Dis Raps for Hire

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Your time on Earth as a bully, is about to officially expire
 'Cause you've been targeted for destruction by Dis Raps For Hire!

Dis Raps For Hire is a YouTube series, made by EpicLLOYD, who is likely best known as one of the creators of the Epic Rap Battles of History. In this series, Lloyd reads user comments about a Jerkass someone knows and what they've been doing. He then creates a dis rap for the Jerkass in question, calling them out for everything they've done.

Five episodes have been made so far. The raps can be found on EpicLLOYD's channel here.

Tropes used in Dis Raps for Hire include:
  • Accidental Murder: Lloyd, in his anger, tries to shoot a heckler with laser eyes in episode 5. He ends up shooting the heckler's girlfriend instead. Even the music stops as he realizes this. He shoots the heckler the second time, though.
  • Audience Participation: The dis raps are based off of commentor's true stories.
  • Ax Crazy: Lloyd has hints of this, especially in episode 5. See the quote under Call Back below for a good instance.
  • Bald of Awesome: Lloyd has this, though almost always wears a hat over it.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Lloyd is shown at the start of each video doing something usually heartwarming until he hears the story. Then he gets pissed.
  • Call Back: Of a sort. Some of Lloyd's lyrics are quoted straight from the commented story or put a spin on them, and said comment is always shown before the actual rap starts. Here's a good example from episode 5:

Piece from original comment: The list of vulgarities and threats is literally over a mile long. [1]
(later, during the rap)
Lloyd: Make a path of blood and bones, smile walking home, leaving a trail of your body literally over a mile long!

  • Continuity Nod: In the Cold Open of episode 5, Lloyd's comedy act includes a bit where he mentions how someone told him his name was weird for having two Ls in it. This is likely a reference to a previous rap of Lloyd's, "L Verse", where a friend of his told him the same thing.
  • Country Matters: So far, he has said the c-word on two different occasions, though the second time was a reference to the commentor's actual choice of words in their story.
  • Doing It for the Art: Lloyd actually gets a mistletoe tattoo on his back for episode three to get his point across. It Makes Sense in Context.
  • Early Installment Weirdness: The first dis rap was a lot slower than future ones and didn't have nearly as many instances of Fun with Subtitles. Somewhat more subtley, the camera also moves around a bit rather than being stationary like in other episodes, and the lyrics that show up on screen were sometimes wrong.

Lloyd: That's your brother man! Why do you have to be such a big jerk?
Onscreen lyrics: That's your brother man! Why did have to be such a big jerk?

"What are you thinking? This story is crazy! I wanna stop rhyming and just be like 'What the fuck, lady?!'"

  • Real Men Wear Pink: At the start of most episodes, he is shown doing something sweet, like reading to a little kid.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: In episode 5, his eyes glow red when he reads the story. His eyes also flash red for a split second about halfway through the actual rap.
  • Sequel Escalation: Lloyd's violent acts in the Cold Open. In the first episode, he just downs a cup of coffee and rips up some paper. By episode five, he has taken to shooting people with lasers. (Though the first one was an accident and the second was to a heckler.)
  • This Is for Emphasis, Bitch: Quite often, occasionally just to make a rhyme:

"I'm getting reckless, for Hexwitch, for every single threat, bitch!"

So when you get asked why your rich boy hair's outta place,
 Say you caught a dis raps bitch slap, square in the face!
Peace!
  

  1. ↑ This is supposed to refer to the multitude of insults and threats the bully has said to the victim, for those confused.
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