Ren - Money Game Pt. 1 AND 2!!! (Reaction) HOLY COW!!!!

[@AidyShaw]

I have to say that Ren just summed up things I think from six years of studying politics and economics more succinctly than anything I have seen, either in art or documentaries. Ren is the best artist I have seen in the half century of my existence. I wish this had existed when I was in a position to be shown it as a teaching tool.

[@Keeley-Rabbit-Hole]

Just in case you don’t realise. The Shell corporation started off with a shop selling shells before they went on to selling oil.

[@donaldcase4716]

Wow, sounded so crazy I had to look it up and 💯 correct!

[@tonymckenzie3091]

and diamonds aren't rare

[@asiandraven5240]

​@@tonymckenzie3091 yes it's true! It's the part of the money game which make them rare

[@chucknorris5141]

@@asiandraven5240 But they are not rare. They are everywhere. Thousands of jewelry stores all over the world. All of them have diamonds.

[@asiandraven5240]

@@chucknorris5141 u still not understand Ren song after the whole economic business in a nursery rhyme? Shame on you my frend

[@lafatte24]

The reference to the burning monk from the vietnam war at the end of the first money game.... amazing.

[@Shiroar]

Ren is a clever boi. Such a brilliant way to explain economics.

[@KittyInTheGarden]

I think you meant A Clockwork Orange, not Donnie Darko. I agree that the first video was so tense. I could hardly watch it through the first time! Also the bit about no. 10 Downing Street in the second video, with the image of Tony Blair. So many people were so angry here in the UK when it came out that there hadn't been any evidence of WMDs in Iraq (which had been used as a justification for the war).

[@johnstipanic2389]

the problem is it is all true

[@snoozie787]

Viva la Renolution 🎶🎶👍❤💪

[@Hexenkind1]

And you'll bet this type of song would never fly with any record label. So it is good that he is independent.

[@reactivereplays5666]

A full analysis on the music video for Pt. 1: The kidnapped individual was a 'defendant' in a 'trial' with the psychotic Ren accusing him and acting as Judge/Jury/Executioner. Ren's character, through the song, goes on to explain the individual's crime: being part of a money game - a twisted game where people are divided and suffering for the sake of wealth. People who are willing to exploit their peers get ahead, and other are forced to do bad things for survival. Each time he gets close to exacting punishment and killing his victim, he stops to continue explaining more ways we twist our lives for that wealth. He even symbolically draws eyes on the head sack to signify that the victim isn't blind to it: the captor has 'opened his eyes'. He has no excuse and deserves this punishment of death. Finally, with one final attempt to do the deed, Ren's character realized the futility of what he's doing. Looking in the mirror, as per the lyrics, he is also part of the money game. And so, he puts aside his holier attitude and burns himself to death instead. As he said, as assuredly as the whole world turns while playing this game, the whole world burns as well.

[@Ph4n_t0m]

Thank you for this! I got a strong Childish Gambino "This is America" visual, but mirrored. With a tip of the hat to "America!" And holding his finger to the 'defendant' but from the other side, like the UK being "on the other side of the pond". But now I'm just riffing.

[@rogerstarkey5390]

It's "The public". . Ren? Has protection from "the rain" with the Poncho. . He's controlling "the public". . When they gain eyes and can see the control, he has 2 choices. Burn the population, or, with the protection gone (Poncho removed) burn "the system" (himself) . That's "the storm" coming. . (imo)

[@patriciahughes7516]

The first part Ren reminded me of a Batman villain that realizes suddenly in a fit of consciousness that he's part of the problem.

[@Apollo.Rising]

What's crazy to me is I think the vast majority of people hearing these songs will agree that what he's saying is true, and yet hearing it sounds so profound. If these are truths we all know, why does it hit that way? How often do you hear these things called out so explicitly in art today? I think this is a prime example of why it's so important for artists to be independent. Those messages would never be allowed to see the light of day once filtered through the money machine of the Industry. It's so refreshing to find an artist completely uninhibited in telling the story he wants to tell, how he wants to tell it, with no regard for money, fame, or even his own insecurities.

[@handyfake1315]

Because we're all part of this old money game.

[@Lulabee2024]

I'm surprised that he didn't show Frump's ugly greedy lying ass in this video . Biden isn't without fault, not what I'm saying, every other U. S. president shown was republican and THE WORST one ( in my 58 yrs) wasn't depicted 🤦 NEVERTHELESS Ren and his messages are at the top and I personally couldn't be HAPPIER about that 😎😁

[@tattoodude8946]

It hits hard because people are afraid. Afraid to stand up and shout it. People talk big when they are in the company of their friends and relatives, but to yell it at the source? I saw it all the time - I spent the last 15 years working in my family's hunting supply store and these guys would come in and run their mouths about the government coming for their guns, and it was always the same. "I'd like to see them come and try to take my guns!" I would stand there thinking, "Yeah, me too. Because you will be on your belly handing them over with tears in your eyes within the first minute." It's easy to talk big when the threat isn't there, but when it is staring you in the face and your life is in the balance, are you really willing to give it up "for change" that may or may not actually take place? A bit of a sidetrack there but the point is that it takes real guts to put something out there that calls out the system, because the system can ruin your life or simply end it with a snap of its fingers. So, when someone does scream it, we say "Wow! (s)he's really willing to put a target on their back for their cause and for their statement and for their art." Admirable and we need more people to do so. Because, in the end, it is "we the people." Or at least it is supposed to be...

[@thothtahuti5509]

Open eyed people see it all! If they look. Our problem is not "seeing"... Our problem is not being talented artists :/ or any other way to communicate these things with people truly listening... I've been screaming this stuff since I was 9yo, decades ago, but no one really listens :/ no one seems to care more than they care about their Instagram, facebook, clothes, other peoples approval, being attractive.... we need to care about people MORE than money to break the game ❤️ and only then can we break our way out of this hell that turns "a child into a killer, a Saint into a sinner", at the moment only wealthy people have any real power :/ we must take that power back ✊️❤️

[@rogerstarkey5390]

"There's no Left, there's no right... In the middle we sleep!" It's "Ping pong politics" The "other party" is bad.... They spend years to undo the previous policies, install their own, then get voted out.... Rinse Repeat While "we" sleep between the two, funding the game.

[@badsabre5917]

I’m sure it’s been said in here before but the sea shells reference is in Hi Ren. When the dark part of him is mocking him. “Ren mate, we’ve heard it all before, ugh she sells sea shells by the sea shore”

[@Sloppyjoe7390]

Yeah it is but it doesn't have anything to do with this song part from it being the same poem. Lol people are to dumb to realize what he is actually referring to, easy enough to say 'oh that was in his other song' but don't know the actual meaning behind it. in Ren his alter ego says that poem mocking him basically saying it's been done before, which in term means rhyming or singing poetically.

[@meilaw2877]

Ren is a treasure..he is wise beyond his years

[@n_mckean]

Technically, he broke down the capitalist culture in a sea shell, not a nut shell :)

[@dennisvernonhaydock]

There was a time when music and musicians helped shape opinion. It emboldened discussion and changed minds. After all, it's art that is more likely to change attitudes than laws. Thanks to an artist like Ren who's not afraid to speak up and give permission for the people who agree to also speak up. The world is a better place for it.

[@tinymusikcodottv-Musikverse99]

I see some reactors are. hahahahha

[@nickmorgan9165]

Monk setting himself on fire is such an horrific, iconic protest. You get it?

[@dantallman5345]

Love the Clockwork Orange reference. Well played droogies.

[@kellyt5341]

"HI REN" has his evil side say... 'we all heard it before....She sells sea shells at the seashore'.....not sick boi. It was a nice reaction, I like the break down.

[@lillyvanpug]

Ren is such an intelligent, eloquent artist. It's beyond crazy 🤯

[@IronRaspberry]

I love how Ren puts little call outs to his other songs, like in “What you want” he raps about his psychosis then says “hi Ren, my name is Ren…” before “Hi Ren was even released. It’s like everything is connected.

[@chefstar72]

I can tell you right now that the corporate culture doesn't want this guy to go mainstream. He destroys the entire system in his songs. There should be a go fund me to help him start his own label. No major label will ever deserve this talent.

[@Alan_Duval]

The guy sat down with his eyes prised open, forced to watch Ultraviolence while listening to Beethoven was 'A Clockwork Orange.'

[@gazdoyle7857]

Ren's music is so otherworldly good we forget to mention his acting skills. What talent

[@patriciacloix71]

EXCELLENT COM TRÈS BON ACTEUR ÉGALEMENT REN

[@AidyShaw]

Built like a gymnast in this one too!

[@leanneh5293]

Ren=musical genius. Love him and everything he does.

[@RoadLessTraveledMedia]

I've heard this tons of times, and this is the first time I got distinct Joker vibes from pt 1. Epic.

[@sketchtherapy1218]

Knowing that Hi ren is almost at the epilogue, it hits harder once you've heard his catalogue. he doesn't like capitalists or marxists he hates dumdum partisans.

[@lilbullet158]

Financial economics 101... Just Ren pointing out how *¿WONDERFUL?* we all are...

[@douglasmcgary]

When he puts the bat back, it’s like a scene out of a clockwork Orange, the little dance swoop he does. When he stops from pouring the gas on the guy and he stepped back and he gets that look on his face that’s the look where he realizes that he’s just as part of the game as the guy that sitting there because he contributes to it and that’s why he went a poured the gas on himself

[@hilarycharman-2924]

I wish everyone would watch this but sadly they won't. Great reaction. Please react to Ren's band The Big Push. War Pigs, I Shot The Sheriff/Road To Zion/Hip-hop, and Wade in The Water

[@AlexMH1991]

Great reaction! Money Game Pt 1 and 2 are two of my fave songs by Ren, and especially Pt 2 is SO SO good and tells so many truths in such a smart, clear and direct way. This man has such a way with words

[@firstbornunicorn1545]

Don't forget his band the Big Push. Gotta get a better appreciation for his versatility. "I Shot the Sheriff/Road to Zion/Hip Hop" found on the Big Push channel. There's a few versions but this is the favorite.

[@jerrydaman]

Ren is opening eyes to see this game we are all becoming victims of. I wait to see the outcome. This evil demon money love, we all will fall if we don't break the handcuffs.

[@TheDougMan]

I enjoyed your reaction. Ren packs so much in his presentations. Some info: MR Price is probably thinking of “A Clockwork Orange” movie. Ren references the movie in his “Day in the life…” short. And the seashells line was used in “Hi Ren”. I suggest watching another double feature with: “I Shot the Sheriff and “Bongo Bong”. Enjoy. See you next time.

[@fourcornersofbrighton]

I was thinking A Clockwork Orange as well. Ren has referenced Kubrick in at least one of his other songs. Great Reaction!

[@AmaBrigitte]

These two are such eye-opening songs that make you think! Very impactful and so much truth in it! If course, the singing is outrageous! Great reactions 🤩

[@Jillightful1]

I encourage everyone to find Ren and Sam doing "Blind Eyed Ft. Angry Car Park Attendant". Hysterical. Brilliant and amazing. There are lots of versions out there of Blind Eyed but the "car park" one is my fave. Also find clips of him playing classical piano in train stations and hotel lobbies. He is so very multitalented. I think the classical music influences are part of the reason he is so good.

[@badsabre5917]

Love that video. They just kept it rolling and that made it so much better.

[@Keeley-Rabbit-Hole]

Angry car park attendant is the best.

[@adrienne1958l]

Yes this seems to be a difficult one to get ppl to react to . Have you had any success. I would love to know who has reacted to it

[@Keeley-Rabbit-Hole]

@@adrienne1958l think I’ve only seen one reaction. It was either Tribe loui or B&E blog. I don’t remember which.

[@noorieiversen]

​@adrienne1958l Vibe reactions has done a reaction to this one.

[@DukeOfTwist]

The origin of the Shell Petroleum name can be traced back to the seashells that Marcus Samuel senior imported from the Far East during the late 19th Century. When his sons Marcus junior and Samuel were looking for a name for the kerosene that they were exporting to Asia, they chose Shell. Also DeBeers did the lock em up make like there is a scarcity for Diamonds. DeBeers, founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1870, has been a highly successful and effective controller of the diamond market, having developed a unique purchasing and marketing cartel that has influenced prices in the market virtually undisturbed for almost a century. But the biggest trick they pulled was creating the concept of a Diamond engagement ring. Funny thing, multiple times a girl might get engaged before getting married & 2nd hand used market is crap as most end up thrown in a lake. Diamonds have an actual low intrinsic value not like gold or silver, they devalue by 50% immediately after retail purchase. Prior to DeBeers engagement ring "A Diamond Is Forever" campaign in 1948 only 10% of engagement rings had a Diamond now it's in the high 90's. Let's not talk about chocolate at Easter or Xmas presents

[@thothtahuti5509]

The world can already see it.....can't you all?

[@Dorythefish13]

Thanks for reviewing these together! We need to realize every word of this is true, and we need to stop accepting the status quo for the sake of convenience and complacency.

[@henry1294]

SMH ...this guy is seriously talented!! Ren is exactly what 2023 needed ! Have to try and get hold of all of his CD's. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@simplysimon9868]

Love your reactions guys. Love the way Ren uses parts/references from his songs in other songs. Why do we suffer politicians?? Needs a change for sure.

[@hetty464]

Ren reflects how people feel in today's world. The pyramid of power has been turned upside down by the digital age and people power is growing. Now we have the information. Every time Money Game Part II is shared, it makes us even more aware. x

[@margaretc5679]

I love how art and music spark conversation. Great reaction!

[@zed4225]

It's Renning again, hallelujah, let it Ren. Lyrically fire, well, it all is, brilliantly done

[@susybetts3876]

Brilliant! Truth! Ren you are a Genius!

[@MalcolmMXTaylor]

Amazing reaction as always. She sells sea shells is in hi Ren, is now worth watching back to it to link the meaning of the reference

[@himynameis3664]

Also, "Why just shells, why limit yourself. She sells sea shells, sell oil aswell." Shell oil company started as little shack selling sea shells and ended up expanding into one of the biggest oil companies on the planet.

[@anticafo]

Awesome that you did both of them! Thank you! Part 2 kills it, but part 1 is interesting in terms of symbolism of what Ren was trying to say via his performance and visual cues - open to interpretation of course, the more I see it, the more interesting it becomes over time. Brilliant work!

[@NoraMorgan]

I love watching your reactions. Thank you for your “Renmate Reactions.”

[@loadedorygun]

He talks about the music industry in Sick Boi this way, breaking down the commodification of musical talent.

[@craigevans8912]

Genius once again from the Genius known as Ren. There’s nothing this guy can’t do !!! The movie was clockwork orange I do believe 👊

[@MC_kalCM]

Y'all should see his live version of this, walking on the beach.

[@MC_kalCM]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqLclJhomNqAbZo

[@donald1379]

hes speaking facts....love Ren

[@cas9065]

Thank you guys!

[@reviewandreactionvideoswit7200]

Bravo boys. Down the center and points well shared. 🎉

[@hmo_mackey]

Thank you for staying on the Ren train :) For another double reaction I beg of you to take on Genesis, studio version and a live acoustic one filmed on a rooftop. Many reactors just react to the studio version but I think the acoustic one really adds another dimension to the experience.

[@michaelgrabner8977]

"Clockwerk Orange" is that Stanley Kubrik film...and Ren definitevly mimicked the Clockwerk Orange "Droogs vibes" ("Droogs" was the name of that gang of the main protagonist Alex)

[@trubblebubble1]

Don't know if anyone else has cleared it up but 'A Clockwork Orange'. That's the movie you were thinking of x

[@kiprock2383]

I feel like Ren's ,music let's you peek behind the vail. He removes my filter.... ,amazing

[@intothedepthscoco]

A Clockwork Orange is the film version, of the book, you were thinking about.

[@analisasmith7927]

welcome back and thanks for this double - great songs - am glad you thought so too! :)

[@zerogo40]

U say boulder down hill can't be stopped yet men once stopped a larva flow from destroying a fishing port with massive water pumps. Don't give up humans are f ING marvellous

[@PeteFindsObscureStuff]

Great reaction boys! It's A Clockwork Orange BTW

[@hmo_mackey]

Another reactor pointed out that the Who Wants to be a Millionaire imagery is also a reference to a scandal in the UK when a contestant won the million but turned out he had been cheating, his wife was in the audience indicating the correct answer with coughs or something like that.

[@Keeley-Rabbit-Hole]

Ren said he wished he’d used the video from money game 1 for Money game 2. 2 is definitely my favourite of the two. Romain Axisa is the guitar player with the bag on his head. The retake he did of RHCP is a similar video. 🐇🕳️🖤

[@loadedorygun]

Poor Romain: “OK mate I’m gonna give you a knock and you’re gonna kinda know when in the song but not really. Sorry. Ready?” 😂

[@Keeley-Rabbit-Hole]

@@loadedorygun that may be why it took them around 24 attempts to get this one right.

[@suevick637]

You are way behind ! He has many more surprises for you. Signed- One of Ren's peeps ❣️

[@N.Sloane]

Ren Wrote Crutch for his then girlfriend Bibi (beautiful collab). They performed it together in one of his most vulnerable performances, second only to his performance of Patience (no, not a cover).

[@whimsysmith2835]

I am sure someone else mentioned this but in case they didn’t the movie you were thinking of was clockwork orange not Donnie Darko. And the reason’s the doctors were forcing the anti hero to endure all that violent was to “heal” him by creating an aversion response to violence…

[@petebrown6356]

When it got intense and crazy it became very real.

[@vitamind1200]

Hell yeah fellas!! Great reaction from my favorite new artist. Your boy is fucking sick!!

[@MissMaria1969]

Thank you guys really appreciated that reaction ❤❤

[@victoriaturvey6892]

Clock work orange is the film you are thinking of, I went to the school and live where the original author of the book taught in Banbury in the UK. 🇬🇧

[@Lou-xq9br]

Total Ed Sheeran vibes 🔥❤ Love #Ren ❣️

[@nguyenngoc-ee8lc]

The film you were mentioning about probably is A Clockwork Orange, not Donnie Darko 🤧 Donnie Darko is about the guy that has been stuck in a time loop after an airplane engine crashed into his house I don’t know if Money game I was inspired by the film or not but I once saw Ren shared a scene cut from the film on his insta story so I figure he watched that film also

[@RoommateReaction]

Thank you for the correction 🙌 it bugged me until we wrapped up recording and I Googled it 😂😂

[@miggy051]

@roommate reaction. The Stanley Kubrick, movie you were talking about is "A Clockwork Orange” from mid 1970’s. Cheers guys, and keep up the great work.

[@cas9065]

It was Hi Ren, questioning his originality.

[@adamsimpson69]

Ren is a brilliant, if you like the part series you would love, What went wrong part 1 and 2

[@sarahsmith8780]

Clockwork Orange is the movie u r looking for.❤😂

[@DeeDeeLowryLegs]

Useless information but Mary Annings is the she in the ‘She sells seashells on the seashore’ nursery rhyme. A Dorset/Wiltshire fossil hunter. I’m sure there is a part 3 but I’m a little lost in the bunny hole of Ren and his peoples music so I may be wrong.

[@meilaw2877]

Ren is asking us to open our eyes...him drawing eyes on the guitarist symbolising society as a whole perhaps...n take accountability for our role in the money game..instead of pointing fingers n playing the blame game.

[@coldblade666]

Ren seems to actually understand the origins of money, especially when he talks about seashells, which were used as a currency long ago. I can't recommend enough to read The Bitcoin Standard. The book by Austrian economist Saifedean Ammous goes into very good detail about the origin of money, how it has evolved over the millennia, concepts of high vs. low time preference, the differences between easy/hard/sound money, and why the current Keynesian fiat systems are such trash that promote wars and rampant consumerism. What humanity NEEDS is to separate money from state, and to do so with a currency with a near infinite stock to flow ratio. I'll give you one guess which currency invented in 2008 out of the great recession holds the title of what true "Sound Money" is.

[@hog660]

The movie you are trying to remember the title of is A Clockwork Orange.

[@Comedy.tunes.battier]

Was on Hi Ren

[@suzannemurnane2714]

Yesssss Ren! This one is killer! Thanks for the 2 Ren songs! Love it!

[@scottwatson9453]

Cool! I'm in for this Ren ride with you Roomies

[@jamesrobertson5475]

Omg, "A Clockwork Orange" it's the "rehabilitation part" the movie.

[@RoommateReaction]

I'm so glad so many people at least understood the reference even if I got it wrong 😅

[@jamesrobertson5475]

@Roommate Reaction wow, I didn't expect to get a reply. That's really cool guys. Idk. Crazy. Lol thanks. But I dug the whole vid.

[@Thomas.Saunders]

First time I've seen these 2. And they're just so...Ren.

[@herbalsummer]

Nice breakdown guys.

[@RoommateReaction]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏

[@tonymosley3547]

The House And Congress need to watch this

[@minehoffbiker1]

film you were thinking of was a clockwork orange by stanley kubric if memory serves

[@mellanapa]

"That dude is a trash human being" just granted you a new subscriber.

[@Anglo-Brit]

He broke it down as this has ecisted for centries, the British Empire were doing way before the US was put into place by the English.

[@freddyhochauf9489]

From the Hunger....put on some rubber gloves... 😁

[@jonblackburn7634]

When you do "two" with two fingers facing the audience, in the UK that is telling us to fcuk off. I know this isn't the case in the US. And as I'm sure someone else has told you, that Kubrick film was "A Clockwork Orange"

[@RoommateReaction]

Note taken! Thank you!!

[@bosbornefischer]

The movie is Clockwork Orange.

[@DELTA1012]

Ren came out with money game part 3

[@ShinigamiRyuk1990]

You should also check out money game pt 3

[@RoommateReaction]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGW6qZeCesimq6c ;)

[@Sherdelune]

Stanley Kubrick film is A Clockwork Orange.

[@CosmicGoatt]

Love you guys!!! I always look forward to your reaction but what the hell lol. You guys have no reactions to the busking?? A mans world is a must! And i shot the sheriff. Have to check these out

[@MylesApart-fu3bp]

A clockwork orange is the film lads

[@huhmensa]

I'm sure someone already said this, but I think you're referencing Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange."

[@lussacmomin6178]

Wanna go insane! To more of ren 1.life is funny 2.love music pt2 and pt3 3.hold on 4.loosing it 5.what you want. Please do react

[@patrickblack398]

Alright homies. Now it’s time to take the trip down the rabbit hole for the band he was in called The Big Push. Check out their cover if I Shot the Sheriff. He can’t possibly destroy reggae too can he? Can he…?