Gettin' at the essence

You already know I'm a glish-gangsta, right? I do what I want to the english language. I do what I want with the english language.

Me and the crew...especially my crew, would constantly makeup phrases and terms for random things. Back when niggas were saying things were "of the hook", we were saying things were "out da gate." We refered to men as "emcees" as opposed to "dudes" and we called white women "cavegirls" (I'm not neccessarily proud of the former, but whenever somebody drops it as an oldie-but-goodie, it brings the house down).

Anyways, yesterday's blog got me to thinking about the way we use adjectives and the ripples.

Over the past 5 years, we REALLY started using nefarious words as compliments. When I say we, I mean young people.

Now, this is nothing new. My Pops' generation called tings "bad". And RUN let you know that it was "bad meaning good." Nasty has been a compliment for a while. That's just how glish goes in the neighborhood.

But our generation has taken it a step furth. Now, things are "dangerous", things are "murder"...and on and on.

In keeping with yesterdays post, let's continue adding "est" to these. But let's also go one step further, if someone gets to such an insane level, that they embody the adjective.

Like, not only is Dwyane Wade the dangerousest nigga on the court, he's so dangerous, that I believe he embodies "danger"...so I'm just calling him Danger. But this spills over into other bowls...Elzhi is not a dangerous emcee, Elzhi is danger.

Pitchers stuff is called filthy...so my nigga Fransisco Liriano the Dominicano is filth. His stuff is so filthy, he's essentially filthy.

Eva Mendez is not sexy, she's more than that -- she's sex.

I'm feeling strong about this.