Lloyd Ahlquist
| Lloyd Ahlquist | |
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Ahlquist in 2014
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lloyd Leonard Ahlquist |
| Also known as | EpicLLOYD |
| Born |
January 18, 1977 Staten Island, New York |
| Genres | Hip Hop, Comedy, Nerdcore |
| Occupation(s) | YouTube Personality, Comedian, Singer, Rapper, Songwriter, Producer |
| Years active | 1999-present |
| Associated acts | George Watsky, DeStorm, Alex Farnham, Zach Sherwin, Ray William Johnson, Timothy DeLaGhetto, Colin J. Sweeney, Shay Carl, Rhett and Link, KassemG, Smosh, Nice Peter, Mary Doodles, Kaseem G, Jenna Marbles |
Lloyd Leonard Ahlquist (born January 18, 1977), better known as his online alias EpicLLOYD, is an American internet personality best known for the YouTube video series Epic Rap Battles of History, along with Peter Shukoff, known as "Nice Peter". Ahlquist has performed as an MC, actor, improviser and writer. In addition to the rap battles, Ahlquist, along with Shukoff, appeared in a cameo in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
Ahlquist was the former General Manager and Artistic Director of M.I.'s Westside Comedy Theater. Ahlquist also studied at UMass Amherst and later trained in Chicago at The Second City, Improv Olympic and Annoyance Theatre. Ahlquist was one of the founding members of Mission IMPROVable, and continues to perform with the group weekly in their show "The Grind" while serving on the Board of Directors of M.i. Productions. He founded the comedy troupe after dropping out of the University of Massachusetts with five classmates.
In August 2014, Ahqluist hosted YouTube's first live-streamed improv comedy event, "Off the Top."
Lloyd runs his own YouTube channel that launched on April 20, 2011. Ahlquist has a staple series on his own channel, titled "Dis Raps For Hire", which featured Ahlquist taking a user-submitted comment asking Ahlquist to lyrically "destroy" or insult another person that is bullying or harassing the user. To date, 16 "Dis Raps for Hire" have been produced. Season 2 of "Dis Raps for Hire" started on March 11, 2013.
On July 17, 2012, Lloyd's channel hit 200,000 subscribers. As a "thank you" gesture, he produced a parody of the Cinnamon challenge. In 2016, Lloyd hit 400,000 subscribers.
In 2010, Ahlquist partnered with Peter Shukoff to create Epic Rap Battles of History under Maker Studios sometime after Ahlquist, Shukoff and Zach Sherwin (a guest in the rap battles), were playing Check OneTwo, a freestyle rap improv game where they took suggestions from the audience of famous people to battle rap off the top of their heads. Ahlquist has played several characters in the successful rap battles including Bill O'Reilly and Adolf Hitler. Epic Rap Battles of History received four wins at the 3rd Streamy Awards, with Ahlquist receiving one of the four awards. By October 2014, the rap battles accumulated a total view count of over 1 billion, excluding the hundreds of millions of views earned by the season 1 episodes.
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