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SONG LYRICS OR SAYINGS THAT HAVE GONE MAINSTREAM. What lyrics from either pop, R&B or rap music can you think of that became part of a national dialect? What popular sayings by an artist have found their way into everyday language?
I can think of a few:
Bobby Brown - It's my perrogative. Man people ran that into the ground but it was good to see a little known word get so much usage.
MC Hammer - You can't touch this. Another saying/lyric that people made part of their everyday language.
Ice Cube - Check yourself before you wreck yourself. One of my favs. I think I use it on old people.
Black Sheep - You can get with this or you can get with that. Hell they use it in that car commercial with the dancing hamsters. | |
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I remember Take This Job And Shove It by Johnny Paycheck, but it's a country song though. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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that counts a helluva lot. people have said "take [insert anything] and shove it" for some time now. | |
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I think Brittney's "Toxic" is popular song that became a "saying" so to speak. I've heard people talk a lot of toxic relationships but I can't tell if the term started with her or if she just picked up on it. I will give her credit for now. | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Everything Beyonce spewed has been spreading like the plague. Epidemic to the 8th power. | |
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Beyonce alone has contributed the following to our daily speak:
you must not know about me, i'm bootyliscious you buggaboo you betta say my name cuz a diva is the definition of a hustler but you have a big ego and all my single ladies know it..
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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After I stop laughing at "Fly Girl" (that was the JAM for a minute!
"Brick House" "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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)..."Party like it's 1999" "bling" "gettin' jiggy wit it"
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When I got my Master's back in 1999, the Governor at the time gave our Commencement address... She said: "As you all sit here... (blahblahblah)... you are gonna party like it's 1999!"
"Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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'I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one" "Age ain't nothing but a number" (not directly inspired by song, but whenever I hear it I think about Aaliyah's song...) "That girl is Bootylicious!!" (via Destiny's Child) Everybody is somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves. | |
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(via Jay-Z)Shake it like a Polaroid picture ~ OutKast {Hey Ya!} You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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she's a bad mamma jamma
I got five on it
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These might be a bit of a stretch, but they're all I can think of:
Still crazy after all these years
Don't worry be happy
Stevie Wonder's version of Happy Birthday
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