“They call me Dope Francis”: Twitter goes nuts imagining the pope freestyling on the mic

A new photo of Pope Francis speaking in Africa over the weekend has resurrected #PopeBars, a hashtag last seen in April whereby people tweet-spit papal-inspired rhymes. It's always hard to track where a meme begins, but the hashtag appears to have started (aptly) with "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda: https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status... https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status... National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates ran with it: https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/st... https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/st... https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/st... And now, the great flood: https://twitter.com/VikkieNotVicky/st... https://twitter.com/ChambersFineArt/s... https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/st... https://twitter.com/AndrewBloch/statu... https://twitter.com/petermanseau/stat... https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/stat... https://twitter.com/FeministaJones/st... https://twitter.com/NicoSaysThings/st... new photo of Pope Francis speaking in Africa over the weekend has resurrected #PopeBars, a hashtag last seen in April whereby people tweet-spit papal-inspired rhymes. It's always hard to track where a meme begins, but the hashtag appears to have started (aptly) with "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda: https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status... https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status... National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates ran with it: https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/st... https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/st... https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/st... And now, the great flood: https://twitter.com/VikkieNotVicky/st... https://twitter.com/ChambersFineArt/s... https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/st... https://twitter.com/AndrewBloch/statu... https://twitter.com/petermanseau/stat... https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/stat... https://twitter.com/FeministaJones/st... https://twitter.com/NicoSaysThings/st... new photo of Pope Francis speaking in Africa over the weekend has resurrected #PopeBars, a hashtag last seen in April whereby people tweet-spit papal-inspired rhymes. It's always hard to track where a meme begins, but the hashtag appears to have started (aptly) with "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda: https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status... https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status... National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates ran with it: https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/st... https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/st... https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/st... And now, the great flood: https://twitter.com/VikkieNotVicky/st... https://twitter.com/ChambersFineArt/s... https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/st... https://twitter.com/AndrewBloch/statu... https://twitter.com/petermanseau/stat... https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/stat... https://twitter.com/FeministaJones/st... https://twitter.com/NicoSaysThings/st...

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