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Chance the Rapper tweeted ‘WALA’ and Pinoys had the best response

Chance the Rapper is at it again after his popular “Pero like” had the Filipino Twitter thinking he suddenly became a Pinoy conyo.

The Grammy-award winning singer and songwriter recently released a new song called “Wala Cam”. Before releasing the song, he teased everyone with a tweet that says “WALA” and naturally, Filipinos had the best response.

In Filipino, the word “Wala” means “nothing” and Rico Blanco thought it’s best to put an emphasis to it.

Others decided to reference an iconic line from the movie “Anak”.

And due to persistent heavy rainfall over the past few days, some took the rapper’s tweet as an opportunity to clarify class suspensions.

Or bring up this gold local meme.

Some people felt attacked by the musician’s tweet.

Others couldn’t help but relate it to Parokya Ni Edgar’s “The Ordertaker”.

And Sandwich’s “Betamax” that even Raymund Marasigan joined the fun!

Chance’s tweet quickly became a meme for Pinoy conversations Twitter.

And now we have the crossover we never thought we needed.

 


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