This was GENIUS, thanks to this alone a bunch of people will now be able to appreciate a lot more bars and enjoy the music more, he already got the people that just want vibes and now he got the people that care about the lyrics too and everyone can single along too, this was just a masterfully made chess move
Most of the slang cench is using is native to London only (and some major cities around it). The slang comes from the London dialect known as MLE (multicultural london english) which comes from heavy immigrant influence, from countries in the Caribbean, west Africa, Middle East etc, and is mixed in with cockney English. That's why there's words from Jamaican patois (wagwan, mandem, bare) , pidgin englishs in West Africa (nyash) and arabic (akh, dunya) as well as words like gaff (cockney English). But there's tons of MLE originals like leng, butters, peak, rambo, zks, clapped, wap, long, dead, wet, tapped etc. "Jawn" most likely comes from Phillly AAVE tho Also "wap" (gun/firearm) has been around way before the song lol, don't get it twisted
@@coreyaustin3966 i mean yeh, the lingo has influence all over the UK that's true but ldn is usually where it starts plus find other brits don't like being reduced to just England/London yk so i specified
When people say that's Jamaican or Philly been sayin that, they gotta understand its nothing to do with 'we said that first or it belongs to us'. UK is multi-cultural so the lingo has a mix of patois and regular slang from around the world. Also This ain't even half of it tbh these are just your general slang words you might hear.
Is it THAT hard to understand tho? I mean, sure, the first drill song you listen to may confuse you a lot but the more you listen to drill, you can grasp their lingos pretty easily. I just think that some Americans likes to just discard UK drill without even trying to understand it
CC been really smart in the way he’s manoeuvred in the market. His rise has been very fast because he does the right things at the right time. The idea of doing the slang comparisons is genius and I can’t believe it hasn’t been done before! Hats off to him, good to see the UK mandem shine🔥
He's clearly got a huge marketing team behind him, he's not manoeuvring anything. The guy went from being completely unknown to blowing up in the UK overnight, ppl without labels don't go mainstream that quick lol. He's signed to Warner Chappell UK, they're orchestrating his rise to fame, not him.
Brudda you’ve actually got the subtitles there and are still getting things wrong.. I can’t 😭 London is the melting pot of many ethnicities/ cultures E.g Caribbean’s, Africans, Asians etc.. many of the up and coming generations are also first/ second generation to these countries (including myself being a first generation British to Jamaican parents) because of the massive multi-cultural environment, a lot of our colloquials and slang are heavily influenced by these countries + there’s also typical English slang/ cockney.. Some of the slang is completely original from UK’s newer generations, others have takes from the different languages/ dialects spoken around us. - Wagwan is a Jamaican word, there are many Jamaicans in London/ Birmingham/ Manchester etc so of course the word gets passed around, it’s embedded in our slang now. - Mandem is also a Jamaican word and Boydem is a remix of this but instead it’s used to describe police. - Gaff is cockney slang for ‘house’ - Nyash is a Nigerian word. - Akh is an Arab word for brother - Haram is also an Arabic word meaning forbidden - Machines = Guns, not mobile phone like technology machines - He said Nanks not Nak. - In the UK we don’t have Escalades, he’s not saying that Mercedes vans is a UKslang word for it - By yaad food, he means food from Yard - Jamaica - Jamaican food, in Jamaica we call Jamaica Yaad as in home. So he’s saying he wants Jamaican food. - We don’t say W.a.p in the UK in the way you guys in America mean it, and mandem have been saying waps way before that Megan and Cardi song came out, so you guys think that it’s mad to say it but it’s really not. To sum it up, UK slang beautifully represents the many cultures we are surrounded by & Central Cee bridging this gap is actually bringing awareness to how diverse it really is here (in the main cities anyway). It’s a great idea 🔥
That's cause most them are Alot of jamaican immigrants live there and so on so our culture naturally mixed (idk if they'll admit it) but alot of slang and curse words they use come from jamaica This was hard to watch as a jamaican cause dontai wouldn't stfu and made it so fucking cringe
@@dylanmurphy9389 saying wagwan ain't tryna be black it's just slang at this point don't matter what race but if u force an accent when saying then yh its cringe
@@lb2kxx I completely hear that but if you see the way london is, it’s very multicultural and we indulge in other cultures and understand them. Even though we don’t use the lingo in America we understand near enough every word that is said but the same came be said for them
For those who don’t know, They say wagwan in the UK and yes it’s a Jamaican term BUT Jamaica was a English colony back in the 1600’s so it makes sense why they use similar terms. You could argue that the Jamaican language is broken British technically…
*Out of all the UK talent* idk why Central Cee is the one to blow up in the states… his flow rarely (often never) changes and most his songs are just Drill songs with slight variation of production.
Cameron Cardinal - Fr.. or Bugzy, Stormzy, Dave, Skepta, Slowthai …. So many other artists have made basic drill songs and had only the UK tune in.. but for some reason - his music blows up.. and there’s really nothing different about it. It’s just confusing.
I've known him for a good year and a half and while he does have some misses (Doja included), he's a solid rapper and this a solid freestyle as well. Also, the foreign exchange student vibes in this one 😂
@@firstlast9846 nigga he has songs outisde of drill , doja isnt even drill or that other song dropped this year that samples pink pantheres or his song with twigs i dont like bro but this a blantant lie
@@Runitup--hc3np u right, skeptai s hella known in the US. praise the lord has alomost a billlion streams. I just think no one has burst onto the US scene and worldwide like cench has. It took skepta almost decade, it took stormzy & dave a few years. Central cee only been here for 2 years.
He deadass needs to move back and forth between US and UK and try to work with alot of American artists cause I really do think he has what it takes to make UK rappers more popular in America.
You know it’s funny, in the past and to this day, racists and idiots make fun of black lingo and slang, like when they mock by over pronouncing shit like “my homie” or whatever. But you lot are doing the EXACT same thing with UK slang, mocking it and doing that same overpronunication thing to belittle it. Grow up and care about the culture man.
It’s so smart doing it the way he did, bridging the gap between uk and America to get attention in the US
@Melani CA_______________ 💜 shut up
Facts
Nice copy paste comment
@@Learnean people postin this on every vid😂😂😂
@@Learnean people postin this on every vid😂😂😂
This was GENIUS, thanks to this alone a bunch of people will now be able to appreciate a lot more bars and enjoy the music more, he already got the people that just want vibes and now he got the people that care about the lyrics too and everyone can single along too, this was just a masterfully made chess move
everyone feels included 😁
W
Central cee and all uk artists suck they cant even be better than underground rappers smh
so basically.. marketing
@@ayejak5893 nah he’s saying he’s got commercial bars but he’s got lyrical shit too and the hard shit so he appeals to more people
I've never seen someone completly miss what the explanation means whilst it is being explained to their face
Literally there’s captions🤣
he do be slow sometimes
he just struggling mentally
he does it to get ppl to comment lol
It’s like he didn’t even understand the American slang, so was just confused
Most of the slang cench is using is native to London only (and some major cities around it). The slang comes from the London dialect known as MLE (multicultural london english) which comes from heavy immigrant influence, from countries in the Caribbean, west Africa, Middle East etc, and is mixed in with cockney English. That's why there's words from Jamaican patois (wagwan, mandem, bare) , pidgin englishs in West Africa (nyash) and arabic (akh, dunya) as well as words like gaff (cockney English). But there's tons of MLE originals like leng, butters, peak, rambo, zks, clapped, wap, long, dead, wet, tapped etc.
"Jawn" most likely comes from Phillly AAVE tho
Also "wap" (gun/firearm) has been around way before the song lol, don't get it twisted
Ty for explaining it 2 dem, cos chat was just saying we steal slang but they don't understand how it works.
Damn the more yk
I mean I'm not even close to London and all of that slang is used here, i assure you it's used across the country not just London
@@coreyaustin3966 i mean yeh, the lingo has influence all over the UK that's true but ldn is usually where it starts plus find other brits don't like being reduced to just England/London yk so i specified
Was about to say this, you went into detail tho, nice
Dontai did it again, Another 3 minute freestyle turned into a 12 minute video
Yup n bro cringe 😭
@@zakustw4269 then y u watchin
@@zakustw4269 yet you watching his shit😂 weirdo
@@imbreexe4127 chill out dontais boyfriend
Fucking paused for every word, like c'mon 😭
When people say that's Jamaican or Philly been sayin that, they gotta understand its nothing to do with 'we said that first or it belongs to us'. UK is multi-cultural so the lingo has a mix of patois and regular slang from around the world. Also This ain't even half of it tbh these are just your general slang words you might hear.
Slang comes from other cultures when they migrate to new countries hence why there’s African , Arab and Caribbean words in UK slang
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Pretty much everyone knows that
@@gangstalicious1901 Yeah like the nyash one means ass in Nigerian
Like how they stole Nyash from Nigeria but thats calm ig
Dontai: tries the uk slang
Me: *dies of cringe*
So funny when he or other Americans try to repeat uk slang😂
@@w5.shh16 ong man I be like what the heck are you talking about man🤣😭
@@NobodyButBlack word bruv it’s actually painful
@@ISkidzzI ong it is man , it gives you that second hand embarrassment
@@NobodyButBlack nah word it’s painful coz he was purposely mis pronouncing words to try mock us
Is it THAT hard to understand tho? I mean, sure, the first drill song you listen to may confuse you a lot but the more you listen to drill, you can grasp their lingos pretty easily. I just think that some Americans likes to just discard UK drill without even trying to understand it
I fw with Canadians more because they understand it so much better. Alot of their slang comes from Caribbean influences like ours
@@averagebeastt3606 drake's Canadian and hes good as well
My brudda is purposely mis pronouncing or choosing to not understand the words to play it down lol. I can't rate it
My first time watching this guy I can't tell if he's overreacting or if he's just ignorant lmao
@@Jul1usss word
as a british person i was dying watching this 😭🤣 dontai was trying
Dying of cringe
mums this was too funny 😭
I'm HURTING bro
CC been really smart in the way he’s manoeuvred in the market. His rise has been very fast because he does the right things at the right time. The idea of doing the slang comparisons is genius and I can’t believe it hasn’t been done before! Hats off to him, good to see the UK mandem shine🔥
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He's clearly got a huge marketing team behind him, he's not manoeuvring anything. The guy went from being completely unknown to blowing up in the UK overnight, ppl without labels don't go mainstream that quick lol. He's signed to Warner Chappell UK, they're orchestrating his rise to fame, not him.
@@natb9919 bro , central cee been rapping for a minute
@@SmokingBlowTurnYouIntoAMenaceno he has been rappin since 10 years back, when he was still 15
Look at Dontai learning with the chat man
Inspirational
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after every bar we had to wait 15 seconds for the next bar cuz he kept pausing 😭
@@fratrules2343 shiiiiiiiit that helped me out too
@@TREVERCYLEGEORGE yeah it would’ve been a lil nicer if chat wasn’t brain dead 😂😂
@@fratrules2343 i mean nigga tryna learn the slang
Dontai, this was a hard watch as a British person, it also doesn’t help he didn’t fully say the meaning. We also fed, gaff means house
y'all call Jordans "cats", nah that's CRAZY
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@@sxham04 im from london and ive never heard anyone use that word for shoes
@@sxham04 not jordans, Js = fiends, crackheads, cats
@@sxham04 some of the shit I’ve never heard of
Dontai sounds like those white kids who try sound black unironically lmao
Yep and he’s had the audacity to say something sounded gay😳
Americans trying uk slang usually just sound weird for some reason 😂
This has got to be one of smartest freestyles I have watched, the UK and US comparisons are too cold
Just saw him live in Toronto tonight it was insane man is such a. Good performer
Dontai was just clowning on the UK slang 💀
He's weird
He's probably jealous because he can't replicate, UK slang just doesn't hit in an American accent.
@@zz-ro4dfNigga got offended lmfao
Central cee is a marketing genius fr fr
Brudda you’ve actually got the subtitles there and are still getting things wrong.. I can’t 😭
London is the melting pot of many ethnicities/ cultures E.g Caribbean’s, Africans, Asians etc.. many of the up and coming generations are also first/ second generation to these countries (including myself being a first generation British to Jamaican parents) because of the massive multi-cultural environment, a lot of our colloquials and slang are heavily influenced by these countries + there’s also typical English slang/ cockney.. Some of the slang is completely original from UK’s newer generations, others have takes from the different languages/ dialects spoken around us.
- Wagwan is a Jamaican word, there are many Jamaicans in London/ Birmingham/ Manchester etc so of course the word gets passed around, it’s embedded in our slang now.
- Mandem is also a Jamaican word and Boydem is a remix of this but instead it’s used to describe police.
- Gaff is cockney slang for ‘house’
- Nyash is a Nigerian word.
- Akh is an Arab word for brother
- Haram is also an Arabic word meaning forbidden
- Machines = Guns, not mobile phone like technology machines
- He said Nanks not Nak.
- In the UK we don’t have Escalades, he’s not saying that Mercedes vans is a UKslang word for it
- By yaad food, he means food from Yard - Jamaica - Jamaican food, in Jamaica we call Jamaica Yaad as in home. So he’s saying he wants Jamaican food.
- We don’t say W.a.p in the UK in the way you guys in America mean it, and mandem have been saying waps way before that Megan and Cardi song came out, so you guys think that it’s mad to say it but it’s really not.
To sum it up, UK slang beautifully represents the many cultures we are surrounded by & Central Cee bridging this gap is actually bringing awareness to how diverse it really is here (in the main cities anyway). It’s a great idea 🔥
Goat comment 🐐🔥🔥🔥
defo got a 9 in english language 💀
@@Climazz it’s good but a 9? Come on
🔥🔥🔥
Goated fosho❤
Dontai's UK impression sounds Jamaican 😭
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That's cause most them are
Alot of jamaican immigrants live there and so on so our culture naturally mixed (idk if they'll admit it) but alot of slang and curse words they use come from jamaica
This was hard to watch as a jamaican cause dontai wouldn't stfu and made it so fucking cringe
tbh most uk slang is Jamaican Patois
@@kuttathroat true dat
@@godslayerlee7774 i learnt that in history lol
The way tai be trying to say the uk slang is so hilarious 🤣
dontai turned into a white old person trying to understand rap music.
the irony is so good XD
“They mean the same thing tho so” THATS THE FUCKIN POINT
How tf do you turn a 1 minute 30 second freestyle into a 13 min vid like 😭💀
with 78 pauses
If I hear mfs using uk slang wrong jus cus they heard this freestyle I swear down I'll never use social media again kmt
Americans now think English people walk around saying wagwan when it’s a tiny majority of English people who are trying to be black
@@dylanmurphy9389 depends where u live. If u in like South London u hear that everywhere but if ur in west u probably won't hear it that much
@@lolno6975 yeah it’s often used ironically in north west as a joke, a white person using it in a serious way is proper cringey
@@dylanmurphy9389 saying wagwan ain't tryna be black it's just slang at this point don't matter what race but if u force an accent when saying then yh its cringe
Nah the “nick nack patty wack give a dog a bone” has me crying 😭😭😭
This guy is a marketing genius. Got the biggest respect for him 💯
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Ironically, the day he does a UK rapper reaction is the day the Queen dies lmao
what? she died?
@@Sinzyspeaks yup
@@Paqcar yup i’m seeing it all now. your comment was the way i found out tho lol
Got so many things wrong, as a brit it hurt to watch😭 still all love tho
"Stop pausing? BITCH IM LEARNING"
mmmm, are you?
Dontai looks like a Black Walter White that went to private school as a child.
UK slang is influenced alot by Jamaica
And nyash is used in Nigeria
Yup. I’m Nigerian, Born and raised in Ireland. Always went to the UK as a kid
The us got no choice but to respect the uk scene central hard asf 💯🔥
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central cee the most overrated uk artist fr
@@daquaviousbingleton9763 man shut up
@@daquaviousbingleton9763 he isn’t that good either
@@rediansjchillin exactly he’s trash 😭😂
watching dontai butcher uk slang is getting me so vexed bro
Thierry saw it was a UK related reaction and prolly said “aw sht here we go again”
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The UK Gon be on DONTAI ass😭
been wanting this guy to react to some uk rap for 2/3 years
as a fellow english person i found this reaction video hilarious 😭🤣🤣
I seen someone in the chat say “pre L hate British people” like bro what??? 😭😭
The chat xenophobic 😭
Damn the queen was pronounced dead while watching this
im from the uk and i just love seeing americans reactions to the uk slangs its so jokes bro 😂
I'm so glad he did this because so many people sleep on uk rap just because they dont understand the lingo
@Aaron Go Crazy no, it’s because it’s trash
@@wolf6462 L
@@wolf6462 typical ignorant American
nah not rlly. its jus the accent in general that be throwin ppl off
because y’all just do drill, atleast dave and stormzy is know here for being different.
Dontai and chat boyed it 😂😂 this was genius!
This was fire
The Time Has COME 🥵 👍 ruclips.net/video/raXnqYaLEdA/видео.html
Being from London and watching this actually hurt my head 😂 Americans don’t know nothing😭😭
no shit it's a whole different culture
@@lb2kxx I completely hear that but if you see the way london is, it’s very multicultural and we indulge in other cultures and understand them. Even though we don’t use the lingo in America we understand near enough every word that is said but the same came be said for them
Loving the vids bro always make my day 🔥🤙🏽
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baffles me how much americans can say we steal their style, then rock up to a compulsory english class the next day
For those who don’t know,
They say wagwan in the UK and yes it’s a Jamaican term BUT Jamaica was a English colony back in the 1600’s so it makes sense why they use similar terms. You could argue that the Jamaican language is broken British technically…
Patwa is West African dialects and broken English
Patois is heavily african influence lol
*Out of all the UK talent* idk why Central Cee is the one to blow up in the states… his flow rarely (often never) changes and most his songs are just Drill songs with slight variation of production.
Damn you sound like a hater dawg, just be happy for him. You sound pathetic ngl
Probably because Doja had that opening line and the sample. Kinda wish Digga D or AJ Tracey crossed over instead
Cameron Cardinal - Fr.. or Bugzy, Stormzy, Dave, Skepta, Slowthai …. So many other artists have made basic drill songs and had only the UK tune in.. but for some reason - his music blows up.. and there’s really nothing different about it. It’s just confusing.
US needs to hear some Ghetts. He the GOAT of UK..
That’s what I’m saying brother 😭 we got so much more talent here yanna. Dave stormzy skepta but they want central cee??!?
this guy really thought cench meant electronic device when he said machine😂😂😂😂
Only imdontai can make a 3min video 12mins
Rip to the queen
ImDontai + UK Slang = somehow sounding like a confused xQc
4:34 why does his uk accent sound more Indian than British
init sounds weird, that's why his fans say it sounds bad because of his accent. it's terrible lmao
@@YT_PurgeShorts hes just annoying and he takes the piss
Dis whole video is a “how to piss off UK niggas” simulator 😭😭 man I love dis nigga tai
10:16 my mans giggling after learning 💀
Bro let out a miniscule giggle ☠️
This set up make me Nostalgic W Unc Dontai
I like this freestyle more than most of his songs.
Most peoples freestyles are better than their music. One example Tory Lanez
SON WILL YA STOP PAUSING IT EVERY SECOND
Hearing Americans try and break down our slang is so hilarious I love it
Dontai a fucking English teacher with how he questions the authors word structure
"You say lango ,we say lingo"
I don't know how people find Dontai entertaining
I've known him for a good year and a half and while he does have some misses (Doja included), he's a solid rapper and this a solid freestyle as well.
Also, the foreign exchange student vibes in this one 😂
Doja included u say damn u is a weak mf that shii golden
Daily duppy freestyle was better icl
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Idk about “solid” his lyrics aren’t anything to gawp at and he doesn’t make music outside of Drill.. that’s essentially every artist on GRM daily
@@firstlast9846 nigga he has songs outisde of drill , doja isnt even drill or that other song dropped this year that samples pink pantheres or his song with twigs i dont like bro but this a blantant lie
I've been waiting so looong for dontai to react to Cench
this gotta be the most he’s ever paused a video holy shit
Was looking for this tai I joined the stream late and realized I missed it🤣
Dontai’s chat is such a breather…all these streamers chat be like 12 years old that only know Yeat and Lil Baby
Ong
Dontai sounds like a dad trying to learn new slang
This shit was so fire 🔥💯
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Dontai got them glasses and still read shit wrong💀
5:15 - 5:17 is the best part of the whole video you're welcome 🤞
an example of an american who thinks the world revolves around USA 😭
Central Cee really bridging the gap tho, I haven't a UK rapper go as big as he is now, even Stromzy & Dave hasn't gone this far.
Stormzy?
Skepta
@@Kriscur20 Stormzy hasnt gone this big in the US. He's huge and is a legend but not this big outside of the UK. Central Cee just 2 years in too
Dave is one of the best rappers out now - Central Cee is *Honestly* another drill rapper. They’re very different artists
@@Runitup--hc3np u right, skeptai s hella known in the US. praise the lord has alomost a billlion streams. I just think no one has burst onto the US scene and worldwide like cench has. It took skepta almost decade, it took stormzy & dave a few years. Central cee only been here for 2 years.
“Do have guns but they might be… so man just pull it apart an oil it” 🤣🔥 that flew over a lot of y’all heads
just so u know dontai u make my days better
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This guy fuckin pausing the video every 2 sec😭
I don’t fw his music too much but this was so fire the way he did it
how come
it just hits different when ur apart of the stream
RIP TO THE QUEEN. May she slay in peace💅🪦
😔💅
Wap not w.a.p which is a new term, we been using “wap” from qway back
Being from the UK this was mad annoying to watch😂😂
How is dontai saying Nacks when the subtitles be saying Nanks 💀
He deadass needs to move back and forth between US and UK and try to work with alot of American artists cause I really do think he has what it takes to make UK rappers more popular in America.
UK artists are popular worldwide. Why should he make special effort to be successful in America?
@@colinmatheson9770 because the US and UK are almost culturally the same lol, it’s easier to assimilate in a country that is like yours.
Dude had subtitles in front of him and still couldn’t read it right lol
Both US and UK slang got both influence by African culture and language that's why🔥
Us don’t got no type of African slang
no african influence in US slang, african american slang is what makes it up.
yo mans was mental in dat studio, no gas bruv.
Dontai is my guy. But this reaction was corny asf 🤣
Dontai so funny 😭😭😂
Central Cee: Wap
Dontai: WAAP
This was painful to watch
A total of 164 pauses made by dontai
You know it’s funny, in the past and to this day, racists and idiots make fun of black lingo and slang, like when they mock by over pronouncing shit like “my homie” or whatever. But you lot are doing the EXACT same thing with UK slang, mocking it and doing that same overpronunication thing to belittle it. Grow up and care about the culture man.
can't lie bro was hating the whole vid
Dontai is always cringe when ever he reacts to uk shit
hes cringe in general
@@SmokingBlowTurnYouIntoAMenace y u watching him then?
@@SS-261 ion know tbh, i really dont
In uk jails we do call a phone a ‘mash’, he talkin about guns
mash ain't even a phone , swear down these lot are abit slow
pausing every 2 seconds man
I’m from the uk an this dontai is bran new 😂😂😂
STOP PAUSING
Never seen an American struggle so much to understand the slang or pronounce it properly 😂😂
why am i cringing...dontai ngl is doin too much here...
He always be doing to much lmaooo