The phrase seems to have originated in the graffiti community of Oakland, California.Īround 2005, the phrase began showing up in print, and in all three examples that Popik dug up, as with “Dream” Francisco, it was used in connection to the Bay Area, graffiti, young victims of violence, or all of the above.

The artist’s almost two-decade-long career at the vanguard of the San Francisco Bay Area’s graffiti scene was cut short when he was shot and killed during a robbery, and on the alt.graffiti boards, a contributor identified only as “SPANK” ended his remembrance with the words, “REST IN POWER PLAYA.” 18, 2000, to pay respect to local legend Mike “Dream” Francisco. (The fact that Oakland was also the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a hub for the Black Power movement may or may not be a coincidence.) The first use of this remixed RIP that Popik found was on the newsgroup alt.graffiti on Feb. It’s often impossible to definitively determine a phrase’s linguistic birthplace, but based on the digging of etymologist Barry Popik, the phrase seems to have originated in the graffiti community of Oakland, California.

Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.What is that history? While the phrase rest in peace has been common for more than a century in English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, and for more than a millennium in Latin ( resquiescat in pace), the roots of rest in power are much more recent.

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