You’ve likely seen cap and no cap used on social media, but these terms actually pre-date social media and Gen Z by several decades. In Black slang, to cap about something means “to brag, exaggerate, or lie” about it. This meaning dates all the way back to at least the early 1900s. No cap, then, has evolved as another way of saying “no lie” or “for real.” Though it’s currently popular with Gen Z, no cap was mostly influenced by hip-hop culture.

“Person 1- This food is good! Person 2- No Cap!”

No Cap by dylan._edits2.yt March 29, 2022

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Basically meaning “no lie” or “facts” or “for real” “straight up” or “the truth” 🚫🧢

Girl: Dammnn y’all flirting!
Other girl: *laughs*

Boy: No capppp tho for real

No cap by Evelyn_y5 February 18, 2019

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