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Holy Shit, This Some Hot Garbage, But I Can't Stop Listening

2022audio memedeclining

Published October 19, 2026

The producer tag "Holy shit, this some hot garbage, but I can't stop listening to it," voiced by DJ Smokey and Nuke Radio, opens the RXK Nephew and RX Papi song "Who Am I," which landed on SoundCloud in December 2022. By early 2023, TikTok editors were stapling that intro onto football edits, a Wise Mystical Tree lip-dub and the Bee Raising Eyebrows image.

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Overview

Posts in this format attach the "hot garbage" intro to visual content the uploader actually enjoys but admits is a guilty pleasure, like niche sports edits, meme characters or jank car videos. The audio does the self-roasting work, so creators often add text calling out what they can't stop watching, in the mold of @not._nic's "Hardest producer tag ever" overlay4.

Variations include lip-dubbing the line directly to camera, as @c_marquez_ did while the Wise Mystical Tree loaded on his laptop6, and chopping the clip down to just the first few seconds to make a shorter TikTok sound8. By March 2023, car-TikTok creators had attached the audio to the Bee Raising Eyebrows image, giving the "hot garbage" confession a looping reaction visual7.

Origin & Background

Platform
SoundCloud / YouTube (song), TikTok (viral spread)
Creator
DJ Smokey and Nuke Radio; @not._nic
Date
2022

On December 8, 2022, producer DJ Smokey uploaded the audio for "Who Am I" to YouTube, crediting RXK Nephew, RX Papi and fellow producers Soudiere and Max2k101. The track opens with the Nuke Radio producer tag calling out, "Holy shit, this some hot garbage, but I can't stop listening to it," before the rappers come in. Soudiere mirrored the upload to SoundCloud the same day, where the song collected roughly 120,000 listens over the following three months2.

The earliest TikTok to use the song appeared on January 4, 2023, when @barcelona.szn posted a football edit comparing William Saliba and Ronald Araujo set to the "Who Am I" intro3. That video stayed small at under 6,000 plays, so the sound did not take off until @not._nic's late January repost gave it a punchy caption5.

How It Spread

Memetic use kicked in on January 31, 2023, when TikToker @not._nic replaced the audio of a Joeyy "Gout" clip with the "Who Am I" opener and added the overlay "Hardest producer tag ever"4. That post attracted roughly 1 million plays and 157,000 likes over two months, and the TikTok sound it generated became the main upload surface others reused9.

Other creators latched onto the audio within two weeks. On February 10, 2023, @realperkerr set a photo slideshow to the sound and hit roughly 266,700 plays and 35,200 likes within a month10. Three days later, @c_marquez_ lip-dubbed the line while the Wise Mystical Tree sat open on his laptop, drawing roughly 351,400 plays and 58,900 likes in a month6. Also on February 13, @rustyraiden cut a new TikTok sound from just the "Who Am I" intro and attached it to Joeyy, Yeat and Valorant footage8.

In March 2023, the audio reached car TikTok, where creators ran it under the Bee Raising Eyebrows image5. The most viral of these came from @250isaiah on March 10, 2023, with roughly 674,900 plays and 105,100 likes in six days7.

Timeline

2022-12-08

DJ Smokey uploads the "Who Am I" audio to YouTube and Soudiere mirrors it to SoundCloud, with the Nuke Radio "hot garbage" tag opening the track.

2023-01-04

TikToker @barcelona.szn posts the first known TikTok using the song, a Saliba vs. Araujo football edit.

2023-01-31

@not._nic reposts a Joeyy "Gout" clip with the "Who Am I" audio and the caption "Hardest producer tag ever," the video that sparks the format.

2023-02-10

@realperkerr releases the first photo slideshow set to the TikTok sound.

2023-02-13

@c_marquez_ lip-dubs the line over a Wise Mystical Tree image and @rustyraiden cuts a shorter alternate TikTok sound from the intro.

2023-03-10

@250isaiah's Bee Raising Eyebrows car video sends the audio into car-TikTok circles.

How to Use This Meme

A typical post attaches the "Who Am I" intro to a visual the uploader finds compelling but openly calls low quality or weird, like a jank car clip, an underrated player edit or a shock image. Creators often add a text overlay naming what they can't stop watching, in the style of @not._nic's "Hardest producer tag ever" caption4. Lip-dubbing the line to camera, as @c_marquez_ did6, or cutting the sound down to just the opening phrase is also common.

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