Patina
Recently I heard the word used in an interview between Kanye West and Zane Lowe via BBC-Radio 1. The renowned artist dropped knowledge and used very colorful language to get his message across. Mr. West wasn’t all sailors tongue, as he was sure to enunciate even the swear words despite a layer of diamonds and gold on his bottom row of teeth. In this interview, Kanye used a lot of words and among them was patina. According to the 1996 Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, patina is “a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and esteemed as being of ornamental value”. This is the way in which Mr. West used it: So it becomes all of this thing where all of the musicians- the musicians try to get more money by promoting other products, right? So you'll say 'Hey, you know what? I've got this water and we've got, you know, we've got this red version. We got a red bottle, and we've got a David Beckham ve