CULTURETECHLENShide yo kids hide yo wife
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Combined Graph record U-00862 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0461. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Know Your Meme (fetched in full): Huntsville, Alabama resident Kevin Antoine Dodson was interviewed by NBC affiliate WAFF-48 News on July 28, 2010, after an intruder got into bed with his sister Kelly; his warning — 'So y'all need to hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband cause they're rapin' everybody out here' — went viral, and the Gregory Brothers' autotuned 'Bed Intruder Song' (July 30, 2010) 'populariz[ed] the catchphrase "hide yo kids hide yo wife"'; the song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #89 and sold over a quarter-million copies on iTunes.
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Know Your Meme (fetched in full): Huntsville, Alabama resident Kevin Antoine Dodson was interviewed by NBC affiliate WAFF-48 News on July 28, 2010, after an intruder got into bed with his sister Kelly; his warning — 'So y'all need to hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband cause they're rapin' everybody out here' — went viral, and the Gregory Brothers' autotuned 'Bed Intruder Song' (July 30, 2010) 'populariz[ed] the catchphrase "hide yo kids hide yo wife"'; the
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Know Your Meme (fetched in full): Huntsville, Alabama resident Kevin Antoine Dodson was interviewed by NBC affiliate WAFF-48 News on July 28, 2010, after an intruder got into bed with his sister Kelly; his warning — 'So y'all need to hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband cause they're rapin' everybody out here' — went viral, and the Gregory Brothers' autotuned 'Bed Intruder Song' (July 30, 2010) 'populariz[ed] the catchphrase "hide yo kids hide yo wife"'; the song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #89 and sold over a quarter-million copies on iTunes.
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