WE REACT TO REN (feat. CHINCHILLA): CHALK OUTLINES - THIS IS RAW TALENT!! 

Aw guys thank you so much for this reaction 🫶 appreciate the support and love so so much and sending love right back!

If you want raw I would suggest his first album release "freckled angles" written in the aftermath of his best friends suicide its him wrestling with his helplessness and emotions and desire for understanding. Later you have "how to be" me where he is coming through the other side and expressing the overall feeling of the "freckled angles" moment

This song moves me like no other ever. I'm so glad I found Ren last week.

"It's such a perfect day, take it just in case" to me reminds me of those good days you sometimes have when you're deeply depressed, and you feel like you could skip taking your antidepressants, because you feel good and don't want to ruin it with the side effects. But the reason you start to have good days is because you're taking your medication (and going to therapy). So you should still take the pill "just in case".

Sertraline will dull ur emotions and u will not cry…no matter how sad u are. U may get a bit of watery eyes but crying is out. Thats why the lyric is genius

All performances are live

This young man is the most talented individual that I've ever seen in my 56 years. He feels every lyric that comes out of his mouth, he's just incredible. The people he teams up with are also absolutely off the chain with their talent. Music industry wake up, these are the people we NEED to hear from!!! Loved your reaction guys.

An empty hallway? An electric guitar.. and two of the most talented individuals on earth.. yap... thats incredible...

Ren lives in my city. He's a busker. Basically, he is a street musician and makes most of his living from donations during his street sessions and RU-vid views. He's fantastic and one of my favourite artists. He busked and performed shows with a band called The Big Push. Check them out. Their covers are great and the original music is amazing as well. Ren is like an onion, he's got many layers. Just keep peeling.

The reverb is not digital I don't know weather you guys have noticed but ren makes his voice sound different with environment the hall there in is bare so gives the echo reverb very clever

As a fellow mental health warrior at 42 this young man gives me hope.And we all need hope. I’m on meds and it’s a necessity but I can feel what ren is saying. Love from Ireland ❤️🇮🇪🇮🇪

"Floating around in chalk outlines"...feeling dead, numb and depressed. "Draw ourself in the chalk outlines" bad habits and addiction busy killing us to just cope. "Erase ourselves from the chalk outlines" dying, feeling dead, lost who I was. What a deep deep song! Wow!

If you enjoyed this and want more raw vulnerability, I would highly suggest Ren X Chinchilla singing How to be Me (Live). Context helps, so just keep in mind that the song was written after Ren lost a friend after he unalived himself. So the song is his was of working through grief. Needless to say powerful stuff, but at the same time emensly beautiful.

I asked my daughter to share this with her husband who JUST last weekend was put in ICU for heart failure because of his fentanyl addiction. He was released today to come home. I asked my daughter if she showed it to him. She said she did and that he can't stop thinking about the song. Not sure how this will end.

In my 64 years I've rarely seen or experienced a musical phenomenon like this. Every day for the past three weeks, I've been taking a "dose" of Ren/The Big Push/Chinchilla and seeing that others around the world are doing the same. Great reaction! 🤠 Subbed.

HANDS DOWN " HOW TO BE ME" WITH CHINCHILLA LIVE. YOU HAVE TO PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a time to be alive to experience this amazing young man known as Ren!❤

Kyle's face when they hit the duet on 'little by little' for the first time is how I imagine i looked when I first heard this. A mixture of searing joy, wonder, amazement and respect all at the same time. Too many to be able to speak at the same time. Its a wonderful, moving song and this was one of the best reactions to it that I've seen. Nice one guys.

Y’all definitely need to check out Ren and The Big Push - “I shot the sheriff/road to Zion/hip hop”. Eric, you’ll especially love the “Hip Hop” part of that live medley if you know Dead Prez.

REN gets people so emotional because his music is honest. There's nowhere for his honesty to hide or be buried in the mix. It's always there in your face.

Chinchilla's first line is "Sertraline and a sip of serotonin," which I believe are two things given to treat things like anxiety, depression, bipolar, OCD, PTSD, etc.

Chinchilla is an mood and vibe herself! Wait til you start down her rabbit hole also... I absolutely love them together.. The blending of their voices.. constant chills! Wait til you see the street performances🤯

Thanks for the reaction! "How to be me" by Ren x Chinchilla will strike you in the same vain. And if you want it raw then "Crutch" by Ren feat. Bibi.

"I'm scared of being OK, cause all things change." Jesus Christ almighty... that's amazing Not sure if you guys did the Jenny/Screech/Violet trilogy, but they did a TREMENDOUS job in using room noise and ambient reverb. The story and the music is incredible, but if you want to see really clever use of sound and location, ya gotta do it!! It's amazing. You guys are doing great with the reactions BTW. Really genuine and interesting!

I have to pick and choose when I listen to this one, get choked up at the minimum every time I hear it

Cool. Always a great morning with the guys! His song The HUNGER is totally 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.

This as well as showing that Ren can really, really sing, as well as rap, and us a brilliant lyricist and performer. It shows his lack of ego, despite it being his song etc. I the final part of the video, he is out of frame or in.the edge of frame. As he knows this is Chinchilla's moment and she deserves to be in the center of the frame.

Not me crying into a bowl of cereal

Ren's street performances are quite amazing too. I have seen a few posted on RU-vid, and they just blow me away. The man is insanely talented.

Live chaps!! He picks locations for the acoustics as much as anything 🔥 If you get a chance please react to Dominoes by him

Please check out his street performances with San Tompkins they are amazing specially their song Bind Eyed

Money pt.1 and 2 are a must listen

Some other Ren recommendations. Loosing It and The Hunger.

From the very first time hearing this song, I cry. I've seen first hand how Dr's "treat" patients with drugs. Instead of trying to curing the patient. You become a shell existing day to day rather than experiencing each day. Great reaction gentlemen.

Incredible! Kyle's genuine real smile while hearing those striking harmonies flow out of both of them. I could feel his emotion for real! Goose bumps are impossible to miss. Thank you both for your genuine joy for this uniquely talented soul.

Still makes me tear up after so many listens !

Check out Ren Genesis live kid got skill!

He was discovered and signed by Sony from his street busking days in Brighton before he got sick and Sony let him go. This was live recorded in one take, as many are. His street performances with Sam or his band are great too. On his rap The Hunger and Losing it (Fisher retake) are two I really like.

Check out his busking videos, he does that magic on the street too!

Chinchilla's emotion in her voice broke me. This song hits me deep. Great job, guys.

Check out his busking skills together with his band The Big Push. My suggestion is "The Big Push - War Pigs (Black Sabbath cover)"

Thank you Kyle for mentioning how people that feels music, sometime can be seen as laughable by others, but in fact that person is just living the music.

It was as incredible as you thought it was 😊

One of my favorites!!!!✌️😊🧿 The Big Push. Englishman in New York!!

Please do “Losing it” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Goosebumps ❤️❤️❤️ Those 2 voices together... just wowwww

Chinchilla is a force of nature in this song! Her voice is incredible. How to be me is another stunning one with these two.

So excited for this one!!! ❤❤❤

So excited to watch you react to Ren

This is intimacy and exposure. If they were a painting Ren is the subject matter but Chinchilla is always the source of light showing use how to see all the bright sides and shadows of Ren, she compliments him so well vocally and emotionally. Their camera presence is top tier, and I love the eye contact they have

If you want more of this, you HAVE to do Ren x Chinchilla How To Be Me (Live). It is truly freaking amazing and actually further showcases both of their vocal ranges!

He is so good at using natural reverb in his live performances "Blind eyed with Angry Parking lot attendant" & The third part of the Trilogy Violet's tale really showcase his talent. And for another like this with Chinchilla, maybe better, "How to be me" live of course

Hey there guys! Yes...its the emotion, I feel it every single time. One of my favorites! I can't wait for yall to get to his tracks The Hunger and Genesis, and so many more! Keep up the great work friends! Hope yall are more than well! Catch y'all on the next🤘🏻😊

Oh guys plz react to the real ak panda was his first remix and watch the progression of his voice and his journey very talented kid

I think people are connecting with Ren's music so much (regardless of what they usually listen to) because he's real, and genuinely talented. He's not a pop star dressed by a label, given songs written by someone else and told to mime them on stage to a backing track. He doesn't warble wit auto-tune. He doesn't create music tailored to an audience. He doesn't trap himself in a style or format that's considered popular. He's a real artist. He reminds me of the grunge artists from back in the 90s. He makes me think of Eddie Vedder, Jeff Buckley, Michael Stipe, all the artists who just created and did their thing regardless of what the labels wanted and what was being played on the radio. Because of that we can all see the heart and soul in what he does, we can relate to the subject, and we can hear his voice as it is naturally. If you asked 90% of modern singers out there right now to perform like this live they would probably crap themselves and run away. They can't write like this, they can't sing without auto-tune, they can't play an instrument, they can't come up with a concept. I hope you check out "How to be Me" next. If you enjoyed their vocals in this you're going to love that one, too.

Blind Eyed ft. Angry Car Park Attendant - with Ren and Sam if you want the most raw. It's awesome!!

Great reaction guys!

Ren reminds me a lot of our TØP boys. Different vibes in every song (you NEVER know what's coming), videos that makes you feel your watching a movie, deep and funny, insane lyrics, a lot of mental health struggles and FKN geniuses🖤

My favorite lyric in this is “The soul it goes Let it be In the gallows I’m balanced On my toes so I can breathe” What a beautiful way to say this message of how even when all is lost we can’t give up fighting…so beautiful! He has another song with Chinchilla called “How to be Me” I believe it’s about his best friend. Thank you so much for loving Ren as much as the rest of us do he is an amazingly talented man.

This is my favorite song so far from Ren. Its so deep and this live version is just so powerful.

Went down the Ren rabbit hole. you guys are gonna lose your minds of him never missing.

Ren has such a great entourage of people around him with everyone has more talent than most of the popular "artists" combined. The guy doing the videos (Samuel), Sam Tompkins, Bibi, Chinchilla, the guys from The Big Push… and Ren himself on his own level. it's freaking amazing.

Kyle, I totally agree with your feelings about Brothers Moving, even with this video, so many reactors can't get over how unusual Chinchilla's nails are to focus on her art and her passion in here and so much of what I've heard has been such judgmental crap and all I can think is "Just listen to what she's singing, hear her passion and just forget about what you think is 'right' for her to wear for a second you butthole." Wonderful reaction.

Ren x chinchilla how to be me. tears.

THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS on 80k!👏👏👏👏🤗🥳🥳🥳 JUST WAIT til you hear his BUSKING! 😱❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 GOOD MORNING! ✌️❤️🔥🎶☕️😃

@rykerroad If ure looking for raw emotion, this will render you speechless - Ren ft. BiBi "Crutch". Thoroughly enjoyed ur reaction gentlemen.Ren's ❤️‍🔥 & Chinchilla's vocals together are memorizing ❤️‍🔥

REN: Hunger for ERIC. It's his produced rap 😀 For more lives... Ren x Sam Tompkins - Blind Eyed

You're gonna love the Big Push busking (Ren's band/friends) if you're getting that street performance vibe 💯🔥🎵♥️

Hey guys ... I remember me and my buds at 3:00am singing our hearts out in the Parkades downtown with our acoustics (the cops would stand there listening with big smiles until they kicked us out!!! LOL). That reverb is exactly the same ... Its actually really hard to capture it as well as they did here. ( ... at least with the gear we had. ) LOL To me it sounds like he is talking about the difference between the antipsychotic medications that he is being fed by his Psychiatric Doctors compared to the street opiates that he chooses to use to self medicate. The floating 'chalk lines' representing the prescription meds that create a disassociated state that is notoriously and uncomfortably numbing to keep psychosis at bay, the side effect being that it still feels like death in the way that you are unable to recognize any sense of self. The alternative is that opiates work to escape the psychosis, VERY TEMPORARILY, but also in a very dangerous and reckless way. The struggle is between the methods of escape from the psychosis. Do you face the feeling of being dead to yourself in a prolonged dissociated state or do you just accept the slow but inevitable suicide of opiate addiction that comes with the SEDUCTION of "... a sip of serotonin ...". I'm hearing Chinchilla as the seduction ... the duet of her voice representing the artificial euphoria of the opiate. Do you just DRAW the chalk outline yourself ... or 'merely exist' in the chalk outline you are being administered? I personally can't imagine having to make that decision, especially when it is a decade long process to recovery, as in Ren's case. Either way ... being erased must feel like the end result while you are inside that 'forever' struggle. The 'moments of clarity' would be few and far between. I imagine this would be just as unsettling as the original psychosis until one is far enough into recovery to ACTUALLY TRUST the hope that clarity brings. Unfortunately, addiction combined with poor mental health is an extremely complicated situation and very poorly understood, resulting in the epidemic we are seeing out there on our streets. Sorry ... I'm just talking out my ass here but this is where the song took me ...

Judging by the comments at the end, "Ren - Freckled Angels - Live At The Regal Room" is gonna break Kyle...completely

I'm not sure if I took that line the same way you did. "Such a perfect day. Take it just in case; take it just in case." They weren't talking about taking in the day. They were saying it's such a perfect day, but take the pill anyway, just in case - because it always changes; it's a beautiful shame that it's a perfect day because they're afraid to be okay, knowing it will change.

Check out Ren and Chinchilla one dance its so good too

Hey I’m new to your challenge and I really like you guys. The next Ren song you should react to have to be “Money Game Part 2”. It has a strong message

the live part of the video shows the talent of these two. sooo much emotion captured. just fucking nailed it! \,,/,

I've watched this video 8 times....I wish I could like it 10 more times.....one button push is not enough.

He records his guitar videos live, none of them are prerecorded tracks. Also his roots are in busking around Brighton. Him and his mates would post something in Instagram and like a 1000 people would show up to hear him. His videos absolutely capture his roots and vibe for sure.

This flex when you know the band Brother's Moving :)

I feel lots of emotions listening to music, but this song gave me something I haven’t felt in a long time… and this was my first time hearing it. Seeing it with Kyle and Eric was something else, and it’s the first song to give me goosebumps to this degree… damnit guys! I wasn’t suppose to get emotional this morning!

5:35 - Sertraline is the generic for Zoloft, an SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor).

Wow! Ren is amazing but these two together is magic!!

Please check out ren and bibi. CRUTCH!! Do the official video

Yess ren and chinchilla 👏 pretty sure ren does most his stuff live. 😢❤😊

His street performances with Sam Thomkins, Blind eyed, and when they combine Used/Man's world/falling the video are great. Also, when they perform Blind eyed while being escorted out of a parking house. Crazy good. But also his street performances with his band The Big Push - I shot the sheriff/Road to zion/hiphop... and many, many more. If you want a great video where you experience Rens acting at 100 %, check out the song from the big push - why my woman.

Ren is absolutely incredible. Mind blown and I'm instantly addicted. Please continue your journey into his catalog! Another great duet with Chinchilla is How to Be Me. Great rapping on Hunger, Power, Losing It, and Genesis. The trilogy is a masterpiece of course! Money Game 1 & 2 is fabulous!!! I'll be back for every Ren reaction! Thank you!

If you enjoy this one, please make sure to go for How to be me (live) Ren x Chinchilla, it’s also a heart shattering performance. Personally, I prefer that song to Chalkoutlines (though I love Chalkoutlines)😢

You guys should do a video on Ren's -The Hunger . Ren is so talented, lyrically eloquent, amazing arrangements, an incredible voice with such range, great story telling and absolutely unique style.

Sooo, can we get a Riptide by grandson reaction? Or a blood // water by grandson? Because I need it and it's worth it.

The Gallows line might be one of the hardest hitting bars i have ever heard.

You guys would probably love "How to be me" by ren and chinchilla too

This is wonderful. As a singer, I can say that it is very difficult to have two singers truly blend well. This is perfect.

Setraline and a sip of serotonin. Setraline is Zoloft, an antidepressant I'm too familiar with.

When was Judy Garland reincarnated into this absolute dark angel!

Ren's street performances are ALL amazing. And Chinchilla is insane. They are so perfect together! It all washes over you like a wave.

It blows my mind how something so simple can hit so hard. Just two voices and a guitar in an empty hallway. I love it

Great job and reaction thank you guys ❤❤

Kyle got me when he started tearing up. Awesome reaction guys.

Im not sure if anybody agrees with me but i need more ren and chin. I need it. I crave it. I desire it

So cool you did another Ren on this channel! Can't wait for you to do more - it will be hard to choose a favorite song as you go along, it's all Fire! For Rap - Hunger, Genesis, Power, Life is Funny, Ocean, Money Game 1 &2 (just to start) more collabs with Chinchilla and Sam Tompkins are phenomenal. His band Big Push covers, especially War Pigs and I shot the sheriff, etc - incredible performances and energy is just wild! A note on the Trilogy (full version is Jenny/Screech/Violet) but you can find 3 of them as separate videos 3-5 minutes each. They do have to be done in this order to appreciate the storytelling and all the twists. However, you can do Jenny first and then maybe do Screech and Violet together, just an idea! This Trilogy is definitely is a masterpiece - there is nothing like it out there artistically and musically - so it's a must!

If you want a few more that can really talk about real feelings with nothing but an acoustic or at most a very simple arrangement with real power... Lewis Capaldi (Someone You Loved) and Amigo the Devil (Cocaine and Abel) definitely should be on there. As for more Ren, Sick Boi and The Tale of Jenny and Screech (full) absolutely belong there but I'd also look at What You Want and The Hunger. Those four with what you've already done will give you a real view of the scope of Ren's talent.

Ren is gonna blow up big time. There’s nobody that does this much diversity in music just now.