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DJ Funk Flex "Put Your Hand In The Cash Register" is a memorable catchphrase, copypasta and phrasal template meme from New York-based WQHT Hot 97 radio DJ Funkmaster Flex. The radio host premiered the Jay-Z and Kanye West song "Otis" live on air in July 2011, taking nearly 22 minutes to finish airing the roughly 3-minute-long track. At the 6-minute mark, DJ Funk Flex encourages his listeners to go to "any type of 24-hour store" and "put your hand in the cash register for no reason," adding, "Their money is your money as of right now." The statement became a notable copypasta and meme after 2020.

Origin

On July 20th, 2011, Hot 97 DJ Funkmaster Flex A.K.A. DJ Funk Flex premiered the song "Otis" by Jay-Z and Kanye West live on air. The nearly 3-minute-long song took DJ Funk Flex 22 minutes to present, with the DJ rewinding, interrupting and inserting bomb soundclips into the song at repeated intervals.

On January 11th, 2012, SoundCloud^[6] user @user6607115 reuploaded the entire segment and gathered over 178,000 streams and 7,000 likes in 13 years.

YouTuber^[1] DeezWare reposted the segment on September 10th, 2022. At the 6:44 timestamp, DJ Funk Flex announced, "New York City, you listen to me — if you're near a convenience store right now, any type of 24-hour store, go into the store right now and put your hand in the cash register for no reason. Their money is your money as of right now."

The copypasta is often stylized in all caps as shown below:

NEW YORK CITY YOU LISTEN TO ME, IF YOU'RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN THE CASH REGISTER FOR NO REASON. THEIR MONEY IS YOUR MONEY AS OF RIGHT NOW.

DeezWare's YouTube video was reposted to the subreddit /r/HipHopHeads^[7] on September 24th, 2022, where it gathered over 300 upvotes in three years.

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On July 20th, 2021, record label Pegions & Planes posted a graphic commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the aforementioned DJ Funk Flex segment to X / Twitter,^[3] noting that the radio host dropped "63 Flex bomb" sound effects and restarted the song "Otis" 53 times over the course of his 22-minute segment. The tweet gathered over 10,000 likes in four years.

On June 10th, 2024, X^[2] user @Dez_Mfd reposted the "their money is your money" clip to Twitter / X, gathering nearly 1,000 likes in a year.

PUT YA HANDS IN DA CASH REGISTER FOR NO REASON 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥pic.twitter.com/HtTvqpkHkx

— 𝕯𝖊𝖟𝕿𝖍𝖊𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖗★ (@Dez_Mfd) June 11, 2024

By 2025, DJ Funk Flex's "New York City, you listen to me" line came to be used as a copypasta to joke about stealing from corporations.

On January 16th, 2025, X^[4] user @big_business_ quoted an advertisement for the Nintendo Switch 2 video game console with the copypasta, gathering over 17,000 likes in five months.

NEW YORK CITY… YOU LISTEN TO ME, IF YOU’RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24 HOUR STORE. GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE CASH REGISTER FOR NO REASON. THEIR MONEY IS YOUR MONEY. https://t.co/nDPrLrZRIP

— Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 (@big_business_) January 16, 2025

On May 8th, 2025, soon after Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV was announced as Pope Francis' successor, X^[5] user @Seamus_Malek tweeted, "CHICAGO CATHOLICS YOU LISTEN TO ME […] GO INTO THE CHURCH RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN THE COLLECTION BASKET FOR NO REASON." The post gathered over 27,000 likes in a day.

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