6ix9ine's "Gummo"

About

6ix9ine's "Gummo" refers to a song by American rapper 6ix9ine. The song and video feature 6ix9ine in New York rapping about gang life alongside members of the Blood gang. The song became a meme due to 6ix9ine's appearance, the line "blicky got the stiffy, uh" and various mashups containing the isolated vocal from the song.

Origin

On October 8th, 2017 rap promotion channel FCK THEM uploaded the music video for 6ix9ine's single "Gummo" (shown below). The video features 6ix9ine rapping in Brooklyn, New York with members of the Blood gang. The video has gained 268 million views, peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart^[1] and was certified gold by the RIAA on January 11th, 2018^[2] and later platinum on March 5th, 2018^[3].

Spread

The song began to spread in late 2017 and early 2018 when people began quoting the line "blicky got the stiffy uh," The song also began to be used in various ways such as a parody by Gay Hip-Hop (shown below, top left) which has amassed 6 million views, a version where everything is replaced by stiffy by ThisChannelSucks that gained over 700,00 views (below, top right), a scream cover by hunter1s1k that gained 1.9 million views, and a Wii Shop Channel Remix by Acrylo that gained over 900,000 views (shown below, right).

Related Memes

Dancing Rat

Dancing Rat refers to a 3D animation of a black rat in a hat dancing to "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson. Originally posted in September 2010, the video did not see viral spread prior to being paired with "Gummo" by 6ix9ine and used as a reaction on TikTok in January 2020, later being recommended to YouTube users through the YouTube Recommendation Algorithm.

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