Shut up.
Generations have a way with changing the definition to fit their concept.
High? The songs called tipsy. And he was getting lit in the party context which is the same way the word is used today.
Q.E.D. J-Kwon made 'lit' popular.
Hating ass nikka.
Okay.
partying hard means getting drunk and high and has always meant that.
blitzed has meant getting drunk and high.
J-Kwon popularized lit as a derivative of blitzed
i.e. Lit == drunk high == partying hard
How old are you??
Okay.
Keep thinking that lit derived from blitz
Edit:J Kwon made lit popular the same way he made ratchet popular..
Using fans from Twitter to try and validate to your statement doesnt make it fact, my guy.Who said anything about J-Kwon making ratchet popular? I never said that.
I said 'lit'.
Now unless you can cite a better example than the #2 song in the world in 2004, I got you beat dummy.
If he was using the term incorrectly as it is used today the man wouldn't be getting credited with popularizing it.
Pack up your loss and leave.
Using fans from Twitter to try and validate to your statement doesnt make it fact, my guy.
You having to even search twitter for randoms and post them like they are authorities on rap and slang to help with your argument, actually helps my argument.
I already said it was a GENERATIONAL aspect as well.
The term LIT was ALWAYS used to describe getting high and morphed into partying with the social media age.
But you cant see that cuz all you wanna believe is J Kwon made the word popular.
And in all honesty, nobody was using the term heavily until years later after J Kwon fell off the map.
I know what the argument is.You don't even know what it is you're trying to argue. You just wanna argue.
Pathetic.
Mack 10 speakin on getting "lit" i.e. high in 1997
I know what the argument is.
But you really dont.
Lit has meant to get high/drunk
Try debating the dictionary, brehs.
Considered yourself sonned and educated.
Mack 10 speakin on getting "lit" i.e. high in 1997
It's Lit
If you watched the Olympics and were on Twitter, you likely know that comedian Leslie Jones was posting her own commentary. The universal consensus: Leslie’s commentary was lit.
'Lit' has been a slang term meaning "intoxicated" for over a century. More recently, it has acquired the meaning "exciting," as well as a broader meaning along the lines of "excellent."
The slang lit has a long history. Its earliest meaning is “intoxicated,” and that shows up in English as far back as the 1910s:
We walked into the vamp's house. We all got lit and had a hell of a time. —John McGavock Grider, War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator, 1918
This particular use of lit comes from the original use of lit to refer to something that is illumined or has light shining on it (from the past tense of the verb light). It sounds like a semantic stretch, but it’s not: lit and lit up are often used to refer to the look on someone’s face when they are suddenly made happy by something, and there’s no denying that many people feel or look similarly happy when under the influence.
Though the “drunk” meaning of lit has a pedigree stretching back over a century, it is still considered slang: it doesn’t have the same sort of all-purpose use that drunk does, and it still shows up generally in very informal settings, like speech and rap lyrics. In fact, the “intoxicated” sense of lit has had a resurgence of use among a new generation of youth thanks in no small part to rap.
Rap has also given us a new meaning of lit. In the last ten or so years, lit has transitioned from being applied to the act of intoxicating ("gonna get lit") to the environment of those who are lit ("party's lit"). The wildness of such parties has led to lit gaining the meaning “exciting,” as well as a broader meaning along the lines of “excellent” (“Leslie Jones's commentary on the Olympics was lit"). We have evidence of the “exciting” and “excellent” meanings way back to 2004, and earlier use is likely—slang is often spoken long before it’s written down. This extended meaning of lit is a favorite on social media like Twitter:
The bolded is all you had to read.
Didn't read, I gave you an etymology lesson two posts back, and now I gotta block you.
It’s mostly his fault frNikka can't even get verified on Instagram.
A shame what the industry did to Sauce Walka but he partly brought it on himself
He didn't invent those 3, other rappers in the city were using them already. He was just the one to bring them to the mainstream.
never said he invented them. thread is rappers who made slang popular.
