CDTV Productions, a.k.a. CDTV Tha G, a.k.a. IAMJAYCE, is a Scottish YouTuber known for his rap-centric content. He is known for "Worst Rappers in the Game", an ongoing ranking of rappers considered to be the worst in the game and his Top Ten lists, including Best and Fastest verses.
His main channel is here
and his reaction channel is here.
And with that, guys, we're going to be listing my tropes.
- Actually Pretty Funny: Downplayed; the name Wankeagle gave him a giggle, a.k.a. 90% of his enjoyment of an entire Soulja Boy album.
- A Rap Game Half Full: Seems to be his view on the M Cs 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 30/50note , 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.
- Birthday Episode: IAMJAYCE released his first single, "19," on CDTV's birthday. 2 Chainz's "Birthday Song" this ain't.
- Blatant Lies: Claiming CDTV Tha G and IAMJAYCE are the identical brethren of CDTV Productions.
- Berserk Button
- Multiple mentioned in his Worst Rappers in the Game episode for Soulja Boy. Most notable are his poor enunciation, the beat for "Trap Party", and his net worth.
- 6ix9ine.
- Distorted beats.
- Lil Xan's voice.
- Day in the Limelight: Played with and played with an inversion. He has three videos on good songs by bad rappers(rap songs he likes from rappers he doesn't like) and a video on bad songs by good rappers(rap songs he doesn't like from artist he does like), as well as Best Verses videos for Trippie Redd, XXXTentacion, and Lil Pump, who respectively hold the 15th, 19th, and 22nd slots in his Worst Rappers in the Game list.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: He used to make content about movies and video games; while he has deleted these videos, references to them remain in older videos' descriptions,and his gaming channel's shell is still online.
- Friendly Enemies: Not too furious, but fellow rap YouTuber Gulley Boy had some words when CDTV put some of Gulley's favorite diss tracks ("Black Friday" by Lil' Kim, "Slim Anus" by Insane Clown Posse, "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 Gulley Boy released a video on how YouTube demonetized his entire channel because of his old rap-based content, CDTV expressed his sympathy.
- From Bad to Worse: So far, there have been two immediate successions of Worst Rapper in the Game: Lil Uzi Vert to 21 Savage and XXXTentacion to Soulja Boy. He's also declared multiple rappers (Soulja Boy, Lil Pump, Lil Xan, Kid Buu)completely or nearly void of lyrical merit. So far, he's still confident that Soulja
- Guilty Pleasure: He used to think that Rae Sremmurd was his guilty pleasure artist. Now Nav is his current guilty pleasure.
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Most Wonderful Sound: He loves his piano-based beats. - Never Bareheaded: To date, he has never been seen without a hat.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In his segment on the death of XXXTentacion, he is obviously shaken up and not at all employing his usual meme-like style.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: His view on heterosexuality if girls exist who enjoy Lil Xan.
- Tempting Fate: 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.
- Violent Glaswegian: Averted; he's more Adorkable than anything, often calm and somewhat easily flustered.
- You Are What You Hate: CDTV generally finds British accents less suited to rap than American accents with some exceptions, yet his "identical triplet" IAMJAYCE raps with a heavy Scottish accent.
- Younger Than They Look: 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 2023 (he turned 25 that year), and hasn't significantly changed since his start, so he pretty much looks his age now.
