The origin of the strain’s name is debated, but according to Amsterdam-based cannabis-seed seller DNA Genetics, who’s responsible for marketing OG Kush seeds, the strain originally went by a different name, but was renamed OG Kush by the popular 1990s LA rap group Cypress Hill. There also exists a popular strain of weed known as OG Kush. Original Gangster,” which, at its peak, was #7 on 1991’s Billboard rap charts. One notable example of OG in the context of commercialized rap is in LA-raised rapper Ice-T’s single (and album) “O.G.

At the same time, the term continued to carry on its initial meaning in the sense that something was OG if it was the first of its kind or unique-that is, original.

In songs and music videos, an OG was seen as someone in gang culture who was hip and impressive (an exceptional badass), and soon the term was used to describe people in the real world who exemplified those characteristics even when they had no gang affiliations. During the 1980s, OG began to enter the mainstream with its use in commercialized rap music.

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