Christopher Columbus vs Captain Kirk. Epic Rap Battles of History (REACTION)

[@shannonharris898]

The first time I ever watched this, when Columbus said " Im gonna leave before this battle begins" , My phone deadass died and i laughed for 30 minutes.

[@CaptainKnorr787]

Rip. That is funny though lmao

[@adam-y5q]

P..p00.mm0.m.pm0m0mmm0mm.p0p.0....m,

[@FakeforFaith]

​@@adam-y5q😂

[@slipknot95maggot]

"So I can beat this man like it's my job,we'll see how Isabella likes my captain's log" The bar is throw-away, but that delivery slays me every time

[@__-fh1qr]

Same for me but with "YOU SPAGHETTI EATING FUCK"

[@slipknot95maggot]

@@GFamPlayzz Hi, you're talking to the wrong person if you want someone to listen to you. Just thought you might like to know. Maybe not Yes, I listened to the diss song. Move along, dawg. You got me mistaken for somebody else

[@TheRealXoph]

I love how you typed it out😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gdolak123]

Isabella is the queen

[@JESUSWASAJUGGALO]

you found a way to accurately transcribe kirk's way of speaking. you're a goddamn genius

[@iank1234]

“And tho Captain Kirk isn’t real, is he not in history?” Most fire bar of the whole battle!

[@accywacky2699]

Absolutely, Kirk and the star trek original show had profound impacts on society back then... It was I believe one of if not the very first show where you'd find a black person, a woman no less, working alongside several other explicit ethnic and national groups (such as, gasp, Sovjetski Russians!) and other more implied diversity (back when this word actually meant something besides hypocrisy) all working together on what was effectively a military ship bridge, party of an idealistic, Optimistic image of what human society could be like in a more enlightened and openminded age. It's had its share of inspiring ideas that one day came to be realized with technological innovations, while most phones these days are of the brick or solid plate style... Pretty safe to say any kid who's owned an old flip-style phone used it at least once to pretend it was a communicator or a tricorder. Calling Kirk and by extension the show a "fictional stain" just cements the fact that the actual Columbus was a pretty damn horrible human being by most, let alone modern standards though I am not entirely sure if that's on purpose. Either way this was indeed The bar, bar none.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

@@GFamPlayzz don't yell

[@iank1234]

@@GFamPlayzz Cry More

[@StabworthyHeadquarters]

Bill Shatner went to space in real life

[@MsFlyingSnake]

Captain Kirk’s chair is in the Smithsonian museum. Yeah, he’s in history.

[@mikeysodead2466]

That's amazing

[@dantetrixter8810]

Not to mention Considered the first interracial kiss on tv

[@zeallust8542]

@@dantetrixter8810 Really a meaningless accomplishment

[@xGoodOldSmurfehx]

@@zeallust8542 thats actually what you think, to the black community that was a huge deal

[@zeallust8542]

@@xGoodOldSmurfehx Okay and? Until this type of shit stops being considered a big deal its still gonna be an issue lol

[@phoenixfox2697]

Issac Newton vs Bill Nye George Carlin vs Richard Pryor But only if you want bars 🤷

[@jamesenglebert9149]

Two of my faves

[@GFamPlayzz]

SCRU IS RACIST!!!!!!!! LISTEN TO HIS UPCHURCH DISSES!!!!!!!!!!

[@jasonmares716]

Yeah Issac Newton vs bill nye!

[@minecraftninja6407]

@@GFamPlayzz stfu

[@glacer8705]

I agree Issac Newton vs Bill Nye! Gotta do it man! Scru why you frontin on this. Btw you’ll probably find that one on Nice Peter’s channel. It’s an old one

[@KubanKevin]

It’s Kobiyashi for you - this line is easy to miss. Kobiyashi Maru is a test that all cadets are required to take. The test is an impossible situation where a disabled ship is under Klingon attack. The cadet can choose to leave and the ship will be destroyed, or attempt to battle and help but their own ship will eventually fall in the battle. Also, Kirk is the only person that beat the test and saved both ships.

[@Dieback]

It's well established he beat the test by altering the test parameters- basically he cheated.

[@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667]

Im not a Star Trek fan but that also happened in the original timeline that he cheated??? I thought that it was a new addition made for the new timeline (the Kelvin one I think that Is called)

[@itsOasus]

@@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667 It did also happen in the OG. In The Wrath of Khan he said he got a Commendation for Original Thinking. "I don't like to lose."

[@axelmok4_channel391]

They knew Kirk's delivery wasn't gonna sit easy on everyone's ears so they gave him the disses and made Columbus sound pleasant as an nice contrast. They stripped Columbus of alittle too much from his disses in my opinion and his second verse was far to short, it could of won round 2 if it was just a little longer.

[@wowprobeast7543]

"hey you paying attention? that means you didnt discover it" scru is so fucking funny

[@kaneconqueror6560]

It kinda bothers me that people write Columbus off just because there we inhabitants there already. If an astronomer decerned a planet we had never seen before, and found new life there, we would herald it as groundbreaking and amazing. The point is to bring knowledge to a group that didn't have it. In that time, people had no way of knowing what was across the ocean or if there even was anything there at all, so Columbus confirming the existence of another contanent and bring back that knowledge was a big deal. This may seem overly serious and i apologise, i simply dislike how bad of a reputation Columbus gets and how ithas become common to believe that he accomplished nothing of note.

[@diegothegreatthe66th]

@@kaneconqueror6560 Then we should celebrate Lief Ericcson day (actually would be more fun)

[@kaneconqueror6560]

@@diegothegreatthe66th he is to be honored, but it seems he didn't spread the knowledge. If he did, then yeah, Columbus would be alot less important, but when Columbus went no one in Europe knew of the americas and it was only with Columbus that knowledge of them spread.

[@user-xb8ts3rc9g]

@@kaneconqueror6560 It's more like if we sent an astronaut too Mars and he somehow ended up on fucking Pluto, also there's somehow aliens on Pluto and now Pluto doesn't belong to them anymore, also they're called Marsians now.

[@arinleoczko1250]

@@user-xb8ts3rc9g That's... Way too accurate, I need a drink now. 😂

[@connormilne5246]

Walter White vs Rick Grimes is straight fire 🔥

[@frackingfluidinjection]

i’m surprised he hasn’t reacted to that one yet

[@connormilne5246]

@@frackingfluidinjection me too it’s one of my favorites! Full of fire disses

[@Callidum4409]

Literally came to comment it if no one had, definitely needs to do it!

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Ye.

[@Degenerick]

funny how i slept on that one hard until i decided to watch both breaking bad and twd. honestly it wouldve hit harder if they did that one more recently because the diss on the final seasons of twd wouldve been 🔥🔥

[@Apæk.presenta]

I'm a simple man, I see Scru reacting to an ERB, I click

[@nicolaeentertainment8280]

Someone understands

[@luistheweeb5135]

Facts.... been here since beginning of quarantine it’s that shmRRRRRRa 💯💯🔥🗣

[@idiocrases9377]

Been here since he started working with crypt 💪

[@nicolaeentertainment8280]

@@GFamPlayzz Someone's trying to get a reaction XD STFU my guy.

[@nicolaeentertainment8280]

@@GFamPlayzz If you don't like scru....don't watch?

[@jonathanmcgee3500]

Since you love Weird Al you should do Isaac Newton vs. Bill Nye! (Seriously just read that in the ERB voice)

[@Doomthinkingman]

DMX with that Who We Be! One of my faves and a GOAT

[@dezmondoliver1515]

R.I.P.

[@Inaxces]

Secret word (___________) Adam VS Eve (humor) OR Joan Of Arc VS Miley Cyrus (Style)

[@MKDumas1981]

To be fair, discovering something doesn't mean no one knew about it; it just means you know about it now.

[@sigmamalehustonn1852]

I died of laughter the way Columbus starts the rap lol like bro just up and left lol after his greetings lol with a lil swag

[@KarinIris123]

So, just gotta say, I really enjoy your ERB reactions more than most. For one, your reactions are more than just "Oh Wow!" and are more why the bars have a wow factor. Plus having those longer pauses to explain encourages those to watch the original vids to see it without breaks. I grew up sheltered, middle class white and was not exposed to rap too much and subscribed to the jokes about rap not being a good genre. As I've gotten older, exposure and content creators like you have helped me learn about the history and different styles and how relevant rap is to various cultures. I sincerely appreciate you and the content you make. Thanks for the education!

[@troykearney9516]

Actually Shatner (Captain Kirk) was in Star Trek: Generations which passed the movie torch from Original Series to Next Generation.

[@spaxxor]

Scru, I got into the hip hop game super late, like last year late. I've got to thank you for helping me do something I love doing, but can't much anymore. I love getting into and mentally chewing on a new genre. It's channels like yours and others (you know who) that helped me broaden my horizens. Thank you.

[@alexnute9818]

Love the erb breakdowns scru! Also Isaac Newton vs bill nye is great, short but they got weird al and he goes hard

[@phoenixfox2697]

Al brings absolute fire. It’s almost like he’s been doing stuff like this all his life 🧐

[@geopelaez4536]

@@phoenixfox2697 right its so weird how good he was

[@alexnute9818]

@@phoenixfox2697 he spits straight bars in the battle 2nd verse is crazy

[@phoenixfox2697]

@@geopelaez4536 I see what you did and I approve

[@PerryThePlaticorn]

Kirk definitely won. You still haven't done Mitt Romney vs Barrack Obama bro. You know the presidential battles are the best! You NEED to do that one next!

[@Poss1]

Romney vs Obama - That's still my honorary favorite battle. 👍🔥👍

[@peters732]

That’s the battle where I started watching erb religiously. I never heard about it until that battle

[@pokelol97]

kirk is the worst rapper in erb history. ur funny

[@EmotionallyExhaustedPuppy]

Kirk's flow is tough to catch on the first listen. It does have a consistent cadence, once you get past how jarring it is. 😆

[@MKDumas1981]

It's not only accurate to the character (slightly exaggerated for effect), but also to the actor himself. Listen to Shatner sing "Rocket Man".

[@helvete_ingres4717]

I didn't find it 'jarring' on the first listen at all, I suspect it's not for anyone who's musical - it's syncopation, that's all, more technical and interesting than most of the raps you hear. And Shatner's exact cadence and intonation patterns , how else could it have been done? It's probably the most perfect musically-integrated impression the channel has done. I remember when it dropped comments from the musically-simple how it was bad rapping or off-beat - he's not off-beat he's just SILENT on the beat a lot, there's a difference

[@thatguy_5240]

the spaghetti eating fuck line had me dying when I first watched this one XD

[@stryderblaze80]

This is my favorite of all ERB time

[@nathanshivnen8545]

Same with me

[@ay_sher]

Mother Teresa vs Sigmund Freud!

[@Chasmodius]

It was second season, right? They had more resources available to them, so the video quality had gone up, but they were also starting to ramp up production, and their writing wasn't quite as polished as it is today. I think this one could have used another few weeks of workshopping. But the real problem is that both performances were hampered by the (funny, and arguably necessary) caricatured impressions. Hearing someone trying to rap like Shatner singing "Rocket Man" is undoubtedly hilarious, but it doesn't make for a great rap battle, in the traditional sense!

[@wolfranck7038]

Pretty sure it's season 1 !

[@tristanstrain9751]

This is why I honestly love your channel, because I have learned the value of the punches over the flow in battles. When I was younger watching this I didn't give Kirk nearly enough credit. After watching a lot of your videos, though, I always cringe when I know a short verse is coming and how disappointed you're going to be.

[@ScrapyardApe]

You gotta do Lewis and Clark vs. Bill and Ted for two reasons. First, it features (yet again) Rhett & Link. Second, it contains one of the BEST zings in all of ERB's videos.

[@saraharmstrong1577]

Not one of the best ERB's but one of the funniest. Awesome reaction.

[@Firereaper87]

That one seemed really short. Columbus barely said anything then Kirk comes swinging in and just beats the hell out of him.

[@machscga6238]

John Lennon vs Bill O'Reilly... The very first ERB

[@mastershredder5123]

Finally! I've been waiting for this 1

[@masedragon7]

Ayo love that I found this Channel just last year yet it feels like a lifetime ago, from the epic erb bar breakdowns, to the song reactions, to the try no to laughs. Always a blast with this man and a new single bout to drop CANNOT WAIT.

[@bboyven]

That spaghetti eating fuck line gets me every time. lmao

[@arlington925]

George Carlin vs Richard Pryor!!!!

[@MrsKirk2203]

I was waiting for this one!!

[@WakeRoberts]

I've been waiting for this one for ages!

[@alexnorton794]

You already know I’m ready! 🔥

[@moldveien1515]

Columbus is also a vastly misunderstood historical character, like people claiming he thought the earth was alot smaller than it actually was, which he didnt, it was just believed at the time (due to marco polo) even by very skilled cartogrophers that Asia was alot bigger than it was, he wasnt aiming to go straight to india, but he theorized there were islands of the cost of "shipangu" aka japan, which there are but it wasnt known, so when he landed in hispanola he didnt think he landed in india but in the indies, close to japan.

[@sirapple589]

I wasn’t expecting such an interesting comment from an Orc.

[@moldveien1515]

@@sirapple589 Well its not just any orc but gul'dan who was a very clever boy

[@theAverageJoe25]

He also slaughtered/enslaved natives

[@GlitchxPeridot]

congrats on 500K

[@DeathofTakeo]

I'm only commenting to tell you that I excited as hell for this single, and looking forward to what's shaping up to be a lot of them this year! Hell ya

[@kingscorpion7346]

the first time I saw ERB's video of this battle, when it got to Kirk's turn, I LMAO! Epic Lloyd nailed William Shattener's acting style perfectly, with a little exaggeration thrown in!

[@The280mm]

Scru please let the next ERB video be the George Carlin vs Richard Pryor one!!

[@heathharlow6373]

haven't saw future crap. but he left punching away., good, love you both. Congrat. Sheesh soon.

[@dankmark691]

i love this battle its one of my favorites so glad screw got to it

[@rebelliousrebirth5119]

ready for that new single too !! cant wait to see what’s to come to you this year 😎

[@nickplush9856]

Keep the erbs comin scru! Love em

[@user-be9fn8ch1o]

Comin in clutch with that content

[@RaeneDroppe]

Here for the ERB reactions! Also look more into the Stupendium!!

[@briancampbell1645]

Every episode of the series ended with Kirk on the bridge. This battle ended with Kirk referring to his ship's bridge. I don't know if it was intentional, but I liked that. Also the last movie with Kirk in it ended with a bridge on the captain.

[@naijaplayer]

Yes!!! I was waiting to get to this one, this was actually one of my favorites from Season 1. And I was one of the only ppl who thought at that time that Kirk actually won, so I’m glad to see more ppl agree with me now

[@slowkid460]

The way you paused on Christopher Columbus face beginning of his 2nd verse tells how good Kirk's verse was lmao 🤣 glad u react to these!!

[@rebelliousrebirth5119]

YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE !! SFJ NATION !! hope you’re good today (:

[@a_channel2545]

Fun Fact, Colombia wasn’t trying to get to India, he thought he was sailing to previously undiscovered islands off the coast of Japan (Sepengu on maps from the time).

[@kostajovanovic3711]

@@1g. "discovered"

[@landonshires6139]

I’m watching this during my zoom English class I wouldn’t miss this

[@dionsawyer2287]

Love the break down lol but I can't wait for the music you dropping

[@JLagoon_]

So how HASNT he done Einstein vs Hawking? That one is savage

[@chrishubbard64]

This is first season stuff, they were still trying to find their feet when it came to rapping so a lot of the battles are kinda weak for the reasons you point out and were trying to find the balance between impressions and rapping flow. Kirk had way better shots but god dang that flow was so awful to nail the impression I couldnt really get into it.

[@oogatz1917]

I like this one because the flow is so weird and interesting

[@ybyby3rdday]

The flow was hilarious to me.

[@dennisgraham9444]

Been forever man!!

[@Typhoonoverwatch]

that "spaghetti eating f*** hows your spice rack doing" was low key racist

[@kaleahcollins4567]

He was the first white man to kiss a black woman on television. Captain kirk and Ahorah

[@MrsKirk2203]

Uhura*, but yes

[@nicolaeentertainment8280]

I'm Actually hyped af for Anime to drop.

[@raze-x8093]

FREDDIE MERCURY VS FRANK SINATRA ERB PLZ

[@coolersky1174]

I agree

[@WildWombats]

i concur

[@ryancohen8529]

Scru you the best at REACTIONS YOU MAKE THESE BATTLE BE EVEN COOLER THAN IT ALREADY IS🔥🔥🔥🔥COULD YOU DO A HARRY MACK REACTION PLZZ!!!

[@Kratos_Theos]

Kirk has murdered Columbus with these lines, especially the last one 🔥

[@Sovreign071]

Just curious, what bar would YOU have used after Columbus' "Leave" opening?

[@Wigger248]

Man maxing out ads like it’s his last video

[@journeysa]

Gotta agree with others, Bill Nye vs. Isaac Newton and George Carlin vs. Richard Pryor are both AMAZING battles. Gotta check those out Scru! Love the vids!

[@ErisEntropy]

The spice rack line is actually so disrespectful, because since he found America and not India, he couldn't get the spice trade route he was looking for.

[@CrescentSickle]

Looking forward to the new single, Scru o7

[@stalelemonproduction]

"you didn't come in like you did first round" he's getting there my guy

[@Kyubii01]

This rap and the music were one of my favorites growing up bruh

[@AVoiceForRadio]

If you're worried about running out of ERB videos, I have to recommend Whitney Avalon's Princess Rap Battles series. It's only 11 videos at the moment but can help fill the gaps.

[@phreak811]

Mr. T v Mr. Rodgers. This one is really good.

[@supersolo6]

That Kobayashi (Maru) line was lowkey 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@wizenedguru6875]

I'm ready! Give us all of the smoke!

[@amberhoward7807]

Ahaha! The whispering makes me laugh harder... And isn't it so true...? haha!

[@Historicutuber]

I love this battle. It’s so funny

[@Truejota]

I’m. Sad he didt catch the Star Trek next generations line

[@xano2921]

7:09 still... That doesn't mean Columbus didn't discover the New World, no one in Eufrasia knew about the Americas, it may have been already inhabited, and the Vikings may have been in Vinland for some time, but they never knew it was a new continent, and the news never spread. Columbus was the one to open the new continent to colonization and trade with the Old World

[@lordofgraphite]

Good point about fiction/history, getting deep up in here

[@tito1189]

Yeah boy! Ima be getting lit at work with your new song bro!

[@torbk]

I just feel that Kirk's bar about Columbus not being an explorer what a miss, not a hit, because every explorer discover worlds that are already inhabited. Every single world Kirk went to was already inhabited. Exploring isn't about whether it is inhabited or not, it is whether or not the people you represent know about that world yet or not. An explorer can set out to search for civilizations that already exists, and trade routes, and still be an explorer, and that is what Columbus did. So I am not having that one. I do not feel it was a good hit or punch at all. It failed. Miserably. He was spot on though with the follow-up India bar. - You didn't give it a DD because of the rap style, but it shouldn't be a DD in anyway.

[@watermelonoverpoweredpizza6346]

I think he meant already inhabited by his own species

[@covans1255]

@@watermelonoverpoweredpizza6346 tbh that still doesn't change torbk's point

[@dominic5952]

Idk I gotta give to Columbus for that fictional stain bar but he had heat wit India shit😂😂😂

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Oh the ending is amazing. It definitely helped Krik against his wonky flow.

[@LEANOVERFLOW]

YEEAAA SCRU I SEE YOU 😁👍🏽

[@EddBanshee]

After you're done with ERB, there's always Death Battle. Plus there's the show Deadliest Warrior.

[@freakinepic3700]

That's actually a brilliant suggestion.

[@danielkano2197]

Kirk all day! 🔥🔥🔥🔥💀💀💀

[@Hanashibi]

Albert Einstein vs. Steven Hawking And Issac Newton vs. Bill Nye Take it from a guy, these raps are pretty fly. Your entertainment won't die. Give these guys the collage try!

[@ronsorage78]

Star trek made history several times. First scripted interracial kiss on TV. Diverse cast well ahead of its time. A positive view of the future with a Russian character on TV...at the hight of the cold War with Russia. It also gave young people of the time inspiration to go into stem fields and make many of the technologies that were fiction at the time of the show. To call the show groundbreaking is so understated as to almost be insulting. It's earned its place in history many times over.

[@comrade-princesscelestia4907]

*the cold War with The Soviet Union

[@ronsorage78]

Of which Russia was by far the largest state in and the center of. As the character was from there specifically I also used Russia specifically.

[@user-svqmbiv]

Christopher Columbus influenced centuries of human history. In fact, the first scripted interracial kiss on tv can even be tied back to Columbus. If there was no new world, there's no colonization. If there's no colonization, there's no slavery. If there's no slavery, there's no racial discrimination. And if there's no racial discrimination, there's no scripted first interracial kiss on Star Trek. Obviously just a tad oversimplified but I think you can see my point. Centuries of history, started by Columbus being a shitty mathematician, eventually resulted in Star Trek.

[@ronsorage78]

Do you....actually think racial discrimination was a strictly American thing? Cause I can tell you thats far from true.

[@ybyby3rdday]

Forreal. We have smart watches (communicators) now

[@mr.perfect2852]

This guy is so proper and so educated. Excellent content and genuine reaction.

[@sendouvincent8232]

Scru is back with ERB man. I want to see Scru's reaction on Rasputin vs Stalin

[@FizzyK-45]

I always love Kirk's delivery in this one, and yeah Capt Kirk win for sure. Lol Also, you should react to Mother Teresa vs Sigmund Freud, Oh and Oprah Winfrey vs Ellen Degeneres too, those ones were 🔥

[@DiGiTaLM4N]

You need to do that Freddie Mercury vs Frank Sinatra like asap. 👍

[@KingBeckwood]

Ready for that anime to drop bro

[@yukido42]

Scru Face must have gotten a new camera because that resolution is crispy

[@SmaugUKA]

Well, pretty soon you'll have watched all of Season 1. I again suggest continuing your Reactions from Season to Season in order. You'll have much less "this one is much better than the other" usually because the more recent one will be the better one. You'll see more progression and evolution, which you have slightly noticed, but forget from time to time because you're constantly jumping from Season to Season. Curve your expectations based on Season as opposed to ERB as a whole. Like you can't fairly compare Season 1 ERB to Season 3...they're almost 2 different things at this point. Season 1 was the Beta Test, and they continued to work out the kinks, designs, raps, etc until they've gotten to where they are now.

[@noahparton3210]

I appreciate your love for Star Trek

[@jasonmares716]

Yo you should do Bill Nye vs Issac Newton! It has my boi Weird Al in it. Must see!

[@DMofPuppets]

I see the DMX in the intro, bruh. Unfortunately, he doesn't because he doesn't know how to use a damn computer. That said, I'd like to see you do more behind the scenes stuff on ERB2 or, like you did with Scrooge vs Trump, revisit some of the ERBs you've done but didn't necessarily get every bar of. Thanks for the content, you a real one.

[@TheRealCshakuore]

I came for the *ERB* but I really want *Anime* so like yea... drop dat jawn