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To be honest, I'm not so sure I know where 'holmes' comes from... but I grew up in the South in the 80s and went to integrated public (in the US sense) schools, and black kids were the first kids I heard using words like that.
But it might be a different story elsewhere. I figure it's kind of like 'psych' or 'syke' or 'sike' (or however it was spelled)... people just started saying it and soon it seemed like everyone was saying it. And it appears to have happened all over the country.
Must've been the influence of TV or something...