A line I think you did catch but is one of the greatest bars I've ever heard is: "Those that talk sense get outlined in chalk, those that talk shit get a line of support." Oh my god if that bar still doesn't hit just as hard several years later.
Wait so the outline in chalk refers to when a person dies, they draw the outline of where the body was last placed upon their death which I get. But what’s the line of support? Or is it just meant literally.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER - That last 3rd hitting on all the evil we have done , teach others history , being life in rap and poetry combined .... what a legend
More potter payper!! Start with 2020 vision freestyle.... as he was fresh home from jail then ....and go from there ... training day 3 mixtape is LEGENDARY!!
24 songs with just one short feature from Mover at the end. And you don’t get bored of him once throughout. Just straight bars the whole way through. Crazy talent. Such a sick tape
I'm not sure you get it. Dr Akala doesn't even miss a word or bar. Not one hesitation. Ever. Once. In any of his fitb's. The content is worthy of any of the world's universities text books. There are great lyricist's but you can't have any of them in this brothers lane. It just seems mumble in comparison.
Bro I've been waiting for actual years for you to react to this. I've commented on quite a few videos talking about akala and telling you I know you'll love his fire in the booth part 1,2,3 and 4. Thank you for now checking this one out. When you follow a reactor for long enough you sort of get to know them even if they don't know you and I just knew you'd love akala. My top 3 are literally 1:eminem 2:akala 3:low-key
Listen to rap since the 80’s.. this is prophetic next level. Can’t get any better than this. He’s here for a message. Spitting the message for the lost.
Knucks is one of the most under appreciated artists out of the UK!! Scru he is so smooth with it! Please react to his Daily Duppy, Home, Nice & Good, 21 Candles, Alpha House, Standout ft Loyle Carner (also underrated), Leon the Professional, Hide & Seek, Three Musketeers, Los Pollos Hermanos, Thames, Rice & Stew and Ting Tun Up Part 2.
Akala and Lowkey are on their own level. Hard to say ones better in terms of conscious lyricism or activism as they're both elite to the extent of being scholars as much as rappers and both active in delivering a message. I'd possibly give Akala the edge in terms of flow though. UK rap underrated af in the States fr
A good (well i wouldn't call him a lower level, maybe, less globally consciousness). Other rapper to check out is mic righteous, later mic reckless. He's got 3 great FITB, Check out- the pen
This is the biggest performance of a breaking through UK MC. You don’t even need to flop to be finished, you can be finished if you are just good here. This shit is food or famine for most so they not going hungry are they?
Will always be my greatest inspiration when I managed to meet him during my University days. Great reaction as always! Thanks Respect for Lowkey and Righteous Brown
This is the best reaction to this that I've ever seen. Because, you've realised what we all know. He's the best ever. Now you need to realise another thing we all know. Potter Payper is the best street rapper in the UK. Please do his 2020 vision freestlye and then do Gangsteritus.
"Love is not soft or sorry / love is so tough it can make your mum catch a body" is really a double meaning a) mum's will do anything for their kids including kill to protect them b) mums will literally grow (catch a body) their kids in them one of the hardest things a human can do
You're on point my dude, Akala is beyond anyone else. Always has been the Don. Only person who comes close on a FITB is possibly Lowkey, Just Akala has it ALL 🔥
He also does this on world order debates/ he does this in political debates, he is one of the most knowledgeable and humble man yet has the talent to also RAP RAP, this is the outcome!!!
The thing about rappers talking about Africa. I always say that one of the worst things African Americans inherited over here after they severed our connection with our homelands is that American self-centerdness. American exceptionalism. It makes me think about that bar Los had about keeping the slave invested in the masters enterprise. It's sad for real. Malcolm X said we can never be free here until we’re free in Africa.(Congo specifically)
You NEED to react to Songer - Blackbox Sunrise Session - hes an amazing (white) storytelling and lyrical, yet witty rapper with a great catalogue, but the blackbox is one of his best freestyles and speaks deeply about black struggle
I love the respect you got for Akala his the GOAT. You really need to check out the thieves banquet part1 and got plenty of recommendations.... Murder run's the globe Who's the gangster Sbtv s2 e2...etc. hope you stay on the Akala Train. #uncleakala #flowfather...
'I was at Sharpeville, I was just two My mother, with a bullet in her head, and I knew Barely out of her womb, I played with her wound' AAAAAAAAAAAAAH what is thattttt!! I heard it late, but the year it came out and it still catches me off guard
SCRU, please please MIC Righteous FITB 3 and 4 NEXT! After that u must dive into KNUCKS. ( Leon The Professional, Alpha House, Nice And Good, Home ) Knucks is up and coming in the UK ATM but seriously has it all !!!!
Akala is unmatched, his knowledge, independence and will to educate others makes him the GOAT!! Did anyone else think JME was taking shots in That’s not me when he said ‘how could a man with a uni degree be bussing up Mic and Chating his grease ‘cause the music originated and will always remain on the streets’ I can’t think of anyone else he could be chatting about?! I might be wrong but my mind went straight to Akala. His book which features this spoken rap is epic x
17:11 scru, might be because alot of black americans would have migrated to america generations ago so at this point the current generation feels less african and more american. one kinda example of this ive heard about is some americans saying they are from florida but dont know where they are from in africa sorta thing
All the historical events and figures referenced in the second part - Invasion of Iraq (2003 to 2011) - Vietnam War (1955 to 1975) - Italo-Ethiopian War (1935 to 1941) - The Crusades (1095 to 1291) - European Witch Hunts (1400 to 1775) - Female Genital Mutilation (present) - Thutmose III (1479 to 1425 BCE) - Alexander the Great (356 to 323 BCE) - Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BCE) - Napoleon (1769 to 1821) - Francis Drake (1540 to 1596) - Indigenous Americans fighting European expansion (1492 to present) - Roman Senator (509 to 27 BCE) - Belgian Congo (1908 to 1960) - Rwandan Genocide (1994) - Japanese invasion of the Philippines (1941 to 1943) - Sharpeville Massacre (1960) - Anglo-Ashanti War (1824 to 1899) - West African Atlantic Slave Trade (15C to 19C) - Margaret Sanger (1879 to 1966) - Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (1915 to 2007) - Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima (1944) - Indigenous Americans fighting European expansion - USS Indianapolis Shark Attack (1945) - Haitian Revolution (1791 to 1804)
Let's get some Lowkey on the channel. Any of his FITB's, GRM daily or Ahmed, Ghosts of Grenfell, Return of Lowkey (probably not 1st though) or Terrorist. If you're feeling Akala then you need Lowkey in your life
Scru have you seen Dave's actual FITB yet? If not i def recommend it, its up there with this and wretch32's ones. (and ofc i know you be loving dave in general LOL)
Akala is a beast!!!! Abit of knowledge for yas he has a once famous sister as well Called MS Dynamite she was the shit back in the day Queen level spitter!
akala is too sick...if you want the BEST punches and bars in ANY fitb, check out Rhyme Asylums one, you'll be holding up that pillow the entire time lool
Just subscribed. Came across your channel because of your UK rap reactions. Akala gives me goosebumps. Check out the UK ladies. Lady Leshurr has a Diss track called DIV. Another rapper called Ivorian Doll had 3 bars in her daily duppy about Lady Leshurr so she came back with a whole track and annhialated her. Her flow, bars, lyrics and energy are 🔥. Great reactions.
BBC RADIO1 skibadee, Harry shotta, mic righteous Another old school BANGER this one is unique and rare. Would love to see it. It’s on like a drum and bass track.
Scru, you need to drop some Dream Chaser ish with Akala if possible. Reckon they'd be playin that from Buenos Aires to Beijing, DC to Nairobi. Thanks for the vid!!
Abra cadabra-double tap ft unknown t Stormzy- handsome Unkown p- daily duppy 🔥🔥🔥 Abra cadabra-trenches Pete and bas-brown 🔥🔥🔥 Tion wayne russ millions fivio foreign -body 2.0 Tion wayne polo g-rock dat Dave- 19th birthday Skepta-bullet from a gun Bugzy malone- war mode Ink- bad intentions 🇮🇪 Dave streatham Stormzy, headie one- audacity Dave- titanium Kwengface- daily duppy Lmk what to add
Noticed you wondering about the bit where he does the air quotes there - it's the only part of the thing that was fully censored. I won't quote it here because it's extremely racist, but it's what the guy who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima had to say about all the people he killed. Brilliant reaction by the way man, it's nice to see someone do it and not keep constantly stopping and rewinding every 4 bars until the video is 40 minutes long.
Akala is the greatest.. alot of people wont be able to admit that.
A line I think you did catch but is one of the greatest bars I've ever heard is: "Those that talk sense get outlined in chalk, those that talk shit get a line of support." Oh my god if that bar still doesn't hit just as hard several years later.
Wait so the outline in chalk refers to when a person dies, they draw the outline of where the body was last placed upon their death which I get. But what’s the line of support? Or is it just meant literally.
💯real talk 👍
It means the real struggle of rappers won't be financially or endorsed yet somehow the radio/RUclips/fake bs Will be
@@shadorealr7827 they actually do the chalk outline if the person is still alive
Akala is on a different league, the mind of that man !
That spoken word at the end always gives me chills man, what a king Akala is!
"Designed by Man's Mind But Built By His Greed" the strangest pyramids I ever did see .. Wasn't built with stones but with the Bones of Families ...
Chills. First time I heard that, I had to take several minutes to just think about what I had just heard.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER - That last 3rd hitting on all the evil we have done , teach others history , being life in rap and poetry combined .... what a legend
I listened to this about 80 times and it gets me every time...it transcends rap, music, art....realest shit I ever heard
More potter payper!! Start with 2020 vision freestyle.... as he was fresh home from jail then ....and go from there ... training day 3 mixtape is LEGENDARY!!
Heavy vouch
24 songs with just one short feature from Mover at the end. And you don’t get bored of him once throughout. Just straight bars the whole way through. Crazy talent. Such a sick tape
For real! Man could make a months worth of sick reviews
Hes gonna lose his shit if he does potter payper - training day 3 album
It will take him a little bit of time to get to Pottet and like it. Potter the goat goat goat.
Yes he is Scru!! He is a God, like Mic, so afther part 4 of Akala its time for part 4 Mic Reckless/Righteous
Grtz and love from Amsterdam
2nd this
I'm not sure you get it. Dr Akala doesn't even miss a word or bar. Not one hesitation. Ever. Once. In any of his fitb's. The content is worthy of any of the world's universities text books. There are great lyricist's but you can't have any of them in this brothers lane. It just seems mumble in comparison.
Bro I've been waiting for actual years for you to react to this. I've commented on quite a few videos talking about akala and telling you I know you'll love his fire in the booth part 1,2,3 and 4. Thank you for now checking this one out. When you follow a reactor for long enough you sort of get to know them even if they don't know you and I just knew you'd love akala. My top 3 are literally 1:eminem 2:akala 3:low-key
Listen to rap since the 80’s.. this is prophetic next level. Can’t get any better than this. He’s here for a message. Spitting the message for the lost.
Akala.....legend....lyrics and flows are unmatched
Educational brother that can really spit … real MC .. we need to protect him at all costs 🙏🏽
Bro u gotta check out Roll Safe (R.S) fire in the booth. One of the best verses you'll ever hear no cap🔥🔥🔥
Scru isn't ready for that one yet bro!
One of if not THE best
The lyricism is too 😮💨😮💨
I don't think you're lithening
🤣🤣🤣
Knucks is one of the most under appreciated artists out of the UK!! Scru he is so smooth with it! Please react to his Daily Duppy, Home, Nice & Good, 21 Candles, Alpha House, Standout ft Loyle Carner (also underrated), Leon the Professional, Hide & Seek, Three Musketeers, Los Pollos Hermanos, Thames, Rice & Stew and Ting Tun Up Part 2.
Yeah I think his daily dippy is a good place to start
He’s not an under appreciated artist anymore
Great shout stll. Anything from knucks mad under appreciated 💯
Knowledge is power big love UK. This guy will teach you a lesson
Oh been waiting for him to get back into Akala!!!!
his mind makes him above most if not all .....and he is real spitter ...worlds a brighter place with him in it ......proud to be a londoner
Akala and Lowkey are on their own level.
Hard to say ones better in terms of conscious lyricism or activism as they're both elite to the extent of being scholars as much as rappers and both active in delivering a message.
I'd possibly give Akala the edge in terms of flow though.
UK rap underrated af in the States fr
A good (well i wouldn't call him a lower level, maybe, less globally consciousness).
Other rapper to check out is mic righteous, later mic reckless. He's got 3 great FITB,
Check out- the pen
This is the biggest performance of a breaking through UK MC. You don’t even need to flop to be finished, you can be finished if you are just good here. This shit is food or famine for most so they not going hungry are they?
Not only is he a legend with words he’s a genius mathematician too!
Akala is the king of the pen and flow, the best from UK!
Will always be my greatest inspiration when I managed to meet him during my University days. Great reaction as always!
Thanks
Respect for Lowkey and Righteous Brown
Definitely the king of fire in booth absolutely amazing 😮
Lowkey fire in the booth- Part 2. Possibly the best one 🥶🥶🔥🔥
This guy kills everything he does
This is the best reaction to this that I've ever seen. Because, you've realised what we all know. He's the best ever. Now you need to realise another thing we all know. Potter Payper is the best street rapper in the UK. Please do his 2020 vision freestlye and then do Gangsteritus.
"Love is not soft or sorry / love is so tough it can make your mum catch a body"
is really a double meaning
a) mum's will do anything for their kids including kill to protect them
b) mums will literally grow (catch a body) their kids in them one of the hardest things a human can do
Akala- Find No Enemy is a masterpiece from him.
You're on point my dude, Akala is beyond anyone else. Always has been the Don.
Only person who comes close on a FITB is possibly Lowkey, Just Akala has it ALL 🔥
Agree. His Shakespeare I was sent by a buddy in London. Akala is fantastic
Ive waited so long for this reaction 🔥
100% RS fire in the booth next- the dudes lyricism is unmatched
Shut up bro 😂
I have been waiting for this living legend since scru started looking into the UK! Big up Chantel 🔥🔥🔥🔥
All I gotta say is, great choice brudda 👏👏
Dave - Lazarus!! Can’t believe you haven’t done this yet! Massive African vibe!!!
He also does this on world order debates/ he does this in political debates, he is one of the most knowledgeable and humble man yet has the talent to also RAP RAP, this is the outcome!!!
The thing about rappers talking about Africa. I always say that one of the worst things African Americans inherited over here after they severed our connection with our homelands is that American self-centerdness. American exceptionalism. It makes me think about that bar Los had about keeping the slave invested in the masters enterprise. It's sad for real. Malcolm X said we can never be free here until we’re free in Africa.(Congo specifically)
Ocean wisdom FITB got to be listened to one of the most underrated rappers in the U.K.
Akala truly is next level
I'm sooooo excited!!!!!! glad you liked it Jean.
You NEED to react to Songer - Blackbox Sunrise Session - hes an amazing (white) storytelling and lyrical, yet witty rapper with a great catalogue, but the blackbox is one of his best freestyles and speaks deeply about black struggle
Have been lucky enough see him at a writer's convention as guest speaker. It was amazing
This is the definition of bodying it.
Knucks - Home. Priority reaction! So so good!
I love the respect you got for Akala his the GOAT. You really need to check out the thieves banquet part1 and got plenty of recommendations....
Murder run's the globe
Who's the gangster
Sbtv s2 e2...etc. hope you stay on the Akala Train.
#uncleakala
#flowfather...
'I was at Sharpeville, I was just two
My mother, with a bullet in her head, and I knew
Barely out of her womb, I played with her wound' AAAAAAAAAAAAAH what is thattttt!! I heard it late, but the year it came out and it still catches me off guard
Gotta get a ocean wisdom fire in the booth reaction. He goes off 🔥🔥🔥
SCRU, please please MIC Righteous FITB 3 and 4 NEXT! After that u must dive into KNUCKS. ( Leon The Professional, Alpha House, Nice And Good, Home ) Knucks is up and coming in the UK ATM but seriously has it all !!!!
This had me shook my man!!! They aren't listening my dude they think they are but damn!!! That hit the soul!! 💥💯🔥❤
Akala is unmatched, his knowledge, independence and will to educate others makes him the GOAT!!
Did anyone else think JME was taking shots in That’s not me when he said ‘how could a man with a uni degree be bussing up Mic and Chating his grease ‘cause the music originated and will always remain on the streets’ I can’t think of anyone else he could be chatting about?! I might be wrong but my mind went straight to Akala.
His book which features this spoken rap is epic x
Talking about the flows, im sure there are like 7 flow stitches in this too and he hits every switch perfectly
Keep these UK Reactions up. This one got forgot about styl. You're taking me back
I just found this after commenting on your recent UK rap reaction mad love man
Ive been waiting.for this FOREVER
AKALA.IS A BAR GOD
Literally went down a rabbit hole thirsty for knowledge after i saw this years ago.
There isnt another rapper out there putting you on to this much game and history in the most dope format ever. I
17:11 scru, might be because alot of black americans would have migrated to america generations ago so at this point the current generation feels less african and more american. one kinda example of this ive heard about is some americans saying they are from florida but dont know where they are from in africa sorta thing
Truth
Akala gave lectures at Oxford and has an honourary degree from a Russel Group university i think
First! Never a bad reaction with scru
All the historical events and figures referenced in the second part
- Invasion of Iraq (2003 to 2011)
- Vietnam War (1955 to 1975)
- Italo-Ethiopian War (1935 to 1941)
- The Crusades (1095 to 1291)
- European Witch Hunts (1400 to 1775)
- Female Genital Mutilation (present)
- Thutmose III (1479 to 1425 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 to 323 BCE)
- Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BCE)
- Napoleon (1769 to 1821)
- Francis Drake (1540 to 1596)
- Indigenous Americans fighting European expansion (1492 to present)
- Roman Senator (509 to 27 BCE)
- Belgian Congo (1908 to 1960)
- Rwandan Genocide (1994)
- Japanese invasion of the Philippines (1941 to 1943)
- Sharpeville Massacre (1960)
- Anglo-Ashanti War (1824 to 1899)
- West African Atlantic Slave Trade (15C to 19C)
- Margaret Sanger (1879 to 1966)
- Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (1915 to 2007)
- Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima (1944)
- Indigenous Americans fighting European expansion
- USS Indianapolis Shark Attack (1945)
- Haitian Revolution (1791 to 1804)
Loving your love for UK music 🇬🇧 Great reaction!
scru be puttin me on to FUEGO
This is my favorite Akala FITB 🔥🔥
Oh hell yes. This! This is what my evening was missing! 💥💥
Have to subscribe now! I’ve never heard anything like Akala.
Let's get some Lowkey on the channel.
Any of his FITB's, GRM daily or Ahmed, Ghosts of Grenfell, Return of Lowkey (probably not 1st though) or Terrorist.
If you're feeling Akala then you need Lowkey in your life
Scru have you seen Dave's actual FITB yet? If not i def recommend it, its up there with this and wretch32's ones. (and ofc i know you be loving dave in general LOL)
Akala is a beast. If you like this kind of lyricism listen to MIC RIGHTEOUS..THE PEN 🖊
Been waiting for this reaction from you for ages, then i completely miss it by 3 weeks!? 0_0
Yeah cuz fam realllg spazzin like the whole time sheesh talking that real real!!
He really is a RAP GOD!!! watching the reactions is funny. 🤣
Akala is a beast!!!! Abit of knowledge for yas he has a once famous sister as well Called MS Dynamite she was the shit back in the day Queen level spitter!
i can tell this really touched scru
Akala 🔥 Daily Duppy!! 🔥 🔥 🔥
Akala listen n learn....Greatest MC ever!!!
Been waiting for this one
Akala merced this whole set🔥
JME - issmad underrated spitter Scru needs to react 🔥
akala is too sick...if you want the BEST punches and bars in ANY fitb, check out Rhyme Asylums one, you'll be holding up that pillow the entire time lool
Just subscribed. Came across your channel because of your UK rap reactions. Akala gives me goosebumps. Check out the UK ladies. Lady Leshurr has a Diss track called DIV. Another rapper called Ivorian Doll had 3 bars in her daily duppy about Lady Leshurr so she came back with a whole track and annhialated her. Her flow, bars, lyrics and energy are 🔥. Great reactions.
BBC RADIO1 skibadee, Harry shotta, mic righteous
Another old school BANGER
this one is unique and rare.
Would love to see it.
It’s on like a drum and bass track.
The fact akala has only got 59k views is a shocking number for somebody of his calibre
This was amazing. Mind Blown.
We need more ps hitsquad, do his track ‘Guten tag’ it’s so hardddd 🔥😮💨
Scru, you need to drop some Dream Chaser ish with Akala if possible. Reckon they'd be playin that from Buenos Aires to Beijing, DC to Nairobi. Thanks for the vid!!
That shit was biblical no lie 😮
Mic righteous fire in the booth part 3 next bro
Abra cadabra-double tap ft unknown t
Stormzy- handsome
Unkown p- daily duppy 🔥🔥🔥
Abra cadabra-trenches
Pete and bas-brown 🔥🔥🔥
Tion wayne russ millions fivio foreign -body 2.0
Tion wayne polo g-rock dat
Dave- 19th birthday
Skepta-bullet from a gun
Bugzy malone- war mode
Ink- bad intentions 🇮🇪
Dave streatham
Stormzy, headie one- audacity
Dave- titanium
Kwengface- daily duppy
Lmk what to add
Surely a Ms Dynamite reaction follows this... Akala's sister, the vibe is a bit different but a great musical fam 🔥
Fire in the booth Akala is definitely number one, with Wretch and avelinos 🔥
We need more PS hitsquad!!! Petrol Station ft Kwengface is crazy!!!
Big respect for reaction 👏
THANK GOD, finally! I must've spammed this on 20, 30 vids! There is NO ONE like Akala, he's totally in his own lane.
Noticed you wondering about the bit where he does the air quotes there - it's the only part of the thing that was fully censored. I won't quote it here because it's extremely racist, but it's what the guy who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima had to say about all the people he killed.
Brilliant reaction by the way man, it's nice to see someone do it and not keep constantly stopping and rewinding every 4 bars until the video is 40 minutes long.
Some will never get or Understand Akalas message.My favourite UK Rapper and a fan for 20yrs..Potty, Low-key,Dave , Wretch,All good though
subscribed. You nailed it!
THIS WAS AMAZING!
Mostack got to be done daily duppy !!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🎶🎶🎶
Ops. You done did it now. 🔥🔥🔥😂
Akala FITB part 1 and 4 are absolute top tier
Daily dappy Akala will blow your mind 😎
Akala is the greatest and this is the best FITB.
Well done scru. Great reaction ✌️👍
“Ughhhhh not Marcus” SENT ME 😂