10 Best Epic Rap Battles Of (Actual) History

10. Justin Bieber Vs. Beethoven

Two musical figures clash, one of classical greatness and another of modern super-stardom. While this episode is from the first season of ERB and thus wasn't even on the official channel, it showed the potential for this series more than any other of it's contemporaries. While the portrayal of Justin Bieber is shown to have a purposefully negative voice, he was able to get some digs in properly at the maestro. In later years the creators would move away from showing less popular characters in a negative light, trying to let them speak with more gusto.

A particular highlight involves Beethoven stating that he's 'committing verbal murder in the major third degree', the kind of play-on-multiple-meanings that ERB would become ever more intricate at. A 'major third' describes a commonly used type of harmony, while 'third degree murder' is committing the felony of murder without any intention to do so.

A follow-up of Skrillex vs. Mozart was in the next season, but since that one featured music closer to Skrillex's style and this one was set to the beat of Beethoven's 5th Symphony, this one edges it out in quality.