does hip-hop slang "illin'" have a positive or negative connotation

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who is right

Option	Votes
julieanne smolinski (positive, T.I. approved)	6
will shortz (negative, synonymous with wack)	3

― bob loblaw people (dayo), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:50 (thirteen years ago)

I lean towards the Run-DMC usage.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:53 (thirteen years ago)

"illin'" is a nebulous word

― thug eclair (The Reverend), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:53 (thirteen years ago)

i think it's more synonymous with "buggin'" than a straight good/bad thing

― thug eclair (The Reverend), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:54 (thirteen years ago)

Rev otm

― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:59 (thirteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I've used ILLIN in a crossword, and I just did a fill-in-the-blank as "Run-DMC's "We Be _____."

― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:04 (thirteen years ago)

shortz should have clued it "Wack (archaic)"

― max, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:59 (thirteen years ago)

^^^

― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:01 (thirteen years ago)

basically Boobs Radley is young

― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 23:18 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

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