Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black) of straightened black hair that is attempting to emulate the texture and even colour of a white person’s hair.

[1965		T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 19: Their [i.e. old white women’s] hair has been fried and dyed into impossible shapes].
1972		E. Folb Black Urban Argot 100: Two of the South Central ghetto-specific argot terms, a do and fried, dyed and swooped to the side, are expressions describing hair that has been straightened in emulation of the white man.
1972		E. Folb Urban Black Argot 138: Fried, Dyed and Combed to the Side a Black person’s hair that has been straightened and styled in emulation of the white man.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 141: Dem Kennedy boys — dey got dey hair fried, dyed and swooped to d’ side.
1993		K. Scott Monster (1994) 229: We had taken in his dress and fried hair dripping nuclear waste.
1999		‘Master Pimp’ Pimp’s Rap 58: She turned me into a Black prince with a fabulous wardrobe. She kept my hair fried and laid to the side.
2000		Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 fried Definition: hair that has been treated with an acidic solution to remove natural kinkiness Example: Dat man look so smooth with his hair dyed, fried and laid to the side.
2004		F. Cee Post-9/11 African Amer. Style 133: [From] Conk, a word that means fried, dyed, and laid to the side, to something called of all things, a damn Shagg.
2015		P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 59: The chatterbox cosmetologist, who still knows only one hairstyle fried, dyed and laid to the side.