IShowSpeed was challenged to a pull-up competition by an Angola local as part of his tour of Africa — but it didn't quite go how the streamer hoped.
Around the one-hour, 12-minute mark of the stream above, a local approached him on the beach and insisted that he could beat the athletic streamer in a pull-up challenge.
"I want to challenge you, [I can do] more pull-ups than you," the local said. "You can do more pull-ups than me?" Speed smiled, noting that he was wearing a calisthenics t-shirt. He offered to take his shirt off and told Speed to do the same.
"Let’s do it," Speed said. Unfortunately for him, though, the local proved too good at pull-ups. "You got me, you stronger," he admitted. "But look, that’s because you do calisthenics! But if we race, you lose. You know that, right?"
The local conceded that he wouldn’t be able to beat Speed in a foot race, but accepted the challenge anyway. “I know that you’re going to win," the local laughed.
When the local lost, he admitted that he was bested, but reminded Speed that he beat him at the pull-up challenge. "I can’t do that, though!" said Speed. "I show speed! Look at your shoulders! Good game."
Angola is the first stop on Speed’s 20-country, 28-day tour of Africa, which is sponsored by the travel company Expedia. He didn’t reveal the extent of which countries he’ll be heading to, but the trailer indicated that he’ll hit up Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
He promised fans that the stream will feature plenty of "crazy stuff." The tour comes not long after the completion of his Speed Does America Tour, which saw him livestreaming through 25 states in 35 days.
He recently admitted that his America tour was inspired by the 1994 comedy Dumb and Dumber. "Well, the original idea was actually...this movie called Dumb and Dumber, and they were like in this RV truck going around," he told Marc Griffin in an interview with Complex. "They were...going around America. I never did a stream on the bus live 24/7."