Put Some Respeck on My Name

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"Put Some Respeck on My Name", is a memorable quote uttered by Louisiana rapper and hip hop entrepreneur Birdman during his confrontational guest appearance on the radio show The Breakfast Club in late April 2016. Following the airing of the interview, many listeners mocked the rapper's unique, southern, pronunciation of the word “respect” as “respeck.”

Origin

On April 22nd, 2016, Birdman, the co-founder of Cash Money Records and one half of the hip hop duo Big Tymers, made a guest appearance on New York City's syndicated urban contemporary radio show The Breakfast Club. During the live interview, Birdman went on a verbal tirade against the show's hosts, DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne, angrily demanding them to "stop playing with [his] fucking name" and "put some respect on [his] name", proceeding to leave the building. (shown below).

While Birdman refused to participate in the interview or elaborate on the nature of his complaints, the co-hosts speculated that his on-air meltdown may have been a reaction to several jokes made by Rick Ross and Trick Daddy at the expense of his name during an interview on their show in 2015, as well as their roasting of the hip hop mogul for failing to pay a number of artists on his record label, including Lil Wayne.

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Later that day, TMZ^[1] reported that Birdman apologized to DJ Envy following the incident. Meanwhile, Instagram user @mrs_roblane uploaded an edited clip of the interview, featuring Crying Michael Jordan superimposed over Birdman's face (shown below). In the next three days, the video garnered upwards of 7,200 likes and 1,400 comments.

Also on April 22nd, YouTuber The Black Hokage posted a video titled "Put Some Respeck on It," featuring footage from the game Call of Duty interspersed with various jokes using a clip of Birdman saying "respect" (shown below, left). Within 72 hours, the video gained over 320,000 views and 1,300 comments. The following day, YouTuber Filnobep uploaded an animated parody of the Birdman interview (shown below, right).

On April 24th, SoundCloud user DJ Suede The Remix God posted a trap remix using the audio from Birdman's interview on "The Breakfast Club' (shown below). Within 24 hours, the song gathered more than 4,100 plays and 350 likes.

The same day, former coach of the Golden State Warriors Mark Jackson referenced the Birdman quote while analyzing a basketball game between the Warriors and the Rockets (shown below). In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to the interview, including The Source,^[2] Vulture,^[3] Complex^[4] and HipHopDX.^[5]

On April 26th, Birdman announced a clothesline based on the interview. ^[9]

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