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Monday, February 27, 2023

Five Examples Of The African American Vernacular English Word "Chile" In Songs, Television, & Social Media (1967 to the 2000s)


Jimi Hendrix, Oct 16, 2018

Provided to YouTube by Legacy Recordings

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part I of a two part pancocojams series about the use of the African American Vernacular English word "chile" in songs, television programs, and social media.

This pancocojams post presents a partial timeline of song & social media usages of  the American Vernacular English Word "Chile" from 1967 to the 2000s (with YouTube clips).

This post includes brief quotes about these examples..

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2023/02/nicki-minajs-2019-comment-what-um-chile.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. That post presents selected comments about the Nicki Minaj "um chile anyways so" quote and meme are also included in this post.

That post also includes my speculative interpretation of Nicki Minaj's "um chile anyways so" comment.

That post also presents a complete reprint of an online article about how stan twitter has claimed to have originated "chile" and various other African American Vernacular English words. 

The content of this post is presented for historical, linguistic, and socio-cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain witht heir owners.

Thanks to all those who are mentioned in this post. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and all those who published these film clips and videos on YouTube.  

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PARTIAL TIMELINE OF THE AAVE WORD "CHILE" FROM 1967 TO THE 2000s

April 3, 1967 - "Highway Chile" (Olympic Studios, London, UK April 3, 1967) · The Jimi Hendrix Experience

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Chile
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"Highway Chile" (/tʃaɪl/ CHAIL) is a song by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, issued as the B-side to their 1967 third British single "The Wind Cries Mary". The song was written by vocalist and guitarist Jimi Hendrix and titled to reflect his pronunciation of "child" without the "d" (a spelling subsequently used for "Voodoo Chile")."....
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A sound file for Jimi Hendrix's "Highway Chile" is given as embedded YouTube clip #1 at the top of this pancocojams post.

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Oct. 16, 1968 [records released]  "Voodoo Chile" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return) The Jimi Hendrix Experience  

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Stockholm 1969


Potentium, Jun 19, 2018
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With regard to the spelling "child" instead of  "chile", read the "confusion over the title" portion of the Wikipedia post for"Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" that is given immediately below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_Chile
" "Voodoo Chile" (/tʃaɪl/ CHAIL) is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded in 1968 for the third Jimi Hendrix Experience album Electric Ladyland. It is based on the Muddy Waters blues song "Rollin' Stone", but with original lyrics and music. At 15 minutes, it is Hendrix's longest studio recording and features additional musicians in what has been described as a studio jam.

"Voodoo Chile" was recorded at the Record Plant in New York City, after a late night jam session with Hendrix, Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell, organist Steve Winwood, and bassist Jack Casady. The song became the basis for "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", recorded by the Experience the next day and one of Hendrix's best-known songs.

"Chile" is a phonetic approximation of "child" without the "d". In the UK, "Voodoo Chile" was also used as the title of the 1970 single release of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", which has caused confusion regarding the two songs.

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Confusion over title

Jimi Hendrix occasionally used different names and spellings for some of his songs. In his handwritten lyrics, he used "Voodoo Chile" for the longer song, while he used both "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" for the following one recorded with the Experience.[21] In his handwritten album notes for Electric Ladyland sent to his record company, he listed the songs as "Voodoo Chile" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)";[22] when the album was released in the US by Reprise Records on October 16, 1968,[23] these spellings for the two songs were used.[24] When the album was subsequently released by Track Records in the UK, the songs were listed as "Voodoo Chile" and "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)".[25] In 1970, the "(Slight Return)" song was released as a single in the UK and it was simply titled "Voodoo Chile", without the further designation.[26] Later album reissues usually follow the Reprise or Track album spellings, depending on the country of origin."...

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1978 - chorus in the song  "You Can't Win" [from "The Wiz" film/sung by Michael Jackson

The Wiz (1/8) Movie CLIP - The Crow Anthem (1978) HD


Movieclips Jun 27, 2011

https://genius.com/Michael-jackson-you-cant-win-lyrics

[Chorus: Michael Jackson]

You can't win, chile
You can’t break even
And you can't get out of the game

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2013 Real Housewives Of Atlanta- Television reality series, episode from Season six: When NeNe visits Kenya's "ghetto apartment", her comment "Whew chile, the ghetto" became one of the memes from that episode.

S6 RHOA Nene and Kenya The Ghetto



Thethrowbackqueen, Mar 22, 2020  

For more information about that episode, click https://www.tyla.com/tv-and-film/kenya-moore-viral-meme-chile-the-ghetto-nene-leakes-season-14-marlo-20220704  Real Housewives Of Atlanta Star Kenya Moore Reveals Truth Behind Viral ‘The Ghetto’ Scene

Published Gregory Robinson, 11:15, 07 July 2022 BST Last  updated 10:44, 09 July 2022 BST
..."the season six episode in which Nene ventures out of the suburbs to visit Kenya's temporary living situation is all over TikTok, with people finding the music, sirens and white refrigerator absolutely hilarious."...

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July 28, 2019- Quote from Rapper Nicki Minaj's Instagram chat (i.e. Nicki Minaj randomly read a comment that was written on her live Instagram chat and her "What?! Um chile. Anyways. so" response to that comment became a Twitter/social media meme.)


Chile anyways so NICKi MINAJ


Halima Suzu, Jul 19, 2020
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Transcription:
"I hate doing sh-t* and not perfecting it-
can you guys hear me good?

ummm

big boobs?

What?

um chile, anyways. so.."
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*This is my amended spelling of that word which Nicki Minaj says in that clip.

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This concludes Part I of this two part pancocojams series. 

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