Earl Sweatshirt was mistaken for A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie by a contestant on Jeopardy! earlier this week, and social media had had fairly the sphere day with it.
In a current episode of the sport present, “Rappers” was one of many classes, and the $800 query confirmed a picture of Earl Sweatshirt in a hooded sweatshirt with Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik explaining: “He’s seen here actually in a hoodie around the time of Doris, his major label debut album.”
One of the feminine contestants pushed the button to reply the query, and she or he confidently mentioned the rapper was A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. After a short pause and laughter from the opposite contestants, Bialik informed the lady “No” and mentioned, “That is Earl Sweatshirt.”
In the contestant’s protection, Bialik’s “hoodie” context clue could have thrown her off. Regardless, the second went viral on social media as folks had enjoyable at her expense.
Earl Sweatshirt confused for A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie by “Jeopardy” contestant 😂https://t.co/52WCdDsvQr pic.twitter.com/gNPQIeOJ7G
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) March 2, 2023
Something comparable occurred final 12 months when one other Jeopardy! contestant confused Public Enemy with Mark Wahlberg’s 90s collective, The Funky Bunch, which social media had a discipline day with. Chuck D got here to the contestant’s protection and defined some persons are actually simply unaware.
“Everybody don’t know everything… it’s why I introduce myself wherever I go and whoever I talk to,” he wrote. “It’s just courtesy. But the sad thing is not knowing those other Chuck Ds.”
The contestant hopped on Twitter and revealed she’s nice with being the butt of jokes on social media over her flub: “I’ve talked to my therapist about it and I think I’m ready to forever be the person who mixed up Public Enemy and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch on @jeopardy. #mylegacy.”
Jeopardy! has a longstanding historical past with utilizing Hip Hop as supply materials for its questions. Chuck D’s longtime buddy Ice-T was elated in 2019 when he found he’d been a Jeopardy! matter.
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A fan alerted the Hip Hop legend through Twitter who responded to clip with, “We made it!!!! My life complete. #JEOPARDY.” Ice informed DX on the time it was “the pinnacle” of his profession.
Megan Thee Stallion was additionally a clue on Jeopardy! in October 2020 when former host the late Alex Trebek learn the lyrics to her No. 1 hit single “Savage.” Contestant Daniel Lee picked the $1,000 reply within the ‘On The Billboard Charts in 2020′ class, prompting Trebek to learn the clue as if he have been rapping it himself.
“Classy, bougie, ratchet” & “sassy, moody, nasty,” says this No. 1 hit by Megan Thee Stallion,” Trebrek learn, to which Lee guessed, “What is ‘I’m a Savage’?”
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