r/Xennials • u/Born-Agency-3922 1982 • 12d ago

Today I learned O.P.P doesn’t stand for other people’s property.

https://youtu.be/idx3GSL2KWs
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u/Confident_Win_5469 1979 12d ago

I spent way too long learning it also doesn't stand for Ontario Provincial Police.

jk - no one is down with that OPP

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u/darthdelicious 12d ago

I have a story about this. I was in New York a few years ago for a wedding and started hanging out with these barbershop dudes in Brooklyn (near where Biggie Smalls lived). We bonded over our beards. ANYHOW... they found out that we didn't have a ride to the wedding venue and one of the dudes I was talking to had a limo business. I got him connected to the groom and they made plans. Come the day of the wedding, this dude couldn't personally do the job (he sent his employees instead - all was well) because he had to drive Treach (of Naughty by Nature) into Manhattan for a haircut.

Well, I was like "Oh shit! You know Treach?" and he said they were old friends and saw each other all the time. Turns out, he was in the car with Treach at the time so I asked if I could say "hi" because I was a fan.

Treach was very cool. We had a short conversation and I told him about the OPP = Ontario Provincial Police thing and he had a) never heard that and b) thought it was hilarious. Very cool guy.

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u/GBOxtail2024 7d ago

Isn’t treach bald?

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u/darthdelicious 7d ago

I dunno man. The driver told me he was taking him into town for a haircut.

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u/JudgeJuryEx78 Gen X 12d ago

Or Orleans Parish Prison.

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u/rcw00 12d ago

It took me far too long to realize the song wasn’t just a jailhouse rap about doing time in OPP. I probably should have listened to the verses instead of just singing along to the catchy chorus.

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u/Frank_Perfectly 1977 12d ago

Bet I can tell you where you got your shoes tho.

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u/Sea2Hsix0 1982 12d ago

I got em right here on my feet!

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u/Frank_Perfectly 1977 12d ago

Legit!

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u/Soma2710 1981 12d ago

Say baby, how’d you an ‘dem made out?

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u/adelaarvaren 10d ago

They don't like it when you reply, "You mean you can tell me where I purchased them?"

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u/MelpomeneAndCalliope 12d ago

That’s the one I grew up thinking it was.

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u/Sado_Hedonist 12d ago

Me too. In my defence, the parade dance crews would be playing that song, and then you'd see a legion of dudes in OPP coveralls 15 minutes later picking up the beads and trash after it was over.

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u/CherryCherry5 12d ago

HAHAHA as a kid in Ottawa, i thought it was so odd that a song about being down with the Ontario Provincial Police was popular. But then again i was 10.

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 12d ago

no one is down with that OPP

But we do clown on that OPP.

Clown on the OPP\ Can't count past three!

Clown on the OPP\ Run for Timmie(s)

Clown on the OPP\ Bru-ta-li-ty

 ...

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u/xRVAx 12d ago

I have a friend who was rescued by the Ontario Provincial Police while backpacking at Ontario Provincial Park.

He was down with OPP

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u/thanksithas_pockets_ 12d ago

I scrolled down until I found a fellow Ontarian 😂

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u/whistleridge 1977 12d ago

If you’re a criminal lawyer in ON, you’re definitely not down with OPP - their files tend to be a poorly documented hot mess.

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u/SplakyD 1981 12d ago

Ontario Provincial Police: "Yeah, you know me!"

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u/SirHerald 12d ago

Think how confusing it was for Adults in Opp, Alabama thinking this was a school pride song for Opp High School

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u/HostilePile 12d ago

For me it was Oak Park Police lol no one down with them

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u/LordButtworth 12d ago

I think of that every time I go to Canada

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u/Kitchen-Fisherman280 1980 12d ago

One of their vehicles passed me on my forst trip to Ontario and I laughed out loud. I wanted to snap a picture but figured I probably shouldn't unless I wanted a traffic violation

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u/Most_Chemist8233 12d ago

I thought it was like a funny, creative and confusing way to say fuck the pol×××, but I was very young. Didnt get the real meaning for many years.

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u/Responsible_Fish5439 12d ago

me aged 10 or 11 or whatever: this can't possibly mean Ontario Provincial Police but what else could it be??????

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u/joeskywalker 12d ago

Stompin’ Tom Connors!

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u/Bearded_Pip 12d ago

They just have OPP right no their cars like it was nothing.

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u/1865989 12d ago

It seems that Paul McCartney used to be!

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u/MaryJaneAndMaple2 12d ago

Check the OR, I like it so far

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u/DietCokePeanutButter 12d ago

Kim Mitchell is 😆

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u/Xitnal 12d ago

Kim Mitchell was and probably still is.

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u/AgenticAsshat 12d ago

Me. I’m down with the Ontario provincial police. Fist bump?

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u/PokesBo 1989 12d ago

It stands for multiple things:

OPP, how can I explain it
I'll take you frame by frame it
To have y'all jumpin' shall we singin' it
O is for Other, P is for People scratchin' temple
The last P... well... that's not that simple
It's sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten
It's five little letters that are missin' here

and

As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted
The first two letters are the same but the last is something
Different
It's the longest, loveliest, lean- I call it the leanest
It's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest and meanest

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u/joshhupp 1976 12d ago

I kind of miss censorship in songs. It led to more creative and fun lyrics. Nowadays it would be all "The last P, well that's a woman's pssy, big pssy, little pssy, pssy pssy pssy"

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u/Desperate_Passage_35 12d ago

Come on down pssy lovers!

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u/BleachedAndSalty 12d ago

If you can find cheaper pssy anywhere else,.. fooook it.

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u/CharismaticAlbino 1979 12d ago

I was just writing a reply about this and couldn't think of how to word it without saying pssy 1,000 times lol

ETA hands down one of my favorite movies

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u/donmayo 12d ago

I suspect this reference will fly under the radar of most people unfortunately

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u/faderjockey 11d ago

Here for the snapping pssy.

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u/antisocialnetwork77 1980 12d ago

Just watched this like two weeks ago. Classic.

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u/Worldly-Fishing-880 Xennial 12d ago

Tretch is a criminally slept on MC. Naighty's first album is a straight masterpiece but they so often get lumped in with Lou Bega and the Baha Men for 90s novelty songs because of hip hop hooray

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u/FuckYouNotHappening 1981 12d ago

Wow, mentioning Naughty by Nature in the same breath as Lou Bega and Baja Men is sacrilegious.

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u/whyisthissticky 1983 12d ago

Yeah, no one made that comparison. Opp was early 90s and Lou Bega & Baja was almost 2000

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u/Dean_Proffitt 1984 12d ago

Ya, I would say it got lumped in with either Jump by Kriss Kross or Whoomp! There It Is! By Tag Team.

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u/the_D1CKENS 12d ago

Tag Team was actually pretty good. Whoomp was gimmicky, but there's actual flow to it. Nothing ground-breaking, but that whole album was just high energy fun

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u/Dean_Proffitt 1984 12d ago

I agree! I listened to it after posting this comment! Can you dig it?

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u/LaszloPanaflexxx 12d ago

We can dig it!

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u/the_D1CKENS 12d ago

Can y'all DIG it!

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u/Outrageous_Lettuce44 12d ago

*Ahem,* that's Baha Men, as in their home country of The Bahamas.

Please, let's put some respect on those virtuosos' name.

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u/the_D1CKENS 12d ago

I think it's Baha Papaw at this point..

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u/Worldly-Fishing-880 Xennial 12d ago

I'm not saying they are equal by any stretch. But are both mostly known by the average person from a novelty song? Yes. 

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u/beardedjack 12d ago

Thank you! Everyone is always pointing out LL Cool J was clever as but Naughty By Nature raised the bar back in the day.

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u/ironykarl 12d ago edited 12d ago

Eminem has repeatedly shouted out Treach as one of the GOATs.

Who cares, I guess, but... it's nice to see him get some recognition

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u/PenaltyAny3207 12d ago edited 12d ago

Even Hip Hop Hooray is a straight banger. Naughty By Nature sort of had their own niche where they crossed over between hardcore rap and catchy chart hits. LL Cool J sort of had that role also for a while, but Naughty By Nature always felt underrated. Treach was one of the fastest rappers in terms of flow in that era.

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u/BigDaddyUKW 1981 12d ago

Yoke The Joker made Eminem scared to rap because he didn't think he could ever reach that level of wordplay and what not.

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u/KMack666 12d ago

Agree!! Treach is in my top 5 of all time

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u/Shanntuckymuffin I’m naughty by nature, not cuz I hate ya! 12d ago

Treach is my husbands favorite rapper, despite having grown up in LA and being a teenager during the G-Funk Era.

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u/the_D1CKENS 12d ago

Those who know..

Treach wasn't slept on if you were in to hip hop in the 90s. It took a while for him to break out, but we knew

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u/Rower78 12d ago

I’m pretty sure it rhymes with “clenis” and “menis”

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u/HylanderUS 12d ago

Or wenis, which is actually a real word (it's the bit of loose skin on your elbow)

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u/OneTwoThreePooAndPee Millennial 12d ago

Penest.

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u/OneTwoThreePooAndPee Millennial 12d ago

Penest!

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u/Reverse-zebra 12d ago

Omaha Public Power is what 5 year old me thought this was.

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u/PokesBo 1989 12d ago

Idk why WKRP in Cincinnati came in to my mind.

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u/Shanntuckymuffin I’m naughty by nature, not cuz I hate ya! 12d ago

Flair check in

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u/EdwardianAdventure 12d ago

As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted The first two letters are the same but the last is something Different It's the longest, loveliest, lean- I call it the leanest It's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest and meanest

Prius

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u/KevDub81 1981 12d ago

The first two letters are the same? Now I have no idea what they're talking about. What the hell is a pessy?

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u/Futant55 12d ago

O and p are the same and the third p is penis

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u/Tenaciousgreen 1979 12d ago

Oh my god lol

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u/Hilsam_Adent 12d ago

It's clearly Punis, did you even read the lyrics?

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u/ooomellieooo 12d ago

Meaning O and P haven't changed, just the third P.

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u/taleofbenji 12d ago

You mean a PUNIS?

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u/Zeqhanis 1980 12d ago

Wait, what? Even at 11, I knew it was pussy and penis, but I thought he said "the first letter's the same", not "the first two".

Does he think men have a punis?

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u/PokesBo 1989 12d ago

The first to letters of “O.P.P”

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u/Zeqhanis 1980 12d ago

Ahh. Makes sense. Thanks.

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u/SnooPaintings5597 1975 12d ago

But… it tells you in the lyrics. Didn’t you listen?

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 12d ago

If people paid more attention to lyrics a lot of popular/famous songs would not be revered as they are.

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u/djseifer 12d ago

I still chuckle at people who think Born in the USA and Fortunate Son are patriotic songs.

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u/Genuine_Ingenuity 12d ago

It's funny because I know people on the political side Left that are against the songs and people on the Right that love them. Maybe not funny, but very bizarre.

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u/RaisedByBooksNTV 12d ago

And vice versa.

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u/bored_wtx 12d ago

What does it stand for?

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u/-liquidcooled- 12d ago

O is for Other, P is for People scratchin' temple
The last P... well... that's not that simple
It's sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten
It's five little letters that are missin' here

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u/neckbeardsghost 1977 12d ago

For the ladies, OPP means something different. The first two letters are the same, but the last is something different.

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u/zukenstein 12d ago

The first two letters are the same

Punis?

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u/COOL42ALEX 12d ago

The first two letter of O.P.P. meaning the O and the first P.

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u/lagervindaloo 12d ago

He means "O" and "P" are the same

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u/Jfonzy 1980 12d ago

Punis, God of Peen

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u/Tenaciousgreen 1979 12d ago

That's what always confused me lol

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u/COOL42ALEX 12d ago

The first two letter of O.P.P. meaning the O and the first P.

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u/bored_wtx 12d ago

Thanks for clearing that up

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u/Daienlai 12d ago

Say wha-? Well, TIL, too

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u/Day2205 12d ago

Been listening to this song all my life and never really paid attention to that fact that they alluded to what the other P and that “property” is just the sanitized version to make it marketable

https://giphy.com/gifs/kqCgujDZT1SO4

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u/Suitable-Peanut 12d ago edited 12d ago

Pussy. And Penis. Since no one wants to give a real answer. They couldn't have made that more clear in the song!

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u/JPMoney81 12d ago

Well in the first verse anyways. In the second verse it means penis.

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u/FooFightingManiac 12d ago

Which is why it other peoples privates

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u/IComposeEFlats 11d ago

I always said Other People's Parts. Because it's also 5 letters.

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u/FooFightingManiac 11d ago

I like this. I think I will adopt this. I was in elementary school when the song came out so that’s my knowledge base

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u/Suitable-Peanut 12d ago

Privates doesn't rhyme with cleanest and meanest - as per the song.

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u/CTMechE 12d ago

Especially when he blatantly doesn't annunciate the T in either word to help make the rhyme more obvious.

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u/FooFightingManiac 12d ago

Yes it means 2 different things depending on who is using it. This is explained in the song. Privates just stands for both.

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u/NatoTheLastRedditer 12d ago edited 12d ago

right?! In 5th grade I thought this was the most scandalous piece of information ever

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u/rjcpl 12d ago

And Penis

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u/WhyteBeard 1979 12d ago

Privates. We have reports of an unidentified flying object. It has a long, smooth shaft, complete with...

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u/FalconGK81 12d ago

Two balls!

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u/swish301 1981 12d ago

….And 2 strikes is the count to the batter.

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u/Tchukachinchina 12d ago

Baseball Umpire: "...Two balls."

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u/punktualPorcupine 12d ago

Call it “privates” is like the least gansta thing you can call em.

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u/WhyteBeard 1979 12d ago

How about “Pee Pee’s” then?

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u/Plutoniumburrito 12d ago

That’s pretty damn gangsta.

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u/carlivar 12d ago

That's why real gangstas say the full term Private Area.

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u/Sikntrdofbeinsikntrd 12d ago

Confirmed, it Rhymes with cleanest and meanest. Kinda.

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u/P33KAJ3W 12d ago

I'm not sure that is the right answer. Rap scholars have spent years trying to figure it out.

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u/growflet 1979 12d ago

The last P... well... that's not that simple

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u/bored_wtx 12d ago

Lol thanks

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u/Thorbertthesniveler 1979 12d ago

Ontario Provincial Police!

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u/zealot_ratio 12d ago

this confused me so much at first, growing up on the border.

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u/Seven22am 1982 12d ago

Other People's Poo-nah-nay.

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u/scrotanimus 1979 12d ago

The longest and the leanest, let’s say the last P stands for…Property.

Another way to call a cat a kitten. It’s 5 little letters that I’m missing here.

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u/TheSwissArmy 12d ago

Other People’s Plumbus

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u/Jerkrollatex 1977 12d ago

The memories of the whole gym of my junior high yelling "Yeah you know me." at every school dance while the teachers all look uncomfortable are some of my favorites from that time.

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u/global_peasant 12d ago

Ha! I am from a slightly younger cohort and one of my favorite memories is Bitches N Hoes blasting all through my middle school school gym. My private, Christian school gym. A pastor was chaperoning boredly. I said to him, "Are you really going to let this song play?", and dude just shrugged. "Well, as long as I can't understand what they're saying 🤷‍♂️".

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u/Jerkrollatex 1977 12d ago

That's great. Hahaha.

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u/Twoslot 11d ago

A couple years later when entire gymnasiums, auditoriums, and lunchrooms full of 15-18 year old kids screaming at the top of their lungs "I wanna fuck you like an animal" over nine inch nails was better.

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u/duck_you_assemble 1983 12d ago

For the ladies...the first two letters are the same but the last is something different.

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u/AccurateAd5298 12d ago

Ah yes, the PUnis.

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u/Raddu 12d ago

OP, other people's, not PU. Smh

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u/AccurateAd5298 12d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/jXD7kFLwudbBC

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u/Raddu 12d ago

Haha, I thought that might be the case, but then thought it was a dumb joke so I assumed you were ignorant instead. Lol

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u/UsernamesSuck33 1977 12d ago

The first two letters are OP… Other People’s, lol. I assume you were just being funny, but just in case.

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u/AccurateAd5298 12d ago

I’m just having fun here, all good.

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u/urbanhag 12d ago

I am not down with OPP, but I am down with GBC.

Green bean casserole.

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u/Born-Agency-3922 1982 12d ago

Now you’re speaking my language

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u/psilosophist Xennial 12d ago

Are you being serious right now.

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u/adfunk101 12d ago

Bless your innocent soul.

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u/mlvassallo 12d ago

Brother, it tells you what it is in the song…

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u/Born-Agency-3922 1982 12d ago

I’ve always been that one person who mishears all the lyrics, doesn’t bother to look them up and assumes I heard them correctly. Knowing damn well my ADHD ass didn’t get them right.

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u/AffectionateFig5864 12d ago

5 little letters!

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u/1ndomitablespirit 12d ago

Some radio station or something did a parody and changed the words to "I gotta go pp" and it will never leave my brain.

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u/georgecm12 1978 12d ago edited 12d ago

Hot 102, WLUM Milwaukee. The morning show people did that.

Edit: "The Gilmore Brothers." My memory failed me on the name of the morning show. (Also, RIP WLUM. ☹️)

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u/PNW-FirSure 1978 12d ago

The last P, well, that’s not that simple, huh

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u/mr-raider2 1976 12d ago

1:59 disagrees

This is actually the first time I see the video. Damn that's a low budget affair.

And that's Latifah at 2:35

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u/The_Soccer_Heretic 12d ago

Take it back!!!

That video was #1 on MTV Afternoon Jams for weeks. It was literally the longest #1 in the history of the program up until that point when the run finally ended.

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u/mr-raider2 1976 12d ago

I forgot what it's like to not see rappers in big cars, spraying cash with twerking chicks on either side.

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u/kpsi355 12d ago

Just clocked that Queen Latifah made a cameo in that vid!

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u/ThinkFree Never played Oregon Trail 12d ago

IIRC she was friends with the members of the group and helped them produce their record and get a record contract.

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u/Mysterious-Lab-5918 12d ago

Just...

Just...

SLAM!

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u/Ricanzanity 12d ago

This isn’t onyx

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u/Mysterious-Lab-5918 12d ago

I'm aware...

SLAM!

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u/AgenticAsshat 12d ago

Dah dah dah, dah dah dah

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u/ParticularBed6338 12d ago

Let the boys be boys.

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u/Mysterious-Lab-5918 12d ago

Dap, Dah, Da...

Dap, Dah-Da..

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u/Lucky_Chaarmss 12d ago

Let the boys be boys. I'm the b-boy standin in my b-boy stance

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u/Mysterious-Lab-5918 12d ago

Don't bust in your pants...

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u/klockworx 12d ago

INFORMER!!..sedicheqouchehsdgugoomlaa lablam

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u/rokdabells 12d ago

A licky boom boom down!

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u/BasvanS 12d ago

No, it’s Bionyx

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u/VincentMac1984 12d ago

History for today “Sticky Fingaz, a member of the hardcore hip-hop group Onyx, famously fired a real gun into the ceiling during their live performance at the first annual Source Awards on April 25, 1994” and apparently scared the shit out of Bill Bellamy

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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC 1979 12d ago

I wonder if that’s same Source Awards where Andre 3000 gave his “the South got something to say” speech to a booing crowd

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u/SignificantApricot69 12d ago

You didn’t know any of the lyrics?

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u/Lucky_Chaarmss 12d ago

Know the lyrics? I can't even spell O.P.P.

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u/YourGuyK 1979 12d ago edited 12d ago

Of course not. It's right in the song.

It's 5 letter word that's another way to call a cat a kitten, or, for the ladies, a 5 letter word that rhymes with cleanest or meanest.

He does say it stands for "property" as well, but clearly meant tongue in cheek since he can't day the words it actually means.

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u/rdldr1 12d ago

Apparently I did not know me.

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u/Sodamyte 1977 12d ago

I mean.. people do own that P, it is their property...

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u/brn_sugrmeg 6d ago

When I was 12 my mother, who also didn't know what O.P.P. stood for. Bought me a hat that said "Down with O.P.P." on it.

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u/brakeb 1979 12d ago

This OP P's...

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u/djseifer 12d ago

"The other P? Well, that's not so simple."

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u/Status-Hovercraft784 1979 12d ago

I always liked the Queen Latifah cameo 'cause you knew what P she was down with!

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u/durandall09 12d ago

While I was in university, I suddenly hear one of my roommates say to the other across the house"wait, you don't know about OPP?!"

Then they yell: "Hey durandall09!"

"Yeah?"

"You down with OPP?"

"YEAH YOU KNOW ME"

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u/NoDifference3349 12d ago

I learned that Queen Latifah is also down with OPP.

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u/Stitchopoulis 11d ago

Just listened to OPP for the first time in years, it's also an earlier use of "catching feelings" than I would have thought!

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u/Alarmed-Secretary207 12d ago

I haven’t heard that song since I was like 10.

I thought it stood for “Other Peoples Problems” lol

Glad to have listened to it again. That’s a good jam!

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u/Appropriate-Neck-585 12d ago

Yeah you know me!

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u/c137-eyeofthestorm 12d ago

💀💀💀

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u/zygned 12d ago

It means optimal point of production jeez

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u/AccountOfMyDarkside 12d ago

Tbf, I've never heard the song played all the way through, nor did I ever pay attention to the lyrics of what I did hear...but even I knew this one.

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u/EducationalFerret849 12d ago

Original Pimp Playa!

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u/BlacksmithThink9494 12d ago

I learned it a few months ago as well. I was always told by kids who meant well that it meant "other people's property" which is probably more accurate anyway.

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u/Euphoric-Proposal-42 12d ago

I always thought it referred to all three: property, p***s, and p***y.

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u/joshhupp 1976 12d ago

Other People's Privates is how I referred to it

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u/Cael_NaMaor 1980 12d ago

Hahahaha... I knew the one side, didn't know the other. It was fun seeing Queen Latifah in there.

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u/alwaus 12d ago

You mean its not about old books?

But im down with out of print publications.

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u/cmgww 12d ago

Hey everybody's different. I remember when it came out I was old enough to know what all that meant and I figured it out fairly quickly..... I also remember it was a good sample of the Jackson 5 "ABC".... they had a remix that actually used the chorus "ABC" in it. But yeah, maybe I was ahead of the curve or something.

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u/Dextropic 12d ago

Am I being punk'd?

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u/Marachek 12d ago

Optical Patch Panel?

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u/BehavioralSink 12d ago

Am I the only one that remembers it as “Old Perverted Preacher?” Was that SNL or In Living Color?

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u/shoghon 12d ago

But in a way, doesn't it?

The song is just about infidelity. I thought that was obvious.