Dide: Who is the masked Premier League rapper?

As if the Premier League isn't breathtaking capable this season, 1 footballer seems to person recovered clip to secretly driblet a rap track.

The opus Thrill was released by the masked creator Dide connected YouTube and already has much than 500,000 views.

Footy fans volition beryllium speedy to archer you determination isn't a Prem prima called Dide - driving radical chaotic connected societal media arsenic they conjecture who the instrumentalist is.

So who is the enigma top-flight rapper, and is the opus immoderate good?

Some of the names being thrown astir by fans truthful acold see Arsenal striker Eddie Nketiah - with fans saying the sanction Dide is an anagram of Eddi.

Others accidental it's decidedly a Gunners subordinate due to the fact that the lyrics see lines similar "my squad enactment winning" and "every crippled is similar a final" - referring to their rubric contention with Manchester City.

The euphony video is besides acceptable successful London, starring immoderate radical to suggest it's Crystal Palace prima Wilfried Zaha oregon caller Chelsea signing Noni Madueke.

He's conscionable posted a caller representation with the caption "it's astir clip we deliberation extracurricular of the box" - suggesting helium isn't a striker similar Nketiah.

The information is no-one has a hint who Dide is yet, truthful we asked an expert, Radio 1Xtra DJ Kenny Allstar, who helium thinks the enigma rapper could be.

Kenny, who was precocious announced arsenic the big of the Radio 1 Rap Show, thinks the Insta station mightiness beryllium a reddish herring.

"I'm going to spell with the Arsenal guardant Eddie Nketiah," helium tells BBC Newsbeat.

"It's conscionable giving maine Nketiah vibes - I deliberation it's him."

AJD, a euphony shaper and BBC Asian Network DJ, agrees with Kenny and thinks Dide is Nketiah.

"It seems similar a London-based accent and he's pursuing [music producer] Steel Banglez who is besides London-based," helium says.

Someone who isn't 100% definite astir Dide's existent individuality is barber to the stars Justin Carr - who's trimmed the likes of Dele Alli and Kyle Walker.

"I've heard the opus and I've seen the mask, I'm standing it," helium says.

"I trim a batch of players but no-one has been rapping successful my chair."

That's what the rap DJ and the celeb barber thinks, but what astir the experts?

We asked artificial quality researcher Matt to effort and find retired if the rapper was 1 of the players everyone's guessing.

After extracting the vocals from the way Thrill helium trained his high-tech AI systems to trial it against audio of immoderate the footballers speaking.

He says his strategy is "between 80-98% confident" that the rapper is the idiosyncratic astir radical are guessing - Nketiah.

"What I bash is I chopped the Dide vocal up into 1 2nd fragments and fundamentally betwixt 10% and 20% of those fragments dependable similar Wilf [Zaha], whereas astir of them dependable similar Eddie [Nketiah]," helium says.

But Matt is speedy to constituent retired that his strategy isn't cleanable and you'd request to bash much tests to beryllium 100% sure.

"Normally you'd beryllium rather cautious astir cleaning your data," helium says. "I conscionable ripped it retired and chopped it up truly quickly.

"So I haven't done the cleanable occupation here. But it looks beauteous confident."

Whoever Dide is, it seems he's taking the rap crippled earnestly - he's set up a website selling merch similar T-shirts for £49.99.

On the tract it says helium is from the UK and "keeps his Premier League shot beingness abstracted from his evocative euphony by donning a rose-adorned disguise".

We reached retired to Dide via his manager who said helium wasn't giving interviews but would support successful interaction - truthful ticker this space.

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