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  • - I accidentally became a meme.

  • And this is that story.

  • My name is Nick Fraser, but you may know me from

  • the "Why the (bleep) you lying?" meme.

  • This all started in the year 2015.

  • I feel like I'm about to tell a story like from a book.

  • (laughing)

  • I was driving to 711 to get some donuts and gummy bears,

  • we shout out to 711, they got the best gummy bears,

  • just in case y'all needed to know that.

  • And as I was driving, I had the Bluetooth on my iPhone

  • connected to the car, and then comes on "Too Close" by Next.

  • So when the song starts to play, you know,

  • this is one of my favorite songs,

  • and I started singing it,

  • Baby why you crying

  • ♪ I get so excited

  • - [Man Off Camera] It's not "crying" it's "grinding."

  • - Oh, see, I didn't even know that.

  • Baby when you're grinding?

  • Wow, that's crazy.

  • After all these years,

  • nobody told me this whole time, I'm saying "crying."

  • You should actually leave that in, can we put that in?

  • So I'm driving, I'm singing, I'm singing, I'm singing.

  • I said, wait a minute.

  • I just heard myself saying lying instead of anything else.

  • And then suddenly, you know,

  • I just started remembering

  • there's this kid that I went to high school where, you know,

  • I'm not gonna disclose the information,

  • but this is a kid I'm with the high school with that,

  • he used to lie about things he had,

  • cars, clothes that people knew he didn't have.

  • Like, he just kept lying just to form conversation with us.

  • We used to call him out, like,

  • "Why are you lying about that?

  • "Like, why?"

  • Bro, if you're watching this,

  • and you know that I'm talking about you,

  • you don't have to lie, bro, you was cool enough.

  • And I felt like me saying the song

  • kind of like, those memories just triggered in my head,

  • that's why it just came out that way.

  • Why you always lying

  • Mm oh my God

  • I did all of that in the car while I was driving.

  • So I'm driving as if this is a song that's already out.

  • So as I'm doing that, I'm like, oh yeah, it's over.

  • The next day I woke up early and got a haircut.

  • I got the part in my head, which I don't have right now,

  • came back home, and then I was looking through my closet

  • for a shirt that, you know,

  • screamed 90s RNB music video type.

  • That's actually my brother's shirt.

  • And he was never able to wear that shirt again

  • after that day.

  • The location was my backyard.

  • I called my brother, I'm like,

  • "Yo, can you come outside real quick?

  • "I want to film something."

  • Why the (bleep) you lyin' ♪

  • Why you always lyin' ♪

  • Mm oh my God stop (bleep) lyin' ♪

  • I didn't plan the moves.

  • I was really just feeling it like,

  • you know, like in those old 90s R&B videos

  • where it's just like a bop, it just took over my body.

  • That toilet was actually a new toilet

  • that my mother bought,

  • and it didn't work when we installed it into the house.

  • So we just put it outside and left it on the side,

  • probably for a few months before I did what I did with it.

  • And then ever since it just stayed there,

  • I just realized this is a historical artifact,

  • so we can't really get rid of this.

  • I sat in the darkness for about two hours, maybe,

  • editing the sound, the volume.

  • So once I put it out, I left my phone alone, you know.

  • The next day my notifications were going so crazy from Vine

  • that I had to get a new phone

  • because my phone was overheating.

  • And then everything just starts circling the news,

  • on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, Guardian,

  • Buzzfeed, Complex, BET, Rolling Stone,

  • everywhere you could possibly think of, it was on it.

  • And as I'm scrolling through my Instagram,

  • I'm seeing my face over, and over,

  • and over, and over, and over again.

  • I'm just like, wait, whoa, what's going on right now?

  • There was a lot of people like, wow, "This is me."

  • "I know somebody like this."

  • They were tagging certain people, "This is you."

  • It didn't really hit me until somebody sent me a video of it

  • being played on the radio.

  • I knew it was gonna be something,

  • but I didn't think that it would hit the way that it did,

  • and influence people the way that it did.

  • I actually did meet the original creators, Next.

  • I was on an episode of Uncommon Sense by Charlemagne.

  • They had me out there with him, and we were both, you know,

  • singing and dancing with it.

  • So it was a very full circle moment.

  • That was pretty dope that he did that.

  • I never really kept in touch with the kid from high school.

  • I actually do have a message for him, though.

  • I hope whatever it is that you're doing in life right now,

  • you just decided, you know,

  • the stories is not really worth it.

  • The folk tales are not really worth it.

  • You know, just, just be yourself, just talk regularly.

  • If you've got it, you got it.

  • If you don't got it, you don't got it, it's calm.

  • Just stop (bleep) lying.

  • (smooth music)

- I accidentally became a meme.

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