Rob Base would be food in these streets today.

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Now I can finally ask this question:

What the fukk is cess?

The good Brehs covered this question but I came to correct one thing.

Won't FESS wear bullet proof vest.

Not "flex".

Here's where it gets tricky for me. I don't know what the fukc "fess" means, but I have heard it many many times in old school rap songs. Shante said she needs a man who will never "fess" in a bar.

Maybe short for "confess"?

Nobody ever called vagina "cock".

Please get out of my thread.

The good Brehs also gave a lesson on this slang also. But yeah, my country ass cousin was saying cock to mean puzzy well into the 2000s. He would argue that the woman "cocks" her legs open.
 

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Back during that era The Jamaicans and Rastas that I used to hang around with in two states used to pronounce sinsemilla weed sess for short.

Story time.

Back in the 80s I was living on Miami Beach doing construction work. My co-worker buddy from Philly asked me to take him over to Liberty City, Miami to do some business. Breh was down with the The Nation of Yahweh/ Black Hebrew Israelites at the time.

We go into an abandon apartment in the old Pork n Beans projects on NW62nd St taken over by some Rastas that were selling wholesale weed. I have never seen so many large garbage bags filled with weed. Maybe 20 or 30 bags of them just in the area we were in. Anyway, moving along they were getting ready to do their Friday night Sabbath prayers and read some old testament scriptures so me and the homie from Philly took our shoes off and joined the worship cycle. Afterwards they were kicking the knowledge and wisdom about life and Babylon and other interesting bs.

One of the Rastas jumps up and just had issues with me being in the set and started ranting in patois and wanted to go into the closet grab a gat and gat me. I stayed cool as ice and didn't get shook. Maybe he thought I was the feds because I was clean-cut and didn't have dreadlocks.

Moving along an Jamerican breh from D.C. nicknamed Jabou told him to sit his azz down, these our my guests and I stand on it. he complied. Homie from Philly picked up a few ounces of sinsemilla and gave me one. The high lasted for hours with no paranoia or drowsiness. Jabou came over to the Beach one day after that to chill out and apologized for the stress incident.

I took some of that pkg back home to Conn on a plane before TSA and shared some with one of my sister-in-laws and her friends. Everybody said it was the best herb they ever had in life!

Now y'all know what that "I can't stand sess" bar means. It comes from the Islands and Streets over here. 😉
 

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Today we learned about the slang terms, cock, fess, and sess.
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I just remember going home on leave in summer 1997 and it was a local local rapper having a concert and Rob Base was his opener. I was always trippin off that. Like this dude has a national hit that still kinda gets played today. And Mr. Coop, who was the local act is still at home on the block in a 79 Oldsmobile. He did have another local hit in 2000 called " Shake the Sugar off the Honeybun"
 

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Won't FESS wear bullet proof vest.

Not "flex".

Here's where it gets tricky for me. I don't know what the fukc "fess" means, but I have heard it many many times in old school rap songs. Shante said she needs a man who will never "fess" in a bar.

Maybe short for "confess"?
In the first context, it meant 'lie/front'. The second was a contraction of 'confess'.

Example of First Instance:

And she takes to my rap
'Cause my rap's the best
The Educated Rapper M.D. will never fess


~Educated Rapper, Roxanne, Roxanne (1984)


Example of Second instance:

Now I gotta fess up, and tell the truth
She even knows about the phone calls at the phonebooth
Damn!
Who's the little forked-tongue critter
Who told her I knocked the boots of the babysitter?


~King Sun, Snakes (1988)
 

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It's weed. But depending on who you ask it has different meanings. Sess is either another name for weed or for Sensimilia. Cess can also be referred to bad weed.
It was never 'bad weed' around here and was often compared equally to Hydro.....

So when I speak, yo, I don't be bluffin'
I be puffin' on high-powered cess blunts
I don't try to front
Or back away from a challenge, I'm game


~Chill Rob G., Let the Words Flow (1989)​
 
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