I haven't heard that song "in a minute".

I always hear "in a hot minute". It can mean days, weeks, even months. No idea where it came from.

lol shadow its slang for "i haven't done something in a long time"

with you being in atlanta, i'm sure you hear it a lot. lots of black folk in atlanta

I have never heard the expression. GoVikings, is this one of those slang terms where something means the opposite of what it literally says? So "a minute" means "a long time"?

Yeah, like saying using "in a minute" to mean a long time is the cleverest thing I've ever heard anyone say. ;-)

I've heard "in a minute" meaning "in a long time" for several years. As an amateur linguist, I probably pay closer attention to developments in slang than most. Like much of modern American slang, this usage comes from Black American Vernacular English, a common feature of which is to say the opposite of what you really mean.

GV - I'm even hearing it from my 41 yo white daughter. :)

Golly jee willikers idk

Yeah and it seems the ones who say it, use the term repeatedly.

jack- yes, that's exactly it

shadow- lol yeah, its one of those things that people pick up after hearing it over and over and over

"In a minute" has been popular among the youngsters for a while. I expect to hear it in a context like:

20-year-old #1: "I haven't been to Club Brain Damage in a minute. But that club is soooo bomb!"

20-year-old #2: "Ewwww, that place is ratchet!"

"...Club Brain Damage..."

i'd go to that club in a new york minute. plenty of business there fo' sure

That phrase has been around for a minute. :-)