17 Folks Who've Never Heard 'Strange Fruit'

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(The Root) — Kanye's sixth studio album, Yeezus, was released on Tuesday, but the Internet has been buzzing about it since it leaked last week. One song in particular, "Blood on the Leaves," made a particularly big splash. It samples Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit," a haunting song about the epidemic of lynching in the American South. My Twitter buddy @steenfox called my attention to an interesting phenomenon concerning this track.

As people do with their favorite songs, many on Twitter have been tweeting a portion of the song's refrain: "Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." The only problem is that a healthy helping of people have clearly never heard the original. There's no strange fruit hanging from their poplar trees — but their poppy trees, papa trees and popple trees are teeming.

Here are 17 people who have no idea what they're talking about.

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strange fruit hanging from the popping tree

— Stay In your Lane (@Anrkiss) June 18, 2013

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Strange fruit hanging from the popple trees

— Malik John (@thatwageO_O) June 18, 2013

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Strange fruit hanging from the poppa tree

— Defiant Dizzy Dice (@defiantdaniel) June 18, 2013

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A strange fruit hanging from the proper trees. Blood On The Leaves.

— Seed of Satan™ (@TheWorldFollows) June 18, 2013

How well known are these trees? RT @Sir_Tinii: Strange fruit hanging from the popular trees”

— Joseline Petrilleaux (@SheSeauxSaditty) June 17, 2013

Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist and blogger from Louisville, Ky.