Love the reaction, I look after sick people, and there is very little comfort in life sometimes, but having someone who is able to put it out like that is so real, so true, amazing. U can't just ignore it. You have to connect. Love ur reactions. 👍👍👍
This song is all about the mix. He took a sample of Vera Hall singing ‘Troubles so Hard’ applied a tuner to it, then filtered out parts, in order to get the hypnotic and strange music you hear in the beat. Ren is a true genius! This is not live, or one-take, clearly, but it is brilliantly written about his own troubles. This sample has much meaning for him, and he has sung it many times, in many videos alone, or with Sam Tompkins or the Big Push band.
Vera Hall sample of Trouble So Hard 1937 i think. All the production is Ren. This video is ALL about the lyrics.. Go to Renmakesstuff and watch the 8 Chapters. Everything in great detail. Beutiful and horrible and full of his strength. Beautiful reaction. Thank you.
There's a short on his channel showing him making that sound you enjoy with a filter. It's actually the troubles so hard vocals spun through said filter. A cool short actually
There is a pretty cool RU-vid short of Ren creating the beat and it’s super crazy to see how he changed the sample in the intro into that sound that you associated with “instrumentation” It’s actually just a reworking of the the “troubles so high” sample
Ren has been in treatment all this year Its important for them to finish their treatment this time He has made this in between daily ivs and transfusions He uses what he can and wherever he is in his music He promised to fight for those people still missing from life if he ever got the chance Thats what he is doing in this one
If you have time, I would recommend watching Ren’s chapters one through eight on his secondary channel Ren Makes stuff. You don’t need to react to them on your channel, but it gives you his full story. It’s really crazy and unfortunately it’s more common than you think, people are living in chronic pain often don’t have the energy to talk about being in pain to others. They just kind of fade into not existence.
Ren is our Messenger of Hope I live with severe chronic pain every day of my life for the last 15 years. There’s nothing that can be done. It’s not fibromyalgia. Great reaction and glad to see you back
oof, that sounds like a horrific concussion experience. Glad you're coming out of it. You don't have to have the most debilitating illness, or suffer from it the longest, to deserve empathy and care for when you're hurting, or to celebrate when you feel better. 👍 Ren timed the release of this one to coincide with ME Awareness Week. Even though his ME was a misdiagnosis, he was part of the online ME community while his doctors were telling him it was ME. "Patience," (search for the song title with the name Ren Gill) is a song he was asked to write for a documentary a woman with ME made about her situation & about ME. That clip from the documentary, with Ren talking and then singing his song, has been uploaded to RU-vid and it's quite something to watch. One of my very favourite Ren songs.
Phil's wife Susan. Thank you for saying how important it is for people to get behind better funding of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Lyme Disease, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and the other Illnesses like these that have received such poor funding for way too many years. The people who are suffering from these diseases need help.
Great reaction, as always! You can't really compare pain, we are all different and don't have the same resilience. You are entitled to your experience, just like he is. I do like that Ren gets you thinking! You have many interesting thoughts. Keep doing reactions to Ren, please. I will check out the rest of your channel too.
Most of the samples are from Vera Hall's Troubles So Hard. Here's a short Ren made on how he made that particular beat you mentioned at 7:44. ru-vid.comQ29bspwvkSY
REN- TROUBLES [Intro: Vera Hall] Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard Repeating [Verse] I don't reach into the past very much For these shards of shattered glass and harsh paper cuts Leave me stuck when I reach in memories are seeped in hydrochloric acid I go to war and get passive and freeze up But music helped the ice to thaw Put a chisel in the middle swing the hammer of Thor Pull it out of the impossible, excalibur sword Etching note pads full of reasons why my feelings arе sore The first day that I got sick ejеcted from cockpit of living Nineteen, young teen, waking up bitten Posters up, manhunt, Ren went missing Hard to have faith when the gods don't listen The first year maybe was the hardest Waking in a body that was buried like a carcass Brain in the lions den, body in a shark pit Waking up in pain again, aching, brokenhearted Persistent little bugger I was bouncing from a doctor To a doctor to a doctor like a table tennis game that has no end So be the fate of Ren Every single question answered with a question on the end The second year I came to terms with giving up my dreams Mind was severed from the means that helped me write these rhyme schemes Brain was inflamed. the fatigue was crushing Hard to remain sane with your brain combusting And the third year was murder, living in a purga- Tory full of worry, wouldn't live to be thirty Lifestyle hurt me, always in my bed tomb Re-arrange the alphabet and all the letters spell "doom" Light hurt my eyes, popping pills to survive When you're twenty-three and mentally you steadily decline Twenty-four I was poor, disability benefits What's the benefit of disability? It's irrelevant Twenty-five and the scars that were etched, they cracked Elastic bands only stretch so far and then snap Deep in psychosis, hallucinations, troubled vision Visits from the underworld were conjuring my superstition Twenty-five, living back at home with my mum But not because I'm a bum, alone and physically done So thin, so frail, so weak I'd become And my skin so pale, never kissed by the Sun One time I carved a whole in my chest, just to feel I wish that was a metaphor, the struggle was real When you're living in a holocaust you buckle and kneel There's relief in the teeth of the kiss of cold steel Facts, twenty-six I'm highly medicated and the pain sophisticated While I'm laying broke and naked on my back I brought my microphone into my coffin, started droppin' Raw thoughts with the grim reaper knocking on the track Then man, lo and behold I heard an angel beckon on this treacherous road Was a stem cell doctor with a generous glow And a cell transplant brought me out of the cold And my skin got younger and my body got stronger And my stomach felt hunger for a door that was closed And my soul heard music for the first time Beauty was a word I'd use for this gift of gold Oh Lord, I forgive you, Lord I forgive you Lord, I forgive you, make me whole This music I give you, pain that I live through Everything I've been through is yours to hold
I'm so sorry to hear that you had a concussion! I'm thankful that you're starting to feel better, it sounds like you were miserable. Glad you enjoyed this one, it's quickly become one my favorites.
❤yay for manscaped! From daddy to zaddy LMAO gotta get ren on it and use uninvited on it, use manscaped and get her to "get behind to do that thing I like" lol.
Sorry you had to be sick but do you think that injury has given you a little insight into what it’s like to live with constant pain? Thank you for being behind RENs message of bringing this to the forefront when usually we are all left silent in the dark 😊
Sorry about your concussion. The music here is insane to me. The strings always gets me. I think Ren wanted the focus to be on the story here. That's why the camera is close in on him the whole time. That's the relevance of this particular track. Ren created the beat, produced, mixed and mastered the music.
