Rappers React To Ren "Sui*de"!!!

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[@PeteFindsObscureStuff]

R I P Joe Hughes. ❤

[@sydneexxceasy9063]

Gone but truly never forgotten once.

[@mrdarengilbert3907]

😢❤

[@cb-lk7jo]

😢❤bless Joe and Ren and all those involved 🙏

[@PippaHinchleyComedy]

❤

[@sammyd8860]

Enjoyed your reaction - thoughtful and respectful. The first part of the song was about Ren and his own struggles. He wrote it a while back and he was going to release it but felt that it was somehow incomplete. He added the last couple of minutes immediately after he had done his recent interview with Knox Hill in which, for the first time, he really talked openly about the circumstances around the death of his friend Joe Hughes. It feels like he had kept so much buried inside himself and it came out in the interview, and it felt good to honour Joe properly. Here he talks about his guilt for being too late to save him. I am glad that Joe's story is spreading wider and that people are honouring him but Ren, man, please stop beating yourself up. It was not your fault.

[@clarissathompson]

I sat in on his live Twitch stream after the song release the other day. He's doing ok. His friends Sam and Josh were there with him, the 2 hour stream started somewhat serious then progressed into ridiculous hijinx including a "How many baked 'house' potatoes can you carry?" challenge. Ren thinks 34, lol! I think we all needed it after that heavy song release. I'm really enjoying spending time online with other Ren fans, everyone is so good.

[@helenjarvis7755]

Yes it was a real antidote. The song so beautiful and real. But Ren is okay with life💛🎶

[@thedearjohnblog]

You really need to read Ren's community post about the story behind this song. The last part was a late addition and is based on a real story about his childhood best friend, Joe. Without that detail, it's hard to have a full appreciation of this latest masterpiece. He genuinely was only 2 minutes too late. It's a devastating tale.

[@gabrielstratton1775]

Also his community posts on his channel are where the trash talkers are getting the inside scoop on his releases before they come out

[@manuelper]

I get what you're saying but it's not even necessary to know the context, it's clearly laid out in the song. Music should be able to deliver a message without having do anything else except hear the song and Ren does that in spades.

[@aprilkurtz1589]

@@manuelper Thank you!

[@ChrisLawton66]

This is a topic that desperately needs to be discussed and it's shameful that we need to dance around saying even the word on KZbin. Thanks to both of you for covering the song. I appreciate that you cover Ren as often as you do. I truly feel he's one of the most important artists we've had in quite some time.

[@chefgreasypaw7816]

I think they were avoiding it because it can be a trigger warning for a lot of people not because KZbin wouldn’t like it

[@ChrisLawton66]

@@chefgreasypaw7816 my comment is regarding the topic as a whole, not simply this video. Also, the song was just released mere days ago, they clearly weren't avoiding it. The fact that artists and reactors can't even spell out the entire word is ridiculous.

[@Bethany0420]

​​@@chefgreasypaw7816 youtube doesn't like when people use certain words and topics. They'll literally make it to where their videos are basically silenced and not shown in the algorithm with suggested videos for ppl to watch. They'll also demonetize them and age restrict them aswell.

[@1118alpet]

I think what makes Ren's music more impactful is that he has been through more pain than most of us & most other artists.

[@bighomiestevethemetalhead]

Ren is the most creative and genuine artist I've ever heard, he strikes an emotional chord with me in all of his music. I've never cried this many times listening to any other artists, his story really resonates with me because my life has many similarities to Ren (especially since I've lived with an autoimmune illness called Systemic Scleroderma since I was 17yo). His music is soo deep, I've never heard anyone else like him!

[@GneasYTC]

Steve my man, I feel like I nearly know you at this stage from following around the Ren reactions like you. I looked up "Systemic Scleroderma" when you mentioned it before. Man, I do *not* envy you that. I hope you're doing well. And I feel exactly the same about Ren as you - I've never been this 'attached' to any artist before.

[@horsehollerer]

Brilliant, thoughtful comments. I think the first part sounds more upbeat because 1. It makes a taboo subject seem more accessible if it’s catchy and you find yourself humming along to the s word; 2. Ren’s friend Joe was the joker of the pack and he said you wouldn’t have known anything was up so maybe the beat alludes to that sentiment. 3. Ren already had the first part of the song finished but added the second part about Joe very recently, following his interview with Knox Hill a few weeks ago in fact. Many thanks!

[@dimitrasotirakoglou2553]

Guys i really don't have words to describe this man's talent.. From the visuals to the poetry that he paired every thing together is magical.. I was devastated when i found out that it's based in a real story ,about his friends suicide when they were kids...it wasn't supposed to be about that but he decided to do it,the piano part at the end was all spontaneous as he was sitting in front of the piano pouring his heart out Ren made an entire album dedicated to his friend Joe , freckled angels is the name.. That video here is a wonderful work of Art Thank you❤

[@kieranmcmahon1745]

Supposedly he wrote / performed the piano part after the Knox Hill interview, who was asking a few questions about Joe and what happened on that night he jumped.

[@dimitrasotirakoglou2553]

@@kieranmcmahon1745 yeah that's true They both mentioned it in Knox's interview with Ren.. Either way is a great song 👍

[@tfodthogtmfof7644]

I think Smokey and Hollywood said it “it hits different”, “it is real and tangible”. I think it is the honesty in Ren’s writing. I think the key part of the first part is “it never felt like the right time.” In my life every time I thought about it, every time I was on the edge of the abyss, all I needed was to find 1 decent reason why it was not the “right” time. One small lifeline to help tug me back from the edge. ;

[@markjones6747]

In my lifetime, I've never come across an artist who can create music to effect me as much as Ren has. He puts his all into his music.

[@MotherofUnicornsProductions]

There IS a Ren newsletter ;-) And that's how we all know about what the piano part is about. You can also read about it on his KZbin community page. The line "Won't stay down cause my body purges" hits extra hard when you know that Ren is allergic to most food and has a super limited diet of fresh meat (no beacon or sausage) and a hand full of vegetables. Everything else comes back up.

[@pirada74]

This 💯

[@sicmuvva11]

I sat with tears streaming down my face, the first section is about Ren the second is about his best friend Joe Hughes who jumped from the Menai bridge late one night and they never found the body. They were best mates since 8yrs old. So sad and the why’s and what if’s that are left with loved ones is terrible. Almost all of us have been touched in some way and this needs to be talked about. Ren said he could never do that to his loved ones so he isn’t contemplating it. A wonderful artist.

[@DuelerDog55555]

Ive watched Rens interviews and what you say about the upbeat music in the beginning makes sense with what Ren has said. I think the upbeat music is like his friend Joe masking how he really felt and only showing an upbeat happy person till he couldn't and committed the act. Then the song changes and the upbeat music goes away only revealing the aftermath and reality of how the act affected Ren. Just my take on it. So powerful. Great reaction guys!

[@CryogenicFire]

I will quote Ren to give background on this song: Ren 10 days ago Today I want to write something beautiful and eloquent but I’ve been staring at my computer screen for the past 10 minutes blankly. So I’ll just write. Today, the 1st of June is my friend Joe’s birthday. I first met Joe when I was 8 years old, my friend Josh said I had to meet this guy, so we both walked over to his, it took about 10 minutes from my house. I was greeted by this kid covered head to toe in freckles, he grinned at us, climbed onto the back of his sofa and screamed “Swanton Bomb!” then front flipped off the top and landed right onto his back on a stone floor. He lay still for a moment, twitched a few times, then got up, grinned at us, brushed himself off, and did it again. This was Joe. He’d do anything to make people laugh. He ended up becoming one of my best friends. He was there when we stole our first cigarettes out of his mums pack, way too young. He was there when I had my first kiss, with a girl twice my size on the back of the 42 bus. He was there when I first got so drunk I threw up in the woods after drinking as much white lightning Cider as we could. I was there when he did his first backflip on skates, and saw him do a 720 off of the pier cave, that moment became legendary. Joe was the funny one in our friend group, he’d make us laugh till it hurt. No one had a bad word to say about him. It was impossible not to like him. Usually we put celebrities, athletes and actors on pedestals, turn them into role models and admire them from a far. The person I admired was Joe. Him and Sagar knew every word to the songs id write, we’d get drunk at parties and they’d be singing along as loud as they could. It gave me a lot of confidence back then. On Christmas Eve 2010 I was sitting in a pub with Joe, he’d been feeling low after a couple of consecutive break ups. He tried to check himself into a mental health outpatient facility a few weeks earlier but they turned him away because he didn’t have an appointment. He turned to me and said that sometimes he wished he could just walk into the sea and keep walking. He said it in a kind of half joking throw away comment type of way, then took a sip of his drink, walked over to the juke box and put Dig by Incubus on. If I knew that was the last time I’d see Joe id have hugged him, told him how much I loved him, how much I looked up to him, how much we all loved him, and I wouldn’t have left that pub. I didn’t know that, so I finished my drink, said happy Christmas and left. Two nights after Christmas I got woken up by a phone call at 3am, it was my friend Ella. She told me Joe was on the Menai Bridge, a large suspension bridge connecting the main land to the isle of Anglesey where we lived. He’d been on the phone to her in tears saying goodbye. He told her to tell everyone he loved them. I pulled on my clothes as fast as I could and started running toward the bridge. It was up a hill. I lived about a ten minute walk away, I could run it in five. As I ran I started dialling then redialing his number. The line was busy, which was a good sign, it meant he was still on the phone to someone. As I got about halfway, the busy tone changed. It told me the line was out of service. I got a sinking feeling and picked up my speed. I arrived to the bridge minutes after I left my house. It was deafeningly quiet. I was the first person to arrive. I got there probably about 2 minutes too late. Joe’s body was never found. Initially we refused to believe he was gone. The coastguard came out that night, with boats, and helicopters. Me and my friends spent the next 10 days putting up missing posters everywhere we could, walking up and down beaches with flashlights, getting about 3 hours sleep a night. When you’re walking up and down a beach with a torch when its dark everything looks like a body. We still haven’t found Joe. As his birthday came around, I wrote a song, freckled angels, a song I dedicated to Joe which I sang in front of his friends and family. A charity football match was put on for him, raising money for the RNLI where I won two bottles of wine in a raffle, I drank them both as quickly as I could, naturally, turned to my friend and probably slurred something along the lines of “This is the last time I ever drink” That was 12 years ago, I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol since. My first ever album I named Freckled Angels in tribute of one of the best people I ever knew. Skip forward some years. I’d been sitting on this song I wrote a few years ago. It always felt a little incomplete. It was going to be my next release, but I was dreading it because of this feeling of incompletion. I decided, very last minute, to do something about it. I sat by my piano, and the rest of the song fell out of me. I hadn’t thought about Joe in a little while, and the song initially wasn’t going to be about him, but the words all fell out of me. I wrote and recorded a whole 2 minutes extra, recording each part as I wrote it. Tears spewing out of my eyes pretty much the whole time, and decided not to do my usual thing of perfecting each line, I just recorded every line as it came. During this campaign I will be raising money for the RNLI, the group of brave men and women who spent hours tirelessly looking for Joe after the night he went missing. I'll also be donating 50% of the profit on all copies of the 'Freckled Angels' album directly to Joes family as a nice surprise gift. I will include links to the RNLI donation page below where 100% of the money will go to support them, I will be travelling to the UK later this month to make a music video, and have carved out a couple of days where I will travel to my home town on the isle of Anglesey to present the royal national lifeboat institution with a cheque of all the money raised

[@kimzwolinski9919]

Thanks for posting this 😊 I know people have been saying It is a pinned comment on the video but people like me don’t know what the hell that means lol 😂❤

[@rudyb.]

This song tore my heart out at the end. It hit hard. Thanks for the reaction. Renegade!

[@coy0te9]

It's called survivor's guilt. It's real, it's always a lie, and it's dangerous.

[@helenajrgensen3157]

Ren is in close concact with his fanbase, so yes we now whats coming 😊❤

[@francesdoll4039]

The first part is about Ren's own struggles which he never followed through with. He was going through his health issues with the purging. 2nd part written and recorded together a couple weeks ago.

[@Biempje]

Thank you for your thoughtful reaction, guys. ❤❤

[@philk9227]

Thoughtful reaction guys. This is a hard one. Ren's pain and anguish is palpable in this.

[@Peacetrain66]

He knows how to go straight into your heart and soul❤

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

The upbeat sound to the beginning of the song to offset the lyrics and make it stick out more because there’s something off about it. As a musical composer REN is as much a genius as he is about everything else. You two putting so much focus on the upbeat vibe is exactly the response he hoped for. To get people talking about this stuff. The only way to heal is to speak about the pain. REN is healing the world with his Bardic Magic.

[@melturgeon1]

great one guys Ren is becoming my fav new artist his lyrics and story telling are what gets my attention

[@bighomiestevethemetalhead]

Ren is the most creative and genuine artist I've ever heard, he strikes an emotional chord with me in all of his music. I've never cried this many times listening to any other artists, his story really resonates with me because my life has many similarities to Ren (especially since I've lived with an autoimmune illness called Systemic Scleroderma since I was 17yo). His music is soo deep, I've never heard anyone else like him!

[@mauraleib]

Thank you for this reaction. I appreciate how hard it is to cover a song about such a deep and controversial topic but we need to talk about it openly.

[@connorh7912]

there's not enough words for ren he's amazing

[@iancollins65]

I know the feeling you are describing. The difference between Ren and other similar artists is the emotion…you can’t fake emotion!!

[@zachhenderson7982]

Such a sad song, but an important one. That but at the end can remind you that committing this action "might" stop your pain, but causes so much more pain for others than you can imagine. It's not worth it. There is help. Even if you're broke with no insurance (like me) there's numbers to call, meetings you can go to to talk to others, forums and chat rooms etc... it may seem daunting and hard to find help, but please do if you need to. Love you

[@socksandpi1264]

This song gets me. My childhood friend hung himself in his bedroom closet when we were 15, I found him when I went to meet him so we could walk to high school together. My childhood died that morning. Things weren't innocent anymore, everything was different. Friends looked at me differently, his parents no longer wanted to be near me, some people blamed me because I should have known he was suicidal. I tried to take my life about five months later, because I couldn't handle the pressure everyone was throwing on me. Mom saved me just in time.

[@whitecloud3731]

❤

[@louannlang7471]

(((HUGS😢)))

[@hazelnut975]

God bless you and your Mum 🙏 💕

[@serendipitish]

So many hugs...

[@helenjarvis7755]

So glad your still here for yourself and your Mum. What a devastating thing to happen to you and so young. Love and hugs and healing. 💜

[@andryonde2750]

This guy has the talent and the capacity to touch topics that are dificult to touch with a particular sensibility!

[@xchakeix]

I have yet to not tear up or cry at the end of this song and I've watched quite a few reactions to it.

[@Lou-xq9br]

#Ren Rip Joe & love to all that's lost anyone in this way ❣️ I know it's painful ❣️

[@bradturner8552]

I love when Ren does these callbacks to other songs. And then you have a breadth of emotions he touches. He is a cornucopia of genres rolled into one.

[@adamwheeler6326]

Just wanna ty for helping support REN

[@shawnadams1460]

This song hits like a fuqin freight train man....onion ninjas are real every time I hear the final verse. I lost my younger cousin and one of my best friends to suicide. You honestly never really get over it, and trust me the guilt he expresses at being just a few minutes late lasts. I was supposed to go fishing with my cousin on a Saturday, but had worked late the night before and overslept...called him to make a raincheck, he was gone Sunday night, found out Monday morning. I love fishing...but there isn't one time I go out on the water now and dont get stuck in my head for a spell about how awesome it would be for him to be sitting there with me. Talking to people helps, never forget that. So if you are dealing with someone's loss, or feeling lost yourself, just find someone to talk to, because your never really alone.

[@moohHa22]

I’m a fairly new subscriber but this could almost be my favourite reaction channel. I really like your chill, your song choices, analysis and the trivia at the beginning. Feels like I’m chillin’ with you 🤗 I’ll suggest some songs one day, you’ve got a huge library for me to watch x

[@KattMurr]

I was waiting for you guys to review this one...Ren is unbelievably talented!!

[@skaughtmc6591]

My guess as to why it hits harder, is because Ren is speaking from personal experience, not just writing a story. There’s real emotion there.

[@vanburger]

It's not enough with Ren just to listen to the songs. Ren had a few back stories. Read up on his life, or you'll always be behind the curve. Great reaction, guys !!

[@Heretolearn21]

This is musical art 🙌🏻 Ren knows how to craft his medium to convey his message with creative force. A unique artist & a voice for these times…

[@seagull01-cp8pb]

Nice analysis. Always enjoy your Ren reactions👍🦇

[@kristaspecht]

Now yall gotta watch "sick boi" by ren..its got parts of it in this song...plz...you will love this song!!:)❤

[@silentwhisp4r670]

I agree. The start seems like someone not so much happy but more relaxed because they are worrying less but it doesn't seem like the right time. Then the end is far more sad and heavier because he is showing the aftermath of that situation. The people who are left behind suffering for their whole lives. It's like the sadness and hurt of one person being transferred to those around them. Dope reactions!

[@AlSnoopsReid]

Ren wrote this about the song-- Today I want to write something beautiful and eloquent but I’ve been staring at my computer screen for the past 10 minutes blankly. So I’ll just write. Today, the 1st of June is my friend Joe’s birthday. I first met Joe when I was 8 years old, my friend Josh said I had to meet this guy, so we both walked over to his, it took about 10 minutes from my house. I was greeted by this kid covered head to toe in freckles, he grinned at us, climbed onto the back of his sofa and screamed “Swanton Bomb!” then front flipped off the top and landed right onto his back on a stone floor. He lay still for a moment, twitched a few times, then got up, grinned at us, brushed himself off, and did it again. This was Joe. He’d do anything to make people laugh. He ended up becoming one of my best friends. He was there when we stole our first cigarettes out of his mums pack, way too young. He was there when I had my first kiss, with a girl twice my size on the back of the 42 bus. He was there when I first got so drunk I threw up in the woods after drinking as much white lightning Cider as we could. I was there when he did his first backflip on skates, and saw him do a 720 off of the pier cave, that moment became legendary. Joe was the funny one in our friend group, he’d make us laugh till it hurt. No one had a bad word to say about him. It was impossible not to like him. Usually we put celebrities, athletes and actors on pedestals, turn them into role models and admire them from a far. The person I admired was Joe. Him and Sagar knew every word to the songs id write, we’d get drunk at parties and they’d be singing along as loud as they could. It gave me a lot of confidence back then. On Christmas Eve 2010 I was sitting in a pub with Joe, he’d been feeling low after a couple of consecutive break ups. He tried to check himself into a mental health outpatient facility a few weeks earlier but they turned him away because he didn’t have an appointment. He turned to me and said that sometimes he wished he could just walk into the sea and keep walking. He said it in a kind of half joking throw away comment type of way, then took a sip of his drink, walked over to the juke box and put Dig by Incubus on. If I knew that was the last time I’d see Joe id have hugged him, told him how much I loved him, how much I looked up to him, how much we all loved him, and I wouldn’t have left that pub. I didn’t know that, so I finished my drink, said happy Christmas and left. Two nights after Christmas I got woken up by a phone call at 3am, it was my friend Ella. She told me Joe was on the Menai Bridge, a large suspension bridge connecting the main land to the isle of Anglesey where we lived. He’d been on the phone to her in tears saying goodbye. He told her to tell everyone he loved them. I pulled on my clothes as fast as I could and started running toward the bridge. It was up a hill. I lived about a ten minute walk away, I could run it in five. As I ran I started dialling then redialing his number. The line was busy, which was a good sign, it meant he was still on the phone to someone. As I got about halfway, the busy tone changed. It told me the line was out of service. I got a sinking feeling and picked up my speed. I arrived to the bridge minutes after I left my house. It was deafeningly quiet. I was the first person to arrive. I got there probably about 2 minutes too late. Joe’s body was never found. Initially we refused to believe he was gone. The coastguard came out that night, with boats, and helicopters. Me and my friends spent the next 10 days putting up missing posters everywhere we could, walking up and down beaches with flashlights, getting about 3 hours sleep a night. When you’re walking up and down a beach with a torch when its dark everything looks like a body. We still haven’t found Joe. As his birthday came around, I wrote a song, freckled angels, a song I dedicated to Joe which I sang in front of his friends and family. A charity football match was put on for him, raising money for the RNLI where I won two bottles of wine in a raffle, I drank them both as quickly as I could, naturally, turned to my friend and probably slurred something along the lines of “This is the last time I ever drink” That was 12 years ago, I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol since. My first ever album I named Freckled Angels in tribute of one of the best people I ever knew. Skip forward some years. I’d been sitting on this song I wrote a few years ago. It always felt a little incomplete. It was going to be my next release, but I was dreading it because of this feeling of incompletion. I decided, very last minute, to do something about it. I sat by my piano, and the rest of the song fell out of me. I hadn’t thought about Joe in a little while, and the song initially wasn’t going to be about him, but the words all fell out of me. I wrote and recorded a whole 2 minutes extra, recording each part as I wrote it. Tears spewing out of my eyes pretty much the whole time, and decided not to do my usual thing of perfecting each line, I just recorded every line as it came. During this campaign I will be raising money for the RNLI, the group of brave men and women who spent hours tirelessly looking for Joe after the night he went missing. I'll also be donating 50% of the profit on all copies of the 'Freckled Angels' album directly to Joes family as a nice surprise gift. I will include links to the RNLI donation page below where 100% of the money will go to support them, I will be travelling to the UK later this month to make a music video, and have carved out a couple of days where I will travel to my home town on the isle of Anglesey to present the royal national lifeboat institution with a cheque of all the money raised. Turn on notifications for the video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGStf6ecnpmJmJI Raising money for RNLI : www.justgiving.com/page/ren-gill-1685546882254?Link&/ren-gill-1685546882254& Freckled Angels album: renmakesmerch.com/products/freckled-angels-cd Presave Suic*de: found.ee/ren-suic-de

[@pirada74]

Thanks ❤

[@henrymysonband]

Thank you guys Great reaction and always love when you react to Ren

[@Mickee2605]

I love you guys... The story behind this song gets me everytime... and if I cry this time, I never come back 🤧🙄... Just kidding m8s... Keep 'em coming 🤘😎

[@cyclops60]

This is the first song I've heard from Ren, I doubt I'll hear anything better. Such an amazing song especially the pure emotion about his friend, had me in tears. I love the way he says suicide loud and clear, it is talked about more nowadays but we need more compassion and support for each other. Thanks for featuring this.

[@tinymusikcodottv-Musikverse99]

You guys are great . I saw those tears so you get this. ~~~~ I wrote what I think peole have made Ren or The Ren out to be. They've named me a wandering bard, A timeless and enigmatic nomad, But I feel lost within myself, Unsure of where my heart is at, A chameleon of the human race, A trickster, a sage, a shifting face, THE SAGE OF TALES, untamed and wild, Unraveling truths with a knowing smile. I wonder if I still possess, The fire, the strength, the tenderness, To sing with the voice of countless years, And dance like dreams that never wither, Can I still weave a web of tales, Drawing wisdom from hidden wells, No longer certain, I hesitate, As I stand at destiny's gate. My goal was once to bring delight, Through melodies that dance in flight, Yet now I question my own role, In the grand scheme of the cosmic whole, Is it laughter or the bitter truth, That I must share with the world uncouth, As the minstrel who sees the core, Of what humanity's striving for. The jester, they say, can speak the truth, While others hide in masks uncouth, A voice of reason in a world of lies, I am the proof, the truth that cries, But now I wonder if I have the strength, To bear the weight of truth's full length, To guide the lost and heal the blind, And bring the world a peace of mind. To break the chains of false belief, And offer solace, hope, relief, I must return to innocence, Embrace the child within, and hence, Confront the lies, the pain, the strife, And start anew, a fresh new life, For I am stronger than I know, In this journey where truth must grow. No longer here for jest or scorn, For kings and queens who've long been worn, I stand before you, truth in hand, To save mankind from its own demand, From savagery and cruel fate, I share my wisdom, love, and hate, A guide, a friend, a soul reborn, Just a human, seeking truth's forlorn. Keith B Moran

[@marissanorth85]

This is easily my favorite from him. So far. I can relate 😢

[@melomaniac334]

Yo, the comment you made that you can have the same ingredients as your mom for dinner, but then your momma makes it and it just hits different.... That is the most perfect and accurate description of how Ren's music feels compared to others!! I'm going to be using that comment my dudes, and I will credit you every time! Thank you so much for your reactions. I enjoy you two so much.

[@russellsearch7925]

Another genius track. You guys do his music justice with your reactions.

[@jamesh2401]

I love how taboo a word it is, we're not supposed to talk about it (social platform restrictions etc) yet Ren must have said it about 30 times in this song. He doesn't care about social and musical norms. He does what he wants and it's beautiful. If you're struggling in life, reach out to someone, anyone. And everyone else, be prepared to listen. Because you never know when someone will reach out. Next Ren song? Love Music Pt. 1. And then part 2 and 3, naturally.😁 As amazing as Hi Ren, Jenny&Screech etc are, for me the Love Music trilogy is his masterpiece.

[@arklilbro]

Exactly 30 times I counted

[@laupstad]

It's pretty clever/artistically rebellious of him to make a song so "fit for radio" with a hook that guarantees it never will be. Good thing we are free explore independent music even if Ren has pretty much gone mainstream by now. Which is awesome and the way things should be.

[@NadineLaFrance-pf5rq]

I love this song I cry every time I listen to it ❤

[@NoCanDu]

Ren puts out his own “newsletter!” 😂 Just follow him on any of his socials and you, too, can get it. 😉

[@mikedoyle7546]

Great reaction guys👍👌👌 Ren has recorded a one take of this song (live)😢😊

[@flea1683]

I never even call them up The distance is my plaster cast.

[@Max_Flashheart]

Thank you for reacting to this. I love the song.

[@Singlespeedjo]

Great, thoughtful reaction guys❤ REN just touches us all with his brilliant lyrics!

[@kristaspecht]

Morning fellas! I seen this the other day and cried my eyes out! Its a very touching song...hits to the core! Love ren! (And i believe this is really about his friend that took his life.)😢 Thanks guys for doing this song!

[@BBB_photography_adventures]

i don’t know how i still cry from this song but it’s so deep

[@arthy27]

love you guys. peace from Poland

[@yilomina2047]

Wonderful reaction, this is such an amazing song

[@DaisyKmua]

goosebumbs tears and frog in throat, every time man

[@mark_white.]

When you look at the water and ready to jump ...You are looking at the breaks in clouds reflecting on water ...THUS ​"Falling through the cracks of the night sky . your understanding is a blanket of comfort for ppl.Hate train briges to this day.

[@JohnWayne-vf5bs]

I love ren reactions you guys are amazing and so nice and wonderful rappers from the south And you guys started the trash talkers what a amazing name and you guys awesome podcast keep up with the great work

[@thechewatson]

Love REN. Love your reactions. Keep em coming!❤

[@hopelaurel2207]

Yes there is a Ren newsletter and we look forward to any news Ren has to tell. Truth.

[@BirgitTotzauer]

Great reaction. Very thoughtful. Thx❤

[@glennhansen6794]

Great reaction, thanks for playing this guy's.

[@KattVonTease]

Loved your reactions keep up the awsome content, also i lovvveeee your t-shirts ❤😄

[@SunaGirl55]

Ren as an artist is amazing at evoking emotions out of people through lyricism and melody. The lyrics themselves speak on there own, but the melody probably doesn’t. When people consider suicide they seem at there happiest , almost abnormally upbeat for their usual selves. Its why I like the structure of this song because the beat on its own is part of that transition of story telling. Its what makes this artist stand out as compared to others. Anyone can come out and say they made a song, but a good song and a good artist will not only be a great lyrasist , they will be great composers so that the music itself is part of the story, they will also be good story tellers through the way they vocalize and enunciate certain things , finally, a damn good artist won’t give a shits ass if everyone likes them. This artist embraces the idea that not everyone will like him and he doesn’t see this as a bad thing, he sticks to his guns and sings what he feels because he knows there are people out there that-will connect to it. That right there is passion and that is what makes him standout. Musicians today write about sex, money, guns, love, having a good time, ect, but they are all superficial with its only purpose-being to create an ear worm rather than 'to evoke any real thought or feeling. Btw, its why I really enjoyed your last song you guys put out. keep up the amazing work and don’t stray away from writing what you think and feel.

[@comrie22]

Smokey i loooove your t-shirt!! I used to love that show when i was a kid! Love your reactions guys, keep the Ren ones coming! Would love to see you do War Pigs by The Big Push❤

[@galestark7108]

Yes REN tells us when new music is coming out!

[@rayanthony1816]

Listen closely to the guitar it's haunting it's so good. Brilliant.

[@shawnchapdelaine2089]

REN is fire...i love how he makes people feel emotions

[@themadcadder4847]

He's so real that it's unreal. This is going to sound so weird, but I honestly feel lucky that I'm alive to encounter this talent. I'm a huge music fan but nothing has awoken my spirit or hit me (musically) since 90's (Pearl Jam, Nirvana Soundgarden, Pantera etc.) and this guy comes along and hits every genre, ticks all the boxes & just blows my mind.

[@GauldenBoi]

Ren always early announces his new tracks on his community page on KZbin & his Instagram stories

[@jessmichaels1973]

Like always, ❤🙏 Lov ya

[@thedragonlee2327]

My first major loss of hurt was my best friend Cano. He called me the night before. We talked for 6 hours on the phone. I didnt think anything was going on. He told me his troubles, then we laughed them off. I understood what he was going through. We ended the call with "I love you bro, ill see you later". Just a few hours we got off the phone he decided to end. I was the last one he talked to. I love all yall.

[@garysherwin3316]

Brilliant as always boys

[@stevehartley7504]

The facade of pretence to portray a life not in turmoil. Then the ramifications of your loss on those left behind!

[@jamesdoherty6558]

great upload, thanks

[@Tessimistic420]

Ready for this one. Good morning guy's

[@AnotherFacelessDigitalNoOne]

Watching you jump out of your seat with the sledgehammer lyrics is a highlight for me. Not alone, at least

[@Jadedxx]

If you haven't done How To Be LIVE with Chinchilla you NEED TO DO IT NEXT 👌 it's probably my fave Collab EVER. Chills every time.

[@jolandafrijlink6103]

Ren had an interview wit knox hill where he was telling this story and after he did the interview Ren added this to the song.

[@jeffmartin_UK]

Thanks for your reaction.

[@daletolmich6459]

They say that once somebody does decide that this is THE way out ... They become calm and balanced (happy/upbeat)... BECAUSE they've finally have an answer. 💔

[@patisan]

No one has called it a bluesy rap but as soon as you said it, my brain clicked and agreed immediately! Bluesy rap! Love it ❤ I agree he has “it”, whatever it is. He hits different and I get the Eminem comparisons even though they’re different, there’s something in Ren that grabs you the way Eminem does, at least both of these artists hit me the same way even though they’re different. I think it’s their musicality, wit and ability to convey emotion in the vocals, hence bluesy rap is perfect. I think part of it as well is that Ren has said he’s heavily influenced by Dr Dre’s production, especially in Dre 2001 and it really does come through ven though it’s a modern take with a sort of old school vibe

[@kazpwright]

RIP to all those that have lost their struggle 🩶

[@AnotherFacelessDigitalNoOne]

Only Ren coule be this slick about such a huge issue ❤❤

[@gurulimbo]

He always tells people on his socials when new ones are coming out. He flew back to the UK today to film some new videos.

[@noazelinger5396]

Omg love the intro

[@anthonyleeming]

As amazing as the darker songs are, he definitely has a fun side too. If you haven't already reacted to them and want a change of pace check out 1990's, What You Want, Losing It. Or some of his band The Big Push somgs such as Sweet Little Lady, Watch Out, It's Alright.

[@Sin-us1dh]

Best shirt game in the reaction era! Gg bros

[@andyholloway11]

Ren is a beast, for multiple reasons. I suggest checking out 'What you want' It's an homage to the beastie boys and if you appreciate the history if hip hop, you will love it.

[@nunomuacho446]

Powerfull energies behind this man, he's cleaning lots of stuff with his work, HIgh RENnassaince

[@The_real_JulieKelsea]

My dad killed himself June 1, 1999. I tried chasing him with my car. I missed him by 5 minutes too. This song choked me up EVERY TIME I hear it. I still miss you dad 😭

[@hetty464]

I think there is a lot of emphasis on the person with mental health problems and not enough of a nod to those who love them and struggle to help them, or for those who are left behind. This is an important angle of mental health and one that has been ignored for too long. This song puts that angle on the table. x

[@nbellido]

Hi guys. It's a sad story, he express too much pain and guilty. Goog job my boys. Respect.

[@jaysonmassey8365]

modern day shakespeare. just a genius