How Skrilla Decodes the "6-7" Meme
"Everybody else got their own different meaning," Skrilla says. "But for me, it's just 'negative to positive.' It helped me turn from a negative person to a positive person."
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.
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. Skrilla shouts out Taylen "TK" Kinney, the Overtime Elite player who ran with the saying and the hand motion, helping "6-7" grow.
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. 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.
"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."
The tour shares the same name as his next album, Z. "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 confirmed two features on Z with Complex: fellow Philadelphian Tierra Whack and Lil Yachty, who appears on "Rich Sinners," a song Skrilla describes as a meeting "in the middle" sonically between the two.
"I like Polo, Polo, Polo," Skrilla says with a smile. "Polo started in 1967, so they got all this shit that say 'six, seven.'" Sure enough, on the giant yellow R stitched to the front of his college sweater, there was a green "67" in the top left corner. Some things are just meant to be.