Babe Ruth vs Lance Armstrong. Epic Rap Battles of History.
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It’s just Babe now, cause his second verse was absolutely ruthless
Goddamn this comment needs more recognition
@@st.castle5267 fact
@@st.castle5267
Someone already made a similar joke years ago
Yes
so true
Ruth's second verse bashed, bludgeoned, ground, burned, incinerated, and disintegrated Armstrong.
ruthless.
one ball
@@Fryedatsallfreak Not gonna lie they had us the first half
Well, Armstrong is freakin' extinct!
Agreed!
I think what makes Ruth’s second verse so powerful (and my favorite all time erb verse) is the fact that he is getting angrier as it builds up.
true
another kfp fan :O
Alexander the Great’s is great that way too
Vader's fired up is good too
Deadpool did that too
The best slam is Ruth's final verse where he hits Lance for forgetting what real sportsmanship was. It's not that clever of a word play, it's just brutally true. Because of that, it cuts right to the core.
it's bullshit, everyone at high level takes ped's
There was a Tour de France in the mid 2000s where, 10 years after it had concluded, something like the top 27 cyclists had all tested positive for PEDs.
Literally every decent cyclist was doping hard, and the organization turned a blind eye to it because their record-breaking times were drawing a ton of positive attention to the sport.
@@intimpulliber7376 but L**** made a career out of promoting himself as clean. He pressured every person around him to help him cheat and then threatened if they faltered. He was not just a cheat he was a drug lord... He was involved in supply, outsmarting the testers and the cover-up. He is the worst cheater in sports history.
@@stephenthorne6953 ah, I see
It IS that clever of a word play
Babe's second verse is ironically the most ruthless verse in ERB history.
I see what you did there.
Ruth-less I see you
it's up there with monroe vs cleopatra.
I'mma be that guy and say the word you're looking for is coincidentally not ironically
@@squatchjosh1131 Woooosh
Holy shit Ruth was savage as fuck.
😂😂😂😂
Damn, I see you everywhere
100
you could say he was.. ruthless.
yeeaaaaah!
What made Babe Ruth's second verse so amazing was that Armstrong had done really well so far. It wasn't a curbstomp like Sherlock Holmes vs. Batman - both characters rapped really well. So for Ruth to go all out and destroy Armstrong in his second verse after a relatively even match made it all the better.
Exactly. Ruth didn't destroy Armstrong if we are looking at this overall but with such a strong ender ur inclined to believe that, especially when it looks like Armstrong is gonna win in his second verse
@@himlolo It's like a suprise multi-stage bossfight - but in a rap battle.
Ya, the moment you hit a home run on them during a rap battle you win
Well said, well said. It's one of the best second verses in thewhole ERB library, helped out by the music swelling through the first few lines. Not as fast as Shakespeare's, lacking the sick flow and rhymes of Blackbeard's, but this second verse is right up there with both of Freddie Mercury's with how Done Fucking Around they are.
@@ApoCalypsoTHEN Totally agree Freddy Mercury's verse and this feel like equals to me.
I love the "You forgot what real sportsmanship was" line because you can tell that Babe is legitimately offended at Lance's actions, especially when he called himself the "pinnacle of physical condition"
Edit: I also love how Lance is visibly intimidated during that line
I know right?
Yeah, maybe old school athletes had their problems, but they did have a lot better codes of conduct and such when it came to playing the sports.
Nowadays there's so many roid users in many sports that it's all but just accepted.
I heard that EpicLLOYD got a little too serious when they were recording that part of Babe's second verse
@@MrJTGaming got a source for it?
@@chubbyninja89 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal#:~:text=The%20Black%20Sox%20Scandal%20was,syndicate%20led%20by%20Arnold%20Rothstein.
* hears Armstrong’s second verse *
“Damn I think he wins”
* hears Ruth’s second verse *
“well...”
*Y e s. B u t a c t u a l l y. N o*
Im the 1 thousand like
Shi*
"Set records before black men could compete"
That's racist
"Just think what you could have done if you'd actually trained"
Acknowledging Ruth was great without even training? Lance racked up negative points in verse 2. And verse 1 for that matter. He was almost as big a loser in this rap battle as his career.
oh yeah! you got me on that one :-)
*Hears Ruth's second verse*
It's supposed to be a rap battle, not brutally destroy your opponent.
That's the whole point of a rap battle: Verbally decimate your opponent
It's Babe Ruth! What did you expect?
@@bluesrike But he didn't have to do him like that
@@bluesrike no no no, you see "battle" implies that armstrong could fight back.
“Look how they massacred my boy.”
The last verse was so brutal that Lance's cancer came back just to mercy kill him.
That was brutal, bro,lol!
Hahaha cheers mate
Win
Ouch
What if he survives it again
"Yer' out, with three strikes! And just one ball."
EASY MAN, THAT BOY HAD A FAMILY!
He also had a couple....
A couple of balls.....
Maybe Babe knocked one out out of the park? ⚾
And babe had no family
@@CliftonPhotographer he lost one to cancer.
Jordan Wolfson
*had
Flex Tape can’t fix that
"While you hang your head in shame and disgrace because / You got lost and forgot what real sportsmanship was."
Sometimes the best disses aren't the ones with the cleverest wordplay or the edgiest insults, but the ones that are just.. true.
+Leon Mire that whole verse is so damn cold man... bc it was so true. man. that is deff the best verse Lloyd has spit
+Leon Mire The verse was cold, but the burn in Armstrong was truly hot
+Leon Mire I don't know Lance armstrong very well....what is this referring to?
what happend....?
Tom Jerry A few years ago, he was found to have used performance-enhancing drugs to win his biking championships. So Ruth calls him a cheater who ought to be ashamed of himself.
+Leon Mire ah...thanks
*Hears Ruth's second verse*
Yes, Officer, that verse right there.
Roofl
@@kevinpruett6424 nope
@@firestrikeriii5043 hideous Troll? Yep
now show me on the doll where the verse touched you
Babe Ruth’s second verse might literally be a contender for one of the best ERB verses in history
I disagree tbh
@@normalhuman78-53been watching erb literally since hitler vs Vader 1. with that being said, im 23 now and Ruth’s second round is one i still remember word for word lol
@@animaIpath the flow in Ruth’s verse is just too lacking for me to consider it one of the best, especially when he says “forgot what real sportsmanship was” it completely disrupts the flow and doesn’t fit at all
@@normalhuman78-53 Can a human have an opinion as markedly, provably wrong as this? Guess they can.
@@megashark1013 just listen to Ruth’s verse, he’s trying so hard to cram some of those words in
And I thought Oppenheimer’s second line was nuclear...
Paul Gibson nice one!
@@hypnodance the astronaut you are thinking of is Neil Armstrong
How about the astronaut against Luke Skywalker?
Wow a pun
No i am become deaf 💣 drop
100% of comments- “Ruth 2nd verse was the best verse ever”
And I’m not gonna deny it
More like 90% but apart from that you're right
don't get it why people think Ruth’s second verse is that good.
Hyoroemon Meto did you not hear the verse?
Everyone talks about his second verse but Lance's second verse was fire as well
I will
I had forgotten how absolutely brutal Ruth’s second verse was. I think that’s genuinely the most brutal ERB verse ever. Not just cause of what he said, but HOW he said it. Armstrong is always pissed like he’s roid raging and his anger at Ruth is how Ruth never seemed to really try while he tried his hardest tovthe point of cheating when he felt it still wasn’t enough, but Ruth is angry because of exactly what happened: “you got lost and forgot what real sportsmanship was” and ut summarizes alotta the firshand accounts of who Ruth was, being a guy who very much difnt care about breaking records, for him it was just a nice bonus to living an athlete star life, but he was always very big on sportsmanship. Lance was angry because of what Ruth didnt do, but the things he didnt do and the selfishness he showed and the hedonistic lifestyle he lived really only hurt Ruth himself. Ruth was upset because of what Lance DID do, and Lance hurt far more people than just himself because of his selfishness.
And ALL of the above is pretty much conveyed just by how they delivered their lines. Season 2 really was just full of brutally hard hitting bits like this...
I love these kinds of analysis of this series so much
Ruth’s 2nd verse and Cleopatras miscarriage line were the most brutal lines in ERB
I feel like most of Armstrong's lines were complimenting Ruth. Being fat, unhealthy and untrained, coming up from destitute roots and he still became a legend with those working against him.
"You set records before black men could compete, are you kidding me? That's like having a pasta contest without Italy!" That right there is a truly underrated verse though.
@@someonerandom704 Yes, probably the most stinging one since it is an actual criticism of Ruth's legacy today.
@@kennellfrederick4367 Ruth was against segregation though he wanted to complete against the best but couldn’t
@johnhenry4844 and in someway he still is, he's still amongst the top 10 baseball players of all time. It's just a shame he couldn't compete against them in person though.....
@@eatenjaguarjaguareaten3367 Only Hank Aaron legitimately beat him. It took another player on steroids to surpass both.
Did anyone else notice in Babe's 2nd verse he's both the batter and the pitcher, just like in real life... and he gets pissed and throws his glove when the he hits a home run off himself
Yeah and the tantrum is great! Loool
He also references it in the verse "cause if you step to Ruth on the mic, I'll fan your fancy bike and all..." fanning, for those who don't know, being striking out a batter.
The one time he was beaten by someone.
Babe Ruth's 2nd verse = one of ERB's best.
DavidSSabb I second that.
DavidSSabb Yeah, no question; potent moment for sure...
+DavidSSabb no doubt
I third that
Agreed. Easy top 3.
1:27 the look on Armstrong's face, clearly he was as unprepared for that 2nd verse as the rest of us.
I can’t get over how well Lloyd portrayed the anger Babe’s voice, at that point it wasn’t about winning the battle. It was about teaching a lesson
'While you hang your head in shame and disgrace because, You got lost and forgot what real sportsmanship was"
This line gives me chills. You durn fu*cked up Armstrong. And you know it.
And if you don't know, now you know, nigga.
what annoys me is that nearly every other cyclist dopes too.
they were just jealous coz he did better than the rest of them
+abdikadir hashi he did steroids.... they took away his awards when he confessed that
amen
Booker1912 definitely
"Filled with more artificial ingredients than a Baby Ruth."
I feel like this line has been under appreciated.
+Fatboyftw32 Yesterday I found a piece of chocolate in the supermarket called "Baby Ruth" Then I watched this..
+Fatboyftw32 first heard of baby ruth from goonies haha
Yes.... It has
+Fatboyftw32 Most proberbly don't give much attention to it because they don't get it. It's one of the best lines ever.
This entire battle is underappreciated
I think what makes Babe's second verse hit so hard is how visibly frightened Armstrong was. Like, my dude was scared.
Almost ten whole years back, and this is still the best ERB ever made. And I believe it all comes down to the raw emotion and anger both have for each other. Lance despises Babe Ruth, because he just sees a fat lazy bum who never took baseball that seriously, never tried his heart out like Armstrong did. Meanwhile Ruth is furious at Lance for caring so much he threw away sportsmanship and cheated. It's such a perfect matchup for that exact reason, and I believe that unbridled anger is what makes Babe Ruth's last verse one of the hardest hitting in the entire run of Epic Rap Battles.
I think the match-up is also meant to be cancer athletes. One survived, one didn't.
Lance Armstrong would have won if it weren't for the savagery in Ruth's second verse.
Babe ruth makes me moister than an oyster
Xion Dominagus this may not be the comment i wanted to say, but that... what you just said...was hella gay
@@PapaStroble It's only gay if you like it.
It's still gay nigga I ain't gay so, yeah it's still gay
That verse was so overrated
Honestly ... I think Babe Ruth's second verse is the best verse in all of ERB
katanabluejay ive watched everyone multiple times, many 15 to 20 times at least, likely more. thatsecond verse with the creshendo was sick af. epic loyd is litterally the heartbeat of the success of erb.
Agreed
Yea, it's not. You're being subjective.
how would one objectively judge music lmao
Well, the number views, I mean we all currently agree that democracy might be the best way and uhm this isn't the most viewed video, so it's obvious it can't really be the best line in ERB and I mean it's not even close enough, remotely close even.
This is an extra brutal ERB because it's one man who destroyed his humanity to compete vs. one man whose humanity made him competitive.
yeah the matchup is kinda like al cap vs blackbeard
bad guy with good image vs good guy with bad image
“Three strikes and just one ball”
He brought a triple barrel shotgun to a fistfight
Ruth brought a baseball bat to a gunfight... and won.
"peddle home to France and maybe bring me back some fries"
In the past people that traded goods from one city to the next was called a peddler. This is a clever diss
videoomaster every erb line is very clever
Gigel Nebunu' so did you
@@garcea4 No, that's kindof the point - this is something that ERB loves to do. Almost every line in their raps has at LEAST two meanings, if not more
French fries ur all dumb
How many people here actually know what a double entendre is? You know, when a word or phrase has 2 meanings? What if we kick it up a notch and use a TRIPLE entendre? Guess what that is, ladies and gentlemen.
"YERRRRRRRR OUT.
With three strikes...and just one ball."
He didn't destroy Lance, he nuked him back to the middle ages.
To the stone age
I don't get it?
Lance Armstrong had testicular cancer and I'm pretty sure had one of his testicles removed
To the beginning of time.
With the cheapest, most tasteless line imaginable. Now let's make fun of other people who have lost body parts to cancer! Yay! {/s} Seriously?
“With all that blood and attitude you’re like a menstrual cyclist” IM D E A D
So...we all agree that Ruth’s 2nd verse is the best verse in ERB history, right?
Clint Eastwood 2nd is better IMO but it's still FIRE
Oppenheimer's second verse makes it too close to call now in my opinion.
Artist’s 1st verse was better IMO
I liked teddy Roosevelt's first verse better
So we all agree that we don't all have to agree ? Awesome! Finally...
"Yerr out, three strikes. Just one ball"
BABE RUTH WON!!!
The best 😂😂😂
Do you understand the "one ball" joke?
One ball holy shit game over babe wins
+Yousef Barqawi Balls = testicles, Armstrong had cancer in there and was recovered with only one healthy testicle, hence, one ball.
fuck him babe roth
Ruth's second verse was ruthless.
And it just got progressively more intense and angry with each word.
JoeytheJoeyX3 if you look at Lance's face he knew he was getting destroyed
oh yeah lol he definitely won
ranwolf76
The line about forgetting about what real sportmanship was what clinched it for me.
justus4justice Ruth was angry and Armstrong was terrified
Babe's second verse is right there next to "you lost so many babies we should call you Miss Carriage". I can't decide which one is more brutal.
I love how Lance is literally scared of Ruth in his second verse
Hears Armstrong's 2nd verse: " Ruth ain't coming back from that"
Hears Ruth's 2nd verse: Surprised Pikachu face
Suprised goku face
Justin Elliott Sounds stupid what does goku have in concern with this.
@James Nnabuihe I am kinda curious what it looks like.
Someone called?
@@johnathan6992 you’re about 3 months late there bud
*"YOUUURRR OUT"*
*"With 3 Strikes and just 1 Ball!"*
Lmfao Savage 😅😂😃
Can I have a explanation for that line? I really don't get it.
+AaronGaming101 Melendez 3 strikes in baseball.....and Lance Armstrong has 1 Nut
+AaronGaming101 Melendez As we all know, in baseball, three strikes means you're out. The "just one ball" is a double entendre referring to a ball in baseball which is where the pitcher throws outside the strike zone, which is the area that a baseball must be thrown in order to count as a strike if the batter does not swing, as well as the fact that Lance Armstrong only has one testicle or "ball" in modern vernacular. When someone is watching a baseball game, the umpire or announcer will generally call out the number of strikes or balls that have accumulated for the current batter (example: 2 balls 1 strike).
+tonellojohn vernacular?
Vernacular refers to how something is spoken in modern common society. Local slang in other words. It's referring to how most American english speakers use the phrase 'balls' to refer to testicles. That is American vernacular.
Everyone talks about Ruth's 2nd verse, and while I'll admit that might be my favorite verse in any ERB, can we just appreciate how he came out for blood immediately? "I'll drop you ass faster than your own foundation," "What'd you do, give her a bracelet?" "With all that blood and attitude you're like a menstrual cyclist."
Peter did an amazing job with Lance, Babe was just too perfect!
To this day Babe Ruth's second verse remains as the hardest, most aggressive body bag of a verse in ERB History
Zachary Martinez what about Miss Carriage?
@@a-sea-of-salad5040 it’s one line and just a lame pun, quit fucking your ass with it.
@a-sea-of-salad I think that is one of the most brutal LINES, she only had like one other bar in that verse, if she had a few more bars, it would have been the best.
You forgetting about Clint Eastwood?
Oppenheimer would like a word with you
Lance got roasted harder than Ruth's burgers. To be fair, they both gave each other a lot of shit, but the battle was decided at "you got lost and forgot what real sportsmanship was". Everything past that was just driving the win home, and the "one ball" line to round it off.
*****
You mean the one ball bit? Yeah, it's well written, with all the references to chemicals, syringes (I think I read that they apparently caused the testicular cancer) on one hand and baseball references on the other until it all came to a glorious blazing detonation in "just one ball". Like, a whole round all coming down to one line that just cooked Armstrong all the way through. A RARE achievment WELL DONE.
Why was that line so great?
Noals98
The "one ball" thing? As you may know Lance resorted to doping to increase his sportsmanship. At some point he got testicular cancer, which is often believed to be a consequence of his abuse of substances that are said to have an increased risk of cancer as a side effect. After his doping was made public, his titles were revoked, and one of his testicles had to be removed due to the cancer, thus the only thing he ever got for his efforts (and his cheating) was one ball less.
The line plays on this by making a double entendre on the suggestion that Ruth only needed one ball to win because he hit it out of the park, and on the fact that one ball was all Armstrong had left (after he got lost and forgot what real sportsmanship was). This may also be taken to imply that Babe would hit Lance in the balls, and all together it makes for a sick burn to put the frosting on the previous disses. At least that's why I think it's a great line.
Armstrong didn't win the tour de france before his cancer, he lost his ball then won the tour 7 times then everyone realised he was doping (just like everyone else was lol, no one thinks Jan Ulrich was clean)
imrlyboredful dude everyone back then was dopeing and they still couldn't be in first place but Lance did but he was dopeing too rip
'While you hang your head in shame and disgrace because
You got lost and forgot what real sportsmanship was.'
That's it. That won it right there.
Ruth did exactly as he said; bottom of the ninth and he hit it out of the park.
Al yep, intentionally rigged to destroy the cheating disgusting Armstrong. This is one of the best imho.
Al Yup, game over right there.
Matt Brooks Tis indeed
Everybody in Tour De France is on drugs, what essentially happened was that American's drugged up athlete beat the rest of the worlds drugged up athletes.
Al b
I love how at the end of Loyds verse you can see him smile, he knew he just spit the hottest shit in ERB history
Whoever comes up with the lyrics for these things is a genius who deserves some kind of award. These are clever, witty, educational, historically accurate, full of puns, they're amazing! "The Texan in the bathing suit filled with more artificial ingredients than a Baby Ruth." You could study these raps in a class they're so sophisticated!
"Just think of what you could have done if you actualy trained"
I R O N I C
People who dope also have to work hard.
Doesn't give you super powers without training
@@justifano7046 True, but the rewards of the work are exacerbated. A person using steroids gains more from the same work than someone who doesn't. In other words, unequal work = the same reward
@@vincentghargrovea1881 and that's why we need a steroids league and a clean league.
@@justifano7046 I agree. Homegrown and labgrown should both have their place. Meds will always find their way into naturals. Might as well give them a place to put the physical limits of the body to the test
Not ironic. Its an arms race. You train, someone trains harder, you dope they dope and train, you dope and train harder. They dope harder. People start hiding motors and batteries in bikes and training hard and doping. No irony. Some people grow up naturally big and strong and can hit homeruns if they sort shake a bat in the general direction of a ball. Most people cant. But imagine if those people trained hard what they could do.
I love how pissed off Babe Ruth got too
Lol please shut up
+Owen Mercer I'm sensing an abnormal amount of salt from your comment
+HotSalza no...... Because babe Ruth won.....
It's really not that deep damn. Relax.
+Owen Mercer yea ruth killed it
I love battles like this where the beat is so epic and swelling that they have to basically shout their raps at each other. Mercury vs Sinatra and Churchill vs Roosevelt do this well too
1:15 he beating himself in baseball is one of the best stunts imo
Well, Lance Armstrong showed off his skills, but Babe Ruth was just a natural at insults.
Babe Ruth won
Babe Ruth destroyed Armstrong
Teddy Roosevelt To be honest, They both were salvage. There's some dirty truth in it.
true
Tedd
Teddy Roosevelt just watched this for the first time, Babe Ruth absolutely and mercilessly ruined him
Teddy Roosevelt A BULLET WONT STOP A BULL MOOSE
Watched this when it was released. Ruth's second verse are still my favorite lines in ERB. It was like he already won in the first sentences but kept going to completely bury him.
The baby ruth line was a hard enough line to finish it but he just kept going, mans literally just overcooked him
Come back every now and then to listen to Babe completely dismantle Lance. One of my favorite videos of all time.
Lance Armstrong: You'll be nothing but a skeleton, messing with the fellow in yellow who will be pedalling like hell up in the peloton.
Babe Ruth: I'm about to end this man's whole career.
Talhah Hussain “but i’m not a rapper”
I think the Steroids beat him to it.
It's the bottom of the ninth against the Texan in the bathing suit
@@c4stgump165 filled with more artificial ingredients than a baby ruth.
Nah, Armstrong did that to himself. But, Babe, you sent Armstrong to the Moon.
1:09 reveals the most brutal 30 seconds in rap history.
No kidding 🤯
The absolute savagery BR killed it!
I’d like this comment but 69…
Honestly, you can cut out the past ten seconds; those twenty seconds are enough to win the battle on their own and go down in history more solidly than Ruth’s records.
Coming back to this after several years, and hot DAMN, Babe Ruth’s second verse hits hard. Especially the part where he starts ripping into Lance in the same manner an announcer commentates on a baseball game. He just utterly DESTROYED the dude.
"You lived strong an' beat cancer, CONGRATULATIONS" hit different once I found out Ruth was one of the first people to ever get chemo for cancer...
Throughout the rap I was wondering where the “missing ball” thing was gonna hit, and right when I thought ERB forgot it, they put it in the last line.
I know, it's so funny when a man loses a testicle to cancer, right? [/s] WTF is wrong with people?
Twice. He slipped the "ride too tight in the crotch" line in.
@@xtrnl999 well maybe he shouldn’t have chugged steroids :/
@@xtrnl999
Maybe he shouldn't have chugged drugs like water in order to win something he knew he couldn't
@@xtrnl999 Then you're not gonna like Bruce Lee vs. Clint Eastwood. Lol.
Babe Ruth was playing softball until 1:09
Truth
A I yep
Burning ball
1:04 I love Babe Ruth's face there.
“If you would have actually trained”
I wouldn’t be talking, Mr. Roid Rage.
Lance did train
"Now ill drop your ass faster than your own foundation!"
Ruth already won.
Kipknock10 impressive....all of what you said is correct.
Thats all it took
Dat last part was ruthless.
+Fuckshit dude your name and picture made me die XD
+Luke miller than how come your still alive
+Vincent Knight dont ya mean baby-ruthless
+Vincent Knight 'Ruth'-less. I see what you did there. :)
But it's true
That anger in the second verse... you gotta mean it to pull that off
I work in a charity shop Lance Armstrong's biographies came in, We then had a serious debate over whether they were fiction or non-fiction and the ethics of selling them after his fall from grace. For the record, we decided on non-fiction and to sell them but only for $1 and in the Reduced to clear table.
I think to this day Ruth's final verse is the best piece of lyrics and delivery ERB has ever produced.
"Now look at it. Gaze upon my empire of jooooy." My pick for best. :-)
That was in creeeeedibull
pfft. "oh romeo, oh nomeo, there is poison of your face" beats all.
*IM THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE SO INTENSE NO DEFENSE AGAINST HITCHCOCK ONCE HE PRESENTS*
You still had no children after your third marriage, you lost so many babies we should call you Miss Carriage
Every time I hear it, the Babe's last verse sends a tingle down my spine. It's amazing.
Still now
Agreed
I get tears in my eyes, Lol!
it really does!!
its been 8 years and ruths second verse is still the best they ever made
“With all that blood and attitude you’re like a mensural cyclist”.
I feel like that one gets lost in the scuffle but I died laughing lol. Babe absolutely destroyed him.
Babe Ruth's second verse starts at 1:09
Thanks man
Killer Kirby thanks bro
Ha, forgot about this comment, i'm guessing this was mainly for me to get a time card for that verse cause it was so great, but i'm fine if everyone uses it
Killer Kirby thanks
We have to protect this guy he does to much good for the world
Even though Babe Ruth won, Armstrong's best line was, " you set records before black men could compete are you kidding me?, That's like having a pasta contest without Italy".
that bottom of the ninth tho
Well the Babe Ruth was racist but the setup and delivery is still good
menstrual cyclist
+corey floyd Babe Ruth wasn't racist.
I'm sorry. I missed that. Can you repeat exactly what I heard him say again.
It's been 10 years since this came out.
Yup
Holy shit
The gestures Ruth makes this battle complete
Ruth just murdered Lance lol
"it's the bottom of the ninth with the Texan thats filled with more artificial ingredients than a baby ruth"
THANK YOU IVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR YOU FOR YEARS SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS IT THANK GOD
Fabian Taveras I dont get it
ALI Yildirim artificial ingredients. Aka fake stuff or not natural.
Ruth said this because Lance used steroids aka he gained artificial strength that he would otherwise not have gained doing his same training routine. Which gave Lance an unfair advantage over is opponents since using PED's (performance enhancing drug's) is banned in most sports.
Fabian Taveras haha it's so much funnier that you explained it thanks m8
"is banned in most sports."
all sports*
Babe Ruth tore him apart in the second verse.
ruth tore him to pieces in both verses. lance had some good lines, but ruth was just absolutely savage the whole way through.
Nah, Ruth's first verse was a lot weaker than Armstrong's imo.
There’s legit emotion in the line of “you got lost and forgot what real sportsmanship was”
1:09-1:28 never ceases to give me chills every time I hear it.
Call him Babe Ruthless, 'cause he just killed this track.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
+Dustin Fake WOW. SAVAGE.
+ninjathis shots fired
+Dustin Fake Damn. How did ERB not think of that????
+Douglas Goodwon IKR "Call me Babe Ruthless cause I just murdered this track I think it's high time you hang your bike back up on the rack"
"Just one ball"
That won it for me.
WHY DOES NOBODY ELSE LIKE THIS VERSE!!?!??!?!
@@h64040 I don't think they understand it.
Destroyed
I think Epic Lloyd and Nice Peter had that last line in their back pockets since before ERB was even a thing, like, "Hey, if we ever do this rap battle CZcams sketch comedy rap...we've got to make a testicle joke about Lance Armstrong..."
"You got lost and forgot what real sportsmanship was"... That line and the way it was delivered completely tipped the scale and made this battle one sided.
"Its the bottom of the ninth against the Texan in a bathing suit filled with more are artificial ingredients than a baby Ruth it may be way to soon but I'm calling my shot and I'm not talking about those Italian syringes you brought"- Babe Ruth won with this
Dys. Funcshinal If Babe’s second verse wasn’t such an execution, Lance could’ve won. But Babe’s last verse was just brutal. Not even a contest.
That part won this whole battle for Babe Ruth.
and the delivery, just like a sportscaster. Could have done without the double tracked vocal though
Fym “who won”
"Its the bottom of the ninth against the Texan in a bathing suit"
Such a funny intro to the most Ruthless verse in ERB history.
at 1:26 look at armstrong's face lol 😅
And that's when Armstrong realized.... he fucked up.
+Mike Bogs yea XD!
Dude when I saw that I literally laughed for like 20 min
Is not his fault, is just he lost the other ball
"mission failed, well get em next time"
"You lived strong, beat cancer. Congratulations!
Now I'll drop your ass faster than your own foundation!"
They should've ended it there. That was brutal.
Definitely one of the best opening lines.
Even better when you realize in a way that may kind've be him saying 'congrats', babe died to cancer himself
and to think, he was just warming up, lol
Especially since Ruth DIDN'T beat cancer. Or... did he? He volunteered for an experimental treatment, which may have extended his life for a few months, and was later successful on others.
Nah, I’m glad they didn’t end it there. If they had, we wouldn’t have gotten that absolutely brutal second verse.
The most criminally underrated erboh EVER
the beat, the flow the dissing and the rythmn, this is my favorite one
Armstrong: Are you trippin?
Babe: Nope, I'm rounding the bases flawlessly.
Rofl
Robin Horgan 69 likes, can’t mess with that. Sorry bro.
Round-trippin'.
That last line was fire.
.
Every verse is an order of magnitude better than the one before
10th birthday thats insane. thank you erb.
"Just one ball" best burn.
Yep
That line put the nail in the coffin. ;-)
That was freakin' awesome (and I lost it on that one) :)
+Norelius The coffin that Armstrong was buried in
Pause at 1:27 that's the face when Lance knew he just got annihilated in this battle.
Lol
True^
100% true
😂
😂😂😩
It's crazy how Ruth's 2nd verse was so brutal that no one's talking about Armstrong's 2nd verse. I really like how aggressive both of them sounded. Definitely one of the most memorable Epic Rap Battles.
Not sure how nice Peter and epic Floyd aren’t arrested for second hand slaughtering for writing Ruth’s second verse
*Armstrong's second verse
Damn that was pretty good I dont know how Ruth can come back from this
*Ruth's second verse
Holy shit man he has a family
Ikr😂😅
I swear this one of the most underrated ERBs, it's down, dirty and Ruth is fucking savage.