How 67 took over the world (and got its own album)

Where it actually started

In late 2024 the Philly drill rapper Skrilla (Jemille Edwards) released “Doot Doot (6 7)”. The “six-seven” in the hook was a shout-out to his block, 67th Street in Southwest Philadelphia. That's all it was meant to be.

The plot twists

Basketball TikTok picked up the sound, helped along by LaMelo Ball's height. Then TK Kinney, asked to rate his coffee on camera, said “six… seven”, and people started rating everything that way. Maverick Trevillian's scream at an AAU game turned it into a hand sign the whole world knows.

So what does it mean?

Nothing fixed, and that's the point. It isn't a gang sign or a secret code; Skrilla has said it's his block. Today it's a song, a rating (six-seven: fine, mid, whatever), a hand sign and a mood.

The hand sign

Both palms face up, and the hands take turns rising and falling, like you're weighing two options.

Why we made a whole album about this

We couldn't stop thinking about it. There was no plan to make an album; we just kept writing songs about the people in those clips. What we didn't want was a parody record.

The stories behind all eight songs