I saw where rapper Chuck D gave a lecture last week at Eckerd College. The media referenced him as “the founder of the iconic rap group Public Enemy.”
Anyone else taken aback by the societal reality that we now have a mainstream, “iconic” rap group reference?
Maybe it’s generational. Maybe it’s cultural. Or maybe it’s just the most recent Exhibit A for linguistic dilution: “Iconic,” arguably, is the new “awesome.”