- (React) Name your favorite rap artist of all time.
- Of all time?
- Kendrick.
- Tie between Kendrick and Doom.
- Kendrick, Snoop Dogg.
- Tupac?
- I'm gonna use Kendrick as well.
- Lil Wayne.
- Kendrick's probably the greatest of all time.
- Kendrick.
- (React) So the reason why I'm asking you about music
is because today we're gonna be doing
Americans Vs. British Rap. - British?
- Oh!
- (React) Are we ready? - Yes.
- (React) Headphones on! - Let's do it!
- Oh, okay, yeah, I know this one.
- Oh, we know this one already?
- Sprinter. - (React) Sprinter!
- This is a good song.
- Oh! Yeah, I know this guy!
How could I be, you know?
- Oh, I know this song! - Hey!
- This is all over TikTok! - (React) Yeah.
- ♪ Uh, alright ♪
♪ I know that you're bad ♪ ♪ Stop actin' innocent ♪
- Aww, that's fire.
- ♪ We ain't got generational wealth ♪
♪ It's only a year ♪ ♪ That I've had these millions ♪
- And he's with like, Joe or Chris, or what's the, Steve?
What's the other guy that he raps with?
He's just got one name.
- (React) Dave. - Dave, yeah, Dave!
- Dave! (laughs) - Yeah, that's Dave right there, yeah.
- That is.
- ♪ Can't just stare ♪
- I'm like, you know this one. - (React) You know this song.
- ♪ So I'm halfway there ♪ ♪ Brown and bad ♪
- ♪ Couldn't change my mind ♪ ♪ I was halfway there ♪
- ♪ One hundred meters ♪
- ♪ I just put nine gyal ♪ ♪ In a Sprinter ♪
- ♪ One hundred eaters ♪ ♪ They won't fit in one SUV, nah ♪
- Hey! - What's an eater?
(both laugh)
- It's the most relaxed hook ever.
- Yeah! - It's so good!
- That's a hit. - It's a bop.
- That's a hit, bro! (laughs)
- (React) What's his name?
- Uh, Central Cee. - (React) Correct!
- Central Cee, wow, yep, and Dave.
Good ol' Dave. - Good ol' Dave.
- Love Dave, my brother introduced me to Dave.
- (React) Central Cee, so he's born to an Irish mother
and a father of Chinese and Guyanese origin.
- (both) Oh!
- Oh, sick!
- (React) So what do you think this song was about?
- Oh, I mean, you called it earlier.
- ♪ Started from the bottom ♪ ♪ Now we're here ♪
- Yeah, there you go! - (React) Yep.
- Started from the bottom, now we're here.
- That's our version, yeah. - (React) Yeah.
They won't fit in one SUV, a hundred eaters.
- Uh-huh. - Uh-huh.
- (React) Who are a hundred eaters?
- I'm gonna go out on a limb and say women.
- (React) Correct.
- So is he running a prostitution ring?
- (React) No.
(Brandel laughs) - Oh. (laughs)
- (React) So...
- Oh! - Is that what the song is about?
- (React) This one lyric probably sums up
what this entire song is about.
- Yeah.
- (React) I went from the Toyota Yaris to Urus.
- The London accent and the delivery on rap music
is just so perfect.
- Their cadence is fire, dude. - Mm-hmm.
- Like, it is so good!
- Yes, I frickin' love Little Simz!
- This is Venom, dude!
Yo, listen, I'm gonna be quiet!
(Wootak laughs)
- ♪ Mind's [censored] even more ♪ ♪ Than I realize ♪
♪ Time's up, keep it moving ♪ ♪ When she arrives ♪
♪ If you ever heard what I heard ♪ ♪ In my mind, never try ♪
- Oh, she sings this!?
- ♪ You could cry ♪ ♪ That's a lie, you would die ♪
- She's got a great flow.
- ♪ From time, been the next breed ♪ ♪ If you comin', come at me directly ♪
♪ Don't need no one to defend me ♪
♪ Soul's in a place ♪ ♪ Even I can't get to ♪
♪ Don't [censored] with the deadly ♪
♪ Moon waves and open seas ♪ ♪ Quick coastin' overseas ♪
♪ [Censored] those ♪ ♪ Who don't believe ♪
♪ They would never wanna admit ♪ ♪ I'm the best here ♪
♪ From the mere fact ♪ ♪ That I've got ovaries ♪
- Ooh! - Ugh!
- ♪ It's a woman's world ♪ ♪ So to speak ♪
♪ Pussy, you sour ♪
♪ Never givin' credit ♪ ♪ Where it's due ♪
♪ 'Cause you don't like ♪ ♪ Pussy in power ♪
♪ Venom ♪
- Hey! - Hey!
- ♪ Venom ♪ - ♪ Ah, ah, ah ♪
- ♪ Ugh, ugh ♪ - (React) It's so good!
- Oh, I do know this song! - (React) Yeah!
- Ugh!
- I'm downloading this song.
- ♪ My soul ascended to the sky ♪ ♪ It's just you and I ♪
♪ Gone, but I'm feeling ♪ ♪ Too alive ♪
♪ Tryna get me out of spite ♪ ♪ Someone's gotta pay ♪
♪ I ain't talkin' big amounts ♪
- Oh my God, she's so good. - Ah, she's sick, she's sick.
- Beat is sick too.
It's like the classical strings,
but just like, and then just that little...
- ♪ Moving scatty ♪ ♪ All erratic and [censored] ♪
♪ Niggas pussy ♪ ♪ Lickin' batty and [censored] ♪
- Tell me that's not heat! - That is heat!
- Tell me that's not heat!
- (React) So she's Little Simz, she's also an actress as well.
There's something called Top Boy.
- She's in Top Boy? - (React) She's in Top Boy.
What do you think this song is about?
- They don't like pussy in power.
They're not giving you your crown
just because you're a woman.
- A lot of rap fans do not like respect,
especially like, they don't respect new artists in general, half the time.
- (React) Mm. - (Brittany) Yeah.
- But especially like new women artists.
- (React) A few lyrics: pussy, you sour,
never giving credit where it's due, 'cause you don't like pussy in power.
- (both) Venom. - (React) Yeah.
- Wow, that's so good!
- (React) It's so, she's so clean!
- She's so good! - She's spittin'!
- (React) She's so clean. - She's spittin'!
- All you're hearing is the strings go and she rides that all the way in
easily, on point, up until venom.
- ♪ State your name, cuz ♪ - Oh, this is um...
- Oh, it's Stormzy! - I've heard that name before.
- Yes!
- Aww. (laughs)
- ♪ Yeah, fire in the park, let's go ♪
- ♪ Man try say he's better than me ♪ ♪ Tell my man, shut up ♪
- ♪ Shut up ♪ (Raquelle laughs)
- Okay, support! (laughs)
- I love the hype squad. - ♪ Shut up ♪
- ♪ Shut up ♪ - ♪ Shut up ♪
- Now the hype man going crazy too.
- You gotta have your hype man. - Yeah.
- ♪ On stage at the BRITs ♪ - ♪ I'm a backup dancer ♪
- ♪ If that makes me a backup dancer ♪ - Ooh!
- ♪ The man in your vids ♪ - ♪ Backup dancer ♪
- ♪ The man in your pics ♪ - ♪ Backup dancer ♪
- Backup dosser. Dosser, is he saying?
- (React) Dancer.
- ♪ Big man like me with a beard ♪ ♪ I'm a big man ♪
♪ How can the [censored] ♪ ♪ Can I back up ♪
♪ Comes everywhere I go ♪
- I love the tracksuit vibe, though. - Uh-huh.
- ♪ Walk in the club ♪ ♪ With all of my tugs ♪
- Okay! - Oh?
- ♪ Go home ♪ - Sure.
- How is he doing this off the top of his head?
I can barely speak one English word.
- ♪ We don't rave ♪ - ♪ Yeah, I'm the best ♪
- So if it's a freestyle, how do his buddies know the parts?
- When people are freestyling, you can kinda like...
If you're in the flow of it, you are thinking of like
your next two to three lines.
- ♪ I get merky, they get worried ♪
♪ If you got a G18 ♪ ♪ Bring it out ♪
- See, now he's in it, now he's in it.
Ooh!
He was in pocket!
- ♪ But you see my man over there ♪ ♪ With the pouch ♪
(both laugh) - That was cute.
- That's who you buy the drugs from.
(Izzy laughs)
- (React) So this became popular and peaked at number eight
on the UK singles chart. - Jeez!
- (React) And then launched a campaign,
and then it reached Christmas number one.
- I would 100% believe that that was a freestyle off the dome,
'cause it wasn't that good. (both laugh)
- Yes!
- I've tried, like, you know, freestyling with friends before,
and it's just, that's how I learned I was not musically talented.
(Brian laughs)
- It felt like the videos online that I've seen of like rap battles.
- (React) You're gonna get some hate in the comments for that.
- No, I was thinking the same thing! - And that's the thing.
- I'm like wait, he's not really saying much.
They all know. - Like...
- So he must've rapped these things a few times before,
if they all know the words.
- (React) Apart from the girl dem, you lot stay,
walk in the club, all the girls say hey.
What do you think this song is about?
- He wants to get some respect in his city?
Stop talking [censored], he's the best around the block,
everyone knows it, and he's about to go bigger.
- ♪ Nah, nah, that's not me ♪ - Ooh!
It's a grimy beat! (laughs)
- ♪ Sex any girl ♪ ♪ Nah that's not me ♪
- I love the strong overlay.
- Finally, some energy! - Yeah!
- This is probably one of the best UK beats I've heard.
- That beat!
- Is he rapping into headphones?
- ♪ I'm still alive ♪ ♪ Just like 2Pac ♪
♪ Girls in the front row ♪ ♪ Girls in the back ♪
- Nah, he's got it. He's got it.
- I hear like a little video game action in that little sample.
I like it.
- I love that this feels like 2000s YouTube right now.
- Dude, 100%.
- You can tell, it's like, it's got some age on it.
- Yeah. - It's got some age on it.
- ♪ I know you get ♪ ♪ What I'm saying ♪
♪ You get me ♪ ♪ Love for the Gs in the ends ♪
♪ But we don't love ♪ ♪ No girls in the ends ♪
♪ Last time I fell in love ♪ ♪ With a sket ♪
- Oh!
- ♪ Trust me, I would ♪ ♪ Never do that again ♪
- That's not me! - ♪ Nah, that's not me ♪
- ♪ Act like a wasteman ♪
- That's not me! - ♪ Nah, that's not me ♪
- ♪ That's not me, ugh ♪ ♪ That's not me ♪
- Hey, that was fire!
- (React) Do you know who that was?
- Um... - No.
- No, but I actually do wanna check out the rest of his stuff.
Who is he?
- (React) His name's Skepta.
- (gasps) Oh my God! - (Jayse) Skepta.
- I, ugh, yes. - You do know who it is?
- Yes, I do!
- You seem like annoyed with yourself. - Yes, I do.
I am annoyed with myself, 'cause Skepta fine as hell.
- I love the anti-wasteman vibes of that song.
- Yeah.
- (React) You know what wasteman is, right?
- Yeah, it's like a garbage man. - You're garbage,
you're a garbage man?
- (React) Piece of trash. - Or a bin man.
- (React) Sex any girl, that's not me. - That's not me.
- (React) Lips any girl. - (both) Nah, that's not me.
- My boy likes to be in love.
- But what was that line where he's like
I'm never gonna fall in love with a girl again. (laughs)
- (React) Last time I fell in love with a sket.
- I don't know, I'm just guessing.
- Sket is short for like a sketch, I'm guessing?
- Sketch?
- (React) It's a derogatory term for a woman
who just sleeps around with people, being disloyal.
- Well, she's sex positive, I mean, let's not shame her.
- (React) What do you think that song was about?
- I feel like he's saying I have a higher,
a bit of a higher worth, I'm not doing what you're doing.
Like, I've elevated past doing this kind of stuff.
- ♪ I missed the drop ♪ ♪ On a paigon opp ♪
- Ooh! - Already!
- ♪ Still got beats ♪ ♪ Yeah, they still got got ♪
- Ugh.
- ♪ Run a man down in my Jordans ♪ - She's fine.
- Ugh, yes.
(Noah laughs)
- She running me down in her Balmain top?
- It's for me, it feels a little just a bit like Nicki Minaj-ish.
- Mm-hmm.
- I'm invested now. - Now I'm a wasteman.
(both laugh)
- They love bass in the UK. (laughs)
- Ever cadence, a little bit, too, is a little bit like...
- ♪ Oh [censored] ♪ ♪ I heard a rumor IVD is a thot ♪
(Noah laughs)
♪ They said I'm leaking ♪ ♪ From the STDs that I got ♪
- That's crazy, that's insane! (both laugh)
(record scratches) - I'm leaking, did she say?
- (React) I'm leaking. - Leaking.
- (React) Yeah.
- So like, she's spilling the beans, like about everybody?
- No. - She's gonna leak the details?
- (React) Yeah, no, no, I think he gets it,
I think he's just playing. You get it, right?
- Yes. - (React) No, you don't get it.
- Say the lyric again, I'm sorry?
- ♪ They said I'm leaking ♪ ♪ From the STDs that I got ♪
- She's leaking, oh, okay. I got it.
- Weird flex, but okay. (laughs) - Yeah, that's weird.
She's got some discharge that she's dealing with.
That's unfortunate. - (React) Correct.
- ♪ No evidence in that case ♪ - ♪ Ugh, ugh ♪
- ♪ No forensics, there was no trace ♪
♪ Had that bally up on my face ♪ - ♪ No face, no case ♪
- ♪ I heard a rumor she banged ♪ ♪ Half the block ♪
♪ It must've been the unknown D ♪ (Brian laughs)
♪ Push your tongue in my box ♪
- Push your tongue in my box. Okay.
- ♪ Couldn't even [censored] ♪ ♪ Dick soft ♪
- Ugh, she's got it. (laughs) I like it, I like it.
- (laughs) I like this girl! (Noah laughs)
- He's gonna eat her farts? Is that what she said?
- (React) No no, go deal with them eediat thots.
- Oh, eediat thots.
I thought she told me I was gonna eat her farts.
I was like yes I am!
- First of all, yes. (laughs)
- Second of all, yes. - Exactly.
- (React) Third of all, yes.
This is Ivorian Doll.
- Aww. - (React) This song is called Rumours.
- Ivorian Doll? - (React) Ivorian.
- Ivorian Doll. - (React) Yeah.
- What, say that again,
so I can follow her on Instagram after this.
(both laugh)
- (laughs) She seems like a sweet girl.
- She does.
- He said hold on a second real quick.
- What's the meaning of that? Yeah.
- Let me just...
- So I'm gonna research before I slide in there. (laughs)
- (React) What do you think this song is about?
- It honestly just sounds like a brag,
like she's just like... - Like she's stunting.
- I can get dick forever.
- I think it's about people maybe saying
that she's had sex with a lot of people,
and she's trying to kibosh all those rumors.
- Right.
Jay-Z type beat.
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- Ugh!
- First of all, I need that sweater.
- It looks like Lord Farquaad on his sweater.
- (Giggs) I can hear the weed in the background.
(both laugh) - He's funny.
- ♪ They were blocking bare ♪ ♪ But now I'm rocking here ♪
- Ooh, voice.
- He's kinda opposite of everyone else.
Like, he's so chill.
- He's relaxed, he's chillin'.
- Yeah, he doesn't have to try that hard.
- He don't need to do that much, you know?
- I like it, it's a slower groove.
- Yeah, his voice is hella deep.
- I thought he was about to go in, and he's like no, I'm staying.
- ♪ At the top of the stairs ♪ ♪ Rocky's here ♪
- ♪ That's like the twelfth sentence ♪ - Ugh!
I like this beat too, this beat is tough.
- ♪ Much different from the dangers ♪
♪ [Censored] much different ♪ ♪ From the neighbors ♪
♪ [Censored] much different ♪ ♪ It was dangerous ♪
- This is like driving music.
- Yeah, oh yeah, you're just cruising to this.
- I feel like he was a really well-behaved shy kid.
(Jayse laughs) He just has like shy kid energy.
- (React) Giggs was raised by Caribbean parents,
he was a DJ before,
his name is Nathaniel Thompson.
- Ah, okay.
- That's the reason why he needed a nickname.
- (React) Yeah. (group laughs)
So, the lyrics. They were blocking bare.
- They were blocking bare?
- (React) What do you think that means?
- Oh, they were blocking a lot, bare means a lot in the UK.
- (React) Correct.
What do you think of this style of rap?
- A lot of times, people think oh, better rap means rapping fast,
and it's like no. - Not at all.
- It is literally just writing that groove,
and the bars, just, are hot.
- I'd say it's more like meaning per word.
It's like, he dropped three words, and said so much that when you like,
you can just simply dissect it and be like wow.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- ♪ I wake up everyday ♪ ♪ It's a daydream ♪
- Okay!
Oh, he reminds me of Tyler.
- I was just about to say Tyler, the Creator!
- ♪ Too deep ♪
♪ And all I care about ♪ ♪ Is sex and violence ♪
♪ A heavy bass line ♪ ♪ Is my kind of silence ♪
- His outfit, it's so sick.
- ♪ Gotta get a grip ♪
- ♪ But I let sanity ♪ ♪ Give me the slip ♪
- Oh, I love that shot. - That's sick!
- Okay, this is a little older. - Different.
- (React) Yeah.
Yeah.
- ♪ Some people pay for thrills ♪ ♪ But I get mine for free ♪
- I love when they put like, effort in music videos.
- ♪ Mm, mm, mm ♪
- It's like Tyler, the Creator mixed with Danny Brown.
- ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm ♪ Meets the Power Rangers.
- Is he gonna drop?
- It's funny, 'cause when said... - Where are we going with this?
What is this?
- ♪ Bonkers ♪
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- Oh, I would've [censored] up in the club to this.
- Okay, I didn't think it was gonna drop as late as it did. (laughs)
- (React) What do you think this song is called?
- Bonkers. - Bonkers.
- (React) Correct. - Certainly, yeah.
- (React) By Dizzee Rascal.
- I would love to hear this come on at the club or something, like...
- Yeah, oh yeah. - It's such a club banger.
- That was probably my favorite one so far.
- (React) Oh really? - Yeah.
- (React) Some people think I'm bonkers.
- Uh-huh.
- (React) But I just think I'm free.
Man, I'm just living my life, there's nothing crazy about me.
- Yeah, that was... - (React) Something.
- That was something.
- It made me feel like I was at a bar mitzvah.
Ooh, butterflies!
Hey!
- ♪ Ain't it different ♪ ♪ I like my ting in LA ♪
- Ooh.
- ♪ Why can't I fly to the states ♪ ♪ Cah I got too much convictions ♪
♪ Apparently all I talk is prison ♪ ♪ But I don't know no different ♪
- That beat is hard.
- ♪ Cah I was in jail up north ♪ ♪ Runnin' another coalition ♪
- Ooh!
- ♪ Fresh home, I bought coke ♪ ♪ And whipped it ♪
♪ I put some roses ♪ ♪ Where my wrist is ♪
- Ugh!
- ♪ You ain't ever made ♪ ♪ A birthday cake ♪
♪ From digestive biscuits ♪ (Brandel laughs)
- Oh, you've never had... - Birthday cake?
- A birthday cake from digestive biscuits?
Yeah, that would be terrible, that poor kid.
- Aww. - He didn't have a cake?
- ♪ Come home, fresh out the system ♪
- The beat reminds me of something.
- Like you can't tell me that this guy don't sound like Central Cee or Dave.
- Yeah. - Or that other guy.
- Yeah, that's what I was saying,
is it like the South London style, right?
- ♪ Baby are you up for this ♪
- This video is tough!
- Yeah, dude, the video is wild!
- I don't know what city I'm in.
We gotta be in the UK, but like... - (React) Yeah.
- There's so much grass, and then there was that one
central city shot.
- ♪ Ugh, ugh ♪ - ♪ Hey, hey ♪
- ♪ Ain't it different ♪
- That's definitely newer. - That's tough, I like that.
- (React) This song samples
Pretty Little Ditty by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- Ah.
- (React) Do you know what that song is about?
Ain't It Different, I link my ting in LA.
What do we think a ting means?
- A woman. - Oh, that's a girl.
- (React) Yeah.
- A ting.
- Right over, I don't know. I don't know.
(group laughs)
- (React) Fresh home, I bought coke and whipped it,
I put some roses where my wrist is.
- Wow! - Mmm.
- So he bought coke, water whipped it into crack cocaine,
and then sold the crack cocaine to make money.
- (React) Yes. - Oh wow.
- Yeah, he should be in prison for doing that.
- Yeah. - But I'm happy he's not,
and instead making good music.
- Yeah, I like that.
- Hey!
- ♪ I know one thing for certain ♪
- This [censored] is blowing up in the U.S. right now!
- Dude, I love this!
- ♪ Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh ♪
- See, here's the Caribbean vibe, let's go!
- I like his flow. - Mm-hmm.
I like the Afrobeat influence is nice.
- Yeah, it sounds almost Jamaican-esque.
- (Raquelle) That's a cool effect. - Yeah.
- This kinda reminds me of Reggaeton too.
- (React) Yeah, it's inspired by that. - Like, that same way, yeah.
- I'm glad this isn't a Try Not To Sing or Dance.
- (React) Yeah. - 'Cause I'd be out!
- ♪ Bouff Daddy, Bouff Daddy ♪ ♪ Ya dun kno', ya dun kno' ♪
- I like that they hired synchronized swimmers.
- ♪ Making six figure moves ♪ ♪ We've got different agendas ♪
- Making six figure moves, we got different agendas.
I like it.
- ♪ Life of a misfit ♪ ♪ Broke nigga forfeit ♪
- Hey! - That was tough.
- ♪ Four figure outfit ♪
- A four figure outfit, wow. (Raquelle laughs)
That's an expensive outfit.
- I need me a Bouff Daddy, Bouff Daddy.
Let me know, on the internet!
- ♪ All now I'm getting paid ♪ ♪ Did I mention ♪
♪ They never used to pay ♪ ♪ No attention ♪
- (Noah) Hey, hey.
- ♪ I need a Bouff Daddy ♪ ♪ Bouff Daddy ♪
- (React) What do you think Bouff Daddy means?
- Honestly, this is the one where you lost me.
- (React) Okay, let's see the...
- I'm going to guess, he's like the big trapper in the area.
- Uh, pfft. - Buff, buff?
- Sugar daddy? - (React) Yeah!
- Oh. - Wow, okay!
- I'm locked in!
- So it's not boofing like we do here in the United States?
'Cause boofing is totally not what that guy
probably wants to be doing.
I'll just leave it at that. - (React) I'm, what is boofing?
Do you know what boofing is?
- I don't know!
- Boofing is something up the butt,
and we'll just not even, we're not even gonna go.
Just Google it.
- (React) So he's one of the pioneers
of a genre called Afroswing.
- Afroswing! - (React) Yeah.
- Okay.
- (React) So it's a new thing that's like kind of developing in the UK.
We are ending off with JME.
- Okay. - JME, that sounds familiar.
- (React) He's the brother of Skepta.
- Oh!
Who's fine, according to Raquelle. - (React) Real life.
Real life brother of Skepta. - Hmm!
- ♪ I've got a black ski mask ♪ ♪ But I don't ski ♪
♪ But I snowboard ♪ - Ooh!
- ♪ Dash an MC off-piste ♪
- Oh my God! - Oh, but I snowboard?
I love that!
- ♪ Punch in the neck ♪ ♪ With my back door key ♪
- Ooh! - ♪ Box in the mout ♪
♪ With my X6 key ♪
- [Censored] him up with my X6 key?
- Ooh! - What?
- You said JME?
- He came in hot from the beginning.
- It was like level 100 minute one.
I feel like he's angry at me, almost.
- Right!? - What did I do wrong?
- It's personal! (laughs)
- ♪ Suffocate man ♪ ♪ Then I might just breeze ♪
- Hey!
- ♪ I'll bury man two foot shallow ♪
♪ Ain't got time ♪ ♪ To dig six feet deep ♪
- Ugh!
- ♪ These MCs and rappers ♪ ♪ Wanna chat 'bout their syllables ♪
- Okay, yeah, I gotta add this right now.
- ♪ All that [censored] ♪
♪ Then I come through ♪ ♪ With my ABC ♪
- I come through with my ABCs.
- ♪ Bare pictures when ♪ ♪ They see me on street ♪
- Hey!
- ♪ Old school rudeboy ♪ ♪ Like Crazy T ♪
♪ All you man ♪ ♪ Don't want it with me ♪
- This guy has killed people! I like it!
- ♪ Say my name, JME ♪
♪ Nostradamus couldn't see me ♪ ♪ Expelliarmus couldn't stop me ♪
- (laughs) That's cute.
- Oh, okay, expelliarmus! - That is crazy!
- ♪ 'Cause the music originated ♪
♪ And will always ♪ ♪ Remain in the streets ♪
- My boy just put fire on the microphone.
- Oh no, lighting the mic on fire is a crazy move.
- Yeah.
- ♪ Man don't care about all that ♪ ♪ Ugh ♪
- ♪ Knock him out ♪
- (React) So that song is called Man Don't Care, JME.
- That was like some London gangsta rap right there.
- In the library. - (React) (laughs) Yeah.
- Graves two feet deep? Bodies just washing to the surface?
I mean, it rains a lot in the UK, you know?
- (React) Yeah.
- That's not a good way to hide the bodies.
I'm always thinking about the logistics of rap.
- Right. - You know what I mean?
- (React) Do you know how this guy made his start?
- How?
- (React) This guy started out his music career
by producing mobile phone ringtones.
That's literally how he made his start.
How could a man with a uni degree
be bussing up mic and chatting his greaze?
'Cause the music originated, and will always remain in the streets.
- Mmm.
- (React) So he's saying like people who are becoming rappers,
who are like, got college degrees, and who are like smart,
and trying to do intellectual word play,
how are they coming up, and trying to become good,
when the music always came from the streets.
- Mmm.
- (React) Headphones off!
So what were your favorite songs out of all of them?
- They all had really interesting style.
- Yeah. - I liked it a lot.
- Lil Simz is easy, but followed up by...
- JME. - Simz and him, yeah.
- (React) JME? - JME was pretty solid, yeah.
- Musically, I think Giggs, I liked the song the best.
- I still gotta give it to my man Dizzee.
- Um, the Afrobeat. - Wow.
- I really liked what's his name? - ♪ Bouff Daddy, Bouff Daddy ♪
- Bouff Daddy! - (React) J Hus.
- Bouff Daddy was tough, I like Bouff Daddy.
- I like Bonkers. I feel like that one, is, like,
I could see that one being like top 40s.
- (React) What kind of differences are you seeing
in British and American rap?
- I feel like they're different.
- Certainly, it seemed like a slowed down cadence,
and I could like, I could clearly understand most of the words.
- This reminds me more of like old school rap,
in, at least, the U.S., where it was more about the rap.
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- What was your favorite song?
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- (both) Bye!
- Goodbye - Peace!
- I need a Bouff Daddy! - Bouff Daddy!
(laughs) You need a Bouff Daddy, 'cause all those STDs be leakin'!