APPLE BOTTOM JEANS: MYSTERY REVEALED…TO ME!

Funky Cold Medina is a vodka-ish drink. Naughty By Nature’s OPP is…well, I eventually got it. Actually, at first I thought it was a gym in Southern California (the video has everyone working out – sue me!) NOW upon reaching my adult age, I am man enough to admit that I am a hip-hop faker. To begin with, I rarely ever hear a hip-hop song when it first comes out. It doesn’t reach me even after radio play. Nope, I’m usually introduced to the beat either in a commercial, CW episode, a Today’s Show Friday concert or movie. Of course, when younger people at work ask me if I’ve heard the song, I will say I know it and get the double meaning of the lyrics. Neither which are true. Apple Bottom jeans is one such term that has recently eluded me. I finally heard Flo Rida belt it out on stage in front of a rockin’ Al Roker and Meredith Vieira (both apparently got it). At first I thought Apple Bottom was a dance, like Jiggy-ing or Lombada. WRONG. Then I finally got the jean part, but I thought they were a new type of bell-bottoms (like Valerie Bertinelli used to wear on One Day at a Time – YOWZA!!) I was close. They are jeans, but the Apple Bottoms is the brand name (and how they fit women). The line was created by Nelly, Yomi Martin & Ian Kelly. Oprah and Ellen have worn ‘em. Tom Cruise’s character even did the bump and shake in them in Tropic Thunder. And now, finally, the Apple Bottoms mystery is solved for me. Now what the hell is a Shawty?