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Posted on 2008.06.11 at 22:38Etymology
Traditionally, crunk meant a hoarse, harsh cry.[4] The term is often used as slang to mean intoxicated. Folk etymology suggests the modern usage of crunk originated as a portmanteau of the words "crazy" and "drunk" or having been "cranked up" to a level of excitability at which one becomes "crunk". Rapper Lil Jon defined crunk as a "state of heightened excitement".
The first popular figures to use the word were Atlanta rappers Outkast, who in their 1993 song and accompanying video "Player's Ball" said, "I gots in crunk if it ain't real ain't right". Outkast also mentions "crunk" in the song "Hootie Hoo" (which was released in 1994 on the same album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik) and B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad).
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary gives the etymology for "crunk" as a "word of fluctuating meaning used during the 1990s in lyrics of the rap groups OutKast and Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz," and defines it as "a style of Southern rap music featuring repetitive chants and rapid dance rhythms." [5]