Bhad Bhabie’s Car-Stealing Video Game Is Proof That It’s Very Hard To Control Bhad Bhabie
It is terrifying to see this sixteen-year-old fly through the air and miss a car.
Rap wunderkind Bhad Bhabie has a video game, and it’s called Bhad Bhabie: Ride Or Die!
In it, she steals cars and evades the police, a reference to when she first found fame on Dr. Phil, where she tried to steal a crew-member’s car while filming the segment “I Want To Give Up My Car-Stealing, Knife-Wielding, Twerking 13-Year-Old Daughter Who Tried To Frame Me For A Crime”.
Since then, Bhad Bhabie has ran with her fame, turning her ‘cash me ousside how bout dah?’ meme into a full-fledged trap career; last December, off the back of debut mixtape Fifteen, Danielle Bregoli sold-out 3000-capacity Australian venues.
Sorry haters, but she’s here to stay — Bregoli’s got the backing of major label Warner, as well as co-signs from rap’s gatekeepers and new leaders alike, having worked with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Megan Thee Stallion and Lil Yachty. Most importantly, she has some undeniably solid songs: while we’d love her to tone down the blaccent, ‘Gucci Gucci Flip Flops’, ‘Lotta Dem’ and ‘Bestie’ are perfect Spotify-playlist fodder.
And now, Bregoli’s the heroine of Ride or Die, a free-to-download iOS and Android game available on Google Play and the Apple Store. What’s the deal? It’s a top-down arcade game reminiscent of, in some ways, the original Grand Theft Auto.
As for plot: Bregoli’s has had her car (which she can just legally drive) stolen, and doesn’t trust the police — she goes on a one woman mission to get it back. Like the rapper said in a statement, “Pick up yo damn phone and download this, it’s free!”.
Widows (2018).
Co-opting other cars in the process, Bhad Bhabie must evade police while she tracks down her car by riding on top of speeding cars, jumping from car to car and ‘cash’ing’ floating cash. We guess this is a case of branding above safety; she simply must cash outside, rather than being behind the wheel, inside and assumedly safely buckled.
You’ve got to avoid crashing into cars, potholes, road-blocks and tyre spikes set up by police, switching lanes on the never-ending road as necessary. It is very hard. You control Bregoli by holding your finger down, tracing between lanes, and she follows sluggishly — after-all, Bregoli is not one to take orders, even in video game form. You can jump on other cars by releasing your finger, which sees Bregoli leap into the air.
It is terrifying to see this sixteen-year-old fly through the air and miss a car.
It is terrifying to see this tiny sixteen-year-old fly through the air and miss a car. While there is no gore, and she simply stands up and dusts herself off (that’s bhad, bhabie!), each time it happened, I felt deeply scared and jumped at my desk. The controls made this happen a lot, but I kept playing. Like many iOS games, it was inane yet addictive, and I was happy to sit through ads to get another try at evading the police. ACAB!
You can spend money to skip ads, of course, and buy extra lives and more outfits for Bhad Bhabie. You can also unlock more and more cars by making money in-game, which makes sense. They all seem to control pretty similarly, and by similarly, we mean poorly.
The game’s developed by BBTV Interactive, who specialise in creating games with influencers such as Fernanfloo, whose game of the same name reportedly has more than 13 million downloads. It’s a new world out there — and you either ride the wave and get rich, by being Bhad Bhabie, or ride and repeatedly die, by playing Bhad Bhabie’s terribly developed cash-grab game.
Bhad Bhabie: Ride Or Die is available on the Apple Store and Google Play (though as of writing, we could not find it on the latter’s Australian store).