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Originally OG meant "original gangster", but now it has come to mean something like an early adaptation.



I've read a number of times over the years that OG was 80s slang for "old guy" (or "an old G"), and that the 90s Ice T song was a play on the older usage. Don't know if there are any citations though.


It’s means the original players or the previously dominant people/organizations which laid out the foundation.


I just read it as "original"




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