CTC's verse is absolutely crazy, literally filled with heaters, but I'll just break down the "I just flipped the KG, a bird. I just did the 1-6, the reverse" bar because it's UNHINGED. There's a couple ways the bar can be taken. First there's the face value pokemon meaning, where CTC "flips" Kingambit (KG)'s type matchup by using Tera Flying, making it a bird, which then allows him to do a reverse sweep and end up going 1-6, as kingambit does in OU. Then, there's all the other ways to interpret it - I just flipped a KG to say that he just sold a kilo of drugs, which was set up with the first part of the verse (mixing white with the green, snow warning), there's the interpretation where KG is Kevin Garnett and the bird is Larry Bird (confirmed by Blunder on his live stream), and there's the fact that he just flipped the KG "a bird", and then hit the 1-6, where #16 in the pokedex is Pidgey, the Tiny Bird pokemon. I don't mean to glaze but he really cooked on this shit.
CTC's verse is one of those where you could write a dissertation on it, the setups and payoffs are multi bar long with internal references all throughout, not a wasted syllable
CTC's ENTIRE verse is like an ENTIRE fucking Competitive Pokemon Battle. Literally describing it all while sliding on the beat. Everything he does has like SO many layers it'd be impossible to list them all without like a whole like 20-30 minute breakdown.
Bro I was just telling this to my buddy. We were talking about it and realized he literally walked through multiple outplays turn-by-turn while talking the entire time about JUST SMOKING WEED The full cypher is obviously godlike, but maaaan the Elite Four really came out
and the way he said “100,000 outta 100,000 I’ll still choose you” then gets killed by pikachu is just chefs kiss. thunderbolt in japanese pokemon is “100,000 volts”
SHWAB!! main mixing/mastering engineer for this one, along with 2 prod credits hehe glad you had a positive reaction to the cypher! thanks & bless up 💯🙏🏼
6:11 ring target is an item that allows the holder to be hit by moves it is usually immune to. So in this case a ghost type can be hit by a fighting type attack. Also alludes to ghost being the next type on the cypher.
One of the nicest bars here is ty wild saying "I glowed up like aggronite, stayed with steel but stopped rocking wit yall". essentially aggron is a steel/rock type, but MEGA AGGRON is just a steel type... Minus the rock. Just a really nice punch in the midst of his already hidden bar extensive verse. also things like "aint no wonder, we find you, catch a halo buggin". That's a shedinja reference because of it's ability wonder guard and how its a bug type.. with a halo. just a super clean pen
Belly Drum bar is insane. Belly Drum is a move that cuts your HP in half but it maxes out your attack stat, so G Yee is saying he puts the gun to your stomach and leaving you half alive.
The Dark beat was originally something else entirely, but Anonymuz came in with a beat so good that Ty and BlackLynx were essentially like, "Yeah, let's just rap on that instead." Ty put his own little twist on some things, but it's mostly an Anon beat. Some of my favourite layered bars in the cypher (can't get them all): BlackLynx - Freddy Darkrai, K right next to the Ruger CTC - Flipped KG, a bird, 1-6 reverse Ty Wild - Pigs; dropping the ball, Aggronite; stopped rocking with yall Lime King - All the green like my dog is sick Lime King #2 - Pull out game legendary Kez - Xatu, we don't see son but that dude watching BlackLynx #2 - Red Protocol VI - Dots on your head like Regi-whatever VI #2 - Walking wake scheme CTC #2 - Volc with 4 types Ty Wild #2 - Guts/Facade/Flame Orb scheme Token Black - Four 62s, Tyranitar told you hold up Token #2 - He Obstagoon, he opps to me shofu - Stealth Rocks, Diamonds tucked shofu #2 - Storm Drain, why they stealing my flow Matt - Formation, be Falinks Omar - Zarude in her Jungle Omar #2 - Greavard PE$O - Gen 4, Monsters meet Jeesh - Black and White 2 the pen Jeesh #2 - Breloom, 286 'em Beatdown - Fist to his head, Terrastilize him BlackLynx #3 - Web; heavy duty boot up, Oversea joints; Masuda
Best thing that has happened in 2024 That area zero beat gave me goosebumps the first time I heard it. I love CTC‘s second verse. Feels like a nice send off. I don’t think we‘ll ever hear him rapping again. He just doesn’t drop anything, lol
Superpower sneasel, i would guess just means that his superpower- a fighting move, is so strong you might as well be a sneasel, who is a pokemon with weak defense and 4x weakness to fighting so it would obviously die, but you might as well be a sneasel because you'll be dying all the same
Some context for why they killed CTC in the video. The video director/main editor had told Shofu that they have other full-on life commitments from October 2023 onward and can't work on this for a long while after that if Shofu and the gang can't turn in the footage early enough. CTC turned in his verse in for Shofu in December 2023...so the entire cypher came out more than a year later than planned because CTC missed a deadline by probably close to 6 months.
@@Msa9898 you can't assume someone gonna be "mad late" and ctc did have a verse as he was writing at the cypher house but it wasn't fully polished / got changed multiple times. You can also see CTC mouth the first 4 lines of his second verse
While the context you said is true, I don't think that's the reason why CTC got killed in the video. Connecting CTC delaying the cypher to CTC getting killed is just a joke us the viewers made for fun. There probably isn't any reason or hidden meaning to CTC getting killed in the video, & it's just simply for the video. If there is actually a meaning behind then only those involved in the cypher knows.
@@Omni_G it probably is the reason why he got killed as in the stream shofu said y'all will probably never seem him again since he turned his verse this late as all the fans hold unrealistic expectations from him which held him from submitting his verse and changing it again and again until it was perfect enough for him, also this might be the last cypher too but none of these guys retiring so i doubt we won't get another cypher ever
shofu gave everyone time and told them that during that time they could basically have the video to themselves and didn't particularly have to worry about who would be before or after them. Let them all get creative. You can also play the parts individually too so you absolutely could put the dark type part in a playlist.
48:05 - Him being in a "Gym" and an "Elite 4" member is also a bar because in Sword/Shield, Larry is the leader of the Normal type gym and an Elite 4 member.
You know it was a goated cypher when you are upset it's over. It felt like it flew by to me, but it was pretty much just as long as 2019. So many good verses. Pound for pound best one yet.
I just caught Link's bar when he said "In the lab cosplaying hoothoot". They're grinding so much that they have dark circles around their eyes like hoothoot Edit: I think I misinterpreted, but when someone says "In the lab" it means they're grinding on something. That's where my head went
All the specific bars you asked for help on: *FIGHTING TYPE GYM* "I put the drum into they belly, give em max attack." -The bar is about putting the drum mag to a person's chest and shooting them. But it's also a reference to the move "Belly Drum" that halves the user's HP but gives them a maximum boost to their attack stat. "When I use Super Power you might as well be a Sneasel" Superpower is a very powerful fighting type move. Sneasel is a dark and ice type Pokémon. Meaning that Sneasel is 4x weak to Superpower. "Call a ghost in advance, I ring targets." The bar is about calling up targets that he's going to go kill in advance. But it's also a reference to the item "Ring Target" that removes all of a Pokémon's immunities when equipped. So a ghost type Pokémon holding a Ring Target can get hit with normal and fighting moves. *GHOST TYPE GYM* "AIN'T NO DEFENSE WHEN SHE'S HAVING WITHDRAWLS. THAT BITCH DOES CRACK LIKE ALAKAZAM." You got the Alakazam part. But the first sentence is a reference to the move Withdraw which boosts the user's defense stat. *ELITE FOUR CTC* "I just Tera'd Gholdengo on a Tusk fly as a kite." This is an insane bar. CTC is saying how he Terastallized his Gholdengo into a flying type (fly as a kite) against a Great Tusk (on a Tusk) Gholdengo is weak to ground type moves but CTC predicted that and turned into a flying type to avoid attacks. I could explain every single one of CTC's bars because they are all fire but I do NOT have the time for that. 💀
Anonymuz does a lot of music like the style he used for the Dark section, highly recommend his album ANAGO for that, one of my favs that came out in 2022. Outside of the cyphers and Shofu (I really loved his performance as Groudon on Alpha and Omega off Shofu's Trap Ketchum), also someone who's done work with Denzel Curry. You can go and check out their collab with PlayThatBoiZay POISON KLAN, or his song featuring Denzel, No Threat.
The final part of CTC's verse that you didn't like was more of a reference to how he got started in the Pokemon community as well as giving shoutouts to his homies Pokeaim and blunder. More of a retrospective.
Ah I see, this didn't come out in 2023 cause that animation work probably took three soul contracts and an on-going call with God himself in order to look that good holy shii- my awe is immeasurable, I am inspired
Belly Drum is a move that cuts your hp in half and gives you +6(the max amount) attack Sneasel is dark and ice so 4x weak to fighting moves like superpower
Honestly, I didn’t love it on my first listen (I felt like the type format didn’t work well enough for some, and that it just got so over-hyped it could never live up to expectations), but watching you go through it again gave me a bit more appreciation for some of them. Still not my favorite, but at least it started and ended strong
When you say you didn't really like CTC.. I just kinda lost the bottom of my jaw. Like if that's how your ears work and that's how you process rap, it's all good I guess.
thanks for the love big shwab!!
Always love the energy
i look way different now too LOL // thanks for the react brother!!! hope all is well across the pond my friend
CTC's verse is absolutely crazy, literally filled with heaters, but I'll just break down the "I just flipped the KG, a bird. I just did the 1-6, the reverse" bar because it's UNHINGED.
There's a couple ways the bar can be taken. First there's the face value pokemon meaning, where CTC "flips" Kingambit (KG)'s type matchup by using Tera Flying, making it a bird, which then allows him to do a reverse sweep and end up going 1-6, as kingambit does in OU.
Then, there's all the other ways to interpret it - I just flipped a KG to say that he just sold a kilo of drugs, which was set up with the first part of the verse (mixing white with the green, snow warning), there's the interpretation where KG is Kevin Garnett and the bird is Larry Bird (confirmed by Blunder on his live stream), and there's the fact that he just flipped the KG "a bird", and then hit the 1-6, where #16 in the pokedex is Pidgey, the Tiny Bird pokemon.
I don't mean to glaze but he really cooked on this shit.
thats so fire bruh
CTC's verse is one of those where you could write a dissertation on it, the setups and payoffs are multi bar long with internal references all throughout, not a wasted syllable
BIG SHWAB, we greatly appreciate you reacting man 💪💯
your verse was hard af🔥🔥
Your verse was so menacing 🔥
Evil verse lowkey the deuce will deuce ya
CTC's ENTIRE verse is like an ENTIRE fucking Competitive Pokemon Battle. Literally describing it all while sliding on the beat. Everything he does has like SO many layers it'd be impossible to list them all without like a whole like 20-30 minute breakdown.
Bro I was just telling this to my buddy. We were talking about it and realized he literally walked through multiple outplays turn-by-turn while talking the entire time about JUST SMOKING WEED
The full cypher is obviously godlike, but maaaan the Elite Four really came out
and the way he said “100,000 outta 100,000 I’ll still choose you” then gets killed by pikachu is just chefs kiss.
thunderbolt in japanese pokemon is “100,000 volts”
Yeah CTC really is the goat 🙏
@@ValianceGames Smoking weed and scooping up some honeys haha
SHWAB!! main mixing/mastering engineer for this one, along with 2 prod credits hehe
glad you had a positive reaction to the cypher! thanks & bless up 💯🙏🏼
CTC got killed cause he delayed the cypher. This is the end of his time in the pokemon cypher cinematic universe
6:11 ring target is an item that allows the holder to be hit by moves it is usually immune to. So in this case a ghost type can be hit by a fighting type attack. Also alludes to ghost being the next type on the cypher.
I did not think you were gonna react to this😭🙏🏽i'm so happy i was wrong
EDIT: you'll love Anonymuz fs
Ctc shouting out his friends is so nice
brought the agency to tears 😢
One of the nicest bars here is ty wild saying "I glowed up like aggronite, stayed with steel but stopped rocking wit yall". essentially aggron is a steel/rock type, but MEGA AGGRON is just a steel type... Minus the rock. Just a really nice punch in the midst of his already hidden bar extensive verse. also things like "aint no wonder, we find you, catch a halo buggin". That's a shedinja reference because of it's ability wonder guard and how its a bug type.. with a halo.
just a super clean pen
THINK THEYRE DUSTED BUT THEY DOPE
THEY TRYNA MIMIKYU GET BUSTED THEM PUPPETS IS REALLY BROKE
ONE OF THE HARDEST BARS IN THE CYPHER
🔥✍️🏼🔥
I thought those were two of his more obvious bars in there too, the Terastalize electric bar was fking nuts and took me a while to piece together
Belly Drum bar is insane. Belly Drum is a move that cuts your HP in half but it maxes out your attack stat, so G Yee is saying he puts the gun to your stomach and leaving you half alive.
Drum -> drum round magazine
And then going +6 atk
yeahhhhh buttttttt a belly drum bar has been so overdone. its just been said soooo many timessssss idk
@@UberVilla not in the cyphers
"Pull out game Legendary, like I came on the box" 😤
That shit was tufffff
barbaric bar
What bar I love is Token "Killawatrol, I keep a nine for everyone" killawatrol pokedex number is 941
ahhhhh that one really confused me
Get yo motherfuckin Pokedex out lol
Dang, I didn’t even catch that, nice
The Dark beat was originally something else entirely, but Anonymuz came in with a beat so good that Ty and BlackLynx were essentially like, "Yeah, let's just rap on that instead." Ty put his own little twist on some things, but it's mostly an Anon beat.
Some of my favourite layered bars in the cypher (can't get them all):
BlackLynx - Freddy Darkrai, K right next to the Ruger
CTC - Flipped KG, a bird, 1-6 reverse
Ty Wild - Pigs; dropping the ball, Aggronite; stopped rocking with yall
Lime King - All the green like my dog is sick
Lime King #2 - Pull out game legendary
Kez - Xatu, we don't see son but that dude watching
BlackLynx #2 - Red Protocol
VI - Dots on your head like Regi-whatever
VI #2 - Walking wake scheme
CTC #2 - Volc with 4 types
Ty Wild #2 - Guts/Facade/Flame Orb scheme
Token Black - Four 62s, Tyranitar told you hold up
Token #2 - He Obstagoon, he opps to me
shofu - Stealth Rocks, Diamonds tucked
shofu #2 - Storm Drain, why they stealing my flow
Matt - Formation, be Falinks
Omar - Zarude in her Jungle
Omar #2 - Greavard
PE$O - Gen 4, Monsters meet
Jeesh - Black and White 2 the pen
Jeesh #2 - Breloom, 286 'em
Beatdown - Fist to his head, Terrastilize him
BlackLynx #3 - Web; heavy duty boot up, Oversea joints; Masuda
Best thing that has happened in 2024
That area zero beat gave me goosebumps the first time I heard it.
I love CTC‘s second verse. Feels like a nice send off. I don’t think we‘ll ever hear him rapping again. He just doesn’t drop anything, lol
Superpower sneasel, i would guess just means that his superpower- a fighting move, is so strong you might as well be a sneasel, who is a pokemon with weak defense and 4x weakness to fighting so it would obviously die, but you might as well be a sneasel because you'll be dying all the same
i've also heard yk sneasel is a cat so yk ur a pussy but it's sounds like a stretch
Sneasel is also pretty frail so double ded lol
Belly Drum is a move that raises a Pokémon’s attack stat and they lose 50% hp
Never thought lime King would give shwab this amount of distress
I did LMAO
6:03 super power is a fighting type move and sneasel is ice dark meaning it’s 4x weak to fighting
Some context for why they killed CTC in the video. The video director/main editor had told Shofu that they have other full-on life commitments from October 2023 onward and can't work on this for a long while after that if Shofu and the gang can't turn in the footage early enough. CTC turned in his verse in for Shofu in December 2023...so the entire cypher came out more than a year later than planned because CTC missed a deadline by probably close to 6 months.
how's that even possible they filmed this first, how would they know ctc will be 6 months late
@V01D-L2D ctc had No verse qhen they filmed this so they knew he was mad late I assume.
@@Msa9898 you can't assume someone gonna be "mad late" and ctc did have a verse as he was writing at the cypher house but it wasn't fully polished / got changed multiple times. You can also see CTC mouth the first 4 lines of his second verse
While the context you said is true, I don't think that's the reason why CTC got killed in the video. Connecting CTC delaying the cypher to CTC getting killed is just a joke us the viewers made for fun. There probably isn't any reason or hidden meaning to CTC getting killed in the video, & it's just simply for the video. If there is actually a meaning behind then only those involved in the cypher knows.
@@Omni_G it probably is the reason why he got killed as in the stream shofu said y'all will probably never seem him again since he turned his verse this late as all the fans hold unrealistic expectations from him which held him from submitting his verse and changing it again and again until it was perfect enough for him, also this might be the last cypher too but none of these guys retiring so i doubt we won't get another cypher ever
shofu gave everyone time and told them that during that time they could basically have the video to themselves and didn't particularly have to worry about who would be before or after them. Let them all get creative. You can also play the parts individually too so you absolutely could put the dark type part in a playlist.
48:05 - Him being in a "Gym" and an "Elite 4" member is also a bar because in Sword/Shield, Larry is the leader of the Normal type gym and an Elite 4 member.
*Scarlet/Violet
@@nacligang Sorry, yes, Scarlet/Violet!
Blacklynk’s whole verse could have a dedicated video essay about it
K RIGHT NEXT TO THE RUGER
ty wild only got one emote 😭😭🙏
LMAO
Lime King is a genius. I hope you do music with them one day lmao
43:46 walking wake is the goat literally best paradox from that trio and absolutely GAS design
11:15 it's also because one of Pachirisu's abilities is volt absorb which means they are unaffected by electric type moves. Pretty clever.
shwab out here on his 70's george lucas cosplay.
I should not have been as hype as i was at that diglet dig part lol
I just was so not ready for scoot to be in the water posted up
You know it was a goated cypher when you are upset it's over. It felt like it flew by to me, but it was pretty much just as long as 2019. So many good verses. Pound for pound best one yet.
I think its really healthy with someone who acknowledges their limited information in their rating. There's so many deep cuts in here
I just caught Link's bar when he said "In the lab cosplaying hoothoot". They're grinding so much that they have dark circles around their eyes like hoothoot
Edit: I think I misinterpreted, but when someone says "In the lab" it means they're grinding on something. That's where my head went
I think it's a weed bar. Hoothoots eyes are CRAZY red
It's a weed reference. The red eyes
It's weed dude
@@LucasJKeyThen he said "In my zone when I light the Fuscia". True. I think I misinterpreted, but I was close
@@c.l2484I saw dark circles on Hoothoot's eyes and that's where my head went.
No matter who is reacting to it, lime king made everyone go crazy.
The true winner of this cyper shit.
Lime King had my favorite verse. The dude was just Wavyy and tuff at the same timee😮
24:07 LMFAOOO YOU REALLY A VILLAIN FOR THAT
"54 minutes" absolutely sent me
😂😂
“ I love the fact that they are going aggressively back and forth on me” shwab??? Bro?
i'm shocked I finally am seeing a reaction within minutes of upload instead of hours later
"i put the drum into they belly for the max attack" because belly drum is a move where you sacrifice hp to raise attack stat like crazy
All the specific bars you asked for help on:
*FIGHTING TYPE GYM*
"I put the drum into they belly, give em max attack."
-The bar is about putting the drum mag to a person's chest and shooting them. But it's also a reference to the move "Belly Drum" that halves the user's HP but gives them a maximum boost to their attack stat.
"When I use Super Power you might as well be a Sneasel"
Superpower is a very powerful fighting type move. Sneasel is a dark and ice type Pokémon. Meaning that Sneasel is 4x weak to Superpower.
"Call a ghost in advance, I ring targets."
The bar is about calling up targets that he's going to go kill in advance. But it's also a reference to the item "Ring Target" that removes all of a Pokémon's immunities when equipped. So a ghost type Pokémon holding a Ring Target can get hit with normal and fighting moves.
*GHOST TYPE GYM*
"AIN'T NO DEFENSE WHEN SHE'S HAVING WITHDRAWLS. THAT BITCH DOES CRACK LIKE ALAKAZAM."
You got the Alakazam part. But the first sentence is a reference to the move Withdraw which boosts the user's defense stat.
*ELITE FOUR CTC*
"I just Tera'd Gholdengo on a Tusk fly as a kite."
This is an insane bar.
CTC is saying how he Terastallized his Gholdengo into a flying type (fly as a kite) against a Great Tusk (on a Tusk)
Gholdengo is weak to ground type moves but CTC predicted that and turned into a flying type to avoid attacks.
I could explain every single one of CTC's bars because they are all fire but I do NOT have the time for that. 💀
CTC literally described like an ENTIRE competitive battle.
@@cragl3yman343 While also dropping Heatah references and shoutouts to his friends and tour teammates. He packed that verse to the gills
You doing the lord's work lol thank you
@AR-bj5et Shoutouts to Pokeaim, Blunder and all.the Heatah Fajita crew~
Anonymuz does a lot of music like the style he used for the Dark section, highly recommend his album ANAGO for that, one of my favs that came out in 2022.
Outside of the cyphers and Shofu (I really loved his performance as Groudon on Alpha and Omega off Shofu's Trap Ketchum), also someone who's done work with Denzel Curry. You can go and check out their collab with PlayThatBoiZay POISON KLAN, or his song featuring Denzel, No Threat.
Loved that you reacted to this
And loved the new songs.
He reacted to it!!! Let's go!!
they killed CTC bc he turned his verse in late
Anonymuz is an ELITE rapper. please go listen to his albums they are all great.
Shwabs reaction to Lime King had me DYING 😭😭😭🙏
54 MINUTES 😂😂
The final part of CTC's verse that you didn't like was more of a reference to how he got started in the Pokemon community as well as giving shoutouts to his homies Pokeaim and blunder. More of a retrospective.
Lime king and ty had my favorite verses. Every line in lime kings verse is a crazy bar
3:40 @shwabados in case no one told u yet is belly drum move it sacrifces half hp for max attack buff
Cam Steady Fossil Cypher reaction when?
I did realize how out of pocket lime king’s verse was until this reaction, I’m fucking dying
3:39 the move belly drum and a gigantimax move
Hope this helped❤love ur videos
I bet reactions to pokemon cyphers are mad good for your comment statistics.
Gods Lucario going crazy on the beat!
It's been years since I've seen G. Yee in a video. I didn't know he got that buff. I remember him being slim.
Ah I see, this didn't come out in 2023 cause that animation work probably took three soul contracts and an on-going call with God himself in order to look that good holy shii- my awe is immeasurable, I am inspired
32:26 Never before have truer words been spoken
Belly Drum is a move that cuts your hp in half and gives you +6(the max amount) attack
Sneasel is dark and ice so 4x weak to fighting moves like superpower
I ball like a nugget I ball like a nugget I ball like a nugget
Dude lime king was going crazy 😂
38:33 He knows what he did 😒
12:48 it goes hard, I can damn well attest to that, but I sure do have some mixed feelings about it either way 😂
Awesome reaction!
Should do a reaction to the cam steady fossil Cypher
My favorite Pokemon type is dark and ghost
Walking wake is also a pokemon
Precision with it I can hit a red dot off a golduck 😂😭🔥🔥🔥
54 MINUTES.!!! LMAO
Togetic the glock😂 the reference is fire
Lime king and ty had my favorite verses
Ampharos enjoyers for the win
Since u get it brother mind going into that swedish finnish bar a little more for me? Lmao what is this man trying to say?
I just know Shofu and/or Shizzy are gonna have some words for you for not recognizing Scoot (if they react to this on stream) lol
LIME KING hands down has the best verse!
Honestly, I didn’t love it on my first listen (I felt like the type format didn’t work well enough for some, and that it just got so over-hyped it could never live up to expectations), but watching you go through it again gave me a bit more appreciation for some of them. Still not my favorite, but at least it started and ended strong
Hey SHAWB, I would really recommend you to react to Themanbehisla newest rap song called "Stolen Valor", its great and I think you should try it out
Ampharos enjoyers unite why we all based in the uk tho
When you say you didn't really like CTC.. I just kinda lost the bottom of my jaw. Like if that's how your ears work and that's how you process rap, it's all good I guess.
Dark and CTC just go too hard
The autotune verse made some of his words a little difficult to understand.
Divide music reactions?
Same, I stopped playing and watching after Diamon and Pearl
How you not get Beatdowns verse? Huh
8:56 pauseee
He’s Bi remember
@@RoderickO.W.Cummings1920Remember?? Man I dont watch this dude
@@lilcyrusj then why are you here
@@RoderickO.W.Cummings1920 Because the video is a reaction of another? I watched the original content not a sub of this dude
@ ok again then why are hear you obviously don’t like react videos
hi
2 minutes 60 views bro fell off