Hip Hop XMas Mashup Hashtag Reimagines Holiday Favorites

The temperatures outside may not be reaching their usual Christmas-time depths, but Twitter users are in the holiday spirit, as the hashtag #HipHopXmasMashup has started trending this morning. As is typical with such hashtags, people are combining holiday staples like songs and characters with either hip-hop lyrics, acts or tropes. Some are naturally more clever than others, with the most common source material being Drake's "Hotline Bling."

Other riffs include turning Kanye West's hit into "Coal Digger" and the Sugar Hill Gang classic into "Wrappers Delight." Scroll below to see some of the best puns and mashups used for the ongoing trend.

On its own, hip-hop has long welcomed the Christmas spirit, most recently with 2 Chainz combining the dabbing craze with traditional ugly Christmas sweaters to make the popular Dabbin Santa sweater. 2 Chainz is also turning the Dabbing Santa phenomenon into a mobile game.

Fetty Wap meanwhile released a Christmas song titled "Merry Xmas" with frequent collaborator Monte. The track joins Run DMC's "Christmas in Hollis," Kanye West's "Christmas in Harlem" and Lucarcris's "Ludacrismas" as festive rap tunes that celebrate Santa's day.

While the HipHopXmasMashup hashtag likely finds humor in the juxtaposition between two disparate things — hip-hop and Christmas — we see no need reason why the two shouldn't always coexist. Last year, XXL tapped Rich Homie Quan to do a little hip-hop-xmas mash-up of our own as the rapper sung holiday favorites "Silent Night," "Jingle Bells" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

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