ITT you explain this new slang term "whip" to me.

[samoth]

Who started this whip = car thing? Is this a trendy, regional thing, or should I incorporate this into my vocabulary? The term "yo" only gets me so far nowadays.

TYIA.

 

[KillahBee]

lol at new.

 

[samoth]

lol at new.

It takes a while for slang to reach Wisconsin from the coasts, where I'm guessing it originates from rappers who have no prior mastery of the english language.

 

[puddlemonkey]

It takes a while for slang to reach Wisconsin from the coasts, where I'm guessing it originates from rappers who have no prior mastery of the english language.

lol@mastery

 

[jh1]

Whip is a term for car, correct.

It's been arounda while from the whole hip hop scene...

 

[samoth]

Whip is a term for car, correct.

It's been arounda while from the whole hip hop scene...

Okay, but why does whip = car? And around what year did this term come about?

Whip:

Car:

Where's the correlation?

 

[Raptorex]

Where's the correlation?

 

[samoth]

Is that from statistics? That summation still doesn't tell me what the hell a whip has to do with a car.

 

[nimbus]

so what do y'all think about this "music television"?

 

[redguru]

looks like he is trying to find the correlation coefficient, which in this case is -j