It's Official: "Make It Rain" Is the New "Bling, Bling"

I spent the better part of last week battling the lovely stomach flu and gripping the toilet bowl for dear life. (I know, not a very pretty picture, but I felt the need to share.)

So imagine my surprise when I finally rejoined society to learn that everyone is using the phrase "make it rain" -- and I do mean EVERYONE.

Even the people who've never watched a second of BET, or those people who swear they "have black friends" -- yes, they all have found a way to add the phrase to their lexicon.

Thanks to Pacman Jones' wildest of wild Vegas stories, which to jog your memory begins with the cornerback trying to "make it rain" in a strip club and ends with a triple-shooting, the phrase "make it rain" is officially the new "bling, bling."

Recently popularized in urban circles by the Fat Joe song "Make It Rain," this phrase is no longer street because everyone is using it.

In case you're one of the three people in America who doesn't know what it means to "make it rain" (and may I ask, where have you been?), it's when you throw bills out on strippers in such a manner that you are creating the effect of raining money.

Put simply, it's a complex way of paying strippers, looking like a baller, and objectifying women.

For further illustration, please check out the "Make It Rain" music video below.

Tony Kornheiser can't get enough of saying "make it rain" on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption (see below) and sports writers can't get enough of including the phrase (and definition) in articles.

I'm pretty sure it won't be long 'till the word expands from describing a common strip club practice to also meaning things like spending sprees and big checks at restaurants.

Someone in Idaho will say, "We made it rain yesterday at Wal-Mart."

White/corporate America will take this phrase, run with it, and ultimately beat it into the ground.

Just wait and see.

Now back to our dear friend Pacman, and by friend I mean person I'd probably avoid chilling with if you dislike being arrested or questioned by the men in blue, I still can't figure out what the dumbest part of his story is.

You take your pick. Is it ...

That Pacman was carrying $81,000 in cash?

That he kept $81,000 in a trash bag?

That he wanted to "make it rain" only as a visual effect?

That he expected the strippers not to pocket the money that was thrown at them and then became angry when they did?

That he bit a bouncer in the ankle?

I mean seriously, what's more entertaining? It's all good. It may even have potential to become an episode of Law and Order ... bomp, bomp!