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"Bling-bling" is a hip hop slang term which refers to expensive jewelry and other accoutrements, and also to an entire lifestyle built around excess spending and ostentation. According to the Urban Dictionary [1], "bling bling" is originally Jamaican slang, referring to the imaginary chime sound produced from a diamond reflecting light often used in animated cartoons. The term is thought to be derived from the onomatopoeia of a visual effect used to denote light glistening off metal or jewels. In Britain this is usually called simply "bling", and is associated with chav culture. album cover from the B.G.s Chopper City In The Ghetto File links The following pages link to this file: Bling bling ...
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History
Popularization of term "Bling-bling" was popularized as a slang term within hip-hop after the success of "Bling Bling"it was also popularised by icedoutgear now called www.rocksofice.com in 2000, who brought the culture onto the doorstep of every british teenager. a 1999 hit hip-hop song by The B.G., featuring his Cash Money Records labelmates Juvenile, Lil' Wayne, Turk, Baby, and Mannie Fresh. The song, and its many follow-ups from the label, popularized not only the term, but a way of life based upon showing off expensive clothes, cars, homes, and even false teeth. Many gangsta rap videos had been glorifying such excess since the mid-1990s, and by the early 2000s, "bling-bling" was established as the descriptor of the phenomenon. Jump to: navigation, search 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search The cover to B.G.s album Chopper City in the Ghetto, which features his biggest hit, Bling Bling. The B.G. (short for The Baby Gangsta or B. Gizzle, born Christopher Dorsey in 1980 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an African-American rapper. ...
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Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop music which involves a lyrical focus on the lifestyles of inner-city thugs, criminals and gangsters. ...
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Criticism Mainstream hip hop music's fixation on bling bling and other material and luxury goods has led to much criticism from media pundits and musical critics. They charge that the phenomenon promotes consumerism and materialism, and strengthens false racist arguments that young African American men are incapable of higher or more virtuous or spiritual goals than material gain. Jump to: navigation, search Hip hop music is a style of popular music. ...
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Some of the most vocal critics of "bling bling"-oriented music are alternative hip hop artists. An example of this is the group Dead Prez, from "Hip Hop" [2]: Alternative hip hop is a style of hip hop music distinguished by beats, samples, and lyrics that differ from the general template of popular commercial hip hop. ...
Dead Prez Dead Prez is the pair of largely-underground alternative rappers, Sticman and M-1. ...
- All y'all records sound the same
- I'm sick of that fake thug, R&B-rap scenario, all day on the radio
- Same scenes in the video, monotonous material
- Y'all don't hear me though
- These record labels slang our tapes like dope
- You can be next in line and signed; and still be writing rhymes and broke
- You would rather have a Lexus or justice? a dream or some substance?
- A Beamer? a necklace? or freedom?
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Later use of the term The extreme proliferation of the term into the early 2000s inevitably lead to a degrading of its hipness value. With MTV itself even releasing a satirical cartoon commercial in 2004 showing the term being used by a rapper, then several other progressively less "streetwise" characters, then finally by a middle aged white woman who uses the term to describe her earrings to her elderly mother. It ends with the deadpan declaration: "RIP Bling-bling 1997-2004". The clip thus simultaneously recognizes the term's once attainment of an unusual level of popularity while cleverly underscoring the term's perceived aspect of "tiredness" in the current youth culture. Today, it is rare to find a mainstream rapper who uses the term in anything but a sarcastic or joking manner. Jump to: navigation, search MTV (abbreviation for Music Television) is a cable television network which was originally devoted to music videos, especially popular rock music. ...
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Several Cadillac Escalade billboards and magazine advertisments used the phrase "Bling Bling" to promote the expensive vehicle. 2003 Cadillac Escalade EXT Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Cadillac Escalade The Escalade is a large sport utility vehicle (or SUV) sold by the General Motors luxury brand, Cadillac. ...
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary added "Bling-bling" as a new entry in its fifth edition (2002). The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, is a scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary. ...
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