prove it, give me evidence of the word being used prior to 2013. but more importantly, who cares? it didn't take off nationally until rappers put it in songs, right or wrong?
On the first point, King Louie talked about the word's origin in a DJ Vlad interview. Two the second point, yes, like most of our slang, it has been shared through music.
okay, that's your hood. big rims were pretty popular in california. to the point where we had plenty of rent--a-rims shops.
You that that's just your hood then bring up California when you all are less than 10% of blacks in the US.
and that would be alright if they were buying from black owned businesses. instead of buying whatever these walking promos tell them to buy.
Problem is there would still be buying their self esteem like they've always had even before the music.
i really don't know what you're trying to debate. blacks didn't fukk with "white drugs" like molly until it got the rap cosign. just like nikkas dont fukk with shrooms or lsd now--but let a handful of rappers make it hot, and nikkas will be tripping balls.
Yet I know people who have before hand.
Californian blacks are less than 10% of blacks in America, y'all ain't the world.
i can't bring you anything definitive because there is no stats on how much has been spent on luxury clothes. what is known is blacks spend over 500 billion every year on depreciating assets.
The trillion dollar spending power also includes mortgages, student loans, bills, and necessities, etc
i never claimed most people are drinking lean, you keep with strawmans. i'm saying nikkas wouldn't even be touching the shyt if it rappers didnt promote it. further more, i dont know where you get your prices. 1oz is 10 bucks on the streets out here. you can get a pint for 160.
You said nikkas are doing it yet now it isn't most. nikkas ain't everyone and don't represent black people.
oh word? heavy promotes killing white men and doing selling drugs?
how about you list a few songs.
we're not talking about movies, we're talking about music.
Black Sabbath - Snow Blind
Megadeth - Use The Man
Alice In Chains - Hate to Feel
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Motorhead - White Line Fever
Queensryche - The Needle Lies
Neil Young -Needle And Damidge Done
Guns N' Roses - Mr. Brownstone
Ozzy - Suicide Solution
Alice In Chains - Use Me
TON - White Slavery
Savatage - 'Agony and Ecstasy't
Chine White - Chine White
WASP - Cocain Cowboys
A Lesson in Violence - Exodus
Let Us Slay - Gwar
Good Mourning/Black Friday - Megadeth
Dead Skin Mask - Slayer
213 - Slayer
Psychopathy Red - Slayer
Show No Mercy - Slayer
Murder Fantasies - Kreator
Kill Again - Slayer
Death By Hanging - Heathen
Beyond the Pale - Exodus
The Ballad of Leonard and Charles - Exodus
Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer) - Exodus
.44 Magnum Opus - Exodus
Mad Butcher - Destruction
Angel of Death - Slayer
Murders In The Rue Morgue - Iron Maiden
The Ripper - Judas Priest
Loved To Death - Megadeth
Holy Wars/The Punishment Due - Megadeth