No intro is going to do this music video justice, so here it is:

 

This is "Know Me" by Eastside-based rap collective 8 Ballin', directed by Melvin Dave. The video has so far amassed almost 3.4 million views in 8 days.

As a song, this one is as catchy and easy-flowing as any radio-friendly mainstream rap song could possibly be. The video, it's fairly well-done, the fashion sense on the trio and their posse of friends can definitely spark conversations and a separate feature article. I mean, it gave me pretty good Halloween costume ideas. But the most undeniable star of this show is our chorus and big hooks dude Ris, whose brand of, uhm, cryptic mumble rapping on this song is probably responsible for, like, 95% of its views. Probably the first rapper on earth to cite Cardo Dalisay as a musical influence, this song is probably an argument why it's not a good idea to hit the recording studio and play with autotune when you just had braces put on you. Google even had a hard time with the captions, they were auto-generating Vietnamese words for the first two-thirds of the video. 

Unfortunately, the song has garnered 100,000 dislikes, but when you're almost certain to hit 4 million views in less than 2 weeks, who effin' cares right?! But credit to these dissers though for keeping the toxic comments as minimized as they could possible be and for keeping them light-hearted and funny for the most part. 

"pinarinig ko ulit to sa tropa kong bulag sana naging bingi nalang daw siya." - S4gitnu Plays

"不要翻译白痴' This line hits so hard." - Genexyz Von Deus

"Ginawa ko siyang alarm ng 5am pero 4am pa lang gumising na ko para 'di ko siya marinig." - Ruffamae Labarda Somiria