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If you haven’t already, be sure to read Nitsuh Abebe’s latest piece for New York Magazine, “Why Miley Cyrus’s ‘Party in the U.S.A.’ Became the Osama Bin Laden Death Anthem”. As Abebe points out, there are a number of ways by which to measure the song’s zeitgeistiness, among them being the fact that one of the comments on the YouTube video (“LIKE THIS COMMENT IF WATCHING THIS VIDEO IS LITERALLY THE FIRST THING YOU DID AFTER YOU LEARNED OSAMA WAS DEAD.”) received 151 “likes”. Without taking anything away from Abebe’s analysis, I just wanted to point out that one comment on the above video, Three 6 Mafia’s “Bin Laden Weed,” currently has 172 likes. The comment in question? ”BIN LADEN IS DEAD, BUT WE CAN STILL SMOKE EM.” Just trying to ensure Three 6 get their due, especially after their offhand reference to a seldom-used bit of street terminology took on an unexpectedly literal bent yesterday.