You Should Listen to Hi Ren
My latest musical obsession and why you should listen to it
Ren Erin Gill is a Welsh artist who mostly does rap. “Hi Ren” is different. I can pretty much guarantee you have never heard anything quite like it. I’m embedding it here; watch it and come back — the rest of what I’m writing will make more sense afterwards.
The backstory of the song is pretty intense.
Ren was bitten by a tick when he was in his teens but didn’t realize it. He developed Lyme Disease but wasn’t diagnosed for around a decade — instead, he was diagnosed with mental illness and was treated for that, not for Lyme Disease. He was put on various psych meds as he got weaker and developed more pain. Apparently, he got the correct diagnosis at one point, which led to stem cell therapy. It didn’t fix a decade of his body falling apart, but it did help a lot. It made him strong enough to start creating music regularly. He raised enough money to get further treatment in Alberta, Canada.
