"Band4Band" by Central Cee / We Can Go Band for Band

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Band4Band, also known by the lyrics "We Can Go Band for Band," is a song by British rapper Central Cee featuring Lil Baby. The track was released on YouTube alongside a music video on May 23rd, 2024, and was made available on streaming platforms the next day. The song was popularized on TikTok in late May and early June 2024 through dance and lip-dub videos, inspiring a trend in which people lip sync to Central Cee's verse while wearing posh, formal attire, then lip sync to Lil Baby's verse in more casual street attire, highlighting the contrast in Cee's British accent and Lil Baby's American accent.

Origin

On May 23rd, 2024, British rapper Central Cee posted a music video for his single "Band4Band" on YouTube,^[1] garnering over 21.8 million views in just under two weeks (shown below). Lil Baby, who is featured in the song, posted a video advertising it to TikTok^[2] that day, garnering over 4.5 million views in the same span of time. The song was released on streaming platforms on May 24th.

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Charva Face / "We Can Go Band for Band" TikTok Trend

In late May 2024, TikTokers popularized the song as a source of dance and lip-dub videos, with some of the most popular lip dubs featuring the TikToker lip dubbing to Central Cee's verse while dressed as posh British people and lip dubbing to Lil Baby's verse in a more gangster, casual style.

On May 25th, TikToker^[3] @incogwhydee began posting videos where he lip dubs to the song, doing the "charva face," a face meant to represent a British "chav" or delinquent, over Cee's part. His first video doing this gained over 4.5 million views in two weeks (shown below, left).

On the same day, TikToker^[4] @gnb.official posted a lip-dub video in which one person dressed posh lip dubs over Central Cee and one person dressed gangster lip dubs to Lil Baby, garnering over 7 million views in the same span of time (shown below, right). This may be the first video to follow this specific iteration of the trend, although it is unclear.

On May 28th, 2024, TikToker^[5] @incogwhydee posted another charva face video to the song that gained over 42 million views in a week (shown below).

The trend continued to spread leading into June 2024. On May 30th, TikToker^[6] @therealbigwinnn posted a video following the trend that gained over 10 million views in five days (shown below, left). On May 31st, TikToker^[7] @sasha_spiker posted a video following the trend that gained over 18.9 million views in four days (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Related Memes

We Can Go Gyatt for Gyatt

We Can Go Gyatt for Gyatt, Fuck that We Can Go Rizz for Rizz refers to a brainrot remix of Central Cee's "Band4Band," featuring Lil Baby, that uses brian rot, slang overload terms like gyatt, rizz and Fanum tax, among others. The remix was posted to TikTok in mid-2024, leading to AI-generated memes that rotoscoped characters onto a clip posted by British TikToker @incogwhydee, using the AI video tool ViggleAI and AI voice tools like ElevenLabs. Some of the most viral iterations featured characters from SpongeBob SquarePants, Regular Show and Smiling Friends.

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