Kodak Black's Dance

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Added Oct 12, 2018 at 03:46PM EDT by Adam.

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About

Kodak Black's Dance refers to a clip of rapper Kodak Black dancing in the studio to what was then an unreleased demo of his song "Zeze." The clip of himself, Travis Scott, and other dancing to the beat of the song in the studio was paired with various captions and used as an object labeling meme in September of 2018.

Origin

On September 5th, 2018, Kodak Black uploaded clips of himself and others dancing to the beat for "Zeze." Black uploaded a clip of himself dancing to the song on his Instagram.

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The clip that went viral however, has since been deleted (shown below).

Spread

After the clip was released, it appeared in remixes where it was paired with various captions. These spread most popularly on Instagram (examples shown below).

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A post shared by Endergamer2121 (@endergamer2121) on Sep 14, 2018 at 11:08am PDT

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A post shared by ThaRealSinister (@tharealsinister) on Sep 16, 2018 at 5:52am PDT

On YouTube, the meme spread mostly through compilations. Some of the most popular compilations include one by Meme fiend that gained over 37,000 views (shown below, left) and another by user DYLAN that gained over 111,000 views (shown below, right). The meme was covered by Complex^[1] and HotNewHipHop.^[2]

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