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We all know this guy from the hit MTV show, Pimp My Ride. He goes by the name Xzibit and he is the low-rise pants, big "bling", hip hop rapper host that everyone would love to have appear in front of their door step. Pimp My Ride is a reality program that helps makeover or rather "pimp" up a trashy-looking car into a one-of-a-kind vehicle. If you actually watched the show, you would know that he would criticize the car before ringing the doorbell to the person's house.
Why is Xzibit, the rapper, has to do with this week's post? That is because he is one of this week's Internet Meme.
Xzibit and together with a whole crew of automates from L.A.'s West Coast Customs, will come up with the most out-of-this-world design and gadgets in the car. A pool table, a fishtank, a bar, and a built-in Jacuzzi are just some of the few gadgets that may be installed inside the new "pimp" car. The whole West Coast Custom crew always come up with some really crazy but brilliant ideas to pimp up an old junk car.
What many people may not notice is that Xzibit have his own language and style of speaking. His famous phrase is "Yo dawg" or "Sup dawg". In simple English, it means "Hello" and "How are you?". But one of the most famous catch phrase and the only reason why we are writing this post is something like this,
"Yo dawg, we heard you liked ___ so we put a ___ in your ___ so you can ___ while you ___."
Xzibit Yo Dawg, Know Your Meme [Image Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
URL: http://knowyourmeme.com/i/177/original/800px-Sup_dawg.jpg
For example, in a proper sentence, "Yo dawg, we heard you liked bikes so we put a bike on your bike so you can ride while you ride."
Jennifer Van Groove, Social Media Breaks: 5 Internet MemeS to Make You LOL, Mashable [Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
URL: http://mashable.com/2009/03/04/funny-memes/
The sentence vary in many ways. Most of the time, the sentence does not make much sense but because of that and also his rapper style, it caught the attention of many. It spreads like a virus when people started to talk like that online and using images from the web and putting the catch phrase on it.
Jennifer Van Groove, Social Media Breaks: 5 Internet MemeS to Make You LOL, Mashable [Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
URL: http://mashable.com/2009/03/04/funny-memes/
Even the man himself was shock by such phenomenon. He even tweeted on his Twitter account about it. He posted on Twitter several times. The first time his Tweet sounded angry and it describes his belittle of the whole frenzy.
Print screen from : http://twitter.com/mrxtothaz/status/1260527355
But in his second he redraw his bitterness and said, "I'm not mad @ you". Even Xzibit himself needed time to adjust to such phenomenon and was surprise with the kind of response.
Print screen from : http://twitter.com/mrxtothaz/status/1265979909
This phenomenon started in 2007 and till today, there are still people trying to keep this phenomenon alive by displaying more images with the same catch phrase. There are tons of those images online and there is even a website solely for the "Yo dawg" phenomenon (http://yoyodawgdawg.com/). Half of it doesn't even make sense but what do you personally think of this phenomenon? Do you think Xzibit was over-reacting on Twitter? Leave us a comment to tell us what you think.
References:
1. Xzibit Yo Dawg, Know Your Meme [Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
URL: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg
2. MTV's Pimp My Ride - The Complete First Season (2004), Amazon.com [Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
3. Jennifer Van Groove, Social Media Breaks: 5 Internet MemeS to Make You LOL, Mashable [Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
URL: http://mashable.com/2009/03/04/funny-memes/
Vivienne
We all know this guy from the hit MTV show, Pimp My Ride. He goes by the name Xzibit and he is the low-rise pants, big "bling", hip hop rapper host that everyone would love to have appear in front of their door step. Pimp My Ride is a reality program that helps makeover or rather "pimp" up a trashy-looking car into a one-of-a-kind vehicle. If you actually watched the show, you would know that he would criticize the car before ringing the doorbell to the person's house.
Why is Xzibit, the rapper, has to do with this week's post? That is because he is one of this week's Internet Meme.
Xzibit and together with a whole crew of automates from L.A.'s West Coast Customs, will come up with the most out-of-this-world design and gadgets in the car. A pool table, a fishtank, a bar, and a built-in Jacuzzi are just some of the few gadgets that may be installed inside the new "pimp" car. The whole West Coast Custom crew always come up with some really crazy but brilliant ideas to pimp up an old junk car.
What many people may not notice is that Xzibit have his own language and style of speaking. His famous phrase is "Yo dawg" or "Sup dawg". In simple English, it means "Hello" and "How are you?". But one of the most famous catch phrase and the only reason why we are writing this post is something like this,
"Yo dawg, we heard you liked ___ so we put a ___ in your ___ so you can ___ while you ___."
Xzibit Yo Dawg, Know Your Meme [Image Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
URL: http://knowyourmeme.com/i/177/original/800px-Sup_dawg.jpg
For example, in a proper sentence, "Yo dawg, we heard you liked bikes so we put a bike on your bike so you can ride while you ride."
Jennifer Van Groove, Social Media Breaks: 5 Internet MemeS to Make You LOL, Mashable [Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
URL: http://mashable.com/2009/03/04/funny-memes/
The sentence vary in many ways. Most of the time, the sentence does not make much sense but because of that and also his rapper style, it caught the attention of many. It spreads like a virus when people started to talk like that online and using images from the web and putting the catch phrase on it.
Jennifer Van Groove, Social Media Breaks: 5 Internet MemeS to Make You LOL, Mashable [Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
URL: http://mashable.com/2009/03/04/funny-memes/
Even the man himself was shock by such phenomenon. He even tweeted on his Twitter account about it. He posted on Twitter several times. The first time his Tweet sounded angry and it describes his belittle of the whole frenzy.
Print screen from : http://twitter.com/mrxtothaz/status/1260527355
But in his second he redraw his bitterness and said, "I'm not mad @ you". Even Xzibit himself needed time to adjust to such phenomenon and was surprise with the kind of response.
Print screen from : http://twitter.com/mrxtothaz/status/1265979909
This phenomenon started in 2007 and till today, there are still people trying to keep this phenomenon alive by displaying more images with the same catch phrase. There are tons of those images online and there is even a website solely for the "Yo dawg" phenomenon (http://yoyodawgdawg.com/). Half of it doesn't even make sense but what do you personally think of this phenomenon? Do you think Xzibit was over-reacting on Twitter? Leave us a comment to tell us what you think.
References:
1. Xzibit Yo Dawg, Know Your Meme [Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
URL: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg
2. MTV's Pimp My Ride - The Complete First Season (2004), Amazon.com [Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
3. Jennifer Van Groove, Social Media Breaks: 5 Internet MemeS to Make You LOL, Mashable [Online] Retrieved on 13th March 2010.
URL: http://mashable.com/2009/03/04/funny-memes/
Vivienne
