I've met them a few times in Brixton and Milton Keynes.. They write their own bars. All they did was ask their granddaughter what is today's word for this and that.. For example they say money, we say P's etc .. They say Gun we say Mash etc .. They are legit AF .. Don't doubt them just appreciate the work.
From my own read-in on theese geezers, they actually write the bulk of their own rhymes, but then ask their grand-kiddies to help them with modern street vernacular so that the youth of today can relate. They then go back and add the corrections or suggestions to the rhyme.
It’s actually two comedians who hire actors for the videos. They sound different live and can barely rap. But it’s still really impressive given the writers are writing in character, and can cater to all the strange characters they come up with for Sindhu World.
I love the "You can throw fists but the mash bang quicker" bar but it goes over the heads of most US reactors heads. A few get that a "mash" is UK slang for a firearm but, also, "bangers and mash" is an incredibly popular dish in the UK, basically sausage and mash potatoes with onion gravy. I love the bar mainly because I love bangers and mash, not so keen on the firearms myself, lol
Even if you don't know the slang if you're a rhyme aficionado you _should_ be able to surmise what they're talking about, innuendo or not. Granted most people I've seen that do react to it are more on the common listener side so they just look lost 25% of the time.
not from the UK, didn't know this, but picked it up during the song. it's so well written that it was easy to learn the vernacular mid-bar. shit goes hard.
7:58 - "Mess with the cake and I'll battenberg him" (bat & 'berg him), batternberg cake is made by slicing up different colors/flavors of cake and rearranging them into a checkerboard pattern. In the UK ambulances have a checkerboard pattern. Beat and slice you up and rearrange your bits until you need an ambulance.
Might be a stretch but I have also heard the theory that it is also I'll bat ( as in baseball bat) and 'berg him( as in iceberg, ice him i.e. kill him)
@@Nibininberg refers to burglary. So mess with that cake and I'll battenberg you (reference cake from the line before).meaning you mess with my money then I'll bat you and burglarize you. It's a great line
The Battenburg line is fucking bonkers. A Battenburg is a cake that's made by slicing different cakes up and putting them together. Because of the checkerboard pattern it's also slang for an ambulance. Then Pete slides in with "Kipling" that's ANOTHER kind of cake. Also, Bas is a classically trained musician so it makes sense that he's usually more complex.
I’ve been following them a few years, along with the rest of the UK scene. Judging from what they’ve said in interviews, and kinda reading some context clues here and there I think the most accurate and fair way to put it is that Pete and Bas write their verses with co-writer/s.
It’s full of sick bars but my favourite is: boot’s full of them flats screen tvs, Del Boy Peckham recognise me. It’s a shout out to Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses, who was a cockney market trader who dabbled in stolen goods.
I Know They’re Old And People Are Making Jokes About Them Almost In The Grave…But If You Think About It,..The Average Age Of A YOUNG Rapper Killed Or Murdered Is 23yrs Old. So I Believe Pete & Bas Deserve Respect For Doing What They Been Doing Years,…No Make That DECADES. And They Made It Well Passed The Age Of 23yrs Old. FAXXX!!..Great Great Reaction Y’all👍🏾💯👍🏾
fun fact about the Michelin Tires/Stars: The Michelin Star comes from a tour guide book that the Michelin tire company gave out outlining restaurant, lodging and car service stations for people to refer to. So that bar is more connected than most people think.
Hi Joe E, Black Pegasus another fire reaction. These young 70 year olds certainly know how to rap. Written by them or not, they're doing it, marvelous. Proof is in the pudding you don't know until you eat it. Lit reaction...👍☝️🖼☝️🎇🙂
I just don't get why you still question their writing...I mean they have said in interviews that they write their own material with help from their grandkids on current slang. Always glad to see Pete & Bas!
They definitely write their own bars. “Had a dream like Martin Luther, fell asleep to the sound of the hoover” is a bar in itself, but also hints at hoovers supposed involvement into dr Luther’s death.. “coming out in a fresh Ben Sherman” that is a proper old school geezer brand of shirt as opposed to the Canada goose/Gucci the young guys wear. The thought process into the cadence and triple layers of meaning in the lyrics 100% comes from older wiser heads 👏
Because a 74yo man isn't going to reference Gundam Wing. I love these dudes' music but they're a product. They spit better than most but no way they write it.
@@majboomer1285 I saw it just like I see it on every P&B reaction and I saw in their interviews. If you believe that *shrug* don't know what to tell ya.
Pete & Bas genuinely live the life, I love what they got going with the northern boys too, think baz recently did a short stint hence why they went quiet for a bit
@@b3a5t89 it's something most artists nowadays could never do or even think about doing. That is such a 90's early 2000's lyricists type of rhyme scheme I feel like there's only a handful of artists out there that could even do that even if they read it on paper they probably wouldn't know what rhyme scheme they were doing or how to get the cadence down
@@NOxSPLOOSHxPLANE battle rappers and a very select few current rappers, I could see doing it. Other than that, yeah. Not many people outside of that would be capable of pulling that off.
Been watching his channel ever since you first brought him on for the 1st Ren reaction. Dude is good! Been subbed ever since. Cheers from Nashville y'all!
Love that he called out the Cockney intonation for rhymes Americans wouldn't think of. Especially noticeable on Mr. Worldwide when they rhyme "chicas" with "Beach House"
Top bar for me is “breakin em down like the steps on the back of the box of the Crocker, bet he (Betty) take that” when I first realized he even through the Betty in I was flabbergasted😂
Don't forget they met at piano class,clearly blessed with musicians ability.for those that don't know london is the most diverse city in the world,thrown into a culture of an eye for an eye.x
They didn't meet at a piano class as such. Bas was giving a piano lesson to someone in the back of a shop. Pete went in the shop. Heard Bas teaching and they started chatting. That's how they met.
What's funny is unlike the majority of drill rappers, Bas actually has a criminal record and was locked up not too long before this group was formed, he would've been in his 60's in an HMP (Her Majesty's Prison).
Interesting point about rhyming in different accents. In one of Black Sabbath's songs, there is a lyric where the word Christ is rhymed with Choice. It only works in the UK Midlands Birmingham accent where Christ is pronounced Kroyst. :)
Yeah, they’ve lived some life. And it wasn’t easy… Some legit hard men here…. And there’s a long tradition of slang rhyming in working class England that I’m thinking makes the foundation for their work. Deep, complex, tough, and no easy button profanity. So strong…
THIS IS WHAT RAP WAS SUPPOSED TO BE!!! It’s been fucked for 20 years! Think Tekashi can hang with these dudes?!? This is one pinnacle of the art form. Bring this back please..
There grandkids help with the lingo of how the youngsters talk its mostly they're lyrics apart from a track or 2 I think they had a ghost writer someone famous. But they smashed it together and there is a load of them they call themselves the snooker team. All legends in the game showing age ain't nuttin. Go on boys
Their grandchildren help them translate some words into slang but apart from that they rhyme and mesh it altogether, these men are on another level, if you dig deep you will find there is a whole crew of these old boys killing it with pete and baz
Omg thank you for such a fun reaction.. Honestly I've had a rough night. And feeling physically and mentaly drained AF 🤢😞.. It may seem silly to some but these reactions. Really help Pick my mood up. When I'm struggling. Thank you guys for bringing so much fun and joy out into the world. It means more than u may realise. 🖤🔥🙏✌️N🖤
I think your next interview should be with Dirt Miller. He's super good and needs the push. And he's a bit of an enigma, which is pretty intriguing as a fan. You & Don could def. have a killer sit down with him!
I've met them a few times in Brixton and Milton Keynes.. They write their own bars. All they did was ask their granddaughter what is today's word for this and that.. For example they say money, we say P's etc .. They say Gun we say Mash etc .. They are legit AF .. Don't doubt them just appreciate the work.
They did research in other words, aka studied the game. I know of a GOAT who does alot of that.. MM
I'm obsessed with watching Pete and bas reactions. This is one of my favourite videos so far!
Yeh mate mew two the guys face is pure class 👌
That's my daily guilty pleasure
From my own read-in on theese geezers, they actually write the bulk of their own rhymes, but then ask their grand-kiddies to help them with modern street vernacular so that the youth of today can relate. They then go back and add the corrections or suggestions to the rhyme.
Yep that’s the story everyone tells over and over
@@pyenapplecos it’s true
It’s actually two comedians who hire actors for the videos. They sound different live and can barely rap. But it’s still really impressive given the writers are writing in character, and can cater to all the strange characters they come up with for Sindhu World.
@@kylemclachlan8651 Thanks for the info.
@@kylemclachlan8651this one is the truth, stop with the grandkids nonsense, it’s deluded
I love the "You can throw fists but the mash bang quicker" bar but it goes over the heads of most US reactors heads. A few get that a "mash" is UK slang for a firearm but, also, "bangers and mash" is an incredibly popular dish in the UK, basically sausage and mash potatoes with onion gravy. I love the bar mainly because I love bangers and mash, not so keen on the firearms myself, lol
“Couple of cans in the chiller” is a dead woman in an ice fridge.
Even if you don't know the slang if you're a rhyme aficionado you _should_ be able to surmise what they're talking about, innuendo or not. Granted most people I've seen that do react to it are more on the common listener side so they just look lost 25% of the time.
not from the UK, didn't know this, but picked it up during the song. it's so well written that it was easy to learn the vernacular mid-bar. shit goes hard.
@@j0fiz986 🥶
As an American, I'll give it to you that bangers and mash is peak British cuisine. Too bad Germany outdid it with currywurst though.
From the first time I heard Pete and Bas , I was instantly hooked.
These two grandpas are better than most mainstream rappers out today.
They are. No joke
thats the power of being legit
7:58 - "Mess with the cake and I'll battenberg him" (bat & 'berg him), batternberg cake is made by slicing up different colors/flavors of cake and rearranging them into a checkerboard pattern. In the UK ambulances have a checkerboard pattern. Beat and slice you up and rearrange your bits until you need an ambulance.
And mr Kipling is the brand of battenburg that are sold in the UK 👌
Might be a stretch but I have also heard the theory that it is also I'll bat ( as in baseball bat) and 'berg him( as in iceberg, ice him i.e. kill him)
@@Nibinin That's what I meant by "(bat & 'berg him)", so I think you're right. :D
@@Nibininberg refers to burglary. So mess with that cake and I'll battenberg you (reference cake from the line before).meaning you mess with my money then I'll bat you and burglarize you. It's a great line
Flipped the bird is a double. Going to prison is called doing bird over here
thank you sir....didnt know that makes more sense now!
Triple for us in The States: jailbird, middle finger, woman
@@thewesty101quad, flipping a bird of coke
@@danielandree3947 hadn't heard that, but I'm glad we're at the same party 🎉
I am always here for people discovering Pete and Bas!!!!
The Battenburg line is fucking bonkers. A Battenburg is a cake that's made by slicing different cakes up and putting them together. Because of the checkerboard pattern it's also slang for an ambulance. Then Pete slides in with "Kipling" that's ANOTHER kind of cake. Also, Bas is a classically trained musician so it makes sense that he's usually more complex.
Mess with the cake and il battenburg him cake is in actual cake but also cake as in cash definitely one of my favorite bars
As an 80's baby this is what karaoke night at the retirement home will look like in another 20yrs
lol
First time viewer I enjoyed this discussion. A ton of intelligent insight and the videographer has a calming energy. Godbless
I’ve been following them a few years, along with the rest of the UK scene. Judging from what they’ve said in interviews, and kinda reading some context clues here and there I think the most accurate and fair way to put it is that Pete and Bas write their verses with co-writer/s.
Pete and Bas are 🔥 always 💪👏❤️😎✊
Oh this was bananas, now I have a new rabbit hole to go down. Thank you
It doesnt matter how many times i watch people react to this. Its great every time
Space balls shirt goes crazy
Thank you for regognising the beauty of the uniqueness 🎉👍💞😎
Oh, hell yes! Age is just a number. Never to old to flip the bird!
And now you have to listen to all of pete and bas, it's the law😂👍
Love it!! Definitely go down this rabbithole on your channel Joe E!!! Much love boyz! ❤✌️
It’s full of sick bars but my favourite is: boot’s full of them flats screen tvs, Del Boy Peckham recognise me.
It’s a shout out to Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses, who was a cockney market trader who dabbled in stolen goods.
I Know They’re Old And People Are Making Jokes About Them Almost In The Grave…But If You Think About It,..The Average Age Of A YOUNG Rapper Killed Or Murdered Is 23yrs Old. So I Believe Pete & Bas Deserve Respect For Doing What They Been Doing Years,…No Make That DECADES. And They Made It Well Passed The Age Of 23yrs Old. FAXXX!!..Great Great Reaction Y’all👍🏾💯👍🏾
fun fact about the Michelin Tires/Stars: The Michelin Star comes from a tour guide book that the Michelin tire company gave out outlining restaurant, lodging and car service stations for people to refer to. So that bar is more connected than most people think.
Fabulous reaction.
You guys need to check out the Window Frame Cypher 1 & 2 from Pete & Bas. Both are insane.
And Golf ft. Norman Pain!
Quick 1,2. The old estate pleeeez
Hi Joe E, Black Pegasus another fire reaction. These young 70 year olds certainly know how to rap. Written by them or not, they're doing it, marvelous. Proof is in the pudding you don't know until you eat it. Lit reaction...👍☝️🖼☝️🎇🙂
Fire reaction, keep them coming
I just discovered Pete and Bas all I can say is OMG! The flow is impeccable!
🤩🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Really happy you done this BP, there are so many bangers by these triple OGs
Can’t remember the last time I clicked so fast!
I hadn’t heard these people before. Their voices do sound aged tonally to me but that makes it even more interesting👍🦇
This song was how I got introduced to them I lost my shit lol
I just don't get why you still question their writing...I mean they have said in interviews that they write their own material with help from their grandkids on current slang. Always glad to see Pete & Bas!
They definitely write their own bars. “Had a dream like Martin Luther, fell asleep to the sound of the hoover” is a bar in itself, but also hints at hoovers supposed involvement into dr Luther’s death.. “coming out in a fresh Ben Sherman” that is a proper old school geezer brand of shirt as opposed to the Canada goose/Gucci the young guys wear.
The thought process into the cadence and triple layers of meaning in the lyrics 100% comes from older wiser heads 👏
Also, Bas was a music teacher and trumpet player, the cadence comes from him 👌💯
Because a 74yo man isn't going to reference Gundam Wing. I love these dudes' music but they're a product. They spit better than most but no way they write it.
@@CorkyKneivel I guess you didn't see the "with help from their grandkids on current slang" part of my message.
@@majboomer1285 I saw it just like I see it on every P&B reaction and I saw in their interviews. If you believe that *shrug* don't know what to tell ya.
Pete & Bas genuinely live the life, I love what they got going with the northern boys too, think baz recently did a short stint hence why they went quiet for a bit
7:49 red hat’s like “😮 whoa, grandpa ain’t playin”
We need that Pete and bas "quick 1-2" reaction the way bas rhymes at the end is crazy most young cats would never be able to do it
It took me checking comments to get what Bas did in that 3rd verse. He’s a fucking alien.
@@b3a5t89 it's something most artists nowadays could never do or even think about doing. That is such a 90's early 2000's lyricists type of rhyme scheme I feel like there's only a handful of artists out there that could even do that even if they read it on paper they probably wouldn't know what rhyme scheme they were doing or how to get the cadence down
@@NOxSPLOOSHxPLANE battle rappers and a very select few current rappers, I could see doing it. Other than that, yeah. Not many people outside of that would be capable of pulling that off.
Been watching his channel ever since you first brought him on for the 1st Ren reaction. Dude is good! Been subbed ever since. Cheers from Nashville y'all!
Love that he called out the Cockney intonation for rhymes Americans wouldn't think of. Especially noticeable on Mr. Worldwide when they rhyme "chicas" with "Beach House"
Top bar for me is “breakin em down like the steps on the back of the box of the Crocker, bet he (Betty) take that” when I first realized he even through the Betty in I was flabbergasted😂
Don't forget they met at piano class,clearly blessed with musicians ability.for those that don't know london is the most diverse city in the world,thrown into a culture of an eye for an eye.x
They didn't meet at a piano class as such. Bas was giving a piano lesson to someone in the back of a shop. Pete went in the shop. Heard Bas teaching and they started chatting. That's how they met.
U no what, some people are just natural gifted
Love it great reaction guys.
What's funny is unlike the majority of drill rappers, Bas actually has a criminal record and was locked up not too long before this group was formed, he would've been in his 60's in an HMP (Her Majesty's Prison).
"Browns " is my favorite song of their's . Pete and Bas are fire
That Dark Helmet shirt is rad as fuck. Great reaction, Pete and Bas rock my socks off, or something.
Interesting point about rhyming in different accents. In one of Black Sabbath's songs, there is a lyric where the word Christ is rhymed with Choice. It only works in the UK Midlands Birmingham accent where Christ is pronounced Kroyst. :)
There's a small documentary about them they write their own lyrics... their grandchildren mix the music for them...🙏
welcome to the fam,bro..bam!!
Yeah, they’ve lived some life. And it wasn’t easy… Some legit hard men here…. And there’s a long tradition of slang rhyming in working class England that I’m thinking makes the foundation for their work. Deep, complex, tough, and no easy button profanity. So strong…
Fire!!! Loved it.. couldn’t stop cracking up haha
THIS IS WHAT RAP WAS SUPPOSED TO BE!!! It’s been fucked for 20 years! Think Tekashi can hang with these dudes?!? This is one pinnacle of the art form. Bring this back please..
OMG
WOW
Awesome reaction guys
True facts, my granny Pearl was an old country woman, and she told me it was better to be an old man’s queen than a young man’s play thing
A Sindhu is a flowing river,stream etc😊
My favorite part
this bloke is quite big but my angers bigger.
That sent chills for me.
Who ever is writing???? They are! give em the credit guys!
I don't give a fuck the delivery is so fucking gooooood!
From what I heard, lyrics wise, fully legit, the grandkids are there to help with today's slang. That's what I heard.
Flip the bird in the uk is flipping the middle finger also.
Pete and Bas, the 80yr old FUQ-boyz
Aaaaaand now you'll have to react to every single one of their tracks. It's the law.
The law is the law.
I recommend "Golf".
There grandkids help with the lingo of how the youngsters talk its mostly they're lyrics apart from a track or 2 I think they had a ghost writer someone famous. But they smashed it together and there is a load of them they call themselves the snooker team. All legends in the game showing age ain't nuttin. Go on boys
Love Pete and Bas!!!!
You guys are my favorite reactors
Pete and Bas windowframe cypher. It’s them with a bunch of their friends . Another classic
Video starts at 4:37 if you want to skip all this first stuff
Gangsters who lived long enough to become Gangsta Grandad Rappers !!
Joee i love the shirt man.
Ghetts!! Fire in the booth part 3 and Mad about bars! 🔥 🔥
Oddly in my genre cacoon I at some point was exposed to them. They are Awsome!
Their grandchildren help them translate some words into slang but apart from that they rhyme and mesh it altogether, these men are on another level, if you dig deep you will find there is a whole crew of these old boys killing it with pete and baz
Norman Pain is really fucking great.
These guys are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
They ain't no grandpa, they are real of Grand Daddy 😭☠️
Seeing these guys doing they're thing is so inspirational coz even if someone broke unto the scene at 40 yo can still have a 30 plus year career ❤❤❤
I agree. It's never to late.
Bas wrote in a very old article that hes avid of poetry, so probably helps explain the word play tbf
Pete is a former boxer and Bas is a legit ex-gangster
I love them there amazing man I love joe reaction
The rabbit hole is still going
The grandkids are rappers and writers and involved there grandpas and they blew up.
Omg thank you for such a fun reaction.. Honestly I've had a rough night. And feeling physically and mentaly drained AF 🤢😞.. It may seem silly to some but these reactions. Really help Pick my mood up. When I'm struggling. Thank you guys for bringing so much fun and joy out into the world. It means more than u may realise. 🖤🔥🙏✌️N🖤
I think your next interview should be with Dirt Miller. He's super good and needs the push. And he's a bit of an enigma, which is pretty intriguing as a fan. You & Don could def. have a killer sit down with him!
Can't find your mates link btw, not in the description (at least not that I can see :/) - 9:41 the 'yeah' thing hahaha
10:15 - "Flipped the bird" is a triple since bird is both a lady and a prison sentence.
in American slang, that means selling cocaine. Flipping a bird is flipping a kilo. There’s a lot of good bars in this rap.
@@BlackPegasusRaps Dude! A quadruple, I love it. Middle finger, kilo, lady, prison sentence.
HIGH key I'd go to that show LOL
They are touring the UK right now
They releasing an album nivember 22nd
BP on drill, lets go
I used to chill with one of their grandkids growing up. They have ghost writers, but it's not their grandkids
HELL YEAH. OG's.
Definitely check P Money- Skarrz and Novelty freestyle for more of those unique UK flows and bars
love the spaceballs shirt
That was a fkn entertaining reaction 😂
wait till he meets the snooker team, when he meets The northern boys norman pain and patrick k
I’ll be old but there’s a chance I’ll be around when you updated to the 70-year old FUQ boys. Til then Pete & Bas got it.
Yes they write their own stuff
Class
Ren shouted out Pete and bas in his love music pt2, 1:13 into the track
Uk baby 😎😎