FIRST TIME REACTION to Eminem biggest ever freestyle in the world! Westwood

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  • @jamiej5229
    @jamiej5229 Рік тому +26

    whoever doubted that this is freestyle, just be reminded that his written lyrics are multimillion dollar smash-hits. for some its hard to believe, but imagine practicing your whole life just one thing.
    and now we see another dedicated example of what is possible in freestyle with harry mack. eminem is just immensly ahead of his time!

  • @pantelischristodoulou9370
    @pantelischristodoulou9370 7 місяців тому +11

    Bro how can you even question Em’s freestyle ability😂He literally grew up practicing every single day to the fullest, that was a light work for him 😅

    • @zepyiM
      @zepyiM 19 днів тому

      im late but this comment need more fkn likes!!!!!!!

  • @andrewsears16
    @andrewsears16 Рік тому +43

    Em is freestyling in the sense that he did not plan what he was going to rap. But also he's got so many lines and such in his mind ready to pull at anytime. This is what he excelled at and how he got to the top. Him and proof used to just sit there and freestyle for hours as well. Are we going to argue that Harry Mack isnt freestyling off the top when he's pulling from his repertoire of rhymes and lines in his head? That's an extreme argument but if you really look at Eminem's eyes while He's performing this, he's gone to that same place that Harry goes when he gets in the zone. To be fair, I could be wrong...that being said I wish we could see him freestyle back and forth in a cypher with someone like Harry where they're feeding off eachother's bars so we can put this convo to rest and finally have some answers as to what he's capable of and whether these freestyles are truly off the top

    • @andrewsears16
      @andrewsears16 Рік тому +5

      Sidenote: look at the difference in his demeanor while he raps the hook compared to the rest

    • @PlightOfAMan
      @PlightOfAMan Рік тому

      Stanley dinner is done

    • @andrewsears16
      @andrewsears16 Рік тому

      @@PlightOfAMan I'm sorry but I don't understand the reference

    • @smrzgg
      @smrzgg Рік тому +1

      I'll always have Em as my favorite artist. I would always admit Harry is better at freestyling than Em. As you said - they both have thought of millions of rhymes in their head. Different styles, em was always focused on records (after he got out of the battle space). Battle rap is slightly different to what HMack does too.

    • @andrewsears16
      @andrewsears16 Рік тому

      @@smrzgg very well said

  • @alessial134
    @alessial134 Рік тому +8

    His world play is out of this world - the timing the speed the rhyme is unbeatable he’s a monster

  • @jasons2851
    @jasons2851 Рік тому +12

    Loved this when I freestyle when I found it online not long ago. From what I understand they came up with the hook on the way but I think the rest is truly freestyle. Agree with you on Eminem. Truly groundbreaking. All these reactions and rabbit holes got me back into rap and lots of other musicians I hadn't heard of. Thanks for your reactions!

  • @lynette.
    @lynette. Рік тому +23

    He worked so hard at the start of his career every opportunity that came along he made the most of it.

  • @kristentitus4946
    @kristentitus4946 Рік тому +14

    He exudes this rap. You can just hear his focus and determination in his voice ❤❤

  • @dasyeah2695
    @dasyeah2695 Рік тому +9

    i think ppl also forget how much he worked his ass off and he always gives dues and pays respect to the fore runners and way pavers. He live and breaths Hip Hop, it helped him throughout him growing up and he just got morre nerdy and complex with it. Give the Man the respect he desrves, he has the skills, the passion and the catalouge to back it all up. Old and new Em have their place

    • @jasonerickson1753
      @jasonerickson1753 Рік тому

      100%. Great artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Beethoven, Bach, Ravel, etc. all went through periods where they changed up their styles to explore new directions that kept them excited and evolving. I would be seriously disappointed if Eminem hadn't kept exploring new directions. Better for him to lose old fans and gain new ones, because the new ones will look at his back catalog and appreciate him even more, even if they have different preferences about which parts of his career they personally prefer. The old fans will still love his old work, and eventually they'll come to appreciate some of his newer work. The worst outcome would be for him to get bored because he no longer has room to grow. It's his growth that has kept him relevant, because "the hood" is such a small part of the market, and he's thinking so much bigger. That's why he puts out masterpieces like "Darkness" that are lyrically, sonically, and visually stunning... and which people speak to people on levels that a lot of his other work does not.

  • @seanmurphy1218
    @seanmurphy1218 Рік тому +4

    Whether it's top of the dome or written, the rhyme scheme, cadence and delivery is top of the line.

  • @cyborgreality
    @cyborgreality 8 місяців тому +1

    Old school Slim Shady LP and Marshal Mathers LP are so good. Don’t get me wrong I like the new stuff but I LOVE the older ones. Also pretty positive that at the end when they started to rap together was the only part that was written on the way up there

  • @zeus8684
    @zeus8684 Рік тому +4

    It’s written and off the top, it’s both and it’s great

    • @vortexca888
      @vortexca888 Рік тому +1

      Yeah exactly. I see people saying it’s all off the top when there’s sections that are obviously written. Still like em though.

    • @Valleystick
      @Valleystick Рік тому

      I feel like the start and end was freestyle, while the middle 10:58 was written, he is going way too fast and fluid here! No disrespect to Em he is a legend, but I feel if any rapper wants to prove their freestyle skills they need either words or objects like H Mack does to prove it

    • @kioez2109
      @kioez2109 4 місяці тому +1

      @@Valleystick i honestly don't think so look how impressed tim westwood was during it and was random beats you can't just freestyle written lyrics on a random beat like that

  • @themadgamer4571
    @themadgamer4571 Рік тому +3

    There's another Eminem Westwood freestyle with Royce Da 5'9 check that one too!!!

  • @lewisfender318
    @lewisfender318 Рік тому +3

    The first 2 verses from Em might have been off the top freestyles. I don't know if it's possible for the rest to be

  • @williamprater2212
    @williamprater2212 Рік тому +1

    It's both. There is a point when the second beat drop where you can see on ems face he ain't in the room anymore, he's linking words to bars

  • @SS-hz2xw
    @SS-hz2xw Рік тому +5

    This is for sure freestyle from where he came, and Royce also mentioning Em never used pen making rap god. Em has also talked about having pocket schemes when freestyling. Check out D12 Backstage freestyle , its like 30min from 2001.

    • @jasonerickson1753
      @jasonerickson1753 Рік тому

      Em claims to have written "Rap God" in 6-1/2 minutes, that he one-take freestyled the whole thing. But just listen to the music and beats he's going over ...there's no way he didn't hear that a few times and have a detailed plan for how he planned to weave everything together, especially with the callouts and references to preceding rap groups. The fastest part of the song is a flow taken directly from "Supersonic" by the group JJ Fab - he even incorporates some of their lyrics. Like Lil Wayne and Jay-Z, he may have composed most of the lyrics in his head beforehand, then spit the completed work when he hit the booth. Even Harry Mack has used that approach for some of his more intricate works, like portions of the "Soulliliquies" EP, and in the video, there's a brief description of the approach he used for each section.

    • @BoydOfPray
      @BoydOfPray Рік тому +1

      ​@@jasonerickson1753The clip where he says he freestyled Rap God, if you watch that entire clip I think it's pretty clear that he was joking about that.
      Not to diminish Eminem's skill by any means, but I see people throw that out all the time like it's an established fact but I think people only see the cut version of that clip. 🙂

  • @cokedealer2084
    @cokedealer2084 3 місяці тому +1

    JayZ is rapping to a different audience than Eminem is. JayZ can make a banger, but listening to an Eminem song is like brain twister man. He never ceases to amaze me.

  • @DoctorNerf
    @DoctorNerf 5 місяців тому

    You can see how much the middle section smacked bro on the right. It is really that deep. The word play and flow in that section is like leaving planet earth.

  • @halvanhorn7051
    @halvanhorn7051 Рік тому +4

    He was definitely freestyling

  • @jimmyhughes5392
    @jimmyhughes5392 Рік тому +1

    alchemist is always on fire with his beats, man is a legend in the game with not enough recognition

  • @orbitalviewer
    @orbitalviewer Рік тому +11

    the only reason i would suspect it is off the dome, is because he is extremely focused, if you watch his eyes he is constantly staring at the floor in deep focuse, not like somebody reciting lines, more like h mack or any other good freestyler when they go into almost a trance. Also keep in mind that em was a battle rapper, so he had at least some freestyle foundation way back then. Plus he is a hiphop extremist, not to sound parasocial but i would believe that that guy lives and breathes hip hop, and over the years of yes 20+ year career, he would have accumulated a metric shit ton of rhymes jsut in his nots or hovering somewhere in the back of his mind, so chances are he could easily freestyle some crazy shit off the top and jsut weave in some writtens to make something that sounds alomst too good to freestyle. If you think of harry mack he has like 90% freestlye and 10% "written" when he spits and by written i mean lines he has used before, like fillers or his weed bars and water bottle bars etc, technically once he has spit them once you could consider them in his "book of rhymes" kinda like when em writes it down. It would be impossible to tell what percent of ems freestyle came from his "book of rhymes", but i would assume its a lot more then harry. But yeah we cant really know unless someone could throw him some words or shit like that, but he doesent really have a reason to do that sadly. Well soory for writing a book, just kind of kept on typing and this is what came out.
    Edit: actually one more thing i forgot to mention that would speak toward the fact that it is off the dome is that it is nowhere close to as clean as his written bars normally are, i dont mean that small things, but more as a whole it jsut doesent all fuse well together like something em would write normally would. Or i could be delusional. I will finish the vid now xD

  • @lewisfender318
    @lewisfender318 Рік тому +2

    Oh sht, gotta Vinnie Paz and Sean Price mention! Nice! I used to listen to Jedi Mind Tricks and AOTP all the time back in the day

  • @cesarangulo7419
    @cesarangulo7419 Рік тому +51

    This is off the top. Don't forget that's how em came up. On the battle scene. Him and Lupe are deadly off the top

    • @damaconx6854
      @damaconx6854 Рік тому +22

      It’s comical that you think that

    • @vortexca888
      @vortexca888 Рік тому +8

      Yeah I agree that some of it is off the top. But there’s parts were you can tell it’s most likely written. Idk maybe I’m wrong though.

    • @Valleystick
      @Valleystick Рік тому +7

      I feel like the start and end was freestyle, while the middle 10:58 was written, he is going way too fast and fluid here! No disrespect to Em he is a legend, but I feel if any rapper wants to prove their freestyle skills they need either words or objects like H Mack does to prove it

    • @mawangshallhang
      @mawangshallhang Рік тому +3

      Come on. How can you think that, really.

    • @wooshbait36
      @wooshbait36 Рік тому

      Gullible clown 🤡

  • @HipHopMachine
    @HipHopMachine Рік тому

    It’s written and off the top, BOTH ! And itsss 🔥🔥🔥

  • @kyleburns1340
    @kyleburns1340 Рік тому

    Eminem is the goat. Has been and will always will be. Even during the damn super bowl he got the loudest cheer.

  • @justinatest9456
    @justinatest9456 Рік тому +4

    If you haven't seen Em's video for Darkness, it's his best work imo.

  • @DuaneIsAwful
    @DuaneIsAwful Рік тому +1

    Eminem is my FAVORITE RAPPER OF ALL TIME. Most of his FREESTYLES are part written. Watch his rap battles. He doesn't have punchlines

  • @mrwick7961
    @mrwick7961 Рік тому +1

    renegade was actually em and royce's song originally then jayz wanted on it. so jayz new what to expect and still got murdered on it lol

  • @yzwme586
    @yzwme586 Рік тому +8

    the first freestyle was off top but the one over the microphone beat seemed written

    • @BoydOfPray
      @BoydOfPray Рік тому

      If you're talking about the part where they rap a hook together, he points out in the video that it was a vocal exercise they put together in the car on the way there.

  • @mama_nez
    @mama_nez Рік тому +3

    Now as far as the written vs off the top debate, I'm definitely going to wait until after y'all hear Em explain the hook they came up with on the way to the studio before I jump down your throat over thinking the verses were from writtens

  • @lynette.
    @lynette. Рік тому +2

    I think they even say that they prepared the joint in the taxi on the way to the show.

  • @AnaIBarker
    @AnaIBarker Рік тому

    Here for all Em’s reactions 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @EbizzerHH
    @EbizzerHH Рік тому +1

    AFAIK this is beside the hook from the top of the dome... and don't forget this was EM's drugged Prime and you can feel he could've continued for hours with this... I love the moment, when the second verse beat kicks in and you know: EM WILL EAT NOW!!! It is this type of beat and boy... did he deliver! Much love from germany! ^^

  • @derekstover2236
    @derekstover2236 Рік тому +1

    This was all off the top Eminem the god

  • @imeetay
    @imeetay Рік тому +2

    One day you'll get around to Lupe Fiasco's "Mural" and your minds will be blown 🤯

  • @Time4SumAksion021
    @Time4SumAksion021 Рік тому +1

    "Here's a smidgen, a miget to get your digits, Bridget,
    Don't try to fidget w it, ribbit ribbit" 1. Eminem 2. B.IG. 3. Rakim 4. Nas 5. Andre (Outkast) 6. Kool G Rap 7. B.D. Kane 8. Redman 9. Busta Rhymes 10. KRS-One.

  • @kimzwolinski9919
    @kimzwolinski9919 Рік тому +2

    Who else would repeatedly talk 💩about Christopher Reeves 😂 This is my favorite freestyle. Been listening to “Prophecy “ for a couple of days now and love it. Great song 😊

  • @ghostboy4965
    @ghostboy4965 Рік тому +8

    I personally think your freestyles are better than the songs you put out. Your music is fire regardless, but as you said, you unlock different levels when going off the top. I bumped the one take free like 100 times. Fire reaction anyway! Em is amazing.
    You should react to BET cypher 2011 Shady 2.0 !

  • @DoomGoy88
    @DoomGoy88 10 місяців тому

    Sounds to me like a mix of freestyle off top and written prepared bars. He probably spent 20 minutes before the performance to sort of put it together either in his head or on paper. The "white fellow, quite mellow, bright yellow" bar sounded very improv, while a lot of the rest of it sounded like he had it memorized, but not necessarily rehearsed

  • @skater61991
    @skater61991 Рік тому +2

    I think it was all off top. Or potentially conceived in his head ahead of time, and then put together in the moment.
    But I would guess it wasn’t actually written down and perfected before he spit it.

  • @Mznewwave
    @Mznewwave Рік тому

    After seeing Harry mack you can’t not believe that this is freestyle some people are just different man em is one of those emcees

  • @markstelle9402
    @markstelle9402 Рік тому +1

    Yeah this one goes hard. He has another real good one with Royce, Mr Porter with alcamyst

  • @darkhumor8125
    @darkhumor8125 Рік тому

    This dude has three styles, Eminem, Marshall and Slim. No one can touch him lyrically

  • @mama_nez
    @mama_nez Рік тому +1

    13 years ago makes this freestyle a year after Relaose was released.
    (I'm typing this immediately after our boy said the freestyle was posted 13 years ago, and I'm not going to come back and edit this even if y'all end up discussing things later in the video that make my comment look ignorant 😂😁😏

  • @Vexatl
    @Vexatl Рік тому +1

    Eminem will always be top 5!

    • @losnamerales3403
      @losnamerales3403 Рік тому

      💯 I've lived through the biggie/pac era and grew through the NWA era.. Em has proved he belongs in that top 5, I place him number 1 because of his skill and strict dedication to the craft he's a true student of the ones that came before 💯

  • @piotrd7718
    @piotrd7718 Рік тому

    I believe I seen somewhere he said it was rehearsal before the Westwood show, maybe not on same beat and not fully written but at least some bars pre arranged before air I think

  • @magicmandirtlurper7732
    @magicmandirtlurper7732 Рік тому

    It was a real freestyle you can tell by looking at his face while he’s rapping you can see him make the connections in his eyes, he also said they wrote the hook on the way to the studio, just the hook!

  • @env0x
    @env0x Рік тому

    there's a full uncensored version of this out there somewhere on yt but it doesn't have the video. it's absolutely insane.

  • @michaelpahula5236
    @michaelpahula5236 Рік тому +1

    Eminem actually recorded the son RENEGADES without Jay-Z .. originally Royce was on it. Then him and Royce had that crazy beef for all those years, Jay Z heard the song and bought the song from Eminem and just took Royce's spot in the song. Everyone always talks about Emimen bodying Jay Z on his own song .. but in reality Emimen bodies him on Ems song.

    • @michaelpahula5236
      @michaelpahula5236 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/K_O_-URLgIM/v-deo.html
      Fifteen years ago.

  • @turbompson4546
    @turbompson4546 Рік тому +1

    The ones thinking this isn't freestyle don't know how versatlile Em really is.

  • @mase12fan
    @mase12fan Рік тому

    If you haven’t heard Eminem diss track called nail in the coffin you gotta hear that!

  • @dannybo1472
    @dannybo1472 Рік тому +2

    Black Thought Funk Flex freestyle

  • @dcmartinez1977
    @dcmartinez1977 Рік тому

    Y’all should check out early Eminem called Biterphobia. Sooo dope.

  • @mikavelli5516
    @mikavelli5516 Рік тому +1

    Aye pic pac up off the floor. Gotta have respect

  • @skiman5289
    @skiman5289 Рік тому

    First time I see you two I love how you play a good amount of the freestyle then comment

  • @maxelito7590
    @maxelito7590 10 місяців тому

    EM is a never ending story

  • @theunseenencyclopedia
    @theunseenencyclopedia Рік тому +2

    was off the top, dudes an alien

    • @agapic445
      @agapic445 Рік тому

      It was not off the top dude… and that wont make any less crazier but do not make yourself a fool

    • @theunseenencyclopedia
      @theunseenencyclopedia Рік тому

      @@agapic445 the first one was 100% off the top, second one is debatable

  • @brandonreynolds9587
    @brandonreynolds9587 Рік тому +1

    Bro it all is off the top. They was clowning around. Think of it none of this was ever put in a song just from the head all for this only

  • @AmaBrigitte
    @AmaBrigitte Рік тому

    The great Eminen, love him ❤ thanks guys❤

  • @aljohnson3054
    @aljohnson3054 Рік тому

    This. Is written we are now spoiled

  • @drittzz9245
    @drittzz9245 Рік тому

    Definitely should do the 97 rap Olympics/Scribble Jam Em footage it's recorded on a potato but just to see him actually in a battle situation is something different imo

  • @1osttt
    @1osttt Рік тому +1

    you gotta listen to eminem's sway in the morning freestyle it's a perfect acapella

  • @followdanger890
    @followdanger890 Рік тому

    Go listen to relapse if you want more wordplay like that. Criminally underrated album and a birth to a new form of horrorcore.

  • @VladimirMizich
    @VladimirMizich Рік тому

    Em has great discipline.

  • @budbudsky5466
    @budbudsky5466 Рік тому +2

    HIS NEW FREESTYLE ARE 🔥🔥🔥

  • @wonderbreadbrandonabel9093
    @wonderbreadbrandonabel9093 Рік тому +1

    Eminem part is definitely a freestyle

  • @ItachiUchiha-jv3rf
    @ItachiUchiha-jv3rf Рік тому

    Jay-Z started out with a group called Original Flava. I get where you're coming from though.He was there during the fast rap 90's movement.

  • @jeffspalding5368
    @jeffspalding5368 Рік тому

    It’s off the dome. 😂

  • @matthewpaul7222
    @matthewpaul7222 3 місяці тому

    Freestyle either way, and i think its a mixtures of writtens and just odd off the top parts just him having fun

  • @rhyskirby893
    @rhyskirby893 Рік тому +1

    More Eminem reactions pleaseee

  • @TweezerShred
    @TweezerShred Рік тому +1

    Mechanical hannibal.

  • @mama_nez
    @mama_nez Рік тому

    OH SHIT HERE WE GOOO!!!

  • @ShaneRich47
    @ShaneRich47 5 місяців тому

    you guy rule!!!

    • @ShaneRich47
      @ShaneRich47 5 місяців тому

      guys.. cheap key board

  • @coreyrees840
    @coreyrees840 Рік тому

    When the slaughterhouse beat drops it’s written, clearly, the beginning and end verses are off too though

  • @jp.thecameraman
    @jp.thecameraman Рік тому

    Its off the top bro

  • @pallew
    @pallew Рік тому +1

    Do more Em 💯💯

  • @aprilboxton2284
    @aprilboxton2284 7 місяців тому

    I have a head snippets of Em's verse here elsewhere but it's not the same
    . So i would say it's got both... freestyle with a lil written sprinkled in.. I've only heard the angels Angela Jolie part in another freestyle... the rest I've never heard b4

  • @kylechristie5792
    @kylechristie5792 5 місяців тому

    The real slim shady has entered the building

  • @nickcancellieri435
    @nickcancellieri435 Рік тому +1

    Watched many reactions and I get frustrated when they think this is a “freestyle”. It takes a true freestyler to know this was a written…sick nonetheless! Cheers to this reaction!

  • @ALLnamesTAKENffs
    @ALLnamesTAKENffs Рік тому

    9.01 secs.. whatcha think he's talking about?
    I think he went to a dark place and spit flames off top.

    • @ALLnamesTAKENffs
      @ALLnamesTAKENffs Рік тому

      13.10 old mate wouldn't even drop a verse because em just cut sick.
      If it was written, that wouldn't happen because it would of been planned

  • @jasonerickson1753
    @jasonerickson1753 Рік тому

    Westwood hosted Eminem & Proof freestyles in 2000, 2004, etc. Great time capsules, even though it's hard to tell how much is off-top vs written. Several available here: ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=westwood+eminem+and+proof

  • @mama_nez
    @mama_nez Рік тому +2

    Watching anxiously to hear whether Crooked I is included with Tech N9ne and the rest as a top lyricist 😬

    • @mase12fan
      @mase12fan Рік тому +1

      Looooove Crook! Such a dope lyricist his brothers too Shoe Gang

  • @Moose96080
    @Moose96080 Рік тому

    It's off the top

  • @BirdDogg
    @BirdDogg Рік тому +2

    Pretty apparent that Harry is levels and levels ahead of Em at this point in his career, unless em has transcended, this ain’t even the same venue

  • @bossaudio12
    @bossaudio12 Рік тому

    Em is the goat

  • @jessisanchez8150
    @jessisanchez8150 Рік тому

    Just saw R.A last nite in El Paso

  • @IpimpshaftI
    @IpimpshaftI Рік тому

    Bp....check out bad meets evil....Royse da 5 9.....sick as hell....one of the best hip hop albums of all time

  • @ower2532
    @ower2532 Рік тому

    I think he's cappin I think he's already seen most of the stuff he reacts too lol Especially this one

  • @bryanpineda6187
    @bryanpineda6187 Рік тому +1

    Eminem just wrote multiple bars to rap over different beats to say it word for word as fluently as a song he’s preformed already…lol yeahhh…

  • @Thebob6
    @Thebob6 Рік тому

    It’s off the top. Except the hook in the 3rd one. It’s why he is the best.

  • @rhyskirby893
    @rhyskirby893 Рік тому

    You should check out Devlin - Fire in the booth. He’s a U.K rapper! o.G of the game

  • @barranation2610
    @barranation2610 Рік тому

    Tripping if you think that’s not off top atleast the last one they thought of the hook on the way to the studio but everything else was just old school em high as fuck and zoned in!!

  • @bowZuRR
    @bowZuRR Рік тому

    lupe fiasco "mural" dooo it!

  • @karmicscope5259
    @karmicscope5259 Рік тому

    Em said they wrote the hook. Not the song, on the way there.

  • @TheOsloDude
    @TheOsloDude Рік тому

    I feel people are overlooking the "70 spirits of ladys cause shady murdered the virgins" bar. If u commit jihad u go to heaven and get 70 virgins, em so crazy he did jihad and then killed the virgins, that so fucking hard haha😂

  • @hecticreaction
    @hecticreaction Рік тому

    If you start reacting to Em you might hit 100K by next week bro! No 🧢

  • @mama_nez
    @mama_nez Рік тому

    Watching anxiously to hear Crooked I be mentioned in the company of Tech N9ne and the rest 😬

  • @TheShinnion
    @TheShinnion Рік тому

    Rakim : Em is nasty

  • @dubheirs511
    @dubheirs511 Рік тому

    React to Eminem - “GNAT” or “Alfred’s Theme”

  • @LauraMcClay
    @LauraMcClay 7 місяців тому

    please do more eminem videos

  • @tes2bebe115
    @tes2bebe115 Рік тому +9

    Come on Don don't disappoint me by thinking this was a real off top freestyle.

    • @matt37032
      @matt37032 Рік тому

      But this was of the top of the head watch the whole interview from 2009, Em said he thought most of the bars when he was travelling to the UK