[Industry Ghostwriter] Reacts to: John Wick vs John Rambo vs John McClane. Epic Rap Battles- INSANE

[@LordLymen]

"I seek peace but I'm packin' parabellum" the 9mm parabellum was named after a phrase in latin "Si vis pacem, para bellum" meaning "if you seek peace, prepare for war"

[@burakcz631]

Ooh, I didn't know that, thanks

[@lachlanjones2793]

"lighten up Wick" is also a play on the fact that candles have wicks.

[@RobCrowley85]

The "I seek peace, but I'm packing parabellum" is an easy one to miss, but it's a good bar.

[@ithilnin123]

THANK YOU!!! I’ve seen about 10 reactions to this, and you’re the first one to get the “dinner reservation” line!! 💁🏻‍♀️👏👏

[@lola9425]

Check knox hill reaction!

[@ithilnin123]

@@lola9425 yeah, I checked his out about an hour after it dropped. He definitely caught the most bars of anyone, but that’s hardly unusual. Right? 😉

[@airforce9872]

The "Ding! Pop up behind you like toast!" is a reference to Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, when he shoots John Travolta after the toaster dings and toast pops up. Also Rambo in that scene is covered in mud like he did in Rambo II

[@xXSamir44Xx]

It's also a bit of a rebuttal, if you can call it that, to McClane's "The fuck's with the chest butter?"

[@akumabito2008]

In McClane's verses they added christmas bells. As they should, because Die hard is a christmas classic.

[@SparkimusPrime]

@UCuP-669UOjTnNYWhaqegGAg Tweet that ish to ERB.

[@osma77]

Obviously so, after all, John Wick laughed "Ho Ho Ho" :D

[@eggardman]

In the world there are types two people: those who say that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and those who are wrong (I stole this joke, cry about it)

[@marcatkinson4149]

This my third time watching, and I FINALLY caught the Expendables movie line, lol.

[@mykaldrew6531]

12:12 John Shaft is a Black Detective played by Samuel l Jackson. Edit: actual played by Richard RoundTree in the original shaft in 1971. Samuels is a remake in 2000

[@fnglert]

John McClane was savage. John Wick was epic. John Rambo was also there.

[@evanblake5252]

Rambo's was more goofy but he did have a few solid punches and the impersonation was good.

[@donniehamilton7797]

Rambo was better than McClane

[@evanblake5252]

@@donniehamilton7797 I can see why you'd say so, but McClane threw so many more punches and got significantly meaner, speaking from a battling perspective.

[@zombiebeast8521]

@@donniehamilton7797 McClane was easily the best one then the other two were meh tbh

[@BurgerSoup]

John Rambo was funny at least, his impersonation is very entertaining

[@BartmanKC]

Who won? We did. You are exactly right. this has to be a top 3. Incredible writing, beat, and caricatures.

[@bryansproles2879]

Shaft was a 70's "Blaxploitation" movie, where John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) was the titular private detective. Isaac Hayes wrote the Shaft theme music, where one of the lines is "He's a bad mother- ...shut your mouth! But I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft! Then we can dig it!" Check the song out at some point, it's really good.

[@decrepitspice8458]

I can't believe I have yet to see a reactor get this bar.... unbelievable...

[@johnromero6315]

@@decrepitspice8458 To be fair, a lot of folks born after '85 probably aren't very familiar with 70's movies at large. Hell, the only reason I knew about Shaft was because of minor references in modern entertainment. And those references are usually pretty shallow.

[@decrepitspice8458]

@@johnromero6315 I watch a lot of reactors and many are as old as I am. And I only know of Shaft because of modern references.

[@accywacky2699]

Like, I know people who are white as a sheet yet know who the hell Shaft is. He's not the only one not to get it.. But the man was a pretty significant pop culture icon of the times.

[@bryansproles2879]

@@johnromero6315 I was born in the early 70's, so by the time *I* was old enough to know about Shaft, I probably would've been 18+ myself (early 90's+.) You just pick it up from modern references anyway.

[@cristianalvarez5803]

The John McClane line "I have the detonators right here. blow me. oops" Is a quote to the film and also to John Wick house, which was destroyed by an explosion. Also the John Rambo line "I seek peace but I'm packing parabellum" Is a quote about the significance of the word "parabellum" --> "prepare for war" and also the ammo for his machine gun is parabellum ammunition.

[@charlieplays0078]

And also the new John Wick Chapter 3 - Parabellum

[@evanblake5252]

It just occurred to me, the bitcoin, hitcoin bit of Wick's verse works in two ways. One, just a good line. But also it's sort of a sneaky, clever rebuttal to McClane's line about the underground coin game. "Oh, you want to talk coins, here you go".

[@robinsadie3270]

Also the John shaft Reference is also mentioning the other John that they didn't put in the video John shaft from shaft play by Richard Roundtree

[@breezybri987]

I loved John McClain makes me want to watch die hard

[@tristantknight]

in case no one noticed about that "air vent" bar, he was actually in an air vent earlier in the battle. I wonder if this could be a next step for erb, 1 vs 1 vs 1 battles

[@Ayuima69]

Damn Zach Sherwin is always so damn good in these..

[@decrepitspice8458]

McLane wins easily, the portrayal of his character is perfect and because he was funny as fuck he has a huge leg up.

[@Cujobob]

They were all really good for different reasons. Lloyd’s voice was a bit too high pitched for John McClane whereas the other two were a bit more believable as their characters. Zach had the best flow, as usual, but was the least funny (though most clever). Hard to believe it’s been 5 years since he was last on one of these. This was definitely one of the best ERB we have seen.

[@chrisumana7644]

McLane was the shotgun no flash, hard hitting and devastating at close range. Wick is the butterfly knife sleek, syltish and finese and absolutely deadly. Rambo was the grenade a slow delay but explosive at the end. To me Wick won while McLane was savage Wick was flowing, wordplaying and barring at the same time and was just as savage as McLane.

[@ElijahW2003]

9:21 Also, Wick, candle pun

[@webcrawler2007]

Your reaction to this was awesome. I post this even before you break it down.

[@JSeriously]

I’ve been waiting all day for this video. I had hockey all day, so this was a nice surprise to come home to.

[@tinasturgeon4730]

Loved ❤ this! 🇺🇸 McClane

[@sandratjoa9082]

Praying for you. Hope you're feeling better soon. Get some rest!!

[@indieguy1988]

I watched as soon as it came. Loved it

[@michellelewis7665]

I love your breakdowns. I always understand much better once I watch you go through the videos. Get you some elderberry and vitamin c and feel better!

[@patricklawler173]

McClane - Best punches Wick - Best flow Rambo - Kinda sloppy but most physical.

[@Chualland]

There was a Rambo cartoon in 1986 that ran for 65 episodes from April to December. That was the cartoon McClane was talking about. McClane had the hardest hitting bars, Wick flexed to much. Rambo had 2 good bars.

[@osma77]

Don't forget guys! Came out a week before Christmas, features John McClane, used the line "Ho Ho Ho" and had the words Seasons Greetings on a sticker: This is obviously a Christmas Movie/Video. :D

[@Berto2K]

That last second callout to their movies was genius.

[@sheepsaga7235]

14:27 I’m not so sure about this, but I’m pretty sure that’s also a reference to John wicks games. As in the lobbies. Correct me if I’m wrong.

[@SparkimusPrime]

Hope you feel better soon! 🖤

[@AlexandriPatris]

This is one that I like more and more with each viewing.

[@michaelernst3731]

A dinner for two, is WICK code for: I need two bodies picked up.

[@jasonjohnson7406]

Also the dog's name was Daisy you see it on the collar in the movie.

[@jamesriemer6160]

I caught the knock knock reference. It's a horror movie remake that kenau did in 2014, the year John wick came out. The ending was 2 girls buring him in a hole except his neck and gagging him while the night is sent to his family.

[@topaazmoons1]

I agree with you that McClane took this.

[@kippercsg]

I find it frustrating as hell, when someone says they're gonna break down a rap battle, and they don't catch even half the bars.

[@CurlyCross]

7:54 little more. "I'll set it off like it's the top of nakatomi. I'll need a fire hose to swing on you you're so below me." I'll set it of like... the bombs set on the top to be set off. need a fire hose you're so below me. he used the fire hose to jump out the building and back in a few floors below. honestly all of Mcclane's is a great reference to movie. almost bar for bar is about the movie. Bubbe (spelling) is what the arrogant ass calls him right before the arrogant ass gets shot. The John Wick line with make a fist with your toes is a reference to Die Hard guy in plane tells him to do that in carpet and it'll make him feel more relaxed.

[@lolah.o.g1125]

Big fan of John Wick ❤️

[@edwardblair4096]

"No juice was used to produce these armies" is a rebuttal to Wick's line about Rambo using steroids to buff up his pecs.

[@CliffBeatsOfficial]

I know 😊 “arm- ies”

[@davidmernick7360]

It's also absolute bullshit as Stallone was well known to be on Human Growth Hormone throughout his the course of his career.

[@sarahdrake3007]

Love it

[@remtsu2081]

You missed "Argyle drop the beat" his limo driver in DieHard!

[@malcolmcarter9500]

I'm telling you with that flow if John wick had like one more hard hitting line it would have been his battle but unfortunately John McClane was just way too savage

[@erickpalacios8904]

"Lighten up, wick" also refers to candle wicks being lit.

[@jamesenglebert9149]

Will. Be praying

[@Squiggly667]

I loved the cartoon punk. I remember the Rambo Saturday morning cartoon. It was right up there with the Toxic Avenger toon. I mean. Who the fuck makes Rambo and Toxic Avenger cartoons? Roger Corman?

[@saltymisfit6566]

So who else remembers and watcth the Rambo cartoon show they used to have on Saturday morning for kids 😂

[@KaisersGB]

This was an epic ERB! I just relized the line, "Ship your Booby tripshome Rambo" could not only refrence his actual traps but also be a jab at his muscles. Because thier is the trapezius muscle group. 😅 or im reading into it too much

[@CliffBeatsOfficial]

No you’re right. His traps and pectoral muscles. That’s why I point it out 😊

[@KaisersGB]

@@CliffBeatsOfficial your right! now I feel silly I missed it the first go around lol

[@robertboyd4220]

There are definitely some you haven’t seen. Genghis Khan versus the Easter bunny.(which is actually stupid, but it was in the first season when they were taking the ho who’s next question literally) also there’s Donald Trump versus Ebeneezer Scrooge that I mentioned before. But I think you’re about ready for epic Lloyd versus Nice Peter one and two.

[@kbp213]

I’m thinking I’m back and I’m thinking your EXPENDABLE!!

[@wild5336]

You gotta watch Fredrick Douglas vs Thomas Jefferson. Such a great ERB!

[@gijustin5930]

This is so good.

[@Triviality]

Hey! If you haven’t already you should see the Rap Battle between Cuphead’s King Dice vs Nightmare Before Christmas’s Oogie Boogie! Not only is it a great battle it’s also just a really great song to listen to.

[@darcraven01]

you missed the after credits clip. its not important to the erb but its randomly funny

[@kirstyoneill6609]

Feel better soon Cliff, fingers crossed u don't have the vid again and it's a silly cold xx this was awesome, best 1 soo far I'm not a fan of rambo either lol xx

[@ghoulxghxul5091]

in the 80's / 90's Rambo did infact have a saturday morning cartoon

[@hectorfernandez.5911]

I seek peace but I'm packing parabellum (para bellum in latin means "prepare for war") -> I seek peace but I am prepared for war.

[@blakeeliassson1841]

suprised there wasnt a turn you into John doe type line in it, tbh

[@kennethwolff6082]

To me this is a win-win both are the extremists most badass ever no one else can touch him so to me this is the s*** awesome

[@ashleyabbey6982]

Battle Rap: Shaggy vs Crazy Dave (Animation vs Anything) ERB Shaka Zulu vs Julius Caesar

[@computerstar9883]

Can you react to Scru Face Jeans remix of Gnat?

[@8h8_illustrates]

Am I reaching? ...between your elevator and the mine in which you were trapped... I craft... Not vexed... Did they put minecraft bars in this?

[@fzcbh4698]

I agree with you that McClane is the winner. As for their films so my opinion from wrost to the best: 13- RAMBO III 12- A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD 11- Rambo: Last Blood 10- Rambo: First Blood Part II 9- Rambo: Part IV 8- John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum 7- Die Hard 2 6- Die Hard With Vengeance 5- John Wick 4- Live Free or Die Hard 3- John Wick: Chapter 2 2- Die Hard 1- First Blood

[@coffeeninja88]

This was a fun one. But, and I never thought of this before, are you a ghostwriter in that you write bars, or do you produce? The "Beats" in your name makes me think the latter, but your channel being about breaking down lyrics makes me think the former. But if that's a secret, I get it.

[@CliffBeatsOfficial]

Cliff beats is just a nickname I’ve had since I was a kid. I’m a songwriter. 🙏

[@iraford5788]

Great.

[@ashleyrogers708]

Do Ragnar Lodbrok vs Richard the Lionheart

[@sarahdrake3007]

Good

[@druzillakay945]

Ah you mizsed thr eick line, a wick like a candle or candle wick?

[@kratosGOW]

They called John Wick “Baba Yaga” but that’s not the Boogeyman. The slavic equivalent to the boogeyman is Babayka, not Baba Yaga. It’s so frustrating that they let slip such a mistake in the movie. There are Russian speaking actors there for fuck’s sake!

[@davidmernick7360]

Yeah, Baba Yaga was a female witch in Slavic legends who lived in a house that could move around on chicken legs.

[@noahyel]

The only vid I wish for you is your next upload

[@bloodwolfgaming9269]

"The only thing I didn't care for Rambo's lines all that much is if he wasn't gassing himself up, he was mainly just attacking McClane. I don't think he made any digs at Wick if any.

[@76Hawkeyes]

Next: Wick vs McClain

[@FaylunaRaRa]

Baba Yaga I know actually comes from a legend of a Slavic witch who flew in a mortar while holding a pestle... She also notably lives in a hut that moves around on large chicken legs...

[@spiderfingers86]

ERB's newest battle between the different John's featuring Epiclloyd, Zach Sherwin, and NicePeter

[@FaylunaRaRa]

I feel like this is definitely one of the most impressive ERBs of all time... Like, I don't even watch action movies, certainly not any of the ones these people are from, found the lyrics pretty solid though especially after learning a little bit about the relevant plot points... I'm not sure if I'd call it the best, but it probably falls somewhere in the top 3... I think most people from what I've seen say that John Rambo was 3rd place, but also it's a toss-up between John McClane and John Wick... Between those two it's very divisive... (I think Rambo IS the oldest though to be fair so less people probably rooting for him going into it...) Even with Rambo seemingly taking the L in this though, they still definitely did a good job on him...

[@Rangnathebloodedge]

Epic load as mcclane

[@bhoy1989]

1. Wick 2 mclaine 3 rambo But they all set each other up good Wick was slick mclaine dropping bombs rambo 1 liners haha

[@benitomartinez3026]

John Wick isnt the Baba Yaga. He is the guy you send to kill the Baba Yaga

[@MCU4EVA]

Do Stalin vs Rasputin next

[@AL8INOCARE8EAR]

You've gotta react to Brittle Bones Nicky by the Rare Americans

[@edwardblair4096]

"This is not some Saturday morning cartoon for you to ruin." Wasn't there a lousy Rambo cartoon in the 80s? I know there was GI Joe etc. so it wouldn't surprise me if there was.

[@SinzPet-]

I'll pray to tye flying spagetti monster for u m8 🙏👾

[@CliffBeatsOfficial]

🤣🤣

[@kratoscallofduty]

John won. You know I'm right. *Feel better soon, man. Merry Christmas.

[@kkay000]

Nah, I mean I gotta give it to John, cause he did have some good lines but overall i think John slayed it.

[@PhuckYT12]

Cap af, you know John smoked John

[@nathansmith5362]

One of the best ERBs. McClane destroys them in his opening verse.

[@tien5tri]

The line with Rambo ruining a Saturday morning cartoon is referencing to a shitty cartoon they made in the mid 80s Also McClane talking about the dead pup which was named Daisy so that was a double McClane won for sure to me.

[@chrishubbard64]

I think the winner is between mclaine and wick. Mclaine had some of the harder shots, but wick had good shots and some super smooth flow and wordplay. I mean come on, "And this sad broken dad jokin popo is no foe for the hurt you oh so bad virtuoso. Ho ho ho, to quivers and bows, im delivering blows, and when they land it wont help to make fists with your toes!" Meanwhile rambo was a terrible rapper, hardly touched wick, but had some BRUTAL shots to mclaine. I wonder if that was on purpose, as rambo has had some historically bad times with cops so might focus on the cop in the fight.

[@glamourweaver]

In terms of bedt burn COUNT - McClane easily. But Wick’s “only one to go three chapters without sucking” was so devastating by virtue of being 100% true, that it actually successfully vanquished McClane and Rambo.

[@DooM_Guy996]

I honestly think this is a three way tie

[@noahg5666]

Rambo definitely lost

[@kkay000]

@@noahg5666 yeah, I agree

[@jepito29]

1: Wick 2: McClane

[@pappo666]

idk to me mclane won had the best lines. personal favorite is Rambo but that impression sadly sucked and Wick well he sounded more like Nicolas Cage from Con Air Era both in sound, delivery and talk pattern, so it was a odd one for me

[@klaaibaby4814]

Wassup fam!

[@CliffBeatsOfficial]

What’s uppppp

[@shaun.carter]

I can definitely say that John won that battle!!

[@drautch]

Replace John Rambo with John Spartan (a much more superior Stalone role) and you would have had 100% perfection.

[@jepito29]

W without P&O is a double POW and WOP

[@dzintarscj1955]

Mozart vs Skrillex

[@mikemath9508]

i mean i'll watch a couple of reactions while i'm fairly sober, like you, and Scru, but when I'm wasted and end up commenting on no-nothings who don't know all the contenders. It was much easier on every previous reaction where it's _____ vs _______, now that they advertise a 3 way, where i was adverse to even WATCH let alone REACT to the battle, there's jerks out there just going off performances and not lyrics.

[@NikohSimonds]

John Shaft is also a action hero. Shaft, people say he's a bad mother shut your mouth

[@cnkclark]

You're just talkin about Shaft

[@davidmernick7360]

@@cnkclark And we can dig it.

[@ajmeyers5661]

Mclane had the first and last lines, so I that might be a tell on who was supposed to win. I think I liked Wick's lines the best though. And he looks a lot like Wick here too 😊 But the whole thing was great. Love ERB!

[@karlraycraft4580]

Mcclane I think won