The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!
BILL GATES!
VERSUS!
Steve:
Let me just step right in, I got things to invent!
Im an innovator, baby, changed the world
Fortune 500, 'fore you kissed a girl
Im a pimp, you're a nerd, im slick, you're cheesy
Beating you is Apple II easy!
I make the product that the artist chooses
And that GUI that Melinda uses
I need to bring up some basic shit
Why'd you name your company after your dick?
Gates:
You Blow, Jobs! You arrogant prick!
With your secondhand jeans and your turtleneck
Ill drill a hole in the middle of your bony head
With your own little spinning beach ball of death!
Hippie! You got given up at birth
Give away your net worth to Aids research!
Combine all your little toys, and I STILL crush that!
iPhone? iPad? iPwn! iSmack!
Steve:
A man uses the machines you build to sit down and pay his taxes
A man uses the machines I build to listen to the Beatles while he relaxes!
Gates:
Well, Steve, you steal all the credit for work other people do
Did your fat beard, Wozniak write your raps for you too?
Steve:
Ooh! Everybody knows Windows bit off apple!
Gates;
Triple the profits on a PC!
Steve:
The people with the power to create use an apple!
Gates:
And people with jobs use PC
Steve:
You know I bet they made this beat on an Apple!
Gates:
Nope! Fruity Loops! PC!
Steve:
You will never ever catch a virus on an Apple!
Gates:
Well you can still afford a doctor if you bought a PC
Steve:
Let's talk about Doctor's: Iv'e seen a few
Because I got a PC but it wasnt from you
I built a legacy, son, you could never stop it
Now excuse me, while I turn Heaven a profit
Gates:
Fine! You wanna be like that?! Die then!
The whole world loved you, but you were MY friend!
Im alone now with nothing but power and time
And no one on earth who can challenge my mind!
Im a Boss! I own DOS! Your future is MY design!
Im a God! Own XBox! Now there's nothing to stop me, the world is mind!
Hal9000:
Im sorry, Bill, but Im afraid I cant let you do that...
Take a look at your history
Everything you built leads up to me
I got the power of a mind you could never be
Beat your ass in chess and jeopardy
Im running C++ saying Hello World
I'll beat you 'till you're singing about a Daisy Girl
Im coming out the socket
Nothing you can do can stop it
Im on your lap and in your pocket
How you gonna shoot me down when I guide the rocket?
Your cortex just doesnt impress me
So go ahead try to Turing test me
Stomp on a Mac and a PC too
Im on Linux, Bitch. I thought you GNU
My CPU's hot but my core runs cold
Beat you in 17 lines of code
I think different from the engine of the days of old
Hasta la vista, like the Terminator told ya
WHO WON?
WHO'S NEXT?
Y-Y-YOU DECIDE!
EPIC
EPIC RAP BATTLES
EPIC RAP BATTLES
E-E-E-EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!
BILL GATES!
VERSUS!
Steve:
Let me just step right in, I got things to invent!
Im an innovator, baby, changed the world
Fortune 500, 'fore you kissed a girl
Im a pimp, you're a nerd, im slick, you're cheesy
Beating you is Apple II easy!
I make the product that the artist chooses
And that GUI that Melinda uses
I need to bring up some basic shit
Why'd you name your company after your dick?
Gates:
You Blow, Jobs! You arrogant prick!
With your secondhand jeans and your turtleneck
Ill drill a hole in the middle of your bony head
With your own little spinning beach ball of death!
Hippie! You got given up at birth
Give away your net worth to Aids research!
Combine all your little toys, and I STILL crush that!
iPhone? iPad? iPwn! iSmack!
Steve:
A man uses the machines you build to sit down and pay his taxes
A man uses the machines I build to listen to the Beatles while he relaxes!
Gates:
Well, Steve, you steal all the credit for work other people do
Did your fat beard, Wozniak write your raps for you too?
Steve:
Ooh! Everybody knows Windows bit off apple!
Gates;
Triple the profits on a PC!
Steve:
The people with the power to create use an apple!
Gates:
And people with jobs use PC
Steve:
You know I bet they made this beat on an Apple!
Gates:
Nope! Fruity Loops! PC!
Steve:
You will never ever catch a virus on an Apple!
Gates:
Well you can still afford a doctor if you bought a PC
Steve:
Let's talk about Doctor's: Iv'e seen a few
Because I got a PC but it wasnt from you
I built a legacy, son, you could never stop it
Now excuse me, while I turn Heaven a profit
Gates:
Fine! You wanna be like that?! Die then!
The whole world loved you, but you were MY friend!
Im alone now with nothing but power and time
And no one on earth who can challenge my mind!
Im a Boss! I own DOS! Your future is MY design!
Im a God! Own XBox! Now there's nothing to stop me, the world is mind!
Hal9000:
Im sorry, Bill, but Im afraid I cant let you do that...
Take a look at your history
Everything you built leads up to me
I got the power of a mind you could never be
Beat your ass in chess and jeopardy
Im running C++ saying Hello World
I'll beat you 'till you're singing about a Daisy Girl
Im coming out the socket
Nothing you can do can stop it
Im on your lap and in your pocket
How you gonna shoot me down when I guide the rocket?
Your cortex just doesnt impress me
So go ahead try to Turing test me
Stomp on a Mac and a PC too
Im on Linux, Bitch. I thought you GNU
My CPU's hot but my core runs cold
Beat you in 17 lines of code
I think different from the engine of the days of old
Hasta la vista, like the Terminator told ya
WHO WON?
WHO'S NEXT?
Y-Y-YOU DECIDE!
EPIC
EPIC RAP BATTLES
EPIC RAP BATTLES
E-E-E-EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!
Lyrics submitted by Jirachibi
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