Shadowing Practice: NEW YORK SLANG BE LIKE - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Yeah, little vibe, little vibe big films so yo first of all
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if you need to the channel make sure you smash that like button big Thanks, make sure you sub up if you haven't already.
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This is not my main channel if you coming from my main channel, you know My main channel got like 280k over there.
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Yo, yo be prepared cuz this channel about to be yo, fam.
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Hold on, I gotta put some Carmex I gotta put some Carmex.
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We put y 'all on real.
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We put some Carmex.
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I ain't gonna lie, I got the meanest baby face.
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I ain't never gonna grow up.
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I don't know what Welcome to my video, bro.
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Welcome to my video.
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If my mic is trash, bro, listen, I ordered the new mic.
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This one right here.
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I ordered this mic right here, but it's not the right, I bought the wrong one.
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Like, it don't connect to my computer, so it's whatever.
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Listen, you know, we gotta get it how we can.
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That's a fact.
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But welcome to my New York slang video.
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I know somebody commented on my last video.
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I told y 'all, listen, comment down what type of videos y 'all want me to do on the Just Phantom channel.
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Oh, oh, hold on.
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Yo, follow me on the gram, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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E -L -F -M, alright?
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Look, look, look.
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Boom, right there.
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Boom, right?
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Okay, dang.
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Let me put y 'all on to the New York slang.
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Listen, I know there's like OD other vids or whatever.
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But I'm gonna give you the words that I use and the words that I've heard a lot.
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Because sometimes there's some words that you listen to in New York, but we don't.
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I mean, I may not use it.
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Like, you may use a word that I just don't use.
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I just feel like that's I don't use it.
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So first off you got your part, you know what I'm saying?
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When you say your, you just saying what's up to like either.
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I mean you can say what's up to one person, two people, 500 people, me when I'm outside and I run into like some fans or whatever, like 5, 10, 30, I'm like, yeah, you know what it is, you know the vibe.
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I don't know where that came from.
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I was in high school doing that.
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I've always been doing that.
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Honestly, bro, I don't think good got a meaning.
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I think it's supposed to represent gun sound, but I don't know why.
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It don't really got a meaning when we say it.
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We just be doing it.
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Some people don't do that no more low key.
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But to me it's funny as hell.
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Because the girl got the, I'm not going to do the, you know the one that Cardi B do.
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Okay.
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She got her own thing.
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So I feel like the good is the male version of the ankle.
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you
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You got you know the vibe you know the vibe like
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when you say you know the vibes YKTV Um
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if you bought the arm like
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if you go to the store you get a bacon
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and cheese and like it's like it's like you know Saying you just came out the store
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and your friend like yo you got a big energy
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and you could just be like yo You know the vibe
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you know the vibe you talking about you know the vibe
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you know the vibe you know the vibe you know the
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vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you know
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the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you
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know the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe
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you know the vibe you know the vibe you know the
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vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you know
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the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you
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know the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe
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you know the vibe you know the vibe you know the
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vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you know
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the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you
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know the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe
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you know the vibe you know the vibe you know the
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vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you know
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the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you
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know the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe
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you know the vibe you know the vibe you know the
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vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you know
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the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you
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know the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe
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you know the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you know the vibe you Bye.
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You got facts.
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Facts is universal at this point.
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You're saying facts like you see me
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if you're hearing some words of inspiration facts like
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if I'm speaking facts in this video facts like matter fact comment down facts right now just facts you
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You got that ass like bro, you dead ass right now.
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That ass is just, you know, like, are you serious?
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Like, that ass, you dead ass right now bro, like, bro.
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Or like, oh, you could be like, bro, that ass bro, I'm feeling like, yeah, it just means you, yeah, you serious, like, you feel me, in all seriousness.
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Like, Trisha, I don't use that word.
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I do not use that word.
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I think that's more of a Brooklyn thing.
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I'm from the Bronx, so I don't really use that word.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Try to tell a lot of Brooklyn people out there, too.
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But I don't know.
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But I heard Trisha's like more like, you know what I'm saying?
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You're like an OD.
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I mean, you're just a thottie, like, to be honest.
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Or like, you're dusty or whatever.
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It's for the females, I guess.
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It's like a word of a, it's a disrespectful term.
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But I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I just call you a thottie.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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How you got day room day room um for me I
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think from what I raised up of you know I'm saying
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day room to me is like you know you're not on
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that like you're not about
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that you're not really what you say you are like you know what I'm saying
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so somebody say yo you day room like you really day
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room like you buns like you're not uh I don't want to say the word
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because I try and try and get my channel to a whole town demonetized
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but you just not you just not you not with the action you feel me you know what I'm saying
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and I got one of my friends who he went to Rikers
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and he did like two years I think
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and he told me bro there's an actual place in Rikers
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so he told me
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that day room there's a room in the in like over there that's called day room like you go there
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and you don't you don't like when you in
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that room it's basically saying without talking
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that you're not not trying to fight nobody you're not really trying to get it in
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so that's where you know that's what they told me you know what I'm saying
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so day room to me
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so I might call you day room you know what I'm saying
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that means you're not on that so you might as well get it on if you're really on it Oh, you got valid, so like, so if something come through, you know what I'm saying, like, that's valid, bro, that's valid.
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Or like, if you just got a good job, or you got a raise, something good, like, yo, that's valid, that's OD, valid, bro, that's good, like, it's good to go.
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um you got tight tight is like like you mad like I'm tightening their way
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and sometimes I got friends from everywhere you know I got friends down south
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and I friends in Atlanta Florida Texas Cali and
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when I say tight baby thinking like the wrong way bro you don't say
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but tight to us is just that we just stressed out right now in the moment you know
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not vex vex is more like this is the same thing like yo he's vex right now You feel me?
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Don't bother him, he's vexed.
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It's the same thing, tight vexed, it's the same thing, you man.
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Heard, I don't use heard, I just use 100 emoji when somebody tell me something like You feel me?
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It's like copy.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I got you.
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I heard you, I don't use that one, but that's, all the shorty, they all say the same, I don't know why they say it.
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But, I mean, that's, that's really common here, I just, I personally don't use that one.
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Yeah.
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You have bugging so like if you tripping right now or you know bugging is like yo he's bugging right now.
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He's tripping.
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He's tripping now.
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He's bugging like yo leave him alone.
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He's bugging.
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It's the same.
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You can say the same thing like matter fact
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if you're doing something like too much you can say yo he's bugging right now.
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Right he's bugging.
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So it's like you're not in your normal state if that makes sense.
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You're not you right now.
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Bye.
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You got tripping which is kind of the same thing like tripping right now same thing to be honest like OD, like yo you OD right now, like you really OD right now,
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you OD, OD is like you're doing too much.
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You know when girls be like, you know, they just be mad loudly, like yo clean, clean Lord, like yo, you ODing you know what I'm saying like you ODing you
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doing too much same thing with boys sometimes they be doing they be trying to prove it Relax.
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Yo, you look at the corner, you stop, you OD 'ing right now.
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You know what I'm saying?
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OD 'ing is just that.
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OD, same thing, okay?
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you
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fire I ever sure to come to where she she's fine
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she's fine you know I'm saying uh -huh you know I'm
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saying girls say the same thing for us you don't say
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maybe like yo he don't feel finam don't fire like he's done
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but you know he's here I'm saying right
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so like it's just like it's a compliment why not
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that you burn it it's just that you fight um brick you know I'm saying it's cold outside so they was mobbing.
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This is kind of an old word, low key.
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I don't think it'd be using that often no more, but you know, you know what I'm saying, New York is in my DNA, bro, so I'm always, so if somebody said, yo, they was mobbing, like mobbing is like 15,
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20 people, like it was a lot of people, so they mobbing, like yo, they came through, they was mobbing, bro, like world dude, for me, and also, it could also mean like back in the days, they don't do this no more,
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that I remember, I don't, I'm not sure, you can't have it been nothing, like 3, 4, 5, whatever, but when I was younger, mobbing, like you would walk with your bros and go through like different and hoods and whatever.
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And like, yo, yo, they coming through, they mobbing, ah, whatever.
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That's a whole different scene.
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But yeah, that's mobbing.
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Mobbing is just like, it's a lot of people, right?
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You don't always have to be on some aggressive, it can just be you chilling, but if there's a lot of y 'all, y 'all mobbing.
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Y 'all was mobbing at McDonald's today?
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Word y 'all wilding right now, I ain't gonna lie.
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Like deep is the same thing, deep is just a lot of people, so it's like oh oh oh oh oh or
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it's far away see that's a that's a double word so
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so you could be like yo they was deep
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which is the same thing as they was mobbing right it was a lot of them
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but you could also say yo It's deep.
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Yo, yo, I'm not going over there.
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That's deep, bro.
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You feel me?
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Or like, oh, it's like, oh, like, you got a trip.
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You're going somewhere three months from now, and it's the same thing.
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Like, yo, that's...
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That's old, that's deep bro, I'm out, damn, like three months, like, you feel me, it's far away.
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You have dub in some states dub is like it's a W but over here dub is It's like, that's a dub.
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Like, we not doing that.
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If it's a dub, you're not doing that.
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If it's hot right now, if you want me to do something that's hot, that's a dub, bro.
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You see what I mean?
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Oh, oh, oh.
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Let me put hot too.
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Hot is like
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If it's hot like it's like you know saying are you
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making it hot is like the chances of you getting caught is the chances of you getting caught are higher.
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I have to say caught like that because when I say caught, you feel me, I can't.
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Some of the people on the same, but the chances of getting caught are higher.
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So if you making it hot right now, I'm going to back up.
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I'm not going to be there because you making it hot.
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You're going to get me caught up.
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you NFS, which is, you know what I'm saying, no funny shit, it's the same as no cap.
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No cap is a new one that everybody been doing, but that didn't come from here, from what I know of.
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I think that came from Atlanta.
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and that's an Atlanta thing, so no cab, but it's the same thing, it's no funny shit, you know what I'm saying, it's like dead ass, it's the same thing to be honest.
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You have Ed, like yo, you being Ed right now, you being stupid.
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Um good looks is like thank you so good looks bro.
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Now you're saying or like somebody drop a phone
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and I get back to the elbow you drop your phone bro Oh, bro.
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Good looks bro.
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Yeah, bro.
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You feel me like that's just thank you.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I'm stupid stupid is like like stupid like just like six miles to be saying stupid we always say
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that and that's I I mainly see that in basketball and playing basketball New York is very aggressive in basketball.
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It don't always mean we want to fight.
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But for the most part, when we on the court, like, we're not friends on that court, like, for the most part.
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Not everybody's like that.
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I'm not really like that in terms of like being aggressive.
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I like to just win my games.
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I like the game talk for me.
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But you know what I'm saying, other people, they score a bucket, stupid, you feel me?
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Or they'll shoot a three, stupid.
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They'll just keep insulting you the whole game because basketball is a mental game too.
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And I think any sport, you gotta get in your head and you can mess with your opponent.
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So by saying these words or whatever during the game, You could mess up, you know what I'm saying?
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Like, that's where it comes from, you stupid, you know what I'm saying?
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Just trying to get in your head.
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Static is like, you know what I'm saying?
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You want static?
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Like static is.. you want to be staticky already?
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You feel me?
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Like, it's just like, do they want to fight?
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Do they want to start a problem?
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Or are you feeling staticky?
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Like, You know what I'm saying?
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Are you aggressive right now, Aggie?
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You know what I'm saying?
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It's more of a confrontational term.
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Like, "Yo, they want to study right now." I ain't gonna lie.
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You got son, son is not that I...
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A lot of people from other places, they be like, I be like, yo, relax, bro.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Son is like, you feel me?
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If I call you, that's my son, no funny.
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It could go two ways.
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You know what I'm saying?
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You could be disrespectful with it if you really try to.
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But for the most part, it's a term of endearment.
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If I say, yo, that's my son, bro.
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You feel me?
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You're not touching him.
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That's my son.
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That's somebody that I really rock with.
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That's family at this point.
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And I think somebody, an OG told me this a long time ago, low key.
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I was playing ball in the park and he just like a little side story.
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He told me that that comes from the youth not having their fathers in their life.
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And since they didn't have their fathers in their life, everybody was just calling each other son because fuck it.
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You know what I'm saying?
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If my dad not going to be in my life, you feel me i might as well try to be you
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know i'm saying your daddy without trying to be your dad
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like we gonna be our own dad you know saying like between us
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so yo what's good son like bro you know what it
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is bro like i look out for you look out for me bro
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and then there's a bar like i i call you son uh not because you mine
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But because you shot something like that, like it's like it's not really a term of like being disrespectful.
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It's more like, you know, I'm saying that's oh, I take care.
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I'll take care.
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You take care of me.
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But it could you could make it.
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That's my son.
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- Yo, he a yo.
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- I mean, but not really, I ain't gonna, I mean, it depends, I think you could.
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Like, if you taking my swag or you taking my style, I'm going to be like, yo, that's my son.
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Like, he really copied everything I do.
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Like, you my seed, bro.
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Oh my seed like you know saying like I'm letting you
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but like you might you know saying it could it could
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it could go both way I hope you keep it I hope you don't get lost with what I'm saying you
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You have Fendi.
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Fendi, I use that a lot.
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You familiar with Fendi.
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That's the same thing as Facts bro.
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Fendi bro.
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But I don't really say that.
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I text that.
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When you say it, it don't really sound the same.
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Bye.
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Okay, okay, so this one is hard to write out, but you don't say it the way you write it, okay?
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So you have wilding, right?
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So it's wilding, but you don't say wilding.
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You just say, "He wilding." Wilding is the same thing as bugging, tripping, you wilding.
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You're doing too much, you ODing.
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It's really all the same thing, okay?
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So y 'all say, "He wilding right now." Like, "He wilding, he doing too much." It's the same thing.
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I think this is more universal but like we do be saying get off my dk like why you on my dk?
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No funny st?
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You can suck my dk.
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's fighting word.
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That's fighting word.
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But you know what I'm saying?
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We do that a lot too.
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That's a disrespectful term.
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It's almost like static, like you know what I'm saying, it's like you ready for war, like what's up, like that's it.
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But if somebody tell you to get off date, whatever, you know what I'm saying, you probably own them like OD,
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like you taking something from them or you trying to be like them or you clowning them like for, I don't know for what reason, but you just say that like yo get off my,
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you feel me, get off my eyes, you know what I'm saying?
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Bozo Bozo is like you a lame corn you okay, so if I say you're a bozo I Corny, you lame. Are you good bro?
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Like, are you good?
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You good?
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You good?
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You good is like, like, you good could be, yo.
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You can say you good a thousand different ways.
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You can say you good.
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Are you good bro?
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Like, like, are you okay?
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But then you can say, you good bro?
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Like, are you good?
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You feel me?
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Like, are you good?
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Like, that's, that's, that's, that's fighting words bro.
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Like, I ain't gonna lie.
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Like, that's staticky.
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Like, if, if, if, if somebody tell you like, are you good?
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Like, you feel me?
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Like, they want problems.
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They want to know if like, you okay up here because they about to smoke your shit.
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Like, they about to, I ain't gonna lie.
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So it's, it's, it's, it's, it's different, different ways of saying it.
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Different ways of saying it.
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Different ways of receiving it what you said.
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Um say less on it could same thing with say less is two ways you could say like yo, bro I'm about to put you on to this job whatever
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you might get paid for the cash hour Whatever you'd be
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like what say less like that's something good like oh say less.
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We don't even talk too much
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But then like
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but like it could also be like you know saying like
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you about to get like it's not a confirmation Like
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if you are if you beefing with me
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and you say you about to do something to me I'm like I bet say less to me like no more talking.
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Let's get to it.
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You feel me?
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So it's really like let's get to it kind of turn like yeah, let's get to it say less You feel me?
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Like, let's get to it.
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work to my dad you know saying work with my dad
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like it's just like you know it's just it's like dead ass
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but to the extreme so like
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if I say you work with my dad bro do not talk to me bro you feel me like
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if I tell you that it's more like
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if you talk to me it's like I'm out of you doing you like it's over
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so work with my dad is like you keeping it at an extreme you know you making sure
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that he know
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or she know like you know what I'm saying like this
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is you keeping it you right now you just took it from one to a hundred saying zero to a hundred
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you I'ma keepin' a buck with you, I do that a lot, I say that a lot, I'ma have to drop merch on that.
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I'ma keepin' a buck with you is like, I'ma be honest with you, I'ma be real with you, like, be honest, you know what I'm saying, 100, you know what I'm saying, I'ma keepin' a buck with you,
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I'ma keepin' a buck with you, bro, like, That's it.
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No, you just be honest.
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I'm not even gonna hold you, it's the same thing too.
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I'm not even gonna hold you bro, like, feel me, not even gonna hold you, I'm gonna keep it a buck with you bro, to be honest, it's all the same thing.
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um you could say dumb dumb dumb like like
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but like not not by itself sure he won't buy her yo it's dumb fat
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but you could you don't say like it's funny
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because you could say like yo he dumb stupid like it's still the same thing technically speaking right
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but it's not it's dumb is like yo it's like the extreme like you know what i'm saying
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if i say she her
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if i say her her jackie you feel me it's dumb
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fat like it's not it's her cake is not just fat it's dumb fat you know what i'm
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It's just like you exaggerate a little bit.
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That's pretty much it, man.
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That's the slang.
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It's pretty long video though.
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I ain't think it's gonna be that long, but it's way-- If I missed any words, let me know, please.
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It could be a part two.
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I don't know.
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If you like the angle I got the camera now, I can show you.
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I got-- all right, all right, look.
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So I got it right.
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I installed this.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I'm a carpenter, bro.
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Call me Phantom in the Builder.
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You know the vibes.
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But yeah, bro.
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Long story be short, though.
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But this your boy Phantom on the mic, man.
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Go ahead and drop a like, man.
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Subscribe if you haven't.
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Oh, very casualness.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 402 sentences and 4193 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:34. The speaker talks fast, about 253 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| vibe noun | /vaɪb/ | An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing. |
| mob noun | /mɑb/ | A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. |
| bug noun | /bʌɡ/ | An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). |
| valid adjective | /ˈvælɪd/ | Well-grounded or justifiable, pertinent. |
| buck noun | /ˈbʌk/ | A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo. |
| aggressive adjective | /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/ | Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing. |
| static adjective | /ˈstæt.ɪk/ | Unchanging; that cannot or does not change. |
| disrespectful adjective | /dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl/ | Lacking respect. |
| universal adjective | /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/ | Of or pertaining to the universe. |
| boom verb | /bum/ | To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound. |
| relax verb | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | To make something loose. |
| suck verb | /sʌk/ | To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). |
| trash noun | /tɹæʃ/ | Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. |
| inspiration noun | /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ | The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing. |
| installed verb | /ɪnˈstɔːld/ | readied for use |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get off verb | To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. | |
| come through verb | To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway. | |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. | |
| caught up verb | Involuntarily involved in a situation. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 177 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: trash /tɹæʃ/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, smash /smæʃ/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, confrontational /ˌkɒnfɹənˈteɪʃənˈəl/
- Long words — get the stress right: disrespectful /dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl/, universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/
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 vibe, mob, bug.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | friends who he · tripping which is · NFS, which is |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was mobbing · was playing · was just calling |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | may not use · may use · might call |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the meanest · the most part |
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.