No taxation without "Represent!"ation

[pne]

Occasionally, people say "Represent!", often after a certain city or place is mentioned.

Where did this come from? What does it mean?

From context, I'm guessing something like "I'm proud to come from <place X> and I think that all <place X>ers should be, too, and should show this pride unitedly in public" or the like. Or possibly "<place X> is gr8!!!1111".

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Means just what you think it means. (http://www.rapdict.org/Represent). Which is not as helpful as it sounds.

[pne.livejournal.com]

The Urban Dictionary entries (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=represent) are slightly more useful, though as often, you have different people writing conflicting entries which may or may not capture the sense that specific people use a word in.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I particularly like 3 and 9. Words can have more than one meaning so I don't think it makes much sense to talk of dictionary entries "conflicting".