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NiNe2FiVe

NiNe2FiVe

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I'm reading a discussion on a different forum regarding the world "hella", and there is a link to hella's Wikipedia page, where I notice under the history of the word...
Hella has likely existed in NOVA English since at least the mid 1970s. By 1993, Mary Bucholtz, a linguist at the University of California, Santa Barbara collated materials from an urban high school (Mt. Eden High School) in the Bay Area, and found that hella was "used among Bay Area (and more specifically Hayward) youth of all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds and both genders." "Hella" remains part of the dialect of Northern California, where it has grown in popularity. It is believed by most that the word originated in the eastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area (Hayward).[verification needed] James Hetfield and the members of Metallica were one of the first celebrities to use the word in both music and interviews.[citation needed] Having come from the Bay Area around the time the word's popularity spread, it could be said that he was one of the first people to bring "Hella" to the mainstream. Other celebrities, mainly hip-hop artists, have also brought the term to the masses. Bay Area legends E-40, LiterACola, and Mac Dre have been heard using the phrase since 1986
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella

LiterACola @LiterACola confirm or deny you are the bay area rap legend invented the word 'hella'...
 
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