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You missed one aspect of the Shawshank/Green Mile bar: He says "I can even take a break from my routine style". Up to this point, he's stressed every third syllable in his bars: "I can EVen take a BREAK from my ROUtine style", but then he flips to stressing every fourth: "CRANK out a shawSHANK, or a green MILE". He LITERALLY takes a break from his routine (rap) style, in that bar.
@Rebel Silk You can also see Shawshank Redemption = evasion and redemption so it can also be taken as taking a break from prison routine... And Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile are two movies about prison and redemption ... Also redemption is to take a break from bad habits...changing style of life... => All that means a change from routine ;)
what people don’t know is that when stephen king says “in eight bars i can write a whole best seller” if you go by 4/4 scheme and the beat he actually finishes the rap in 8 bars
@@theresnothinghereatall I believe it is several levels of chess: 1. His alcoholism, also implying that the time he spends in 8 bars leads to art. 2. His original writing style consisting on 8 bars. 3. Also the amount of bars for a rap itself.
Dude, I don’t mean anything bad by this, and I’ve only seen a handful of your videos so I don’t have a lot to go on, but seeing some of your ERB reactions, I am genuinely surprised and glad to see just how educated you are on like... anything. From some more geeky stuff, to genuine history. I love both the history break down and the rapping break down. Good shit man!
I love history, philosophy and fiction. And I read a lot as well as write my own stories. So ERB is a perfect fit for me 🙌 Thanks for the comment & support
King did tweet out after this battle that he thinks he lost to Poe Rare that people in these view them, either due to being DEAD most the time, so it's cool to see
@@AlexanderAzarov I've checked his tweets again and it's actually neither. He was just responding saying that it's great and it's hilarious. I'm confusing him with Stephen King's tweet saying that Poe won.
@@scottjameson5358 Gordon also commented on the RUclips video itself saying something along the lines of "Besides the questionable English accent, we all know who won that one". It's not the exact quote, but I can't find the comment anymore.
Also, Poe didn’t perv on his cousin, he married her because she was sickly and fragile and he wanted to protect her from being married off to some random person. He didn’t have sex with her and she was his friend.
@@mrroboshadow no he couldn’t she would have been married off to someone. It was the only thing to keep her safe. Women were no more treated than cattle, traded off to others. She was pretty much an object, owned by her family; Poe couldn’t take her and let her live with him and protect her without technically breaking the law and stealing her.
@@themimsy uh...huh you do know he was already living with her and her mother before they got married and that they got married about 7 years BEFORE she became sick with TB plus on her deathbed she claimed one of her husband-cousin's flings had murdered her so great protector there
@@mrroboshadow uh, she would have been married off to someone else if he didn’t. That’s the whole deal. She would have been sold off as a wife to someone but Poe married her before that could happen because they were friends and he cared about her and didn’t want anyone to hurt her.
My recommendation: Marilyn Monroe vs Cleopatra Michael Jackson vs Elvis Presley Bonnie and Clyde vs Romeo and Juliet Mother Theresa vs Sigmund Freud Michael Jordan vs Muhammad Ali MLK vs Ghandi
Fuck yes! Che Guevara vs Guy Fawkes or Jack the Ripper vs Hannibal Lecter next? EDIT: Also, you don't have to justify watching Kung Fu Panda, it's straight fire.
Rage Misery Running Man The Shining Cujo Tommyknockers The Stand Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile The list of works he applied to his bars, the the Stand is maybe a stretch Edit: also, Castle Rock is the name of Stephen King's production company, which he made after Stanley Kubrick adapted The Shining for film, this is the Jack Nicholson one, and King hated it so he made Castle Rock, which pumped out a bunch of made for TV films (It, The Shining, Tommyknockers, etc.)
I think you meant Watsky wrote the lines so good to the point where it feels like it was Poe that was actually talking. I don't know why it sounds weird the way you phrased it. People could get the wrong meaning. Edit: Like The Gheist just said.
@@scottjameson5358 No, the writing was done in the same poetic metre that Poe used, which is called "Trochee". Like Knox explained, it consists of using a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
If I remember right from the behind the scenes of this ERB Watsky said that he purposefully did all of Poe's lines in the same writing style that Poe used for his poems/stories. So not only is he playing Poe, he's also spittin' the exact same way as Poe would of wrote it.
Lmao, this guy clearly watches ahead of time and googles the bars. He's clever, don't get me wrong, but his whole, I might be wrong, but he never is gives it away. Half decent liar, but a liar.
The guy who played King also played Alex the great, yes. He also plays Doctor Brown, Albert Einstein, and plenty others. His name is Zach Sherwin the man's got mad bars
Misery was the book about the woman that kidnapped the author of a book series and she tortured him, telling him how his book SHOULD have ended. The movie, the woman was played by Kathy Bates.
"Fop" is old school slang for a girly/dainty man, often one obsessed with overtly formal clothes. Sort of like a "dandy", but at least dandies have style.
Not sure if you caught it but the line "in 8 bars I can write a whole best seller" was both about musical bars AND alcohol bars since he had addiction problems and wrote whike under the influence a lot
Impressive dissection of this rap battle. Knowledgeable on both contenders. Trivia rich and book smart. Well versed in the English language. This guy has it all. A perfect reaction channel. I'm officially a fan of this guy. Subscribed. Well earned.
I'm gonna just put a small list for next ERB videos to react to: 1: Al capone vs black beard 2: Shaka Zulu vs Julius Cesear 3: Jack the ripper vs Hannibal Lecter 4: Steven Hawking vs Albert Eisten 5: Rasputin vs Stalin Please consider one of these in your future videos
I'm so glad you know who Watsky is! He's actually been in a couple of ERB videos! He was in Dr. Seuss vs Shakespeare (he was Shakespeare), and Doc Brown vs Doctor Who (he played the 4th Doctor). Also, I think the next one you should check out is Wolverine vs Freddy Kreuger. Freddy is played by a really cool rapper/singer by the name of Wax! Wax was also in another ERB: Alfred Hitchcock vs Stephen Spielberg. He played Quentin Tarantino. My favorite ERB is definitely Artists vs TMNT. I recommend that one! Fun fact, Watsky wrote all his lines for this battle!
by far. Also Misery is one of the easiest King's read. It has less than 500 pages and barely any slow moment (the tension starts at the end of the first page). It's also one of his works with fewer characters, and I think King tends to get a bit repetitive with huge cast, so for me, Misery is the first book I recommend to anyone, and is the one that most benefits of his strenghts as a writer.
Marilyn Monroe vs Cleopatra is ruthless!!! There's one line in there that is just brutal. It's the kinda shit where somebody gotta bleed after saying dat! Fightin words homie!!🔥🔥(Knox, give women some shine on Women's History Month)
Also, man when Stephen King says "I can even take a break from my routine style crank out a Shawshank or a green mile" He switches his flow as in taking a break from his routine style as well as making the non horror books.
11:59 I like the attention to detail ERB put into this, the kung fu panda bar is even stronger considering what Edgar Allan Poe did at 5:08 with his hands.
Lmao I decided to check and see if there was a new ERB reaction and just my luck there was one uploaded not even a minute ago. Why didn't I get a notification RUclips?!
Poe was struggling with severe depression when he lost his wife. That is why he became the best poet of all times. Stephen king struggled alot aswell, he used to tell his stories to his children every night, before he wrote them. Castle rock is also a tv series that i just loved. I am in deep awe with both . I can not stress that enough. Poe is a legend when it comes to raw, emotional poetism. Stephen is a legend when it comes to stories. I love both og them. 👌🏼❤️ When i need inspiration for my art work or my writing, these two are my inspirations. ( Beside myself offcourse)
Fun Fact: Stephen King commented on this battle admitting that Poe won xD Edit: I'm sorry, poor wording. I saw a random facebook news post about his tweet. Only reason I remember that is because it was the first time I'd seen them mentioned in the media. Edit 2: I feel that Poe won. Mostly because it felt to me that King was just bragging. In terms of entertainment however King definitely outshone Poe, but that's probably just because I over appreciate his references xD
Honestly i watched many reaction to ERBs during these years but you and Scru are the ones with the deeper knowledge of the topics. It's a pleasure to listen to someone that is able to appreciate the references, and has a deeper understandment of them. I do study ancient greek and latin, and the sum up you did of the post-Cesar situation in the Roman Empire in the Cleopatra vs Monroe video was awesome. I genuinely didn't expect a so detailed explaination. Props!
I liked watching your ERB breakdowns once in a while, but you've quickly become one of my leave-everything-I'm-doing-to-watch weekly joys. Thanks and keep at it please!
I always took the "beats off on a page" as Poe basically calling King a sellout! That he had "gone Hollywood" and was just cranking out mindless book after book with little to no thought, artistic expression or effort. That he just "beats off on a page" and sells it as a book to his publisher for a paycheck over & over. (surviving on name recognition only) Whereas HE (Poe) "suffered" for his "art". (literally) But that was just my take.
When you whispered “Big dick bibliography” I lost my shit 😂.Never a dull moment with the dude Knox Hill! Keep up the good work and spilling that knowledge man, dope stuff.
This is one of my favourites. Both were sick! The, “never more,” line tip the scales at the end for me, but King was playing catch-up on his last verse... :)
My guy, your videos are insane. You earned yourself a subscriber! This is exactly the kind of reaction videos that are worth watching. After seeing your Tolkien vs Martin ERB I definitely think you need to check out the princess rap battles, in particular Maleficient vs Daenerys which is just insane.
You caught those bars like an absolute god, I can't even get half of those references. P.S. You should react to Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg! It's an absolute Banger.
Bro I’m with you on the GRR Martin rant!!! I just watched 3 or 4 of your ERB breakdowns and I was close to subbing already but your love for GoT sent me over. I’m all in now.
Hey man, I've seen every ERB multiple times. I thought I've had them all, but ur knowledge, ur expertise and ur skills help me discover stuff I've never heard before! You're magnificent! Your tracks are dope as hell, talented beyond belief! Keep goin' man! I'm eager to see/hear more from you! stay safe, stay healthy
Hey KNOX, I've been meaning to ask for a while now, what headphones do you use? Because in breakdowns you seem to hear every little detail in instrumental and all that, so I assume it must be good quality. Plus it looks comfortable. Can I get the brand or specific model or something, please? Have a good day man🤙
Think you are my favorite person reacting to these. I just love you just going on about all you know about it. Like leaping onto the bars, the beat, references. You got it all. Really enjoy watching
Something that you may not know is that King is a free writer. This means that he often goes into a story with a rough idea and let's the story grow on it's own while many others have plans of how things go before hand. This in general can allow for faster publishing, which is what the beats off on a page line comes down to. Also, fun fact about king's works, he tends to get bored with most of the books and start second guessing the way that they go. It's one of the reasons he has so many, hes on to the next book before he finishes the last. His writing style makes series more difficult which makes his accomplishments with the Dark Tower, his piece-de-resistance, far more impressive.
Hey Knox, been checkin out your ERB vids the last couple of weeks and they finally got me to check out your music. I gotta say ... Im digging it! Keep it up man, cant wait to see whats next
Watsky has stated on an ERB behind the scenes that he purposefully wrote Poe’s lines in Trochaic Octameter like in the Raven. Watsky’s first ERB Shakespeare vs Dr. Seuss, which is another one you should watch, he wrote the opening lines in that one to an Iambic Pentameter like most of Shakespeare’s plays. Basically both show you how stressed and unstressed syllable meters work, just opposite of each other.
both Rage and Misery are books of his. The Tommyknockers is a book title as well as The Stand 12:00 which is why Stand is capitalized here. Basically, every capitalized word in Stephen King's rap is him name dropping one of his works
King started out writing as himself, his big first hit was Carrie - he invented Richard Bachmann (named after Bachmann Turner Overdrive IIRC) to write non-horror. Rage is a drama about a school shooting, Running Man is dystopian sci-fi (less over the top than the movie, but also much darker), The Long Walk is another dystopian sci-fi (set in the same future, IIRC), and so on.
Every Watsky fan will have his Shakespeare v Dr. Seuss at the top of their favorites. That battle is also one that YOU will love because of the literary mechanisms they use - very out of the box styles/schemes!
Absolutely love that you picked up on the use of troche in the first couple of Poe’s lines. That’s one of my absolute favorite details of these battles. They do the same thing with Shakespeare vs Dr. Seuss, which is equally good
Misery was a book that was written by Stephen King and made into a movie! I've got an entire book about all of Edgar Allen Poe's works and I've read his first short story of it!
Fun fact: Stephen King admited on twitter that he lose against Poe the same day that he lose this battle came out. Also he tweet some nice rimes sometimes since then
Watzky is also in the Doc Brown, Doctor Who as well as the Shakespeare and Dr Seuss ERB. He’s the best part of those other two, they’re just not some of ERBs best
Noooo... that one is one-sided AF. Clint dogstomped the father of Mixed Martial Arts. Like that was a slaughter. There wasn't enough of Lee left to put in a bucket.
Poes 's first verse was in iambic pentameter, which further speaks to Watsky's credit as he penned his verses. He also appears in Doctor Who vs. Doc Brown and William Shakespeare vs. Dr. Seuss.
That’s wrong. His first verse is in Trochaic Octameter, which is why he says he’ll “Choke [King] with a trochee”. Iambic Pentameter is William Shakespeare.
Zach Sherwin is the guy who played King. He was also Alexander the Great, as mentioned, and Voltaire. He also plays Einstein, Sherlock Holmes, and Walt Disney is other ERB videos.
A fop is not necessarily a poser. I think it's someone who is either foolish, or very vain and concerned with fashion. Or both. I may be showing my age--I'm an old fart--but I think another term for a fop is someone who is "fabulous".
This is a dope one. Watsky also plays Shakespeare in ERB's Shakespeare vs Dr Suess. That bass that was like a heartbeat was a subtle nod to Poe's famous story, "The Telltale Heart", which was obviously shouted out in the next line. Rage and Misery are titles of two of King's novels.
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Walter White vs Rick Grimes or Batman vs Sherlock Holmes next.
youve got to react to father figure by tobe nwigwe featuring royce and black thought
Also maybe some Snowthaproduct. Not For the Weak Minded or How I Do It.
If you're doing writers on writers, gotta go back and do Shakespeare vs Seuss.
Has more Watsky.
You missed one aspect of the Shawshank/Green Mile bar: He says "I can even take a break from my routine style". Up to this point, he's stressed every third syllable in his bars: "I can EVen take a BREAK from my ROUtine style", but then he flips to stressing every fourth: "CRANK out a shawSHANK, or a green MILE".
He LITERALLY takes a break from his routine (rap) style, in that bar.
Good eye, boss.
@Rebel Silk You can also see Shawshank Redemption = evasion and redemption so it can also be taken as taking a break from prison routine... And Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile are two movies about prison and redemption ... Also redemption is to take a break from bad habits...changing style of life... => All that means a change from routine ;)
@@legolindirteso9430 Half a decade or so old and we're still finding layers.
from an anapaest to a paean primus, to be precise
@@vexaris1890 Latin here? Wow, i don't think much people, here, are able to understand that language ;)
what people don’t know is that when stephen king says “in eight bars i can write a whole best seller” if you go by 4/4 scheme and the beat he actually finishes the rap in 8 bars
The line has a deeper meaning. Stephen was famous for writing in local bars - in 8 literal bars he can write a whole best seller lol
Great knowledge well done
@@Bob_Cratchit yeah sadly that was probably because of his alcoholism
doesnt take away from the genius line though
@@mrroboshadow what? That was apart of why it was a good line.
@@theresnothinghereatall I believe it is several levels of chess:
1. His alcoholism, also implying that the time he spends in 8 bars leads to art.
2. His original writing style consisting on 8 bars.
3. Also the amount of bars for a rap itself.
I like how the first line was “Once upon a midnight dreary” and the last line was “Nevermore.” Just like in the Raven poem.
Knox literally says that
Dude, I don’t mean anything bad by this, and I’ve only seen a handful of your videos so I don’t have a lot to go on, but seeing some of your ERB reactions, I am genuinely surprised and glad to see just how educated you are on like... anything. From some more geeky stuff, to genuine history.
I love both the history break down and the rapping break down. Good shit man!
I love history, philosophy and fiction. And I read a lot as well as write my own stories. So ERB is a perfect fit for me 🙌 Thanks for the comment & support
@@KnoxHill hell yeah man. Keep it up and good luck with your career
King did tweet out after this battle that he thinks he lost to Poe
Rare that people in these view them, either due to being DEAD most the time, so it's cool to see
Yeah, Gordon commented as well. And he also believes that Julia won.
@@scottjameson5358 Nah, Gordon said he won, I think?
@@AlexanderAzarov I've checked his tweets again and it's actually neither. He was just responding saying that it's great and it's hilarious. I'm confusing him with Stephen King's tweet saying that Poe won.
@@scottjameson5358 Gordon also commented on the RUclips video itself saying something along the lines of "Besides the questionable English accent, we all know who won that one". It's not the exact quote, but I can't find the comment anymore.
Skrillex made an appearance in a live rap battle
Also, Poe didn’t perv on his cousin, he married her because she was sickly and fragile and he wanted to protect her from being married off to some random person. He didn’t have sex with her and she was his friend.
Huh
yeah still creepy for a grown man to marry a little girl he's related to
he could have just as easily had her live with him marriage free
@@mrroboshadow no he couldn’t she would have been married off to someone. It was the only thing to keep her safe. Women were no more treated than cattle, traded off to others. She was pretty much an object, owned by her family; Poe couldn’t take her and let her live with him and protect her without technically breaking the law and stealing her.
@@themimsy uh...huh
you do know he was already living with her and her mother before they got married
and that they got married about 7 years BEFORE she became sick with TB
plus on her deathbed she claimed one of her husband-cousin's flings had murdered her
so great protector there
@@mrroboshadow uh, she would have been married off to someone else if he didn’t. That’s the whole deal. She would have been sold off as a wife to someone but Poe married her before that could happen because they were friends and he cared about her and didn’t want anyone to hurt her.
George Watsky and Zach Sherwin in one ERB, of course it has to be a great one!🔥❤️
The two best. Whenever either of them is on it's an automatic click. Both is just bonus.
This is what helped me find them!
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My recommendation:
Marilyn Monroe vs Cleopatra
Michael Jackson vs Elvis Presley
Bonnie and Clyde vs Romeo and Juliet
Mother Theresa vs Sigmund Freud
Michael Jordan vs Muhammad Ali
MLK vs Ghandi
Knox not ready for all that heat yet
yes mlk VS Gandhi. love how that ends X"D
Basically all of them
santa vs moses is dope too
I want to add Carlin vs Prior and Spielberg vs Hitchcock
If you want more Watsky-ERB goodness: Dr Seuss vs William Shakespeare!
i mean, Watsky was the only good thing about that one
Excellent choice. It's even topical for today's climate. God I miss the mid 2000s 😫
In all seriousness though, I agree for this selection lol
@Pennywise The Dancing Clown Clint Eastwood vs Bruce Lee is the most one-sided.
@@joshuashelton6355 Thanos v Oppenheimer also. I mean, not all of the battles were that well balanced.
@Pennywise The Dancing Clown Khan vs Easterbunny, Bruce Banner vs Bruce Jenner... Justin Bieber vs Beethoven. All of those where more one sided, imho.
"i can't believe they got an actual rapper on here"
Well, wait till you react to Santa Claus Vs Moses 🤣
Or Newton vs Bill Nye
@@BarronessM Weird Al counts as a rapper?
@@samuellanghus1455 Check out Hardware Store.
@@BarronessM my one goal in life is to learn that song without fumbling any words
@@BarronessM Thank you, m’dude! Didn’t know that Al had such a large range!
Fuck yes! Che Guevara vs Guy Fawkes or Jack the Ripper vs Hannibal Lecter next?
EDIT: Also, you don't have to justify watching Kung Fu Panda, it's straight fire.
Yea, Che vs Fawkes!!
Far as beat selection, The Ripper one is fire.
KFP is one of my favorite movie trilogies ever 😂
@@MortiefiedBear Can he get an amen!?!
Can't go wrong with either one, both are great. I'm a fan of Jack vs Hannibals bars but Che vs Guy has a fire beat
Rage
Misery
Running Man
The Shining
Cujo
Tommyknockers
The Stand
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
The list of works he applied to his bars, the the Stand is maybe a stretch
Edit: also, Castle Rock is the name of Stephen King's production company, which he made after Stanley Kubrick adapted The Shining for film, this is the Jack Nicholson one, and King hated it so he made Castle Rock, which pumped out a bunch of made for TV films (It, The Shining, Tommyknockers, etc.)
Given the capitalisation, I'd confidently say The Stand was yet another purposeful reference.
This joint went in. Fun fact: the rapper that wrote for Poe he wrote the rhyme in a trochee (I think that’s how it’s spelled)
Correct, Watsky intentionally wrote in the same syllable scheme Poe loved to write in.
As he did in the Shakespeare VS Dr Seuss battle, where he used they way Shakespeare wrote for his rap.
Lol, ofc the person who wrote the lines, wrote the lines.
I think you meant Watsky wrote the lines so good to the point where it feels like it was Poe that was actually talking. I don't know why it sounds weird the way you phrased it. People could get the wrong meaning.
Edit: Like The Gheist just said.
@@scottjameson5358 No, the writing was done in the same poetic metre that Poe used, which is called "Trochee". Like Knox explained, it consists of using a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
If I remember right from the behind the scenes of this ERB Watsky said that he purposefully did all of Poe's lines in the same writing style that Poe used for his poems/stories. So not only is he playing Poe, he's also spittin' the exact same way as Poe would of wrote it.
Zach Sherwin: one of the best writers at ERB. You should check out some of his solo stuff.
I love The Aggressive Bee lol
Grit and Grin was amazing
Flag roast, the 3 part duck saga, rap hands, iont care. So may bangers
Why is it so refreshing to see someone who actually remembers what they learned in school?
Lmao, this guy clearly watches ahead of time and googles the bars. He's clever, don't get me wrong, but his whole, I might be wrong, but he never is gives it away. Half decent liar, but a liar.
@@simplyzach He’s been wrong in believable ways
Depends on the people around you
Yeah. Absolutely agree
Yeah sure sorry to say school didn't mention these many people and go into detail and that shit...
So he had to do this on his own doubts.
The guy who played King also played Alex the great, yes. He also plays Doctor Brown, Albert Einstein, and plenty others. His name is Zach Sherwin the man's got mad bars
He's ERB's third main writer alongside Lloyd & Peter.
Agree, his Alexander the Great verse was absolutely mad.
Omg I didn’t know that was the same guy….no wonder he did so well. His Alexander the Great was flames
I personally loved how Poe punctuated his bard with cries of anguish
I like that too
Congratulations! You receive the “can’t make an original comment” award.
@@Dctctx Wow! Im so honored! I would like to thank my family, the academy, and Kevin for giving me this trophy from his own personal collection!
@@Averyy1120 🤣🤣🤣
@@Averyy1120 Absolutely silenced him my g 😂
Misery was the book about the woman that kidnapped the author of a book series and she tortured him, telling him how his book SHOULD have ended.
The movie, the woman was played by Kathy Bates.
Thanks for saving me a post.
Woah that sounds scary 😱
@@NAMINE0306 both the book and film adaptation are terrifying. Kathy Bates plays Annie Wilkes, and does it SO DAMN WELL
It's one of my absolute favorite King books.
And Rage was a book that got banned for awhile King wrote under a pseudonym
"Fop" is old school slang for a girly/dainty man, often one obsessed with overtly formal clothes. Sort of like a "dandy", but at least dandies have style.
Not sure if you caught it but the line "in 8 bars I can write a whole best seller" was both about musical bars AND alcohol bars since he had addiction problems and wrote whike under the influence a lot
Impressive dissection of this rap battle. Knowledgeable on both contenders. Trivia rich and book smart. Well versed in the English language. This guy has it all. A perfect reaction channel. I'm officially a fan of this guy. Subscribed. Well earned.
I'm gonna just put a small list for next ERB videos to react to:
1: Al capone vs black beard
2: Shaka Zulu vs Julius Cesear
3: Jack the ripper vs Hannibal Lecter
4: Steven Hawking vs Albert Eisten
5: Rasputin vs Stalin
Please consider one of these in your future videos
All great!
or in short: almost ALL ERB-videos ;o
Caesar vs Zulu!!!
@@gladius1275 I mean Julius vs Shaka isn't really a battle, cos Shaka straight up got massacred.
@@Neion8 Still is a good battle. Shaka's quite good, Julius is just that much better.
“Poes poems pwn posers” and “Crank out a Shawshank or a Green Mile” were my favorite lines. I love Poe’s yelling too 😂😂😂
This has got to be one of the closest battle cause both are that good
I'm so glad you know who Watsky is! He's actually been in a couple of ERB videos! He was in Dr. Seuss vs Shakespeare (he was Shakespeare), and Doc Brown vs Doctor Who (he played the 4th Doctor). Also, I think the next one you should check out is Wolverine vs Freddy Kreuger. Freddy is played by a really cool rapper/singer by the name of Wax! Wax was also in another ERB: Alfred Hitchcock vs Stephen Spielberg. He played Quentin Tarantino. My favorite ERB is definitely Artists vs TMNT. I recommend that one! Fun fact, Watsky wrote all his lines for this battle!
When you get Watsky you waste him if he isn't writing the verses
Not gonna lie, I'm surprised that you remember Rage and not Misery, I figured Misery was the more well known of the two
by far. Also Misery is one of the easiest King's read. It has less than 500 pages and barely any slow moment (the tension starts at the end of the first page).
It's also one of his works with fewer characters, and I think King tends to get a bit repetitive with huge cast, so for me, Misery is the first book I recommend to anyone, and is the one that most benefits of his strenghts as a writer.
Plus Academy Award for a horror movie is unheard of. But Kathy Bates did it.
There is another Poe/King scheme in the Joker vs Pennywise rap battle. When Pennywise (King's work) mentions the Cask of Amontillado (Poe's work).
Marilyn Monroe vs Cleopatra is ruthless!!! There's one line in there that is just brutal. It's the kinda shit where somebody gotta bleed after saying dat! Fightin words homie!!🔥🔥(Knox, give women some shine on Women's History Month)
I already know the line you're talking about. I always thought it was the deepest low blow in all of ERB. Top 10 of battles.
Also, man when Stephen King says "I can even take a break from my routine style crank out a Shawshank or a green mile" He switches his flow as in taking a break from his routine style as well as making the non horror books.
Love Fridays now, these videos are the best. Please do Bonnie and Clyde vs Romeo and Juliette!
11:59 I like the attention to detail ERB put into this, the kung fu panda bar is even stronger considering what Edgar Allan Poe did at 5:08 with his hands.
Lmao I decided to check and see if there was a new ERB reaction and just my luck there was one uploaded not even a minute ago. Why didn't I get a notification RUclips?!
Poe was struggling with severe depression when he lost his wife. That is why he became the best poet of all times. Stephen king struggled alot aswell, he used to tell his stories to his children every night, before he wrote them. Castle rock is also a tv series that i just loved. I am in deep awe with both . I can not stress that enough. Poe is a legend when it comes to raw, emotional poetism. Stephen is a legend when it comes to stories. I love both og them. 👌🏼❤️ When i need inspiration for my art work or my writing, these two are my inspirations. ( Beside myself offcourse)
Great take
Fun Fact: Stephen King commented on this battle admitting that Poe won xD
Edit: I'm sorry, poor wording. I saw a random facebook news post about his tweet. Only reason I remember that is because it was the first time I'd seen them mentioned in the media.
Edit 2: I feel that Poe won. Mostly because it felt to me that King was just bragging. In terms of entertainment however King definitely outshone Poe, but that's probably just because I over appreciate his references xD
Source?
@@SomethingScotty The comment section of the video. Its not that hard to go to the original video.
@@SomethingScotty he did do it on twitter Stephen def took the w in this battle
King crushed Poe thou.
I mean I'm sure king is a big fan of poe so of course he wouldnt admit even if he did win. This battle is a really close one though.
Honestly i watched many reaction to ERBs during these years but you and Scru are the ones with the deeper knowledge of the topics. It's a pleasure to listen to someone that is able to appreciate the references, and has a deeper understandment of them.
I do study ancient greek and latin, and the sum up you did of the post-Cesar situation in the Roman Empire in the Cleopatra vs Monroe video was awesome. I genuinely didn't expect a so detailed explaination. Props!
This is actually one of the few ERB with a winner as the real King, always a big fan of Poe, conceded to him.
After his first verse, "I'm not gonna play favorites, but Edgar Allen Poe already won this battle"- Dude, I almost spit out my coffee LOL!
Next Knox you have to do Shakespeare vs Dr Suess it’s another WATSKY battle!
Classic battle
Love this one with Watskys shakespeare style flow is amazing...
Still one of my favorites to this day!
You can skip thing 1 and 2
I liked watching your ERB breakdowns once in a while, but you've quickly become one of my leave-everything-I'm-doing-to-watch weekly joys. Thanks and keep at it please!
You should recognize who played King. He played Voltaire in philosophers and Alexander.
His name is Zack Sherwin.
I always took the "beats off on a page" as Poe basically calling King a sellout! That he had "gone Hollywood" and was just cranking out mindless book after book with little to no thought, artistic expression or effort.
That he just "beats off on a page" and sells it as a book to his publisher for a paycheck over & over. (surviving on name recognition only)
Whereas HE (Poe) "suffered" for his "art". (literally)
But that was just my take.
The guy that Poe is also in Dr Suess vs Shakespeare Does an amazing job! Do that one next!
When you whispered “Big dick bibliography” I lost my shit 😂.Never a dull moment with the dude Knox Hill! Keep up the good work and spilling that knowledge man, dope stuff.
Knox, try watching ERB'S Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs. Also, still recommending ERB's Jack the Ripper vs Hannibal Lector and Rasputin vs Stalin.
This is one of my favourites. Both were sick! The, “never more,” line tip the scales at the end for me, but King was playing catch-up on his last verse... :)
Woke up. Saw this. Clicked immediately.
Been waiting for this one
Loving those ERB breakdown, kindly please do Bonnie an Clyde vs Romeo and Juliet. PLEASE.
Yesss we need this
My guy, your videos are insane. You earned yourself a subscriber! This is exactly the kind of reaction videos that are worth watching.
After seeing your Tolkien vs Martin ERB I definitely think you need to check out the princess rap battles, in particular Maleficient vs Daenerys which is just insane.
You caught those bars like an absolute god, I can't even get half of those references.
P.S.
You should react to Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg! It's an absolute Banger.
Bro I’m with you on the GRR Martin rant!!! I just watched 3 or 4 of your ERB breakdowns and I was close to subbing already but your love for GoT sent me over. I’m all in now.
Ceasar vs Shaka Zulu is a short but really good one
Hey man, I've seen every ERB multiple times. I thought I've had them all, but ur knowledge, ur expertise and ur skills help me discover stuff I've never heard before! You're magnificent! Your tracks are dope as hell, talented beyond belief! Keep goin' man! I'm eager to see/hear more from you! stay safe, stay healthy
Hey KNOX, I've been meaning to ask for a while now, what headphones do you use? Because in breakdowns you seem to hear every little detail in instrumental and all that, so I assume it must be good quality. Plus it looks comfortable. Can I get the brand or specific model or something, please? Have a good day man🤙
Earliest I've caught one of your breakdowns. Dope stuff. You're probably one of the best at picking up the meaning of the bars.
Honestly, this one is one of my favorite ERBs that most Reactors just...see as meh. So its nice to someone else see how good this rap battle is.
Think you are my favorite person reacting to these. I just love you just going on about all you know about it. Like leaping onto the bars, the beat, references. You got it all. Really enjoy watching
Something that you may not know is that King is a free writer. This means that he often goes into a story with a rough idea and let's the story grow on it's own while many others have plans of how things go before hand. This in general can allow for faster publishing, which is what the beats off on a page line comes down to.
Also, fun fact about king's works, he tends to get bored with most of the books and start second guessing the way that they go. It's one of the reasons he has so many, hes on to the next book before he finishes the last. His writing style makes series more difficult which makes his accomplishments with the Dark Tower, his piece-de-resistance, far more impressive.
YES a new knox hill video! But first.... That intro song played on repeat... I'll be back
Tom McDonald drops a new song, Knox with another ERB, Friday's are awesome 😋
Right?!? I love Fridays 😃
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Exactly
Plus Harry mack with new omegale bar
shame it comes just once a week🙄
Hey Knox, been checkin out your ERB vids the last couple of weeks and they finally got me to check out your music. I gotta say ... Im digging it! Keep it up man, cant wait to see whats next
Fun fact, Steven King has actually seen this battle.
Watsky has stated on an ERB behind the scenes that he purposefully wrote Poe’s lines in Trochaic Octameter like in the Raven.
Watsky’s first ERB Shakespeare vs Dr. Seuss, which is another one you should watch, he wrote the opening lines in that one to an Iambic Pentameter like most of Shakespeare’s plays.
Basically both show you how stressed and unstressed syllable meters work, just opposite of each other.
i would love to see his reaction to batman vs sherlock holmes. this has probably one of the funniest opening lines ever
I love watching you breakdown these ERB raps. Can't wait for the next one.
Actually he married her so she could use his insurance due to being really sick
I love that you're not even shy about it. I love both of them.
Awesome work
Next up: Spielberg vs Hitchcock, it also pack Movies in the bars
both Rage and Misery are books of his. The Tommyknockers is a book title as well as The Stand 12:00 which is why Stand is capitalized here.
Basically, every capitalized word in Stephen King's rap is him name dropping one of his works
King started out writing as himself, his big first hit was Carrie - he invented Richard Bachmann (named after Bachmann Turner Overdrive IIRC) to write non-horror. Rage is a drama about a school shooting, Running Man is dystopian sci-fi (less over the top than the movie, but also much darker), The Long Walk is another dystopian sci-fi (set in the same future, IIRC), and so on.
Rage is the only King story I could get through.
Zach Sherwin has some of the best bars in ERB. Anything with him in it is gonna be good. But you should definitely react to Stan Lee vs. Jim Henson
Ayy I’m early, check out Deadpool vs Bobba Fett ERB
Every Watsky fan will have his Shakespeare v Dr. Seuss at the top of their favorites. That battle is also one that YOU will love because of the literary mechanisms they use - very out of the box styles/schemes!
This, MLK vs Ghandi, and Obama vs Romney were my intro to ERB.
Absolutely love that you picked up on the use of troche in the first couple of Poe’s lines. That’s one of my absolute favorite details of these battles. They do the same thing with Shakespeare vs Dr. Seuss, which is equally good
You have a talent where you can turn a 2:25 song into a 20 minute reaction. Well played, well played.
Misery was a book that was written by Stephen King and made into a movie!
I've got an entire book about all of Edgar Allen Poe's works and I've read his first short story of it!
Mans gotta do Shaka Zulu vs Julius Caesar, it’s an absolutely fantastic listen and I’d love a comprehensive breakdown and reaction to it
Always epic to hear your breakdowns, all the bits I miss.
Stan Lee vs. Jim Henson is my favorite ERB. Henson's first verse has one of the best internal rhyme schemes in all of ERB
Knox you madlad! I was holding my breath for you to do this one.
Haha appreciate the support brother
Fun fact: Stephen King admited on twitter that he lose against Poe the same day that he lose this battle came out. Also he tweet some nice rimes sometimes since then
Dropped the like before I even saw the video, stay real Knox!
Watzky is also in the Doc Brown, Doctor Who as well as the Shakespeare and Dr Seuss ERB. He’s the best part of those other two, they’re just not some of ERBs best
Yay thanks for this I requested it on a few of your vids!! I also enjoy William Wallace vs Washington and Jack the Ripper vs Hannibal Lecter
You have got to do Martin Luther King vs. GHANDI!!
Another amazing video Knox
Who else is waiting for Knox to react to Clint Eastwood vs Bruce Lee?
Noooo... that one is one-sided AF. Clint dogstomped the father of Mixed Martial Arts. Like that was a slaughter. There wasn't enough of Lee left to put in a bucket.
Watsky also played Shakespear in ERBs 'Dr. Seuss Vs Shakespear' and one of the doctors in 'Doc Brown Vs Doctor Who'
King has single novels that are longer than the entire works of poe
Well done to you about the trochee. I learned something new today! Love your reactions... Keep'em coming!
TODAY is a BIG day.. 'Cause TODAY is THE DAY that I subscribed to THE BEST breakdown channel that youtube has to offer!
loved that erb did this, imma poe fan in a king household so it was fun sharing it with my aunt! so glad she likes erb too lol
Poes 's first verse was in iambic pentameter, which further speaks to Watsky's credit as he penned his verses. He also appears in Doctor Who vs. Doc Brown and William Shakespeare vs. Dr. Seuss.
That’s wrong. His first verse is in Trochaic Octameter, which is why he says he’ll “Choke [King] with a trochee”. Iambic Pentameter is William Shakespeare.
Zach Sherwin is the guy who played King. He was also Alexander the Great, as mentioned, and Voltaire. He also plays Einstein, Sherlock Holmes, and Walt Disney is other ERB videos.
A fop is not necessarily a poser. I think it's someone who is either foolish, or very vain and concerned with fashion. Or both. I may be showing my age--I'm an old fart--but I think another term for a fop is someone who is "fabulous".
That's exactly what that means. (I'm not old just a nerd lol)
Stephe got nereves saying "Masque of the Red Death" is barely blood curdling, when he used one of the lines from it in The Shining.
Love to see Jack the Ripper vs Hannibal Lecter it's another hitter
This is a dope one. Watsky also plays Shakespeare in ERB's Shakespeare vs Dr Suess. That bass that was like a heartbeat was a subtle nod to Poe's famous story, "The Telltale Heart", which was obviously shouted out in the next line. Rage and Misery are titles of two of King's novels.