Stop Saying Your Song Is Fire, Your Nose Is Growing

About

Stop Saying Your Song Is Fire, Your Nose Is Growing are lyrics from the rap song "Jungal" by lilkris3000 (aka Lil Kris) and fuckrieke, which became a TikTok meme and TikTok sound in July 2024. "Your nose is growing" is a reference to the story of Pinocchio in which the character's nose grows when he lies. lilkris3000 is a white child rapper and the song was akin to gimmick and meme rap.

Origin

On June 22nd, 2024, the lilkris3000 Topic channel on YouTube^[1] shared the audio for the song "Jungal (feat. fuckrieke)" as a part of the rapper's album King Kris, receiving over 3,100 views in 20 days. At the song's 0:09-second mark (shown below), lilkris3000 raps, "Stop saying your song is fire, your nose is growing."

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On June 24th, 2024, lilkris3000 posted a photo slideshow with the song on TikTok,^[2] gaining over 268,200 plays and 14,800 likes in 18 days. The slideshow's sound was removed from TikTok soon after for currently unknown reasons.

On June 29th, TikToker^[3] @lilkrismusicplug posted the snippet, receiving over 689,900 plays and 29,100 likes in 13 days (shown below, left). The video spawned a TikTok sound^[4] that was en masse going into July 2024.

For instance, on July 5th, TikToker^[5] @nofacebriann posted a video with text reading, "Stop saying we didn't date YOUR NOSE IS GROWING," gaining over 517,300 plays and 79,000 likes in a week (shown below, right).

The sound's usage gained more viral iterations soon after. For instance, on July 10th, 2024, TikToker^[6] @evelyngrwmofficialk posted a video that had text reading, "stop saying you hate her then hanging out w her the next day ur nose is growing," receiving roughly 6.3 million plays and 1 million likes in two days (shown below).

By July 12th, 2024, the trend's primary TikTok sound^[4] had amassed over 104,100 posts.

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