Jungle Beats vs. Jahlil Beats Holla At Me

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Jungle Beats vs. Jahlil Beats Holla At Me refers to a common mishearing of rap producer Jahlil Beats' producer tag as "Jungle beats holla at me," when it actually says, "Jahlil Beats holla at me." The mishearing has been the subject of memes, most frequently image macros and shitposts, since the early-to-mid 2010s.

Origin

Hip-hop producer Jahlil Beats is known for using a producer tag in his tracks that says in a high-pitch voice, "Jahlil Beats holla at me," a tag which can be found in songs throughout his career (shown below). The tag is frequently misheard as saying "jungle beats" rather than "Jahlil Beats," a phenomenon that can be seen in comment sections featuring the beat dating back to at least 2015.^[1]

It is unknown who made the first meme about the mishearing. Some of the earliest memes referencing it were collected by ME.ME^[2] in 2018 and uploaded to Reddit's /r/okbuddyretard^[3] in February 2019, including a screenshotted tweet from a now-deleted account talking about the mistake and a shitpost of Cleveland Brown from Family Guy falling off a cliff, "jungle beats holla at me" over it (shown below, left and right),

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On October 22nd, 2019, Jahlil Beats did an interview with Genius^[4] about the making of his and Bobby Shmurda's song "Hot Nigga." At timestamp 4:08, he admits that the tag sounds like "jungle beats" or "Jell-o beats" when compressed, and laughs about it (shown below).

In 2020, memes referencing the jungle beats vs. Jahlil Beats debate became more popular. On July 7th, 2020, Instagram^[5] page @funnyhoodvidz posted an image macro using the phrase "jungle beats holla at me," originally posted by now-deleted Twitter user @Senatorhagner, gaining over 390,000 likes in a year (shown below, left). On August 31st, iFunny^[6] user CamOutOfNoWhere posted a Better Call Saul themed meme referencing the mishearing in the context of a court hearing, gaining over 4,000 smiles in a year (shown below, right).

On September 4th, Facebook^[7] page Rappers In Peculiar Places posted a meme referencing the phenomenon, gaining over 2,100 shares in 11 months (shown below). The image was shared to the Instagram^[8] page @i_have_no_memes96_v2 on August 14th, 2021, gaining over 140,000 likes in 10 days.