Shadowing Practice: Duke Dennis Addresses His Nail Stylist - Learn English Speaking with Video

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so boom right yeah

and the i haven't did a story time in like a

long time gang the story times kept getting me caught up

but listen gang this is so so crazy but listen so boom last night

i woke up at 4 a .m

because it was hot as i forgot to turn my arrow on gang i usually sleep

but i woke up at 4 a .m

because i needed to turn my air on

and plus i ain't gonna lie i wanted a cold soda like i wanted like a pepsi

or something but of course it's 4 a .m so i just

so happened to check my phone and like 9 10 more sent me a tiktok

and the only reason why i open it at 4 a .m is because Dirk,

my homeboy Dirk sent it to me and Waleed sent it to me.

So I'm like, what the f*?

So I opened the TikTok and it's a f*ing nail tech,

bro, that had like put our DMs on TikTok and it was a story, I guess it was a story time or something

of how I didn't show up to the nail apartment space

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no cap i start crying laughing bro i'm telling you i start crying laughing at 4 a .m

so i'm sitting here crying laughing because i'm like bro there's no way

that this woman actually put a whole tiktok up with screenshots

and all this type of shit simply

because i missed a nail appointment right there's no way cap there is way it is way

because she actually fucking did it now gang i'm watching this video

and i'm reading all the comments she in the comments replying

to every single fucking um she in the comments replying to every single fucking comment herself

and she was dragging the shit even with that you TikTok video, she was literally dragging it.

One thing I don't like is if you're going to tell a story, baby, you got to tell that the whole way through.

You heard me?

You got to tell that the whole way through.

So this is how the shit really went, right?

I didn't hit her up.

She hit me up.

She literally replied to my story.

I posted a story on IG that I was in Houston.

She hit me up, gang.

But in the screenshots, in the TikTok, though, she didn't include that it looked like I hit her up.

No, baby.

You DM'd me because you saw my story and shit.

So I hate when people do that shit.

If you're going to show DMs, you got to show that shit.

All right?

And I'm also glad that y 'all didn't take that shit serious either, bro.

When I woke up and seen that shit, I started crying, laughing, and I reposted the shit myself.

I reposted that shit at 4 a .m.

I wanted the world to see it as well.

No cow.

You say show it.

I don't really like showing DMs and shit, but look, she hit me up, bro.

She replied to my Houston story, right?

So she was like, can I do your nails?

And I'm like, you know what?

I actually do need my nails done, right? so sure me and her chopping it up and back

and forth and i was gonna go the friday when i landed

but my my flight kept getting delayed

and i eventually ended up not even getting there till 1 a .m

so i hit up i told her hey look my shit

got delayed gang you know what i'm saying i i just i'm just now getting here

so we chopping it up and we ended up pushing it to sunday

I woke up from a long night One thing led to another Mind you,

I will take full accountability As a grown -ass man For

not communicating It would have took me three seconds To hit up and be like, yo

I apologize I'm not coming

It would have took me three seconds for that and for

that i apologize because you know that's what it is i'm a grown -ass man

so i've taken accountability and however she is dragging it like a mother because the way she put that shit together,

gang, she was being dramatic as fuck.

She added some motherfucking loud saxophone music behind the shit

and she like oh my god you wait uh he wasted my my celebrity client

wasted my time and my money and my materials and shit

and i get that i honestly understand that part

but ma 'am on my life on your life on all

y 'all life that's watching this video right now i'm not the first

that done missed the appointment missing an appointment is the most

normal human possible that's what we can do game miss it nigga the lady who posted

that tiktok she done missed the appointment before no bullshit

and i even take it i even go further the lady that posted

that tiktok game she done missed the nail appointment before you

watching this video you watching this stream right now yeah you

you don't miss the appointment before i don't nigga you know

how many appointments i don't miss in my life i don't

miss dentist appointments doctor's appointments amp appointments i don't miss six -figure deal appointments this mother drew the line

when i missed a nail appointment no offense to your profession

but i don't i missed a nail appointment and this month just made it seem like

don't miss appointments i don't miss barber i don't miss haircut

appointments i don't miss i don't miss sneaky link appointments

but never have i ever got put on social media

and try to make it seem like the end of the world

because i missed a cleaning my the gel off doing a

look taking a dead skin off the little circle part

and got them doing a little shit

and got them putting some more clear gel on the shit never

but at first i seen some of y 'all stupid ass

i seen some of y 'all stupid ass actually buying into what the she was trying to sell

but me i taught myself a long time ago in this internet shit i taught myself a long time ago

that I can get in trouble motherfuckers be trying to get me in trouble for the most normal shit

but I taught myself to stop giving a fuck about how

y 'all fucking feel about me gang y 'all want to cancel me

and shit over missing a nail appointment I stopped giving a

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fuck about getting cancelled years ago I don't give a fuck

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if you watch me

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or not I don't give a fuck how you feel about me I don't give a fuck

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if you like me or not I don't give a fuck if you like my fucking pictures or not.

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Watch my YouTube videos or not.

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I honestly, both from the bottom of my fucking heart, could give a fuck less about how y 'all feel about me and whether or not y 'all cancel me or not.

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I best stop giving a fuck about that.

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But I honestly was crying laughing when I seen my fucking trying to do this over missing a fucking nail appointment.

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I promise you, like I said, I'm not trying to downplay your profession.

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No offense to your profession, nigga.

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I swear to God.

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But I just honestly don't give a Because like I said, Mal, you done missed a nail appointment before.

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You done missed the appointment before.

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Everybody misses fucking appointments.

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And don't even get me started on that raggedy ass bullshit poster that you made.

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That bullshit ass poster.

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You couldn't even fucking take the time to make a real poster.

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You AI'd that bullshit.

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And that shit didn't even look like me.

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Them chains not even real chains.

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I don't even got them chains.

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Where the fuck you getting them chains from? nigga

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that wasn't even me and who

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and what the is a vvip what the vvip you wanted to make

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that poster so bad gang ma 'am

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that you was rushing gang you put vvip very very important person i don't know gang

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but i promise you though i'm not the first person who done who done Miss her nail appointment

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And I won't be the last

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But simply because I got a few followers

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Got five or six followers Only because I got five or six followers Did she want to post the shit gang

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And also And also I'm going to take it a step further gang

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She don't give a fuck that I missed that appointment

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She didn't give a fuck about that And deposit

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that she kept Replying That's what really pissed me off I'm

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in real time I'm watching this woman reply To all the comments

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And she kept mentioning About deposits and shit Ma 'am

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Ma 'am You didn't give a fuck about that deposit You didn't mention

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that deposit at all I would have paid the deposit Ma 'am I get my nails done

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Bruh Getting my nails done Costs $50 At max get in my nails done cost $50 at max.

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How much could the deposit be?

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Do you think I'm tripping over $30 deposit?

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No, ma 'am.

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You wasn't tripping on that shit either because you know the money was good.

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I know why you was really upset.

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Ma 'am, you wanted to pull one of them.

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You wanted to get your shit off.

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You wanted to be like, hey, y 'all.

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Hey, guys, come with me to do duke dennis nails

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and you was gonna do the whole shit the angles you

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was gonna do start to finish you was gonna pan

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and zoom and you was gonna get your shit off gang

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and no bullshit i knew you was gonna get your shit off you wanna know how

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because i was gonna let you get your shit off i was gonna let you get your shit off man

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and i looked at your page before you do it with

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everybody else i seen everybody you done got your shit off with no bullshit

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and i was gonna let you do that even though i hate

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that that's why i don't even go to new barbers all the barbers

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that be hitting me up in my dm

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and shit hey bro i see you in town let me cut your shit no one know why

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because i know i'm finna be in content mode when i'm thinking when i sit in the chair

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as soon as i sit as soon as i sit in the chair they gonna do a 360 around before

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and after and they gonna do a little voiceover and shit i know this shit already gang

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I know this because everybody do it People try to do it

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when I get my hair When I get my hair done

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When I get haircuts

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When I get fucking anything I'm gonna make content out of the shit That's why I stick to one fucking person

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No count I stick to one person doing my hair The same lady been doing my hair for fucking half years

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I stick to one nigga

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that cut my hair off The nigga who been cutting my

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hair since high school still to this day cut my hair any nigga

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that dm me and shit whatever i'm in another nigga city

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i don't respond to this shit

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because i know they don't actually want to cut my hair they want to make content about cutting my hair

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and ma 'am you are no different and the fact

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that i was gonna let you get your shit off

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and you was gonna get your shit off regardless you got your shit off whether i came

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or not so there you go ma 'am you got your six million views

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or whatever the case may be you got your six million views

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and you was gonna get that whether i came or not

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but you got the though

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so shout out to the v vip duke dennis shout out to me

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because you was gonna get that with another you know what i'm saying

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and i apologize to it like a real nigga because I am a real nigga.

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You know what I'm saying?

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I apologize, baby.

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And since you put that video out, every fucking body that do nails and facials and massages and hair,

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my DM's been flooded with people saying, come get your nails done by me.

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I promise you, I won't post no fly out, baby.

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I won't post no fly out on the door.

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And let's not even talk about how dangerous

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that is who the gave you the who gave you who who told you to do that

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who told you to do that you know how insane that is to drop the low like that

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i never ever ever ever in this whole treated myself like i was above the program

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and for you to try to make it seem like i was thinking

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that way that's up because i tried

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because of how you tried to paint me gang you tried

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to paint me like i was on some up you feel me so

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and i can i can literally show you the dm of

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me inbox in the chicago store you know what i'm saying

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like no cap matter of fact i am i'm gonna do it i'm gonna show you bro from two weeks ago

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a few days ago i'm it i'm gonna show you because i don't see this is if you're gonna show some shit.

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You have to show it the whole way.

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And my voice probably sound a little off because I've been in AMP shoots all fucking day.

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But nigga, look, I'm going to show you.

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Shout out to Endless Supply in Chicago.

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Nigga, I fought with Chicago Heavy.

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Look, so look.

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Hey, look.

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So look, I say, yo, time y 'all close.

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He say, you tell me when you want to slide and we'll make the rest happen.

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I say, I can get that about 6 .30 He say,

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bet, say less We'll be ready And the store will be shut down I don't know if you can see this,

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please And the store will be shut down I say, appreciate you, bro You don't gotta shut it down He say,

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I got you, ha ha ha I never act like I was above the program For anybody

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I don't want you to shut no motherfucking store down I don't know why you did that anyway

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Nobody told you to do that shit But, honestly Cleto.

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I don't like the way you did business, gang.

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I ain't going to lie.

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I don't like the way you conducted business and goddamn, you could have just hit me up on some damn shit and was like,

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hey, dude, I don't appreciate you wasting my time or not updating me or not communicating.

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You know, I took time out of my day, such and such.

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And then I would say, fuck.

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That's my fucking bad, gang.

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You know what?

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I feel bad now.

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I would have said that.

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But even once more, I apologize for not communicating.

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I honestly do.

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And I would have felt bad until you tried to show DM and shit.

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And that's one last thing, bro.

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I'm honestly tired.

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I am honestly tired of people

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posting screenshots and videos and shit like I'm honestly tired of this shit gang like it's never me it's always

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other people like trying to I don't even like

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that word I don't even like

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that C -L -O -U -T word I swear I don't like it

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but it's always other people it's never me bro i never

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tell y 'all the shit that's going on it's always another motherfucker bro i hate that word but

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so please stop if you got from here on now if you got any if you got any

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dealings or anything with me please stop posting it on the internet just come to me

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and we can figure it out offline bro just

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because i do internet that don't mean i'll

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that don't mean we got to solve the problem on the

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internet we can solve this shit with a phone call facetime

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call we can link up have a motherfucking pop up we can do all type of shit in order

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but i'm tired of everybody bringing the problem that they have with me to the internet i i'd y 'all no cap

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you know but fact doesn't matter is gang

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I'm tired and

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just fun fact bro I was I was playing I was playing Davis in basketball like two hours ago

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and I fucking dislocated my look at this you see

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that I dislocated my fucking pinky red heart emoji and the fucking bone was this bone was over my fucking knuckle

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and like a real ass nigga I popped

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that bitch back in place myself I swear to god I popped

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that bitch cause I swear I did not feel like spending

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the night at the hospital bro getting out home late as fuck

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but motherfuckers got shit going on gang the last shit motherfuckers wanna worry about is whether

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or not I showed up to a fucking appointment or not

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gang

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real talk but

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i gotta go finish playing wolverine man i'm gonna be taking my time up

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and shit i'm supposed to be playing wolverine right now finishing

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up my gaming channel shit make sure y 'all go to my gaming channel y 'all ain't doing shit else but with

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that being said gang i'm finna get the off it's late it's 12 i've been at the amp all day

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and shit type of shit um

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but i wish i could show y 'all my uh gaming

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channel this is a really nice this is a really nice

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time to plug it see look gaming channel look y 'all

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gonna subscribe to my gaming channel dude this game i got 13k i just started this last week

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and um yeah i've been grinding on it

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so i'm gonna go play wolverine right now and yeah love y 'all game but i'm such a real nigga.

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I'm such a real nigga.

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I still come by and let you do my nails.

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We can chop it up.

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We can laugh about the shit too.

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That's how real of a nigga I am.

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You know what I'm saying?

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We can still do that.

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You know what I'm saying?

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But lesson learned from me and you.

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Let's just keep the shit off the internet next time.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Shout to all the other nail techs that done hit me up

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because I'm definitely taking y 'all up on y 'all offer.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Duke Dennis Addresses His Nail Stylist”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: appointment, gang, nail, nigga, bro. This video has 283 sentences and 3200 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:12. The speaker talks at a natural 167 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
apologize verb	/əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/	To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends
shout verb	/ʃaʊt/	To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.
poster noun	/ˈpoʊstɚ/	A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
wolverine noun	/ˌwʊlvəˈɹiːn/	A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, Gulo gulo.
follower noun	/ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/	One who follows, comes after another.
screenshot noun	/ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/	An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.
chop verb	/t͡ʃɑp/	To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
barber noun	/ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/	A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.
profession noun	/pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/	A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
cancel verb	/ˈkæn.sl̩/	To cross out something with lines etc.
dislocate verb	/dɪsˈloʊkeɪt/	To put something out of its usual place.
finna verb	/ˈfɪn(n)ə/	A modal used to express a desire or future action.
spacy adjective	/ˈspeɪsi/	spaced-out
repost noun		The act of posting again; the material thus posted.
haircut noun	/ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/	The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
hit up verb		To visit with or contact someone, especially with a definite purpose.
shut down verb		To close, terminate, or end; to stop operating, either permanently or temporarily.
caught up verb		Involuntarily involved in a situation.
get out verb		To leave or escape.
pop up verb		To come up with a "pop" sound.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I didn't hit her up.
And I'm like, you know what?
I don't even got them chains.
You know what I'm saying?
I won't post no fly out on the door.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've taken · DM's been flooded · I've been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	been flooded · will be shut · being said

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 143 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shout /ʃaʊt/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, massage /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/
Long words — get the stress right: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, accountability /əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like apologize, shout, poster.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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