HIP HOP FUNDEMENTALS!!!! | Ren - Illest Of Our Time REACTION |  

Ill = unhealthy. I think it’s used much more in that context in the UK, but Ren actually made a community post on his channel because some people have been misunderstanding the title of this track. It’s a very similar naming convention to “Sick Boy”.

So I'm back again a year later to check out your reaction once again 😊 I will be 60 this year, Hippie Rocker Chick, a music FREAK!! 😀 I have experienced music from the 1960s to today, but I sincerely have NEVER experienced any band or singer or lyricist quite like Ren!! I am obcessed and loving it!! I LOVE Ren and his music!! We are witnessing greatness that only comes once in a lifetime! 😊 Thanks for sharing this with me!!

I think this song grants us access to Ren's mind. It shows a constant struggle of dark and light, psychosis, depression and incredible talent. He has been fighting this physical and mental condition for so long- sometimes you just need to let off some steam 😂😂😂

"Losing it" is a good one for skills but not too deep though, just fun and driving. It's a good track.

the line "and when I take from the rich Im in your hood and Im Robin (robbing)" can be seen as message to more prominent and rich rappers. Hes in their hood and robbing...what is he robbing? Attention...and the bigger he gets, the more money hes "robbing" from the "rich in style". 😁

7:35 - Nothing anyone else says can ever bring me lower than I bring myself. Depression is a bitch, but it's a hell of a sparring partner.

Sick boi is lyrically insane and bar heavy.

Jenny and Screech is story telling at its finest. If you want Rap bars, check out Losing It, What You Want, Genesis, The Hunger. Ren will slip rap bars in songs with beautiful singing as well, listen to Ocean or Humble. He's got flow and lyricism, just dig around a bit.

Illest of our time refers to his actual hellacious experience with Lyme disease, for which he was misdiagnosed for years and nearly killed him. It was through dealing with the bitterness of that near decade long constant physical and mental pain and debilitation that inspired 'Hi Ren'.

Ren's Bars can be found in Losing it, What you Want, Power, Genesis, Sick Boi.

Do the exact order for Jenny and Screech then Violets Tale. If you want you can find the video where it has all 3 together so you can watch them all at one time, or you can do it separately. Either way I'm looking forward to your reaction. Now go get something to eat😂

It's a double. illest as in the best and illest as in he is sick with the lime disease.

The pig at the beginning opened the door to what’s in his mind , illest of our time is a double because he he can basically do any genre and play multiple instruments but also he’s been fighting illness and Lyme disease for a long time 🔥 Mary poppiins bar is because sugar helps the medicine go down which he takes a lot of also his music is poppin🔥🔥reaction

Listen his band The Big Push and their cover of Bob Marley/Dead Prez called “I shot the sheriff/Road to Zion/Hip Hop” if you want more chill with amazing guitar and singing. The Tale of Jenny and Screech (FULL) trilogy isn’t bars. It’s a masterclass in story telling. Probably The Hunger, Losing It, Genesis, and an old school nod to the Beastie boys called What You Want would be his most bar heavy hip hop tracks.

The violence is a mirroring of the illest people of our time, hes describing how violent they are. UK x

Awesome duo reaction. Happy Birthday to your nephew, thank you 🙏🐊❤️🦉👍

If your not sure of him being the Illest Of Our Time, here's why he is. I've listed 1 cover and 3 originals (he wrote) of him with his band The Big Push and 3 more of his rap singles. After that tell me he's not the illest. (cover) The Big Push "I Shot the Sheriff/Road to Zion/Hip Hop" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uSeCuR51rek.html 1) The Big Push - Watch Out (live busking performance) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x0YPR4wX2rg.html 2) The Big Push - Sweet Little Lady (live striped down version) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7gARCb013cw.html 3) The Big Push - Why My Woman? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7b2m5lBcJ64.html official Vevo music video. 4) "Losing It" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mLvAGjhDssc.html remake of a 90's EDM club mix by Fisher turned into a crazy rap vid 5) "The Money Game part 2" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YonS9_QJbp8.html over 7mil views a commenting on corporate greed and gov corruption 6) "What You Want" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jrjp4Du0rEc.html A tribute to late 80's early 90's rap that has a Beastie Boys look and feel.

Jenny & Screech is special. He has a montage of all 3 videos together called "The Tale of Jenny & Screetch - Full". It's different in the best way possible. We need unique music like that. And he addressed the title "Illest of our time" and he didn't mean he's the "best", it's a double on being sick but he elaborated in a post earlier.

❤ Going down the rabbit hole??? Hang on tight....🤤 It's a bumpy ride! I've jumped a bit ago... I haven't reached the bottom yet and not one regret! 2 bands in and a bunch of busking in here! It's a gnarly view! *Words of caution hair-pin turns and time loss! Peace and love always until there is no more!😊❤

this went right over your head.

💗 Life is Funny is great! 💛💚💙💯 #Ren

That’s a double entendre. He’s rapping about being great at rapping while using metaphor to talk about his Illness. The line about getting bronchitis and being in your funeral coffin (coughing) is reference to autoimmune disorders where simple infectious diseases are a possible death threat.

You're hungry? Maybe you should have some alphabety spaghetti. Hi Jay

Just going through your visit through Rens rabbit hole atm. Keep throwing you the likes you deserve and your sub number should be a lot higher.

Ready for those pauses mate. Let's go!!!

Oh goodie! We get to do the "Yumyumyumyumyums ourselves!!

When you start digging up more Ren nuggets, you will find high quality music, rap,storytelling, singing, songwriting and performance art! He is super talented and has a huge following, all while being an independent artist! I am so grateful 🙏 to have found his work and I'm sure you will enjoy your dive into his world! 😊 and illest of our time refers to his being ill with Lyme disease!

Well at least you picked up on the fact Rens sick in the head... 😂 Hopefully the treatment he's recieving in Canada will ease the brain damage caused by a decade of misdiagnosed Lyme Disease... Can't wait to hear the rest of the Dark album and if this is Rens dark side his light Album will be so beautiful... Im grateful he and his friends pre recorded both albums last year so he could release them this year while he is in treatment this year... ❤️🇬🇧❤️ Thank you for giving Ren a listen with an open mind 👍

This is the Bad Ren from Hi Ren. Chills.

The tale of jenny and screech 3 part video Ren has one with all three 13+ mins. worth it.. Loved the reaction as always TY!

I am no rapper but I have been studying chemistry with my son, have mental health issues and love Freddie Mercury. Correct me if I’m wrong but I think that Freddie Mercury bar was a triple? I’m heavy(his material is deep and dark), Mercury is a ‘heavy’ metal on the periodic table, he’s calling out an homage to Freddie Mercury and shit, he’s calling back /cycling back to his Freddie Kruger reference earlier because he’s going heavy on the track? Ok. Is that quadruple?! Someone help me out here. P.s. I’m an ex pat Brit living downunder. I can attest that illest in US slang is different to what Ren is referencing. It’s a play on words in the title-Ren is literally I’ll in real life and he’s figuratively inviting you into the mind of one of the most unstable fictional characters of our times and identifying with Holmes’s psychosis. Anyone familiar with Sherlock Holmes knows that he was written as a mentally unstable opium addict and his sidekick, Watson was his calming , real world anchor who sorted out the noise in Sherlock’s manic mind and offered a ‘real world’ alter ego who kept bringing Sherlock back from madness. REN is figuratively taking you into the mind of an ‘ill’ character, elementary school In Britain is similar to saying you’re starting elementary school, the Sherlock bar is also shot in an elevator presumably at the ground floor or basement level, but also another definition of elementary= it makes sense-to Ren to start you off at the beginning of his tale. That’s what I got from all that. Note he also emphasizes the word ‘I guess’ at the end and closes his eyes intentionally to shut you out of his mind, I’m guessing. Keep reacting, mate. I enjoy your style. Cheers!

The guitar playing is really good. The bass line is bonkers amazing

💚💚🤣OH! Ya you know I laughed and my favorite bar was "muffled" 🔥🔥🔥🔥✌💚💪

Silver, iron, mercury elements

Ren the healer of our time,boi showing us all the cards we’re don’t matter it’s the eternal dance that makes us stronger 💪🏻💚

This thing deserves some reward of recognition for the video production! For real!

Yep and some times Ill can mean not well or sick and he has that in spades lately.great reaction.

You catch everything, it's amazing.

Ready, I’m heavy…like Mercury, I am Freddie. After a couple hundred listens, I just picked up on the “heavy”…like Mercury.

Your experiences! With you! ❤

great reaction, but it's interesting how quite a few American reactors, take the title "Illest of our Time" as meaning that he's hinting how great he is. When its far from it. It's about his mental "ILLNESS" and the suffering over the years, being misdiagnosed with Lyme Disease, the reason for most of his health problems. In Plain English, the title means "Most Unwell of our Times" I thought you might have got it in the last verse. which is all about his mental health and depression. The last verse was the biggest hint ever, It began with "I don't Feel So Well" and he said it three times. But the title it could be a a double 😉😊

Yeaaaahhhhhh boooi

‘Genesis’ is gold bars, killer beat, but a more formulaic rap construction of chorus|verse|chorus - but it’s Ren so it’s deep. ‘The Tale of Jenny and Screech’ (trilogy) is story time, a very dark story - it’s kinda genius. You’ll love them both.

Gotta react to his song Suicide and For Joe. Tribute to his lost friend Joe... How to Be Me LIVE is also beautiful. More of his singing side. He sings like an angel. He just dropped A mash up of Fred Again, 5 edm dance tracks broken down in a acoustic form.

''living with depression'' line, is the base of the whole song . .

Love all your reactions to Ren never listened to rap until i found him love his vibes very talented young man he's gonna do great things ❤️

Frickin love Rens music!! He is DOPE❤

I really never liked rap but I honestly enjoy what I call ren rap Maybe because he kinda lets us in his mind a little and feel like it always has meaning and substance But you reactors have helped me understand most of these songs and I thank you for that Some is hard for me but I seem to accept more from him because he is such an open book maybe.. he is definitely special ❤

Your breakdown of this song is one of the best!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

I enjoyed this lol... Subscribed.

Samson - “ ball if I want to “

Hi Rez truth would be a good reaction ✌🏻💚💪🏻

Loved it! Thanks for checking it out still hot from the press! Jenny/Screech and Violet Tale (in this order or full version) is ... no spoilers, but amazing. For rap - Hunger, Genesis, Loosing it, Money Game 2, Love Music 2 and 3! Enjoy!

I think ren is divided into categorys if you want " bars " then "The hunger"... "genesis".. " Losing It -fisher rap retake". then there are the other sides "hi ren, "Sickboi" "tale of jenny and screech" another bunch "heretic" "Do you Believe " " diazepam" "hold on" then the Duo,s with chinchilla like "chalk outlines" and "how to be Me" then you can go further down that rabbit hole..

I enjoyed your reaction, sir

So far so good… let’s go!

The whole thing is a double...listen through the "lens" of each meaning: illest, then again as illest.

Jenny and Screech definitely, but you have to go for the "(full)" version to watch all three songs (1. Jenny 2. Screech 3. Violet) at once in correct order

Great reaction love and respect from the UK 👍👍👍👍👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍

Holy shit, you, Ren & this track have mashed up my brain &ive no marbles left but im fykn hp ❤

If this is set in stone this is how its "mint" to be

Demi Gorgon of Oppen - I immediately envisioned Oppenheimer "I am become death, destroyer of worlds"

The Hunger , Money game 1and 2, What They Want , Power, Losing it…all rap. There’s tons of stuff Enjoy!! I look forward to you reacting to it

Just do all of them, you won't be disappointed. 😂

Lovin it👏🙏🙏🙏

So far from reach I the type to kill a past a fist!! Brilliant!

I think hes basically playing on all the illest people and what that means. Probably reflecting on his own battle with Lymes disease and the misdiagnosis from a decade ago. Which caused alot of unnecessary complications

it s like it s writing for you this tipe of lyrics because so far you are the most psihologicale man from all the reactors.respect

Just stumbled upon your content, love it. Great reactions.

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you need to look into Rens life ! you will understand his music even more!

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Demigod of oppen as in Oppenheimer the father of the nuclear bomb and famous fraze I have become death destroyer of worlds

Bro... you want Lyrical works from Ren... Insomnia, Ocean, Humble, Hold On, Life is Funny, and Blind Eyed... the Cafe version is best lyrically... but the official video is Awesome... but then the Live version where the Angry Parking Lot Attendant is close to perfect! Solely due to the fact its off the charts, cuffs, wholey performance artistry!!!

His thing about depression reminds me of a Tech N9ne line. He said something like, "I'm not famous, I'm just a fuck up and ya'll desire pain." Kind of like how many artists use music as an escape or an outlet and people connect with it. You see that everywhere, even in comedy, where it really doesn't make sense, but look at how many comedians we've lost to depression. Pain can make us strong and depression is something people find a natural attraction to. Humans are pretty fucked up. Lol

If you do Screech’s tale, you have to do Jenny’s Tale, Screech’s Tale and the. Violet’s tale together, and in that order.

New sub - I loved it. Stacie from Boston

Bro I FCKN LOVE your intro lol

next song 1. genesis (also a live one too for this track) 2. power 3. losing it, after all this its not rap but u should check it cause u will undersstand more about ren! chalk outliness and then how to be me. both amazing! then one of my favorites blinded eye mc sessions, gl ill check back in a few days

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Pause pads 😂

Tale of Jenny & Screech (Full) which includes Violet's Tale. For most bars Losing It (retake) & Money Game 1 & 2

Jenny and Screech is story telling. truly engrossing story that goes straight to the brain and the heart. Art. You should experience it, you will not be disappointed

"In hungry" 😅🤣😂

Ren-i shot the sheriff cover and chalk outlines

Not pause pads 🤣

@H8TFUL JAY His last bar, “Illest of our time” was another play on words. Meaning that he is ill with Lyme Diseases, and suffers from depression. Of all the ill artists, He is the Illest of our Time!

Ren, many times has thought he was dying... Illest

Demigorgon of HAWKINS!!!!! It’s his accent

The hunger, Genesis or Sick Boi would be my suggestions.

Jenny & Screech (Full) version,

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Great reaction as always Jay 💚

Hunger! Or yes screech

I’m gonna watch

Man can’t wait for you to react to masochist by ren, lots of old rap references in there that I know you’ll break down better then anyone with your knowledge, let’s go ! 👍

Hey Jay, hope this finds you well n happy, great react, in comes Ren with another banger🔥

#pausefactory

That wonton line is very clever

I've never looked it up, but the O.B.Free line, I think, refers to the O.B.E.