About

"Fast Food Freestyle", also known as "Mcdonald's rap", refers to a viral video of a man preforming a freestyle rap at a McDonald's drive thru. The video has inspired many imitators, most of which feature menu items of the store.

Origin

The original video, entitled "Fast Food Freestyle", was first posted by Joe Woody sometime in the Spring of 2006. The video was later taken down for unknown reasons, but it was reuploaded by Woody on July 4th, 2007, gaining 800 thousand views.

Spread

Numerous reuploads of the video exist due to it's mysterious takedown, most gaining more than Woody's reupload. The two most popular reuploads, entitled "Mcdonald's Rap", uploaded on December 6th, 2006, and "bigmac drive thru rap", uploaded on December 13th, 2006, have gained over 14 million and 7 million views, respectively.

A video parodying the popularity of the drive thru rap imitators, titled "Drive-Thru Rap – Rhett & Link", was uploaded by Rhett and Link on September 24th, 2007(shown below, left). The video has since gained over 4 million views. An imitator video of a song at a McDonald's a drive thru was uploaded by YouTube user todrickhall on May 27th, 2010 (shown below, right). The video has since gained over 9 million views in over 5 years.

Taco Bell Commercials

Later, the fast food company "Taco Bell" produced two commercial based on the original rap.

Drive Thru Arrest

On October 29th of 2009, four Utah teens from Lone Peak High School in American Fork, Utah were issued citations following their own drive thru performance of the fast food rap. The fast food worker taking their order claimed that the teens were using obscene language and that she felt threatened and that her safety was at risk.^[1][2]

Various Examples

External References

^[1] Sputnik Music – Teens Arrested For McDonald's Rap

^[2] NBC News – McPrank