Entry · catalog no. 4158
lean
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noun · South — Houston, Texas · 2026
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Prescription codeine cough syrup mixed with soda, drunk for its heavy sedation. Named for what it does to your posture.
“He was too far in the lean to finish the verse.”
Origin & Attribution
Houston, where the drink circulated from at least the 1970s and became inseparable from the city's screwed-and-chopped sound in the 1990s. DJ Screw slowed the music to the tempo of the high; he died of an overdose of it in 2000, and Big Moe, who built two albums on it, died in 2007. The archive records both the word and the cost.
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The South
South — Houston, Texas · 2026
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South — Houston, Texas
$LEANThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
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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City of Syrup, Big Moe — album · 2000
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"Sippin' on Some Syrup," Three 6 Mafia feat. UGK — single · 2000
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+ Cite a sourceLance Scott Walker, Houston Rap Tapes — oral history · 2013
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