![]() 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 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. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group All The Way Turnt Up Roscoe Dash Soulja Boy All The Way Turnt Up 2010 Interscope Records Released on: Composer Lyricist: Jeffrey. ![]() The term has notably appeared in hip-hop music. He was able to reclaim the song and add a. has since turned a negative into a positive. Turnt first appeared on Urban Dictionary in 2005 for “horny” and “drunk,” and it debuted on Twitter in 2008. Roscoe Dash Video: Roscoe Dash, All the Way Turnt Up The rapper born Jeffrey Johnson Jr. 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. Provided to YouTube by Create Music Group All The Way Turnt Up ft. ![]()
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