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That Banjo 🔥, also known as I Just Killed a Hillbilly and Took His Banjo, refers to a satirical hip-hop and meme rap song that went viral on TikTok in late March 2025. It includes a rap beat that's interrupted by an AI Voice saying, "I just killed a hillbilly and took his banjo," followed by a banjo solo. It was created by TikToker @binoh777 as a variation of the memes 1:14 That Piano 🔥 and I Got a Brand New Saxophone, aka That Saxophone 🔥.

Origin

On March 29th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @binoh777 posted a video of a music project with text overlay reading, "0:12 that banjo 🔥🔥." The beat plays. It's then interrupted by an AI-generated voice saying, "I just killed a hillbilly and took his banjo," followed by a banjo solo. An AI image of a guy with a banjo is also shown. Over 12 days, the video received over 95,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

In the following days, others used the original video's TikTok sound.^[2] For instance, on March 30th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @_meatwad_1 posted a video of LeBron James dancing to the song, writing in text overlay, "This beat tuff ASF," gaining over 193,500 likes in 11 days (shown below).

On March 31st, TikToker^[4] @zeriing posted a similar video of James dancing to the song with a text caption that raved about the banjo sample, gaining over 405,500 likes in 10 days (shown below).

Various Examples

Related Memes

1:14 That Piano 🔥

1:14 That Piano 🔥 refers to a YouTube comment left on an instrumental video for the Gucci Mane and Pooh Shiesty song "Like 34 & 8," uploaded by the channel SoundCloud Beats in mid-2021. The comment highlights a piano sample at the song's 1:14-minute mark. It was shared by user Cameron Clarke, who thought it was "fire" (denoted by the fire emoji). A screenshot of the "1:14 That Piano 🔥" comment was reposted across social media platforms in the early 2020s, spreading in subsequent years. Meme creators often replaced the audio at 1:14 with non-piano sounds. The iterations became increasingly absurd over time. By 2025, variations of the meme had surfaced that discussed other out-of-place instruments in rap songs, such as That Banjo and That Saxophone.

I Got a Brand New Saxophone / That Saxophone 🔥

I Got a Brand New Saxophone, also known as I Just Jugged a Band Director, I Got a Brand New Saxophone, refers to a satirical hip-hop and meme rap song called "troy bolton" by Tockyy, in which the beat includes a saxophone solo after the rapper says he "jugged a band director" and now has a "brand new saxophone." Some mistakenly heard, "I just jumped a band director," or "I just dropped a band director." The song went viral on TikTok in March and April 2025, spawning a viral TikTok sound that was mostly used for Ashton Hall's Morning Routine memes.

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