About

Rain Drop Drop Top is a lyric from the song "Bad and Boujee" by hip hop group Migos that became a phrasal template for jokes primarily on Twitter, especially Black Twitter in late December 2016. The song's first lyric is "Rain drop, drop top, smokin' on cookie in the hotbox." In the snowclone, "smokin' on cookie in the hotbox" is replaced.

Origin

On August 27th, 2016, Migos uploaded "Bad and Boujee" to their Soundcloud page.^[1] As of December 27th, the track has been played over 49.4 million times. On October 31st, the group posted their video for the track to YouTube, where it has been viewed over 60.7 million times (shown below).

Spread

Initially, "Rain Drop Drop Top" spread in mid-December 2016 as a game among friends to jokingly prove their credibility/loyalty in which one person would text another "Rain Drop" and the other would have to reply "Drop Top."

A week after the initial spread, "Rain Drop Drop Top" began appearing in more snowclones. One of the most popular was posted by @niicksx in a tweet that gained over 63,000 retweets and 107,000 likes in a week (shown below).

On December 25th, CavsFan2014 posted a thread to /r/OutOfTheLoop^[2] asking about the origins of the meme in a thread that gained 83 points.

Various Examples

Search Interest

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