A toddler introduced me to the video below:

And as we did the hand dance to the infectious chorus, I realized that I knew this song. The chorus comes from Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Paradise:

i said a hip hop the hippie the hippie
to the hip hip hop, a you don’t stop
the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie
to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat

And is, in fact a Spanglishization of the lyrics, creating nonsense:

Aserejé ja de je de jebe
tu de jebere seibiunouva majavi
an de bugui an de güididípi

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