# Help me find my earworm

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-my-earworm/812687>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 19, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-my-earworm/812687 "2018-04-19T05:41:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-my-earworm/812687/1 "2018-04-19T05:41:45Z")

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So I’ve been having snatches of this song in my head for two days and I can’t remember what the actual song is and it’s driving me crazy. I will start ripping out throats any time now. Help me keep my kin alive.

Details : it’s a hip hop song, relatively recent I think (though it’s really not my typical scene), and by relatively I’d say “sometime in the past 10 years” and probably notorious - I’m definitely not talking about some B-side track by a garage band from DesMoines. Bombastic sound, very pump-you-up, action movie soundtrack if you will. The kind you’d put over a slow motion powerwalk or possibly some slowmo dolly shot circling around a sexy sports car. In fact I’m pretty sure I must have heard it \*as \*a movie soundtrack. Black guy voice - but then that only rules out Eminem I suppose :o

The structure seems to go : 7 syllables of fast spoken verse with (maybe ?) a slowdown on the next-to-last (so tatatatatataaata I think), then 2-note brass call or accent if you will (again, in a very energetic and bombastic style), then another spoken line. Not much guitar that I can remember.

Sounds familiar ?

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**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-my-earworm/812687/2 "2018-04-19T06:12:34Z")

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From the thread title, I thought you were concerned because you might have left him in the back of a taxi. 🙂