#DootDoot is the hashtag for “Doot Doot (6 7),” a Philadelphia drill rap song by rapper Skrilla produced by 1Ellis — initially leaked in December 2024 and officially released on 7 February 2025 — whose repeated “six, seven” hook became the audio backbone of one of the largest TikTok memes of 2025–26 and the direct inspiration for Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year selection, “67.” The track’s cultural reach outstripped its chart performance, turning a near-throwaway drill cut into the sound of a cross-platform children’s slang phenomenon.
Quick Facts
- Artist: Skrilla
- Producer: 1Ellis
- Leaked: December 2024
- Official release: 7 February 2025 (Priority Records)
- Genre: Philadelphia drill
- Signature hook: repeated “six, seven” with a doot-doot ad-lib
- Status: active
Origin
Skrilla, a Philadelphia drill rapper, originally recorded “Doot Doot” as what he later described as a “throwaway” track. Per Know Your Meme, an unofficial version began circulating online around 1 December 2024, and clips of the hook quickly began appearing in short-form video. The Associated Press has reported Skrilla’s own account that the leak forced a formal release: “I had just leaked it and it went crazy off of a leaked song.” Priority Records put the song out officially on 7 February 2025 under the title “Doot Doot (6 7).”
How It Went Viral
TikTok edits paired the song with NBA guard LaMelo Ball, whose official listed height of 6 feet 7 inches aligned the “six, seven” hook with highlight reels. From there, the audio migrated into high-school and middle-school content, where Overtime Elite guard Taylen Kinney’s clip rating a Starbucks drink “like a six, seven” became an early breakout, followed by the “67 Kid” (Maverick Trevillian) yelling the phrase courtside at an AAU game. By late 2025 the audio had been reused in millions of videos, and Know Your Meme counts it as the central element of what it calls the “#SixSeven” meme family.
What the Lyric Means
Theories about the “6-7” lyric diverge. The most common is that it points to 67th Street in Philadelphia, where Skrilla is from; another ties it to 67th Street in Chicago; a third interprets it as a reference to the police dispatch code “10-67” for a death on scene. Asked directly, Skrilla reportedly told Complex the phrase is “just ‘negative to positive.’” In practice, users treat the words as nonsense — a kid-slang placeholder that fits almost any sentence, usually paired with a two-handed “weighing” gesture.
Cultural Impact
The song’s reach spilled far outside music press. Dictionary.com named “67” its 2025 Word of the Year, crediting the Skrilla hook as the proximate source. Wikipedia, Know Your Meme and multiple local-TV explainers have treated “Doot Doot (6 7)” as the originating audio of one of the dominant memes of 2025–26, with The Week calling the resulting trend “the six-seven meme that has taken over the world.” In 2026 the hook spread into K-pop content — BTS’s J-Hope used the phrase in a TikTok paired with the Brazilian #PassinhoDoJamal step — pushing the audio into Brazilian funk and K-pop circles.
Legacy
“Doot Doot (6 7)” is one of the clearest 2020s examples of a short-form-video platform retroactively turning a leaked, lightly-promoted drill track into a global reference. Its influence shows up in later releases that lean into number-based hooks and in the ongoing presence of the “six, seven” catchphrase in classrooms, youth-sports locker rooms and brand marketing. The song itself remains in heavy TikTok rotation nearly two years after its unofficial debut, with the broader #SixSeven phenomenon showing no clear decline curve as of late 2026.
Variations & Related Tags
Related tags include #SixSeven and #PassinhoDoJamal. Aliases include #DootDoot67 and #Skrilla67.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doot_Doot_(6_7)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7_(meme)
- https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/6-7-song-doot-doot-by-skrilla
- https://wtop.com/education/2026/02/skrilla-how-the-6-7-craze-from-his-drill-rap-hit-almost-didnt-happen/
- https://www.clickondetroit.com/entertainment/2026/02/16/skrilla-how-the-6-7-craze-from-his-drill-rap-hit-almost-didnt-happen/
- https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/what-is-the-6-7-song-on-tiktok-the-meaning-of-6-7-and-the-viral-lamelo-ball-edits-explained