It was very real. Read his pinned comment on that song . His best friend Joe jumped off a bridge. A mutual friend phoned Ren at 3am to.say this was about to happen and Ren got dressed and ran to the bridge to try to stop him, but arrived 2 minutes late He never got over it. He pays tributes to his friend in a number of songs (listen to How to Be Me - Live with Chinchilla) and originally wasn't going to mention him in this one, but felt the need to and recorded the end bit just before the song was going to be released and poured his heart out. The tears are real.
No need to worry about copyright with Ren. He’s independent and loves reactors! He watches reactions live on twitch and gives shout outs to good ones, etc.
This is true but RU-vid will still try and copyright you automatically but tell the fan base that keeps in contact with Ren and his team will sort it for you, awesome reaction ladies and make up might be an issue in the future to come with this man 😂
Here is some additional information on Ren's story that I gathered from old newspaper interviews, articles, and Ren's livestreams and posts where he discussed his condition. Ren Erin Gill is a British musician/independent artist; born in Wales on March 29, 1990; he eventually moved to Brighton. Ren pursued a career in music from an early age. In 2009, while studying music performance at Bath Spa University, Ren began to experience health issues and was struggling to attend his lectures. In 2010, he was signed by Sony Records and was working on an album when his health deteriorated to the point where he was unable to continue; subsequently, his contract with Sony was dissolved. Ren's illness often kept him in bed for up to 23 hours daily. Ren was initially misdiagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, and chronic fatigue syndrome, which led him to experience psychosis and develop PTSD. It would take seven years before a doctor in Belgium finally correctly diagnosed Ren with autoimmunity, Lyme disease, and resulting damage to the brain, organs, joints, and PTSD. Ren eventually underwent stem cell therapy in the United States, which improved his health, but it has not been a cure. Ren is currently in Calgary, Canada for more treatments, including surgeries, and will have to be there for at least six months (Summer of 2023) undergoing IV and other interventions five days a week. Ren recently underwent wisdom tooth removal and cavitation surgery. In addition, his Canadian doctor discovered that Ren also developed a condition called Mast Cell Activation Disorder (MCAD), which has affected the myelin sheath in his brain, his thyroid, adrenals as well as his bones/joints. Now, Ren is receiving additional treatments for this previously undiagnosed condition. Let's keep supporting Ren as he undergoes his treatments. Check out and subscribe to his channel, if you are a content creator, ask your audience to subscribe to Ren. Ren's YT channel has less than 1 million subscribers while his videos have garnered millions and millions of views. Listen to some of his earlier work, like and comment on his performances, and let's lift Ren's spirits. If you are a believer, pray for him. Ren is an artist with something to say to the world, and his work is important in these troubling times. Someone has finally created a Wikipedia page for Ren, so there is additional information available. Here is the link to Ren’s GoFundMe page to raise money for his current treatment. Ren has exceeded his initial goal. However, his goal was very conservative and did not reflect the added costs of unforeseen surgical procedures, and treatment for additional health issues such as MCAD. www.gofundme.com/f/ren-get-better-from-lyme-disease-and-autoimmunity
Also... don't miss out on his band... The Big Push! I Shot the Sheriff/Road to Zion/Hip Hop, Praise You, Bongo Bong, Englishman in New York, Mansworld, etc...
Was that necessary lol That lads a habitual line crosser, dragging us out of our comfort zone. It can only do us good. Enjoyed your reaction. Subscribed
Thanks for the great reaction. There’s so much that has already been recommended and you can’t really go wrong with anything from Ren. I’d highly recommend The Hunger to hear him rap like a beast and Chalk Outlines (live version) to hear more of Ren’s singing voice. Welcome to the rabbit hole.
Great reaction. I love that you chose to listen to Ren's two songs with emotional monologues at the end. Buckle up you're in for a fantastic ride with Ren's music. He was also in a band called the big push with three very talented musicians and colaborates with other fantastic artist such as Chinchilla, Sam Tompkins, Bibi and Eden Nash. All his music, apart from his "retakes" are made by himself and quite a lot of his videos are one takes which combined result in something mind blowing. His music ranges from immensely fun to thought provoking social and political commentaries. Looking forward to watching future Ren reactions from you... Subbed
There are still many wonderful songs by Ren in his catalog. I would recommend "Sick Boy" next, so you can understand the two short excerpts from the "su!cide" video. Otherwise, feel free to explore and enjoy yourselves. Congratulations on your first reaction video! I have left a subscription. Greets from Germany 🖤❤️
If you want to hear his good singing voice, as well, watch 'chalk outlines' and maybe...him busking with Sam thompkins. He's so dang versatile of an artist.
Posted by Ren Ren: 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. This will be my next release. You can turn on notifications by following the link in the comments below 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.
Ren has a missive catalog. This includes his band called the Big Push, colabs with Chinchilla, Bibi, and Eden Nash. Busking on the streets in Europe. I so far have not been able to find a song/performance i didn't like. Truly amazing its usually easy to find a song or two that i don't like from an artist especially with a catalog this big. Tough Animal flow was a quite weird one still good tough
@@CelticFrost666 I got the reference. I just didn’t het the joke, but I’m a little dense sometimes. 😁 I am a Euro-mutt with some German blood, mostly Finnish. My married name, Szijj, is Hungarian.
Ren is a prodigy ! Ones in a lifetime bard !! You have to listen to... DIAZEPAM CHALK OUTLINES GENESIS iLLEST OF OUR TIME ANIMAL FLOW MONEY GAME 1 & 2 The TALES TRILOGY ...one of music's bestest rabbit holes EVER ! Subbed !
Ren's heavy breathing at the transition represents him being out of breath from running as fast as he could to the bridge where Joe was. He got a call saying Joe was was there and he was thinking about jumping. Ren lived was closest to the bridge so he got dressed ran there as fast as he could and calling Joe the whole time and it's phone would ring alot and go to voicemail so he thought he still okay. When Ren got there he didn't see Joe anywhere so he called his phone and immediately it said, " this phone is no longer in service" and you only get that message when a phone has been broken or submerged in water and no longer working. So Ren was two minutes too late 😢 RIP JOE HUGHES and everyone else in the world lost to suicide.
I believe Ren releases a new version of this song tomorrow night ladies, I believe it will be a piano version with 2 extra verses, his live songs are always more emotionally intense.. I think it goes out 7pm UK time and he will probably stream live on Twitch when he does it. This is what he did this week, in his own words... Yesterday I decided to pay a visit to Joe's mum and dad. I was asked to play them the new live session I recorded in Calgary. It was probably the most nervous I've been playing someone a video that I'd made. The topic isn't an easy one, especially for parents who have lost an incredible son. I nervously hit play, and the gravity of what I was showing sunk in and I began to cry. In the end we sat in silence, silently sobbing. Joes mum turned to me and smiled and we hugged, and I felt much lighter. It made me really realise I guess what I've always known. Music is far more than music. It's a channel of communication for the things that are impossible to say. It's a bridge between the living and the dead. It's a way to stay immortal. It's a way to resurrect the dead. It's a universal language. It cuts down barriers of the parts of you which are encapsulated in steel cast iron. It allows frozen rivers to thaw and become un-stagnant. I owe myself, my life, everything I am to music. Music is the closest thing to god I know. I am so grateful to be doing what I do and to tap into this mystic force. My life, my energy, myself, I eternally devote to it. This guy is a musical genius and we are all blessed to be here in the time that he is making his music so that we can hear for the first time. #youarenotalone
and YES it was very very real; One of his good friends jumped off a bridge and his body was never recovered. Also Ren had lyme disease and was misdiagnosed for many years and experienced being over medicated and wrong medications and even developed psychosis from it. His words are 100 💯 percent truth. I know because I have lyme disease 🦠 and same path to a diagnosis happened to me! He speaks his truth and OUR TRUTH. May a cure for lyme come from his music. plus he’s just a genius musician. I’m watching this from my bed bedridden from this horrible disease at this very moment Y’all please blow this guy up!!! He’s a talented prodigy
Good reaction, guys. Ren has some fun stuff, too. This topic is one that has to be brought out from the dark into the light. Too many people are suffering to hide it any longer. Ren has a talent for singing about tough topics and bringing mental health issues to light, as they should have been a long time ago. He's healing so many with similar issues. Ren has helped me more than I can say. Don't be afraid to show emotion. As humans we have to go through it to get past it. Ignoring tough topics and pushing those feelings down is not working. Welcome to the RENaissance. New sub here.
Wow... y'all picked a hell of a track as your First reaction!!! Lol Trust me... you'll not find a more intense artist to break ya in! Lol Good luck finding another video to reach his levels of mastery!
Subbed to follow you on all your other Ren song reactions...you've only scratched the surface of his amazing back catalogue. Listen to the 3 recent interviews to understand the full Ren experience:)
I can't believe you introduced the REN rabbit hole to your friend this way?! It's cool and cruel at the same time. 🥲 There's a usual intro with HIRen then a path of a multilevel and multidirectional 🎢 Rollercoaster...then you end with suicide. You rrrrripped your friend through the ride. Smh 😅. Well either way welcome to the genius of REN and enjoy. You just wait...where do you go next, tale of jenny? His rap like moneygame,genesis,hunger? His band or busking days with the big push? His great singing with chinchilla and sam? His old school stuff with freckled angels, demos etc etc etc
The "Sick Boi, Sick Boi ... " and "I feel like it's not me, it's the world that's sick" samples came from another one of his songs, "Sick Boi", which addresses his illness, medical treatment, and societal commentary. Highly recommend checking that one out too.
Of course I Highly Recommend the Jenny and Screech trilogy (Full Version!) Next!!! From then on... pick any random 10 tracks... maybe... just maybe, two will be similar!
This was filmed in Calgary, then turned over to talented animator Louis Mardlin, who added the dreamlike style using his own artistry and careful, frame-by-frame creation and selection of AI-generated imagery.
Ok, so everyone else will say this, but please look at Tale of Jenny and Screech, which is two songs that go together, but also the third in the trilogy is Violet's Tale, which brings together the first two songs... his skills as a guitarist are phenomenal, as is his voice. He also designs and directs his videos, and many of them are literally 'one take' videos!
You do not have to fade Rens videos he does not copyright and if any one does get in touch and they will sort it. This video was done in one take live performance he takes such care with his videos he wants them to be seen.
Yes unfortunately it is real… his friends name was joe and they had a crew out there looking for the body for over 10 hours strait before they finally declared it. Ren then spent the following weeks putting up missing person posters and still looking for his friend. Services were held about a month and a half after joe jumped and there was no herse because there was no casket and no casket because there was no body. He explains all of this in his interview with Knox hill who is also a reacter
Ren wrote this song as a tribute to his friend Joe who committed suicide, Joe and him were super close and Ren didnt know there was an issue his friend called to tell him joe was about to jump and he was only 5 mins away to hurry, Joe end up jumping before Ren arrived and they never found his body. Ren put together this song for him. this is very real.we end up raising like $20k for the search and rescue team and like around $8k for Joes family. Ren is an amazing artist and he has been through hell and back you should read his Bio its crazy.
He hits hard doesn’t he. If you want to see a different and lighter side of his ridiculous talent. Try looking up a band he was I called “The Big Push” doing “I shot the sheriff/Road to Zion/and Hip Hop” in a medley. Then come back to his raw emotional stuff, when you’re ready.
Definitely need to listen to the tale of Jenny and Screech ( full version) and chalk outlines with Chinchilla ( live version) followed by Hunger for his rapping .
@@daviddeath6029 Yes, but some Welsh people take offense to being called british. they prefer that their actual country of Wales be acknowledged as where they are from. Kinda like how Irish people are Technically British as well and so are Scottish people but they can dislike being called british.
