Stay woke means to understand the real world and to look everything and think twice because things can change in a second, to look deep and know what to permanently take something into your life, to know everything that’s fake or sus around you and to know when to cut people off .
by Cathcart August 10, 2019
Stay woke means to understand the real world and to look everything and think twice because things can change in a second, to look deep and know what to permanently take something into your life, to know everything that’s fake or sus around you and to know when to cut people off .
by Cathcart August 10, 2019
Something used in the racial movements and something my middle school basketball coach says on defense
by TAZe Camo May 31, 2018
Phrase used to make sure people around you are aware of reality like the fact that the moon landing was faked or the fact the 9/11 was a government conspiracy or the fact the communists still run around the U.S.
Woke person: Are you a communist?
Unwoke person: What?
Woke person: That sounds like something a communist would say. stay woke.
Unwoke person: What?
Woke person: That sounds like something a communist would say. stay woke.
by Stay woke fam March 14, 2017
A form of ghetto CPR given in form of a encouraging phrase, sometimes accompanied by clapping of hands by the person doing the encouraging, rather than in a useful life saving procedure that can actually save a life. Usually told to a poor soul that got ventilated by Police, a rival rapper or any one else with a grudge, and is used by friends or family members who want to see their friend or relative stay alive, but can't or won't render proper medical aid for whatever reason.
Man 1: *Gasping for air, bleeding heavily*
Man 2: "Stay woke man!(Clap, Clap, Clap) I believe in you buddy! Stay woke!"
Man 1: *Gasping begins to subside, eyes start rolling to the back of the head*
Man 2: "C'mon, you'r better than that! Stay woke!(louder clapping)STAY WOKE!"
Man 2: "Stay woke man!(Clap, Clap, Clap) I believe in you buddy! Stay woke!"
Man 1: *Gasping begins to subside, eyes start rolling to the back of the head*
Man 2: "C'mon, you'r better than that! Stay woke!(louder clapping)STAY WOKE!"
by Just a dead man. January 7, 2016
First used in 1938 by Huddie William Ledbetter ‘Lead Belly’ in Scotsboro Boys. The phrase was repeated, by a union official, in 1940 to J Saunders Redding, who used it in an academic article in 1942. When Redding wrote “stay woke”, he meant stay alert for injustice, discrimination, prejudice, unfairness, to anyone, irrespective of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation or anything else.
When Redding said "Stay Woke!" He meant is as an injunction, a wake-up call, not the entry to a club or a fashion accessory.
by AKACroatalin August 9, 2021
Deriving from "stay awake," to stay woke is to keep informed of the shitstorm going on around you in times of turmoil and conflict, specifically on occasions when the media is being heavily filtered- such as the events in Ferguson Missouri in August 2014.
The headlines say they looted McDonald's, but they won't tell you about the tear gas the police threw at the crowds, or the fact that they needed the milk from the McDonald's to treat the effects of it. Stay woke.
by pazwell August 20, 2014