![]() ![]() Turnt is similar to the word crunk, also slang for “being excited” or “intoxicated.” It’s so similar, in fact, that hip-hop artist Roscoe Dash called turnt a “2010 crunk” and featured it in his hit song that year, “All the Way Turnt Up. The baby of the family (he has an older brother, two half-sisters and two step-brothers), Dash was an inquisitive and. ![]() Born Jeffrey Johnson, Jr., Dash grew up in Atlanta’s Capitol Homes projects under the watchful eye of his mother and great-grandmother. Get Money Entertainment is an Indie Record Label/Promotion Team based in Atlanta, which has been around since early 2007, and their first signing was a young Atlanta rapper called Roscoe Dash, formally known as 'Atl.' In November 2008 Roscoe Dash released his mixtape entitled, Gettin 2 Da Money. ![]() The Right Rhymes finds turnt and turnt up in the New Boyz September 2009 track “Turnt,” which features the line: “I’m so turnt up that I’m talking backwards like Yoda.” The term also appeared in a track by Snoop Dogg later that year, and as the title of a track by Lupe Fiasco, a song less about intoxication than self-confidence, suggesting turnt’s range of meanings. Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. The term has notably appeared in hip-hop music. Turnt first appeared on Urban Dictionary in 2005 for “horny” and “drunk,” and it debuted on Twitter in 2008. Turnt originates, according to slang lexicographer Jonathon Green, from turn up, as in to turn up the heat/volume, an expression that means “to act wildly at a party.” Linguist Neal Whitman explains that how it’s said (and later, spelled) reflects a systematic rule in African-American English. The term, though especially associated with drugs, alcohol, and sex at a crazy party, has broadened to mean “a state of being wild.” Turnt and turnt up begin as a slang term in African-American English meaning “excited,” “adrenalized,” or “intoxicated,” as the online hip-hop dictionary the Right Rhymes defines it. ![]()
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