The Oxford English Dictionary doesn't have a listing for it yet, but the sociolinguist William Labov made note of I'ma in a 1967 study of African American English. The usage hasn't been restricted to one particular dialect, though; my son heard it in a 1960s-era "Tom and Jerry" cartoon a few days ago, when an Old West sheriff said, "Imma get ... More @Wikipedia
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