'sup?

[Beverly Flanigan]

Our white undergrads also say "whaddup."  They claim "sup," if used at all,
is AA, not white.

At 09:54 AM 10/20/2004, you wrote:
>On Oct 19, 2004, at 3:43 PM, William Stone wrote:
>
>: In the northwest suburbs of Chicago, 'sup' is very much a Caucasian
>: teen greeting.  African-American teens all seem to use a flapped
>: 'whatup' and have for a while.  My 15 year old has certainly been
>: using it for at least two years.  How long has this variant of
>: 'what's up' been around?  Where did it originate?
>
>I missed the original post, so if i'm missing important context, apologies.
>
>That said, it's not exclusively an African-American thing, and apparently
>hasn't been for a while. Skook (a no-longer-in-existence ska band local to
>Northern Utah made up of very white-looking people), in their song "Mac
>Daddy Man" (about the sort of person who's the big fish in a very little
>high school pond), sing the line "I walk up to my girlfriend and i say
>'[w^D^p]'". AFAICT, the song was recorded in 1997 at the latest.
>
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