Because they don't know what a grand is? If a G is good enough for Edward G. Robinson, it's good enough for me. "It's gonna cost you ten large, see, and you're gonna wanna pay it, see, 'cause if you don't, see, you're gonna swim with the fishes."

Why did $10K replace $10Gs?

Why do you need a hip hop dictionary these days to converse with someone holding their pants up with one hand and talking like a spastic Italian sausage vendor with the other, even if he's a middle-class white kid from the 'burbs?

Life is a mystery, m8.

Why would you want to converse with someone holding their pants up with one hand and talking like a spastic Italian sausage vendor with the other, even if he's a middle-class white kid from the 'burbs?

Good point, man. It's not like he's a fountain of knowledge. Obviously nothing original there.