Despite Fans Hating KSI's Song "Thick Of It," It’s Climbing the Charts

The Trippie Redd-featuring track has jumped up to No. 64 as of the time writing this.

October 23, 2024

KSI — (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Although it seems like the internet hates streamer KSI and Trippie Redd’s new collab “Thick Of It,” somehow it has jumped up 20 spots on the Billboard Hot 100.

This week, “Thick Of It” is at No. 64 on the chart — up from 84 last week. Elsewhere on Spotify, the song debut at No. 1 on the Viral 100 chart.

Ever since KSI’s song dropped, he’s been dealing with trolls everywhere joking about how bad it is. He recently posted a video on YouTube in which he reacted to videos of fans listening to the song in a video called, “The hate on my music is forced.”

“Today, we’re reacting to ‘Thick of It’ TikToks,” he revealed at the beginning of the video. “The label thought it’d be a good idea especially because more of you decided to post more TikToks using the song and even though I told you guys to stop, you guys are just on a hating rampage."

Fans weren’t the only ones trolling KSI. Even Trippie Redd hopped online to write, “I was held hostage to do this. If this doesn’t hit 20 million views the first month, KSI won’t let me go. Please free me.”

Drake also got in on the fun, trolling him via an Instagram Reel. In the video, Drizzy gambled while the song played in the background — prompting KSI to react with “What is going on?!?!” on his IG story.

Drake might have been trolling — or he might really like the song. He appeared on Adin Ross’ stream earlier this month and requested for moderators to “play KSI new banger for the max.”

One person who KSI can’t count on being a fan is Kai Cenat, who joked that the song sounds like it would be perfect over a Disney movie. On a stream, he played the track over scenes from the Disney movie Bolt in an attempt to prove himself right.