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After Creed came out, it has become part of the English lexicon, more or less. Kinda like what Rocky did for "yo".
by dfxm12 7y ago
After Creed came out, it has become part of the English lexicon, more or less. Kinda like what Rocky did for "yo".
- moron4hire 7y agoI moved to Philly in 2008. It was around 2010 that my white, suburban friends started using "jawn" and acting like they had always been using it. By the time I left in 2012, I had not heard any other types of people else use it.
- fintler 7y agoAs someone who grew up in the area, I mostly recall it being used in the late 90s, then not really that often afterwards.
- novacole 7y agoI’ve been using Jawn since I was a child in the early 90s. I remember my grandfather who was born in the 30s using it.
- MisterOctober 7y agoyep -- first time I heard it was on Dj Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's "I'm All That" circa 1991. "...set my sights on making a record that people thought was a hype jawn." I was living in New England at the time and all the middle school kids [including me] started saying it shortly thereafter. We generally assumed it was a synonym for "joint" [as described in the linked article] in the sense of "unit of work," e.g. "A Spike Lee Joint" [p.s. for the record, "Homebase" is an outstanding LP that still sounds great today]