Talk:Bling-bling

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bling is the glod and stuff you have in your teeth or around your neck

Bling origins
I'm confused... has nobody here ever heard the song "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" before? The line goes


 * Desmond takes a trolley to the jewelry store...
 * Buys a twenty carat golden ring... (bling!):

It wasn't a rapper that invented this, it was a group of dysfunctional British guys in 1968.

-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.14.82.190 (talk) 17:33, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * In 43 years on this planet, I've never seen any such cartoon -- and as a child, I practically lived in front of the TV set--even when reading a book or playing a board game. 76.243.106.37 (talk) 22:27, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Citation for Richard Feynman Quote: p. 66, ''Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)'' by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighto, Edward Hutchings, and Albert R. Hibbs. W. W. Norton & Company (1997) Mdmeara (talk) 15:11, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

The end of bling
Bling may be over. References: --John Nagle (talk) 21:15, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Recommend page for deletion
WP:Not a dictionary: Quote: " Wikipedia is not a dictionary or a slang, jargon or usage guide." and fails the Notability test WP:N —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.243.106.37 (talk) 22:30, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm just impressed that somebody actually had the guts to link something rap-related to "Materialism." PurpleChez (talk) 02:52, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * See also, from WP:Not a dictionary, "In some cases, a word or phrase itself may be an encyclopedic subject, such as Macedonia (terminology) or truthiness." Bling-bling falls into the same category as truthiness. -199.173.225.33 (talk) 13:33, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

There was a link for the article on materialism, but that article is about philosophical materialism and not economic materialism, so I changed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.156.237.31 (talk) 14:50, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

popularization
This article seems to go to great lengths to establish that Lil Wayne/Cash Money did not come up with the term. But I think its still important to mention that the song bling bling is what established the term and popularized it in mainstream usage.

His role in popularizing the term is discussed, but within context. The most passionate source arguing that Lil' Wayne "established the term and popularized it in mainstream usage," is/was, well, Lil' Wayne.-199.173.225.33 (talk) 17:42, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

First use in rap...
The intro to this article is wrong, the first use (I know of) in rap is in Naughty by Nature's Here Comes the Money from 1993. 144.24.20.229 (talk) 14:46, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

citation for part...
Can someone please find a citation for this part "It was popularized by Cash Money Millionaires in the song "Bling Bling" in 1999." Bulbbulb29054 (talk) 04:14, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

My prospective edits to the intro, with sources
Bling-bling, often shortened to just bling, started as a localized slang term, but grew into a cultural mainstay that one can formally define as "flashy jewelry worn especially as an indication of wealth or status; broadly: expensive and ostentatious possessions" such as grills and designer bags. Although the term's history is somewhat contested, it is primarily attributed to roughly 1998 when New Orleans rapper Baby Gangsta wanted to encapsulate "the imaginary sound that light makes when it hits a diamond." In that vein, it's important to note that some people have attributed bling's name to either other earlier rappers or to the old cartoonish sound effects meant to convey the desirability and or shininess of gold, gems, jewels, money, and more. Nevertheless, it's undeniable that bling became increasingly entrenched within the hip hop movement following Baby Gangsta's release of his lead single "Bling Bling" off of his 1999 album Chopper City in the Ghetto. The song, which featured the rest of B.G.'s New Orleans-based group Cash Money Millionaires, was all over the Billboard Top 100, foreshadowing how much bling and the accompanying aesthetic were set to dominate the ensuing decades.

"Definition of BLING". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2020-04-08.

Thompson, Krista A. (2015). Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice. Duke University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8223-5807-7.

Bok, Lee (2007). The Little Book of Bling. Matrix Digital Publishing. p. 5.

"Lil Wayne". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-04-08. — Preceding unsigned comment added by user:Icd4vf (talk • contribs)

undeniably
"Undeniable" is marked as a weasel word. How is that so? The word is strong and not slippery. Its use in the sentence might well be unwarranted, misleading, incorrect or unfounded, but it is not weaselly. Kdammers (talk) 05:44, 12 January 2021 (UTC)