REN RAPPING LIKE THE RENT DUE!!! | Ren - Halftime ( Nas Retake ) REACTION

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[@belgand5555]

Oh KSO, definitely you got that one correct…couple of little things on the video to check out… the countdown on the traffic signal timing, the school bus 🚌 going by… the actual randomness of it all as well as one take video in the street… the sick guitar under the beat… it was released 3.14 which was Pi Day and he raps about Pie… Ren is really stepping up more than anyone could have asked for… thanks for the great react…🫶🏻

[@sammyd8860]

Wow, I hadn't clocked the Pi Day release date ! Very clever - altho he has obviously been in Canada too long and forgotten that the correct (UK) date format is 14.3 !

[@belgand5555]

@@sammyd8860 haha Sammy and I suppose you drive on the wrong right side of the road too lol! JK lol… it’s actually pied but closes enough as in rats pied piper but it sounds close enough, but maybe just all dreamt up in the heads of nerds lol… as me being from the same or close enough neck of the woods as Nas I also thought about the famous pizza 🍕 pie rat in the subway lol… a stretch but the visuals tie into a good imagery…😂

[@Prozak63]

I believe he did this in Half the Time of Nas.

[@CarrowEamonn]

​@@Prozak63🤯

[@Caseyd1966]

​@sammyd8860 we use the same date format in Canada that you use in the UK lol.

[@jimmyhughes5392]

various ways, nefarious gaze, precarious days... he isn't saying the same word...

[@Lotus.Lottie]

Just pointin out the water/pirate/waves bars, coz Nas (Kid Wave)

[@sammyd8860]

Ahhh, great pickup. I missed that !

[@novaconstable8470]

Are u really taking the credit for the way Ren raps? 😆 Nice to see u appreciating him more lately tho. There's sooo much to him. Even if u don't like a particular track, his talent can't be ignored. Nice reaction tho, from someone who clearly lives the scene 🤘

[@goobydoot]

Right!?

[@curtisholsinger6023]

We KNOW that Ren listens to KSO on occasion, they've traded comments before. It's entirely possible Ren has taken a couple of KSO's comments into consideration :) That said, dunno that KSO was doing more than saying "hey, this sounds tighter" and joking around a bit.

[@Prozak63]

Just before the punch scheme, he said like Mike without the earlobe bite...

[@sammyd8860]

You coming round to him KSO ! I saw your reaction to Penitence (just love Molly's vocals on that) - you said that you had changed your mind on Ren, that he is not the person/artist that you thought he was. I know you had a problem with him singing about sad stuff and you thought he was wallowing in it/glorifying it. Now that you have listened to more of his music, and understand his journey better, it allows you to understand him better. It opens you up to enjoy his music more. Knew you'd get here in the end !

[@Lou-xq9br]

❤ #ren Fiiiirrrrrre 🔥🔥 A legend paying respect to past legend's 🖤 he is a 💎

[@comrie22]

He used the words nefarious and precarious 👍🏻

[@sharper68]

Always a pleasure just to sneak them in to a conversation, a next level bonus for using them in strong bars.

[@Junier-Hussein]

He always finds something to nitpick when it's Ren 😊 Glad he liked this one though, in comparison to his other Ren reaction this one is a positive lol

[@idiocracyunfolding9053]

Do not confuse him with big words. 😂

[@kaydee1280]

This is what makes Ren the illest of our time. He will always come correct with whatever he does 🫡 Ren is unmatched and in his own lane… cruising 🙌🏻🔥🔥🔥

[@Oitsugina93]

Kso is under Ren's spell....official member of the cult😂❤

[@ukdnbmarsh]

hip hop does need in my opinion to go back to its roots with clean nasty beats and well spoken lyrics that carry a message that isnt a negative story

[@feathersz1952]

Ren could totally do an entire “retake” album that’s just retakes of historical rap songs, and he would totally destroy it.

[@TanyaQueen182]

omg now I need that!!!

[@ChrisLawton66]

0:32 nah, you've just been oblivious and in denial.

[@Giggirl]

He definitely didn’t repeat any words, listen again 😬🎶

[@EJWEST333]

Ren is a beast on this beat

[@Annicaha]

Yeah, Ren does that to people....absolutely.

[@kpodonnell7924]

The length of REN’s video is approximately half the time of Nas’s Halftime.

[@TobiiRheaStarr]

@@kaydee1280no he released it on 14th March

[@CaitlinBlake]

Would love to see you react to the Zang Sang interview with Ren..it answers a lot of the questions you had..it’s long but worth it!!!

[@beccasalt8960]

Seconded

[@Mariomatters1984]

6:09 Agreed man, Ren said hes starting to feel better and his next album releases will reflect that.

[@im2yz4u17]

Great commentary at 03:30 . I love this by Ren and that whole mid section was the same multipart flow pattern with complex rhymes and multi-meaning wordplay. It was truly masterful. Talking about pimping his pain....I hope you reacted to Ren's 'Seven Sins' rap. That is one of the most amazing pieces of art focused on actual Pain. Ren suffered with sever pain for many years due to his illness. He expresses this in many works of his.

[@im2yz4u17]

KSO, Ren is bringing a boatload of people slowly into rap. These are mainly folks who would never had considred rap as a medium for musicality or performance. But by listening to Ren and his many rap songs, they branch out into much more. That is the joy we find in this guy.

[@ClearTheRubble7]

I like that Ren doesn't make excuses about "pimping his pain" or talking his way around it. He's just speaking facts about his career rising on his Sick Boi image. He might lose some fans because of it, but at least no one can accuse him of being a hypocrite. He did the same thing with his Money Game series, saying, "I'm as much a part of the Money Game as you."

[@Dougfunny37]

7:30 hahahahahahahahahahahahau bro i have never laughed this hard in my entire life. He did make an atom bomb

[@Mariomatters1984]

He's giving a shout out to all the reactors!? 🌹

[@serendipity1237]

Hey KSO, for the record I’m a Ren fan who has defended your right to have your own POV about him. 😛 Your example about the tree/branches was a great way to illustrate how one series of bars can give birth to the next: Ie: Global warming making it “rain” gives birth to pimpin’ his pain making sales rise….sails rising gives birth to pirate motif….which brings up rats…which brings up the plague….etc etc (not to mention all the double/triple layers of meaning that overlap from one line to another, and keeps the evolving message a unified conversation from the artist to the listener. I’ve tended to think of this as “stream of consciousness” thinking, but it’s so much more than that--and you definitely said it better. I’ll be keeping those “branches” in mind when listening, from now on, because I’ve experienced that when writing my own poetry, but truly I’ve never heard anyone do it quite like Ren.

[@TanyaQueen182]

Kso! Lessgooooo

[@jrbush1]

This was nice. Great reaction.

[@ezed3902]

Being an old rock head, I'm understanding rap a little more from channels like yours.

[@angiesylas9126]

One of my favorite reactions to the Nas Retake. Thank you for your reactions!

[@Vmcf1968]

kso nice reaction. i didn't f with nas much as he made so many drug references. as a recovered addict, i tried to avoid stuff that took me back to the glamorous aspects of drug culture. he was a nd remains one of the greatest rappers of all time it was just the content for me.

[@DuluaFR]

I like this guy (REN too)

[@Bent_not_Broke]

I absolutely LOVE your channel. You are authentic af!!!!

[@icudbNE1]

I never heard of Nas until I heard Harry Mack say Illmatic was his favorite album. I never heard Halftime until Ren did this retake. Now because of that introduction and reactors like you and Scru and so many others, I'm discovering art that's been around for 50 years, yet somehow passed me by entirely. Thank you.

[@thehangingparsiple5692]

Great review. Respect ✌️

[@Danielle-ed9kt]

So good he definitely did it justice xo

[@as7326]

💜💜💜

[@AnotherFacelessDigitalNoOne]

Yeh... its been all you bro 😂😂😂

[@Caseyd1966]

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[@suesee4855]

Enjoyed your input! Much love ❤️ Sue

[@mama-llama4527]

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[@louannlang7471]

You NEED TO LISTEN again...he isn't repeating any words...(precarious, nefarious...JS) also..you missed the Mike Tyson bar...so there LOL

[@wernersmidt3298]

KSO is finally happy-happy ;) No lies, he probably does watch your reactions. There were vids where you'd miss the meaning/purpose, and that is very important, because he can now experience how people interpret his lyrics. Maybe he's too vague. Maybe he's too direct. Maybe he is going to stop trolling us with a Muhammad Ali bar. . .maybe. 😉

[@anthonysmith3933]

Do you think Rens next song could be a Pink Floyd re-take? This guy is diamond, so crazy 💎

[@optimistinmyprime]

🔥🔥🔥Thanks KSO

[@matmachin9992]

Great reaction man!

[@AmandaMMMBOPhanson]

100% heard the nefarious gaze line wrong upon first listen 🙃

[@Caseyd1966]

The 1st few times I listened I heard "the fairy-est gays" 😅 and I thought, oh oh Ren

[@AmandaMMMBOPhanson]

@@Caseyd1966 yup…. Same lol

[@DebbieSandford-1807]

Cool 🔥

[@davepykett4427]

I have subbed and subscribed when you was in your 100s of subs... and the difference you have gone from UK Dave to Ghetts as your go to... Ren.. and taking the piss... I get it but its still uk.. remember that treacle 😘

[@supertuscans9512]

Nice reaction but like all genres of music Rap has to evolve while honouring it’s’ Genesis. I still think it’s a shame you never clicked what Ren was doing with the bars and flows in The Hunger’. Now you get where he’s coming from , maybe worth a retake from you?

[@rebeccaburnell9319]

THIS! Almost every Ren track KSO's reacted to since... idk, Murderer-ish time? makes me scream internally OMG PLS GO BACK AND TRY THE HUNGER AGAIN! I'm not soneone who knows rap so I never wanted to presume to, like, take offense at any of KSO's criticisms (& I fully believe even the most dedicated of fans needs to be able to examine & criticize any art, and since it's all so subjective of COURSE people can have differing opinions about what they like & don't like), but it just felt so weird to watch him make comments about the things he perceived as deficits in the lyrics when it seemed so obvious to me that once he learned more about Ren thru Ren's back catalogue, he was gonna revise those opinions at least a little!!! The Hu ger may still mot be KSO's top Ren track if he revisits it, but I'm super eager to find out what he might think on a re-listen. Probably my most anticipated/hoped-for re-listen in all of reactordom (tho in all transparency, I mostly have a very narrow band of interest in reaction videos, Ren/Aurora/Dimash/Angelina Jordan and those are the only real staples for me so take my intense interest with a grain of salt, it might not be representative of the reaction audience at large!)

[@cupid_stunt7414]

Halftime was originally from when Nas was known as Nasty Nas back in 92

[@BrummieLadd]

I love how he says about global warming then another few lines later says the sales will rise meaning sails on a ship global warming sea rising

[@sampanther8854]

Thank you 😁❤️✌️

[@QuentinPink]

Love the "vindaloo no spice" bar.

[@sandiraymond1761]

I tried vindaloo for the first time yesterday because he mentioned it. 😂 🔥 My mouth, after eating that. 😂

[@tigg1972]

So good.

[@Pastorn0410]

This Guy is insane! One of a kind!🔥 Nice reaction as always! Please check out This new kid ! - lock and key anella herim radar freestyle Sofa surfin - ridla grm daily duppy 🔥 Also Norman pain sindhu sesh is hard

[@ricksurratt9034]

Very cool

[@borninavan]

The Pi rate scheme, check the release date 3/14 . ! You can dive deep on this and still miss a fuckton of meaning!

[@iamlpinthe312]

Damn I love this one!!

[@aljohnson3054]

Look at the school bus .. Ren went to school if that wasn’t planned I’d be surprised..

[@jessbordeaux9845]

True dat with the rappers die young. That's why we have to gather a posse round Ren.

[@petehutcheon5186]

KSO is a certified Renegade!!!

[@davemannn]

taking the kids to school...as the school bus passes by... 🤨

[@Turntablist_Mk2]

The best are all students of the game.

[@Maxvicious2]

When does Ren make the wall behind you ??

[@MisterBoothCoUk]

🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥🫶🇬🇧

[@SeeDaRipper...]

Bruv, stale like bread....and i checked your rhyme. Front like Harrods. All show...Dead.

[@Dunc25535]

Who is this guy 🤣

[@jimmyhughes5392]

Lil wayne is a goat for sure, only artist i've ever gone out and bought consecutive albums from, he's the only artist i've actually ever bought albums from saying that. made me extra grateful when he defended his white fans and white people in general tbh.

[@josephfoster5593]

I swear you’re one of the best reactors about judging the fundamentals of rap. The Ren fans that get butt hurt about your critiques just don’t understand what you’re looking for.

[@tedlitschauer9061]

Yeah exactly. He's been hard on Ren before but not always wrong. I think he's right Ren might've been watching the channel

[@Suziejouk-zj6eo]

I am so pissed off you always show up in my feeds..i am not even subscribed to you

[@ryanzeigler9763]

he rehashes too many lines. everything since Animal Flow has ripped lines from other songs and it's annoying because a lot of them were sick lines the first time out. it's cool when he uses callbacks to his OG work but just reusing lines and concepts ain't the same. mans needs to burn all his rap shit and start fresh. he's like a standup that tells the same jokes all the time.

[@gazzaren7730]

I guess you are still listening to everything he releases to come to that view. So in that regard he is doing his job

[@SteveG-k8q]

I agree, it's the only thing that bothers me about ren, but I've put it down to a lot of the sick boi album being written years ago and he's just had newer ideas over that time

[@mikep83]

What was repeated in this from others? Hardly any most of the bars were fresh or callbacks to other rap artists. I sat judge him moving forward like you say sick boi was written years ago.

[@SteveG-k8q]

@@mikep83 iny meany miny mo, and the part of the atom scheme is from life is funny I think, I'm not hating on ren I love him

[@sammyd8860]

TBH@@mikep83 , there were lots of call backs to his own songs. He mentioned Sambuca in his Dotta diss track, he used Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo in Murderer, he mentioned a 3 point hoop (or thereabouts) in Genesis, he referred to Tyson's ear-biting in Illest of our Time, he has used "death is the cousin of sleep" on another track (I forget which one), he used "supersize me" in Uninvited, he used "tongue in cheek" in Street Life. He does this a lot. It is clearly a deliberate thing and, presumably, intended to tie things together for his fans. I get that it can irritate some people because it might look lazy/unimaginative, but I don't think it is either of those as Ren is incredibly creative. (To be fair I don't need another Toblerone or Muhammad Ali reference for a while ...).

[@lisac243]

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[@sassyslsgrl]

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