Posted byAriana GrandeonTuesday, August 9, 2016 Dopehas even made its way into Kpop onBTS’s2015 single “Dope,” in which the band boasts about being the slang term. Despite the appropriation, it still sees plenty of use in Black culture. For example, comedians Jessica Williams and Phoebe...
Rappers started using the worddopeto mean “excellent” by the 1980s, which we can find in the lyrics of hip-hopOG‘s Busy Bee and Grandmaster Flash. Some linguists call this process of changing a term with negative connotations into positive ones “inversion.” We see it in other slang ...