Sorry to hear this. Best wishes 🙏👍

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Wow, how gracious he is. 🙏

Condolences. Rest in peace mama

Sending prayers and healing vibes.

nice! a fitting non-trivial collating synopsis. ❤

Brilliant take man!

His genre is poetic bard. But seriously, he is a poet and I think that's the best explanation to what he is.

It's called bardcore

Something like that

Glad I’m not the only one . 55 and just discovered him and now it’s all I watch

@@takerhapsody Watched him a week ago....swearing ain't caring, so I pulled the plug. Because of Black Pegasus, thought I'd have a second suck of the sav. He IS a very strange-ly talented young fella; now says this 62 y.o. fella !!

Masterpiece is the only word to describe this song. This song is a modern day Bohemian Rhapsody and I'll die on that hill.

Wheww. Masterpiece to say the least. And the comparison to Bohemian Rhapsody is the best I’ve seen. One of the best comments on these dozens of reaction videos to Hi Ren I have watched!!!

I second this. Chalk Outlines is so incredibly gorgeous. That live version blows my mind.

and "how to be me" and "sick Boi" FOR SURE.

Chalk Outlines and Genesis are my go to follow-up recommendations. After the exhausting nine minute ordeal that 'Hi Ren' is, they're much easier listens. Chalk is still a shot to the heart obviously, but it requires nothing of the listener to take it in. Just sit back and relax, and try to hold back the tears.

@@justinatest9456 Have you heard his version of "i shot the sheriff " with his band The Big Push? It’s the best. "Losing it" is great great great also.

best song ever created!

Agreed

This reaction was extremely captivating and enjoyable to watch. Loved every minute of it.

I showed the wife Ren and she almost cried 🤣🤣 Salute to Ren!

​@@misterbiscuit2538 It makes me emotional every time. Chalk Outlines is another completely different vibe!

Can you answer in more detail?

Haha same here, same here. Is like, each time i see ppl react and are blown away by him I feel a sense of pride in me for him, like i don't even know why, I'm just... like..so proud of him ❤️❤️

I am another convert. Feeling privileged to have heard REN

Yup, pretty much my story. 😂

I always feel like a proud Mum every time I watch someone hearing Ren for the 1st time

😝🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Ren reacts to reactors reacting to his material. His father Martin also chimes in. We are all in this together, we are all Ren.

Ren reacts to reactors reacting to his material. His father Martin also chimes in. We are all in this together, we are all Ren.

@@TrianglesAndCircles is that so? Wow how cool never came across such a thing. Where might I find that? Thanks

@@XRPeakyBlindAR It's all over so many reaction channels. Ren has his own channel too.

Thank you for the info, if you know REN please tell him he is truly the most talented and original artist I have ever seen. I am 63 and played festivals in the 80s. REN’s music is just the best of what life has to offer. I wish him well.

As I understand it the story was a little different, and a lot more fucked up. He got incredibly sick shortly after being signed like you said, but when he went to the doctor they couldn't find anything wrong with him, so they assumed it had to be psychological and prescribed anti-psychotic meds to treat his "delusions". Lyme disease is incredibly painful and draining and he knew that something real was wrong, so when the psych meds did nothing he continued going to doctor after doctor and they all kept telling him it was all in his head. He spent that 10 years mostly in his bed, because he didn't have the strength to get out of it for more than about an hour a day. He finally went to a doctor that diagnosed him with Lyme disease, but the problem then was that the disease had been ravaging his body and his brain for 10 years unchecked. That's why he has had to go through stem cell therapy (which I believe initially happened several years ago now), because the normal treatments were not enough for late stage Lyme disease.

@@Psyco913 Thank you, makes his artistry even more unbelievable.

@@randlewilliams8288 just a rabid fan.

@@Psyco913 you have the particulars right from what I have read. Thanks for the details. 💯

I think he alluded to why he said he’s fighting with KZfaq algorithms meaning he probably hasn’t quite figured them out yet or if he did figure them out, he doesn’t want to fit into that round holes being a square peg maybe just guessing

100% agree. 70 years old is a bit late to get into hip-hop, but this is taking me there!

8 months later, over 200.000 subs ❤ And yes Biscuit was cool - want to hear more from him and Pegasus together. Was so nice to see &hear his reaction to Ren and their conversation

Me too, and I completely agree with you. The line ‘the older I get the more I feel the hunger’ resonates most for me, it’s so powerful. The sense of urgency is palpable and only grows stronger with time. We’re in a cruel paradox. I’m sorry you have to live with this. I hope you find a treatment or therapy that helps, that enables you to express your art. Wishing you all the best and be gentle with yourself.

That kid is brilliant

You don't always Die from Lyme Disease Syndrome but you can near waste away to near nothing being just a Shell of the person you once was if you do survive, I have An Auto Immune Disease called Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and over the last eight years my body has aged twenty years and like and like Lyme Disease Syndrome (Caused by a Tick Bite) you don't always die but it will shorten your life and you always feel defeated. It Sucks... GBS is caused by either a Flu Vaccine Shot Or a severe shock to the body I had both only months apart from each other and then it appeared. It's a struggle.

@@batubop651 I hear you. As the years go on, the countdown clock gets louder and louder. I'm pushing sixty and there are times every second's tick sounds like a rifle's crack.

I will try and make a list for my parents tomorrow to take care and have to take a break and leave early on Sunday to make up the final decision and we should go to our own church for dinner on Friday or Friday or so you will have no need of an invite for this week to do this please give it a shot so I don't miss you so well then we have been busy all weekend too long so far but it was good seeing all day you were there so we didn't get out there by now because I didn't know how I would get there to get out there was so many of these days are still there but I'm sure they would get some more help for our kids than we could be for our next meeting when I get off campus next time around about this week but we need an hour ahead that I need some good time today when we get off this week again next month after I come off again but we are still waiting till our first round is here again but it's just now getting better we know that it's been very hectic over this period that is still happening here because I'm very busy now trying new ways that we don't need anything like we do when we're both old guys that we can get along that we don't know what is up here now though I'm still trying some new ones now I'm just trying some new things I'm getting into this one last night while we worked here before they went off their website when we moved here we went back up their website they wanted their friends here some good friends of their family

This is the comment. I didn’t realize why this beat hit so hard and you hit the nail on the head.

It is a monster of a beat! I concur ❤️🤩👌🏼

i heard that opening and it i instantly thought id heard it before it took me like 3 minutes to realize it sounded like mushroom heads song solitaire unraveling

Ren put a video up on his twitter account in the last few days. The Verve tracked him down to where he’s currently being treated in Canada and sent him a gift. Among other things was a bass from the bassist from Verve. It’s well worth a watch, so glad he’s getting the recognition he deserves. Edit: not 100% sure, but I think Fat Boy Slim, like REN, is also from Brighton. There’s an awesome video on KZfaq of Fat Boy Slim performing live on the beach in Brighton back in the day, the entire city turned out, filled the entire beach. So I like that Ren chose this song and filmed it in the exact same area, like a homage to Fat Boy Slim AND their shared hometown.

Ren learned to dance in the chaos .............yes yes yes

Totally agree, Ren is real life talent, we can all relate to his lyrics cuz he is real, absolutely amazing

Right?? I feel what these guys are saying. But early on I wanted to shake my monitor when they were suggesting 'maybe he's just rhyming to rhyme.' I was like WHAT?!

He is also able to perfectly depict an inner monologue, that there are those out there who would never get to experience it without such, due to their lack of one. I took an interest in perception and words used, since discovering I have aphantasia and the rest of you are pretty much clairvoyant in my eyes! (have clarity of thought in visions, e.g. can see an apple or count sheep to sleep - amazing! I thought it was a figure of speech, I get there are those that lack an inner monologue also, so they cannot understand my rambling world of thought - music can connect us all).

Ren is fire he’s been about a minute but his time has come he’s blowing up big time

"This Kid" is a 32 year old man 😉

Welcome aboard. :) I have been on it for about 3 weeks now and it is never dull. always.... surprising and amazing and heart wrenching. dude.

in every song he takes you with him on his private journey. its incredible... goosebumps almost every song

Me too, pushing 50!

Me too. I’ll be 73 this year. I love this kid! Nice to see the kindred spirits out there. ❤️❤️❤️

Ditto from a 56 y/o in rural Australia.

Me too. I'm so grateful

Female, 67 yo - what was that? He is a gift to the world ❤

The pig is also said to represent greed.

@@IronRaspberry truth. I'm just sharing what Ren has to say about it.

Apologies for such a lengthy reply. Thank you for sharing that regarding the Animal Farm, and greed. I’ve also read it’s a representation of the medical system and certain practitioners and their mistreatment when they get it so so wrong. I’ve been living with the same physical conditions as Ren for nearly 30 years, there’s long been great discrimination within the global medical community of misdiagnosing it as ‘all in our head’ or ‘psychosomatic. The psychs (obviously not all, some amazing ones out there too) hijacked our conditions decades ago so we went without the proper research and funding into the actual biomedical origins and causes, leading to incorrect psych diagnosis and treatment for such a devastating physical condition. I’ve lost a few very dear friends along the way because of this. The tide has luckily slowly been turning in the past 5-10 years, some incredibly brave and brilliant scientists and drs fought back and are doing amazing work now. It’s still early days comparatively though. But it meant many of us live in fear of the very drs and medical system we desperately need help from. I have personally felt literally butchered by them including due to operations not done correctly and nearly losing my life more than once. So when I see some (not all) drs and surgeons, the butchering pig is 100% the imagery I have, they do not feel human to me, and it can be terrifying. Many of us are left with ‘medical ptsd’ purely due to years of misdiagnosis, mismanagement, physical endangerment and neglect, and the years of gaslighting from the medical system. Plus from having to fight so damn hard for access to get the actual treatment we need. Keeping in mind most of us live in countries with public heath systems that do not provide the drs and treatments needed due to lack of public funding, yet because most of us can’t work we don’t have the financial means to go private or overseas where treatments are available. Ren needing to go to Belgium for stem cell treatment and now Canada for his current treatment, yet needing to fundraise on gofundme for the exorbitant costs is evidence of this. Evidence of how the government and NHS (along with equivalent in many other nations) is failing him and millions more. #millionsmissing So when I first saw the pigs, I immediately quite literally associated them with certain drs and with the treatment many of us have suffered at the hands of the medical system. But also figuratively with the system’s corrupt immense power over us, as in the pigs portrayal in the Animal Farm. I’m grateful you confirmed this in your comment. Plus as @iron raspberry pointed out, Greed. Be It the group of British psych scientists of Oxford to hog (🐽) the funds that should have been directed to biomedical researchers instead, along with governments’ dismal funding etc. Just to repeat myself, a great shift has happened in recent years. Due to the bravery of some incredibly brilliant scientists and drs. And of course the global community people/patient power movement that helped push it into the limelight. But it’s still early stages and we need so much more, most still have no access to specialists and treatments. Ren is now one of the most powerful patient/people voices in this community and I’m so in awe of and grateful to him. Plus his music has been the best cathartic medicine. I’ll also point out, when most people are faced with a such a difficult life changing diagnosis with huge stigma, a sudden inability to work and poverty, lack of medical care, the loss of loved ones and broken relationships, isolation if homebound/bed bound… well therapy is very much needed. But due to the lingering old false information still believed by some professionals in the psych community, most of us don’t dare seek out therapy for fear of further medical gaslighting. Luckily we have strong online supportive communities, but we should have access to safe professional mental health support. The suicide rate in the community is shocking. Lastly, if you go to REN’s KZfaq page, the video he released to announce his new music is an old vlog of his when he was younger and very ill, it’s heartbreaking, raw and very real. In the video description he has written a full essay explaining all of this including his personal journey with it. And how it was the motivation for the new songs. Watching and reading it helps greatly in better understanding many of his lyrics and video imagery too, both in his older and newer music.

​@@batubop651 no need to apologize! Your life experience and thoughts are enlightening! I hope your condition improves, stay 💪

@@buddy7467 thank you for your kind response! I grew up culturally with a ‘never complain, never explain’ mindset, I’ve been trying to remind myself that sometimes it’s actually cowardly to hide in the shadows, and not a sign of strength. my stomach is usually in knots if I write a lengthy explanation, and have to resist strongly the urge to delete. Seeing a positive and thoughtful comment like yours means the world, undid the knots. Wishing you all the best :)

Ren is very talented and I think the big push are all wonderful Romain’s guitar skills and his lovely energy is also a joy to watch plus the other guy that sings is also great, listening to him sing Sympathy for the Devil on their very last gig was fantastic, being a stones fan myself I am quite critical about cover I see of the big songs, ain’t seen anyone who can pull off Merry yet on Give me Shelter. There is a video somewhere with her vocal isolated out and the story of what happened that night.

Live?! I’m so envious. Would have been so special.

I've been watching Ren for the last few days, and he is stunning in his talent... I told my wife and shared "Hi Ren" on my Facebook page as the best thing I've heard in decades. It struck me today that it's like the first time hearing Pink Floyd "Darkside of the Moon". Maybe a bit like hearing Queen "Bohemian Rapsody" when it came out. He's insanely talented and I'm stunned that he doesn't have a label... which may be a good thing for the rest of us. His continious stream videography shot by his buddy and flat mates for basically no cost mean he gets to do what he is drawn to, no contractual obligations that lead to half assed product because a label was pushing for the next hit.

Truth!

What I get is it's the hunger to create. Creating is what makes his life meaningful. The monster is the genre defying scope of his creativity. It's not just singer songwriter guitar playing Leonard Cohen style or crooning Frank Sinatra, or rap, or hip hop. And he's showing off & having fun with it too.

@@patparker4280 I meant in terms of the purpose of the song as being a technical rapping showcase rather than the lyrical content and song premise

Yeah - the full Jenny & Screech reaction would be amazing

I don't know what it is about Ren. I'm *his age*, but I still see a kid when I look at him- maybe it's knowing he had the better part of a decade stolen from him, when if life was fair he would have gotten to really experience his 20's. But I feel the same motherly pride and elation you do. I'm so happy he gets to take off now.

From what I've picked up watching interviews in the rabbit hole it's a nod to the hallucinations he had when the wrong meds caused psychosis. He would see people in animal masks.

And for the MY shout out - don't forget his collab with The Crystal Method for - Drown In The Now. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNBompl21sfRd2g.html

In the hunger he says so much its hard to keep up! Got to check out the lyrics to see if he s just performing amazing Rap gymnastics.

😆🙌🏽

i also feel all warm in my feels witnessing genuine appreciation & inspiration at true talent by truly talented artists themselves. much respect for the newer artists that deserve it. i had the biggest grin on my face when you hit ya boy with the marley portion. im here like YAAASSS!