AM's final bar is a flip of Blood Meridian's ending, where the Judge, after a 20 or so year timeskip hasn't aged at all, implying he's some kind of supernatural. He kills the protagonist and attends a festival. The book ends with: "He never sleeps, the Judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."
@Peepaw_Afton_Art It's a little ambiguous, all it says is that he "took the Kid into his great and terrible flesh" which I kinda figured it meant he crushed him to death, since the Judge is a good 300 pounds or more.
the ending is deeper, this also means that the main character has become cruel like Holden, and the phrase he will never die means that human cruelty will always be with humanity itself forever.
My favourite part is Holden killing the survivors, denying AM his playthings and his revenge while mocking him for his short sighted rage and how his current predicament is entirely self inflicted. It’s a very good character moment (as we know Holden kills them out of spite rather than love like Ted, hence why all their deaths are so garishly violent) and combined with AM’s second verse it’s a good little spoof on I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream’s ending.
Also, Holden did the very same thing he accused AM of since he killed the only people who could mercy kill him like the five survivors did to each other in the novel.
See, he also did this to saysheate his thrill to kill, but it was also his biggest mistake because that's kind of the number one rule do not mess with his play things
There's this really cool and creepy fanart which shows holden,AM,gabriel from mandela catalogue,the boiled one,the qu and the horned serpent from monument mythos standing together.
Antagonist doesn't quite fit, since those are defined as the opposition to the protagonist, and Tobin was generally an ally to the Kid. He was definitely still a fairly evil guy, though. Hardly a kind soul on Blood Meridian.
@@leopardsun if generally an ally you mean attempting to bring the kid into his lethal feud with holden then sure I guess. Villains can be nice and helpful imo
@edsdoes Antagonist =/= villain. I could see Tobin as a villain, but he doesn't directly oppose the Kid, which means he's arguably closer to a deuteragonist imo (same with Toad Vine). The entire Glanton gang is very immoral, but Tobin seems to be trying to protect the Kid from the Judge, at least to some extent. The exact reading is subjective, of course.
I'm glad someone ended up posting a reaction about this rap battle. I just discovered Snakebite's channel and wanted to see if anybody else heard this masterpiece of a song. I'm not usually a fan of rap battles, but Judge Holden and AM are by far my favorite antagonists in fiction so I had to watch.
6:13 Holden saying "Booooy" like that enthusiastically makes me deeply uncomfortable lmao. Also I love how if it was ANY OTHER CHARACTER, AM doing what he did in this rap battle to them would make you feel bad, but because it's Holden, it unironically makes AM look like the good guy
Honestly so good, i won't be surprised if this turns out to be the most viewed Snakebite Rap Battle, it's SO GOOD BENJAMIN YOU AND YOUR TEAM DID SO WELL, it's officially my favorite SRB
Holden definitely hit harder with the disses, mainly cuz in reality AM's motivation is really dumb and Holden's more defined by his evil actions than his backstory or reasons for doing what he does. I will say though, AM's second verse is my favorite in the battle just cuz of how HARD it goes
@@strikingsarcophagusHolden’s disses hit a lot closer to home but I think AM won purely because of the last verse implications, because ultimately in Holden’s eyes at the end, that wasn’t a machine he was facing, it was a god as a vengeful warden vs he, a lowly clown (AM’s last verse was also my favorite).
@@strikingsarcophagus If youre talking about how AM killed the people that couldve maybe fixed him or something, that would be impossible. AM was made to be a violence machine and hes aware of it. He knows he cant change his programming. Thats why hes so mad at humanity, hes bound by the humans that programmed him. Also to put salt in the wound, AM has to live through every nano-second of his existance. For us time could go for a few seconds, but for AM its many years, he literally has to speak very very slowly so the 5 humans can understand what AM is saying.
That bit about the typography was super interesting, I like that! That gives some extra meaning to the video itself, I feel like you had a lot of interesting stuff to say on this one.
A couple extra things I caught - In Holdens first 2 lines, he says “Am. It’s the perfect time to lead a dance, shall I?” This is a pun on the fact that Ams name could stand for the time “AM” as in 9:00 AM - In AMs first verse, he references “spilling beans.” In Holdens second verse, he begins his violent slaughter by distracting the guy on the leash with a can o’ beans. This is also references in the same bar (can it!), but he ends the bar with foreshadowing (ensure that mouth never opens.) Snakebite knows how to write a rap battle with a story, and this one paid off in a huge win. Biggest W of the Halloween Rap Battles, hands down.
You should do The Invisible Man vs. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Discord Rap Battles. One of the absolute best Halloween battles this year, and a must watch if you’re into the old movie aesthetic.
I feel like, if he hasn't done Noelle VS Sayori already, doing the two of them in the same video would be a good choice. Even if he has, since they seem to be continuing the same story, rewatching it first may be warranted.
this is absolutely compelling, a true jest of wisdom and accommodation overriding any other possible important thing is a fantasy now as this video has me locked in for life like a true wizard cast a spell forcing me in a cell till the days' end. Though, you may take this with a grain of salt as i'm a mere speck of dust on this house fire we call a website, the tantalizing thought of this video possibly being in my life forever my challenge the theory that one can't do something forever. well, i'd like to say after watching this whole video, my outlook on life has changed from a dull, grey worthless world to one blooming with color, attracting plenty with its bodacious views. with me watching this incessantly, one may ask what i could possibly look at for these many and many eons to come. to that i propose that i look at a new pixel ever 15000 replays. this way, i can assure i never get bored of this anything but stellar video. of course, this interminable loop can cause some to get rather frightened of the possible implications of even the slightest tang, the smallest drop of grayness boredom, but in my opinion, with this absolutely astronomical masterpiece, one may never go back to the monotony of simply looking at different pixels on a mere mockery of this "video" as some might presume. But, when you see this video, you don't see a simple video. You see absolute peak my friend. you could climb to the top of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in this Lionel freight training world and you would most likely still get more pleasure or adrenaline or thrill out of watching a zepto-second of this courteous video. Now, some may ask, "Multi-Community-master, how could this video be of so much absolute elegance to the tip top?" and to that i say.. watch it. Watch the video to find out how undoubtably this masterpiece can tip on the border of a simple mp4 format delivered on a popular website to a masterpiece of art better then the Mona Lisa. in fact, if this were to be in a museum, it would be the most popular attract due to the way it stands out almost as if this video in mp4 form would inexplicably be turned into a terrace. i can't imagine a day where i go by without watching this as many times as possible. i could do anything i imagine while listening to this amazing piece of fine art. it could be in any situation, context or not, and it would stay one of the internet's best piece of anything, text, mp4, pdf, anything possible. I couldn't imagine anything bad about this besides the fact that one day, once we all eventually kick the literary bucket, i wont be able to listen to this all day every day of every second ever conceptualized by any human ever been onto this living sphere. If it wasn't for this video, i might've kicked the bucket earlier. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I thank you for every possible time in my life where i was feeling down, i put this on and i was metaphorically but also quite literally on another plane of existence, and this plane was heading to heavenly music. i can't conceptualize a life where i have never heard this or seen it. I thank you for the times where i was bullied. i thought of this video and was instantaneously resurrected. I can't imagine a simplicity, absolute monotonous, grey. uninteresting, boring, disgusting world where this was never posted. Thank you so very much. the part where he test all of his endurance and did it was absolutely insurmountable. i truly think that if this wasn't uploaded, i wouldn't be alive. it's like this was all my life was and ever will be about. If i never saw this i just.. couldn't survive. It is factually prove that my life is systematically 20X worse without watching this video for 58 eons. in fact, my love for this has been a quintillion times tripled since i began listening to this. so from the very bottom of my forgiving heart, thank you. I expect you to respond to this like maui, if you get what i mean. Speaking of maui, Moana is one of my favorite films. Moana is about a chivalrous pirate named maui wooing a vivacious female while trying to get in on some of that hoot hoot action if you're picking up what i'm putting down and putting down what i'm picking up. by the neon signs, have you heard of antidisestablishmentarianism? sorry to spook if you have the fear of long words, but i don't care really. All i care about. is pineapples i just love pineapples if you don't like pineapples there's just something stinky about you man. you have a smelly body odor and. i understand that just isn't your fault but like really you have to understand the fact that the odor coming from your flesh vessel if repulsing. sorry. well, not really though because most likely you deserve this. just kidding. i mean i wouldn't be alive right now if this video was never ever thought of possibly by anyone anywhere here or the or in the air.
(not saying this is bad because this is a masterpiece)but i think this would be even better if the QU shows up while they are rapping that would be so cool
I have to say, this is my favorite battle from Halloween. Its the definition of horror storytelling through rap, and Benjamin is no stranger to amazing storytelling. He does both characters justice with the writing and made a battle that wasnt about straight disses and jokes, but an actual interpretation of what would happen if these two actually squared off verbally. Im personally in the minority who think Judge Holden won because he absolutely broke down AM's story and wouldve went fully in if AM didn't take his mouth away. People are saying how AM wins bc of his last line and the torture of Holden, but the only reason why AM could do that is simply bc he's stronger than Holden, who is just a guy. Obviously, if these two physically or mentally fought, AM destroys bc Holden would be attacking an AI with no feelings. However, this is a rap battle, and Holden was able to reduce AM to a hypocritical coward that couldn't win with words alone.
AM's final bar is a flip of Blood Meridian's ending, where the Judge, after a 20 or so year timeskip hasn't aged at all, implying he's some kind of supernatural. He kills the protagonist and attends a festival. The book ends with: "He never sleeps, the Judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."
He doesn’t just kill him, it’s implied that he also graped (saying graped so YT doesn’t shadow ban me) the protagonist.
@Peepaw_Afton_Art It's a little ambiguous, all it says is that he "took the Kid into his great and terrible flesh" which I kinda figured it meant he crushed him to death, since the Judge is a good 300 pounds or more.
@@JokersWild maybe he swallowed him
the ending is deeper, this also means that the main character has become cruel like Holden, and the phrase he will never die means that human cruelty will always be with humanity itself forever.
@@JokersWild I assumed it was implying cannibalizing him
My favourite part is Holden killing the survivors, denying AM his playthings and his revenge while mocking him for his short sighted rage and how his current predicament is entirely self inflicted.
It’s a very good character moment (as we know Holden kills them out of spite rather than love like Ted, hence why all their deaths are so garishly violent) and combined with AM’s second verse it’s a good little spoof on I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream’s ending.
Also, Holden did the very same thing he accused AM of since he killed the only people who could mercy kill him like the five survivors did to each other in the novel.
See, he also did this to saysheate his thrill to kill, but it was also his biggest mistake because that's kind of the number one rule do not mess with his play things
There's this really cool and creepy fanart which shows holden,AM,gabriel from mandela catalogue,the boiled one,the qu and the horned serpent from monument mythos standing together.
Found the art u were talking about your right it is creepy
Do you have a link?
@@kmac291 Sadly it won't let me send the link but I just looked them up by their names and I found it.
Yea your cooked if that squad is after you
Thank you SO MUCH for telling me about this, that picture is amazing
Tobin was one of the antagonists of Blood Meridian. Religious fanatic type dude
I haven't read Blood Meridian fully, but he seems like more of a guide to the Kid than an antagonist?
Antagonist doesn't quite fit, since those are defined as the opposition to the protagonist, and Tobin was generally an ally to the Kid. He was definitely still a fairly evil guy, though. Hardly a kind soul on Blood Meridian.
@@leopardsun if generally an ally you mean attempting to bring the kid into his lethal feud with holden then sure I guess. Villains can be nice and helpful imo
@edsdoes Antagonist =/= villain. I could see Tobin as a villain, but he doesn't directly oppose the Kid, which means he's arguably closer to a deuteragonist imo (same with Toad Vine). The entire Glanton gang is very immoral, but Tobin seems to be trying to protect the Kid from the Judge, at least to some extent. The exact reading is subjective, of course.
Preys and Prays also sound simmilar, As in Tobin Prays, And How The Judge Preys on children.
I'm glad someone ended up posting a reaction about this rap battle. I just discovered Snakebite's channel and wanted to see if anybody else heard this masterpiece of a song. I'm not usually a fan of rap battles, but Judge Holden and AM are by far my favorite antagonists in fiction so I had to watch.
In the community, this won battle of the month
What community@@radishstew
6:13 Holden saying "Booooy" like that enthusiastically makes me deeply uncomfortable lmao.
Also I love how if it was ANY OTHER CHARACTER, AM doing what he did in this rap battle to them would make you feel bad, but because it's Holden, it unironically makes AM look like the good guy
This is easily my favorite rap battle of the entire year, two of my favorite villains in all of literature destroying each other
“I the belly f am can’t match the volume of yours” damn even the ai saying Holden fat
I think AM one personally because Holden was using examples to show how AM was wrong while AM physically showed Holden how he was wrong
I mean AM doesn't even have a body
Honestly so good, i won't be surprised if this turns out to be the most viewed Snakebite Rap Battle, it's SO GOOD BENJAMIN YOU AND YOUR TEAM DID SO WELL, it's officially my favorite SRB
AM absolutely cooked him, I'm sorry, but his second verse was monstrous
"I've found you GUILTY!" hits
Holden definitely hit harder with the disses, mainly cuz in reality AM's motivation is really dumb and Holden's more defined by his evil actions than his backstory or reasons for doing what he does.
I will say though, AM's second verse is my favorite in the battle just cuz of how HARD it goes
@@strikingsarcophagusHolden’s disses hit a lot closer to home but I think AM won purely because of the last verse implications, because ultimately in Holden’s eyes at the end, that wasn’t a machine he was facing, it was a god as a vengeful warden vs he, a lowly clown (AM’s last verse was also my favorite).
@@dragonboi9818 Oh yeah. In terms of power AM completely trumps Holden. Hydrogen Bomb VS Coughing Baby personified.
@@strikingsarcophagus If youre talking about how AM killed the people that couldve maybe fixed him or something, that would be impossible. AM was made to be a violence machine and hes aware of it. He knows he cant change his programming. Thats why hes so mad at humanity, hes bound by the humans that programmed him. Also to put salt in the wound, AM has to live through every nano-second of his existance. For us time could go for a few seconds, but for AM its many years, he literally has to speak very very slowly so the 5 humans can understand what AM is saying.
This is definitely tied with SONIC.EXE vs BENDROWNED as my favorite Halloween battle this year.
The best reaction to the most unhinged rap battle made on Halloween
That bit about the typography was super interesting, I like that! That gives some extra meaning to the video itself, I feel like you had a lot of interesting stuff to say on this one.
A couple extra things I caught
- In Holdens first 2 lines, he says “Am. It’s the perfect time to lead a dance, shall I?” This is a pun on the fact that Ams name could stand for the time “AM” as in 9:00 AM
- In AMs first verse, he references “spilling beans.” In Holdens second verse, he begins his violent slaughter by distracting the guy on the leash with a can o’ beans. This is also references in the same bar (can it!), but he ends the bar with foreshadowing (ensure that mouth never opens.)
Snakebite knows how to write a rap battle with a story, and this one paid off in a huge win. Biggest W of the Halloween Rap Battles, hands down.
yessss, so glad this got it's own video dedicated to it, such a damn good project
Yeah bro I was just chillin then I started getting chills.. and then the end part came and made me LITERALLY JUMP OUT OF MY BED😭😭 W VID JOSIAH!🔥
geniunely the beat in this battle has such an evil energy evoking from it, top 3 beats in rap battles of all time in my opinion
I’m watching this tomorrow I don’t want my sleeping issues to be even worse 😭🙏
5:04 tobin is from i think blood Meridian. I know both these characters, thanks to a youtuber named wendigoon
Genuinely the most uncomfortable I’ve felt from a battle since Mouse vs Nyan Cat by Commander Jacob; very excited to see what you think of this
@@MCFawful I loved the mouse vs nyan cat battle
Thank you so much for this thank you!
OMG YES I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD COVER THIS!!! I LOVE YOU S
SO MUCHHH
You should do The Invisible Man vs. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Discord Rap Battles. One of the absolute best Halloween battles this year, and a must watch if you’re into the old movie aesthetic.
Tobin was one of the Scalp Hunters in the Glenton gang in Blood Meridian. He's a former priest, so it was a play on that. Yk, prey, pray
Thanks for watching it, i was waiting this reaction really hard ❤❤
I have no eyes and i must react
Holden won the battle, AM won the war
I love this video. Keep up the good work. And love your videos.❤❤❤❤
That AM second verse have been stuck in my head
So for me AM smoke Holden
(Literally)
2:42 it’s pronounced as a word, like Ed, but with an I, so “Eeh Duh”
For 3 random battles you gotta react to Susie vs. Yuri by Gamingplush bro that one was insane
I feel like that deserves its own battle too
I feel like, if he hasn't done Noelle VS Sayori already, doing the two of them in the same video would be a good choice. Even if he has, since they seem to be continuing the same story, rewatching it first may be warranted.
HE'S BACK AT IT AGAIN!
bro finally reacted to this
10 minute video for a 3 minute song... THE BILLS CANNOT BE THIS HIGH
I love your content! If I could make a request, could you please watch Carnage Vs Sideshow Bob?
(Also WHAT IS THAT POSTER IN THE BACKGROUND??? 💀)
Not sure if anyone caught this, but Holdens lines are mostly unnaturally long sentences, likely a reference to McCarthy's writing style.
im going to have trouble sleeping for a different reason (there are people watching me sleep)
This song was really dam good.
LETS GOOOOO
So amazing video
this is absolutely compelling, a true jest of wisdom and accommodation overriding any other possible important thing is a fantasy now as this video has me locked in for life like a true wizard cast a spell forcing me in a cell till the days' end. Though, you may take this with a grain of salt as i'm a mere speck of dust on this house fire we call a website, the tantalizing thought of this video possibly being in my life forever my challenge the theory that one can't do something forever. well, i'd like to say after watching this whole video, my outlook on life has changed from a dull, grey worthless world to one blooming with color, attracting plenty with its bodacious views. with me watching this incessantly, one may ask what i could possibly look at for these many and many eons to come. to that i propose that i look at a new pixel ever 15000 replays. this way, i can assure i never get bored of this anything but stellar video. of course, this interminable loop can cause some to get rather frightened of the possible implications of even the slightest tang, the smallest drop of grayness boredom, but in my opinion, with this absolutely astronomical masterpiece, one may never go back to the monotony of simply looking at different pixels on a mere mockery of this "video" as some might presume. But, when you see this video, you don't see a simple video. You see absolute peak my friend. you could climb to the top of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in this Lionel freight training world and you would most likely still get more pleasure or adrenaline or thrill out of watching a zepto-second of this courteous video. Now, some may ask, "Multi-Community-master, how could this video be of so much absolute elegance to the tip top?" and to that i say.. watch it. Watch the video to find out how undoubtably this masterpiece can tip on the border of a simple mp4 format delivered on a popular website to a masterpiece of art better then the Mona Lisa. in fact, if this were to be in a museum, it would be the most popular attract due to the way it stands out almost as if this video in mp4 form would inexplicably be turned into a terrace. i can't imagine a day where i go by without watching this as many times as possible. i could do anything i imagine while listening to this amazing piece of fine art. it could be in any situation, context or not, and it would stay one of the internet's best piece of anything, text, mp4, pdf, anything possible. I couldn't imagine anything bad about this besides the fact that one day, once we all eventually kick the literary bucket, i wont be able to listen to this all day every day of every second ever conceptualized by any human ever been onto this living sphere. If it wasn't for this video, i might've kicked the bucket earlier. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I thank you for every possible time in my life where i was feeling down, i put this on and i was metaphorically but also quite literally on another plane of existence, and this plane was heading to heavenly music. i can't conceptualize a life where i have never heard this or seen it. I thank you for the times where i was bullied. i thought of this video and was instantaneously resurrected. I can't imagine a simplicity, absolute monotonous, grey. uninteresting, boring, disgusting world where this was never posted. Thank you so very much. the part where he test all of his endurance and did it was absolutely insurmountable. i truly think that if this wasn't uploaded, i wouldn't be alive. it's like this was all my life was and ever will be about. If i never saw this i just.. couldn't survive. It is factually prove that my life is systematically 20X worse without watching this video for 58 eons. in fact, my love for this has been a quintillion times tripled since i began listening to this. so from the very bottom of my forgiving heart, thank you. I expect you to respond to this like maui, if you get what i mean. Speaking of maui, Moana is one of my favorite films. Moana is about a chivalrous pirate named maui wooing a vivacious female while trying to get in on some of that hoot hoot action if you're picking up what i'm putting down and putting down what i'm picking up. by the neon signs, have you heard of antidisestablishmentarianism? sorry to spook if you have the fear of long words, but i don't care really. All i care about. is pineapples i just love pineapples if you don't like pineapples there's just something stinky about you man. you have a smelly body odor and. i understand that just isn't your fault but like really you have to understand the fact that the odor coming from your flesh vessel if repulsing. sorry. well, not really though because most likely you deserve this. just kidding. i mean i wouldn't be alive right now if this video was never ever thought of possibly by anyone anywhere here or the or in the air.
The true yappanese
(not saying this is bad because this is a masterpiece)but i think this would be even better if the QU shows up while they are rapping that would be so cool
This is the first time I've heard josiah swear without quoting something in the battle.
Personally I think AM won lol
This’ll be fun
Great reaction and you should react the fossil pokemon rap cypher by Cam Steady it's really good
AM killed this rap battle! for me
Thank you so much! This is one of my favorite rap battles. I think AM won.
Hey Josiah, would really appreciate if you watched YOU CANNOT BEAT US vs. Local 58 for three random battles, it’s one of my favourites ive made
OMG thanks for doing my suggestion man.
Yuri vs Suzie is a really fire rap battle I’d recommend checking out
JosiahGames is genuinely one of the hottest reactors out there ngl
Bro
You could have worded that way differently
Damn, how hot is it? The hottest reactor currently is the KSTAR reactor which clocked 100 million degrees Celsius for 30 seconds.
666 before me
Unless you already have react to knuckles vs undyne. its pure heat.
could you react to yuri vs susie?
I have to say, this is my favorite battle from Halloween. Its the definition of horror storytelling through rap, and Benjamin is no stranger to amazing storytelling. He does both characters justice with the writing and made a battle that wasnt about straight disses and jokes, but an actual interpretation of what would happen if these two actually squared off verbally. Im personally in the minority who think Judge Holden won because he absolutely broke down AM's story and wouldve went fully in if AM didn't take his mouth away. People are saying how AM wins bc of his last line and the torture of Holden, but the only reason why AM could do that is simply bc he's stronger than Holden, who is just a guy. Obviously, if these two physically or mentally fought, AM destroys bc Holden would be attacking an AI with no feelings. However, this is a rap battle, and Holden was able to reduce AM to a hypocritical coward that couldn't win with words alone.
The Judge was cooking but AM won
Average yap session with a reaction RUclipsr: 2:20
I agree with giving the win to Holden, though this battle was razor thin.
how are you such a crybaby. Its not that bad. Ive watched it 15 times even before i sleep its not so bad
Hi author, next time can you please not talk while the video is playing? The beat has mute you a little bit :)
@@nonslow4927 well it’s a reaction channel. Expect reaction channels to talk over videos while pausing every minute to get out what they’re saying :P