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Since rising to national prominence in August 2015, a number of well-known celebrity hip hop artists have jumped on the bandwagon by dabbing on stage during live performances and in music videos, including Future, Rich the Kid and Metro Boomin, among many others. In response, Migos tweeted back at OG Maco saying that Flippa is part of the Migos family, which sparked a brief yet awkward exchange of subtweets between the labelmates throughout the day.

On August 6th, OG Maco tweeted a link to the XXLMag article and claimed that Skippa Da Flippa, another rapper signed with Quality Control Music, was the one that popularized The Dab, contrary to the article's citation of Migos as the pioneer of the dance.

On the day after the publication of XXLMag's article, a minor Twitter dispute arose between Migos and their labelmate OG Maco regarding the contentious issue of who came up with the Dab first. On August 5th, hip hop news site XXLMag also ran a similar article about 'The Dab' craze, crediting Migos as the inventors of the dance move.

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On July 28th, music news site The Fader reported on the emerging dance trend in an article titled 'I Can't Stop Watching These Videos Of Kids Dabbing In Atlanta,' which provided a description of the dance move and its brief history of origin, as well as a series of video examples that have been circulating on Instagram.

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On July 30th, YouTuber Malik The Martian uploaded another tutorial video in which Jay Pe$os demonstrates how to 'hit the dab' (shown below, right). On May 22nd, 2015, YouTuber T-Jay Hayes uploaded one of the earliest tutorial videos for 'The Dab' dance (shown below, left), racking up more than 2.3 million views within the first year. Y’all just called it the dab.” Spread Tutorials Meanwhile, Quavo of Migos further added to the confusion by stating that the dance wasn't even called 'dabbing' during its onset: In December 2015, the latter misinterpretation was most infamously put forth by rapper Bow Wow in a Facebook video, which similarly prompted online backlash and ridicule from others looped in the online hip hop communities. The name of the dance itself its etymology has also come under dispute In November 2015, a local FOX affiliate news station in South Carolina mistakenly reported that 'The Dab' was named after Clemson University's head football coach Dabo Swinney, which was quickly pointed out as an erroneous report by the readers, while many others jumped to the misassumption that 'The Dab' is a reference to the act of 'dabbing,' a homonymous slang term for an unrelated emerging trend of smoking high-concentrate hash oil.