History WebVideo / CDTVProductions

* [[AWorldHalfFull A Rap Game Half Full]]: Seems to be his view on the MCs in Worst Rappers in the game. While he has to listen to a lot of crap and has only found nine rappers that surpassed a 30/50[[note]]TravisScott, RaeSremmurd, Migos, LilSkies, SkiMaskTheSlumpGod, Young Thug, Lil Uzi Ver, Future, 21 Savage [[/note]], he's still been able to find enjoyable songs from the majority of entries, holds that many have room for growth, and continues to hope that someday he will review a lyrical rapper in the segment.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: He himself claimed that he was often assumed to be in his mid-20s when he blew up despite only being 18-19 when he started. However, he actually is in his mid-20s as of 2022 (he turned 24 that year), and hasn't significantly changed since his start, so he pretty much looks his age now.

Since April 2022 the album reactions have moved to the main channel and the reaction channel has been only for singles.

%%* BetterOnDVD: InUniverse; he preferred the original version of "Beware the Book of Eli" with its multiple Timbaland beats.

* NiceHat: To date, he has never been seen without a hat.

* GuiltyPleasure: He used to think that Music/RaeSremmurd was his guilty pleasure artist. Now Nav is his current guilty pleasure

* YoungerThanTheyLook: He himself claimed that he was often assumed to be in his mid-20s when he blew up despite only being 18-19 when he started. However, he actually is in his mid-20s as of 2022 (he turned 24 that year), and hasn't significantly changed since then, so he pretty much looks his age now.

* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: InUniverse, he loves his piano-based beats.

* DayInTheLimelight: Played with and played with an inversion. He has two videos on good songs by bad rappers and a video on bad songs by good rappers, as well as Best Verses videos for Music/TrippieRedd, Music/XXXTentacion, and Music/LilPump, who respectively hold the 15th, 19th, and 22nd slots in his Worst Rappers in the Game list.

* CrackPairing: He advocated for Big Man Shaq of [[MemeticMutation Man's Not Hot]] fame to get a spot on the 2018 XXL Freshman list on the defense that he's a great freestyler who would generate buzz.
** Apparently XXL also thought so of lyrical speed rapper Joyner Lucas and semi-memetic Indonesian rapper Rich Brian, as they did not make an appearance.

* FromBadToWorse: So far, there have been two immediate successions of Worst Rapper in the Game: Music/LilUziVert to 21 Savage and Music/XXXTentacion to Music/SouljaBoy. He's also declared multiple rappers (Music/SouljaBoy, Music/LilPump, Lil Xan, Kid Buu)completely or nearly void of lyrical merit. So far, he's still confident that Soulja Boy and Lil Xan will maintain their respective places on the bottom of the barrel.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: CDTV shows respect, but before the death of Music/XXXTentacion, there was some joking about the latter's name and edginess.
** The worst moment in hindsight was likely the video about XXX's beef with {{Music/Drake}}, calling him [[AttentionWhore desperate for attention.]]
* GrowingTheBeard: CDTV has become a lot more confident over time, indulging in [[WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop Fantano-influenced]] meme humor, best seen in his intros to Worst Rappers in the Game for 6ix9ine and Juice WRLD; he also started doing more free-form discussions of rappers instead of only ranking-based content.

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: His view on "The Marshall Mathers LP," as despite general outrage, it has gone diamond (10,000,000 RIAA-certified sales).

* SoOkayItsAverage: His view on Smokepurrp.

* [[TooCoolToLive Too Weird To Rate Highly]]: Why Ski Mask the Slump God is lower than Music/TravisScott. CDTV views his music as pretty niche.

* FromBadToWorse: So far, there have been two immediate successions of Worst Rapper in the Game: Music/LilUziVert to 21 Savage and Music/XXXTentacion to Music/SouljaBoy. He's also declared multiple rappers (Kodak Black, Music/SouljaBoy, Music/LilPump, Lil Xan, Kid Buu)completely or nearly void of lyrical merit. So far, he's still confident that Soulja Boy and Lil Xan will maintain their respective places on the bottom of the barrel.

* GuiltyPleasure: He used to think that Music/RaeSremmurd was his guilty pleasure artist. Now Music/Nav is his current guilty pleasure

* SoOkayItsAverage: His view on Future and Smokepurrp.

* [[TooCoolToLive Too Weird To Rate Highly]]: Why Ski Mask the Slump God is lower than artists like Migos and Music/TravisScott. CDTV views his music as pretty niche.

CDTV Productions, a.k.a. CDTV Tha G [[CatchPhrase The G stands for got onto TV Tropes]], a.k.a. IAMJAYCE, is a Scottish [=YouTuber=] known for his rap-centric content. His most famous feats are Worst Rappers in the Game, an ongoing ranking of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin rappers considered to be the worst in the game]] depending upon the opinion; his Top Ten lists, including Best and [[MotorMouth Fastest]] verses; [[MemeticMutation his]] [[SarcasmMode love]] [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible of]] Music/SouljaBoy, the reigning worst rapper in the game and lord of 2007; his friendship with fellow Website/{{YouTube}}r BlackySpeakz; his reaction videos; his Gucci Snuggie; his possible status as a time-displaced version of Music/PostMalone. We do not speak of the biracial meme.

His main channel: [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkTqpRTB9UnRBVloySIGlbg]]
His reaction channel: [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCSrx-sJngIg3PvKwsYRf8Q]]

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Downplayed; the name Wankeagle gave him a giggle, a.k.a. 90% of his enjoyment of an entire Music/SouljaBoy album.
* BerserkButton
** Multiple mentioned in his Worst Rappers in the Game episode for Music/SouljaBoy. Most notable are his poor enunciation, the beat for "Trap Party", and his net worth.
** 6ix9ine.
** [[StylisticSuck Distorted beats.]]
** Lil Xan's voice.
** Broken-up flows as seen in "T Shirt" by Migos.
* BetterOnDVD: InUniverse: Better When Bootlegged: He preferred the original version of "Beware the Book of Eli" with its multiple Timbaland beats.

* BlatantLies: Honest To God Truth: CDTV Tha G and IAMJAYCE are the identical brethren of CDTV Productions.
* CrackPairing: He advocated for Big Man Shaq of [[MemeticMutation Man's Not Hot]] fame to get a spot on the 2018 XXL Freshman list on the defense that he's a great freestyler who would generate buzz.
** Apparently XXL also thought so of lyrical speed rapper Joyner Lucas and semi-memetic Indonesian rapper Rich Brian, as they did not make an appearance.
* DayInTheLimelight: Played with and played with an inversion. He has two videos on good songs by bad rappers and a video on bad songs by good rappers, as well as Best Verses videos for Music/TrippieRedd, Music/XXXTentacion, and Music/LilPump, who respectively hold the 18th, 20th, and 21st slots in his Worst Rappers in the Game list.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Downplayed with his On Then Gone episode of Desiigner. He had released a video on XXL freshmen who fell off a week earlier; this included Desiigner on the episode art. However, CDTV does expand his reasoning in the former video.
* DevelopmentHell: Played With. His Worst Rappers In the Game episode on Migos was supposed to be the second episode, but it arrived at the tenth episode. However, this marks a gap of only about four months.
* DudeNotFunny: His view on "Badass(Troy Ave-dissing a suicide victim)," "Two Birds One Stone(Drake-mocking Cudi's depression)" "Hate Me Now(Cam'ron-implies he would commit sexual assault against a seven-year-old)," "Truth(OG Manman-celebrating the death of a man and pouring champagne on his grave)."

* FriendlyEnemies: Not too furious, but fellow rap Website/{{YouTube}}r GulleyBoy had some words when CDTV put some of Gulley's favorite diss tracks ("Black Friday" by Music/LilKim, "Slim Anus" by Music/InsaneClownPosse, "F*** Compton" by Tim Dog) on his worst diss tracks list. Not much came of it, though their opinions were fairly divergent on hip-hop. When GulleyBoy released a video on how Website/YouTube demonetized his entire channel because of his old rap-based content, CDTV expressed his sympathy.
* FromBadToWorse: So far, there have been two immediate successions of Worst Rapper in the Game: Music/LilUziVert to 21 Savage and Music/XXXTentacion to Music/SouljaBoy. He's also declared multiple rappers (Kodak Black, Music/SouljaBoy, Music/LilPump, Lil Xan, Kid Buu)completely or nearly void of lyrical merit. So far, he's still confident that Soulja Boy and Lil Xan will maintain their respective places on the bottom of the barrel.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: CDTV shows respect, but before the death of Music/XXXTentacion, there was some joking about the latter's name and edginess.
** The worst moment in hindsight was likely the video about XXX's beef with {{Music/Drake}}, calling him [[AttentionWhore desperate for attention.]]
* GrowingTheBeard: CDTV has become a lot more confident over time, indulging in [[WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop Fantano-influenced]] meme humor, best seen in his intros to Worst Rappers in the Game for 6ix9ine and Juice WRLD; he also started doing more free-form discussions of rappers instead of only ranking-based content.
* GuiltyPleasure: Music/LilYachty and Music/RaeSremmurd.
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: InUniverse, he loves his piano-based beats.
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: His view on "The Marshall Mathers LP," as despite general outrage, it has gone diamond (10,000,000 RIAA-certified sales).
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In his segment on the death of Music/XXXTentacion, the poor guy's obviously shaken up and not at all employing his usual memery.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: His view on heterosexuality if girls exist who enjoy Lil Xan.
* SoOkayItsAverage: His view on Future and Smokepurrp.
* TemptingFate: Soon after creating a video about how Tyga has disappeared from the music world, "Taste" began jumping up the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually made it to the top 10.
* [[TooCoolToLive Too Weird To Rate Highly]]: Why Ski Mask the Slump God is lower than artists like Migos and Music/TravisScott. CDTV views his music as pretty niche.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Averted; he's more Adorkable than anything, often calm and somewhat easily flustered.
* [[AWorldHalfFull A Rap Game Half Full]]: Seems to be his view on the MCs in Worst Rappers in the game. While he has to listen to a lot of crap and has only found six rappers that surpassed a 30/50[[note]]TravisScott, RaeSremmurd, Migos, LilSkies, SkiMaskTheSlumpGod, Scarlxrd [[/note]], he's still been able to find enjoyable songs from the majority of entries, holds that many have room for growth, and continues to hope that someday he will review a lyrical rapper in the segment.
* [[YouAreWhatYouHate You Are What You Dislike]]: CDTV generally finds British accents less suited to rap than American accents with some exceptions. [[RunningGag His]] [[BlatantLies identical]] [[ButHeSoundsHandsome triplet]] IAMJAYCE raps with a heavy Scottish accent.
* YouWereTryingTooHard: CDTV's view on Famous Dex. The rapper's volume of output and wacky vocals came off as desperate in his episode of Worst Rappers in the Game.

** The worst moment in hindsight was likely the video about XXX's beef with Music/Drake, calling him [[AttentionWhore desperate for attention.]]

* TemptingFate: Soon after creating a video about how Tyga has disappeared from the music world, "Taste" began jumping up the Billboard Hot 100.

* [[TooCoolToLive Too Weird To Rate Highly]]: Why Ski Mask the Slump God is lower than artists like Migos and Travis Scott. CDTV views his music as pretty niche.

* FromBadToWorse: So far, there have been two immediate successions of Worst Rapper in the Game: Music/LilUziVert to 21 Savage and Music/XXXTentacion to Music/SouljaBoy. He's also declared multiple rappers (Kodak Black, Music/SouljaBoy, Music/LilPump, Lil Xan)completely or nearly void of lyrical merit. So far, he's still confident that Soulja Boy and Lil Xan will maintain their respective places on the bottom of the barrel.