# Mans Not Hot "Mans Not Hot" is a 2017 British viral rap parody by comedian Michael Dapaah, delivered in character as Roadman Shaq during a Fire in the Booth freestyle on BBC Radio 1Xtra. The clip's absurd mouth-made "ting goes skrrahh" gun ad-libs and the deadpan catchphrase "man's not hot" turned into two overlapping Twitter formats within days of the upload. ## Overview "Mans Not Hot" is a British rap parody delivered in character by comedian Michael Dapaah, who plays a satirical road-rapper called Roadman Shaq during a 2017 Fire in the Booth session on BBC Radio 1Xtra[2]. The clip's centrepiece is Shaq scatting a string of absurd mouth-made gun ad-libs, best transcribed as "the ting goes skrrahh, pap pap ka ka ka, skidiki-pap-pap and a pu pu drrr boom," over a straight-faced grime beat[1]. Paired with the deadpan line "man's not hot," delivered while Shaq is wrapped in an oversized winter parka, the two moments went viral across Twitter within days of the upload[4]. The joke works on two layers. The syllables are so nonsensical that Twitter users started transcribing them from memory and getting them wrong on purpose, and the wrong transcriptions became their own running gag[4]. The phrase "man's not hot" itself became a punchline about stubbornly refusing to take off a heavy jacket, usually written as a two-line skit where someone begs the subject to strip down[6]. Roadman Shaq also produced a spinoff catchphrase from the same freestyle called "Quick Maths," pulled from the line "2 plus 2 is 4 minus 3 is 1, quick maths!"[3]. ## How It Spread Twitter split the two lines into separate templates inside 48 hours. On August 30, @Krieg_La_Flare grafted the "man's not hot" line onto a Jon-and-Dany Game of Thrones exchange and pulled 12,900 retweets in six days[3]. Two days later @KubrickJr paired the line with a photo of a man in a full snowsuit and hit 25,600 likes in three days[3]. The audio-dub angle ran on its own track. On September 2, @DolanDark laid the rap over Big Ben's final chimes and cleared 80,000 retweets in three days[1]. The next day, @lilbabycurl matched the ad-libs to a slow-motion clip of fries hitting hot oil, which pulled 149,000 retweets and 237,000 likes inside two days[1]. Twitter published a dedicated Moments page on September 4, and The Fader, Complex and BuzzFeed all filed writeups the same week[1][2][4]. Dapaah leaned in. On September 22 he issued "Man's Not Hot" as an official single, this time credited to a slimmer Big Shaq persona[3]. The music video went up on his YouTube channel on October 25, 2017, and later cleared 447 million views, 6.4 million likes and 343,000 comments over eight years[3]. On October 11 Shaquille O'Neal walked out to a Roots cover of the song on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, laughed, and said "No"; the clip crossed 1.3 million views in three weeks[3]. Shaq answered with his own diss track over the same beat two days later, and Big Man Shaq replied in character on Bleacher Report on October 24[3]. ## How to Use Two formats coexist. The catchphrase one is a short scripted exchange where someone tells the subject to take off their jacket and the subject answers "Babes... man's not hot," usually pinned to a photo of a person clearly dressed for winter in summer heat[6]. The audio-dub format takes the "ting goes" ad-libs and drops them over unrelated footage, typically something loud, mechanical or explosive, so the mouth-noises stand in for the real sound effects[1]. A text-only variant just tries to spell the ad-libs from memory, which almost never matches anyone else's attempt[4]. ## Cultural Impact Fire in the Booth reactions rarely cross over outside grime fandom, so Dapaah's freestyle stood out against earlier sessions by Stormzy and J Hus by reaching a mainstream audience inside a week[1]. Complex noted that the song was already being played at real events by early September[2]. The Shaquille O'Neal exchange pushed it further out: the Tonight Show band cover, Shaq's diss track and Big Man Shaq's Bleacher Report reply all landed in October 2017[3]. Dapaah went on The Breakfast Club on October 30 to confirm the beef with O'Neal was for laughs[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Mans Not Hot? It's a 2017 viral rap parody by British comedian Michael Dapaah, performed in character as Roadman Shaq (later Big Shaq) with absurd mouth-made gun ad-libs and the deadpan chorus line "man's not hot"[2]. ### Where did Mans Not Hot come from? It came from a #SWIL web-series Fire in the Booth sketch uploaded to Charlie Sloth's YouTube channel on August 29, 2017[5]. ### What does Mans Not Hot mean? As a catchphrase, it means stubbornly refusing to take off a heavy jacket even in warm weather; Urban Dictionary also lists a slang meaning of a young guy who doesn't have any weed on him[6]. ### How do you use Mans Not Hot? The two common formats are a two-line "take off your jacket / babes... mans not hot" skit, or dubbing the "ting goes" gun ad-libs over unrelated loud footage[1]. ### Is Mans Not Hot still popular? It's a classic 2017 meme; Dapaah's official Big Shaq music video passed 447 million YouTube views, 6.4 million likes and 343,000 comments over the following eight years[3]. ### Who is Roadman Shaq? Roadman Shaq is one of the two rapper characters Dapaah plays in his #SWIL web series, the other being the nervier MC Quakez[2]. ### Did Shaquille O'Neal really respond to Mans Not Hot? Yes. He walked out to a Roots cover of the song on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on October 11, 2017, then cut his own diss track over the same beat two days later[3]. ### What is Quick Maths? "Quick Maths" is a spinoff catchphrase from the same freestyle, pulled from the line "2 plus 2 is 4 minus 3 is 1, quick maths!"[3] ### Where can I watch the original Fire in the Booth clip? The full 23-minute session was uploaded by Charlie Sloth to YouTube on August 29, 2017[5]. ### Is the song officially released? Yes. Dapaah released "Man's Not Hot" as an official Big Shaq single on September 22, 2017, followed by a music video on October 25, 2017[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.thefader.com/2017/09/04/twitter-cant-get-enough-of-the-ting-goes-meme]() 2. [https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2017/09/funniest-the-ting-goes-memes]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mans-not-hot]() 4. [https://www.buzzfeed.com/ikrd/the-ting-goes-skrrrrrah-pap-pap-kak-kak-kak-skibidi-pap-pap]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7GeLptca-s]() 6. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mans%20Not%20Hot]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/mans-not-hot Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library