Hit the Road Dude Song: What the Sound Is and How to Use It

There is no "hit the road dude" song. The sound everyone uses is spoken dialogue from a real TikTok posted on August 21, 2025, in which an older man in a white pickup tells someone fishing on his pond that "this ain't no state property, this is private property". Nobody sings in it, and it has nothing to do with "Hit the Road Jack". To post with it, open a video that uses the sound, tap the sound, and choose to use it in your own video.

Where the audio comes from

The clip was filmed on a phone by the person fishing. A man pulls up in a white pickup, leans out of the window and asks who told him he could fish there. The angler says he thought it was state property. The driver repeats "State?" in disbelief, then delivers the line that became the meme: "Hit the road, dude. This ain't no state property. This is private property."

According to Know Your Meme, the video passed 13.7 million views in roughly three weeks. People started lip-dubbing it within days, and by early September 2025 it had also become a green-screen template.

The full recording is longer than most edits. After the "private property" line, the driver asks for the angler's name so he can find out who gave him permission, and at one point he recounts a phone call in which someone said to "lock 'em up". That is why the same audio is known by two names: State Property for the first half and Lock 'Em Up for the second.

For the full exchange line by line, see the hit the road dude meme: origin, full lines and meaning.

Which sound do people use on TikTok?

There isn't one official sound. On TikTok, a sound is attached to each post, and when you reuse it, it keeps the name of the post it came from. The dialogue now lives in many sounds, each cut slightly differently.

A few things are useful to know:

• The original post isn't the usual source. In the version embedded on Know Your Meme, the original upload is tagged with a short library sound rather than with its own "original sound", so most people reuse the dialogue from later posts instead.
• Early lip-dubs became sounds of their own. The earliest known meme, a lip-dub posted on August 24, 2025 by @130zay, is credited as "original sound" on that post, and several of the videos Know Your Meme collected run on it.
• "Lock 'em up" has separate sounds. A green-screen edit posted on August 31, 2025 cut out the "lock 'em up" part, and that clip spread as its own sound.

So the practical answer is: find a video with the cut you want, from "State?" to "private property" or the "lock 'em up" part, and use that sound. A sound's page on TikTok shows how many videos use it, which is a quick way to pick a popular one.

Is there a song or a remix?

We could not find a released song built from the clip, on TikTok or elsewhere. What exists are edits that reuse the dialogue over new pictures. Meme.com's timeline lists, among others:

• "Hit the road Dewd", posted on September 6, 2025
• A "Space property" version, posted on October 13, 2026
• A Minecraft boat edit, posted the same day
• Skyrim and Harry Potter versions, posted on October 14, 2026

These are video edits, not songs. If you hear music under the dialogue in a video, the creator added it. Search TikTok or YouTube for "state property" or "hit the road dude" with "remix" or "edit" to find them; uploads like these come and go, so there is no single version to point to.

It isn't "Hit the Road Jack"

"Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by Percy Mayfield. Ray Charles' recording, with Margie Hendrix of the Raelettes, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1961. The meme only shares the phrase "hit the road", which simply means "leave". If you want the meme, search for the meme's own words, not the song title.

How to post a video with the sound

Each app lets you reuse a sound from someone else's post. Menu names change from time to time, but the steps are roughly:

• TikTok: On a video with the sound, tap the spinning record or the sound name at the bottom. On the sound's page, tap Use this sound, then record or upload your clip.
• Instagram Reels: Tap the audio name at the bottom of a reel, then Use audio.
• YouTube Shorts: Tap the sound at the bottom of a Short, then Use this sound.

Two tips:

• If your video already has the dialogue in it, don't stack a second copy on top. Post it with its own audio, or turn the added sound down to zero, so the lines don't play twice.
• Line up the beats. "State?" and "hit the road, dude" are the moments people wait for. If you are lip-dubbing, trim the sound so it starts just before the driver's first line.

A video with the sound already in it

If you want to be the driver rather than lip-dub, the hit the road dude generator makes a version of the AI clip with your photo in the driver's seat and the meme's audio already merged in, timed so the driver says "hit the road, dude" at the same moment as in the meme. The driver's mouth moves with the lines, though it is not word-for-word lip sync.

There are three versions to choose from:

• Orange cat · 15 s, wide: the angler's excuse, "State?", "hit the road, dude" and the demand for a name.
• Orange cat · Full 30 s, vertical: the whole scene, ending with the driver writing the name on a notepad. Best for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
• Bulldog · 11 s, wide: the shortest cut.

None of them includes the "lock 'em up" part. Any version works with a photo of you, your cat or your dog; if you are looking for the "this is private property" version, it is the same meme. Download the MP4 and post it as it is, since the sound is already in the file. Prices are on the pricing page, and the step-by-step guide covers which photo to use.