Who Started The "Swag" Movement In Hip Hop?

[SpacelySprockets]

The actual word swag was popularized by dipset around like 06-08(popularized, NOT invented).. then different rappers just kept mentioning the word swag in various songs and it caught on..

at nikkas saying lil b or soulja boy, there was so many songs talking about swag before lil b got popular or pretty boy swag came out

 

[MINT]

Me tbh

 

[Steezy]

lil b

 

[MINT]

yeah lil b or soulja boy

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

it was Lil B. And if you say otherwise your just a hater.

lil b

yeah lil b or soulja boy

 

[King Biko]

If you mean the way that the "swag" music sounded its either gotta be rocko or young la and j money

 

[Mac Casper]

its funny now hearing older songs that say swag or swagger....

same as hearing songs pre-Lil Jon talking about gettin crunk...

just know that once a term reaches the mainstream its already been run into the ground

or songs post-Mac Dre talking about getting hyphy

 

[ThugLife]

I know swag was always apart of hip hop but who was it that actually popularized the term and style and made it a mainstream thing?

I'd say the diplomats were the precursors to the swag movement, but it seems like something that would've started in cali, like the bay or something

listen here man

yesssssssssss

basedgod lets teach dis nikkas bout the 6Fold Path to Based yessssss

Only the Probased demigod task force captain *66* Brandon McCartney aka that pretty bytch lil b can grasp the based elixir and remember all the rare secrete verses from basednam and basedworld while facin 36 and hittin 40 licks with 50 bytches on his dikk

thats why we gotta protect the Basedgod at all costs

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

is this really being debated?

dipset blew all this swag chit up, and a lot of other stuff that some people don't want to give them credit for, because the TV doesn't tell them to.

its an old word but dipset started the swag phenomenon in hip-hop.

 

[itsyoung!!]

Jay-Z said swag and explained it on PSA in 03

people been sayin Swag since the 70s and 80s bruh better go watch some old pimp movies

 

[KEEPITTRILLA]

people been sayin Swag since the 70s and 80s bruh better go watch some old pimp movies

no

 

[Jone2three45]

New Boyz were the first fags I seen on TV in skinny jeans with snapbacks and all that shyt these kids wear now. The whole jerk movement started this bright color extra tight bullshyt IMO.

I thought it was Lil' B and The Pack?

 

[Calmye]

Dip Set started that shyt. Then lil wayne ran with it

 

[jerzboy]

Swag has always been around, even since my parents days. For the new generation though, Cam and Dip Set are def four fathers for a lot of what you see today.

 

[osama bin fly]

The-Coli would do anything to dikkride Dipset

Lil B clearly started it