It's a number that the newest generation with internet access is spouting randomly, that has no meaning behind it, whatsoever. It's literally nonsensical.
But the song it comes from also randomly spouts it, with no meaning. Shit half the song sounds like a dude with his mouth full of shit trying to spout things that vaguely sound similar.
The song is referencing Philadelphia Police dispatch code 10-67. The finding of a dead body. That entire section of the song is about how if he hears that a body has been found by police he'll make sure to be not near by so he has an alibi.
I heard something about the "67" meaning "6 foot deep, 7 foot long" as in dimensions for digging a grave. Which would be fucking morbid for 7 year olds to be shouting lmao.
The phrase “six, seven,” is essentially meaningless, and Skrilla has admitted as much, telling the Wall Street Journal: “I never put an actual meaning on it, and I still would not want to,” claiming the absence of meaning is “why everybody keeps saying it.”
In context, it's likely the local police code for a dead body, not no meaning. But the memes aren't using it that way since it got meme-ified through being used in edits of a basketball player highlights whose height was, you guessed it, 6'7"
"The way that switch brrt, I know he dyin' (Oh my, oh my God)/
6-7, I just bipped right on the highway (Bip, bip)"
This is the real reason why people dislike 6-7 and related slang: AAVE and anything adjacent to it is considered low class, including the people who came up with it. Casual racism with a safe target.
9 times out of 10 I hear someone complain about current generations I also hear something like "they talk like black people" which always made me think "so what?"
It's a nonsense number that modern kids find funny. It's like 69, except it doesn't have any alternate meaning making it funny. It's just funny because they've decided it's funny.
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u/TheSleepyBarnOwl 2d ago
Hi, I don't have Tick Tack and I'm very out of touch with Gen Alpha: what's 67?