Arlington: The Rap

[@phantomthiefirwin9631]

This was made a literal decade ago and this is still relevant.

[@uwudrey687]

the starbucks are only growing

[@Genkimark]

And there is actual crime in Arlington now!

[@WilliamIsCool15]

Aww. Pre coronavirus. Good times

[@kaipark1649]

oh my god yes. especially the starbucks and the brown flipflops one

[@nsb9999]

A-Town will never change

[@samb9502]

Its 2020 and everything he raps about is true, valid and current.

[@BeardsleyMark]

I agree, except for the Walgreens, Car Pool and Hard Times... But we did get a few more Starbucks!

[@WilliamIsCool15]

He made it to brown nation on netflix

[@ewgrossnotveryepic7208]

Mark B. Thank god you got more Starbucks

[@BeardsleyMark]

@@ewgrossnotveryepic7208 the funny thing is, I don't like their coffee but I have an effectively bottomless account there since I get Starbucks gift cards every month at work. I am still searching for a coffee there I like. The doppio espresso is ok at best.

[@domar1]

Are there still all the brown flip flops? I think the night life fashion has changed a little in Clarendon, especially since the Ballroom closed. Less bros, bit more diverse crowd.

[@ryusei323]

This tune just popped into my head after 12 years so I had to see if I could dig this up. Still holds up.

[@shawnaa.2448]

Other than taking a taxi vs calling an Uber, this is still 100% relevant and brilliant 14 years later 😂😂😂

[@DavidZZidane10]

I used to work at the Barnes & Nobles in Clarendon, they actually do have book club meetings every Tuesday nights haha

[@Genkimark]

^ Barnes & Noble.

[@ernestallen5772]

Five years later and this video is still funny because it's still accurate.

[@zyxwut321]

It's sad but it's better than if the place turned into a deserted hood like most of flyover country. South Arlington is a bit more humble but it's gentrifying as well.

[@ernestallen5772]

zyxwut321 Got your brown flip flops?

[@zyxwut321]

Ernest Allen Not right now. It's the middle of winter. :)

[@ernestallen5772]

zyxwut321 Touche. :-P

[@76lochraven]

In Maryland, at least in the Baltimore burbs, it's cargo shorts and brown flip flops 365 days a year

[@mustafaishere]

"Get out the car check my shoe and sock a minute. Stand right back up... I got seven parking tickets!" Lmao!!! Spot on!

[@Darkenedbyshadows]

its sad i recongised most of the starbucks places... lol

[@ElyseHorvath]

Yea lol

[@kingdogs1071]

Darkenedbyshadows same

[@dreamcastsoup8338]

Yes it's very sad

[@robin2080]

A decade later (still a bop) and not much has changed... except for like the gentrification of Columbia Pike, but yeah the brown flip flops have stood the test of time and fashion.

[@2jcward]

And Ballston is still a bad mall. 😕

[@christiansbiking5723]

I live in a-town and this is still Accurate in 2018

[@liamdarmody8774]

Remy, you're hilarious. I remember when I saw this in 2009 while living in DC and I thought it was funny then, but now I actually live in Arlington and my old apartment is in this video, it's 10x more funny now. You're a genius. I have to say, the response to "we could take the green line" is quite possibly one of the most clever things about it. well done man. Someone posted your Dog Money video on Linkedin today and I was like "hey, i know that guY!" good to see you still making content out here. You should consider creating it there... lots of eyeballs to be had... if a schmuck like me can get 10m views / year, you can get 100

[@cyruskhalvati]

Lol remy lives in Arlington never knew I lived so close to the Saudi who drove the Audi

[@chinito77]

Nah, he drives a Prius but you can't see him driving since their are lots of parking tickets covering the window. It helps hide him from his Exes.

[@muhammedsoofi4971]

Same here

[@ss09876]

I believe you mean the saoodi in an aoodi

[@kayrayilmaz9436]

15 years later and this is still extremely accurate

[@purplegirl_ceo]

it’s 2024 & this is all FACTS 😂

[@carolineplatt1722]

I live in Arlington and this is so accurate and the funniest video I have ever seen

[@MrCumpiss]

I'm interning in Arlington and my boss sent this to me with the subject title "essential videos"

[@JoeyV701]

This premiered when I was a young post-grad who just moved to Arlington. I loved it. I still do. It’s 2021.

[@susanl8070]

This is linked to a WaPo article about "Love is Blind". Congrats Remy!

[@chapel976]

This is relevant to 2018 and Amazon HQ2

[@gooddogsgetmoretreats2972]

THE PART ABOUT THE GREENLINE HAD ME ON THE FLOOR 😂 I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN DC THIS IS SO ACCURATE ABOUT ARLINGTON

[@xXUnoriginalNameXx33Meygaera]

Remind me to rewatch this in 2029 to check if it is STILL relevant. The Green Line snub is so on point.

[@axioms22]

yo this came out a decade ago and it's still relevant

Saw it years back....still funny.

[@MarkSmithMCS]

Kind of satisfying to look back. This was released about when I came to the area and I couldn't relate to most of the references at the time. Turn the clocks forward and it all makes so much sense!

[@tbb236]

I love how I didn’t understand that this song is satire back when I was 9, but 9 years later it’s absolutely hilarious. Extreme nostalgia trip.

[@DBCOOPER888]

He actually missed a couple additional Starbucks.

[@vandertuber]

LOL !!!!!!

[@vangaurdan]

He didn't want to make the video 3 hours long

[@Alice-ox7pe]

yea that's true

[@nataliegerdano6028]

he needs to do an updated vision and add the other Starbucks!

[@willku9000]

Some of them are actually Gone now

[@Andyamalik]

I demand a 2022 update video

[@theemilyesse]

OK, this has to be one of my favorite videos ever. I've lived in the neighborhood for almost 5 years, and you totally nailed it. The Starbucks part had me on the floor.

[@elizabetheilidh]

I LOVE THIS!!!!!!! Some parts are soooo ironic. Arlington VA, is the opposite of the hood, and we do have like 100 Starbucks.

[@76lochraven]

Sorry Alanis. Not irony. More like satire

[@dougjaeger9882]

8 years later, they've run out even more poor people and opened more starbucks!

[@johnabbott1982]

Yeah except for a couple small areas

[@oskajohn3795]

Is it like that in most Us cities? Starbux everywhere

[@Genkimark]

@@dougjaeger9882Jaeger all the poor ppl are in South Arlington, which might as well be Alexandria.

[@SynthiaVan]

Remy, if you knew how many times I played this video across all my various KZbin accounts over the years.... Starting 12 years ago when I lived in NW DC wearing boat shoes and brown flip flops at Whole Foods.........

[@ewilson1160]

I moved to Arlington in 2010 and this video was hilarious then. Watching it again today was just as funny! Have to love it!! Good job!!

[@2jcward]

Moved here in 2010 too. Love this

[@catherine8520]

"We could take the green line." 😂

[@zackeeu]

Holy crap I have lived in Arlington...15 years. How have I never seen this. Awesome!

[@alexalainn1816]

I miss Arlington... I grew up there, but now I live in Missouri. Literally.

[@sweettooth202]

I'm from arlington and this is so true! It's cool knowing actually where that stuff is,and you should have also included the 7elevens

[@beckikennedy12]

Like fine wine this video only gets better with age. I love how everything visually has changed but the vibe is still the same.

[@marichea]

That's like the 30th time I've watched that since 2009, and it's STILL awesome! Go Remy!!!

[@badracho]

Arlington don't you ever change

[@whatsonhermindblog123]

I think the last time I watched this video was like 2010. THANK YOU . STILL FUNNY TO THIS DAY

[@TitletownUSAPACK12]

2024 and it's still a banger!!!!

[@auntiekaykay9]

This one's still my favorite - I grew up in Arlington, & this is perfect!

[@0x80O0oOverfl0w]

I still love this video! My friend just made a comment about someone's flip flops and I instantly thought of this video. I used to work in Rosslyn years ago so this hits so hard. That bit about the green line had me ded LOL. Love this!

[@soldat2501]

2019 - nothing's changed. I live in his building.

[@TMS2224]

2023 checking in. Most of the kitchens are still the same. 😂

[@SkinsNatsCaps]

"We could take the Green Line..." "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......" LOL

[@liamdarmody8774]

This might be my favorite part of this whole video.

[@betaylor5031]

It still makes me happy. Yes it does...😎💕🕊😎

[@MattLeighton703]

This video is timeless. A true masterpiece

[@sylvesmiller]

This never gets old

[@missadventure3397]

Ha-ha! It’s now 13 years later and still nothing has changed!

[@twocrabs]

As an Arlington local I must say, this is brilliant! Well done.

[@nicolegralski9406]

I hadn't watched this in so long, and it made me laugh just like always. Love ya, Remy!!

[@normandy1140]

Back in 2011, I was just about to get out of the Army, and I was moving to Arlington. I googled Arlington and this video came up. Hilarious. It’s 2021 now. I don’t live in Arlington anymore, but I had some good times. Thanks for the awesome video, Remy.

[@pjg19751]

I lived in Arlington for four years. There is not one thing in this rap not completely and 100 percent accurate.

[@alanrobles6644]

born and raised in Arlington and Arlingtonians have witnessed massive growth to the city. Rosslyn, Clarendon are Ballston really nice peaceful places plus they are right next to one another. Most of Arlington isn't has "ghetto" as the video makes it seem. I'm from South Arlington, and i would've loved for him to mention areas similar to my "hood" and also mention Mario's Subs and Pollo Rico. Like what Giuliani did to New York, thats what Arlington has gone through

[@76lochraven]

You're comparing Arlington, Virginia to NYC??!! Hahahahaha!!

[@willku9000]

Its 2022 and a lot of stuff in this video is either gone and or has changed, but it’s still pretty accurate

[@nickcurran3105]

I still die laughing at the Green Line line! 😅

[@lifeiszain]

omg Arlington courthouse miss it lived there for 4 years 😂😂😂😂 sooo thug and dangerous!!!

[@north2kohala]

It's 2023 and it's still accurate. Nostalgic looking at the vanished Ballston Common Macy's and bookstores. Most of the other stores in Clarendon are there. Starbucks, too. Walgreens moved. Green line 😐

[@shovelhead101]

"I go jogging...at a reasonable pace!" LOL, that kills!

[@Sparegus1]

Wow, it's been a decade. Ain't nothin changed.

[@AcryliClouds]

I live here!! its awesome !! ok so its three miles from D.C. and your only 5 minutes from the 6th biggest mall in the u.s. tysons corner, and like 2 minutes away from pentigon mall . and we have all four seasons. its in arlington, virginia.

[@johnnyddotnet]

Comedy gold. Brilliant lyrics.

[@coltoneimas7548]

Only savage Arlington people can like this

[@pinnip4974]

Works for arlington ny too 😅🤣🤣❤

[@MrZReacts88]

The first video that ever brought me into this page was his McDonald’s rap. I think he’s TSA rap Is the most recent on here from I think four years ago. To be honest since then he’s either posted very little or hasn’t posted at all.

[@All4TubeVLOGGER]

That was awesome!! 5/5 stars

[@SamSamSamSam1]

Anybody know where I can get coffee in Arlington?

[@muhammedsoofi4971]

Sam B at the Starbucks at the Starbucks

[@kingdogs1071]

Sam B no I think you should check the map

[@aminganjalizadeh9605]

North side is dope

[@theangledsaxon6765]

Peets coffee is legit

[@mre1004]

Northside Social in Clarendon

[@adamf.8564]

Haha. Lived there for over 9 years it was enough!

[@angeljohnson234]

I've never been to Arlington but this video is hilarious.

[@nilesayer3046]

angeljohnson234 well come here

[@dcrandom9533]

I FOUND YOU NILES!!!

[@benn2026]

It's "gangster" man. Especially the weed smoking middle schoolers

[@evanthejavacoder9235]

GO THERE ITS EPIC

[@victorchen9128]

Vienna got its mention :D

[@willw.8804]

The green line part at the end is definitely the best part. Wraps up the whole theme of the video really well.

[@prutyladyd07]

All of this still applies in 2019.

[@albaquerkie]

This is still accurate a decade later.

[@silkyj35]

I repost this on social media every time I move back to Arlington for work. This shit had me rolling out of my chair laughing the first time I heard it. "I'm in Courthouse so much they call me Michael Vick"

[@discrtidunkwn]

yo that's vienna metro...step off our turf son

[@eliza6722]

I don’t think the Ballston mall is that much better. Except the first floor can have some business, Macy’s gone, and the rest of the mall looks like a ghost town. The garage doesn’t share the same floor number as the mall, and it’s literally the worst managed mall I’ve ever seen

[@njaneardude]

2021, bring us the Arlington lockdown rap!

[@anpe6524]

HILARIOUS!!! I found this analyzing if living in Arlington is a good choice or not, after this video, OBVIOUSLY not!! LOL

[@willsavage4429]

Actually its quite nice here.

[@megandrury6098]

Fuck me, why is everything here still relevant 10 years later???

[@bandgeek88]

so awesome! i was just here last weekend visiting a friend who lives in arlington!

[@brianbeepboop]

Almost forgot to watch this today

[@Andromulus]

reppin' Arlington. haha

[@thepoash]

i literally listen to it all night!! :P

[@TinaByer]

I met my husband at Clarendon Ballroom in 2009 - this video is great for nostalgia lol!

[@whatsonhermindblog123]

At the starbucks, Or the starbucks Or the starbucks Or the starbucks Or the starbucks Or the starbucks Or the starbucks Or the starbucks Or the starbucks Or the starbucks Or the starbucks Or the starbucks Or the starbucks

[@chadbennett2896]

11-24-2021...Still a classic...for some reason i remembered this on the way to work. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving! Holiday weekend!!

[@subsnovideoschallenge-kb7st]

The Carpool Restaurant in the vid was demolished a year ago and they started building a new apartment on it. 😭 F to a legend, that restaurant.

[@Genkimark]

Arlington won't stop until every last vestige of its originality is eradicated.

[@subsnovideoschallenge-kb7st]

@@Genkimark It's tragic. They even rebuilt the mall in the vid.

[@humptiness]

14 years later and I’m still wearing brown flip flops.

[@sonjak8265]

I am wondering why.

[@stevesavage6760]

One of those Starbucks was definitely in Fairfax lol

[@colejohnson5999]

Yeah

[@malvolio01]

Is this what DC is like? it looks incredibly dull. Think I'll stay in NYC.

[@HardstyleMFs]

nah, its arlington. Arlington looks pretty dull compared to DC.

[@caps1]

Please do. We have enough Northeast transplants that have overtaken the area already.

[@malvolio01]

Last I checked, Washington DC straddled North and South. I always considered it as much Northern as Southern. Btw, I'm a California transplant in the NE, get it right. And, if DC is indeed the South, then I already did my time... four yrs in Durham, NC for college. It was hell. You can have it.

[@malvolio01]

HardstyleMFwhat I saw of DC looked cool. This looks like suburban hell. Thanks for clarifying.

[@Idontunderstandchess]

i find it looks pretty awesome

[@nightmarecake]

Today, my husband was sitting in new york with me, drinking tomato juice. "Huh. Says it's made in .. Arlington," he says, looking at the back of the bottle. "I wonder where that is." WELL BOY OH BOY DID I HAVE THE PERFECT VIDEO FOR HIM

[@subsnovideoschallenge-kb7st]

What a legend!

[@Plantabaja69]

Aww this video gives me so much nostalgia of Arlington. Still a lot is the same but Ballston and some other things have completely changed in 14 years. Literally my teen-young adult years

[@WuntaykTimmy1]

Nostalgia is just the warmest feeling ☺️

[@wizarddog5049]

I was born in Arlington. Then my parents where like "lol fuck this" and we moved to Fairfax

[@HandsomeDevill7]

This guy is Iraqi and knowns Arlington better than I do LOL good work.

[@matheuss886]

Actually he was born in US (DC)

[@abbassmeh]

He's lebanese

[@zyxwut321]

It's not much to know. It's a really plain, really affluent inner suburb of DC. You could make a similar video about a few dozen other places throughout the US.

[@HandsomeDevill7]

Matheus Souza Iraqi-American*

[@zyxwut321]

Michael H Do you work with their Chamber of Commerce or something?

[@subsnovideoschallenge-kb7st]

A decade later and all this is still accurate!

[@hypelock1474]

Not sure if this timeless or prophetic

[@16poetisa]

Haha so the joke is that the green line is the only one that actually goes through majority-black neighborhoods. (Through it doesn't actually go through Arlington.)

[@Basement-Ogre]

Yeah but they were in DC at that part of the song. "Now we're stuck in the city."

[@DBCOOPER888]

They weren't at Vienna, they were on the Orange line heading back to Arlington and Vienna is the line. In this plotline it looks like they were stuck at L'enfant, where the Orange line crosses with the Green. You can blame production values for any continuity errors, like the L'enfant stop not actually being outside.

[@mitchellbaxter6314]

It's like in the movies; the itinerary doesn't actually work, but only the locals notice.

[@tenshio]

I still love this vid. One of my favorite YT classics.

[@tcaf90]

Hahahah Hilarious. It's nice to actually know all the areas he shows. "We could take the Green Line." "Eeeehh......umm..." hahaha

[@sylvesmiller]

That’s the best part 😂.

[@FlyingOverTr0ut]

Howdy, neighbor! How do I move to this place called Arlington?

[@sophiasiminow]

FlyingOverTr0ut Its in northern Virginia

[@youtert]

You can't handle it, you're not hard enough.

[@aerthreepwood8021]

Make 6 figures?

[@bobby-ov9qn]

@@aerthreepwood8021 No lie there. Super expensive . . . . that's why I finally pulled the plug this past April, after decades in the county.

[@wmhaskell]

It’s 2021 and I still play this while getting my puff Kashi.

[@TheBixlowe]

I knew.... every one of those starbucks