I am going to return to my life story tomorrow for sure. Meantime, guess what this pastor, in an online sermon I came across, is talking about:
“Kids just think it’s a funny thing they do, but Skrilla is
a self-professed member of the church of Santeria or the church of Satan. He
worships Orisha and Egun and you can watch him on podcasts and interviews where
he tells you he sacrifices goats and mice, depending on what the sacrifice is,
and he does it so that he can have favor in Hollywood.
“He talks about how since he’s really dedicated himself to
it, putting blood oaths to it, his career has taken off.
“Now, here’s something really fascinating. Why does a guy
who presents himself as a hard-core thug rapper, where the song in question is only
about two minutes long, and it is about sex and drugs . . . by the way, if you
listen to the song, and I don’t recommend you do, it just sounds, honestly,
like he’s speaking in tongues—you’d have to have subtitles to understand what is
being said . . . he’s singing about drink and drugs and sex, and then half way
through the song, he does the Baby Shark theme!
“Now, tell me, why would a rapper who has this hard-core
persona, who’s singing about things that are for mature audiences, fill the middle
of his song with the Baby Shark theme?
“Unless he wanted to appeal to an audience, and now our
entire country has our kids doing this thing with their hands and shouting the words
out.
“I know, people say, ‘No, pastor you’re being over-obsessed with the thing. Six-seven is just where he’s from, from his city.’
"So it has no
connection to the God Egun or the god Olodumare who he says he worships?! Who
he says, if you go in, I forget the name of the bowl, but you put in a name
with a birthday in the bowl, anything you want to happen to that person happens
to them. Shot, stabbed, whatever.”
*****
What does Merriam-Webster Dictionary say?
“Six seven (or 67 or 6
7, etc.) is a nonsensical expression used especially by teens and tweens
that is connected to a rap song and also to a 6’ 7” tall basketball player.
“Teens and adults alike have tried to explain it. Some say
it means ‘so-so,’ especially since kids often pair the phrase with an
up-and-down hand motion. Others argue it refers to a person who is tall, some
think it stands for a basketball term, and so on. The bottom line is, the term ‘six
seven’ is nonsensical—which is sort of the point. As one tween TikToker put
it under another video, ‘I think the point is that it makes no sense.’ ”