Who originated/popularized the phrase "hot damn, that's my jam"?
January 2, 2018 5:49 PM Subscribe
I just realized I have no idea why we say "hot damn, that's my jam". All that comes up when I Google is Flo Rida and various novelty products/memes. There's no way the phrase "hot damn, that's my jam" originated in 2008. ...Is there? There can't be. Where is it from? Who did it first?
"That's my jam" was uttered in the 1990 movie House Party with Kid 'n Play, but that's all I got. The "hot damn" may be a more recent addition.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 6:57 PM on January 2, 2018
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 6:57 PM on January 2, 2018
Best answer: Two things:
1) Wikipedia says that while the Flo Rida track was released in May of 2008, it's based on a "hot hook" from will.i.am freestyling on radio in LA a year prior. So that'll put 2007 as a probably date of origin. Apparently the phrase also spread around online in early 2008, as well.
2) Sitting here in the first week of 2018, I feel the need to remind you that 2007 was a looong time ago.
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 6:59 PM on January 2, 2018 [2 favorites]
1) Wikipedia says that while the Flo Rida track was released in May of 2008, it's based on a "hot hook" from will.i.am freestyling on radio in LA a year prior. So that'll put 2007 as a probably date of origin. Apparently the phrase also spread around online in early 2008, as well.
2) Sitting here in the first week of 2018, I feel the need to remind you that 2007 was a looong time ago.
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 6:59 PM on January 2, 2018 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Deee-Lite used the lyric "damn, that's my jam" in Two Clouds Above Nine in the Year of Our Lord 1992.
Who knows why I can remember that and not any of my coworkers' names.
posted by roger ackroyd at 10:10 PM on January 2, 2018 [10 favorites]
Who knows why I can remember that and not any of my coworkers' names.
posted by roger ackroyd at 10:10 PM on January 2, 2018 [10 favorites]
This thread is the first time I've ever encountered "hot damn, that's my jam".
posted by Bruce H. at 1:05 AM on January 3, 2018 [9 favorites]
posted by Bruce H. at 1:05 AM on January 3, 2018 [9 favorites]
“Hot damn” has been around for a while, and has seen a resurgence in the last twenty years or so. “This is/that’s my jam” has been around since at least the 90s if not the 80s. This is the first I’ve heard them put together, but it was probably inevitable.
posted by Metroid Baby at 4:40 AM on January 3, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Metroid Baby at 4:40 AM on January 3, 2018 [1 favorite]
Within the hip-hop world, MC Lyte greatly popularized 'hot damn' with 1988's '10% Diss.'
posted by box at 9:17 AM on January 3, 2018
posted by box at 9:17 AM on January 3, 2018
Response by poster: Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug: "2) Sitting here in the first week of 2018, I feel the need to remind you that 2007 was a looong time ago."
I need to go, like, ponder the nature of time.
posted by capricorn at 3:32 PM on January 4, 2018
I need to go, like, ponder the nature of time.
posted by capricorn at 3:32 PM on January 4, 2018
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