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January 25, 2013 03:09 pm PST
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A history of the mic drop, with a surprising origin
Forrest Wickman at Slate has an explainer on the "mic drop," popularized anew by President Barack Obama. "The mic drop has been employed by rappers and comedians since at least the 1980s, and its grown steadily in popularity since 2007, but its only in the last year or so that its become a full-blown meme [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7o7VF9sigDM/a-history-of-the-mic-drop-wit.html
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