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Thread #93501   Message #1801287
Posted By: Azizi
04-Aug-06 - 07:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: Same As Slang
Subject: RE: BS: Same As Slang
Also, btw, neither the Urban Dictionary nor the Wikipidia hip-hop list has any entry for "owned".

Hip-hop originated in and is still largely associated with African American culture {actually I think it's more accurate to say Jamaican culture and African American culture}. And "Urban" as used in that "Urban Dictionary" site is another term for "Black Americans who live in urban areas".

If the term 'got owned' really isn't used as a slang term by urban African Americans, it's probably because that term would hit too many raw nerves given our [African American]history of slavery.