A comedy “freestyle” has MC Quakez and Shakes freestyling over various beats. The ad libs used on Big Shaq’s return are used in a number of, if not most of UK Drill’s sound. This includes phrases including:

Trap trap trap
Hop out the four door
Skrr
On the road doing ten toes

The second verse went viral due to the ridiculous ad-libs sounds for a gun. This part of the video stars at 12:17 and since it starts with “The thing goes”, thus is the name of the meme. The trend is clearly shown in Google.

The meme spread mostly through Twitter and on September 4th, a Moments page was published.

UK comedian becomes a meme 😂 — Twitter

Michael Dapaah from London played the characters of MC Quakez and Roadman Shaq when he entered BBC Radio 1Xtra's Fire In The Booth session. Once viewers from across the world got a hold of it, his performances took on a life of their own.

This is not the first time a UK freestyle has gone viral, both comedy and non-comedic:

Devz Blackbox Freestyle with the famous:

Like who? What? What? What? Where?
Nah, what? Who? Who? Where?
Like where? Where? Where?
How did we get right there? Like nah, nah, nah

Roll Safe (R.S)’s Fire in the Booth:

I’m like listen, I don’t think you’re listening
I got this ting on my wrist and it’s glistening