Killer Mike, who has at all times represented the South to the fullest, has revealed his favourite slang phrases that originated in Georgia.
Throughout a chat with Billboard posted on Tuesday (July 25), the 48-year-old MC was requested about his prime colloquialisms from his native state. He went on to choose three, including sentence examples to place their correct utilization in context.
“Shawty,” he started. “As a result of that may imply so many issues. It might imply, ‘I noticed a reasonably lady, and man, was she fairly — Shawty.’ It might imply your buddy did one thing dumb: “Man, did he wreck your automotive? Shawty!” It might imply you simply hit the lottery: ‘You hit the lotto?! Shawty!’”
“Hellyoutalmbout,” Mike went with subsequent. “’Man I heard you misplaced your own home — Hellyoutalmbout, boy! I’m financially steady. I’m good. I’m in Greenwood man.’ It may very well be a really, very, very dangerous factor too. Like, individuals say, ‘Man, I heard your own home burnt down — Hellyoutalmbout.”
“Playa,” he mentioned final. “I feel that’s an outdated one we don’t use as a lot. However I favored it, man. I favored when Atlanta and Georgia saved it participant, man, so to me, whether or not it’s OutKast music, Goodyie Mob tunes or the best way you see Thug or Child. They actually hold it playa. Future largest playa of all time! And shouts out to all of the playas on the market.”
He concluded with an honorable point out: “And I simply need to observe up on ‘Jawnin,’ and that simply means to tease somebody. I do know individuals from D.C. thought they created that, however all of your grandparents got here from the South. So we’ve been jawnin’ a very long time.”
On the political aspect of issues, Mike just lately got here to the protection of Ice Dice after followers criticized the latter over an image with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dennis Kucinich.
Underneath a latest put up shared on Instagram by HipHopDX, the outspoken Atlanta rapper/activist shared his admiration for the N.W.A legend and reminded critics how a lot his affect has impacted Hip Hop.
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“@icecube helped my era achieve information of self and be fiercely pleased with being black in AmeriKKKa whereas offering an instance of what self motivation and willpower can do from Music to motion pictures to the Massive 3,” Mike wrote. “He’s an instance of ‘A black man can.’ I like love and respect. Thank U Dice.”
Ice Dice’s political strikes brought about a stir when he he met up with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late politician Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of former president John F. Kennedy, and ex-Mayor of Cleveland, Dennis Kucinich.
“@Dennis_Kucinich and I spent an exquisite night with one in all our nation’s most influential and outspoken civil rights leaders @icecube!” Kennedy Jr. wrote on Twitter in early July whereas sharing a photograph of the three of them flashing smiles for the digicam.
Like Dice, RFK Jr. is a famous anti-vaxxer and has been closely criticized lately for peddling misinformation and propaganda in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine.
The 69-year-old can be hoping to observe in his uncle’s footsteps and land the Democratic nomination within the 2024 presidential election having formally launched his candidacy this previous April.
