I'm Feeling Ludacris Right Now

[nq:1]A year or so ago, someone asked me about rap music and whether I had a favorite hip-hop song at the moment. I told her "I'M FEELING LUDACRIS RIGHT NOW". Comments?[/nq]
You are Bun Mui and I claim a million dollars.

Rob L.

[nq:1]A year or so ago, someone asked me about rap music and whether I had a favorite hip-hop song at the moment. I told her "I'M FEELING LUDACRIS RIGHT NOW". Comments?[/nq]
"Joey, Joey
King of the streets, child of clay."
Bob Dylan
Comments?

Ross Howard

[nq:1]A year or so ago, someone asked me about rap music and whether I had a favorite hip-hop song at the moment. I told her "I'M FEELING LUDACRIS RIGHT NOW". Comments?[/nq]
I hope you didn't feel her in public. Both Ludacris and the other chick might resent it, and you could get arrested, Mr. Stinky-Fingers.

Reinhold (Rey) Aman

[nq:1]A year or so ago, someone asked me about rap music and whether I had a favorite hip-hop song at the moment. I told her "I'M FEELING LUDACRIS RIGHT NOW". Comments?[/nq]
It's hard to pinpoint, but I'd guess that transitive "feel" meaning "to like, enjoy, feel a connection with (a song, a person, etc.)" dates to mid-'90s hiphop lingo. It's a stative verb but AFAIK almost always takes the pr

[nq:1]I'd guess that transitive "feel" meaning "to like, enjoy, feel a connection with (a song, a person, etc.)" dates to ... The object of the verb is often simply "it" with no clear antecedent (as in Jay-Z's 1996 song "Feelin' It").[/nq]
But 1996 is too late for its first hiphop appearance: Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch's "Good Vibrations," released in 1991, urges us to "Feel it! feel it! Fee

[nq:2]I'd guess that transitive "feel" meaning "to like, enjoy, feel ... no clear antecedent (as in Jay-Z's 1996 song "Feelin' It").[/nq]
[nq:1]But 1996 is too late for its first hiphop appearance: Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch's "Good Vibrations," released in 1991, urges us to "Feel it! feel it! Feel the vibration" (punctuation added)[/nq]
I'd argue that the two usages are distinct. Marky

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[nq:2]with "feel" of course pronounced about the way most of us say "fill." Is that a Jerseyism?[/nq]
[nq:1]Wha? Mark Wahlberg's from Boston.[/nq]
He's performing in a rappish dialect.
[nq:1]In Labov's survey, the merger of /i/ and /I/ before /l/ was found mostly in the South, with scattered examples in the West and North Midland.[/nq]
The merger I have in mind doe

Yes, CNBC broadcasts from Fort Lee and MSNBC from Secaucus, but these are national networks so you probably won't hear "local folk". These days you'd be hard-pressed to hear a Jersey accent even on WOR of Secaucus, a local station that for a while was a cable "superstation" back in the day they used the local pronunciation of ('si,kOk@s) but now use the standard (s@'kOk@s).
Both mergers you me

Lieb:
[nq:1]You are Bun Mui and I claim a million dollars.[/nq]
Who's Bun Mui? Is she a ***?

Howard:
[nq:1]"Joey, Joey King of the streets, child of clay." Bob Dylan[/nq]
Is this a real Bob Dylan song? I don't think I've ever heard it. What's your post supposed to mean?