Finally acknowledging that Pete & Bas are likely actors.

Been a significant fan of Pete & Bas for a good 2 years now, and all the while, have defended that these fellas are indeed the ones rapping in the music, but tonight, I believe I have realised they are not, specifically Bas at the very least.

As other fans will know, Nine and Dex are the grandsons of Pete & Bas, these two are grime rappers themselves, as we know, they produce beats for Pete & Bas, and are likely ghost writers, but for the longest time, I still believed the flow and style was still all down to Pete & Bas.

Some minutes ago, I was watching this video of one of their live performances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9Rn-vABs0 - In it, Bas performs the first verse of Steppe Into The Building, and even though the real song is playing through a speaker, you can hear Bas' voice through the microphone, and it honestly sounds nothing like him. Now, I realise that live and studio performances can never be exact, but it's different enough to the point that it's clearly not the same voice.

I checked out some of Nine and Dex's music tonight also (Pecan Pie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLW5rQe4ziA ), and the reality immediately dawned on me. Specifically in the second verse at 0:42, Dex sounds A LOT like Bas does on his tracks, scarily so, even if not quite the same. I did some digging, and according to some some other researchers, Dex is the voice of Bas, and the reason Bas sounds slightly different in his music, is because the vocals are layered, and or slightly tuned. The source I read also said that the song Burning by Pete & Bas, is one of the few in which the vocal layering is not present on Bas' voice, have a listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOci_39_bEo&t=10s - This still isn't quite identical to Dex, but it's *very* close.

As for Pete, that's more difficult to answer, the voice could be done by Nine or someone else, but Pete's actual rapping voice is a heck of a lot closer to the studio track, and it may be him doing the vocals, even if not writing the lyrics.