Graham27
Distinguished Member
I know. I know what it means and what it stands for, but it’s used to mean ‘original‘ regardless of this. Most kids who say it don’t even know what it means, nor that it even has a meaning, they just use it to mean original. They don’t know much about the Crips!OG stands for 'Original Gangsta' and that's it. It's not so much the 'sneaker culture' that has shortened it, it's just the evolution of language full stop. My teenage daughter for example says 'K' instead of 'Okay' - I call it lazy, but it's not really, it's just change.
OG will always mean 'Original Gangsta', if it's shortened by the yoof of today, so be it, but I know what it really means, because I'm old
I didn’t say sneaker culture shortened it, I said that’s arguably how it was introduced to this generation, and so it possibly explains the way they use it. For my sins, I’ve had to work in that field, and I’ve had to listen to manufacturers bang on about ’dropping OG’ products. The companies in that industry use OG/original interchangeably.
I am also old.