Thug Life Remixes are a series of YouTube videos that typically begin with home movies of preadolescents using overly confrontational or expletive language, followed by a freeze-frame at a close-up image of the subject and an instrumental fade out to Dr. Dre's 1999 gangsta rap song "The Next Episode."
On January 23rd, 2013, YouTuber Otis Anderson posted an edited clip from the Penn and Teller show Bull Shit featuring the 2003 rap song "Where the Hood At" by DMX with a gray fade out (shown below, left). The video was the original precursor, to the more popular "I'll kill your dog" rendition that followed a similar pattern (shown below, right).
The formulaic set-up of the thug life remixes also bears resemblance to "How to Shut Down a Ho" remixes, another series of remix videos that open with a verbal insult or a punchline quoted from a popular film or television show before suddenly cutting to a scene of a crowd's wild reaction to the said line.
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