I'm driving my friend to the airport and he uses the word "Krunk". I look over and ask what does Krunk mean? He says he doesn't know but rappers use it and it's generally a good thing. So I decided to go online and do some literary investigation and to earn more about the word. This is what I found:
krunk: adj
1) Originally derived from the two words: "crazy drunk".
2) crazy, off the hook, insane
3) The illeterate's way of spelling "Crunk"
Some examples of the usage of the word:
Yo, I'm on my 8th shot... this party is krunk!
Last night was krunk.
Homegirl's outfit is krunk!
Digging a little deeper, I found that Conan Obrien and Andy Richter used it in 1994 on the late night talk show LATE NITE WITH CONAN O'BRIEN/NBC/1993+ According to its creator, Conan O'Brien, Krunk was "America's newest swear word...so new that the networks don't know whether to censor it or not!" Yet another case of yet another non-african mis-using the term?
Lil jon and the Eastside boys made the term famous in their hit "Still Crunk". Notice how they they use the proper spelling. Well that about does it. Tune in next time for our next installment of "What does that word mean!?"
