Upload one selfie, design the night flash still with the crowd behind you, check your face, then animate the mic check into a vertical clip.
Last checked 2026-10-26
9:16 vertical · the still is made first, then animated as the first frame
Joining the trend is free; making it on Lovart ME uses credits from packs starting at $9.90 for 250 credits. Each button shows its exact cost before you generate.
SAMPLE · INPUT → RESULTSample inputs and result from this page. Your result will appear here.
Each sample started as one original selfie, became a night flash still with a crowd behind, and was cut into a short vertical clip that opens on the mic check.
All people are original generated adults, not JME or any real artist. The three clips are Lovart ME cuts of clips made for this trend with Seedance 2.0 Fast; the cards show the real selfie and still behind each one and what moves in the original. The flyer is a new still with no video. Nothing here was made with the workbench above.
Grime flyer 
Upload a front-facing selfie, design the flash still and check your face, then animate the lean-in, the mic check and the bars.
One clear face, looking at the camera, in even light, mouth uncovered, head and shoulders in frame. Sunglasses, side views and heavy filters make the face drift later.
Pick a scene and press Design the still. It runs Image to Image with your selfie as the reference and returns a 9:16 night shot: wide lens close to the face, hard flash, crowd behind. If the face is off, rebuild the still now, not after the video.
Animate it sends the still to image to video as the first frame: lean in, “check one, check two”, nod on the beat, point at the lens. Seedance 2.5 at 6 seconds is the default; the button shows the credits first.
Pick a night shelter, a red-door queue or a festival barrier for the clip, or Grime flyer for a poster-style still you can edit.
A bus stop after dark, friends waiting under the shelter light behind you. The easiest one to make look like a real phone clip.
Pick a scene →A queue outside a club, a velvet rope and a red door light. Red edges, white flash on the face; the sample for the workbench.
Pick a scene →Pressed against a festival barrier with a dense crowd and stage lights blurred behind. Busiest background, best for a group of friends nodding.
Pick a scene →The same flash shot as a grime night poster with bold CHECK ONE / CHECK TWO type and photocopy grain. Download it or add your name and date in PhotoCraft.
Pick a scene →Write the lens, the light, the crowd, the action, what to keep and what to exclude as separate lines, then change one line at a time.
These are the prompts behind the Red door line sample, split into parts, with the person written as “the person in the photo”. Lens, Light and Crowd build the still; Action, Keep and Exclude go into the motion prompt. Each card has one swap to try. The scene chips fill these in for you; copy them when you want to work in Image to Image directly.
Vertical 9:16 phone photo at night. The person in the photo leans close into an extreme wide-angle phone lens held at arm's length.Swap: hold the lens slightly below the chin so more crowd shows behind.
Harsh on-camera flash on the face, dark background, film grain.Swap: add a red door light from one side, flash still on the face.
A small crowd in a queue outside a club behind them, a velvet rope under a red door light.Swap: friends waiting under a bus shelter light.
Use the photo as the first frame. One continuous vertical shot. The person leans into the lens, says a quick mic check, then raps with rhythmic head nods on the beat and points at the camera; the people behind nod along.Swap: one hand chopping the air instead of pointing.
Keep the same face, hair, glasses, skin tone and clothes throughout, with the hand kept below the chin.Swap: name what you wear, such as the beanie or earrings.
No face changes, no extra limbs, no text, no logos, not a real celebrity. Original grime-style beat around 140 BPM, no existing song, no real artist.Swap: drop the beat line if you will add the TikTok sound.
The line opens JME's verse in GRM Daily's Boy Better Know freestyle from January 12, 2017; the AI filter took off around October 19, 2026.
JME is Jamie Adenuga, a grime MC and producer from Tottenham, Skepta’s younger brother and a co-founder of Boy Better Know. The trend uses the opening of his part in the 2017 freestyle.
People lip-synced the verse for years. The 2026 version swaps the lip-sync for a generated clip: one photo, a wide lens in your face at night, a crowd nodding behind.
The July 2026 track by Luke Dean, Locky and JME shares the title but is a different song. When you add sound, pick the clip of the 2017 verse that other posts use.
Sources: GRM Daily on YouTube, AllMusic, Spotify, TikTok.
Design the still →Swap in a sharper front-facing selfie, keep hands away from the face, shorten the clip, and re-trim the sound to the first mouth movement.
Download the clip, add the "check one check two" sound in TikTok or Reels and trim it to the first mouth movement, or score it with an original beat.
Generated clips here do not include JME’s recording. The default motion prompt asks for an original grime-style beat; mute it in the app when you add the trend sound.
Brand and ad posts need music cleared for commercial use. Write a prompt like “original grime beat, 140 BPM, sparse square-wave bass, no vocals” in AI music and lay the track under the clip.
Make a beat →Use the CapCut template for the fixed TikTok clip on your phone; design the flash still here when you want to pick the scene and check your face first.
| Route | What you bring | What you get | Sound |
|---|---|---|---|
| CapCut template “JME Rap check 1 check 2” | One photo | The template’s fixed clip | Template sound where licensed |
| Talking-photo tool | A photo + your own recording | Lip-sync to that recording | Your recording |
| Flash still, then video (this page) | One selfie | A night flash still you check, then a vertical clip | Add the TikTok sound or an original beat |
Open it from a TikTok post (CapCut · Try this template) or search the Templates tab. Pro assets and export watermarks depend on your account.
Lip-syncs a photo to a recording you supply. Good when you want to rap your own bars; there is no flash scene or crowd unless the photo already has one.
The Mic Check tab: pick the scene, check the face in the still, then animate it. Two steps, each with its credit cost on the button.
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Start with a selfie →Around October 19, 2026, mostly from UK creators, after a CapCut template post drew about 100K likes on TikTok.
Yes. They are two names for one trend, and the CapCut template is listed as "JME Rap check 1 check 2". People also search check 1 check 2 and check one check two filter.
Yes. Pick Grime flyer in the Mic Check tab and design the still. Download it, or open it in PhotoCraft to add your own name, date or venue.
Personal posts can add the TikTok or Reels sound. Brand and ad posts need music cleared for commercial use, so score those with an original beat from AI music instead.
They are remixes of Seedance 2.0 Fast clips made for this trend on October 25, 2026: re-cut, reframed and color graded, with no new AI generation. Each card shows the original selfie and the flash still behind it.
Five to eight seconds covers the mic check and a few bars; the workbench starts at 6 seconds. Seedance 2.5 on the video page runs 4 to 30 seconds, but longer clips give the face more time to drift.
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Lovart ME is an independent site and is not affiliated with JME, Boy Better Know, GRM Daily, TikTok or CapCut. Sample people are original generated adults; no real artist’s face or recording is used.