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Background information | |
Birth name | Peter Alexis Shukoff |
Born | Rochester, NY |
Genres | Hip Hop, Comedy |
Occupations | YouTube Personality, comedian, singer, rapper, songwriter, producer |
Years active | 2000–present |
Associated acts | Lisa Donovan, Epic Lloyd, George Watsky, DeStorm, Alex Farnham, MC Mr Napkins Ray William Johnson, Timothy DeLaGhetto, Colin J. Sweeney, Shaycarl |
Nice Peter[1] (born August 15, 1979 in Rochester, NY) is a self described "Comic/Guitar Hero" best known for the musical comedy on his YouTube channel, NicePeter.[2] As of November 2011 he is the 39th most subscribed of all time[3] and the 11th most subscribed musician with over 1.2 million subscribers.[4] The day after hitting one million subscribers, the video game and news channel G4 crowned Nice Peter the King of Dot Com Comedy on "Attack of the Show".[5] His videos have received over 344 million views and have been featured on the Huffington Post[6] and Billboard.com. The most recent interview with Forbes Magazine[7] details Peter and his Epic Rap Battle of History partner Lloyd Alhquist's rise to YouTube fame.
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Epic Rap Battles of History is an original video series created by Nice Peter and Epic Lloyd. The series pits famous historical and pop culture figures, either fictional or otherwise, against one another (e.g.: Darth Vader vs. Adolf Hitler)[8] in a rap battle format. Although early episodes of the series featured only Nice Peter and Epic Lloyd, later episodes have regularly featured guest appearances from other digital celebrities such as Lisa Donovan as Sarah Palin, Timothy Delaghetto as Kim Jong-il, Alex Farnham as Justin Bieber, MC Mr. Napkins as Albert Einstein, Colin J. Sweeney as Billy Mays, George Watsky as William Shakespeare,DeStorm Power as Mr. T and Shaycarl as King Henry VIII. Epic Rap Battles of History will be housed on its own YouTube channel beginning in December according to Maker Studios which produces and distributes the series.
The following is a list of Season 1's "Epic Rap Battles Of History" as of September 26, 2011:
The following is a list of Season 2's "Epic Rap Battle Of History" as of December 8, 2011
The 15th Epic Rap Battles of History, called the "Final Battle", was actually a season finale. Epic Rap Battles returned in December 8, 2011, hosted on their new channel, YouTube/ERB, with Behind the Scenes on their second channel, YouTube/ERB2.[9]
The series has been one of the most viewed series in YouTube history and has vaulted Nice Peter's YouTube channel into 89th most viewed of all-time in YouTube history. As of late October 2011, all the rap battles combined have over 230 million views.
Nice Peter has a second channel called Nicepetertoo, the home of the Monday Show, Picture Songs, Question Songs, and BTS for the Epic Rap Battles of History, along with other random tidbits and treasures.
The Monday Show is a vlog that Nice Peter puts up every Monday on NicePetertoo, it contains some or all of the following parts.
Picture Songs are another specialty of the Nicepetertoo channel. In these songs, pictures are lined up and shown to him on a screen, and he sings the first thing that comes to his mind. Such hits include "Nomnomnom Babies" and "Why are Japanese People So Weird", the second of which caused a small controversy, people claiming he was racist. In response to these allegations, Nice Peter responded with "White People Make Me Sad" to show that his racism is inclusive of all races and nationalities, and is not exclusive to the Japanese.
Last but not least are the Nicepetertoo "Question Songs", consisting of questions taken from Facebook, Twitter or Youtube and their respective answers, done entirely in song.
Before Nice Peter started making the Epic Rap Battles of History, even before he started making YouTube videos, he had a long musical career, playing live in small bars in Chicago, with multiple tours to the UK. He recorded some studio albums with his band (that was called Nice Peter) and toured with them a couple of years.[10] Since then, he lost the bass player and drummer, and four other drummers, but he kept on playing alone, releasing new songs only with his guitar.