Tonight I was told that’s what ‘Memphis’ stands for. Never heard it in my life. But Phil, it seems, is up on the Orange Mound/Dirty South/rap subculture to a greater degree than I am and he was kind enough to impart this morsel to me. So what does ‘Nashville’ stand for?
Turns out that PitW beat me to the ‘Menace’ headline.
Andy Dick is a funny bastard. The new “Surreal Life” is buzzing in the background and every now and then I hear/see him say/do something funny. I love silly, crude, profane humor. I’m still thirteen, apparently.
Enough! It’s bedtime.
I always heard it as:
Makin’ Easy Money, Pimpin’ Hoes Is Serious
It comes from the rapper Memphis Bleek, who is not from Memphis. He’s from the South Bronx, if I remember correctly. He always said it was “Making Easy Money, Pimping Hoes In Style.”
The Orange Mound crowd co-opted the phrase to describe the city itself, which was not Mr. Bleek’s intention at all.
J.R. is damn cute. He looks slightly nebbish.
Ah. My adaptation is taken from Three 6 Mafia’s track “M.E.M.P.H.I.S.”
Right, well Three 6 is from Memphis.
As for being “cute,” thank you. As for being “nebbish,” unless it has changed its meaning from my junior year (it meant “timid and ineffectual” in 1998), I can say I am only nebbish some of the time.
I just like using that word. I meant to say Jewish.
Sorry but that is Sooo not true. Memphians would be very disappointed to hear that Memphis Bleek who obviously stole that name from MEMPHIS and by the way I actually read in a magazine that Jay Z gave him that name. Well Memphis has been using that term or phrase for years. And I do mean years. I’m 35 years old and my aunts and uncles used to say that when I was little. I am from Memphis and we get tired of out of towners trying to steal our shit and not give us credit for it. Do you think the nigga just came up with that and the city of Memphis has been around since the days of Huckleberry Finn and Mark Twain. Folks, give us credit for something. memphis bleek tell the truth!! And the correct way to say it is: Making Easy Money Pimpin’ Hoes In Style.@J. R.
I have to agree with Dana on this one. I am from Memphis and I am 33 y/o. That saying was around before I was a twinkle in my daddy’s eyes. Memphis was huge for the whole pimping scene. The crazy pimp cars, women on strolls, and things of that nature can still be found there. Memphis Bleek isn’t even from Memphis. Has never lived in Memphis and quite frankly he doesn’t know anything about Memphis. The end of the quote is “In Style.” Before there was an Atlanta, there was a Memphis and we don’t get the credit for being the King of the South the way that we should.
No there where two guys from the M before bleek who had the song. The where apart of dj squiky crew.