EPIC RAP BATTLES OF ARKERRAN HISTORY – E-MERL VS GRAVEDUST
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Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip
Guilded Age
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Guilded Age is co-written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn, and illustrated by John Waltrip. Site design by Samantha Kyle. Fonts by Blambot.com.
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I love them both, but Gravedust inched ahead.
Gonna go with Gravedust
Bragging, put-downs and a hint of rudeness don’t seem to fit Gravedust’s personality; it comes off as a little fake. I give this one to E-Merl.
I don’t always vote for rap battle victories, but when I do, I prefer Gravedust.
The “Gastonians” refrain isn’t really working for me, so I’m giving this one to E-Merl. (Plus, for some reason, I’m hearing Lin-Manuel Miranda doing his bit.)
same, I couldn’t follow that refrain
Ditto. It just throws a boulder of a word into the fray. The stanzas without “Gastonians” work well, but there weren’t enough.
Honestly, E-Merl had me at “Ha ha ouch.” Because he is adorable. But his rhymes were solid, too, so he gets my vote.
I’m actually hearing Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke! and giving it to E-Merl.
The ending absolutely got me, that rhyme was glorious!
10 points to E-Merl! (What do you mean we can’t give him ten? Fine, 1 vote then!)
I just can’t imagine Gravedust rapping. He just comes off like he’s reading poetry and while I imagine he’d have a great voice actor who could make reading the phone book fascinating I’m voting for E-Merl.
Now I totally want an audiobook version of guildedage, just for Gravedust, well I asume Byrons fourthwallbreaking/innermonologue snippets would be nice, too and the whole idea
Also I vote for E-Merl, the lines just come over more fluid
Just make sure you don’t play it in the car with children present, or you will have to “explain” Frigg.
And I have to vote for E-Merl as well, for the reasons stated. I’ve spent some time trying to figure out how to make “Gastonians” fit into a rap rhythm, and I just ain’t hearing it.
Totally going with the glam-rap on this one. E-Merl for the win!
E-merl owned it, IM[NS]HO.
They both start off basically complaining about their life, but E-Merl flows better, feels more like a rap, and manages to finish on a high note. I think E-Merl won this one.
E-Merl has way better flow, definitely.
E-Merl is a better rapper, but the real battle here is Gravedust vs. E-Merl’s imposter syndrome, and that smile on his face at the end tells me that Gravy won.
E-Merl
E-merl! <3
E-merl.
Isn’t this more like E-Merl and Gravedust vs the prejudice of Gastonians than E-Merl vs Gravedust? If so E-Merl and Gravedust both won by default. xD
This was a slaughter.
Gravedust stinks like Grandpa after cabbage, meanwhile E-merl’s self-deprecating flow was unstoppable.
Gravedust for the win.
Gravey dissed E-Merl, but in a supportive way. And he did while throwing a dis at Gastonians. Nice touch. Meanhwile, E-Merl last few stanzas were great. But his first few were all self-deprecation.
Did I detect a nod to “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?” At least that’s what popped in my head when I read “Super-Fractal-Exponential-Self-Multiplication.”
Nice catch; if not what was intended, it certainly feels like it fits.
And I give this to E-Merl. “Let’s hear it for gravy; he adds savor to a meal.” Good stuff.
I give it to Gravedust, he shook E-merl out of it and warmed my heart, even if E-merl had better single shot lines.
THAT was supposed to be a fight ? It really looked more like a self-deprecating bit being cut short by a peptalk, to me…
I don’t like any of these rap battles – I don’t even read them because they’re too cringey for me; like having MC Hammer’s “Can’t touch this” to the end credits of The Dark Knight.
E-merl with the flow for the win.
E-Merl.
I mean, I get that Gravedust was trying to draw out E-Merl, analogous to the way Rachel was drawing out Frigg. But, Gravedust didn’t seem to be helping, so much as interrupting. Pointing out that he had deeper sources of grief than E-Merl comes off, ironically, as petty, since E-Merl is after all excessively self-deprecating and is wrestling with that. Gravedust is more interesting with pointing out the danger of self-deprecating humor in the context of Gastonian society — there was a minor sub-plot about that, after all — but he doesn’t say enough about it.
Meanwhile, E-Merl is obviously working through his own issues through the performance. Gravedust works as someone for him to compare himself to, but Gravedust barely needs to say a word to play that role. The dynamism here is all E-Merl’s.
Gravedusts’s message seems kinder, but E-merl just raps better.
E-merl :)
Gonna give it to E-Merl, as much as I am a Gravy fan.
Me!
A “rap battle” is by its nature a zero sum game. The idea is to make yourself look better than your opponent. Neither of these two seemed to be interested in playing by those rules. E-Merl just rips on himself, and Gravedust appears to have invented the “backhanded insult” for the sole purpose of cheering his buddy up.
So, in a sense, I suppose you can say that Gravedust won, since he managed to get his intended message across to E-Merl. However, in the interest of strict accuracy, I’d like to register my vote as “both of them beat the system.”
E-merl won this the moment I realized his opening was to be sung to the tune of super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-doci-ous.
Typo: “onhis”
Gravedust killed it, adding a vote for him
E-merl!
I want to say both but if I have to pick I have to go with E-girl I mean E-merl.
Mmm… Gravy didn’t get seconds. Given that handicap, I have to vote (ex-?)savasi.
Emerl for the win.
There might be a brilliantly intricate rhythm behind Gravy’s words… but I have no idea what it would sound like. E-Merl, OTOH, follows a pretty obvious rhythm. Not groundbreaking, but good enough for me to cast my vote on him.
E-Merl it is!