{"id":315943,"date":"2026-02-25T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:09:08","slug":"nba-youngboy-meme-culture-6-7-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315943\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA YoungBoy, Meme Culture, ‘6-7’ Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt feels like it was only yesterday when you couldn\u2019t get within a ten-foot radius of anyone born after the year 2000 without hearing them mumble \u201csix-seven,\u201d the now immortalized digits<\/a> from Philadelphia rapper Skrilla\u2019s single \u201cDoot Doot,\u201d which functionally took hold of everyone\u2019s brain at some point last year (and maybe a little into 2026, too). Now, just as quickly and seemingly out of the blue, another rap song has snuck an earworm into the zeitgeist. YoungBoy Never Broke Again<\/a>\u2018s \u201cWhat You Is,\u201d released in September, has spawned the next viral craze, sure to befuddle parents and teachers worldwide. Why, they\u2019ll ask, is she gon\u2019 call me baby boo? <\/p>\n

\n\tSome backstory: On YoungBoy\u2019s \u201cWhat You Is,\u201d featuring Florida rapper Mellow Rackz, the beat goes quiet towards the track\u2019s end, save for the rhythmic sounds of hands clapping\u2014the kind of clapping you might hear on an adult film set\u2014as YoungBoy repeats the line \u201cshe gon\u2019 call me baby boo\u201d in the infectious and elastic New Orleans twang that\u2019s made him one of the highest streamed rappers of his generation. The moment already stands out in the song, a kind of sonic intermission that makes the lines stand out even more. Users on TikTok quickly took to the lyrics, turning them into a meme featuring a dance where you mimic, uh, spreading the pages of a large book open before diving in. <\/p>\n

\n\tThings really took off, however, at the start of this year when a rash of remixes interpolating the lyrics over everything from Frank Ocean\u2019s \u201cWhite Ferrari\u201d (a true meeting of opposites if there ever was one) to Drake\u2019s \u201cHotline Bling\u201d and Zara Larsson\u2019s \u201cMidnight Sun.\u201d By now, there are hundreds of thousands of remixes of the song, each growing increasingly absurd, floating around TikTok. As such, the phrase \u201cBaby Boo\u201d has become weirdly inescapable and, if one isn\u2019t careful, easy to get imprinted in one\u2019s brain. The phenomenon has gotten so bad that it\u2019s birthed its own sub-meme, something called \u201cBaby Boo Syndrome,\u201d which appears to be wreaking havoc across American high schools as kids inexplicably and uncontrollably burst into the Baby Boo dance at inopportune moments. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThis all feels like the eerie calm of December 2019, before a lingering virus floating in the air changed the world as we knew it. Or, more aptly, like when an unsuspecting rapper from Philadelphia decided to alter the brain chemistry of every child on the planet by saying the numbers six and seven. As with that now infamous meme, there is typically a user who can be identified as a patient zero of sorts, the catalyst for its spread across timelines and, eventually, into our collective consciousness. In the case of \u201cBaby Boo,\u201d all signs point to a TikToker named @selenaaa.dta posting a dance to \u201cWhat You Is\u201d in September and running with it. <\/p>\n

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\n\tAs often happens on the internet, the Baby Boo dance itself is an amalgam of a few things, notably the dance associated with \u201cInnit,\u201d the viral hit from last summer by BunnaB and YKNIECE in which you pantomime diving, well, in it. Creators Haskell and Diddybop, both popular in underground rap circles, gave it a somewhat absurdist spin towards the end of last year before it all mushed together into what we see today. The production of the remixes is more important to the meme than the dance itself, and makes Baby Boo a new kind of brainrot variant. With every new remix \u2014 from cartoon melodies to the ice cream truck jingle \u2014 the meme gets new life and even more traction. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt should come as no surprise that, once again, the internet\u2019s most popular tropes have been mined from the world of hip-hop. The trajectory of both \u201c6-7\u201d and now \u201cBaby Boo\u201d shows how instrumental rap and rap culture remain in the current online zeitgeist and how, no matter what the streaming numbers might suggest, hip-hop isn\u2019t going anywhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It feels like it was only yesterday when you couldn\u2019t get within a ten-foot radius of anyone born…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,90220,147472],"class_list":{"0":"post-315943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-nba-youngboy","13":"tag-youngboy-never-broke-again"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}