Chicago Rap Festival (Part One) *FIXED LINK*

Well, they are kids...

Justin Bullinger

Jesus those fans were crazy - do they not understand that celebrities are just humans? 😭

Wyn Sawyer

This is just soooo dope. I'm so happy you came up. Treated like the King you are. Thanks for existing

Keva Stewart

For real

Version something point oh

I love the brief 5 frames of Andrew meeting Cole Bennett in literally the coolest way possible

Kolton Jacobs

she ain't wrong tho lmao

Jordan

awww adorable

St Cole

fine ass hiking drip! lol

Ashton Oram

I think its straight up bull shit that yeat is actually on drugs dude looks sober af

Nicholas Donato

Not me just sitting here judging these fans for acting all weird and everything meeting their idols even though I'd do the exact same thing if I ran into like Paul Thomas Anderson at a film festival.

Amulya Bhattarai

I'm happy for those girls they had a religious experience

Lauren Elise

the male Yeat fan in the kilt or whatever was giving major school shooter vibes. Hope Chicago PD has eyes on that dude.

Jake Davis

sure bro

Paige Bowman

Girls were 1000% not “of age” but respect it

Krystian Roman

Prime Andrew. Love your work.

Dranath Brown

L take. I have never and would never react this way to meeting anyone.

crashish

wasn't the best but still some amazing moments

Rick Simpson

Lol Yeat ain’t from LA he grew up in Lake Oswego, Oregon, one of the wealthiest parts or the Portland area

Seth Eddy

This man meets more famous people than famous people do

DesertGrownDank

This man got on stage for an awkward interview and I love it. You also manage to show these people in their most natural state. A1 reportaje

Romel Maldonado

I am going full turban tomorrow

Housecrafts

It’s a pop rap festival. Pop music doesn’t have a lot of substance to it

Harrison Betnales

"His stage name has also been described as a combination of "yeet" and "heat"; it is not a reference to the poet W. B. Yeats." -Wikipedia

Kevin

tryna see that herbo interview

kasten

Those kids are too hyped

Matt Brummett

pt 2 when? (no rush, just excited)

Brandon Sandford

pt 2!

Lindsay Jacob Brown

ok ovahdar the obtuse, ruler of the zyphaltron empire in the virgo supercluster

David Pappachan

people will idolize anybody that gives them music that they love man

Daniel

Did him dirty? He is dirty. Shit individual.

james

I thought maybe I was missing something with the latest rap/hip-hop movements. Turns out no.

Ovahdar the Obtuse, ruler of the Zyphaltron Empire in the Virgo supercluster

Can we even say there's a genuine culture on display here? Seems like a lot of vapid bullshit signifying absolutely nothing.

Cole Krueger

I do, however, feel him on frosted flakes. They're great.

Joseph So

THE SUIT

Joseph So

Andrew really highlights the best of Gen Z

Mild Take

These videos give me so much second hand embarrassment, it was funny seeing Andrew break character for a second because he was the one getting the second hand embarrassment

Isaac

Amazing video as usual, Andrew's tie was beautiful

Isaac

Cant wait to see pt 2

_Toxicfeelings_

You have a good attitude about it.

That's On Youtube

That’s crazy

Allen

This seemed so half hearted. Not the best video form Channel 5

G-Slick

With that being said, a lot happens off camera. Additionally, cutting footage is inevitable. They cannot possibly keep everything in the video. I was unsure of which clips would actually end up being used. I’m grateful for the opportunity and it was so much fun.

Megan Elise

I’m the girl in the red. I told Andrew as soon as I met him that I was mainly at the festival for $not and that I loveeee him so much. Andrew surprised me with $not but the conversation regarding it was not included in the video. I am a fan of Yeat, but I recently started listening to him. However, I’ve been listening to $not for years. So when I was surprised with $not I was in complete shock! And as for the FaceTime call, I was just grateful to get the chance to do so. I hope that puts it better in perspective.

Megan Elise

alright

Mark M

feels like you’re reading way too into this. Also based on your last sentence maybe you should watch some more of Andrew’s vids lol 👀

Tyler Trees

Yeat is the most apathetic person in existence

Giraffe X

pt. 2 soon?

ethan

What pants?

That's On Youtube

Fwiw his advice was "for the kids" - I think it's reasonable for somebody to make it big under the influence (drugs, alcohol, whatever) and still provide advice that they didn't follow because they're the incredibly rare exception, not the norm.

Chris D'Antonio

those 2 yeat groupies look like theyre majoring in clout chasing

Brian M Chompsky Honk

Why do the people being interviewed like Yeat and $not? Their intentions and appreciation seem unbelievably vague and indefinable to their own self. Is it purely clout-chasing? Is the Vibe the only thing that matters? I can understand being starstruck and not knowing what to do or say when you meet your hero, but damn...no one interviewed could give a coherent answer about why they were there and what they were looking for. This might be one of the darker NGNB/Ch5 vids ever.

Owen Miller

The Bulls entrance music when you suit up is fucking epic. I weirdly got goosebumps. We out here feeling things.

WAXWANE

I'm sure if you wanted your part cut they would do it if you messaged them they seem like good dudes

Jack Culp

At first I didn't understand the tie, but it really tied it all together. And when Andrew said he Believed in Interviewing and Yeat respected that haha.

Daniel_Driftless

Sitting here at home, I physically leaned away from my computer screen so Yeat wouldn't see me on facecam.

The Irony Giant

When I first met Channel 5, I recognized Andrew I just couldn't realize from where. Then I was lowkey under the impression they were news reporters from tv or something. The dots connected shortly thereafter lol. I wasn't super shocked that I met Channel 5 because I saw them all over the festival all three days. However, I started to freak out because he said we could FaceTime Yeat. I told Andrew I loved $not specifically and that I was mainly at the festival for him. Then Andrew surprised us with $not. We had no idea we were gonna see him at all and he came out of nowhere. At that point, my brain wasn't even in my head lol. I was so excited and shocked that I didn't have time to think through anything. I was just trying to seize the moment and not think about the cameras as much.

Megan Elise

The suit comes back on. Like a superhero

Vinny vinson

the people talking to Yeat was super cringe and hilarious! Nicely done.

Spirit molecule

Giving fans a chance to facetime with Yeat was such a good move. Makes for good content, the fans like it, and Yeat can hang up when it gets too wierd.

Elliott Higgins

broooooooooooo i could barely watch this vid, they were so fucking cringe, like i get being excited to meet someone you look up to but jesus christ lmao.

Frei Kjær

By meeting "them", I understood you ment channel 5? Well, one of the interesting questions is: if you look at your behavior after the fact, would you say (a) this is just me or (b) this is just me at a festival or (c) this is just me being interviewed by Channel 5 (at a festival) or something else. Which said in another way, means "I'm always like this", "I'm like this in very specific conditions" (festival), "I'm like this because a camera/microphone was pointed at me". When you said "I didn't know how to react", it felt you might imply the third of these things.

six-biomes

Go find Sharkula!

Jose Garibaldi

Andrew advising the man in the porta potty to talk to Yeat normal is the best thing that’s happened this year

Cj Campos

🗿

Cj Campos

You were shitting your pants

Cj Campos

I'm the girl in red. A little bit. What do you mean exactly?

Megan Elise

He should ask Pouya why he s*xually assaulted my friend in VA Beach!

Alijah

Hope we get a Pouya interview y’all!

GeMeu

the world been fucked before us brother

Caleb Spitzer

Is YEAT alive? I know dude's walking around and breathing but he has the mental thereness of a lamp.

That's On Youtube

Laughed so heartily and joyously when Johnthony Deertano came onto the scene

Jonathan Martin

this shit was gold fym lmfaoo

Yoom

It's obviously a persona. Just the Gen Z version of being "cool."

Michael Karger

It's the Gregorian chants during the Yeat content that sent me over the edge. 😂

Michael Karger

yeat so fuckin tired of this life

SkeletalFairy

This was amazing

Nick Manning

That was a trip lmao

Johnathon Jungwirth

This video was pretty bad...

Austin Downs

Wait youre one of the girls? Since you said you simply didn't know how to react, would you say someone pointing a camera at you basically made it feel like you should react in a certain way?

six-biomes

"I like cereal", this MF is Cheese from Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends

Nikola Šobajić

Thank you for understanding lol. I'm the girl in red and I didn't think about how I would look on camera. I was shocked and didn't really believe it was actually gonna happen until it did. Stuff like this never happens to me it feels like so it was a great night. So beyond thankful for Andrew, Evan, & Nic.

Megan Elise

wdym🤣

Megan Elise

I am 20. 21 next March. But I never imagined meeting them at the festival, it was a lot of shock. I was listening to my $not playlist the entire drive to Chicago so it was insane! I didn't know how to react.

Megan Elise

I'm the girl in the red. I am 20. I offered them my ID. Just wanted to make that clear since there seems to be confusion.

Megan Elise

Girls: I would unalive myself for you!! Yeat: appreciate it… click

dante

Dude has all the charisma of a loaf of bread

Dave Furniss

This shit is so funny to me man. Seeing how crazy these kids get is pretty awesome too. That one girl “I would kill myself if Yeat asked me to” 🤣

alexander house

Andrew's interview with Yeat was the most interesting, thought provoking, historical interviews of his career.

Elijah Halford

that being said Yeat it wouldn't hurt if u acted even the slightest bit grateful to ur fans

Paige Bowman

screamed at the cut to Melon w the metal music also many people in the comments are acting embarrassed on behalf of the fans interviewed here but know that they likely would've acted the exact same if they were 21 and had the chance to meet their fav rapper or artist, its cringe to watch from a distance but none of us are immune to fandom or could predict that they'd be perfectly cool if offered the same opportunity

Paige Bowman

fan and groupie culture started in the 60s and the Beatles were one of the first to define it. Elvis too

Paige Bowman

Holy shit yes

Daryl Dingman

Rebrand, only go to B-tier music festivals and have Mellon do a primer interview for every single one after riding up on a lawn mower.

Daryl Dingman

I like how this piece exposes the relationship between rappers and their fans. These guys could take a dump on a fans' heads and get a "thanks for the hat" in return. Glad to see Fantano tho. What a cinematic universe.

Joseph Ramsay

People are too weird

Stewart Harrington

Is he everything you hoped? YES

maestropan

not to be negative and maybe I'm staing something obvious, but out of every single interview Andrew's ever put out, yeat absolutely has to be the dumbest, most void, most boring, most garbage interview subject ... yet. (yeat) and he treats his fans like garbage too because he's a braindead walking bowl of soggy cereal

Joe

Kilt kid funny as fuck

Gorgon son of Skrygorn

Yeah, cause that zip tie would have made the suit look goofy.

Evan King

Another perfect video as always, thanks Andrew & crew <3

Kenzi

the yeat groupie to $not groupie pipeline

Jake Wilty

Man I get they're excited to meet their like idols or whatever but these people dont know how to act lmaooo. I've met a few famous people that I love and while I did get excited I wasn't totally uncool about it

Val Dewar

imagine it aint snot haha that would have been hillarious

Dominick Trayfoot

its not a generation thing. people acted like this forever. just look up old Beatles vids and people fanboying it up.

Smallbusinessman

"talk to him normal" brain damage is no joke

a k tomasi

This world is fucked with this new generation.

Zomic

I could not handle being famous

Dane

i never felt so old before. are these girls 21? also im interested now to see if fan culture was exactly like this in the 60-70s. because ones gut reaction is, now this is odd fandom but I kinda get the feeling e.g. the Beatles would have elicited a similar reaction.

six-biomes

thank you

Andrew Dumitru

Good to see starfucking is still going strong.

Mark Heijblok

Please do an interview with them in 10 years.. What are they doing then? How do they look back on this festival?

Mark Heijblok

what's the smell like around those portaloos

Benjamin Glover

Those women. Wow.

katrina

Really pleased to see the suit again. I felt a lot of tension from the soundtrack/atmosphere during Mr. Yeat's segment.

Craig

i dont understand why people idolize rappers just let them chill and do stuff

Jake Valianes

So randomly I went to a Yeat youtube song (poppin), seems he is hypocritical about the drugs part. I need my drugs, I need my love (we get high) Bitches pullin' up and they suck us up (hey)

Bannakaffalatta

Sounds like Coachella

Andrew R

More port-a-potty akshun — prearz answered. Y'all deliver that real shyt. 11/10

Joe King

Cognitive dissonance hype train

Duck

so someone in the group into ball-busting?🤨🤔

Heather Luhn

I have never heard of YEAT prior to this, he's the amalgamation of GenZ + Soundcloud rap + Tiktok and a real low point for all three imo

JLW

thank u por da weedyo sir very nice one once again channel 5 has yet to miss

horace

turban

horace

hnnnnnngg dem gals was neotenous as fuck hope they take some time to reflect after observing their Despicable (them, not Me) behavior as it was displayed at the Lyrical Lemonade Minion Yeatfest. cant find a word for cringe thats really rlly rly cringe, revolting perhaps? i too am on the cusp of the cultural generations but god damn ig some folks j dont peep how they move, all this lacking of substance (of the mind, and various drugs) and whatnot. you were very nice to them sir, idk if i'd be able to participatorily observe such behavior. good yard and thanks for being here andrew nic and evan and sidam call me I got to tell you about a new turban (head thing) 555-555-5555

horace

Right ear audio only?

Addest

creaky and clickity clackity, sharp turns and consonants that cut through the lisp and inflammation of mucosal lining from the (not juul) mango nic stick. good for him, honestly. i j copped a juul myself after postponing kicknic summer 22 to the fall (of degeneracy and all things unholy [nic])

horace

Keep the suit on, it's a great look <3

Nic Seagull

LMAO I was cringing when they wouldn't stop calling xD

Alex Epstein

bald people

luxy

OMG when I saw fantano come in on the lawn mower I died XD

Joseph Holub

Those rap groupies are somethin else man lmao

juicy jay

u were a lil rude to yeat

KD Aguilera

really uncomfortable interaction/scene but they were definitely of age. 20 and 21, they just look and act younger. i know some similar people. they did yeat dirty...

Alessa

Is that a Freemason cap on your dashboard?

J S

Man those kids were total dweebs. Great video!

Paul Edward Overton

@Erdman, don't worry boy. You were good

Jamie Mcintosh

Talk to him like a normal person

mickeymouse420

Even if they are, still feels hella weird

Zac Gallenberger

deadass idt those girls were of age. that whole bit felt mad uncomfortable

J. Adriana Seraphim

ERDMAN

The way the two women and the dude acted towards Yeat really made me sad. It’s hard to explain, it was just… extremely strange and made me uneasy

Zac Gallenberger

Y'all really stretching the relationship with yeat

Fin Hinchcliffe

Talk to him like a normal person

Victor

is he everything you hoped?

Chris May

Yo Andrew come to Desert Daze

Brett Venable

All about going into the future 6 Minion years!

Matthew Taylor

I’m the dude from that part of it, my insta is @h1wayman.iso for proof

ERDMAN

Honestly had no idea that burkas are drip

Zachary Dussault

Dude alien lean

Zachary Dussault

GREAT FIRE

Asa Zeinemann

Lmao the portapotty interview had me ballin with laughter

Josiah Hall

I know this is more coverage on the artists themselves, but I thought it should be said that Summer Smash is held in Douglass park (a public park in a predominantly low-income neighborhood). I'm native to that side of the city, and community members have been continuously fighting to keep big festivals like this one out. They close off the park the entire summer, and heighten police activity in the area. Not to mention, the park is right in front of Saint Anothony Hospital, so you can imagine how the traffic in the area can cause problems. There's a ton more, but... Yeah

Luna

Yeat talks like a doorknob

Snarpsta

Hahahahaha this is insane. I love this so much. Thank you, Channel 5, you really do capture the average person wherever you go.

Pedro Coelho

What's a yeat

Ocean

Chantony Fivetano

Nick

that whole fan interaction with yeat and snot was low key dystopian

Thibault Tresca

Yes

Oat Sparrow

It's truly insane how y'all continue to produce such fucking high quality content. Never stop Andrew and gang. Y'all are the documentarians the world needs.

MundaneBacklot

Finally getting that respect on your name.

Josh Wingfield

already did right click inspect network but thanks anyway for fixing :)

Jason Brown

This was great. The opera sound paired really well. I liked the facetiming with their hero bit. Did that guy say YEAT was on a couple Tesla's? awesome reporting down on the street.

Jacob Perkins

Suited up, yeated up. This is so good

Li Reid

I wish I had the kind of passion in life for something like these kids do, damn they hype!

Grimace

Where Channel 5? Where Channel 5 At?

Jack Searby

absolutely just the best

Cassie Steig

Big fan. Incredible as always

karp

Love the energy. Love the suit. Love Yeat. Love facetiming fans. Porta potty guy was alright you could probably lose it. Another banger video

Brian Sheehan

I hope my interview is in the video, the would mean the world to me

Derrick

huge clutch on quick fix

Quint from Jaws

Thanks for fixing it!

Joseph