“World Cup” by IShowSpeed

IShowSpeed is somewhat of a rarity in that he is an American who appears to have a genuine affinity for FIFA football. To some degree, he displays his associated knowledge by commencing this song (“World Cup”) through the mentioning of 30 of the 32 teams of the 2022 FIFA World Cup hosted by Qatar. 

In the process, he mispronounces quite a few of the nations, including Qatar, which is foretelling of the comedic nature of this piece.

The beautiful thing about “World Cup”, if actually taken as a football song, is that unlike the norm with such pieces, in this case the vocalist doesn’t support a particular team. Perhaps that’s the benefit of IShowSpeed coming from a country like the United States, that no one expects to win the World Cup to begin with. 

But in any event, even though he doesn’t proceed to re-mention every country shouted out in the intro, the proceeding passages do a sound job of wishing every nation luck in the forthcoming tournament.

Also as a side note, IShowSpeed doges give a direct shoutout to Ronaldo and Messi, who are respectively from Portugal and Argentina. But that doesn’t mean he’s favoring their homelands in particular, since they are after all the most-popular soccer players in the world.

Who is IShowSpeed?

IShowSpeed, who was born in Brooklyn, New York City, is yet another comedy/videogame-oriented YouTuber who has turned into a professional musician. It has been pointed out that in his case, he did start to blow up online prior to making music. 

And to note, as of this writing, he has over 13,000,000 followers on YouTube. Also at this time his most-popular track, is a 2021 outing titled “Shake”.

“World Cup”

“World Cup” has an official release date of 4 November 2022. Shortly after it was released, it went viral. 

And whereas it is not clear when, somewhere along the line IShowSpeed signed with the Warner Records, as said label is backing the issuance of this track. 

Interestingly, this song has been strongly cosigned by retired English footballer Rio Ferdinand, and recently IShowSpeed was given a major shoutout by Cristiano Ronaldo himself, i.e. the soccer sensation who also happens to have the most Instagram followers in the world.

IShowSpeed whose real name is Darren Watkins Jr. wrote this song along with Ryan Wage. He also co-produced it with Wageebeats and Joe Grasso.

In the first verse IShowSpeed gives a shoutout to every nation playing in the 2022 World Cup, with the exception of Spain and Denmark.

2022 World Cup Countries

Below are all the countries of the 2022 FIFA World Cup:

1. Wales
2. Uruguay
3. United States
4. Tunisia
5. Switzerland
6. Spain
7. South Korea
8. Serbia
9. Senegal
10. Saudi Arabia
11. Qatar
12. Portugal
13. Poland
14. Netherlands
15. Morocco
16. Mexico
17. Japan
18. Iran
19. Ghana
20. Germany
21. France
22. England
23. Ecuador
24. Denmark
25. Croatia
26. Costa Rica
27. Canada
28. Cameroon
29. Brazil
30. Belgium
31. Australia
32. Argentina