Epic Rap Battle Parodies

Epic Rap Battle Parodies (for short ERBParodies or ERBP) is a tribute channel to Epic Rap Battles of History currently owned by Nathan Provost, Mr. Jay, and WoodenHornets. The series premiered on December 23rd, 2012 by its original creators Justin and Nathan and grew to become one of the most popular YouTube rap battle series, gaining over 80,000+ subscribers and 12,000,000+ video views. The series features a variety of fictional and historical characters and has a current total of 61 battles and the fifth season in production. The series was rebooted in August 2020 after a 4-5 year hiatus under a new team, only to be brought back after another hiatus by the original creators in August 2022.
== History ==
The channel was created on December 16, 2012 by co-creators Mr. Jay and Nathan Provost. Later on December 23, 2012, they uploaded their first rap battle titled "Vault Boy vs Cole Phelps," which pit L.A. Noire protagonist Cole Phelps and Fallout mascot Vault Boy against each other. 
After a while, they recruited an editor by the name of Zander Kanack, professionally known as WoodenHornets, who would debut on January 30th, 2013 as an editor for "Puff Puff vs Steve Smith, and as an actor protraying Harry Styles on "Harry Styles vs Paul McCartney". The series currently has a total of 61 battles, counting the privated "ERBP vs VGRB" and "Nathan vs Justin". Both can be found via archives.
In 2015, the co-creators Justin and Nathan announced they were leaving the series with Zander as the showrunner and Matteo Adois, professionally known as Mat4yo and Froggy as co-owners. through the span of late 2014-early 2016 they produced 9 battles, counting the joke battles. 
After the first season ended, They made a first rap battle of the second season named Nathan vs Justin, The battle features the creators of Epic Rap Battle Parodies Justin Buckner and Nathan Provost which who made the series. 
After the first season ended, they uploaded the first battle of the second season titled "Nathan vs Justin", which pit the creators of Epic Rap Battle Parodies, Justin Buckner and Nathan Provost against each other. This season concluded with VGRB vs ERBParodies, which pit fellow rap battle creator Cameron Steady, professionally known as Video Game Rap Battles and the co-creators of Epic Rap Battle Parodies, Justin Buckner and Nathan Provost against each other.
After the second season ended, they uploaded the first battle of the third season titled Gabe Newell vs Shigeru Miyamoto, which the creator of the franchise Super Mario Bros, Shigeru Miyamoto against the co-creator of Valve Corporation, Gabe Newell. The season concluded with a royale titled "Eyeless Jack vs Laughing Jack", which pits the titular character of the same name, Eyeless Jack and the titular character of the same name, Laughing Jack against each other in a royale format.
After the third season ended, they uploaded the first rap battle of the fourth season titled Drake & Josh vs The Blues Brothers, pitting the titular characters of the Nickelodeon show Drake Bell & Josh Peck against the titular duo of the same name, Blues Brothers. The season concluded with Jigsaw vs Glados, pitting the antagonist of the Saw franchise, Jigsaw, and the primary antagonist of the Portal franchise, Glados against each other.
After the fourth season ended, they uploaded the first battle of the rebooted series of the same name titled "Walt Disney vs Shigeru Miyamoto". The battle pits the creator of the Super Mario Bros franchise, Shigeru Miyamoto and the father of the Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney against each other. This season would conclude with a rap battle titled "James Wan vs Wes Craven", pitting Conjuring director James Wan against Elm Street director Wes Craven.
After the reboot's end, the series went into a 5th season, starting with a battle pitting English comedian Charlie Chaplin against American comedian George Lopez. 
==Trivia==
*The first battle, Vault Boy vs Cole Phelps, was originally planned to be an installment of XP9 Rap Battles, another project of Jay's which lasted from 2012 to 2014.
*From February to September 2019, all the videos on the channel were set to private which was a mutual decision made by Jay and Nathan.
*The popular video Slender Man vs Jeff the Killer was the most requested Epic Rap Battle Parodies rap battle 
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