Entry · catalog no. 4126
pushing P
/ /ˈpʊʃɪŋ pi/ /PUUSH-ing-PEE
phrase · south · 2020s
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1.
To carry yourself with integrity and player energy — keeping it real, staying loyal, keeping money and moves clean. The P flexes: player, paper, positive.
“He looked out for his people the whole time — that's pushing P.”
Origin & Attribution
Put into the air by Atlanta's Gunna and Future on the January 2022 single "Pushin' P," with Young Thug. Gunna said he didn't coin it — he got it from people he came up with in Georgia — and Bay Area rappers have claimed the P too. The song ran a letter-P-emoji campaign that made the phrase a national puzzle overnight before it cooled just as fast.
2022
'Pushin' P' released (Jan 7); debuts in the Hot 100 top ten
2022
P-emoji campaign turns it into a viral guessing game
2023
Novelty fades; term settles into everyday slang
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide
south · 2020s
Spoken by
Atlanta hip-hop, then nationwide
$PUSHINThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Cooling4 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
68/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2022
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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By region — how it actually sounds
@auntiereg
Atlanta, GA
@deltasoul
Memphis, TN
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Citations & Sources
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"Pushin' P" — Gunna & Future ft. Young Thug — song · 2022
researched
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+ Cite a sourceWashington Post — "The precipitous rise and fall of 'Pushin P'" — article · 2022
researched
See also