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They Say Shooters Shoot is a memorable lyric from the song "ILBB2" by Jorjiana featuring GloRilla that became the subject of a TikTok lip dub trend in late February 2025, shortly following the song's release. The trend has TikTokers lip sync to the lyrics, "They say shooters shoot, Duke Dennis what's up with you?" under a caption that replaces "Duke Dennis" with another person's name, as if the TikToker is hitting on the person they tag. Another trend using the lyrics also went viral at the same time, using a portion of the song where GloRilla raps, "Like my niggas tall and grimy (What else?) And mixed with a little bit of ugly."

Origin

On February 21st, 2025, Jorjiana released a remix of her song "ILBB2" featuring a verse by GloRilla, including a music video on YouTube^[1] that gained over 1.3 million views in 10 days. In the song, GloRilla raps, "Like my niggas tall and grimy (What else?)
And mixed with a little bit of ugly. Uh, uh-huh, they say shooters shoot. Uh, uh-huh, Duke Dennis, what's up with you?"

Uh, uh-huh, they say shooters shoot
Uh, uh-huh, Duke Dennis, what's up with you?
Uh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh (Hahaha, Jorjiana, what the fuck these niggas on, man?)
Uh-huh (Uh, uh), on gang, gang

On February 23rd, TikToker^[2] @pcybamm posted a video lip syncing to the lyrics, "they say shooters shoot," but replacing the name "Duke Dennis" with "Latto," garnering over 5.5 million views in a week. This is the earliest known meme to use the song.

Spread

The trend continued to spread throughout late February and early March 2025. On February 24th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @chrisdifferent posted a video following the trend in which they take their shot at the Bop House, garnering over 3.8 million views in a week.

At the same time, some TIkTokers, largely women, started lip dubbing to the lyrics, "Like my niggas tall and grimy (What else?) And mixed with a little bit of ugly," under captions altering the lyrics to fit their types. For example, on February 25th, TikToker^[4] @queen_basu posted a video that gained over 5.1 million views in six days.

On February 27th, TikToker^[5] @v0ntai posted a version of the trend in which he shoots his shot at content creator avawavuh, garnering over 28 million views in four days.

On March 2nd, TikToker^[6] @vexbolts posted a video parodying the trend in which he says his own name instead of Duke Dennis', garnering over 760,000 views in a day. On the same day, X^[7] user @ posted, "they say shooters shoot, im finna kill all of us," garnering over 6,400 likes in a day.

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