Irish tween rappers send the internet into meltdown as they rack up 8 million views in a week for video they made in a day - and it's already been dubbed the 'song of the summer' 'The Spark' music video has amassed over 8m views across X and YouTube Read More: 'Selfish' woman slammed for putting Taylor Swift's 22 hat that was given to her younger sister at the Eras Tour on eBay for $20,000 By Lydia Hawken For Mailonline Published: 10:17, 21 May 2024 | Updated: 10:20, 21 May 2024 e-mail View comments An Irish youth group has sent the internet into meltdown with their 'song of the summer', which has amassed over 8m views in a week. 'The Spark' was released by Rhyme Island, a rap group made up of 30 nine to 12-year-olds from the outskirts of Cork, earlier this month. The group was created by the non-profit creative hub Kabin Studio and the government initiative Creative Ireland.
As well as local performers, the song also features child refugees living in Lisdoonvarna, County Clare. The two-and-a-half-minute music video, which sees children dancing on a bus, running through the streets and dancing in a club, opens with the cheeky lyric: 'Think you can stop what we do? I doubt it.' The young performers later rap: 'We got the energy, we'll tell you all about it.
I searched for my spark and I found it.' Pictured: the music video for The Spark by Rhyme Island shows the 30 children dancing in a double-decker bus The music video, which was filmed in a single day, was released ahead of .