- Man, I can't do a two step.
♪ Bow, bow, bow ♪
I was really just lit.
I call it the HD bop,
my diddy bop breakdown's just lit right there.
What's up, it's your boy HD4President,
Mr. Bow Bow Bow and this is me
checking in with I Went Viral, wow!
♪ Bow, bow, bow ♪
The name of my viral song is Touch Down to Cause Hell.
It simply came from Boosie Badazz song,
Touch Down to Cause Hell that dropped around 2005, 2006.
I kind of took his same little lingo with the,
♪ Touch down to cause hell ♪
and I just added a different twist to it,
put a singing sound to it and just came from there.
I was chilling at the crib or something
and somebody sent me a link to TikTok
where the song was doing like 5,000 videos
every 10 to 15 minutes.
I thought I was tripping at first and I'm like,
I don't know.
So I went, clicked again, I looked,
and every few minutes it was like a couple thousand more.
Then I was like, dang, it caught me off guard.
So I called my manager like, hey,
the song's going crazy on TikTok,
which I didn't have a TikTok at the time.
So I didn't even know how to even work TikTok.
It was just crazy from the beginning
so I had to hurry up and go make a TikTok
and try to keep up (exploding) it was crazy.
I was already popping.
I had the four biggest records coming out in Louisiana
prior to Touchdown.
I had Can't Stop Jiggin,
which Touch Down actually came from.
The Bow Bow Bow was taken from my other song
that was a viral song called Can't Stop Jiggin.
That's where the Bow Bow Bow even came from.
And I had a song called Bow Bow Bow
and I had a song called Band Dance
and a song called Turn Me Up
was doing millions way before the Touch Down song.
It's crazy 'cause five months prior to me blowing up
with the Can't Stop Jiggin song,
me and Boosie was sitting on the back of his truck
and I told him I was like, hey,
I'm about to take off with this rap stuff.
He was like, what you about to do?
I was like, just meet me at the top.
And he was like, shoot, all right, bet.
So five months later I run into him,
we're in the studio making another song.
And he was like, man, HD told me
he was gonna do all this what he doing right now
and you know, we just went from there.
My name's very simple, really.
My nickname is Harpo from The Color Purple
so people call me Hop Dog for short
and they just started saying HD
instead of the whole Hop Dog.
And For President came from Mack Maine
who rap with Lil Wayne.
He had a song that was like, Mack Maine for President.
I just kinda took it from, way back then in like 2002,
kept using it, dropped the album called HD4President
in 2009 or 2010.
Girls started getting on shirts, everybody was streaming it
and I actually used to be class president
when I was in elementary school
so everything just really fell in place for me.
See, y'all heard the viral song
and y'all probably figured like, oh,
he make this kind of music,
but I'm more of a pop artist than anything.
I wanna work with Ed Sheeran, I wanna work with John Mayer,
Maroon 5 if I can ever get a chance.
It's a lot of people I want to work with.
A lot of people feel like,
you only made it 'cause you went viral.
They don't even know the backstory.
They don't know where you started.
They don't know 10, 15 years ago I was passing out CDs.
They don't know in 1999, I was walking around with tapes,
recording on tapes, selling tapes.
They don't know none of the backstory behind the artist.
They think you just went in the studio and got lucky
and the song just blew up on TikTok.
The girl, (speaking name),
she the one who created the dance
she was doing this in.
Walking and shaking or whatever.
If you go watch the original video that I made on Twitter,
I was doing this just 'cause I can't dance.
So I just be doing like that anyway.
But I never, ever try to go back and redo it.
I just posted every body's stuff.
Celebrities that did my challenge, man,
almost every celebrity you could think of.
Lizzo, Coi Leray, Jess Hilarious.
Man, Dr. Miami.
It's so many, I can't even name all of them.
My advice, I always believed in myself.
So when somebody was telling me
I needed to do something else or I shouldn't do this
or don't drop this song,
I was told by multiple people not to drop
Touch Down to Cause Hell.
And I disregarded everybody who was in my ear.
Like, y'all don't know what y'all talking about.
I'm gonna show y'all.
(hip hop music)
♪ Bow, bow, bow ♪