Rain Drop Drop Top — Migos and Lil Uzi Vert posing with motorcycles in the Bad and Boujee music video

Rain Drop Drop Top

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Published September 24, 2026

Rain Drop Drop Top is a snowclone catchphrase pulled from the opening bar of Migos' 2016 single 'Bad and Boujee.' In late December 2016, Black Twitter users started swapping the second half of the line for punchlines, turning a rap hook into one of the fastest-moving text templates of that winter.

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Overview

The format keeps the first four words, 'Rain drop, drop top,' then swaps the rest of Migos' opening bar for a rhyming punchline of the poster's choosing1. The joke works because the original line, 'Rain drop, drop top, smokin' on cookie in the hotbox,' already scans as absurdly loose free-association, so any rhyming second half tends to land2.

Tweets in the template usually target a target of playful roasting: petty personal beefs, pop-culture jabs, or self-deprecation, with the punchline forced to rhyme with 'top.' Urban Dictionary entries from the peak of the trend list examples like 'Rain drop, drop top, under your weave is a bald spot' and 'my momma slapped me with a flipflop,' which show the roast-style rhythm the format encouraged3.

Origin & Background

Platform
Music (source) / Twitter (viral spread)
Creator
Migos; meme originators unknown
Date
2016

Migos uploaded 'Bad and Boujee' featuring Lil Uzi Vert to SoundCloud on August 27, 20164, then posted the official music video to YouTube on October 31, 20161. The catchphrase comes from the song's very first line delivered by Offset. The song itself is not the meme; the meme is the phrasal template that Twitter users built out of that opening couplet in mid-to-late December 20162.

How It Spread

Before the joke-tweet wave, 'Rain Drop Drop Top' circulated in mid-December 2016 as a texting bit between friends, where one person would send 'Rain drop' and expect 'Drop top' as a call-and-response loyalty check2. Roughly a week later the phrase mutated into a rhyming snowclone, with Twitter users, especially on Black Twitter, replacing 'smokin' on cookie in the hotbox' with their own punchlines2.

On December 25, 2016, Redditor CavsFan2014 opened an r/OutOfTheLoop thread asking what the meme was, which itself picked up 83 points as normie Twitter caught on2. Urban Dictionary submissions during the same window logged both the song reference and the joke examples users were spamming3. The 'Bad and Boujee' video went on to rack up tens of millions of YouTube views through the trend's peak, giving the source track a second life alongside the meme1.

Timeline

2016-08-27

Migos upload 'Bad and Boujee' feat. Lil Uzi Vert to SoundCloud.

2016-10-31

Official music video posted to YouTube.

2016-12

'Rain drop / Drop top' spreads as a text-message loyalty game among friends.

2016-12-25

CavsFan2014 posts an r/OutOfTheLoop thread asking about the meme's origins.

2016-12

Snowclone tweets rhyming with '...top' go viral on Black Twitter.

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