"keep it real"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:04 PM -0700 7/12/08, Mary Bucholtz wrote:
>It's an African American English expression that's widely used in 
>hip hop culture. From there it's spread to a large number of speech 
>communities around the world.
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>Mary

In support of this, another poster on ADS-L, Ben Zimmer of Oxford 
University Press, notes:

FWIW, "Keep It Real" is the title of a track on John Lee and Gerry
Brown's 1975 Blue Note album "Mango Sunrise".

http://www.worldsoul.com/JOHN_LEE_&_GERRY_BROWN__1390_html


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>--On Friday, July 11, 2008 2:23 PM +0100 Sarah Colvin 
><sarah.colvin at ED.AC.UK> wrote:
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>>Can anybody give me a reference or advise me re. the history, use, and
>>meaning of the phrase "keep it real"?
>>Thanks,
>>Sarah Colvin
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