The Word "Swag"

Do you remember when a new pair of shoes came out that were REALLY cool?  And you did everything in your power to be one of the first people to get the shoes?  You'd then show up to school and you had on these awesome ass shoes and everyone is all like "yo son those shoes are the bomb" but within 2 days, everyone caught on and you were one of about 932 people in the school with the SAME fucking shoes on?  To make matters worse, roughly 45% of these people went and got the same color shoes that you had!  So now, something that was initially cool and original turned an entire school population into sheep and there are close to 1,000 morons walking around with the same shit on.

That is EXACTLY what happened with the word "Swag".  It went from a mildly amusing term to being a staple in every loser adolescents vocabulary.  At first it was limited to lame rap songs, but now it's raring it's ugly head in every aspect of life.  Males and females alike are claiming to have "swag/swagger" as a way of describing themselves.  It's been given new life as a verb (swag/swagging/swagged), and when one is at a loss to explain what attracts them to a person (for instance, maybe they're ugly, stupid, a deadbeat, with nothing going for them at all in life), they can always say "well, they have swag".

I call for an end to this utterly retarded word, once and for all.  You may not have noticed, but after the successful "Swagger Like Us" song damn near two years ago, Jay-Z, Kanye, Weezy and T.I. have barely let the word escape from their lips.  Maybe it's because the realized something a lot of you losers haven't: THE WORD IS FUCKING RETARDED AND IT'S TIME TO HANG IT UP, NOW!