We used to say it when we were younger when we saw something nice, super cool or something like that. We came up hard, didn’t have much and always had do deal with negativity. So just like older folks in our lives, we found ways to channel the negativity into positivity. This was especially with words. So dope was always something that stood for something bad, but we made it a positive slang term.

The biggest example of this is the infamous “N Word” that people feel awkward talking about between races. Just like Michael Jackson was “Bad” and James Brown was “Funky”- My style was destined to be DOPE. As a matter of fact, I evolved far past “Swagg” and ended up being SUPASOPEFRESH. That’s fresher than the freshest and when other people see the style, they know they “Can’t Git NO Fresher”. That quote is from me (BBoy Bolo/HBO Crew/ATL/USA). Now I want everyone else to understand and get the SUPADOPEFRESH feeling too. Now marinate on that for a minute!

J-Rob aka BBoy Bolo aka King-B aka DJ ShoNuff
HBO Crew/DAGA/ATL/USA