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Sep 2013
28m 13s

34 - Gangster Expressions

REALLIFE ENGLISH
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Words You'll Learn
  • Saudades
  • Missing in Action (M.I.A)
  • Every cloud has a silver lining 
  • C.E.O.
  • Shrink
  • Short and sweet
  • A'ight
  • Grillz
  • To rock something 
  • Let's make like a banana and split
  • Banana split
  • Earmuffs (literal and figurative)
Words to Know
  • Yakuza - organized crime group in Japan
  • Russian roulette - a game where you put a gun with one bullet in it to your head and take turns pulling the trigger
  • Revolver - a type of gun similar to a pistol
  • (When something is) behind you - you're not worry about it anymore, it's in the past
  • Abundance - a large quantity of good things 
  • Maxing out - the most something can do/get
  • Bribed - to persuade someone with often illegal offers
  • (To do something) rain or shine - You're going to do it no matter what the weather is like
  • Aww yeah - not ohh yeah
  • Cali - short for California
  • Kidnapped - when someone is taken by force, generally to get a ransom [money]
  • Sprinkle - to drop/pour/scatter small drops of a substance over something
News
  • The 30th RLE Party in Belo Horizonte on Saturday the 14th.
  • The first RLE party in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday the 19th.
  • The first RLE party in Barcelona on Thursday the 19th.
Shout Outs
  • Quel123
  • Castilhoft
  • Manoel Lopes
Question
  •  How do you use the word EVEN?
Expressions
  • Fo shizzle
  • That's whack
  • Bling
  • Let's bounce
  • To scope it out/scope something
Tip Joke
  •  What is your greatest weakness?
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Song

Rite Where U Stand by Gang Starr 

 

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