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Peter Alexis Shukoff also known as Nice Peter (born August 15, 1979) is a self described "Comic/Guitar Hero" best known for the musical comedy on his YouTube channel, NicePeter. As of April 2012, he is the 31 most subscribed of all time and the 7th most subscribed musician with over 1.5 million subscribers. 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". His videos have received over 454 million views in his main channel plus 79 million views on his new channel ERB, and have been featured on the Huffington Post, Billboard.com, and the January 2012 issue of Wired Magazine. A recent interview with Forbes Magazine details Peter and his Epic Rap Battle of History partner Lloyd Ahlquist's rise to YouTube fame.
Epic Rap Battles of History
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) 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, Timothy DeLaGhetto, Alex Farnham, MC Mr. Napkins, Colin J. Sweeney, George Watsky, DeStorm Power, Prank Vs. Prank, Rhett and Link and Bentley Green. Epic Rap Battles of History are housed on its own YouTube channel since December 2011 according to Maker Studios which produces and distributes the series.
Season 1
(*) designates brief appearences
Season 2
(*) designates brief appearances
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.
Peter and Maker Studios have finished the website for Epic Rap Battles of History and people can now vote for who they think won the battle, plus bios for all the characters that were in the series.
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 early 2012, all the rap battles combined have over 416 million views.
NicePeterToo
Nice Peter has a second channel called NicePeterToo, the home of the Monday Show, Picture Songs, Question Songs, and BTS for the Season 1's Epic Rap Battles of History.
The Monday Show is a vlog that Peter puts up on NicePeterToo, it may contain some or all of the following parts.
Twitter Question Time: He takes questions or comments from Twitter and responds to them.Twitter Songs: He asks on Twitter for ideas, and make a song about it.Viewer Mail: He reads letters from fans, as well as opens packages sent to his P.O. Box, the address for which is listed on NicePeterToo. He assures viewers that even though not all the mail can make it on the show, it is all loved and hugged and appreciated.The Slow-Motion Clip of the Day: A clip in slow motion.Chicken News: Seen only once, Peter talks about a news story that in some way, relates to chickens.Extreme For No Reason: A clip showing an exaggeration of an everyday task.Ending Song: A song used to close out the show, most often referencing the day of the week that the video is released (Monday).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.