Quote Originally Posted by Moonshae View Post
Cool is now conveyed by "sick".
Around these parts some of the kids, either from 'the 'hood', or acting like it, say , "That's dope."

All of which brings to mind one of the late Gil Scott Heron's last songs. One of the lines in it went, "when being cool went blind."

I was old enough to appreciate how true that was when I first heard it. Gil Scott Heron's life surely exemplified the phrase.