a half, but it's still moving down so it still works lol also yes i know this comment is 5 months old shhhh
This is the hardest one to judge. With a gun to my head I would have to give it to Stevie for the line "Miss Independent, well at least you try... Your first story's, you running off, with a guy."
Joshua Gained Real talk!!! Lol. Then the camera pans to her in the invisible jet like da-doi 😳 I never understood why we could still see her in it. Defeats the purpose of it being invisible. They eventually corrected that by giving the jet a "plausible" backstory... It got stuck in stealth mode during the battle with the Parasites that destroyed Mars.
"I'm a man who comes from a higher ground *and I'll say DC is a whole step down* I've been spitting out hits since both Fingertips so use the tip of your fingers and read my lips." That whole verse caused this battle to lean in Stevie Wonder's favour instantly.
Am I the only one who instantly believed Stevie won when he said, "you're Miss Independent, yet your first story is you running off... with a guy"? Lol.
@@keithscott7869 do you know that phones have something called accessibility features? That's what I use. This is why a phone or a tablet is more accessible than a laptop. I can have the screen inches away from my face, zoom the crap out of a text, reply to it, and then listen to whatever I wrote and check there aren't typos (sometimes I can't catch them). So...yeah, accessibility features, check it out.
