Thanks to the anonymous etymology editors slaving away in the dark recesses of the music internet (seriously, thank you!), we have deep dives today on two major entries in the hip-hop lexicon. JOHN GANZ, writing and researching for GENIUS, traces the title of the MIGOS hit that's currently topping both the HOT 100 and DONALD GLOVER's all-time playlist back to European peasants who started moving to cities 1,000 years ago. They eventually got rich, developed artisanal tastes and, a millennium or so later, were name-checked in WESTSIDE CONNECTION and JAY Z songs. And then, finally, boujee! FADER, meanwhile, delivers an oral history of B.G.'s "BLING BLING," which, to be fair, could have used another pass through the etymology desk, where LIL WAYNE's continuing claim that he invented the title phrase could have used some fact-checking. Even WIKIPEDIA can point you to earlier musical uses circa 1987 and 1993. But an entertaining read nonetheless, taking us from Wayne's discovery of a phrase that had already been discovered, to boats, helicopters, candelabras and, finally, to bling bling zinging its way into dictionaries, which Wayne can, in fact, take some credit for... Saw an amazing screening of "MOONLIGHT" Tuesday night in LA, with RYAN MCADAMS leading the WORDLESS MUSIC ORCHESTRA in a live performance of NICHOLAS BRITELL's chopped-and-screwed classical score (accompanied by Britell and the score's violinist, TIM FAIN). If you ever get the chance to see a Wordless Music screening, do it... Thursday was a one-in-a-million day: AALIYAH's greatest-hits album "ULTIMATE" showed up unannounced on ITUNES and APPLE MUSIC. Most of her catalog had been unavailable for both download and streaming for years... Indie-rock booking giant the WINDISH AGENCY and electronic reps AM ONLY have merged into the PARADIGM TALENT AGENCY. Windish founder TOM WINDISH's FACEBOOK post on the merger is a welcome reminder of what the music part of the music business means... Friend-of-REDEF IRVING AZOFF's GLOBAL MUSIC RIGHTS is now representing the PRINCE catalog, "for released and unreleased tracks," per BILLBOARD. His unreleased tracks are better than your released tracks, no matter who you might be. Just sayin'. (Also, etymology editors, please assign stories on "housequake" and "shockadelica" asap, thank u.)