- (React) We will be taking
a trip down Memory Lane today,
reflecting on the hit songs
of the year 2004.
- Oh!
The 2000s were good!
- Yeah.
- Oh!
- (React) This actually is secretly
a Try Not To Feel Old Challenge.
- Oh!
- (React) Because all of these songs
turn 20 years old in 2024.
- Oh my God!
20 years old?
- 20, no wait.
- (React) Yeah.
- I already feel old!
- Okay.
- Oh, Snoop Dogg.
- ♪ Snoop ♪
- I can't listen to this
without thinking about the Vine.
- ♪ Hey, hey ♪
- ♪ Snoop ♪
- ♪ Oh, hey, hit it ♪
♪ Get it, get it, hey, get it ♪
- (React) Yes, mm-hmm!
- This is 20 years old?
- Yo!
- No!
- Oh!
- ♪ When the pimp's in the crib, ma ♪
- ♪ Drop it like it's hot ♪
- ♪ Drop it like it's hot ♪
- ♪ Get it, get it ♪
- ♪ Drop it like it's hot ♪
- He still has a meme 'til this day
of this dance.
(React laughs)
- ♪ Park it like it's hot ♪
♪ Park it like it's hot ♪
- ♪ And if a [censored] ♪
♪ Get a attitude ♪
♪ Pop it like it's hot ♪
♪ Pop it like it's hot ♪
- ♪ Pot it like it's hot ♪
- ♪ I got the Rollie on my arm ♪
♪ And I'm pouring Chandon ♪
♪ And I roll the best ♪
- ♪ 'Cause I got it goin' on ♪
- Dude, that was one
of the first things
I tried to like beatbox growing up.
I was like
♪ Snoop ♪
(Cassie laughs)
It was like...
- No, do it, do it!
- (React) No, do it!
♪ (beatboxes) ♪
(both laugh)
- Or something like that!
- Oh my God!
- Some [censored] like that!
- (React) Yeah, no, keep going!
- Some [censored] like that!
- (React) Do you remember when
Snoop Dogg re-recorded
this song for Hot Pockets?
- No.
- (React) He did
♪ Pocket like it's Hot ♪
♪ Pocket like it's Hot ♪
- Pocket like it's Hot.
- Oh yeah!
- I do remember this.
- (React) Yeah?
- ♪ Pocket like it's Hot ♪
- So he basically sold his soul
to Hot Pockets is what you're saying.
(both laugh)
- (React) Exactly!
- Dang, I remember Hot Pockets
had me in a chokehold.
- I can't believe that that's
20 years old.
- (gasps) Yes!
- Yes!
- Toxic!
- ♪ Baby, can't you see ♪
- (React) Woo!
- ♪ I'm callin' ♪
♪ A guy like you ♪
♪ Should wear a warning ♪
- ♪ It's dangerous ♪
♪ I'm falling ♪
- Dude, she was,
she's so hot in here!
- ♪ There's no escape ♪
- Oh my God,
this is iconic!
Britney, come back to us!
- Britney was going crazy!
- ♪ You're dangerous ♪
♪ I'm loving it ♪
- It's super funny, go...
- ♪ Meow, meow, meow-meow-meow ♪
(both laugh)
- (React) I love it!
It felt right! (laughs)
- ♪ Losing my head ♪
- Oh my God!
- ♪ Spinnin' 'round and 'round ♪
I remember being driven around
to this song,
and thinking I was so cool,
windows down, hair like,
I was like oh my gosh,
this is the coolest song ever.
- ♪ With a taste of your lips ♪
♪ I'm on a ride ♪
♪ You're toxic ♪
♪ I'm slippin' under ♪
- Oh my God! (laughs)
- Huh, that dude.
I wanna walk around with that.
- (React) Yeah. (laughs)
- Oh!
- No, this, right here!
Oh yeah, me in that, pfft!
(React laughs)
- ♪ And I love what you do ♪
♪ Don't you know that you're toxic ♪
- It's always gonna be a bop.
- (React) Always.
- I definitely believe it.
- You turn that on in a wedding,
and everyone's like
I'm hitting the dance floor!
- Yeah.
- Let's go!
- They're getting like, mad low, dude.
- Yes!
- (React) Absolutely.
- I mean, that's been used,
think about like now,
like how much that little like...
- (React) Oh yeah.
- Wait, that was 20 years old?
- That's 20 years old.
- ♪ Pace yourself for me ♪
- This does not feel 20 years old.
- (Jay) Oh!
- You know, okay, so this song
has been on the charts
the longest of any song ever
in the UK or something like that,
I heard some stat about this.
- ♪ But I just don't know now ♪
- Damn, do I know this?
- What's the name of this band?
I know it.
- I don't know, I think I've heard
the song on like Madden.
- Somebody Told Me,
it's Panic! At The Disco!
- (React) Nope.
- Oh shoot.
- (React) Close, close.
- Um...
- ♪ Somebody told me ♪
♪ You had a boyfriend ♪
♪ Who looked like a girlfriend ♪
♪ That I had in February ♪
♪ Of last year ♪
- ♪ It's not confidential ♪
♪ I've got potential ♪
- You're my lead singer!
Yeah!
- ♪ Somebody told me ♪
♪ You had a boyfriend ♪
♪ Who looked like a girlfriend ♪
♪ That I had in February ♪
♪ Of last year ♪
♪ It's not confidential ♪
♪ I've got potential ♪
♪ Rushing around ♪
- Oh, okay.
- He does that like thing at the end.
- Yes he does!
- He does it near the end.
- Yes he does!
- I've been listening to
The Killers for 20 years?
Oh my God!
(Benison laughs)
- Well, that's not bad.
- That's a long time!
- (React) Somebody Told Me
by The Killers,
this was the second single
that the Killers released,
following Mr. Brightside,
which was the same year.
- (Jay) Mmm.
- Ah, it...
- The Killers is a killer name.
- (gasps) Oh, that song
got me into so much trouble.
- (React) Mr. Brightside?
- Yeah, I just made out
all the time when I heard that song.
It was like a joke.
- (React) You just made out?
- If that song came...
I'm not, this is the craziest thing.
(group laughs)
If that song came on,
if I was like at a club or at a party,
I'd be like...
And I would just make out
with people.
It was like a Pavlovian
slutty response, I was just like...
- Woah!
(Cassie grumbles)
- (React) Cassie!
(Cassie laughs)
- And it became this joke where
people would be like
you wanna see something funny?
And they'd just turn on
Mr. Brightside.
- Get the...
- And I'd be like...
- And you'd just...
- Yeah, just [censored].
It got me going!
I don't know, man!
- (both) Yeah!
- Still on the charts.
- Oh!
- Oh!
She's so underrated!
- (laughs) JoJo.
- Put some respect
on JoJo!
- Let's go, let's go.
- She was like 13 here!
- She's a child!
- (React) She was 13 in this video.
- I was three years older
than her maybe. (laughs)
- Oh, she's like...
- ♪ Tight ♪
- Isn't she like 14 in this?
- (React) 13!
- 13!?
- (React) She's 13 in this video.
- Absolutely insane,
and she's talking about...
- That's some soulful music
for a 13 year old, sheesh.
- ♪ Now that you're here, boy ♪
♪ All I want ♪
- ♪ Is just a chance to say ♪
- ♪ Get out ♪
♪ Leave ♪
- ♪ Right now ♪
- ♪ It's the end of you and me ♪
- No way!
- ♪ It's too late ♪
- ♪ Now ♪
- ♪ And I can't wait ♪
♪ For you to be gone ♪
- Who was she dating?
- ♪ About her ♪
♪ And I wonder ♪
- ♪ Why ♪
- ♪ How I bought all those lies ♪
- Hey! (laughs)
- ♪ You said that you would ♪
♪ Treat me right ♪
♪ But you was just ♪
♪ A waste of time ♪
- This is fire!
- Spitting bars, bro!
- (React) At 13.
- JoJo knew what was going on!
- Man!
- Dude, 13, nah, she didn't.
How did she know that stuff?
At 13, that's too young!
- (React) Right?
JoJo became at age 13,
the youngest female solo artist.
- Yeah, you called it.
- (React) Ever to have
a number one single
in the United States.
- That would've been a point.
- Damn.
- That would've been a point.
- (React) At the time,
when it hit the charts.
- 13!
- She said 13, she was on it.
- (React) 13, yeah!
- That's crazy to me.
- Was she, how many people
was JoJo dating?
- Yep, right.
- I wasn't allowed to date.
- No way!
- Which probably why I made out
with so many people in college.
(group laughs)
- ♪ Up in the club with my homies ♪
- Oh!
- Oh!
- Yes!
- I still listen to this song.
I don't care.
If I'm going out,
which is never, I do play this song.
- I remember in the part about
like milking the cow,
and dancing to that,
and thinking I was so cool.
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ Conversation got heavy ♪
- ♪ She got me feeling like ♪
♪ She's ready to blow ♪
♪ Watch out ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
- ♪ She's saying come get me ♪
- If they don't play this song,
the DJ doesn't play this,
what are you doing?
- ♪ Floor ♪
- ♪ She said baby, let's go ♪
- ♪ When I told her ♪
♪ I said ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
- ♪ Shorty got down low ♪
♪ And said come and get me ♪
- Oh, there's an A-Town stomp.
- ♪ I got so caught up ♪
- ♪ I forgot she told me ♪
- I never knew what he said.
- All up on you, and I'm like
personal space!
- Oh yeah.
- Excuse me!
- And he's just onto
the next, like okay.
- Yeah! (laughs)
- ♪ Next thing I knew ♪
♪ She was all up on me screaming ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
- Ah, hey, oh, hey,
where's he going?
Where's he going next,
where's he going next, ope?
- Old school Usher.
- Old school Usher though.
- (React) Yes.
- You Got It Bad.
- ♪ It's seven o'clock ♪
- ♪ On the dot ♪
♪ I'm in my drop top ♪
♪ Cruisin' the streets ♪
- That can't be 20 years old!
Yo!
- That makes me feel old.
- (React) It is!
- Yo, this is like...
- So youthful.
- (React) 20 years old,
and this is the song
that topped the U.S. Billboard
Hot 100 for 12 weeks in 2004.
- Oh yeah, that's...
- 12 weeks?
- That's well deserved.
- Doesn't shock me.
- (React) Yes.
Usher owned the two top spots
for that year, 2004.
He had this song,
then it was replaced with Burn,
his other song.
- Burn!?
- Ooh.
- (React) And those two
led the year.
- How does Burn go?
- Bad too, oh.
- Burn is so, okay.
- I mean Burn is amazing, yeah.
- Controversial take.
Yeah is probably one of my
least favorite Usher songs.
I like, Burn is so much better.
- Ugh!
- ♪ Caroline ♪
- Oh my God!
- This was in 2004!?
- (React) Mm-hmm!
- ♪ All the guys would say ♪
♪ She's mighty fine ♪
- Oh my God!
- ♪ Mighty fine ♪
- I remember thinking this is so
naughty to have this word in a song.
- Hey!
(React laughs)
- Like, I remember literally
being like oh my gosh,
they can't say that!
- (React) What word?
- And they can't talk about
bowel movements.
- (React) Oh, poo.
- ♪ Even though ♪
- ♪ You'd need a golden calculator ♪
♪ To divide ♪
- ♪ To divide ♪
- ♪ The time it takes ♪
♪ To look inside ♪
♪ And realize ♪
- ♪ That real guys go for real ♪
- I'm just...
- ♪ Down-to-Mars girls ♪
- I feel like...
- ♪ Ha ha, yeah ♪
♪ I know you'd like to think ♪
♪ Your [censored] don't stank ♪
- ♪ But lean a little bit closer, see ♪
♪ Roses really smell like ♪
♪ Poo-poo-ooh ♪
- (React) Yes.
- I just, I feel like...
Music just, like, I can't think
of anything in the last 20 years
that's come out
that sounds like Andre 3000.
- (React) Mm-hmm.
- He was so specific.
- I'm not gonna lie,
like his fashion sense
was like, back then,
is crazy.
'Cause I feel like they
dress like that now.
- (React) They do, yeah.
- You know?
- That whole album, I mean
both that double album was incredible.
- (React) Yes.
- A lot of hits
came off of that thing.
- Mm-hmm, that's a really good
karaoke song.
I'm not even joking, I just did it
like last week. (laughs)
- ♪ Caroline ♪
- (React) Really!?
- It's so much!
- Greatest of all time.
- I genuinely remember feeling guilty
like getting down, and like really
being excited about somebody
talking about going
to the bathroom.
(both laugh)
I was like you can't talk
about women like that!
Like so much of my life
has changed now.
- Woo!
- I'm like let's talk about it!
(both laugh)
- ♪ Roll up in the club ♪
♪ Looking fly ♪
- I don't know if I...
- ♪ Made your first approach ♪
♪ Then ♪
- It's giving Sean Paul vibes.
- At the clothing
that is happening there.
- ♪ Dah dah ♪
I forgot the words!
- ♪ Everybody touch the dance floor ♪
Let's go!
- ♪ And she leads first ♪
- Oh, the layered tank tops!
Oh, how low rise
are their jeans?
Ugh, I'm about to have
a flashback.
- ♪ Body girl ♪
- Oh, I love this song!
- ♪ The way you ride it girl ♪
♪ Makes the fellas go ♪
- ♪ Ooh, move your body girl ♪
♪ Makes the fellas go ♪
♪ Ooh, the way you ride it girl ♪
♪ Makes the fellas go ♪
- ♪ Woah ♪
- Yeah!
The woah!
- Nina, where did you go?
- (React) Right!?
- That was crazy!
- Like, like...
- (React) 20 years old.
- That is a classic.
- (React) Nina Sky is actually
a duo of identical twins,
Nicole and Natalie Albino.
- Wait, that's sick!
- (React) Right?
- What, which one was it?
Which was which?
- Wait!
- I have to know.
- It wasn't the same person?
- (both) Oh my God!
- (React) Right!?
- They're twins!
I would not have known!
- Oh!
American Idiot.
- Is this American Idiot!?
- (React) Yes!
- Okay, this song seems
older to me.
- ♪ Dah-dah-dah, nah-nah-nah ♪
- Than 2004.
- This was quite the album
as well.
- ♪ Don't wanna be an American idiot ♪
- ♪ Don't want a nation ♪
♪ Under the new media ♪
- ♪ Dah-dah-dah ♪
Dude, how can you not
rock out this, dude?
- ♪ And can you hear the sound ♪
♪ Of hysteria ♪
(Cassie tapping table)
♪ The subliminal mind [censored] ♪
♪ America ♪
- There we go, okay.
- They're gonna bleep that.
That's okay.
(React laughs)
- ♪ Welcome to a new kind of tension ♪
♪ All across the alien nation ♪
♪ Where everything isn't meant ♪
♪ To be okay ♪
- Green Day was crazy, huh?
Green Day had a...
Is Green Day still around?
- (both) Yeah!
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- They were just playing at
like When We Were Young Fest
or something.
- Oh really?
- Get it, get it, ugh!
- (React) This song is 20
years old, you guys.
Can you believe it?
- Wow!
- They still wear cute little ties.
(laughs)
- (React) I think they do!
- With like...
- Cute little ties.
- With the eyeliner.
- I almost feel like it's
one of those songs
that has existed
for longer.
- (React) Yeah, it does kinda feel
like it's been out for a while, huh?
- Yeah, it gives like...
- 20 years.
- Encompassing of like angst.
- (React) What do you think
this song's about?
- An American idiot.
America is an idiot.
- People being misinformed,
which is...
- (React) Pretty much, yeah.
- Seems to pretty much
be the standard.
- So at the time,
it was a political statement,
you know, kinda concerning
like, our president,
and how we were being run
as a country,
and he's like I don't wanna be
part of a redneck agenda.
- Oh!
- He says that at one point
in the song, so...
- Wow!
They were like...
Pfft, sheesh.
- They knew what was coming!
- ♪ Just because you drive a Benz ♪
- (both) Oh!
- Ciara?
- Yeah!
- Okay, okay!
- ♪ You won't get no nookie ♪
- Do you know much
I tried to learn this dance?
I still don't know it.
- (Jayse) Remember...
- ♪ (Cassies vocalizes) ♪
(both laugh)
- ♪ So you already know ♪
- Can like, would whistle
though, to it.
- ♪ You may talk slick ♪
- Okay, we're going there!
- (React) Yeah!
- ♪ But I'm not dumb ♪
- ♪ I'm not being ♪
- ♪ Too dramatic ♪
♪ It's just how I gotta have it ♪
- ♪ I bet you want the goodies ♪
- (React) Yes!
- ♪ Bet you thought about it ♪
- Her 2004 style is so on point.
- I was in the parties like this
20 years ago.
- This is the thing, like,
this is what people are wearing now!
- ♪ If you're looking for the goodies ♪
♪ Keep on looking ♪
♪ 'Cause they stay in the jar ♪
- Oh.
- Even this like instrumental, crazy.
- ♪ Oh oh ♪
- ♪ If you're looking ♪
♪ For the cookies ♪
- Get it!
- ♪ Keep on looking ♪
- ♪ Ugh, ugh ♪
- ♪ 'Cause they stay in the ♪
- God, I'm having like a flashback
to watching The Real World.
- (React) Totally.
- Just being like how are
her pants staying up!?
- (React) So this song
was number one for seven weeks.
It became the longest running
number one debut single...
- Seven weeks?
- (React) By a female artist
on the chart since 1977.
- Wow.
- Good [censored] Ciara.
- (React) Wild.
And this song gave Ciara the title
as the First Lady of Crunk & B.
- That's when Lil Jon
was on top.
- (React) Mm-hmm.
- Crunk?
- Crunk, like...
- (React) Crunk & B.
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- I was told that is
an old person thing to say.
- (React) Crunk?
- I feel like music's
just different today.
- Oh yeah.
- (React) Oh.
- And somebody was like
you're so old!
- No.
- (React) So this song was penned
as being the female answer
to Petey Pablo's song
Freek-A-Leek.
- Freek-A-Leek?
- (React) Yeah!
And he's in this video, too.
- Oh!
- Really?
- (React) Yeah, this is like
the female empowerment,
like, response
to that song.
- Interesting!
- (React) So she's like my goodies
will stay in the jar.
- Oh!
- (React) Word, Ciara.
- Well good for you, Ciara.
- Ciara was like, this was like,
her prime.
- (React) Yeah.
- Not, like, I think she's still hot,
and everything.
- (React) Yeah.
- (Jayse) Oh, yeah, yeah.
- But like in music,
that was her prime.
- (React) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, her and Russell Wilson
are on a steady decline right now.
- Okay.
- Let's go!
- ♪ Lil mama, show me ♪
- Oh!
There is a lot
of rump shaking!
- ♪ Put your back into it ♪
- Going on!
- I've never seen this
music video before.
- They cannot be showing,
was I a kid watching this?
This is inappropriate!
- ♪ Lil mama, show me ♪
♪ How you move it ♪
♪ Go 'head, put your back ♪
♪ Into it ♪
♪ Do your thing like ♪
♪ It ain't nothing to it ♪
♪ Shake, sh-sh-shake ♪
♪ That ass, girl ♪
- Hey!
- ♪ Go go, 50 in the house ♪
- They were, 50 crazy.
- (React) Go get in there with them!
- That's a lot of booty!
Get in here, Abhi!
- Hey!
- ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
- Oh my God!
- Look at that ass!
- There's so much!
- So much!
- So much booty!
Respectfully!
- So much cake, bro!
- When was that allowed in the world!?
- This is like something my mom
would be like...
- (laughs) But like also like...
- (React) Peeking!
- Just like...
- He was ahead of his time though.
- Wow.
- (React) Yes.
- He's a genius.
- They're, they are...
- Get Rich or Die Trying
was the first...
- (React) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Get Rich or Die Trying!
- That's his first album, is this?
- 10 out of 10 album!
- Ooh!
- But it makes sense.
- Oh, that was not ass.
- Oh, some boobs.
- Yeah.
- Some booms there, for the...
- ♪ Shake that ass girl ♪
- It's called shake that rump, girl.
- Shake, yeah!
- This is so crazy.
I've never seen that music video.
- (React) So much ass, right?
- I've never seen that music video.
- Bruh, I'm gonna watch that again
when I go home, sorry!
(both laugh)
- (React) 50 Cent, you guys,
he's 48 years old.
- Nice, nice!
- Okay, but he doesn't
look it.
- He's like buff, on tour.
- (React) He's killing it.
- Yeah.
- Still, like, going crazy.
- (React) Yeah!
- ♪ Ah ♪
- No, I know this.
- What is this?
- ♪ Bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah ♪
♪ I know I won't be leaving here ♪
♪ With you ♪
It sounds like he's like
doing that, ugh, the whole time.
- Yeah!
- It's not The Killers again.
♪ Do do do ♪
- Oh, oh!
- It's White Stripes?
- (React) No!
Yes!
- So good!
- ♪ I say, don't you know ♪
- Oh yeah!
- ♪ You say you don't know ♪
♪ I say ♪
♪ Take me out ♪
- I feel like I was killing it
on Guitar Hero to this.
- (React) Yeah! (laughs)
- ♪ Time is slow ♪
- And electric guitar, like,
drums, back in the day, huh?
- ♪ Take me out ♪
- Are they a UK band?
- Franz Ferdinand, yeah.
- I think I played it
on Guitar Hero. (laughs)
- Yeah, it's a good like,
little riff there, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's a catchy ass riff.
- Ooh, flashback, ooh!
- (React) Yeah!
- I haven't listened to Franz
Ferdinand since college. (laughs)
- Old flashback Ferdinand.
- (React) So this song compares
lovers to snipers aiming at each other
and the frontman of Franz
Ferdinand said that it's about
how you'd rather be shot
than continue the tension.
- Oh, somebody got burned
real bad.
- (React) Isn't that deep?
- Woah!
- (React) Isn't that deep, right?
- Hold on, brother!
- Wow, I thought it was like
taking out dancing.
- (React) Right? (laughs)
Same!
- Damn, that got dark.
- It was like no, literally,
shoot me in the face.
- Oh.
- Avril!
- Avril.
- Spoiler alert, she is alive.
- I don't think I've
listened to this one.
- You don't know this one?
- No, I do, but I haven't like...
- Once the chorus hits.
- ♪ It was something like this ♪
- Have I heard this one, though?
- ♪ It made me go oh, oh ♪
Was it scandalous that she
was sitting in her underwear?
- (React) Incredibly.
- Really?
(Jay laughs)
- Lavigne had such a moment,
where is she?
- She sounds so Canadian.
- (React) She's dating Tyga!
- She's not dating Tyga!
- (React) Yeah, she is.
- Right now?
- (React) Yeah!
- Presently?
- (React) Now!
- What!?
- ♪ Did I not tell you ♪
- Oh, I saw this.
- ♪ You that I'm ♪
How do I know the words to this?
I have not heard this in 10 years.
- ♪ Girl, the one who ♪
- I was about to say get out.
- ♪ Gives it all away, yeah ♪
- ♪ Did you think that I was ♪
♪ Gonna give it up to you ♪
- Oh, Avril.
- ♪ This time ♪
- ♪ Did you think that it was ♪
♪ Somethin' I was gonna do ♪
♪ And cry ♪
- In my head, she's frozen
at this age.
- Yeah.
- (React) Yeah.
- But like, from Sk8er Boi video.
- She went from Nickelback to Tyga.
(laughs)
- Aww.
- Dude, I would love to film
a music video like this.
- Okay, but like is he stalking her?
Because, like,
it's giving stalker.
- Wow.
- Is she a captive,
like what's happening there?
(Jay laughs)
- Avril Lavigne was killing it
back in the day, dude.
- Yeah.
- (React) Okay.
- ♪ You're now tuned into ♪
♪ The [censored] greatest ♪
- Oh, okay, okay!
- ♪ Bew, bew, bew, boo, ugh, ugh ♪
- (React) Yes!
(Izzy laughs)
- You see dirt on my
shoulders or what?
(Cassie laughs)
No you don't!
- Oh my!
- (React) Should I turn it up?
- Oh, I got you, okay, yeah,
turn it up a little bit more, yeah!
- ♪ If you feelin' like a ♪
- ♪ Go and brush your shoulders off ♪
♪ Ladies is pimps too ♪
♪ Go and brush your shoulders off ♪
♪ Is crazy baby ♪
♪ Don't forget that boy told you ♪
- I wish I knew how to
Harlem shake how they do.
- ♪ Get that dirt off your shoulder ♪
- ♪ I probably owe it to y'all ♪
- Wait, oh my God! (laughs)
- Hey, oh wait, wait, yeah.
- (React) Woo!
- ♪ Ah, ah, ah ♪
- Is it pre-Beyonce?
- Oh no, he's always had B.
- Yeah, ever since he was like...
- I feel like this is for sure B.
- ♪ All the ballers is bouncin' ♪
♪ They like the way I be leanin' ♪
♪ All the rappers be hatin' ♪
♪ Off the track that I'm makin' ♪
- Sometimes I'm like mm,
Beyonce, I kinda get it.
It's like so weird.
- (React) I know! (laughs)
- I love this.
- ♪ To the top of the top ♪
- ♪ London, Japan ♪
♪ And I'm straight off the block ♪
- Oh, ah, ah.
Ah, I gotta do a slice.
- ♪ Get that dirt off your shoulder ♪
- You gotta...
- ♪ Get that dirt off your shoulder ♪
- Woo!
- ♪ You gotta get that ♪
♪ Dirt off your shoulder ♪
- ♪ You gotta get that ♪
♪ Dirt off your shoulder ♪
♪ You gotta get that ♪
♪ Dirt off your shoulder ♪
- Benison!
- (React) Beni, you're kinda cool!
- What, thanks dude!
- Like, super cool.
- You can just tell when you
walk into a building
who's cool by how much
dirt is on their shoulder. (laughs)
- (React) Absolutely.
- I was not a huge Jay-Z fan
at the time.
I became more of a fan
of him like later.
- I feel like, you know,
when you're like,
I feel yeah.
- Wow!
- Like I'm in high school being like
oh my God,
I got partnered with like,
the coolest guy in school.
(group laughs)
- Hey, someone put on
Mr. Brightside!
(group laughs)
(React screams)
- Bringing it back
full circle!
- That's right!
- Thanks, The Killers!
- (React) In 2008, during the
democratic presidential debate...
- Mmm.
- (React) Obama...
- Came out to this?
- (React) Referenced this song.
He did this, yes,
and he was asked
whether he was deliberately
referencing the song or not,
and he responded with
he has some Jay-Z on his iPod.
(both laugh)
- Wowzers!
- On his iPod!
- Woo!
- Oh my God, dude!
- (React) Right?
- You gotta admit, like,
if you don't even like Obama,
at least, he got some swagger
to him, bro.
- Aww, he was amazing.
- (React) So much swag, right?
- He was amazing.
- So much swag!
- (React) How do you feel?
This trip down memory lane.
- Ugh.
- (React) 2004!
Are you feeling old?
Are you feeling rejuvenated?
- I feel very vintage.
A vintage Jay.
- (laughs) Vintage!
I feel so retro!
- Yeah, right.
- (React) Yeah.
- The answer is yes, Gina,
I do feel old.
- I like the fact that all of these
still are great.
Like, these still work
for today.
- Mm-hmm
- And they're still being played.
- Exactly.
- So it kind of makes the time blur.
- Timeless, like, music lives forever,
if it's timeless.
- My cup runneth over.
(React laughs)
Just with...
- Woah!
- I am just ugh!
With joy!
- My cup overfloweth as well.
- Yeah.
♪ (Benison beatboxes) ♪