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Welcome to the A.D.Z. English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my
co-host, Sochil. And today we are in the vocabulary spotlight. And Sochil, there's
this thing like a lot of our slang comes from African-American culture, you know,
hip-hop culture. And what happens over the like ten years, you know, when
something emerges a new word. At first, it's just the young people that use it. And
then it has this odd thing where it actually reaches the highest levels of
society where people even on the news will use these terms. And that's why
they're that's why new ones are always being created because the old ones are
kind of stolen from. He's out of fashion, right? Yeah. But then it just kind of
works its way into the mainstream. And so I've got a list of about eight of them.
And I thought you could just kind of define what they are. And because I know
you'll know what they are. But I know what they are too because you know, they're
old people use these now. So the first one is bling. And what is bling?
Bling is like jewelry, especially like diamond jewelry and flashy jewelry. Bling, bling.
Yeah, expensive jewelry. Yeah. Oh, wow, you're wearing a lot of bling today.
Yeah, I would say flashy flashy jewelry more than anything. Okay. Because yeah,
right? Because expensive could be really dainty too. That's true.
Like bling, right? But if it's like a big old rock or something, a big diamond.
And then that's a lot of bling like the Titanic, part of the ocean or something.
Yeah, yeah, you're right. Flashy is a better adjective. Yeah, something that's
very flashy. You're showing everyone your your wealth, you know, so to speak.
Yeah. What is a crib? Your crib. Oh, a home. Right.
I heard crib for a minute. Oh, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Crib is a home. And there's even a show in the US called like, what is it called? Welcome to my
crib. MTV Cribs. And everyone says welcome to my crib. And they come into your house and
like tour it. And yeah, that's kind of what it is like basically. Yeah, you'd walk into
someone's house and say, Hey, nice crib. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. How about dope?
What is something is dope? dope is cool. Just means cool. Something is cool.
Interesting. Whatever. Yeah. The A to Z English podcast is dope.
There we go. Yes. Lit. I know you we've done this one before.
A lit is like, it can mean drunk or under the influence. This one. I'm I'm thinking more like
exciting. This party is like, yeah, exciting. Like this party is lit. Yeah. But if you say someone
is lit or someone says, I'm lit, it doesn't mean they're excited. It means they're under the influence.
Right. Yes. That's true. They're they're drunk. They're lit. Yeah. Or lit up is another way we say
that. I think I thought lit up is means like you you crack into someone. Oh, yeah. That's another
another meaning of it as well. I believe. Yeah. Again, these are the multiverse because there's
so many meanings. So each one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We'll try not to confuse everybody. We'll just
just say lit. Just say lit. Yeah. What about salty? If someone's being salty. Angry. Yeah. Man,
soul king like, powdery, angry and annoying. Yeah. Don't be salty. Come on. Let's let's go. You
know, let's go have fun. Yeah. Don't be salty. Yeah. What about to throw shade at someone? What
does that mean? That means to diss somebody. It's like being snarky, being saying something nasty.
I have someone throw shade at me today. I went to the market to sell American clothes,
which is my new side hustle and some of the clothes is from she and but most of it is not. But
for those of our listeners who don't know about you probably do know she and is like a fast
fashion website. But just like two items are from she and but the lady walked by and said,
oh, it's all from she and or something rude. And I was like, but yeah, that would be,
it's like being kind of snarky or something. Yeah. Saying something disrespectful to somebody,
you know, being rude is, you know, you're throwing shade on someone, making them feel,
you know, they might be feeling really good. And then you throw shade on them and it makes them
feel bad. It's kind of, it's like, I think the reason it's called throwing shade is because it's
not like overt necessarily. It's kind of like a under the rug sort of diss like a lower level.
Like if you called them out on it, they could just kind of be like, oh, I didn't, I wasn't throwing
shade. It's like a very indirect passive aggressive. It's passive aggressive. It's indirect. It's a subtle
dig. We would say that someone and you're using the word diss, which actually is perfect for
today's episode because this is short for disrespect. Oh, I didn't know that that was short for
disrespect. If you diss someone, you're disrespecting them, right? You're dissing them. Yeah.
Yeah. This someone is to make a dig at them is to shade them is to disrespect them. Yeah.
What is an OG? OG is an original gangster like a two-pack or, you know, those guys.
Yeah. Biggie. Biggie, small two-pack, all those people. They're OG, original gangster.
But how would we use it in the colloquial sense?
A lot of times now, on colloquial sense, are modern ways. You say OG just to me in original.
So it doesn't have to be original gangster. It just means original. So like, oh, yeah, my
dad was an OG hipster, which he kind of is. He was doing that whole dad sweater and jeans by
thing before all the hipsters did. So he was OG. He's not an original gangster hipster. It just
means he was originally an original hipster the first. Yeah. The first of a group to do something,
you know, the very first group that started a trend, you know. And so if you started a trend and
you were there at the very beginning, you are an OG. You're an original gangster.
But I hear this often by just regular people just saying, oh, he's an OG. Like he's been,
even in my school, I'm an OG because I have been teaching it my school longer than all of the
other foreign teachers. That's crazy. They might say to me, oh, Jack's the OG here. He's the original
original original gangster, yeah, which I'm very proud of. It's the only time anyone would ever
call me a gangster. How about legit? Legit just means real. Like, oh, it's legit. Is it legit?
It means is it real? Is it true? Is it? But a lot of times you apply it to like, let's say
someone's wearing a lot of bling and you say, is that bling legit? Is it real jewelry? Is what
they're asking? Or is it like fake costume jewelry? Right. Is that ring from Tiffany's or did you buy it
from a website? I think it's short for the word legitimate. Legitimate is the full word. So is
that legitimate? But they just shortened it to legit. So yes, that's true. All right. That's the last
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