Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black/campus) all right; also as adj.

1942		‘Marienne’ ‘Solid Meddlin’’ in People’s Voice (NY) 14 Mar. 33/1: Have been diggin’ your very hep colyum and its aw-reet].
1994		Source Aug. 74: Y’ all a-ight?
1997		Mad mag. Dec. 6: Yo, Mr. C! You a hard-ass brutha, but you a’ight!
1999		T. Fontana ‘Legs’ Oz ser. 3 ep. 3 [TV script] I don’t feel like it, a’ight?
1997–2000		College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Ight (int.) Ok; I got it.
1999		J. Ridley Everybody Smokes in Hell 132: You two jus’ wanna be gone, aiite?
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Ai-ight. Right on. No doubt. Step off! Stay up.
2002		Simon & Burns ‘The Target’ Wire ep. 1 [TV script] ‘Fuck motherfuckers up’ [...] ‘A-ight’.
2004		Eble Campus Sl. Apr.
2007		N. McCall Them (2008) 109: Crawford aight for a white man.
2012		NY Times 12 Jan. 🌐 My faveriot [sic] slang term [...] is ‘iight [...] I think my favourite slang term is ‘aight’. It’s pretty much just another term for ‘ok’.
2012		‘Dutch’ ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] Just go at him and clown him about me takin’ his whip. A’ight?
2015		P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 51: My favorite [book title] ‘I’m Ai’ight, You’re Ai’ight’.