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About Epic Rap Battles of History
Hometown
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Formed
2010
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap
Comedy hip-hop duo Epic Rap Battles of History began as a live improv show in which Peter “Nice Peter” Shukoff and Lloyd “Epiclloyd” Ahlquist would battle-rap as famous people.
∙ The first Epic Rap Battles of History videos launched in late 2010, kicking off with “John Lennon vs. Bill O’Reilly.”
∙ Beginning with 2012’s “Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney,” the duo have had 11 Gold-certified singles.
∙ Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2, released in 2013, reached No. 11 on Billboard’s Top Comedy Albums chart.
∙ Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, and “Weird Al” Yankovic are among the many celebrities who have guested on episodes.
∙ Shukoff and Ahlquist had cameo roles as battle-rapping seagulls in 2015’s The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
∙ The series has been nominated twice for Primetime Emmy Awards—in the Outstanding Short Form Variety Series category in 2016 and 2017.
Members of Epic Rap Battles of History include, or have included, Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD.
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