English Slang Expressions: Yo, Wat Up Cuz?"

What up homies? This is Chad from RealLife TV and I was just here, chillin in my crib

and I thought Yo, I should make an episode of RealLife TV explaining some awesome slang

expressions. Aww yeah!!

Alright guys, so in this episode I’m going to teach you some

expressions that are, obviously they are slang expressions and pretty much

all of them are American slang expressions. So most of these expressions I think probably

came from African American culture and maybe some southern American culture, and it’s

kind of strange because I’m Australian and I’m explaining this, but these kind of expressions

are really prevalent around the world obviously through media and things like that, so here

we go. The first expression you are going to hear

a lot is aint, aint. So aint is like, “Yo I aint going to go there.” And aint is another

way of using the verb to be. I am not, he is not she is not, we are not, and this is

a way of saying that but aint is used for everyone. I aint, you aint, he aint she aint,

we aint, they aint, everyone aint in this case. So when you want to say I am not he

is not you can say I aint. I aint going to go there I aint going to watch that movie,

I aint going to wash my clothes, I aint going to go to the party he aint going to go, she

aint going to go. Aight means alright. Alright so you can use

this if someone asks “hey how are you today?” “Yo, I’m aight, everything’s aight.”

Everything is alright. And you can also use this at the end of a phrase. Someone might

say, yo man I’m going to go and hang out at the park, aight? So that means, you’re

asking like, is that alright if I go down there? Is that aight? Everything aight? I’m

going to go there aight? Yo how’s your mom, is she aight? Is she alright?

I’m going to give you a holla. Holla comes from the word holler spelled H-O-L-L-E-R but

everybody writes it H-O-L-L-A. I’m going to give you a holla, if you need anything

just holla. Holla pretty much means to yell, I mean originally the word is to yell to holler.

Nowadays we holla to say that you are going to ring someone, I’ll give you a holla,

maybe it’s even a message, or if you need anything just holla, just give me a holla.

Give me, gimme, a holla. Yo, if you need anything, jus gimme a holla.

Chillin! Like I said at the start of the video I’m just chillin at my crib. Chillin is

a way to say relaxing. Yo, what are you doing tonight? Just chillin at my crib.

Crib is another way to say my house, my home. The original use of crib is actually a baby’s

crib, where a baby sleeps is called a crib. Yo, I’m just cruisin here today guys, cruisin.

Cruisin just means that everything is relaxed, everything is fine. Maybe you are having a

very easy day you are just cruising. You are going to hear people use this a lot when they’re

walking around the street, maybe they’re driving in their car, cruisin the streets

of L.A. I think I’ve heard that in some rap song before. Yo I’m jus cruisin the

streets of L.A. means you are just driving around in a car going around to different

places, nowhere in particular. Just cruising Yo!

Fo real, know what I’m saying? For real is often pronounced FO-REAL. Yo, fo real?

This means that you are asking if that person is serious, is what you said real, Yo fo real

man? Fo real? That shit is fo real. I know you all know the famous expressions

what’s up, sometimes wazup, with a zzz sound, but now you are going to hear a lot of people

saying like wat up, wat(d) up. Yo wat up, wat up dawg? Wat up dawg? wat up cuz?

These are all other friendly names you can call your slang using friends. You can say

dawg, not dog but dawg and you add a little twang it’s like dawg, wazzup dawg? Wat up

dawg, wat up dawg? Sorry for my bad American accent by the way guys. Again dawg is actually

a positive thing, it’s a sign of endearment for your friends, if I call you dawg, you’re

my dawg, you’re my homie. Homie is what I used at the start of this

video I said, Yo wat up homies? A homie again is a friend, I don’t know where these words

come from, I just hear them a lot and I don’t know why we say them but you’re going to

hear it all the time. Cuz, yo wat up cuz, gimme a rolla cuz. Cuz

is short for cousin, again it’s not actually your cousin it’s generally just your friend.

G, wat up G? Yo G fo real? G is short for gangster, again I can use that for my friends,

the person doesn’t really have to be a gangster. You can use this amongst friends, yo wat up

G? Another one that is similar to fo real, F

O fo real, we can also say fo sho, it’s like F-O S-H-O, fo sho, Yo fo sho. It’s

like for sure, hey do you want to go to the party tomorrow? For sure, or fo sho. Know

what I’m saying? Do you know what I am saying is when you are

asking for confirmation if that person is understanding your words. So you are going

to hear people saying it really quickly, know-im-saying, know-im-saying, hey, know-im-saying. You’re

going to hear people saying this all the time on American TV especially.

And the last expression I’m going to teach you guys is to bounce, because right now I’m

going to bounce. Bounce means to, you know bounce a basketball, but in this case it means

that you are going to leave, Yo man Im going to bounce. know-im-saying?

Aight Gs, I’m going to bounce right now, but just so you know, this vocabulary, these

slang expressions are used today. They are not used in everyday English they come from

a specific cultural group, I mean you can use these whenever you want but just know

when to use them, what they mean and you know, have fun with them. Like I said I’m from

Australia, I don’t really use these expressions in a serious way, but I can use them in many

cases joking around with my friends and having fun with the language.

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