Entry · catalog no. 5172
ten toes down
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phrase · South; nationwide · 2026
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1.
Standing firm — loyal, unmoved, committed to a person or a position and not stepping off it.
“Whatever happens, I'm ten toes down for my people.”
Origin & Attribution
Southern Black speech carried into rap. The image is literal: both feet planted, nobody running. 8Ball and MJG titled a 2010 album Ten Toes Down; Kodak Black put it through his 2014 mixtape Heart of the Projects and pushed it out to a wider audience.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
South; nationwide · 2026
Spoken by
South; nationwide
$TENTOEThe 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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8Ball & MJG, Ten Toes Down — album · 2010
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+ Cite a sourceKodak Black, Heart of the Projects — mixtape · 2014
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