The fact that woke's meaning has changed is crazy. "Being woke" was changed to mean something completely different to it's original meaning.

Stay woke is literally from Childish Gambino, from the song Redbone , gaining popularity in the Get Out movie.

Stay woke, niggas creepin

They gon find ya, Gon catch ya sleepin

Oooh

Now stay woke, niggas creepin

Now don't you close yaaaa eyes

*Phat bassline*

Donald Glover has defined global culture, not just once.

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Being woke isnt cool anymore? Faaack..

Being woke meant you were aware or awake to the dangers, not this other meaning of being enlightened or edgy or whatever

I thought i was edgy

Nah, it means be alert cause niggas creepin 🔫

At least that's the original songs meaning, if you've seen Get Out you'd understand it's context, cause he's not aware of what the dangers are.

The whole thing is brilliant tbh, Jorden Peele really hot it out the park with that movie

Nope, goes back to the Blues song Stottsboro Boys, predates CG by 80 years or so.

Wow, is that where Gambino got it from?

No idea, just know that’s the first reference to staying woke.

Ah okay, yeah this is in 2017 I think, or whenever Get Out came out. The whole movie premise is that he's unaware of what's going on, and the song plays in the title.

No wonder Ed Sheeran complained in court. I mean, there's only so much human originality, most things are a copy of a copy or a fork of a fork

Yeah that’s true but at the same time Sheeran doesn’t seem to be trying too hard try something different, same chords, same structure every time but most pop songs rarely stray past 2-4 chords these days.

People here talk about 1971 but if you want a grim chart check out chord and key changes in popular songs from the 1950s to the present day.