Set in 2053, Gaiden follows Charles Barkley’s journey to save “B-ball” in the wake of the Chaos Dunk that destroyed the world. Just as the emotional climax hits, the immortal lyric fades in: “Everybody get up, it’s time to slam now.” Spoiler alert: It’s a slam dunk.īack in 2008, a group of pop culture nerds banded together to offer up their fan-made version of a Space Jam sequel… in the form of a cyberpunk dystopia. He’s given a choice: to slam with the best, or jam with the rest. When the titular baller in Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden faces off against the final boss, he has the fate of the galaxy and “all of B-balldom” in his hands. “I have seen this,” the Pulitzer winner confirmed, waving his hands in the air to the opening notes of “Alexander Slamilton.” “It works! It really works! Kudos to the genius who made that. Lin-Manuel Miranda even lost his sh-t over Slamilton - Psynwav’s full-length LP splicing Space Jam with Hamilton - on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last month. There are whole sites dedicated to hosting slamjams. The still-active r/comeonandslam subreddit amassed nearly 37,000 slammers.
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“That’s sort of what combines the two.”Īfter littering the Internet for nearly a full decade, slam remixes haven’t been viral since 2014, but the meme remains a slow-simmering constant.
Then Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden (2008) popularized the meme on YouTube while it gained notoriety as a fan sequel to both the SNES basketball game and Space Jam. “It went from there to 4chan, Newgrounds, YTMND.” The latter’s Wiki page attributes a user called “L-ShapedTetrisBlock” for creating a since-wiped site pairing the Macho Man’s image with a proto-slam remix. “ I think that was Something Awful, if I remember correctly,” the remixer says. A testament to digital impermanence of the mid-aughts, you’ll hear a jumble of the “early content creation areas” credited.
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