Back In The Day, Me And You Baby / That's Not My Son

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Back In The Day, Me And You Baby, continued, We Used To Have Fun, and also known as That's Not My Son, refers to a freestyle parody rap by actor Kayode Ewumi from the Roll Safe meme performed on BBC Radio 1Xtra3 in 2015. The song features lyrics about how he and a woman used to have fun until she had a baby and how that baby is not his son. The song went viral on TikTok in November 2021 in lip-dub skits used to compare something that used to be great to its updated, lesser counterpart.

Origin

On November 10th, 2015, the BBC Radio 1Xtra3 YouTube^[1] channel posted an interview and freestyle rap segment as part of the "Fire In The Booth" series with comedy rapper Roll Safe, played by actor Kayode Ewumi (shown below). The video gained over 13.8 million views in six years and sees Roll Safe freestyle over a number of beats. At around the 3:33 mark, he freestyle raps about a man and a woman who used to have fun until she had a baby, finishing the freestyle "Look, that's not my son. Believe me, anybody can't tell me that that is my son."

Spread

On October 17th, 2021, TikToker^[2] @carlsthot, a Shameless fan page, posted a compilation of Lip and Karen footage set to the song, gaining over 450,000 views in a month (shown below).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7020186976175344901

The video's original sound^[3] became popularized over the course of October leading into November 2021, inspiring over 23,400 videos by November 18th. The most popular are lip-dub videos showcasing something that used to be great but isn't anymore. On November 3rd, TikToker @teqfla posted a clip of Roll Safe performing the rap, gaining over 5.8 million views in two weeks. This became the dominant sound for the audio, inspiring over 80,000 videos by November 18th. The highest engagement videos follow the same lip-dub trend as the prior sound, often using the green screen effect to show the item and how it changed, as well as to simply show a nostalgic item they used to have, omitting the latter half of the audio (examples shown below, left and right).^[4]^[5]