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About
Pitbull is the stage name of American rapper Armando Christian Pérez, who has been openly criticised for the overall low quality of his work, also gaining an ironic following on 4chan’s musical board /mu/.
Online History
In June 2012, Wallmart started a promotional campaign to bring Pitbull to whichever local Walmart store that gains the most new Facebook likes between June 20th and July 15th, 2012. On June 29th, a petition to send him to Kodiak, Alaska, was launched under the hashtag #ExilePitbull by the Something Awful editors Jon Hendren and David Thorpe. The petition was succesful and the rapper visited Kodiak’s Wallmart on July 30th, 2012.
Related Memes
Dale
Dale is an spanish expression (meaning “let’s go” on english) fairly used on some Latin American countries like Cuba, and associated to Pitbull for its overuse. On April 20th, 2012 youtuber Jonathan Mayo uploaded a video titled “Pitbull – Dale”, featuring supercuts from Pitbull song videoclips where he says the lines. As June 14th, 2015 the video has gained over 110,000 views. On January 28th, 2015, a thread about Pitbull featured the expression,[10] starting being used as shitposting and vertical posting measure during the following months.[6]
Miami Rap Star Pitbull
“Miami Rap Star Pitbull” is a catchphrase used as unrelated response on musical discussions, in similar vein to Nanomachines, Son, often accompanied with a picture of the artist (shown bellow).[7] The first registered instance on /mu/ can be found on a thread from April 19th, 2015 as a failed attempt of threadjacking it,[8] being used a day later as unrelated response to a post.[9]
Kodak
Search Interest
External References
[1]Facebook – Rhyming ‘Kodak’ with ‘Kodak’? Absolute genius, Pitbull. Absolute genius.
[2]Urban Dictionary – Pitbull Rhyming
[5]Rebecca Black Tech – Search for pitbull on /mu/
[6]Rebecca Black Tech – Search for dale on /mu/
[7]Rebecca Black Tech – Search for miami rap star pitbull on /mu/
[8]Rebecca Black Tech – Sup /mu/.
[9]Rebecca Black Tech – Artists who have been on /mu/
[10]Rebecca Black Tech – why doesnt anyone ever mention pitbull?