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– Hello everyone. Welcome to the Rank King. I am the Rank Mother, Mayhem Miller and this is my son, Eugene. – Today, we are ranking the most iconic divas
of all time, darling. Already, I had to whittle
down the numerous iconic divas to just 32. We’re actually doing it tournament style! ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ – That’s right.
– Gold! That’s right. Our divas are going head to
head, in a bracket y’all. – Oh my Gosh. – That means we’re not
gonna have a one to 32, we’re just gonna have a 32, to 16, to 8, to four, to two, to one. Math baby!
– You’re good at that. – Asia
(Mayhem laughs) – I know we’re gonna probably
make some people upset. – Oh, we’re gonna make everybody upset. But remember, – [Mayhem And Eugene] I’m right. You’re wrong. Shut Up, bitch. (cheery pop rock music) (happy techno music) (upbeat guitar music) – We’re gonna reveal our head to heads throughout this episode,
right in front of each other. We’re gonna discuss
three different things, their talent, their music, their X-Factor, and when it comes down to it, we’re gonna have one Diva standing. This is Rank King Divas, tournament style. ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ – Battle of the iconic Divas. Y’all ready for this? Let’s get to our first round. – Wait, shit, I need a drink. – [Mayhem And Eugene] Cheers.
(glasses clinking) (calming jazzy music) – I haven’t gotten to have alcohol in one of these in a while. Oh, oh, oh! (metal door slamming) – First up, we have Aretha Franklin. – Versus Miss Diana Ross. (Mayhem laughs) – This is not fair!
(Eugene laughs) The talent of my Diva is beyond supreme. She has the voice. – The voice.
– The voice of a genera, well many generations.
– Mm-hmm. – But I’d say, Miss Diana,
she got a little bit more of what I’d say, some of the other parts of the talent package. She can move. – Well you don’t have the
voice, you gotta do extra. The Supremes are the
Supremes for a reason. They took that black music,
that soul, the glamor, the glitz and took it over into mainstream and people just fell in love with them. – Diana had a more expansive career, ’cause she did act as well. – She did do movies, but
Aretha was in that one movie, “The Blues Brothers”, she was a waitress. – Oh!
– She only got paid in cash. – And also, I might point out, Diana Ross really one of the biggest
icons to the queer community. How many times have you
heard, “I’m coming out”? – I did it yesterday at a show.
(Eugene laughs) Rest in Peace.
– We love you. We gonna send you some cash. Diana Ross advances to round two. – Here we go. We have Madonna. – Versus Miss. Kylie Minogue. – [Mayhem] Oh my god, this is gay heaven. – [Eugene] Everyone domestically and internationally knows Madonna. – [Mayhem] Everyone knows Madonna. – [Eugene] But not everyone domestically appreciates Kylie Minogue
as much as you should. – [Mayhem] It’s a crime. – [Eugene] If you’re a baby gay, go watch all of Kylie
Minogue’s videos, right now. – [Mayhem] Oh my God, her concerts live are the gayest music,
– Amazing. – ever seen.
– Amazing. – She knows gay culture.
– Costumes. Well, you know Madonna was a groundbreaker and a shaker. – Groundbreaker, shaker, movie maker. – [Mayhem] She did “Evita”. – [Eugene] Mm-hmm, “Dick
Tracy”, “Swept Away”. – [Mayhem] Oh,
“Desperately, Seeking Susan” – Yeah, Madonna was one
of the OG triple threats. – [Mayhem] As far as music, you can’t go into a gay club
without hearing “Vogue”. – “Like A Prayer”, “Like A Virgin”, but Kylie, she’s a dance machine. She started out with – [Mayhem And Eugene] “Locomotion”. Yeah, if we’re talking X-Factor though, I don’t know, I gotta give it to Madonna, because she just has
transcended everybody. – Madonna’s moving on. – Let’s see who we have now. Donna Summer.
– Versus Tina Turner. Are you okay? Am I hurting you? – I just felt that in my gut. (Eugene laughs) I think my tuck got knocked loose. (Eugene laughs) The queen of disco versus. – Miss Tina Turner herself. – Miss Tina Turner. – Do you know how many babies
were made to her singing? If you were born in the 70’s, it was probably Donna
and Marvin Gaye, maybe, who probably made you. Have you seen Miss Tina perform live? – [Mayhem] The legs. – [Eugene] The energy. The hair. – [Mayhem] The face. – [Eugene] Every part of
her being is a performer. I wanna say for music, I’m
more of a Donna Summer guy. – Tina.
– I like Donna’s disco music more. – [Mayhem] Wait, I do. I love her music. – In terms of the x-factor,
I lean more towards Tina. You know Tina Turner. You remember her name, Thunder Dome! Goodbye my love, but we’re
giving it to Miss Tina Turner. ♪ I’m your private dancer ♪ (Eugene laughs) Diva Whitney Houston. – Versus Dolly Parton. – “I Will Always Love You”,
is originally a Dolly song. – But this bitch, – She murdered it. – How do you like take someone else’s song and just make it yours? – Dolly raised it right, and then Whitney stole
it from the front yard, and then made her think
she was some other person, and she was a star. – [Mayhem] She is known to be The Voice. Every time you hear the National Anthem, everyone sings her version of it. A true Diva has gone through adversity. And this Diva here, she’s gone through a horrible relationship, drug addiction. – [Eugene] And Dolly also
had a lot of problems, growing up in the country music industry and she took back her career from a nasty-ass man who
wanted to control her and she became essentially
the face of Country music. – [Mayhem] Well, she still is. – [Eugene] She still fucking is. Have you seen Dolly? She looks the same. She looks just like this. – [Mayhem] Oh yes. – And she’s like 500 years old. Talk about the x-factor, she also did a ton of movies, “9 to 5”, “Best Little
Whorehouse in Texas”. – [Mayhem] Ummm, “Steel Magnolias” – Y’all don’t even know. So they both have it, the x-factor. Although Dolly is, I
think, the country Diva, I think Whitney is a more holistic Diva. – I knew you was thinkin’ the same thing. – So I’m going to have
to go Whitney Houston. – We guess we are. We have Barbara Streisand. – Versus the one, the only Cher. – No!
(Eugene laughs) – Well this one-
– You are a evil person. (Eugene laughs)
Why would you do this? – Voice. – Bam.
– Barbra, yeah. Barbra’s got the voice.
– Right here. – But it’s hard because then, think about Cher. She’s turned her voice, which is so distinct, into–
– a machine – A voice that everyone says– – [Mayhem] She sounds
like a computer person. – [Eugene] Well, yeah now
she does but originally– ♪ Do you believe in life after love ♪ – But they both have a similar thing, that their voices are so distinct that we all,
– You know who they are – mimic them, and we copy
them and we know them, ’cause it’s like (Eugene vocalizes) and the (Eugene vocalizes). “Burlesque”, the film. The seminal classic
with Christina Aguilera. If you haven’t seen
it, what are you doing? When she’s teaching Christina
how to do her makeup, and she goes, “It’s
like painting a canvas, “but the canvas is your face.” They both have the x-factor, they both act well. – [Mayhem] Babs is like the
epitome of classy woman. Barbara is that woman that, you know you see her on the street and you’re like, that’s Barbra Streisand. Don’t talk to her though. Don’t look her in the eye. Cher is like, bitch, it’s Cher! – Cher, yeah. And Cher will be like, hey. – She’ll be like hey, how you doing? (Mayhem and Eugene chuckling) – I think we’re gonna give it to Cher. – Let’s give it to Cher. – We’re giving it to Cher, baby. (Mayhem mimics buggle) Mariah Carey. (Mayhem screams)
(Eugene chuckles) – Against Miss Janet Jackson. – Oh no, there’s no argument. – How does Mariah just immediately. This is the fastest
you’ve said someone’s won. – She stays current while what’s going on, and especially it reflects in her music. – [Eugene] That’s right. – [Mayhem] You know, she always puts out, what’s happening. – [Eugene] ‘Cause she did
that bottle cap challenge, like no one ever did. – She didn’t just do the
bottle cap challenge, she won. Not shatter glasses, that’s what old Divas used to do. This bitch unscrewed the
mother-fucking bottle. – Let’s talk about Janet Jackson. – Rhythm Nation.
– I’m a huge Janet fan. Janet is the dancing Diva.
– She okay. – She’s the OG dancing Diva. – She is a Jackson, so that automatically
gives her street cred. – She can move like no
one other Divas business. Mariah sometimes attempts to move, but she doesn’t need to
’cause she’s got that voice. Janet’s a Jackson. I don’t think she’s like the
best voice in the industry. – No.
– No, she’s got that soft, Diana Ross softness. – She has that Jackson tone, ♪ Have you really, really ♪ – Breathy.
– Plus you know the way she was disrespected
after Superbowl, we need to always support
Miss Janet Jackson. – What’s wrong with a nipple? She also has done film.
– “Poetic Justice”. – [Mayhem] And with Tupac, okay. – Yeah, “Poetic Justice”, Janet. That was Janet, for me, at the top. But then you know Mariah
said, okay, I’ll act too, I’ll be in “Precious”. she was, remember, the social worker.
– Well, no one recognized her in “Precious”, because she was a good actress. – Mariah’s overall x-factor, and legacy continues to live on. Every child knows Mariah. – The catalog alone stands time. – It’s going to Mariah. Mariah has advanced to round two. – We have Celine Dion. – Versus Miss Mary J. Blige. – [Mayhem] Celine Dion, still selling out stadiums. – Stadiums, and her voice still sounds amazing.
– Exactly the same. She’s like a girl that
you wanna hang out with. Everyone will always
know her for “Titanic”, “My Heart Will Go On”. – She has so many hit songs
people don’t remember, it’s like every song she did was a hit. She is like a vocal goddess. Mary on the other hand, she revolutionized being
a woman in R&B and hiphop. She was so integral to
bringing the narrative forward of not only how much
she translated her story through her music, but
also of the entire culture. – I need some Mary in my life, like Mary will get you through, whatever you’re going through. – It’s that vulnerability. To share their story. It’s so good. “Titanic”, “My Heart Will Go On” is potentially, maybe aside
from “I Will Always Love You”, the song of humanity’s existence. – Yeah– – Like you can sing that
song in the middle of a bar, in Singapore, then go to fucking Egypt, and go to fucking Brazil every single person will know it. – And they’ll know all the lyrics. – They’ll know it, and then
you’ll say Celine Dion, they’ll be like, yeah, Celine Dion. – Mm-hmm.
– We love you Mary, but Miss Celine, she won
this round for Divas. – Our next Diva up is Christina Aguilera. – Versus Brittany Spears. – [Mayhem] These Divas
have known each other since they were children. – [Eugene] We’re doing this. – They’re now mothers
– Mm-hmm. and still slaying the game. – [Eugene] “Genie In A Bottle”, I remember it coming out, very explicitly. “Baby One More Time” woo,
that changed the game. Voice? Christina.
(Mayhem chuckles) Dancing. Brittany
– Over here. – [Eugene] You think of every kid that dressed up like Brittany Spears. For x-factor, Brittany moved the needle. Brittany can still pump out bops. Even in her darkest days. – But Christina can too. – Yeah, but she hasn’t really
had a great hit for a while. Christina will always be an icon, especially with that voice. She knows what a girl wants, but Brittany, baby one more time, we’re getting you to round two. – We’re moving past classic Divas, and we’re gonna go into this
new era with Kelly Clarkson. – Versus Pink. I wanna be best friends with them. I wanna fucking kick it, I wanna have a drink. – [Mayhem] Kelly Clarkson,
the American Idol. The voice on this girl here
is touched by an angel. And the hits that she has
put out are for strong women. – [Eugene] And then Pink at the same time, my God, remember when she first
came out with “Most Girls”? And she had actual pink hair? – [Mayhem] She is a badass. – [Eugene] Yeah, she’s badass as hell. – [Mayhem] Like who climbs
buildings and performs? – [Eugene] Yeah, ’cause now, she’s also essentially an aerialist. She always performs on silks and rings, and she’s spinning up in the sky and she’s doing it all with
perfect breath control, and belting her ass off. Both of them, ballads and jams, amazing. And she’s the best judge
“The Voice” has ever had. ’cause she’s so real and she’s so funny. – And relatable. – So relatable. They’re so matched up, that I almost feel like it’s the x-factor. – I’m leaning with Pink. – I’m also leaning towards Pink. – [Mayhem And Eugene] Okay,
okay, okay, okay, okay. – Pink will move on to round two. I should be a bartender. The next head to head, – Katy Perry.
– Versus Lady Gaga. – [Eugene] Oh the gays
are gonna get so mad. – [Mayhem] They are gonna be so mad. – It just has to be Lady Gaga. I’m just saying it right now. Oscar winner, Lady Gaga, hellur? “A Star Was Born”. Okay, tell me about Katy. – I love her.
– Katy, okay, yeah? – [Mayhem] There’s been
some bops from her. And she’s gorgeous, “I Kissed A Girl”. I didn’t,
(Eugene snorts) but I relate still. – [Eugene] And you know what, Katy’s always been on
that gay pride train. She understands camp. If this was the Drag universe, she’d be like a comedy queen. Lady Gaga going to the bars, and all the gay clubs, before her album even came out. Like it touched me, and now she’s a fucking
Oscar winner, baby. She can write and she can sing. – Very talented.
– She has talent. So it’s Gaga. We’re winning for Gaga. – Yes, Gaga.
– Gaga. Next head to head in round one, – We have Shakira, – Versus J-Lo. – [Mayhem] I have been a
Shakira fan since “Ojos Asi” her unplugged album was sickening. – [Eugene] I remember when I
first saw Shakira way back, I was like, she’s like the Latinx Alanis. – Very sexy, very aware of her body. – And–
– So talented. And bringing her culture to
the forefront, with every move, the belly dancing, the hip-shaking. She’s like
– Oh yeah. – J-Lo, she’s a brand, she’s an actress, J-Lo hasn’t aged for 30 years. – [Mayhem] No, and she
never will, I don’t think. – [Eugene] She played fucking Selena. If you can play Selena, already validated. She needs to drop that skincare regiment. – Oh my God.
– She always looks like she was blessed, for like a thousand lotion babies. She looks amazing. – She looks like she
bathes in liquid gold. – Voice, I’m more of a Shakira guy, ’cause I think she has a more
unique thing she’s giving. J-Lo’s not really a singer, for me. But for dancing, Shakira does
a very specific type of dance, – [Mayhem] But J-Lo goes off. – [Eugene] Have you heard
about what she does, in her Vegas show? It’s like a two hour dance marathon. Shakira represents so much, for a very particular
cultural perspective, and has moved that for a wider audience, that we appreciate where
she comes from more. She really did that for the world. With J-Lo, she just
owns the world. (laughs) – Rich.
– Shakira, we love you forever.
– We love her. – But this is going to- – But we’re gonna advance
– to J-Lo. – to J-Lo.
– And Happy 50th birthday. God damn, 50. (Mayhem laughs) – Who do we have? (Mayhem shrieks) Adele. – Versus Amy Winehouse. Gay people especially,
gravitate to Divas as icons, – We do because–.
– Because. – We go through so much in life.
– A lot of emotional struggles and people tryna to
tell you how to appear. – Speaking of Amy, her music spoke to me, right off the jump. Some of those B-tracks are amazing. – [Eugene] She was constantly
singing about her struggle. Adele is such an interesting singer, because she literally
names her albums her age. – [Mayhem] And she takes
you on the journey, with the album and you know
what she’s going through. (Mayhem’s voice drowned out)
– Her discography is going to be her autobiography. – [Mayhem] It’s very smart. – [Eugene] In the most clear way. You know that it was something, where she was in love, and
then she was broken up with. – True artistry. – And she’s funny as fuck. – The music that comes the UK is specific, and is fucking great. – If Amy had, God bless her soul, lived longer and was still with us, this would have been maybe
impossible to decide. But I think because Adele is currently still reigning supreme, and giving us hit after hit, and fucking working it, I think we have to give it to Adele.
– Absolutely. – If you’re a kid and have
never heard Amy Winehouse, you should fucking stop this video and Google it right now.
– All of it. – Maybe don’t stop it
until you hit a midroll ad. – We love you, Adele. – Rest in Peace, Amy. – Up next, who’s that? (Eugene laughs) – That’s Demi Levato. – I didn’t know! I didn’t know. Okay, okay.
– How old are you, Mayhem? Versus Miley Cyrus. – That’s Miley. – [Eugene] But you know Demi. – [Mayhem] I do. And she has an amazing voice. – [Eugene] What about Miley? – [Mayhem] I love me some Miley, because she loves Drag Queens. – [Eugene] And Ru is on
her new track, “Catitude” of her album.
– Uh huh! – [Eugene] I agree, I think
for our Disney channel stars, who fucking broke out and made it big. I think Demi’s got the voice of a Diva and that she’s gonna have an
illustrious fucking career. I think Miley has more of
an awareness about herself, and I think she’s a humor about herself. – Mm-hmm.
– Like, I think she knows she’s in on the joke. Because she was fucking
Hannah Montana, y’all. That’s why she loves Drag Queens so much, she was always in wigs. – ‘Cause she was a Drag Queen on her show. – It’s a wig. The Try Guys tour, every
time we were stretching, you just ask any of them, the first song I put on,
while I was stretching, was “On A Roll” by Ashley
O, from Black Mirror, played by Miley fucking Cyrus. (Mayhem laughs) That’s impact, if anyone has it. You know, Ashley O takes it. – Miley, you’re moving on. Next battle. We have Nicki Minaj.
– Versus Rihanna. All I want Rihanna to do, is release a new album. Sing in the shower, then just record it, and then put it online for us, please? ‘Cause I just wanna hear your voice. I know that you have a beauty brand that makes billions of dollars, and you’re fucking killing it. – And it’s good too.
– Representing everybody. That’s good, you got all
them shades, Rihanna. You are revolutionizing
the beauty industry, but just like, I don’t
know hum into your iPhone? – “Please Don’t Stop
The Music”, “Umbrella” – “Unfaithful”. – Girl, there’s so many hits. – And there was a period of time when Rihanna released an
album every two months. But more power to her, ’cause
she’s a business mogul. – Rihanna is the girl I
wanna go drinking with. I don’t even smoke weed, but I would roll her blunts. – I would literally clean Rihanna’s shoes. Now Nicki.
– Nicki Minaj. Boss.
– Boss. – [Mayhem] She’s brought
us a lotta good hits. She’s served us looks. – [Eugene] She’s like fierce as fuck. – [Mayhem] Yeah. I would never wanna fuck with her. Nicki looks like she has guns and shit. – [Eugene] Nicki is a true Diva. She inhabits the iconography of Diva, the attitude of a Diva. – Once a girl gets her own fragrance, you’re like Diva status. And I have her perfume. I smell like her now. – Rihanna’s a tycoon. (Mayhem gasps)
she owns it all. – We have not called a bitch a tycoon yet. – She’s a tycoon, baby. That’s usually what you use
to call men in the south, who own oil fields. Nicki, we love you
– We love you, Nicki. – but we gotta give it to Rihanna.
– However, we gotta go to a tycoon. ♪ It’s Rihanna ♪ – Hey RiRi. Next Diva is, is that Alicia Keys? – That is, girl. You got the same look. (Mayhem laughs) You’re like, is that me? Am I looking in a mirror? Versus Beyonce. (Eugene laughs) – I’m not even goin’
play this game no more. We goin say a lotta nice
things about Miss Alicia, but you ain’t goin’ sit up here and set me up. She play the piano. She writes her own songs. – [Eugene] She can play two
pianos at the same time. – [Mayhem] She’s been one of those girls, who says, you know what? Love makeup, however, I’m gonna
embrace my natural beauty. And she is a talented artist. – Talent, a musician.
– Oh yes. If you can play an instrument? You automatically get five more points. – So, song-wise, voice-wise,
Alicia, way up there. Beyonce’s the same way, but Beyonce is almost synonymous with the term x-factor now. She was already the Beyonce.
– She was already cool. – First she was already
Beyonce of Destiny’s Child. Then she was Beyonce, cranking out hit after
hit as a solo artist. And then Beyonce did fucking “Lemonade” and then everyone said, “Oh. “Beyonce’s gonna entirely shift your view “of what culture is and pop culture.” – [Mayhem And Eugene] Game changer. – Because she’s like mainstream. ‘Cause she really could
have just sat there, and just been like, here’s
a fucking great song, and here’s another fucking great song. Bye, I’ma retire. She’s like, no. and for me, as someone who’s not black, watching this and ingesting
it and learning from it, worldwide for people to be seeing that, and understanding the
African American experience, from a different lens. And from one of empowerment. That’s where we all wanna
be as marginalized artists. You’re kinda dressed
like Beyonce, right now. – Ah hah, yes, duh! – You want a baseball bat? – I want to bust out windows of cars, ’cause I am that girl. – She’s doing it, and she’s
doing it with great songs, with good looks, and with purpose and intention. And I think that’s fucking amazing. And she’s fucking Nala, y’all, yeah. – When you become a part
of the Disney world? – You made it y’all.
– It’s legit. – You made it, girl. But we gotta give it to Beyonce. Queen Bee moves on to round two. Final head to head in round one. – We have Ariana Grande. – Versus Taylor Swift. Both very talented, business people. They know their brands, but if she sneezes, or if she coughs, you’ll know about it. It’s trending on Twitter. – Talent.
– Okay, talent. Let’s start with the voice of Ariana.
– The voice is here. – [Eugene] Yeah, Ariana’s
got the voice down. Taylor is a singer-songwriter. She’s always been.
– Yes! – And she’s, I think, more of
really a full package deal. It’s the concept of her work now, that I think is more
over writing than even sometimes the work itself. And I think that Taylor
knows her audience, and she knows what she’s doing. Ariana plops out hits like
they’re fucking vitamins. And I think both of them are very shrewd. “Thank U, Next” she released
that while SNL was airing after they broke up. They are smart people.
– And the video? – Yeah.
– Really? – Let’s reference “Mean Girls”? – Yeah!
– How iconic is that? – They’re pushing the
music through the lens of social media. I think these two have such tight control over that narrative. And I respect that. I’m gonna have to take it
down to the pure talent. Ariana can sing, she can sing. Well, Ariana, you and your ponytail, you move on to round two.
– Yeah. – And that means you’re the last inductee into the second round of
the Rank King Diva battle. We’re now in round two of
the Diva tournament showdown, which means in this, the
winners from round one, are now gonna go head to head. We’re gonna say one, two, three, and we’re gonna both say, who we think should move on, immediately. And if we line up, then they go on.
– Okay. – If we disagree,
– Disagree? – We’re gonna hash it out. The first second round battle is – Diana Ross.
– Versus Madonna. (Mayhem gasps)
– Oh, fuck. (laughs) Oh, fuck. One, two, three. – Diana Ross.
– Madonna. Fuck!
(Mayhem grunts) (Mayhem and Eugene laughs) You think Diana Ross over Madonna. – Yeah, duh, have you seen her gowns? – But Madonna, everything
she did with each album, was pushing the boundary in some way, that I think was moving
the cultural needle. – Diana started off in a girl group, and then transitioned to a solo artist, and still conquered. She’s a person of color,
– So you think it was easier for Madonna?
– who has gone through, a lotta diversity in order to
have mainstream fucking power. – I’m gonna give this one to my mom. – Yes! – Diana Ross has knocked
Madonna out of the bracket. (Mayhem chuckles)
Wow! – We have, – [Mayhem And Eugene] Tina Turner. – Versus Whitney Houston. – Oh, this is hands down. This is an easy one for me. – One, two, three. – [Mayhem And Eugene] Whitney Houston. – We have Mariah Carey.
– Versus Cher. One, two, three. – [Mayhem And Eugene] Mariah Carey. – We have Brittany Spears.
– Versus Celine Dion. – [Mayhem And Eugene] One,
two, three, Celine Dion. – We have next Pink.
– Versus Lady Gaga. – [Mayhem And Eugene] One,
two, three, Lady Gaga. – And the reveal is gonna show Adele.
– Versus J-Lo. – [Mayhem And Eugene] One, two, three. – J-Lo.
– Adele. Fuck! Adele has more of, she’s
such a pure talent, when it comes to singing, and when it comes to, just her presence. I feel she’s contributing more to the music industry at large. Though I understand that J-Lo is more of a large all-encompassing brand, and the x-factor term, she is bigger than life itself. So, okay, I agree with you. – Oh, I’m not mad.
(Eugene laughs) I’m not mad.
– Okay, we’ll go – she’s great.
– with J-Lo, we’ll go with J-Lo. – We have Miley Cyrus, – Versus Rihanna. One, two, three, – [ Mayhem And Eugene] Rihanna. – Great.
(Mayhem Laughs) I think we’re both also desperate, to become Rihanna’s friends. – We want to really be your
friend, Rihanna. (laughs) – This is the final match-up of round two. (Mayhem mimics buggle) – We have, wha-wha, Ariana Grande.
– Versus Beyonce. One, two, three. – [Mayhem And Eugene] Beyonce. – Beyonce is in round three. In round three, we’ve our final eight. Instead of shouting it out, once we reveal them, without words, we’re going to silently, with our eyes, be able to put down the
one we know should go down. Let’s make this the most
silent round possible. One, two, three. (lips smacking) (upbeat adventurous music) (towels thudding) (Mayhem giggling) (magnet crashing)
(Eugene laughs) (magnet scraping)
(magnet crashing) – Fine. (upbeat adventurous music) (Mayhem’s mouth popping) (upbeat adventurous music) (Mayhem laughs)
– I don’t wanna play no more. (Eugene and Mayhem laughing)
I don’t wanna play no more. – I’m gonna say, we’re
breaking from the rules, because this is the final of round three, I know we’re not supposed to talk, but this one could be a
final head to head battle. This one we need to discuss, a Beyonce versus Rihanna showdown. Much of what we’ve discussed about Rihanna’s x-factor
influence amazing-ness, could considerably be seen as outside of the music industry, while everyone else has
been under the parameters of how they are as music artists. I would say Beyonce edges
that out, just because. – As much as I want to
best friends with RiRi, – Wow, we really do.
– Let her go. – I wish she could stay,
but it’s Beyonce’s game. (metal thudding) Here we are, semi-finals, top four. Three, two, one. Mariah Carey versus Whitney Houston. Holy shit! Who’s the one person who
could take Mariah down? – Nobody.
– But maybe ’cause Whitney is no longer with us, maybe that’s why she’s
more imprinted in my mind. – I will let go of Mariah at this moment, because she still has more to give us. – [Kaylin] I would say Whitney. – [Miles] I would say, as
an iconic classic, Whitney. – You’re a fucking asshole. (Eugene, Kaylin and Miles laughing) – Whitney Houston is advancing to the final of the Diva showdown. We have Beyonce.
– [Mayhem] Okay. – Lady Gaga, one, two, three. – I knew it.
– Yup, it’s Beyonce. It has to be Beyonce.
– I knew it, bitch. I knew it.
– It has to be Beyonce. – I like Gaga too, but you cannot say– – [Eugene] Did you hear how
much I talked about Beyonce? – [Mayhem] I know. – [Eugene] Beyonce is beyond Beyonce. Beyonce is Beyonce. – [Mayhem] Be-yon-ce. – Beyond-ce (metal thudding) We took this pack from
32 gorgeous songstresses, to two ultimate Diva’s. I’ve never seen you more emotional than letting go of Mariah Carey. – I was, oh. – You were fucking Rose,
– Emotions. – letting go of Jack. – Yeah, I would have let go of Jack too. – Yeah, for Mariah Carey, you would have. – Oh, absolutely.
(Eugene laughs) I would let go myself for Mariah Carey. I would become a fudgesicle. – We’re down to the finals of the Rank King ultimate
Diva tournament showdown. (metal thudding) It has only come down to two. – Whitney Houston.
– And Beyonce. – These are two ultimate
women in the industry. – Who shaped music– – Who have changed it forever. – Voices of angels.
– The voices. – Brands beyond even like they surpass language, time, space. And you know, even with Whitney’s
tragically shortened life, her discography and
what she’s represented, almost you could compare
right now to how Beyonce’s is. They have similar bodies of work. – Voice?
– Voice. – Here.
– Whitney. Two, dancing.
– Oh, – [Eugene And Mayhem] Beyonce. – ’cause Whitney cannot dance.
– The dancer. – Whitney cannot dance, baby. – She didn’t need to dance,
but she could not dance. – This woman can carry a tune while basically doing a crossfit class. Music, they both have
crazy number one hits. They’re both amazing
song writers and singers. Every song is basically
a karaoke mainstay. – I want a Diva who can
literally sing the phone book. No wigs, no lashes, no makeup, no dancers, no glitz and glamor. Just raw voice. What can you give me? And I feel, in my heart of hearts, Miss Whitney Houston would slay the piss, out of Miss Beyonce. – She would create new addresses. – She would turn the
phone book into the bible. (Eugene laughs) – While Whitney was effortlessly
helping and moving culture, I think Beyonce is doing it now. I think Beyonce is in a position, that I haven’t seen for many artists of her caliber and level, where she is seeing the
power that she holds, and she’s doing social good
subvertly, covertly and overtly. She is doing this in a way that I have not seen many Divas do.
– All the vertly’s? Dang.
– So many vertly’s. They’re all her babies.
– Dang. But you know, once
Beyonce hit Lemonade era, I think it was over for all of us. I think she knew that she was gonna make her
culture beyond mainstream. She was gonna make it heard, important, and especially in today’s time and our political climate, Beyonce has become not just a past time, or a Diva people like,
she’s become necessary. She’s become, in her own
way, a political voice, that Whitney, whether it’s
because opportunity or time, was never able, or really, allowed to do. Beyonce, I think, has
done a really good job at charting her career. Especially from where she
came from to this point, where she has all this
influence but a lot of that is, control over your image, your videos, your messaging, your social media. Whitney never had access to that. She was just talent. She was just raw, simmering talent. – That’s what it was. ’cause that’s all it’s about. – That’s all you could do as an artist, is be put into things. Maybe, for the purposes of this argument, and because Whitney, God bless her soul, is actually no longer with us. But we are still talking
about her this entire video. And she even beat out Mariah. I’m leaning towards giving
the ultimate Diva title to Whitney Houston. – I completely agree. (metal thudding) – [Eugene] Mayhem Miller
and Eugene Lee Yang say, Whitney Houston is the number one Diva
– Is the number one Diva. – [Mayhem And Eugene] Of all time. – She is the blueprint.
– The blueprint of what it means to be a star. A star maybe who burned too
bright, too hard and too fast. And maybe was up in the
sky a little too short. – But gave us something to learn. – We’ll never forget Whitney Houston, with that voice and that face. Also this picture was a great choice. Whoever picked this, my God, I’m getting so many emotions
just looking at her. This has been a very
special, very gay episode, – (laughs) Extremely gay.
– Of the Rank King. (Mayhem laughs) And just remember, if you don’t agree that Whitney Houston is
not the number one Diva of all time, remember this, – [Mayhem And Eugene] I’m right. You’re wrong. Shut up, bitch. (Mayhem laughs) (upbeat rock music) – [Eugene] You perform a lot
of “Bodyguard”, don’t you? – [Mayhem] I do a lot of the songs, from the “Bodyguard” soundtrack. – You just wanna be her in “The Bodyguard” – I do, I do and no I. – Where’s your Kevin Costner? – I don’t know, where is he? If you wanna be my personal booty-guard, (Eugene chuckles)
please hit me up. – Kevin Cockner.
(Eugene chuckles)