Exactly! And honestly this meme is the exception that proves the rule

The most endearing meme of the decade is connected to a block in Philly

dawg, you reading essays about 6 7

now I see how people become uncs, wtf is bruh reading

these niggas are so f***ing annoying

bro 67 is just a funny meme like kids just like how it sounds

"the unexamined life is not worth living" - Peter Griffin

can i ask yall a question would 67 be as big as it was if we all knew it was from a song by a nigga that has d*** addicts in his video like props

skrilla would have NEVER gotten into fortnite or being on stage with any and every artist coming through philly without that song i think theres times where its actually bad that something loses its original meaning, but this one is 1000% the opposite case lol

Idk if I agree wit this being comparable to people smoking on tookah

I don't think its that crazy of a comparison, 67 is not just a "shoutout to their block"

op u sucking that nigga meat rn bro icl

The trauma, grief, and turmoil of the gun violence that songs like “Doot Doot” and “Home Invasion” depict are too often stripped away by people detached from, and desensitized to, Black death. The trouble in “6 7’s” signal crossing isn’t with the suburban middle schoolers who made it a trend. But it is on their elders, complicit in an environment where only violence toward certain communities is taken seriously

This is the part that seems like a difficult needle to thread, because both songs are just plainly not mournful reflections on trauma and grief from gun violence. On the contrary, both exalt the near euphoria of drilling! These are songs about murder for sport, business and pleasure. The material came pre-desensitized

I'd rather be a meatrider than an anti-intellectual disguising their illiteracy behind "it's not that deep bro!"

I don't agree with everything in the article fwiw

Well said

we just gotta stop reaching brah we know what happened with this song

the song is made
kids listen
kid makes basketball video to the song, debuting the hand movement
the hand movement and song takes off
the white kid at the pep rally makes the face
the face and idea then goes NUCLEAR

i really dont think we can ever compare something like this to tooka pack. literally that nigga skrilla simply said his street in a very catchy manner. i think theres WAY more important things to write on a substack about

2010’s woke is itt

Remember when 63rd street was a meme in reference to Chicago

I’m sure this will be a reasonable thread

What does this guy think The Clipse album he and the rest of the rap journalist world loved is about?

had no idea 67 had any meaning and i think this is pretty interesting but also very dire

Thought it came from the police code 10-67 which is a report for a dead body.

With it being used by drill rappers to brag about killing one of their opps. Which is trivializing death.

Wow