Frederick Douglass vs Thomas Jefferson. Epic Rap Battles of History
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Published 2016-05-30
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Frederick Douglass: JB Smoove
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Thomas Jefferson: Nice Peter
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▼ CREW ▼
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Executive Producers:
Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist
Directed by:
Nice Peter
Co-Director:
Mike Betette
Written by:
EpicLLOYD, Nice Peter, Mike Betette, Zach Sherwin , Dante Cimadamore & Samantha Kellie
Senior Director of Studios:
Michelle Maloney
Production Coordinator:
Shaun Lewin
Song Produced by:
Nice Peter
Mixed by:
Nice Peter and Jose ""Choco"" Reynoso
Mastered by:
Jose ""Choco"" Reynoso
Beat Produced by:
Epistra Beats
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Video Editing by:
Andrew Sherman, Ryan Moulton and Nice Peter
Assistant Editor:
Josh Best
VFX and Compositing:
Andrew Sherman & Ryan Moulton
Director of Photography:
Jon Na
Costume Designer:
Sulai Lopez
Costuming Assistant:
Catherine Charpentier
Department Make Up Head:
Tara Lang Shah
Make Up:
Brittany White, Hanny Tjan & Angie Peek
Art Department:
Remington Brimmer
AC:
Kurt Schmidt
Gaffer:
Andrew Kurchinski
Music Supervisor/Playback:
Dante Cimadamore
Grip:
Andy Chinn
Production Assistant:
Atoki Ileka & Edrei Hutson
Intern:
Matthew Ciampa
Produced by:
Atul Singh for Maker Studios
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All Comments (21)
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For anyone who didn't know, when Frederick Douglass talked about the photos, he was bragging about how he was the most photographed person in the 18th century
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Frederick Douglass was against slavery but he owned Thomas Jefferson.
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"YOU LET FREEDOM RING BUT DIDN'T PICK UP THE PHONE MAN" I love it. Douglas came out not seeking violence, but seeking the truth.
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1:23 Can we just appreciate how much effort ERB puts into these. They took 7 shots of the guy playing Frederick instead of just copying and pasting one shot into all of the photos. That is real dedication.
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>”I’m so down with revolutions I invented the swivel chair” >google >HE ACTUALLY INVENTED THE SWIVEL CHAIR
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“Ah Fredrick I’ve never heard a verse I Doug Less” that line was so corny i ended up laughing too hard.
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Douglass’s lines about “the 4th of July is an important holiday but what does it mean to this guy?” Is referring to a speech he gave about the 4th of July. Basically in that speech he discussed how the 4th of july is when america celebrates freedom and liberation but at the same time they continued to enslave black people, so the 4th of July was just a reminder of enslavement for black people.
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It's crazy cause I feel like Jeffferson"s first verse was absolutely lethal: he just had the wrong opponent
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"and I ceased being an alien to your unalienable rights" holy fucking shit dawg
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"You let freedom ring but never picked up the phone" I come back to this battle for this line. Genius.
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This is easily an S tier ERB: -Filled with accurate and important history references (I never knew that the house on the back of the nickel was Jefferson’s plantation) -Humanizes Jefferson, but doesn’t glorify him -Great beats -Douglass’s roasts were so good that Jefferson used his entire second verse to apologize for his first verse
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Douglas was so powerful, that Jefferson spent his whole second verse trying to make peace with him
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I don't remember this part of Hamilton
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The line “not to mention third president” line is so subtle but very clever. Jefferson didn’t consider being president a real big accomplishment in his life. On his tombstone, it mentions other accomplishments (writing the Declaration of Independence, writing the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and founding the University of Virginia) but does not mention him being president at all because he didn’t really see it as that important
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Those last two lines, "I ain't denying your fame I'm just saying they need to put an asterisk next to your name" Perfectly encapsulates this video
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“This ain’t Louisiana, man I ain’t buying it” I love this, it’s a reference to when Thomas bought the Louisiana territory from Napoleon
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I love how legitimately pissed Fredrick Douglass seems here.
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dude i just got, "you died on the 4th of july, its a very important holiday, but what the fuck does it mean to this guy?" he wrote a speech called, "what is the 4th of july to a slave" wack
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"You finished? Okay..." And that's when Jefferson knew he was fighting waaaay out of his league... LOL
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can we talk about how "I didn't do anything to stop the slave trade or free my own slaves because I was worried about my money" is such a painfully realistic thing for a politician to say Edit: the sheer amount of people in the replies looking for any and all excuses for Jefferson genuinely boggles my mind
