#GetDaBag

[Rembrandt Brown]

When did people start saying this?

I don't recall hearing it until a couple of months ago and now it is suddenly the dominant way of saying cash. The currency of "bag" as a way of referring to money is through the roof... I'm sure people were saying it before I noticed but it seems to be a popular bandwagon.
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Edited to add:

I hear a lot of NBA broadcasters saying it this year, I'd bet a tenfold increase over last year-- if the term was used at all.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

HOW OLD IS TOO OLD TO USE SLANG WORDS?

I remember the first time a young person used a word I had never heard before. I was 27 and hanging out with a friend and his teenage daughter. She called another girl “ratchet” and I was floored. How could a word be so widespread that it just slipped off her tongue, under the assumption that I would know it? Years and slang terms have come and gone since that day, and I’ve added many of them to my vocabulary, but “ratchet” will always stand between me and my youth.

A new survey asked people when someone is TOO OLD to use slang terms like “bae” and “hangry.” I would’ve voted for something like age 12, but they didn’t ask me.

The majority of people say you need to stop using slang terms when you hit 43. But one in four people think you need to stop when you’re 25.

The survey also found the slang terms we find the most annoying. And here are some of the highlights:

1. GOAT, which stands for “Greatest Of All Time.”

2. Bae, which people use instead of “baby” for their significant other.

3. Hangry, which means you’re so hungry you’re angry.

4. Fleek, which means “on point.”

5. Clap back, which is a slang way of saying “retort.”

See the video for this story here.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

HOW OLD IS TOO OLD TO USE SLANG WORDS?

For me, the distinction is new slang. Older cats (see what I did there?) will always use their era's slang because that's their authentic language. But older people adopting new slang like teenagers is weak IMO.

 

[Man_Of_STeeL]

i used the words i grew up usin'....

for instance...the term "THOT"...never caught on with me....i still call 'em "Hoes" or "Sluts"....even "Skeezers" or "Floosies"....

i try to keep up with the new slang...mainly so i can understand what people are talkin' about....

the only time...i incorporate new slang into my vocabulary...is if it's a relatively new phenomenon...and there's not a better or easier way of describin' the situation...

 

[Man_Of_STeeL]

Side Note...

i also cringe sometimes....when i hear an older person...try to use new slang...and use it INCORRECTLY...

i swore i would never do that...i don't think younger people respect that....

 

[theteacher]

I just hate people.​

 

[dasmybikepunk]

Cathartic vernacular, coping mechanism for poor people.

Young and dumb or older and trying to keep up with the trends, no matter the case when you hear that saying you know your dealing with people who have no clue what wealth is or how to get there.

When you here it simply know recall this reply and keep it to yourself because at the end of the day a fool and his/her money are easily parted, and saying "get the bag" is a very foolish statement.

 

[jack walsh13]

HOW OLD IS TOO OLD TO USE SLANG WORDS?

I remember the first time a young person used a word I had never heard before. I was 27 and hanging out with a friend and his teenage daughter. She called another girl “ratchet” and I was floored. How could a word be so widespread that it just slipped off her tongue, under the assumption that I would know it? Years and slang terms have come and gone since that day, and I’ve added many of them to my vocabulary, but “ratchet” will always stand between me and my youth.

A new survey asked people when someone is TOO OLD to use slang terms like “bae” and “hangry.” I would’ve voted for something like age 12, but they didn’t ask me.

The majority of people say you need to stop using slang terms when you hit 43. But one in four people think you need to stop when you’re 25.

The survey also found the slang terms we find the most annoying. And here are some of the highlights:

1. GOAT, which stands for “Greatest Of All Time.”

2. Bae, which people use instead of “baby” for their significant other.

3. Hangry, which means you’re so hungry you’re angry.

4. Fleek, which means “on point.”

5. Clap back, which is a slang way of saying “retort.”

See the video for this story here.

Never heard of #3.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Cathartic vernacular, coping mechanism for poor people.

Young and dumb or older and trying to keep up with the trends, no matter the case when you hear that saying you know your dealing with people who have no clue what wealth is or how to get there.

When you here it simply know recall this reply and keep it to yourself because at the end of the day a fool and his/her money are easily parted, and saying "get the bag" is a very foolish statement.

I don't think Patrick Beverly described his $40 million contract as a bag as a method of coping with poverty.

And I wouldn't be surprised if LeBron James used that slang, so it isn't a definite indicator of financial stupidity. (I wonder if Magic would at this point.)

Young doesn't necessarily equal dumb and athletes probably are more likely to embrace these sayings because they exist within a youth culture.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Never heard of #3.

I think that one is more of a white culture phrase than the others.

It is conventional wisdom that a lot of popular slang starts within black or minority communities and becomes more universal... Regardless of race, though (because even if a trend starts in your community, it is still a certain type of person looking to adopt the latest trend), the eagerness to follow indicates tendency toward being a follower that I just don't respect.

 

[jack walsh13]

I think that one is more of a white culture phrase than the others.

It is conventional wisdom that a lot of popular slang starts within black or minority communities and becomes more universal... Regardless of race, though (because even if a trend starts in your community, it is still a certain type of person looking to adopt the latest trend), the eagerness to follow indicates tendency toward being a follower that I just don't respect.

Fuck dem Honkies.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Fuck dem Honkies.

That's the kind of slang that is appropriate for the 55+ crowd.

 

[dasmybikepunk]

I don't think Patrick Beverly described his $40 million contract as a bag as a method of coping with poverty.

And I wouldn't be surprised if LeBron James used that slang, so it isn't a definite indicator of financial stupidity. (I wonder if Magic would at this point.)

Young doesn't necessarily equal dumb and athletes probably are more likely to embrace these sayings because they exist within a youth culture.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

There's no fool like an old fool!

 

[sharkbait28]

Side Note...

i also cringe sometimes....when i hear an older person...try to use new slang...and use it INCORRECTLY...

i swore i would never do that...i don't think younger people respect that....

"Hey fellow kids!"

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

@ dasmybikepunk vigorously embracing this subject, then getting his little fwellings hurt after I disproved him and one starring this thread and another of mine.

He strongly objects to da bag as a reference to anything other than his purse.

 

[tallblacknyc]

Get da bag or getting to da bag is a stripper term... Bag of money... Somehow this term has went widespread over the past several yrs

 

[veritech]

Get da bag or getting to da bag is a stripper term...

And is exactly why I will never use it. Shit sounds mad feminine.

 

[TimRock]

THOT is the worse term ever created.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Get da bag or getting to da bag is a stripper term... Bag of money... Somehow this term has went widespread over the past several yrs

Posted this on The Coli... The 0-24 demographic is repping much harder in that poll. The very first response:

 

[tallblacknyc]

Posted this on The Coli... The 0-24 demographic is repping much harder in that poll. The very first response:

Strippers were saying this b4 this track came out...lot of these rappers be around strippers.. Chicks always talking about bag this bag that, trying to get bag... Rappers be trying to get the female/stripper demographic using their terminology

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Strippers were saying this b4 this track came out...lot of these rappers be around strippers.. Chicks always talking about bag this bag that, trying to get bag... Rappers be trying to get the female/stripper demographic using their terminology

How far back would you date it? The kids at The Coli insisted it started with this song in 2017.

 

[tallblacknyc]

How far back would you date it? The kids at The Coli insisted it started with this song in 2017.

key word kids... I deal with strippers they been saying this term for yrs... It's a hoe term which means hoe dialect which is part of hoe logic , sorry to say I didn't put a time stamp on it cause I try to erase crappy terms from my memory... But this song was definitely way after the term was being used by strippers... In fact when I heard it I was like oh God they culture vulture stripper terms... It was obvious they were appeasing strippers... Notice broads are even throwing money around in the vid... They were catering to strip club culture

 

[850credit]

I first heard this term in a postgame interview by James Harden. He did some phenomenal shit and the guy asked how did he pull it off and James kept saying "That's in my bag, I had to go in my bag, erc....so I thought it was short for bag of tricks. Next thing I know I keep hearing about it in terms of money.

Just a sign of the times.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

I first heard this term in a postgame interview by James Harden. He did some phenomenal shit and the guy asked how did he pull it off and James kept saying "That's in my bag, I had to go in my bag, erc....so I thought it was short for bag of tricks. Next thing I know I keep hearing about it in terms of money.

Just a sign of the times.

Nah, that's some Austin Powers era slang he was using. "That's not my bag, baby."



in my bag
the act of being in your own world; focused; being in the zone; on your grind
I be in my bag when i get in the booth.

I got an exam coming up, it's time to go in my bag and study.
#in my bag#focus#in the zone#on my job#on the grind
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=in my bag

I guess that's a good example of how language is living and can be recycled... Same term, new era, new meaning.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Posted this on The Coli... The 0-24 demographic is repping much harder in that poll.

Results
Do you use the word "bag" to refer to money?

BGOL

No (Ages 25-34)
1 vote(s)
3.7%

Yes (Ages 35-44)
2 vote(s)
7.4%

No (Ages 35-44)
15 vote(s)
55.6%

Yes (Ages 45-54)
2 vote(s)
7.4%

No (Ages 45-54)
5 vote(s)
18.5%

No (Ages 55+)
2 vote(s)
7.4%

The Coli

Yes (Ages 0-24)
3 vote(s)
10.0%

No (Ages 0-24)
2 vote(s)
6.7%

Yes (Ages 25-34)
5 vote(s)
16.7%

No (Ages 25-34)
11 vote(s)
36.7%

Yes (Ages 35-44)
4 vote(s)
13.3%

No (Ages 35-44)
4 vote(s)
13.3%

Yes (Ages 55+)
1 vote(s)
3.3%​