How rap sounds to non-english speakers

An unusual word takes over the spelling bee.

IGOWALLAH (ft. Hoodie Guy)
directed by Daniel Thrasher
featuring @williamosman
music by oo oxygen
cinematography by Ben Joyner
choreography by Allison and Veronica Huber
edited by Corey Sheppard
color by Stephen Nadeau
additional edits by Cal Laird

LYRICS
Ok
One blash esh ta.
Slippy.
A glippy flippidy chop.
Blippity glop.
Flop-a gop-a jippidy wop
Blippity sclop
A-bdrop-a coppa
Chippidy cop
Coppedy pop
Pop-a sock-a
Boppity schlop
Bloppity glop
A-blippy!

A-Bawa shawa
Gowa sha geewa
Gowa sha BA!
Howma tima tuh gowa
Gowa ta blitty dowa da
Howma skimmy de djowa
Eyegowa Igowallah Wah!
Owa jiwwy di gowa
Sowa da viddy vadda wah!
AAOW!

A skrippy goppa gippy
da shippy
Goppa du wippy
Gippy flippy
Goppa choppa tu wippy
Goppa tu sklippy
Goppa gippy
Toppa goppa duh flippy
Goppa tu wippy
Goppa shoppa tu wippa
Badiddy
Wita baddawah

D-d-d-dribbin onna nibbin
wanna gibbon widda chibbin
Name-a-lame a-gonga-lame
ani-duh-mare a gribbin-iddle!
Paradiddle
Scara baraliddle
Bonkey lee, bonkey do, scabby-dare-a-biddle!
Hey!

Hobbeldy-bee
Scamada bobbidy sobbedy wee
Comedy gee
Como se llama te amo a mi (woo!)
Pakity pee
Sakity see
Lakity bakity rakity ree
Pamala damala namala skamala
M T V!

Diwa tigalla
Ti duffa gee dawa chaddah
Bee-duku gee duku jaddah
Bah-duka jeedu-wee-wah
A skaba we wifi password
Badutu we wutu massworm
Taboo-du we wubu baffurm
Dabada we wudu ya

Yeah
Chiwa dawa du
Siwa gawa tu Austin Powers
Lookin’ amme like ayegodda goa nuthur owa
Asowa tida whyda edunida bowa showa
Eskwibby showa dowa seewee towa teewee jaba

Hebe chai
A-heda howa
Askabba dabba
Sheba dowha
Ashabbady hwa
Ashlabba dabba
Shewutu wa
A bobbily la
Asklabba daba
Shewudu wa
Askiwudu wa
Wiwi daba

Dibbity da, skabbedy wibbidy flibbidy bibbidy ba,
Klibbity ka, kammady tiddly fiddle-dee wibbidy wa, yibbidy ya,
Plibbity pla, skamady bibble-dee wibbildy flibbity flaaaaBOY
Pamma-dee onalee tramady funneldeez nuts, skwibbity skwaaBOY.

Menku. Slemper with flango bajeegin.
When you firspepple on a reemstrap, dredju mether wanna gubby?
…
Dredju mether wanna gubby?

What are you SAYING?!

Igowallah

Well welm gelm
Beluklaa bashooey.
Errybuyygud?
Haha.
Ok.

[danielthrasher]

Igowallah is STREAMING NOW EVERYWHERE!

[OverflowingWithIdeas]

I love how there are some real words in here, showing how every once in a while in a rap song you can understand something.

[vectorthehop]

When you're happy, you enjoy the music. When you're sad, you understand the lyrics.

[sorio]

I feel like we need to appreciate, Daniel hired like, dozens of people, and probably a full professional team, to shoot an official Music Video where he literally just raps gibberish.

[Fluffy_g]

"A skaba we wifi password" could not be truer, thank you for blessing us all with your meaningful and inspirational lyrics Daniel.

[Thesauceman-dhqd]

The fact that Spotify has LYRICS for this and not some extremely popular songs is CRAZY

[mangelsimonpaniello]

As a non native English speaker this speaks to my childhood. Never thought I'd hear this language ever again but here we are

[DerFantastico]

He's not only a good rapper, he is also fluent in the sims language.

[Treffaut]

The delivery’s so good, I don’t CARE if I’m having a stroke.

[sebastianleona]

As a Brazilian who for most of his life lived without knowing a word of English, I can say that this is bizarrely accurate.

[farisribbit]

the fact that this is an actual produced and rehearsed song that took at least a month or two to create makes this 100 times better

[evangarrard]

It’s actually impressive how well this man can speak gibberish😭

[Cheeseboi]

7 year olds activating like sleeper agents when they hear the word skibidi

[Izo_Risu]

Nobody gonna mention how cinematic the first scene was???

I love how he actually put some normal English words to prove that English sound completely gibberish to non English speaker

[thebluetomatoe]

Being able to say not actual words, but actually able to make it sound like it isn’t just slurred together, takes actual skill.

[foxishere]

I'm so glad they added the lyrics in the description

[thjuly]

Ah, makes me nostalgic.
Friends and I used to sing "english" songs as children,
while having 0% understanding of said language.
100% sounded like this 💀

[aggressivepenguin]

can we just appreciate that Daniel got like, a whole audience and everything for this silly skit.

[eliburnham]

Crazy seeing that this man went from filming on his phone to having full blown music videos with actors and cameramen

[a_simple_boi]

As a person who is fluent in Skrrt, these lyrics are incredible and extremely meaningful. Thank you for letting us hear your wonderful words!