A 2016 Childish Gambino single that became a meme in early 2017 through remixes fitting the vocal to whatever theme the editor had in mind. The song outlasted every one of them. The record's entry for a track that survived being a meme and went back to being a song.
The line everyone quotes as a warning is a lyric from the chorus and not a meme caption invented later. The remixes borrowed it; they did not write it.
Most songs come out of a meme cycle damaged. This one came out with a larger audience, because the remixes sent people to the original rather than replacing it.
Still played straight, in cafés and on radio, by people who have no idea it spent a year underneath edited clips. That is the rarest outcome recorded in this section.
You were there. What happened?
