A Historian Reacts | Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa | Epic Rap Battles of History

Jeff Besos vs Mansa Musa! The richest person of our day vs the richest person of all time! Mr. Terry chimes in with historical information on Mansa Musa. Who won? You decide!
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[@MrTerry]

Who won? YOU decide!

[@akaoniryuu4564]

Mansa musa won by far

[@johnsurovik3693]

Mansa Musa won hands down.

[@ZoanBlade90]

I'm giving this one to Mansa Musa. Mainly because he went after Bezos personally, hitting him one after another with personal bars. He didn't spend most of the fight talking about himself. *Allah mode.*

[@tren_d_man4670]

Mansa did win just making it more personal

[@legendaryweegee5331]

Mansa Musa won as he had a lot more roasts thrown at besoz who spent a lot of time bragging about his wealth. In a rap battle, roasts always beat boasts

[@zackakai5173]

The guy playing Mansa Musa is Scru Face Jean, who also does reactions to ERB and (as I discovered through this battle) is an insanely good writer himself.

[@devonchafe2764]

Scru is a real one, it's fantastic to see him go from breaking down ERB's to being in one

[@k-master973]

Scru cut his teeth in the battle rapping scene, so he’s got a lot of experience.

[@DMofPuppets]

I love how Scru breaks them down, too, because most reactors look for the jokes, the flow, the wordplay, Scru looks at them like he's breaking down an actual rap battle and looks for rhyme structure, flow, and most importantly, disses.

[@jcurses]

Yeah, I agree with the other replies. Scru Face isn’t so much a reactor of ERB but much more someone who breaks down the lines and will grade them. Really good pick for Mansa Musa.

[@isrgz7286]

I discovered him from the cam steady cyphers

[@UkyoSensuke]

The Bezos line "your ship has sailed like the dude who came before you" is because Mansa Musa's predecessor disappeared, allegedly on an attempted Atlantic crossing with 2000 ships. He may have just been murdered though.

[@Kryojenix]

Ah, I didn't notice that before! Just looked at a BBC website article from 2019 about Mansa Musa now and the BBC article says that predecessor was his brother, who was ruler of the kingdom prior to abdicating and going on his voyage.

[@johnfraire6931]

I like that way you put it "No one knows the fate of his brother after he abdicated the throne. Legend has it, he rose a fleet of 2,000 of his finest vessels, all manned with the bravest explorers of the realm, all in search of what lies beyond that Atlantic Ocean..." "...He was *probably just murked,* tho..."

[@LearnedSophistry]

A bit late but another myth is that they were successful and landed in Brazil. There’s a decent chunk of evidence that black people in Brazil pre date the trans Atlantic slave trade a couple centuries later.

[@shanec3098]

I like to think he made it to the coast of the Americas then was murdered.

[@dragonmaster3207]

@@johnfraire6931gold comment

[@vincentschafer8518]

The first Verse of Bezos second round is actually really deep. Musa, Im Lyrically Lethal Im Relentless African Verse Immune. Taking the first Letter of every Word makes ,,Milliravi". 'Milliravi' was a term used by Bezos to indicate a significant mathematical error of a million dollars or more.

[@BiggusNickus]

Geez what a great catch. Would definitely have never found that out.

[@Lol-zw8ks]

Holy shit that’s actually crazy. I wish they used the sub titles to show that or something. Great catch!

[@paintspot]

@@Lol-zw8ks They actually DID use the subtitles to show that! :D They capitalized the first letter of each word in that line, something they never usually do! :) -Paintspot Infez Wasabi!

[@fish-froggs2662]

what the geez im always so impressed by how much thought goes into these raps

[@lk_c7214]

Hands down Musa won! A lot of people who don’t get the references may think Bezos won but his were more surface level shots, with most of his time spent boasting about himself. Musa’s disses were complex (Amazon burn down, gold bars you can’t escape, small step toward a different prophet) and really hit hard at the character and morality of an extremely wealthy man. Plus Scruface Jean is an insanely talented battle rapper and the amazing beat highlighted his great writing, flow, and delivery! 😊

[@alexwoogie462]

I dont think anyone thinks bezos won, even if they don't get the references

[@lk_c7214]

@@alexwoogie462 oh you’d be surprised! I’ve seen other reactions of people who seriously think Bezos won by a landslide. 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@alexwoogie462]

@@lk_c7214 wait.. what really? Also i remember watching a group reaction, i think renegade media, on thanos vs oppenheimer. 2 or 3 of them thought thanos won :/

[@lk_c7214]

@@alexwoogie462 Yeah, it often depends on the reactor; when the reactor has no idea who the historical figure is in the battle, they tend to only get the generic pop culture disses and miss the often harder historical disses or word play disses, and think the modern figure is the winner- hence people thinking Bezos and Thanos won. I look forward to the reactions of those I know will get the BARs. 😊

[@Shintigercurl]

@@alexwoogie462 skeem is getting roast for his reaction of it. mainly because he has beef with scru. i won't get into the reason for the beef but his reaction was biased as fuck. he cropped his own face over scru's, he didn't mention scru being in the vid once, he either downplayed and/or missed all of scru's bars, he went out of his way to say bezos won by a landslide and then even suggested that scru didn't write his lines at all. honestly, it was so damn petty that i lost a lot of respect for skeem after that.

[@josephschultz3301]

It's an absolute shame we don't know more about Mansa Musa. I can only imagine how fascinating the man's life must have been.

[@vamwolf]

"Musa, I'm lyrically lethal! I'm relentless, African verse immune!". It appears all at once because if you abbreviate the line it becomes "MILLIRAVI", a term coined by Bezos. if anyone wondering.

[@MrKaelas]

Mansa Musa by a landslide. I feel like he attacked Bezos, made great references, and his flow was out of this world (but flow wise I'm a little biased, because I'm a big fan of Scru Face and I know Lloyd can keep up with him ;) ). Bezos did well, but all in all, did a lot more bragging and swagger bars. I felt like when he defended himself and retorted they were some of his best lines but there was so little of it that it didn't save him in the end from getting the loss. One of my favorites was "You're getting ate up, should have battled me at Ramadan." :)

[@t5hammer871]

gotta admit, tho, Jeff was styling on Mansa

[@MrKaelas]

@@t5hammer871 oh he's got the swag down but he didn't punch nearly enough. And I don't like that in one line he was "I've never heard of you" and then 3 lines later was like "You're overrated". Oh so you have heard of him? Like I said, Jeff did good. Mansa IMO did better at punching hard.

[@JourneymanObfuscator]

The Ramadan line kills. I agree Mansa had this in the bag. Honestly I think that a lot of Bezos' lines feel strained mostly because there is such little material on Mansa. This gives Mansa an advantage because there is so much to work with on Bezos. As @Mr Terry said "Are we assuming that Mansa's mining operation was safer than Amazon's?" There is a little left on the table here and I think it is because we can't prove anything, due to the lack of information. Also Scru Face just destroys in battle mode. He even managed to make the Allah Mode line sound less hoaky.

[@GumSkyloard]

Jeff was more deffensive, and Mansa was more offensive, I think.

[@t5hammer871]

@@MrKaelas Oh for sure. Not debating on u there. But if you were watching this and thought confidence and style was a huge factor (kinda like how Austin Powers was) then Jeff kinda merc'd Mansa in this battle. All I'm sayain.

[@uncle_thulhu]

Scru Face Jean is another reactor and rapper. He wrote most of his lines, and you can tell. One of his favourite things is reacting to and breaking down ERBs and other rap battles and cyphers. Of course Musa won. Total bodybag.

[@klausunder8876]

Mansa Musa caused a 44 year economic downfall in a Kingdom around Egypt due to the amount of gold he gave them. The invented printer go brrrrrrrrrr

[@Dark-ch5cj]

Dude im surprised u didnt talk about Jeffs line about the "ur ship has sailed like the dude who came before you." I believe it was his brother (dont quote me on that iam not sure what His relation to Mansa is) got really obsessed with exploration and wanted to know if there were any lands to the west. There was a great ceremony and the guy got alot of ships and then sailed west. He was never heard from again. This is how Mansa Musa gained the throne.

[@ms_scribbles]

I love that they got Scru to do this. He's been such a fan of ERB and has done some amazing reactions, and he's a talented rapper in his own right, so it's just perfect.

[@4kgamingmurphyslaw586]

I love how bezos talked about the dude that ruled before mansa that sailed west to try and find new lands and never returned

[@adityashetti503]

i love how mansa talked about the dude that left bezos to buy milk and never returned

[@beepboop4103]

I like how Mansa Musa's actor didn't wear gold. Nice little history reference on its own

[@Lord_Muggs]

They mentioned that factor in the Behind the Scenes episode on ERB2. NICE job on the homework.

[@NadirHussan-s4k]

im not sure if this is the reason however i do know that Islam discourages men from wearing large amounts of gold such as necklaces and such to avoid being mistaken as a female so i think thats why but im not totally sure

[@Mercure250]

I mean, Bezos had some good lines, but Mansa Musa had a whole pile-on of stuff, the wordplay was just on another level, and the disses cut deeper. He didn't brag that much, while Bezos bragged a lot but didn't deliver all that much diss-wise, and when he did, it just didn't cut as deep. Basically, Bezos went a bit too silly and overall defensive, while Mansa Musa went for the throat.

[@ExarchGaming]

yeah that's cause scru face jean is a battle rapper. This was his element, which is why his delivery is so much more authentic.

[@TheRepty818]

I love that you added the "technically" when you said Bezos went to space. I laughed out loud at that.

[@MrLboydReacts]

his mining conditions were obviously terrible lol

[@zeallust8542]

Ayyy, nice to see you here man

[@minnman37]

Ayy the king is here

[@WingManFang1]

All mining conditions are horrible but it’s not like we have an alternative choice given our tech levels even today. Sure it’s safer now but still shit 😂

[@giancarlocaballero7684]

As opposed to good ones?

[@Kokangalang]

Mining conditions are never good, a workplace where you keep track of cardboard boxes? Can get much better.

[@JuneWrld209]

I say mansa Musa won but I may be biased because I work for Amazon and they literally made me work 12 hour shifts starting last week because of the holidays😡 now I want to do a rap battle against Jeff bezos!

[@josephgeorge5741]

Damn man. I hope your place is unionizing.

[@Songittheledgebog]

For the love of god please start a strike

[@malluk3065]

@@josephgeorge5741 Mission accomplished?

[@josephgeorge5741]

@@malluk3065 One down. Lots more to go!

[@wjhull]

Mansa Musa won for sure, though he might have actually been helped by the fact that we don't know nearly as much about him as we do about Bezos. Oh, also, on the Jorgensen/unicycle thing, Jeff's birth-father left his family to pursue his dream of becoming a professional unicyclist. (For real.) When his mother remarried, she changed Jeff's last name to Bezos to spite his birth-father. There's a great Behind the Bastards podcast episode on it if anyone wants to learn more about Lil' Jeffy Beez' weird early life.

[@prestonjones1653]

Today I learned that there is such a thing as a professional unicyclist.

[@ronin7997]

Bezos had mediocre flex bars at best, whereas Musa had savage lyrics shaming Bezos. Mansa Musa easily owned this one!

[@TableTurnip]

I remember once convincing my friend that mansa musa’s name was man samosa

[@SamOfChristendom]

Mansa Musa the richest man ever to exist. And I've only just learned about him. They say his slaves had more gold and jewels on them than the rich people they came across on his journey

[@lavellelee5734]

Fr? The slaves were richer then some nobles 😂crazy

[@MrMurdock86]

Scru did a fantastic job writing his lyrics for mansa musa, and basically wrecked bezos the entire time with multi-layered bars. It was really well thought out and clever, tbh

[@XQFangs]

Great commentary! Also, Oversimplified Pig War!

[@eveljkov]

"Musa I'm Lyrically Lethal I'm Relentless African Verse Immune" I'm happy they included a MILLIRAVI reference but I feel like Bezos could have used it further against Musa. Missed opportunity.

[@edangster]

The actor for Mansa Musa is a rapper/KZbinr named Scru Face Jean, he does a lot of videos on ERB and he breaks them down like they're real battles through his experience with battle rap.

[@riverroth3688]

Mansa Musa annihilated Bezos. Scru as a rapper is just, so talented, his flow, his disses, and the way he countered bezo's hits just beat the poor man. Bezos hardest hit was the accidentally killed your mom line, he came in clowning on Mansa and the very first thing he does in verse two is go 'okay you're gonna clown lemme just clown on you harder' with the lex loser line, and then destroyed Bezos through his family, far harder than Bezos did on Mansas. Hope the answers worth a ten outta ten for ya Mr. Terry, lol

[@pr0tored129]

Both had good lines with bite on the delivery, but Mansa Musa came in with RECIEPTS! I didn't even know Bezos changed his name! Not to mention throwing in a ton of funny lines with the aggressive ones

[@paul-ye3ut]

did you know about the mansa musa killing his mom

[@comradebrodolino]

Scru is a great rapper and an excellent person to watch if you want a more lyrical breakdown than a historical breakdown. He focuses on the 'battle rap' aspect of it and their delivery. In other music videos, he'll break down cadences, explain lyrics to those who won't catch or get it. Etc. Scru Face is just a dope ass dude for real lol

[@rozieredz]

I'm loving all the SFJ love in the comments. I love his videos and he's taught me so much about rap.

[@Vikkibro90]

just in case it flew over some people's heads, the latter part of mansa musas second verse where he talks about where bezos come from is a reference to the movie "8 mile"

[@Chezbigbird]

I feel like any line where you say Effectively “I don’t know enough about you to diss you” backs you into a corner lyrically. It’s kind of hard for Bezos to get equally as personal and specific if he allegedly knows nothing about his opponent because at that point any ultra specific reference would be admiring to his opponent being more noteworthy

[@mangalsingh3426]

Oversimplfied NEWWWWWWWWWWWWW VIDDDDDDDDDDDDD AMAZINGGGGG

[@justwanttofeedthemsnax2924]

I felt like a lot of people didn’t give Jeff Bezos enough credit in this battle based on a lot of the reactions and comments I have seen. While I still felt the Mansa Musa was the overall winner especially because I thought he was more consistent and had the better flow, I actually thought Bezos had more deep cuts. His accidentally killing his mom, inflation of the economy, and the predecessor that died lines were deep cuts in my opinion. I also thought the milliravi line was very clever. Although, I do agree that Bezos did a lot of bragging, for me personally it added a lot to the character but it still in terms of winning a rap battle affected his odds.

[@thewriter8762]

Oh dude no doubt. I don’t think anyone will see this as a Batman vs Sherlock Holmes battle. Bezos has ring presence out the ass. And he has very deep rooted bars but just not as much as Musa. For me I think the blue origin put it over for me. And the icing on top was the “allah mode” considering the setup he did for it. I will give Bezos his props tho. He did great.

[@KungFuMunkeyz]

Bezos did pretty well. But almost every line was a deep cut from Mansa. Al gore rhythm = algorithm, JB wouldn’t be successful without it (bars or otherwise) The stuff about ruining mom and pops are self explanatory. The 8 mile reference to his name, the “Peter pics” scandal, etc… The feed me Seymour lips was a great double, cause she does have some big ol lips but it also doubles into her running her mouth to her brother about the pics. The allah mode line was a great setup to a double, obviously the ice cream reference but also him “God Mode” serving Jeff Bezos Scru killed it. Lloyd/Bezos did better than people think I agree there

[@zachm2331]

It’s not fair to Lloyd though cause the guy that plays Musa, Scru Face Jean, a rapper and reactor has INSANE flow. 🤣

[@hawkeyefan4ever163]

My boy scru went crazy on it tho!!! Dude definitly deserved to be on this ERB cuz he killed it

[@stitchowi]

So Lloyd aint a rapper?

[@hailarwotanaz5848]

@@stitchowi Yeah he’s wrong about that, however SFJ demonstrated his only criticism of ERB heavily in this battle. The lyrics aren’t really for “battles” and use a lot of slick wordplay and writing instead of direct burns. “Leave that in the cypher” -SCJ compare their verses, SCJ directly attacked LLoyd while the other had a more rap-song based style

[@BiggusNickus]

Scru is an actual battle-rapper and it shows.

[@Haispawner]

​​@@stitchowi Oh he certainly is, Godzilla VS King Kong ERB proves that they still have fire in them. But yeah the insult game on ERB varies from devastating to _"Bro just throw a fucking punch already"_

[@leflores91]

8-Mile film easter egg. B-Rabbit rap’s against Poppa Doc. “This guy’s a gangster? His real name’s Clarence” “Now let me really break it down because there's more to him He ain't a Bezos, his real name is Jorgensen”

[@Acheroncontranydes]

SFJ admitted he only knew the last verse of Lloyd so he could do his second part. He was and has down his own reaction and he wanted it genuine. He didn't know anything they were gonna do with the green screen... eh. Just watch his own reaction.

[@chrisj2546]

🤙 SFJNATION 🙌 Scru Face Jean played Mansa Musa. He's a rapper amd a reactor as well 🔥🎵

[@NG-xm6vg]

Yup😊

[@justarandomdood]

I think it was a thrashing, very heavily in Mansa Musa's favor. Bezos fought back, but he just had to go up against Scru and Scru is just too damn good

[@Quortezz3]

Surprised you didn't talk about the accidentally killing his mom or the "dude who sailed before you"

[@CaloBrown]

Its Ironic that ERB lead me to this channel, but this time your channel lead me to this rap battle, it must've slipped under my radar.

[@allusiongg7386]

shoutout my boy Scru Face Jean, he played Mansa and it was a dream of his to be on ERB. He wrote all of his lines and delivered them perfectly. Love to see my boy get some recognition and love

[@fincombes5577]

As soon as i saw ERB made this video I was like "ooo! I hope Mr. Terry will have a new video soon;)"

[@Tyler-qz8eg]

Mansa musa won easily his bars went deep into Bezos personal life and hit really hard. all Bezos did was talk about himself the entire time and how cool he is and about how good Amazon is which is kinda eh for me

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

But at the same time, Bezos didn't really lose because he just didn't acknowledge he was getting owned. Which is probably similar to how he operates normally.

[@ivboneheadvi]

@@moblinmajorgeneral wait what do you mean by that?

[@Rasheed1494]

You know it’s bad when erb nails Jeff on the head with everything Jeff is the most selfsenterd person I know

[@churro3710]

@@ivboneheadvi He means Bezos even if he lost, wouldn't care since he's still a multimillionaire company and this battle was nothing of worth to him. That's how companies work, they don't care unless there is money involved.

[@danielbarker2522]

Yo, I havent seen this channel in a few years, the glow up is crazy! Congratulations sir

[@Johnpinckney98]

People think that Musa won, I agree with them. However, you can't deny Lloyd's devilishly surface level yet complex bars. Unless you know about the logistics Amazon uses, its not gonna hit as hard. Plus Llyod went the dorky route meaning the nerd references along with sound effects to back him up really sells the Bezos vibe. It also gives him an arrogant confidence which works in some of the bars.

[@G-MoneyBags]

Fun fact: While Mansa Musa was praised for his wealth all over the world, the local people and griots didn't hold him in high regards. They saw him as a foolish king who just gave gold away. Mansa Musa might be the most famous Mali king but most griots prefered Sundiata Keita.

[@akaoniryuu4564]

Yessir I've been waiting for this And mansa musa is played by scru face jean he is also a react channel he reacts to epic rap battles of history a lot and he was excited to play someone in this battle as you can see he never stops smiling he is also a rapper too

[@jackvanceyboi5496]

Oversimplified Released a new Video!!

[@blank_stare_productions]

THATS SCRU FACE MY GUY! YAY JEAN FINALLY MADE IT AND DID HIS THING! GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS MR.TERRY. =)

[@soular_wisdom]

The guy who plays Mansa is Scru Face Jean, he has a KZbin channel, you should check him out! He reacts to a lot of ERBs too, but looks at it from a more pure rap battle standpoint vs a history standpoint.

[@erichorne6175]

been waiting for this one

[@HXNZ99]

He DIDN'T bow to the King of Cairo. That's false.

[@BloodyBay]

No, no, Mr. Terry. You're not being biased. Mansa Musa definitely won that one! And Alexa is a bloody liar because of that. I suppose that Musa won because there are just so many more foibles and character flaws to Bezos, and Musa grabbed onto just about every one of them! On the other hand, Bezos' counters fell flat; you can't really slam a rich man for _spending_ and cycling that massive wealth back into the population, which is something that Bezos hasn't really done, as the abominable working conditions of his companies prove. (Bezos _could_ have gotten a leg up by mentioning the working conditions in Musa's mines, yes. But he didn't.)

[@darkoni3677]

The guy who played Mansa is @ScrufaceJean who actually is a rapper that did ERB reactions and they took notice and put him in one.

[@TDF56]

Mansa's brother was Abrahim Musa and is noted the first man to discover America. This was known from the fact that the natives of america were found using gold tipped spears and gold wasn't generally used by the natives they usually used flints or stones. And the voyage after which Mansa's brother went missing this historical incident aligned with the Natives having gold tipped spears. It's now known that Abrahim upon reaching America offered the native leaders the golden spears as a token of friendship and while returning back he lost his life due to a storm in the ocean.

[@Full2635]

His name was not Abraham musa, it was AbuBakr Keita. Musa is not Mansa Musa's last name, it’s Musa Keita. Mansa is just a title for “king”

[@mcpuncake3244]

I got an Amazon ad before the video 😂

[@thegrayshaws]

I think Musa took this easily. Each of his verses can be broken down into two narrative sections, where as Bezos' verses were just potpourri jokes/throwing things against the wall to see what sticks rather than anything

[@podemosurss8316]

Huevos (literally "eggs") is a Spanish slang for testicles.

[@elijahmorales280]

im so proud to see Scru on here, especially since hes a big fan of ERB

[@MrAnthonyramon]

I was waiting for this mr terry

[@jackbrown7047]

Not joking, I was just thinking I was hoping he would react to this

[@berkkarsi]

I love how talking about Mansa Musa gets Terry excited 😂 This was so fun to watch

[@ocean6828]

I was a little disappointed that Rockefeller didn’t show up lmao

[@drstrangejove637]

Speaking of universities, The backdrop for Mansa Musa is the University of Sankore. Also the actor for Mansa Musa is Scru Face, a youtube battle rapper who also reacts to ERB videos.

[@SaintDamain]

Scru is a student of the game, which is why his flow, delivery, and timing was so perfect. Bezos’ rounds were great, but Musa supplied a decisive ass whupping. I really wish it was more even.

[@victor_y1618]

oversimplified just dropped a masterpiece

[@shalekendar6759]

The BBC has a history podcast called "You're Dead to Me" which did a really good show on Mansa Musa.

[@WWllbuff]

New oversimplified video!!!!!!!!!!

[@18videowatcher41]

Mamas Musa killed it, Bezos had some decent bars but was mostly just cringey.

[@Markbro101]

Learned a few things. Was a good video reaction!

[@aceaids4000]

As deep as Musa's disses and flows went, I still think he won the moment he said "Hey Lex Loser!"

[@kaneforeman3279]

I want to see Mr Terry on ERB next

[@Csnich96]

Scru Face Jean is another reactor on YT, which makes me hope they'll get you on to do an ERB one day!

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

Just so people know, there's no actual evidence that Mansa Musa caused major inflation in Cairo: that only comes from one source, and the recorded prices of goods from the same time don't bear the remark out. That said, it's certainly possible that things like certain meats and spices saw their price increase temporarily, and people probably whined up a storm.

[@MrLolx2u]

Not only did Mansa Musa really opened Timbuktu as the learning center of the world for Islamic culture, when he went on his extravagant journeys to Mecca for pilgrimages, he would donate large sums of supplies and money to build education centers and even mosques across the entire North Africa cape in modern countries like Morocco, Libya, Egypt and even to the far east of the Middle East like Jordan and so on. Also, it was speculated that the way he brought that much gold to Cairo and basically tank the economy was his secondary objective in the 1st place. Cairo at that point has been the main source of gold "farming" and it's the biggest hub where gold was traded. Musa wanted people to visit Timbuktu and Gao to trade gold and thus while along the way, the only way he could do is toss as much gold as he had to the Egyptians, leave to Mecca and then come back to borrow at extremely high interest with extremely high amounts of gold to effectively flood the market to devalue it in one move then again wipe out existing stock totally which sank the value to practically nothing. Might seem like a dick move but that did cripple Egypt's economy massively.

[@niamhcostello4766]

Yesss please make more!!! Even though there are some not really history related (like the Harry Potter vs Luke Skywalker), I will still love to see your reaction😁

[@Vampirecronicler]

Mansa Munsa won simply on the fact that his dises we're easier to understand. Thats a thing with these battles, when you don know much about either one, the person who has easier to relate dises wins.

[@xGoodOldSmurfehx]

thats too bad for you because i understood both sides and Bezos was actually on equal part, one or two heavy punches more on his side too what im saying here is that Bezos ultimately managed to come up on top if you can actually catch all the clever references such as Milliravi hidden in that line at 9:06

[@TheVarrio]

@@xGoodOldSmurfehx you really didn't understand anything if you think Jeff won lmao

[@goldencalf13]

@@xGoodOldSmurfehx also one of the best lines by Bezos (at least when it comes to being universally understood) is just blatantly untrue. Mansa Musa refused to bow to the king of Cairo because he would only bow to God.

[@stitchowi]

@@goldencalf13 That could be Jeff not being religious

[@dermanater]

You forgot to mention this: "Your ship has sailed, just like the dude who came before you" Mansa Musa's father sailed across the Atlantic and never returned

[@timbrwolf1121]

So Lloyds first bar in the second verse spelled MILLIRAVI. Which others point out means a significant mathematical error of more than a million dollars or something. However BEFORE this. It was basically the headline of an internal counter report to an analysts article saying that amazon was going to fail. MILLIRAVI meant Meaningful Innovation Leads, Launches, Inspires Relentless Amazon Visitor Improvements

[@MaraTheWolf]

Mansa muna destroyed, bezos didn't stand a chance with his weak first verse, bezo did pick it up in his second verse, but it was already too late

[@rsparks1104]

It feels disingenuous to call this a reaction channel. As a historian, you aren't just giving your immediate feelings on the matter while the video plays for easy clicks, it's more like we're studying the lyrics together. A+ work.

[@Tyler_Stevenson14]

Mr Terry you got to react to the new over simplified video!

[@chandlerholloway2047]

Scru Face Jean is both a rapper and reactor as many people have stated already. Him and Epic Lloyd have worked on a couple things together before this. Scru has always wanted to be on an Epic Rap Battle and he is super happy he got a chance. He has a vlog on his channel that tracks his experiences. It's fantastic that he was able to do this. Oh and Mansa Musa smoked him, even if we ignore the bias.

[@tompayne3200]

Tbf to Jeff we have a lot less info on musa so harder to Diss him

[@davidbruesehoff1031]

Have you seen Oversimplified's new Pig War video yet?

[@PrimeVictor-01]

Mansa Musa is absolutely S tier in Civ 6 I don't know what they're talking about.

[@jalontf2]

A lot of Scru Face Jean fans were waiting intently for this

[@hank780]

Good video, as always. As a suggestion for the next video, I have three words: Oversimplified has posted

[@dynamosaurusimperious2718]

Amazing MTH video

[@LB1973]

in for the 7000 comments that OverSimplified has posted....

[@hydraco.9423]

Have you reacted to Extra History about Mansa Musa and the Mali empire?

[@impatientpotato566]

Oversimplified posted!!!!

[@Michellejosph]

before i watched this battle for the first time when it came out i had to do a wiki search to find out a bit about mansa musa as i had never heard of him

[@sick0em0more0]

One of the more commonly missed bars in the one was when Jeff said "Musa I'm Lyrically Lethal, I'm Relentlessly African Verse Immune". MILLIVARI has been used as the base of many acrostics at Amazon, used to signify that the topic currently under discussion was a mathematical or computational error of greater than $1 million. Nice Easter egg there

[@danielslone1560]

So Bezos was adopted by a wealthy Brazilian businessman which is how he got the Bezos name also Jeff's real dad I believe was something like a circus performer who rode unicycles an eventually opened his own unicycle shop so this ties in to the Blue Origin line making it a double since blue is often associated as in sad or depressing so saying that's a Blue Origin meaning Jeff's origin is sad due to his father leaving an him being adopted also of course Blue Origin being the name of his Space Company

[@EncoreBetch]

Holy shishkebab, I never noticed who plays Mansa Musa! Scru Face Jean is an awesome guy, sweet reaction!

[@darrylehm]

Mansa Musa, not even close. Covered a lot of ground, and his punchlines were much deeper and nuanced.

[@alexrandall8557]

That finish by Bezos was so clean but Mansa Musa(scru face jean) was performing so well every single line. Easy win

[@gamecatharsis9600]

If you want more Mansa Musa content you should check out Puppet History. The whole series is great (there is some crass language).

[@LoganB591]

Oversimplified posted