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Rating Bicycle Related Music Videos with RaRa

A guy in a turtleneck skivvy rates Morrissey, Pharrell and Fatlip's bike skills.

Photo by Lucas Brown

To call Melbourne's RaRa 'Aussie hip hop' would be doing them a disservice. The group is worldwide both in their sound and take-over attack and their new EP Pink and Teal is fresher than a damn calippo. RaRa don't deal in classic hip hop tropes but approach the form from their very own planet. The EP is fully consuming. One you don't so much listen to as bathe in.

The latest single, "Favourite Gatorade Flavour", isn't a reference to half-time at the footy. It's a succinct homage to babes, L-U-V and cute sentiments. A posse cut about romancing over boofing. The track's video features some outer-suburban BMX cruisin' and skivvy-wearin'.

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They aren't the first act to feature bikes in their video so we asked Ll'vo, the lovely me and River Deep to sit down and give us their take on some other bicycle-heavy vids. Check the video for "Favourite Gatorade Flavour" below and see how it stands up against some others.

The responses are complete and unedited from the guys.

Y.N. Rich Kids – "My Bike"

Ll'vo: Look, I can't fuck with it. Training wheels are pretty hot tho. Fuck with that. Fuck with yung-yungins' gusto to rock the training wheels too.

the lovely me: I didn't feel it too much. Still got love for yung-yungen for his skitz in Khakhi Dance, a lil lame here. Still hot for reppin' them orange tint goggles tho.

RaRa rating: Weak as fuck out of grown man standards. Except for yung yungen with da goggles, training wheels and ODB gusto.

Bones & Xavier Wulf - "IGotABMXBikeButImNotVeryGood"

River Deep: I have the same piece-of-shit bike. They both go hard as hell and remind me of when I ate shit that one take in "Favourite Gatorade Flavor".

the lovely me: Bones is so cuzzed out. Fuck with everything Bones. Xavier goes hard too. He's got a hectic mono on him.

Ll'vo: I fuck with the ramps, brings me back to being a yung hectic whipper snapper doing tricks on my mountain bike. I fuck with how emotional they are about BMXing.

RaRa rating: 9 emotions out of 10. Bones is making emotions hot again.

N.E.R.D – "Provider"

LLvo: We definitely should've watched this before we jumped on our bikes, our steez level just wasn't up to scratch. This song single-handedly made me a drug dealer on that romantic slangin' tip.

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River: Arguably the most hectic BMX music video performance ever. Watching this now, I feel like a twat by comparison. Shout to mid-naughties Yelawolf (AKA travvi barkz).

the lovely me: This one here is the benchmark for all BMX videos. Chad is so hectic staunchin' out those boxes. Hella track too, I fuck with the whole viewer experience (L)(L)(L)

RaRa rating: Paris Hilton.

The Smiths – "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"

Ll'vo: Look at those shit bikes bro, that so 80s. Thats 80s as shit. I do fuck with that basket tho. The Smiths - OG hipsters? Can't tell me for one minute that Morrissey wasn't stickin' one of those broads between takes.

River: Um… hahaha. I didn't know something could be so 80s and so English at the same time. They should've used Penny Farthings, that would've been heaps hot and hell gentlemanly.

RaRa rating: St Augustine polite.

Fatlip – "Whats Up Fatlip"

the lovely me: Look at the high tuck on his shit. He's on that Normcore before anyone and lookin' simple as hell in it too. Hectic baby seat on his bike, all about that parental steez. Spike Jonze on this video so you know it's hectic. @SpikeJonze fuck with us #SpikeJonze

River: I'm so into Fatlip and The Pharcyde. Spike Jonze is a genius.

Ll.Vo: Fuck with his steps. Truly a hot song.

RaRa rating: 13 points out of the gram. fatlip smoked so much crack str8 2 da h34d.

Mannie Fresh featuring Lil Wayne – "Bring It Back"

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lovely: Naaah and Mannie are on some stale, simple shit. Sounds like Y.N. Rich Kids ghost wrote the hook. There's no mob-riding round the streets either, kind of weak.

Ll'vo: What the fuck does this even mean? "Meatball Lamborghini, top spaghetti"? Nah, Mannie Fresh wasn't hot. Not very bicycle-y, lo-rider bikes just leave a bad taste in my mouth. Wayne is too short to be rocking such baggy gearz.

River: Mannie's pants are too baggy and his lack of eyebrow action creeps me out a bit.

RaRa rating: Negative steeze. Mannie Fresh sucked it all away. Soz Wayne.

Get more of Maquarie on her radio show Golden Syrup.

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