Is the Epic Rap Battles series as bad as I assume it is?

I haven't watched a single second of any of it, but it just looks...bad. And all I'm basing that off of is the preview stills on Youtube. Anybody else know/have an opinion/refuse to watch them like I have?

Yep. They are pretty poor.

They're some of the best videos on YouTube.

Some of them are hilarious, others just have a line or two that are funny.

I've seen a few because a friend of mine watches them. They vary from chuckle worthy to boring. The only one that I really laughed at was the barack obama vs. mitt romney one, and I wasn't really laughing at the rap. I mainly just enjoyed the random absurdity of the end portion of that one.

Watch the Snoop Dogg one. Like anything in life, if it has Snoop, it's fucking brilliant.

the jobs v. gates one is quite clever.

I've found most of them to be really funny.

It's much better than what passes for rap music these days.

Some are funny, but if you've seen 1 you've seen them all.

Meh. It's just meh.

Not all of them are that great, but some are good.

So is there one you would suggest I watch, and leave it at that?

In the time you sit here waiting for an answer you could watch season one and see for yourself. What's the worst that could happen? If you have 20 minutes to spare you might just entertain yourself.

You're assuming I'm not multitasking. It can wait.

Most of them are pretty great.

I have no idea why this topic even exists. Most of those rap videos are 2-3 minutes long. Watch one and decide for yourself.

I really like the one between Hitler and Vader. It's pretty funny.

There are worse things on Youtube.

The comedy is hit-or-miss, but the actual rapping can be extremely impressive.

I find that it's really hit-or-miss most of the time.

Often the lyrics can be quite clever, but the execution just doesn't pan out and sometimes it is the exact opposite. The Gates vs Jobs one is pretty good.

lel

"Popular" YouTube videos all have obnoxious screengrab stills on them. It's a retarded form of clickjacking that (unfortunately) works. It's not high art exactly, but some of them are kind of funny. At least it's not that fuck Ray William Johnson.

The Bill Gates VS Jobs one was pretty good!! Most are just hit or miss but a few are pretty funny.

I watched a few, not too bad.

Some of them are pretty great. Hulk Hogan vs Kim Jong Il. Clint Eastwood vs Bruce Lee. Genghis Kahn vs Easter Bunny has a pretty great beat.

Very hit or miss, but when it hits it is hilarious.

Jobs/Gates is probably my favorite one, but my favorite single performance is the girl that did Sarah Palen.

@dudeglove: True, and also that idiot with his "trolling" kids and moms on Call of Duty. What a jackass.

It has it's moments like Snoop Dogg Moses.

I saw one when my friends were losing their shit over it and it is not that great.

Like many others have said, it's pretty hit or miss. When it hits, it's gold. When it misses, it fucking sucks.

Do you need someone else to tell you it is hit or miss? Okay, it's hit or miss. When it's good it's great, but when it isn't it makes you cringe. Seriously though, they are only a few minutes long each so just go watch a few when you have time.

Nothing wrong with them in theory, but they aren't really my cup of tea.

They can be very hit or miss some are very good though.

They are worth checking out, particularly Jobs v Gates, Columbus v Captain Kirk, and Moses v Santa Claus

I liked the Einstein vs Steven Hawking one, but that's the only one I liked. They also owe their sole to that Maker company, who Patrick had a link to an article about on his weekly write ups.

It took you longer to make this thread and wait for replies then to have just watched one or two of them. Just watch them.

@crusader8463: Perhaps I made the thread for the sake of conversation, as well? I dunno...

They are silly. That's the point. However:

Hippie

You got given up at birth

I give away your net worth

To AIDS research

Is a pretty sick bar.

"Hey i really wanna bash on this things, but it would be un-cool to say I watch them and I dislike them so instead I will pretend i didn't click the 1 minute video that I made a thread about"

Also, some of them suck...really badly, others are "ok" and others are actually pretty ok, darth vader vs hitler is a great example of something they did pretty right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFN_n-ZjTFU

I like them

Some of them are pretty funny. Most of them are meh with a few good lines.

There are some rap battles that are pretty good such as Abe Lincoln vs. Chuck Norris (mainly because of Lincoln) and some bad ones such as the Super Mario Bros vs. the Wright Brothers (Sorry, the Mario rappers sucked).

This thread is pointless, draw your own conclusion, there like 3 minutes a piece.

Is it funny now? Fuck knows, was it funny? Absolutely.

I was actually being completely honest, and I was legitimately curious, despite not wanting to feel like an idiot for clicking on them. And plus, if I didn't like it, I'll still get inundated with shit like that because that's how Youtube works these days. It's fucking annoying, y'know?