If you’re unfamiliar with automotive history, you might think that someone claiming to be “Audi 5000” meant that they’d be leaving in high-performance style, Alpines cranked and windows tinted. Burger King’s got decent fries but come on. Even then, why call someone “herb” instead of “punk-ass” or “dork” or “dickhead” or anything else with some actual venom to it? Origins point to that mid ’80s Burger King ad campaign that nobody gave a shit about, where spotting this actor playing a nerd named Herb at a BK meant you won something, like a spray-on- charcoal-tasting-ass Whopper or a bunch of money or whatever. Ironically, the somebody in question often turns out to be the person using that term, since it hasn’t been in widespread usage since the Esoteric/Def Jux beef. Herb Not to be confused with one of a billion different weed euphemisms, Homer Simpson’s bastard brother, or that one magazine for people who thought it was dope how Keith Murray got sampled on that one Chemical Brothers track, “herb” is a word used to denote somebody as a total cornball. We were out of cheese.” Or if I’m getting off the phone: “Alright, man. Um, outdated? Excuse me, but I ONLY refer to love making as “knockin’ da boots.” Also, sometimes I say it for ordinary things too, like, “Me? Oh, I’m not doing much, just up at this grocery story, knockin’ da boots in the dairy isle. All so you can distinguish a chickenhead from a skeezer.
#QUICK WORD RAP CRACK#
We gathered a crack team of rap mimes to determine the 25 greatest instances of rap slanguage. As “Blue Mamba,” Trey Kirby suggested, you could listen to Cash Money 1998-2002 and come up with a hundred of these. Slang is regional and national, different lexicons in almost every county. Rap and slang are as inextricable as Rush Limbaugh and dittoheads cholula and antacids.
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