Skepta takes "Currency" to the gates of Buckingham Palace

Gabriel Chen's visualiser keeps the setting simple, with a dance break that has viewers pointing each other to the same moment.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 147,422 views a day, 26 times a normal first day on this channel (5,752).

Skepta - Currency (Visualiser)

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What happens when the rapping pauses? Skepta starts dancing, smiling through an instrumental break in front of Buckingham Palace. It's a small change of mood in "Skepta - Currency (Visualiser)", and viewers are already directing each other to it in the comments.

Shot by Gabriel Chen, the visualiser puts Skepta outside the ornate gates in a light jacket, cap, sunglasses and chain. There are no elaborate scene changes to describe: he performs towards the camera, leans into a lower angle and lets the palace railings frame the track.

The upload passed 114,000 views in its first 14 hours, a much faster start than the channel usually sees. The comments had also already more than doubled its usual full first-day total.

The setting supplies its own running joke, with viewers imagining the performance attracting attention from inside the palace. Others hear echoes of Konnichiwa, while the dance break gets a timestamp of its own.

"Currency" follows a batch of official audio uploads featuring collaborators including Project Pat, Novelist, Central Cee and Jorja Smith. Here, though, the camera stays with Skepta alone, moving from reflections on age and grime to that brief, loose-limbed interruption outside the royal gates.

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The numbers

The visualiser's opening hours comfortably outpaced the channel's usual first day, with an unusually busy comment section too.

the video's first day

usual first day here

5,752

this video

147,422

subscribers

1,020,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

569,937,634

the video

views

114,083

likes

3,320

comments

178

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Aitch

1,140,000

SKEPTA

1,020,000

Tion Wayne

881,000

ImDavisss

847,000

ArrDee

713,000

Digga

679,000

As of November 13, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.