2/11/2024 0 Comments Wild at heart lana lyricsOutKast: Rick Diamond/WireImage/Getty Images. Notorious B.I.G.: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images. Megan Thee Stallion: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images and S.N.L. Garvey: George Rinhart/Corbis, via Getty Images. (See A$AP Rocky’s song “Wild for the Night”: “Wilding for the night, being polite, boy.”)īadu: Matt Jelonek/Getty Images. In 1989, the Oxford English Dictionary added this definition: “The action or practice by a gang of youths of going on a protracted and violent rampage in a street, park or other public place, attacking or mugging people at random along the way.” Today the use of “wildin’” in hip-hop persists as a celebration of wildness, unruliness and boisterousness, a carefully calculated refusal of control. Senior detectives claimed that the Central Park Five suspects had used the word to describe their own actions to the police, but this account was questioned by the investigative reporter Barry Michael Cooper, who speculated that a detective may have misunderstood the suspects’ use of the phrase “doin’ the wild thing,” a lyric from the rapper Tone Loc’s 1988 single, “Wild Thing,” which they were reportedly singing while in the holding cell. During the 1989 Central Park rape case, which resulted in the wrongful convictions of five Black and Latino teenagers, fear-mongering headlines used the word “wilding” to whip up white anxiety about out-of-control Black youth rampaging in the city.
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