On October 15, 2025, roughly eight months after Skrilla—the 26-year-old Philadelphia native who has been dubbed the “King of Kensington” due to his deep ties with the infamous Philly hood—officially released his smash hit “Doot Doot (6 7),” the meme that sprung from this banger was forever stamped in the pop culture lexicon via a segment from that night’s episode of South Park.
In the episode, like in many schools across the country, “6-7” has taken hold of the student body, with kids doing the hand motion and giggling whenever someone utters the numbers six and seven anywhere near each other, leading to a proper LOL moment during an assembly on the Antichrist and, you guessed it, Satanic Numerology.
This is just one of many instances of the meme hitting the mainstream; a week prior, NXT Superstar Je’Von Evans wore a “67” jersey (and did the subsequent hand motion) during his entrance on Tuesday, while days later, fellow NXT competitor Oba Femi hit a more outlandish “6-7” during a house show.
(Skrilla says the song will end up in GTA6.)
Shaq is down with the craze, as is Grammy Award-winning “Unwritten” singer Natasha Bedingfield, who recently had Skrilla perform “Doot Doot (6 7)” during a recent gig in Philadelphia. Bedingfield has previously posted on TikTok about having to figure out what “6-7” was because her son kept saying it. “My social media collaborator Isabella Gillies told me about it,” Bedingfield told Complex, “and we both felt it was something people should know, with ‘6-7’ being such a huge phrase in the zeitgeist.”
“I just wanted to let ‘6-7’ just keep living a little bit,” Skrilla shares during a break while on his current Z Tour, “but Natasha's trying to get on a remix.” Bedingfield says, “I love collaboration, I’m always open if the synergy is there,” so we will have to see if that turns up. Even still, we don’t have a firm explanation on what “6-7” actually means, but at this point, the meaning—and the fact that the kids don’t care if you aren’t vibing with their brainrot—may not matter at this point.
The origin of the “6-7" meme
The “6-7” meme started about a month after Skrilla posted the audio on his Instagram; he shares that he had so much material left over from the Zombie Love Kensington Paradise recording sessions that he’d share loosies for his fans, just so the music wasn’t sitting idle.
Memes featuring the now ubiquitous “Doot Doot” hook are said to have started popping up around January of 2025, many of them featuring the 6’7” Charlotte Hornet LaMello Ball moving on the court like someone who’s 6’1”. Skrilla shouts out Taylen "TK" Kinney, the Overtime Elite player who ran with the saying and the hand motion, helping “6-7” grow. “I feel like he played a big role in that, too,” Skrilla said.
In February of 2025, Skrilla dropped “Doot Doot (6 7)” on the deluxe edition of Zombie Love Kensington Paradise as a bonus track, but at that point, the meme was already gaining hundreds of thousands of views for smart creators who incorporated it into their highlight reels or found clever ways to sneak the meme into every day life. There’s something about the ominous bell gong in the intro, and with the beat dropping moments after Skrilla says “6 7” in “Doot Doot”? It’s really a moment made for meming, which likely explains how quickly the audio spread during the spring and summer of 2025.
What does "6-7" mean?
What the hell does 6-7 even mean you’ve probably asked yourself (or one of your more timeline-addicted homies). If you do your Googles, you’re going to get several unconfirmed meanings behind “6-7.”
Due to his real-life ties to Philadelphia (where he was born) and Chicago (where he has family ties), and the alleged street-related connections to the term “6-7,” many have assumed Skrilla was speaking directly about life in the streets—The way that switch brrt, I know he dyin'” being what’s said before he utters “6-7” doesn’t help, either—but when directly asked about it, Skrilla offers a unique answer, one that is totally understandable considering he’s a 26-year-old brother from Kensington who uttered the two numbers that has everyone’s kid can’t wait to say.
“Everybody else got their own different meaning,” Skrilla said. "But for me, it's just ‘negative to positive.’ It helped me turn from a negative person to a positive person.” Bedingfield shared that she is “very impressed by Skrilla,” calling him “a true artist and visionary” before applauding his ability to “spotlight real-life visuals of actual homeless individuals and those affected by a worldwide mental health crisis—very real things that people avoid doing a thing about, especially in show business, people on stage might be afraid to talk about or try to show their most glamorous selves.”
That ground-level connection speaks to people, and has had an impact on Skrilla, who recently spoke on quitting lean before his current tour, a decision he says that he’d made, “so I could have my body together.” Now he’s been hitting the treadmill, getting ready for now: his 22-date headline tour, which will take him throughout the South and onto the West Coast and Canada before heading home to Philadelphia right after Thanksgiving.
The tour shares the same name as his next album, Z, which Skrilla says he’s “currently working on,” although it sounds like the bulk of the project is actually done. “I'm trying to get features for my album Z," Skrilla said. "I chose Z [as the title] because that's the meaning, the ending of the alphabet, ending of a lot of things, and Z [is] for Zombie, Zombie Land. Just the ending and the change of life, change of lifestyle.” Skrilla is well aware of “6-7” still being at the forefront while working on Z, but also recently dropped a new track, “Kurt Angle,” which may or may not end up on the album. “I don't know yet,” Skrilla admits.
“I'm still debating on actually how I'm going about [Z], because I got the dark sound,” Skrilla said. “I've been in a different state of mind than I was from last year, than I was from two years ago, so it's kind of hard. I be wanting to make two-years-ago music, [and] sometimes I can't do it. I don't got that type of energy and brain right now to make that."
Skrilla did confirm two of the features you will find on Z with Complex. The first is fellow Philadelphian Tierra Whack, who you may have seen with Skrilla on IShowSpeed’s trip to Zombieland back in September. “She came to my world, like the sound,” Skrilla shares with a smile. “You know how she’s coming.” The second feature is Lil Yachty, who appears on "Rich Sinners," a song Skrilla describes as a meeting “in the middle” sonically between the two.
Where does the “6-7" meme go from here?
So, now that South Park brought “6-7” to, um, South Park, does that mean the meme is over? “I did a sold-out show yesterday in NY, and when I asked if anybody had any requests, a lot of people yelled out ‘6 7’. I wanted to grant their request, but I want to wait [until] Skrilla and I are in [the] same room again somewhere,” Bedingfield says. Skrilla is still on his “6-7” run for the time being.
(When asked about a possible release date for Z, Skrilla teases, “It's a big space after this month is over and then November, the end of November is Philly, so that little space right there might be the one.”)
And while Skrilla hasn’t gotten to plotting on what’s happening musically after he drops Z, he does know what he wants get back into: “I just know after rap is done, I want to be a fashion icon.” Going back to his teenage years, Skrilla has maintained an interest in style.
“I like Polo, Polo, Polo,” Skrilla says with a smile. “Polo started in 1967, so they got all this shit that say ‘six, seven.’” Then, during the conversation, Skrilla went over to where his clothes are to grab a dark red college sweater, which he said he wore “with the cargo pants and a button up with the tie” during a recent show.
Sure enough, on the giant yellow R stitched to the front of the sweater, there was a green “67” in the top left corner.