Entry · catalog no. 7415
draped up
/ /ˌdreɪpt ˈʌp/ /draypt-UP
adjective · Houston, Texas · 1990s
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1.
Fully done up, especially a car: candy paint, wood grain wheel, swangas poking, the whole Houston uniform. "Draped up and dripped out" is the complete formula — dressed to kill, car included.
“He came down the boulevard draped up, grippin' grain.”
Origin & Attribution
Houston slab culture of the 1990s, where the Screwed Up Click era sang the formula "draped up and dripped out." Bun B of UGK made it a citywide anthem with "Draped Up" (Trill, 2005), whose remix gathered a generation of H-town voices. Older jive kinship is real — drape meant clothes in the 1930s and 40s — but the slab sense is Houston's own.
1990s
Slab culture sings "draped up and dripped out"
2005
Bun B's "Draped Up" makes it an anthem
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
Houston, Texas · 1990s
Spoken by
Houston slab riders and rap circles
$DRAPEDThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Steady21 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
70/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2005
in the culture
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Bun B, "Draped Up" (Trill)
2005
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+ Cite a sourceUGK-era Houston slab vocabulary on Ridin' Dirty
1996
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