When Internet memes and the real world collide, magic happens. You can be forgiven for missing, a couple months ago, the Internet rounds of a jaw-dropping rap video by two previously unknown female MCs named Memphis Blac and Smokahontas Jones. It means you’re probably not trawling hip-hop gossip sites, which is too bad for you and your workday, but it can be forgiven.

The video for the song “Got Dat Work,” filmed right here in Miami, provoked dropped jaws and hundreds of comments for its, well, awfully frank portrayal of street prostitution. The song was a sort of streetwalker’s anthem, and the rappers appeared in the video with jewelry made creatively of Magnum condom wrappers.

It looked, at first, like a hot mess, but while I was still music editor at Miami New Times, one of our contributing writers managed to track the unheard-of artists down. It turns out they’re actually based in Dallas, and had filmed the video in Miami in January because they were here during the Super Bowl to make money.

Both Memphis Blac and Smokahontas Jones turned out to be 100 times smarter than most anonymous Internet commenters assumed. It was meant, they said, as a commentary, giving a female’s perspective on a business whose male point of view — the pimp’s — is otherwise always glorified in rap.

That’s all well and good, but they all had a certain flair for accessorizing and for giving insanely unforgettable sound bites. (Check the Miami New Times‘ best 100 quotes from their interview with the women here.) So how would it translate live?

The promoters of the local hipster-ish hip-hop/dubstep weekly Shake, at the Vagabond, helped us all find out. In an amazing booking, web art met life when Memphis Blac and Smokahontas Jones returned to Miami to bask in their Internet-created fame, in a club not too far from some of the streets where they filmed their video.

For more, read the Miami New Times review of the show.