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Not the Saint Bernard Version, I’m the real O.G Epic Rap Battles of History (Ft. Alex Farnham & Nice Peter) – Justin Bieber vs Beethoven

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Beethoven is a comedy film featuring a dog named Beethoven, a Saint Bernard puppy.

OG Means original gangster – whereas the film was released in 1992, he was composing his masterpieces in the 18th/19th centuries

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Charles Lindberg

9 years

O.G. may, very probably, be also a referece to “the O.G.”, the Opera Ghost.

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407

11 years

Response to “K understand why they used a dog to play you in the movies.”

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Anon

11 years

Sir_Jacko > He is German, this is Mozart who are Austrian
God….

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Sir_Jacko

11 years

He’s not even German, he’s Austrian

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410

11 years

Or Original German?

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11 years

O.G. Original Gangster.

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dylan

12 years

no he was right, OG = Original Gangster

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Mike

12 years

OG means original

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Marcus Garvey Fabolous (Ft. Paul Cain) – Steve Jobs

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Advocate of Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism

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With some wild kids from Bucktown, profilin' 2Pac – Old School

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Bucktown is a nickname for Brooklyn.

The term was famously used in the song “Bucktown” by the rap group Smif-n-Wessun

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Minoring in fucking awesome settlements Tyler, The Creator – Dem Hoes

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“Fucking Awesome” is the default genre for OFWGKTA releases downloaded off their Tumblr.

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Sucking up all the white like their tummy's made for the bleaches Tyler, The Creator – Dem Hoes

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Tyler uses a similar line in Burger, but referring to his relatively conflicted racial situation (as a black skater/rapper who hangs out with a lot of white kids and has a mostly white audience)

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Live from the city of jealous niggas and bourgie-ass bitches Domo Genesis (Ft. Tyler, The Creator) – Whole City Behind Us

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Domo and Tyler are from Los Angeles, CA.

“Bourgie” is a truncation of bourgeoisie, meaning middle-upper class – the owners of the means of production in Marxist theory (where the term comes from). LA is full of wealthy CEOs and starlets.

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I got a 427, I don't really give a fuck Young Nigga – Come Threw Looking Clean

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427 is police code for a kidnapping in some jurisdictions.

It’s also a Chevrolet big-block engine used in a number of whips.

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The Bloods and the Crips and the KKK Black Eyed Peas (Ft. Justin Timberlake) – Where Is the Love?

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The CIA’s past is checkered with controversies, ranging from overthrowing legitimate democracies in Iran and Guatemala, assisting in assassinating Black leaders, and even experimenting on civilians without consent. Its behavior is not too dissimilar from a terrorist organization in methodology.

The Bloods and Crips are two prominent gangs in Southern California, and the violence they wreak on neighborhoods can be likened to terrorism.

The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) advocates extremist white nationalist racism. Sporadically from the 1860s until the 1930s, they committed acts of terror against Black people, Jews, Roman Catholics, and others it considered enemies of White people. Today, the KKK is in its “fourth wave”.

Additionally, the colors of the Bloods (red), Crips (blue) and KKK (white) form colors of the American flag, making this line more clever than it superficially appears.

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[The CIA's](https://www.cia.gov/) past is checkered with controversies, ranging from [overthrowing legitimate democracies in Iran](https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days) and Guatemala, [assisting in assassinating Black leaders](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/cia-long-history-kill-leaders-around-the-world-north-korea), and even [experimenting on civilians without consent](https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra). Its behavior is not too dissimilar from a terrorist organization in methodology.

[The Bloods](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bloods-gang) and [Crips](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Crips) are two prominent gangs in Southern California, and the violence they wreak on neighborhoods can be likened to terrorism.

[The KKK (Ku Klux Klan)](https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan) advocates extremist white nationalist racism. Sporadically from the 1860s until the 1930s, they committed acts of terror against Black people, Jews, Roman Catholics, and others it considered enemies of White people. Today, the KKK is in its ["fourth wave"](https://www.vice.com/video/the-kkk-and-american-veterans-part-1-666).

Additionally, the colors of the Bloods (red), Crips (blue) and KKK (white) form colors of the American flag, making this line more clever than it superficially appears.

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apate1 – Unfortunately that’s bullshit, America uses this ‘fighting terrorists’ excuse over and over. Never mind ‘terrorism’ on their own soil, it doesn’t compare to the horror that America unleashes on its third-world victims. Imperialism hidden with a faint cover of good-will, not ‘helping people’. Man wtf. That’s a prime example of the brainwashed propaganda American kids spew. How can you possibly believe something so stupid? What country would spend tons of money to help people without profit? Seriously?

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Even Elise wants to do me Epic Rap Battles of History (Ft. Alex Farnham & Nice Peter) – Justin Bieber vs Beethoven

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“Für Elise” was a song which was supposedly written for Beethoven’s love. Music historians hypothesize that one of three women; Therese Malfatti, Elisabeth Röckel,and Juliane Katharine Elisabet Barensfeld; was the subject of the song.The father of one of the three women above would not let Beethoven marry her as a result of his profession.

No matter the identity, Beiber’s insult hits home on Beethoven’s lost love.

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8 years

Für Elise isn’t a song, it’s a solo for piano, and as such has no words.

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11 years

*to

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FreeToss

11 years

It was Therese I believe, but he wrote it so unreadable… they believe it was ‘Fur Elise’.

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jolocus

12 years

For Elise was written for Beethovens piano-student Elisa, it was a piece to learn playing piano

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shinrei

12 years

actually, it never was Elise, the one who found the piece long before beethoven was dead really misread the title (because of the bad writing)

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The Dude

12 years

You mean Beethoven when you say Bach (here and in other explanations). “This is basically saying that Bieber is so egotistical that he believes he can steal the one girl Beethoven truly loved.”

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Boom bap bip in your medulla oblongata Sean Price – Monkey Barz

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“Boom Bap” describes a type of percussion-heavy production style popularized by pioneering NY hip hop artists such as DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and RZA. This song exhibits the production style, and with a good bass system you can feel the “boom bap” permeate your lower brain stem.

However this line is a double entendre: the “BOOM BAP” could be Sean firing a gun, and the bullet hitting your brain

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