[90s Nu Metal] 35 Bandits to Empire: Robert Guiscard's Hostile Takeover | Yenicherry

Started with nothing but a sword, zero inheritance, and 35 bandits in the southern heat. Ended up crushing Byzantine armies, humiliating the Holy Roman Emperor, and holding the Pope hostage. The unbelievable true story of Robert Guiscard ("The Cunning" / "The Crafty"), history's ultimate medieval underdog who pulled off the ultimate hostile takeover of Southern Italy and Sicily. Fuelled by heavy slap-bass grooves, blistering 90s Nu Metal riffs, and an adrenaline-fueled drum & bass double-time beat switch! 【The Historical Reality: From Level 1 Crook to Medieval Kingpin】 • The Humble Start: The 6th son of an obscure Norman lord with no inheritance. Arrived in Italy with just 35 men, surviving as a horse thief, highway robber, and ransom kidnapper in the Calabrian wilderness. • Taking on Three Superpowers Simultaneously: 1. The Papacy: Annihilated the papal army at Civitate, captured Pope Leo IX, knelt before him in "reverence," and forced the Pope to legitimize him as Duke of Apulia and Calabria! 2. The Byzantine Empire: Smashed Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and wiped out the elite Varangian Guard at Dyrrhachium. 3. The Holy Roman Empire: Marched on Rome and drove Emperor Henry IV out of the city. "Smash the shield! Break the crown! Burn the castle to the ground! Take the gold! Take the land! Everything is in my hand!!" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Lyrics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Yeah... they call me Guiscard. The Cunning. Started with thirty-five ghosts in the dirt! Now we're taking the whole board! Let's go!! Level one crook in the southern heat, Stealing your horses, taking the street! Started with nothing, just thirty-five men, Now we multiplying again and again! Kidnapping nobles, taking the ransom, Building my empire, making it handsome! You play by the rules, you pray in the church! I take what I want, leave you in the dirt!! Look at the map, three giants in the way—The Pope, the Romans, the Greeks in the bay! HOSTILE TAKEOVER!! I'm the Norman king of the street! Bow to the Cunning, admit your defeat!! Now crank the tempo up, prepare for impact! You better keep it up, we're going overdrive! Push to the east, looking for blood! Leave the Byzantine army face in the mud! Sent the elite guards right to my door? Chopped 'em all down and asked for some more! Holy Roman Empire trying to flex? Step on their necks, I'm cashing the checks! I am the hazard! I am the glitch! From a thief in the night to obscenely rich!! Smash the shield! Break the crown! Burn the castle to the ground! Take the gold! Take the land! Everything is in my hand!! The Byzantine Emperor? Smashed in the east! The Holy Roman Emperor? Fed to the beast! Even the Pope is under my thumb! Started from the bottom, look what I've become! CALL ME GUISCARD! THE ULTIMATE BOSS!! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Multilingual Editions: 🇯🇵 Japanese:    • 【90sラップメタル】たった35人の山賊が帝国を敵対的買収！？狡猾公ロベール・ギスカ...   🇮🇹 Italian:    • [90s Nu Metal] Da 35 banditi all'Impero: R...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Music & Video by Yenicherry - History Pop #RobertGuiscard #NuMetal #RapMetal #Normans #MedievalHistory #MiddleAges #SlapBass #HistoryPop #Yenicherry