Using the term “whip” as slang for car goes farther back than modern day hip-hop music.

Before cars, people used a whip, or threat of one, to steer horses tied to a carriage. When cars were created, the steering wheel replaced how to steer. So the steering wheel was called a “whip” as an analogy to carriages.

Much later a hip-hop artist noticed the Mercedes-Benz logo looked like a steering wheel and brought back the slang term “whip” for Mercedes-Benz cars. The term eventually went on to refer to any car.

Or so that’s how the story goes…