Oh look he's waving at a transexual prostitute!
Origins - WW1 Rap Battle Page 2
That is a quality piece of work.
On the whole I regard rap as proof of the inexorable decline of western civilisation, and comedy raps as evidence that it is no longer worth fighting for. So I approached this with some scepticism; you have done well to win me over. Being a pedant, it helped that you got the history right.
I did not realise that it was lip-synched until I saw the final credits, though admittedly that is from someone who has just discovered the Movies4Men channel and is currently on two spaghetti westerns a day.
Hah, cheers, pleased it won you over. I'm also a closet Movies4Men fan. Nothing goes better with a pizza and a 6 pack of lager.
Class piece of work.
Was good that!
Reminded me a bit of professor elemental but with history inovlved.
Quote: Lee Henman @ 23rd June 2014, 4:39 PM BSTTo be fair, even if the physical actors had provided the voices, those voices would still have had to be have been recorded in a recording studio beforehand and then mimed to on filming day, so it wouldn't have made a lot of difference. It's impossible to record the vocals for something like this in real time as you film it. Everything is done in a recording studio.
Even the bit right at the end where the music stops and the Kaiser flounces off - if you listen carefully, you can hear his medals jangling, the sound of the cast's uniform material moving, the footsteps etc - those were all added in afterwards in the recording studio which had a Foley department. (Foley being a term used for creating sound effects with real objects.) Little peek behind the curtain for you!
So, in essence, I have no idea how this stuff works 
I still like to think it's all elves and fairy dust.
And thanks to Sooty for filling my head with shocking 80's synth music - which pretty much did for western civilization before rap got its teeth into the rotting corpse.
It's got a decent review in the Guardian. Nice! http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2014/jun/25/bbc-first-world-war-rap
Well done Lee you're turning into the comedic Henman, as opposed to the tennis playing one.
Hahaha, brilliant.
Just joined the site and this is the first thing I've seen. Loved it. Two questions...
Have you got it on iTunes yet?
and
Who directed the fist shake at the end because it was class?
Quote: Wadley @ 27th June 2014, 8:43 AM BSTJust joined the site and this is the first thing I've seen. Loved it. Two questions...
Have you got it on iTunes yet?
and
Who directed the fist shake at the end because it was class?
No idea if it's going on iTunes, that side of things has nothing to do with me. I think the fist bump was just improvised on the spur of the moment, it certainly wasn't in the script. Unless the director told them to do it. I'd buggered off home by then.
Thanks for the kind comments 
Is there anywhere else to see this besides the BBC iPlayer. It won't let me watch it 'cos I don't live in the UK.