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Decoding ‘6-7’: We Asked Two Teens to Explain the TikTok-Viral Phrase You’re Still Hearing Everywhere

As Gen Z slang cycles in and out faster than any parent (and even a 20-year-old, hi!), can keep up with, it’s easy for terms to get lost in translation. And we get it — we’re not the intended audience, but we still want to know what the hellyante they’re talking about. So from teens themselves, we’re here to help you understand one of the most popular TikTok viral terms of late: 6-7. And while we’ve got an in-depth explainer on this phrase, who better to explain it than teens themselves? To that end, we asked two members of our SheKnows Teen Council, 16-year-olds Clive and Gary, to explain the trend:
  
SheKnows: So what is six-seven?   
  
Gary: Okay, so six-seven, to be kind of broad, it’s just two numbers that you say to be funny. It’s like in any situation, you’d be like, ‘well, how many times you do this?’ You could say ‘six, seven’.   
  
SK: But where’d it come from? Where did it originate?   
  
Gary: Yeah, so this rapper, a very violent artist named Skrilla, in a song about doing violent things, he says the numbers six, seven, and this basketball player named Taylen Kinney, he plays the Overtime Elite, in an interview, he says the lyric again, and it like shot off from there. It went viral.   
  
SK: What’s the lyric exactly, if you don’t mind saying it.  
 
Gary: “Shooter scrap mine, bro put belt right to they behind, the way they scrip I know he dying, six, seven. ”
  
SK: What does that mean when you hear that? 
 
Gary: It’s just like, you know, you know. It has to be in context.  
 
SK: But when he says it in that sentence, is he saying six out of seven? What is it?   
  
Gary: I mean, I think he’s just saying six or seven. It’s how many times he does it’s like, six or seven. 
 
SK: How many times was your homework late, Clive?  
 
Clive: Six, seven.   
  
SK: Okay, all right. So the way it took off was from music.   
  
Gary: Yes 
  
SK: Where do you consume the music?   
  
Gary: I mean, when you scroll on Instagram and TikTok, or any social media platform, you see anything at that moment. This was two months ago, but it’s still relevant now. You would just hear that song over and over again, but it just blew up from the basketball player Taylen Kinney, so he’s the one who made it popular.   
  
SK: And then you guys saw the interview where?  
 
Gary: I saw it on TikTok, but it was also probably on Instagram.  
 
SK: So then, how would you guys use it in a sentence?
 
Gary: It’s just two funny numbers. In a conversation, anytime you say how much you’ve done something, a random person would be like ‘six seven’.  
 
SK: Clive, how did you become aware of this term?  
 
Clive: Same as Gary. You see it everywhere. The basketball player’s kind of weird; he’s odd. Different people would ask him questions like ‘how tall are you’ or something, and then he’d be like ‘six seven’.  
 
SK: And what if he was like, ‘How many girlfriends have you got?’ 
 
Clive and Gary: Six seven   
 
Clive: I mean, people are just making jokes about it. 
 
Gary: And he made a water brand out of it.  
 
Clive: Six seven water.   
  
Gary: I think it was only available for 67 hours.