What Is the Hotel Lobby Trend? The Orange Booth Rap Duet
The Hotel Lobby trend is an AI rap duet on TikTok, also called the Quavo and Takeoff AI video. The name is a 2022 song title, and no hotel appears.
The Hotel Lobby trend is an AI video format that spread on TikTok in September 2026. A mic hangs in an orange booth, two characters stand on either side, and they trade rap lines. The characters can be friends, pets, paintings or cartoons.
What happens in a Hotel Lobby video, beat by beat
These four frames come from a 10-second sample on ImgAI with two cats.
0-4sMedium shot. The two face each other across the hanging mic. The one on the right raps first and points at the camera.
4-6sCut to a front close-up. The one on the left raps to the camera while the one on the right rubs both paws together, counting money.
6-7sThe one on the right lifts a wrist and checks a watch.
8-10sWide shot. Both stand on a yellow platform under the mic, and a raised arm ends it.
The booth holds three things. An orange backdrop, one mic hanging from above, and a yellow platform in the wide shot. The point at the camera, the money count and the watch check stay the same when the cast is two paintings or two cartoon characters.
This is a sample made by our team, not a result from a user.
See the three Hotel Lobby AI video samples
Why it is called Hotel Lobby when there is no hotel
Hotel Lobby is the title of a song, not a location. No hotel lobby appears in the video, only an orange booth.
On TikTok the same meme goes by a few other names. Quavo and Takeoff AI video, Unc and Phew, and sometimes just Migos. Searching any of them leads to the same kind of video.
The song Hotel Lobby and where the orange booth comes from
The full title is Hotel Lobby (Unc & Phew). Quavo and Takeoff released it under the name Unc & Phew on May 20, 2022.
In June 2022 the two performed the song on A COLORS SHOW. The orange backdrop, the single hanging mic and the two standing side by side are how that performance looked.
The AI versions appeared on TikTok in September 2026, with other characters standing at the mic. On September 23, Quavo reposted the video of that performance on social media.
Make a Hotel Lobby AI video from two photos
On ImgAI you upload two photos. The first stands left and the second stands right. The default is a 10-second, 16:9 video with sound.
The song Hotel Lobby is not in the video. The beat, the words and the voices are generated new each time. Left empty, the two battle over who raps better, and you can set your own topic and language. ImgAI is not affiliated with Quavo, Takeoff, COLORS or their label.
For choosing photos and setting left and right, read how to make a Hotel Lobby AI video. Use only photos of yourself or of adults who agreed. Children, celebrities and public figures are not supported.
