The origins of Yo Dawg
"Yo dawg I herd you like cars so we put a car in yo car so you can drive while you drive."
In the TV show "Pimp My Ride", host Xzibit reveals each newly pimped-out vehicle with the line "Sup dawg, we heard you like X, so we put a Y in your car so you can Z while you drive". The Internet liked this line, and started creating its own versions; a meme was born. By the time the picture above appeared, the phrase had mutated into "Yo dawg", and the focus of the meme had shifted to the concept of things inside (or on top of) other things — most commonly presented as an image macro, with or without a superimposed image of a smiling Xzibit.
The current Yo Dawg formula goes as follows: "Yo dawg, I herd you like X, so we put a Y in your Y so you can Z while you Z". Successful Yo Dawgs can be obvious, tasteless, escalated, and even meta. Many see this picture as the inevitable and ultimate consummation of the Yo Dawg construct.
About this site
Yo Dawg Macros exists for the purpose of aggregating and transcribing the best Yo Dawg pictures from around the web. If you need to find a particular image, you can easily search for it, because each submission is meticulously transcribed and tagged. Otherwise, you can just browse, content in the knowledge that we display only the finest Yo Dawg specimens.
This site includes the cream of the Yo Dawg crop, from the classics to the recently-created. Check out the Archive to see the newest additions to our collection. Some of our Yo Dawgs were created by the people behind this very site; you can find them here. Unlike many other sites, we only add watermarks to the content we create. That's only fair.
Questions
Q: "It should be 'sup dawg', jerk!"
A: The original phrase may have been "sup dawg", but the meme mutated it. That's what memes do. There's little point striving for consistency in a medium dictated by worldwide Chinese whispers; somewhere along the line, it changed, and there's no going back now.
Q: "I don't get the name of this stupid website. yo [yo dawg] dawg ... it's like you've put 'yo dawg' inside the— Oh! Never mind."
A: You're an idiot.
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