Hey everybody!
I was hoping somebody could explain what Prince talks about in
Illusion coma pimp & circumstance
"as long as she provides chips& whips".
What does that expression means???
/peace Manki

chips means money, ie like chips you get at a casino.

i don't know what whips means.

mrdespues said:

Whips = Cars me thinks....

mrdespues said:

Right...

Chips = $ Money
Whips = Fancy cars

She was rich beyond compare, at first I thought he said "a bitch beyond compare"

manki said:

Whips usually refers to cars! (or material items. House, diamonds, ect.)

Wow whips refers to cars? I never knew that!

Guess I'm too kinky for my own good

chips= food
whips=cars
your lingo expert

money & cars... It doesn't get any easier then that people...


Early shout out happy b-day to Prince ( 6-7 )

chips= money
whips=cars

mochalox said:

Chips = money is easy enough, but how do you get Cars from Whips?

AsylumUtopia said:

b/c cars whip 'round corners.

backed up again

Whips = cars
Chips = $$$$

mochalox said:

Really ? It's a bit of a tenuous connection, don't you think ? I'd associate whips with bdsm, or even ice cream, but not with a car.

I'm assuming by the number of responses on this thread that it's a fairly widely used one as well, I'm just surprised I haven't heard it before. Given the amount of American tv we get to see over here I would have thought it was almost impossible to avoid hearing all the latest americanisationalisms.

AsylumUtopia said:

I don't know, I'm American and I've never heard it either?

it derives from Hip Hop music

AsylumUtopia said:

By all logic, you make perfect sense, but a 'whip' remains a synonym for a car. Call it 'hood logic.

TheBluePrince said:

I thought he was saying bitch too. Thanks for clearing this up.

AsylumUtopia said:

count me as another who didn't know...and here I go this mental pic of a silver haired ole lady crackin' a whip @ P's backside...

oh wait...that's Dansa puttin' images in my head again

The fact that he mentions the price of her her whip in the song makes me think that "chips and whips" merely refers to:

Chips: food
Whips: sex toys

What else does a man need? Not a bad trade for hipping her to the funk.

manki said:

it means prince is trying to connect with the same audience of the music he puts down. all yall hiphop fans know it's cars and cash.

17ways69days said:

Prince doesn't put down hip-hop so much as he puts down non-musicians. Unfortunately there are alot of non-musicians in hip-hop. He does respect hip hop artists with a wider range of musical ability like ?uestlove or Outkast. I think he's more annoyed by the Britney's of the music world who can't play and can barely sing.


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[This message was edited Tue Jun 1 9:20:40 2004 by Universaluv]

thewar said:

I thought maybe he was hungry and meant to say chips 'n' dips.

Well, my thanks to CoolDoc and Mochalox for explaining it to me. I did think that dropping a couple hundred thousand dollars on a silver sex toy was a tad excessive, even for someone rich beyond compare (or a bitch beyond compare, whichever you prefer).

Well, now that I have a new word in my vocabulary I'm going to use it.
My whip is 14 years old and is overdue it's NCT (National Whip Test). I know it's going to fail....Which means it's useless - I won't be able to sell it without an NCT Cert. Maybe I should give it to Prince for his birthday. He'll have to collect it though.

hey it could have been worse: "chix 4 dix"

17ways69days said:

Just out of curiousity, anyone know what particular hip hop song that came from? I consider myself a hip hop fan--though not what I'd call a hardcore one--and I'd never heard that phrase before...just wondering where it came from (and what "whip" has to do with a car)?

MendesCity said:

The term "whips" been out for a pretty long time. You can hear Master P or the Cash Money crew refer to cars as "whips" in their recent albums. Dirty South rappers use the term a lot more though.

AsylumUtopia said:

Sorry a "whip" typically refers to a nice looking car. What you've described is a hooptie.

Universaluv said:

don't trip AU, I'm about to lose my whip, so Gawd bless the child that's got it's own...

mochalox said:

If I don't get some more chips to upgrade my poor whip, I'm going to flip!

okaypimpn said:

That's nicely put.