Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to give something to someone, ‘to let someone have it’.

1992		in RapPages Feb. 33: Yo...kick it to ’em [HDAS].
2001		‘artfag’ Chickenlegs.net , 1 Nov. 🌐 If someone is smarter you can be more of a smartass! If someone is nicer you can kick it to them NICE.

2. to inform, to explain the facts.

2000		Marisa Brickman ‘Shyne’ at Insound.com 🌐 I really kick it to them like these niggas want us to be dead at 21 or in jail. Let’s prove them wrong, and the only way we can do that is right here in the schools, that’s all we got.
2005		B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 106: ‘I wrote that in my house and I remember kickin' it to my brother Wayne and he flipped out’.