That line that goes "mess with the cake and I'll battenburg him" goes hard, battenburg is a type of cake in a checkered pattern, made by cutting it into pieces and rearranging it, and in the UK, ambulances have a checkered pattern on the side, so, he's saying if someone messes with the money/product, he'll cut them up and put them in an ambulance

JUST TO LET YOU KNOW: Bas (the tall one) is a professional musician by trade. He is also was a music teacher and could play multiple instruments such as the sax and trumpet. That is the reason he has such lungs and breath control. It's easy for him! If you listen closely, Bas' flow sounds like a COLTRANE or CHARLIE PARKER solo the way he rides a beat. He said he spent a number of years playing jazz piano aboard a cruise ship. Now where do a lot of cruise ships go? The brother on the left is right. They have seen and done so much. The British love to travel. It is also said that Bas was a bare knuckle backyard fighter in his youth and was pretty damn good. Pete said that because of his fast South London Cockney style of speaking, it made rapping pretty easy for him. Remember, Pete started listening to drill rap when he would pick up his granddaughter. She would get in and turn it on, and he would turn it off. over time, he would start listening to it on his own. Then one day, he got the idea... The UK is the home of creative writing styles: poems, limericks, nursery rhymes, shanties, etc.

I can’t stop watching Pete and Bas. They’re just so unique and entertaining.

Pete and Bas reaction videos are a whole genre of their own at this point.

The MLK Hoover scheme is wild. J Edgar Hoover formerly head of the CIA is theorized to be behind the MLK assaination and other deathly doings detailed in the book Hoover's Nightmare, which bridge's the Freddy Kruger line, followed by sleep with the fishes line about death but then the hoover dam named after j edgar hoover is famous Vegas Mob dumping ground along with mead lake where many have been sent to the depths with the fish. Truly wild

I think I've turned into a Pete and Bas junkie. I just can't get enough.

They are definitely writing their own lyrics. Some of the references and even language they are using are old and even for a UK listener like me, you have to be a certain age to get the references or even use certain phrases. Enjoyed the reaction.

“I was locked in an HMP” goes hard! You know Bas is widdit

"Switch suits like Mr Ben" line is in reference to UK kids TV show called Mr Ben and in the show he used to go to a costume store try on different costumes and would have an adventure while in the changing room in said outfit (kind of like magic) , suit of armour and he would be transported to olden times and fight a dragon basically. Each episode he tried on a different suit as he says in the line.

Bro I've listened to this song like 10 times and seen 15 reactions and I'm still hearing new twist and turn to this song it is so fire good s***

I don't care what their back story is, the stories they tell now and how they bring them are pure fire.

This was a 10/10 for me the flow switches were effortless and bars were insane. They’re too technical

"Don't care about colors, black or white we can be brothers!" I'm in!! Keep rockin it mates the vibes is pure fire.

“The man got shelled on (Sheldon) like big bang theory” 🔫🔥🔥🔥🔥

"I was locked in an HMP" - Her Majesty's Prison, there's a video of Bas getting picked up from the prison and there was a 6 month or so break in touring and music production while he was inside.

Pete's flow has also been good but you can really tell he has worked on it alot

They get better and better

Dude I can’t stop listening to this song

these geezers are buttery smooth luv em

"Mess with the cake and I'll battenburg" him, Battenburg is a kind of cake in a checkerboard pattern, and ambulances in the the UK are checkerboard patterned.

Bruh i just found out about them with this video, what the hell this is insane, sick flow, please do more ahah

Box a man down like eating jolof, we have a saying im Jamaica when you eat anything really quickly, we say" yoh bredda yuh box dat dat down quick quick" hey bro you ate that really quickly.

Pete was a bare knuckle boxer...he was good at it and is about bas is musically inclined but he was also a hustler also did some time when he was younger...for the most part they lived it

these dudes could be some triple OGs , They were holding it down in 80s

You guys know that 95% of these young rappers don't be doing what that talking about. This is art.and it's masterful.

What I like about Pete & Bas compared to other drill is that they speak of their past and it's okay, whereas young drillers make me want to smack them in the head and send them back to school sometimes when they're talking dumb, but P&B have made it so far that at their age it's okay to flex that way

You guys appreciate exactly what I appreciate about these guys. I don't usually care for reaction vids but I've been enjoying yours. Please continue making them; you both have good taste..

Yo vibe been watching yalls channel progress SO FAR, yalls setup looking hella nice, this joint is so them I love it 🤙🏼

1:36 that bar about MLK then straight into a bar about a nightmare is crazy wtf.

Their joint reaction at 3:42 is exactly what I did when I first heard this song!

Been waiting on this from you 2

Caught them live other week in Swansea, dope shit

These dudes are legit with the gangster shit they talk about. Cause these guys were legit gang leaders and members many years ago. Hell, Bas was in prison before the release of "Mr. Worldwide" and like 2 other songs.

Love these guys.. Luv from UK

You guys get it. Face value honesty. Cool vibe. New subber!

From the UK these guys are OGs

Bas is a music [piano?] teacher and Pete has a musical background too... they just keep getting better and better for only being in the game roughly 5 years

If you know UK slang and pop culture, they’re even more incredible. Every other line has a double or triple meaning. Mr. Benn was a character on a kids tv show from the 1970’s. He would change into various clothes in his walk-in closet and then step out into whatever time/place/scenario his costume dictated. Bas picked up on that and started his next line with “Tin-Tin”, which was another UK kids show from the time. Battenberg is a cake made in a checkerboard pattern … but also slang for an ambulance (because of the checkered pattern on the side). “Mess with the cake and I’ll Battenberg him” is a phenomenal bar. Knock Down Ginger is what we call “Ding Dong Ditch” here in the States. Mash = gun (in another one of their songs, Bas says he’s “banging that mash like English Breakfast”, which is just brilliant because “bangers and mash” is a traditional breakfast in the UK.) Ben Sherman = men’s clothing line (a bit dated, LOL) HMP = Her majesty’s prison Chain hang like bollocks = his chains are so heavy they swing like his manly bits Cone get split like Chevron = splitting your head open like the V in the Chevron symbol Also … Bas used to be a bare knuckle fighter in the day and I forget which gang Pete ran with. You’re not wrong to note the potential mob connection. The stuff they rap about … pig farms, bodies in the trash and cementing people into buildings is straight mob shit. I love these guys. They make my heart smile every day. They also scare the crap out of me because I’m pretty sure they’re serious. 😂😂😂

I’m almost sure they’re part of a wider team that writes the lyrics but it’s entertainment and as you say their delivery is insane and are true performers.

Pete and Bas were naughty in their day. They write about things that happened to them and what they did.

Fun reaction, guys. Solid vid

Impressed with how much you caught especially with the English slang! Earned a sub

Pete and Bas are the mutt's nut's! Keep em coming! They're the real deal UK'S finest!

Great reaction, caught so many bars others didn't..there are so many

The shell'd on like big bang theroy bar is crazy

Bro that was the first thing I said. The delivery of these lines is WAY TOO natural

Pete was wrapped up with the Kray twins back in the day and Bas had a fighting ring and grow room, and fought a murder charge at one point. They're legit old school thugs

Nice, your'e the only guys who got the Michelin restaurant /tyre links. you're in depth. ..awesome. subscribed

Dudes done some stuff. Nuff said..

That Michelin line is not only about tires BUT also about Michelin stars, how restaurants are rated. These men bodied this.

They are original old time gangsters. Pete worked for the richardson family an original london gangster family, bas was a bare knuckle boxer in his dads ring and worked for the krays

Aside from piecing them up like a battenberg cake & ambulances having checkers like battenberg cake....Also, there were 2 princes of Battenberg who were hemophiliacs. Hemophilia is when you bleed & can't stop. Then there's the battenberg gun carriage that they use to transport coffins on. They referenced sooo many things in this verse that are cohesive. They're fck'n genius.

Age ain’t nothing but a number. Represent

When I saw one of their videos for the first time I was thinking Pete and Bas are some famous UK rappers I don’t know about, who hired two grandpas to be in their videos and act like they’re rapping. Like the guy said here, the flow is just to perfect, and the vocals are so hard, I just had trouble believing it was them.

They were gangsters back in the 60s. They were active back in the day.

These guys are just pure entertainment.

These guys have real history of you look them up. Bas's family used to run an illegal boxing ring back in the day and Pete had a murder case from the 60's that caught up with him in the 90's and he beat the case but they were really from the streets

REAL GANGSTAS!💯💯💯💯

Just wanted to add in a few explanations to some very British references in their bars, 1. "The bouncer came out and he got weighed in" Weighed in means knocked out. 2. "Then I'm switch suits like I'm Mr Benn" Mr Benn was an 80's kids TV cartoon in the UK where the main character dressed up in different costumes in a costume shop. 3. "I dodged the case, so I flipped the bird" This means i didn't get prosecuted and didn't need to go to prison (Doing Bird). 4. "mess with the cake then I'll Battenberg him" Cake meaning drugs & Battenberg is a type of cake eaten with tea in the UK. 5. "dipped like a Rich Tea biscuit" Popular British biscuit (We do love our Biscuits). 6. "Knock Down Ginger" game played by kids in the UK where you know at someone's door and leg it to wind them up. 7. "Box a man back like I'm munching jollof" Jollof is Nigerian Rice. 8. "Super Kings and a bottle of bourbon" Super Kings are very long Cigarettes sold in the UK. 9. "Let that rip when I'm whipping that German" German refers to a BMW Car. 10. "Flick of the wrist and I left him gurning" Gurning is a weird distorted facial expression (Just Google "Gurning" and look at Photos, You'll understand!) 11. "Just stepped out in a fresh Ben Sherman" Ben Sherman make Shirts. 12. "I was locked in an HMP" HMP is Her Majesty's Prison. 13. "Del Boy, Peckham, they recognise me" This refers to Del Boy the main character of at UK TV Show called Only Fools & Horses (Arguably the Best Sit Com we ever made). 14. "Then he'll get cemented, builder's site" Buried in a Building site. 15. "cone get split like Chevron" on UK motorways they sometimes have Chevron markers that tell you to stay 2 metres apart. 16. "Chavving his jewels" Chavving means Stealing. Hope this helps our American Cousins :P

The man got shelled on big bag theory!!!! 😂

What y'all don't is that these Kats are REAL British O.G.'s. The reason they can rhyme is because they know Manchester rhyming slang. It's a language that the English criminal and underground kulture use so that squares and cops can't tell what they're talking about. It's been around for a long time over a hundred years. That's where these old dudes are from. I did a little research and both these Kats have done time, but they don't like to talk about it. Remember in England most people are white including the poor, and that's usually where the gangster class is from (they call gangs firms there). They usually big up there firm on most tracks.

Dude they were about that life. Look em up they going down memory lane 🤣

Kissed the curb, whats the word, I dodged the case so I flipped the bird... HOTTEST transition I've ever fucking heard...

I don't know if someone writes there bars.. but even if someone did which I don't think. The delivery is on point

I’m snatching his bird and thunder. Thunderbirds

In there younger days they done that shit real👌🏾🔥🔥🙏🏾

Pete rarely speaks about it (the short one) but he was in the Richardson gang which is basically the UK version of the Capone gang. There is also a lot of talk about Bas being a drug dealer in the 70s but he worked for a famous club and the owners always got him out of trouble. OG gangsters for real for real

These guys are still active, the one just came out after a short stretch

They arent capping any more than most rappers out there.

The Kings of UK Drill ☝️💯🔥👏❤️✊💪😎

"they lived life" this is so important... these old heads are the realist shit out there...

Bas: "1-2 kicked in the door like knock down ginger rip off the hinges" is what we called a ngg* knock in NY. Banging on someones door and running lol.

You guys get it, the first ones to get the Michelin 5 star restaurant reference. Smart dudes - well done. If you had Nigerian jollof rice you'd get it. Awesome stuff

I recommend shuffle by them as well, petr n bas go crazyyyyy

the michelin that makes tires is the same that gives the star

luv these guys hope u do more , yes its all them , baz recently came outta prison thats what he was saying hmp prison

The delivery on "catch ya slippin sleepin in your nan's house" kills me everytime. You know good and god damn well he blurred that pronunciation to make it sound like he's saying "catch ya sleepin slip it in your nan's ass" 😂

They are confirmed actors with an unknown rapper behind the whole project.

Bas was a barrister & Pete grew up "pinchin & nickin" stuff & things (like cars) & his peoples got him into more thuggish tendencies like racketeering for example... They're both 70+ & have seen a whole lot in life.

That Sheldon Big Bang theory line is 👌

Bro, these guys aren't faking it...they are legit old school UK Gangsters

Bad literally just got out of Prison (HMP) before they made this, and he used to hang with the Krays (look them up). Real OGs.

Everything they did happened lol just writing memories

check out their live concert version!

Pete was a bare knuckle fighter & was involved with the richardson firm in late 60s ...hes hlf irish gypsy...underground fighting in the era of the Krays... Bas is music professor/teacher,,plays 6+ instruments & knows about flow,,cadence etc... Lived life so gd storys to tell.. Gd combo between them both...🙏

My guy made making a drink sound interesting af 😂

These guys have been active most of their lives, born into the life. Pete’s dad ran illegal bare knuckle fights from their back yard. Look up Richardson crew in London.

It's OGs schooling the children in the room.

Breaking him down like steps on the back of the box … i bet he take that. BACK of the BOX…. BETTY take that CAKE MIX 🤯

There is videos of them live it’s defo them doing it

Would love to see your reaction to - Meeks - Daily Duppy , it’s top 3 no doubt

1st reactors I watched catch the 5 star food bar.

Little late to this, but they definitely go hard. Theres a video of them picking Bas up from prison

The reason they sound like they know what they’re rapping about is because they were old school gangsters back in the day

And people saying Nas is old 😂

The five star Michelin bar is also reference to drugs "Five star food" FOOD = Drugs

Easily my favourite freestyle that mentions HP Printers.

Everybody misses the Ben 10 reference "Then I switch suits like I'm Mr. Benn 10/10 gear I shift up to fifth"

Don't tell me that Pete doesn't remind you of DMX with his voice and attitude. This is the gentleman gangster version of DMX 😂😂😂

They write their own lyrics