"I Will Always Serve You"

Submission 149

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About

"I Will Always Serve You," also known as And I Will Always Serve You or That I Will Always Serve You, refers to a song and On The Radar rap freestyle by SkinnyBoi CJ that's a cover of "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston in which "love" is replaced with "serve," meaning to deal drugs. "I Will Always Serve You" became a meme on TikTok after SkinnyBoi CJ's On The Radar appearance went viral in late 2024. His freestyle and its sped-up remixes became viral TikTok sounds predominantly used for photo slideshows and Slang Overload memes using then-popular, so-called Brainrot slang terms Huzz and Bruzz — among other -Uzz Words — as well as Yunc and Fine Shyt. The song relates to Meme Rap and Satirical Hip-Hop because of its humorous theme.

Origin

On June 19th, 2024, the YouTube^[1] channel Frontyard Ent uploaded a music video for SkinnyBoi CJ's "I Will Always Serve You," gaining over 180,900 views and 10,000 likes in five months (shown below).

Sometime on June 19th, the TikToker @cyberundergr0und shared a sped-up remix of "I Will Always Serve You" in a since-deleted video. However, the video created a TikTok sound^[2] that was used by others going into late 2024.

The earliest known memetic use of the sound was a two-photo slideshow shared by TikToker^[3] @hogetbck on June 19th. The photos showed streamer Flight in a barber chair with funny top captions about a "homie" playing the song in front of attractive women dubbed "10s," gaining over 36,200 likes in five months (recording shown below).

Spread

On June 21st, 2024, SkinnyBoi CJ used the sped-up TikTok sound^[2] for one of his TikTok^[4] videos, joking in a text caption, "Y'all don't like my song?" receiving over 308,100 plays and 50,100 likes in five months (shown below).

Viral usage of the sped-up sound continued in the following months. For instance, on September 20th, TikToker^[5] @simonspeakin posted a one-photo slideshow showing a disappointed Woody from Toy Story with a caption reading, "When ya girl can't cook so you coming home from work to pizza every day like you're Ninja Turtle." The photo received over 821,600 plays and 192,300 likes in two months (recording shown below).

On September 29th, 2024, SkinnyBoi CJ posted a clip to TikTok^[8] of him performing the song during his On The Radar freestyle, gaining over 769,700 plays and 110,400 likes in two months (shown below).

On October 22nd, TikToker^[6] @str4berryswitchblade posted a video using the "I Will Always Serve You" sound, joking about "Unemployed MFs" coming up with new insecurities to exploit, specifically referencing Septum Arms in the video's description. The TikTok gained over 3.4 million plays and 525,500 likes in a month (shown below).

In November 2024, SkinnyBoi CJ's "I Will Serve You" became the predominant backing for memes about Words Ending In Uzz like Huzz and Bruzz. For instance, on November 14th, TikToker^[7] @adrielisshort posted a video with text overlay reading, "When bruzz says that femuzz are the move (femuzz means femboy huzz)." The TikToker is shown imitating the Shaq Timeout pose. In a day, the video received over 163,500 plays and 33,500 likes (shown below).

By November 15th, 2024, the song's most popular TikTok sound^[2] had amassed over 20,000 posts.