- I have no clue what's going on, anytime.
- I was finna say you live in Houston.
You ain't never even been to Hou-
You don't even know what Houston and Texas look like.
- Why you coming for me?
Gemini.
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- What's up, y'all? I'm Ben.
- Hi, I'm Joyce.
- Hi, I'm Jaidyn.
- And I'm Vivian.
- And today, we are gonna be translating Texas slang.
- I feel like you are completely going to crush this
'cause you're from Texas.
- I moved to Texas from London in 2002.
So, as long as the slang isn't pre 2002,
I'm gonna be good.
- Well, the only Texas slang I know is Beyonce.
(laughing)
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- Hi. Ay, what's good.
My name Kito Flex.
I'm from Ice Town, aka Houston, Texas.
- What's happening, y'all?
It's your boy Retrorew.
Reporting live from Beaumont, Texas.
You know what I'm talking about?
The real 409, you know what I'm saying?
Shout out to the golden triangle.
- What makes my slang, my terminology, so special,
is because like, you know,
it's country but then at the same time
it's like, it's so true.
It's just a unique, it's a unique way of talking.
I feel like I'm from the South.
- My southern slang is the coldest,
most soulful, most colorist thing
that this world has ever seen,
you know what I'm talking about, man?
You know you don't question God, bless us.
- All right, let's get into it.
- The word is slab.
S L A B.
- I don't know why but it makes me
think of like a slab of like, ribs.
- Yeah, it made me think of like a pack
or a group of something.
- What's up, slab?
- Slab is like a whip, like your car.
- So the meaning of slab, historically,
is a vintage vehicle or a vehicle that is being restored
to the point where you got brand new candy paint.
You have brand new leather.
- So it's about a car?
- It's about a vehicle?
- That's like a Houston slang, for sure.
- I would've never guessed that.
- No, no, no
- The word is splityowig.
S P L I T Y O W I G.
- I should know this.
Splityowig is like, something crazy.
Like, just out there.
- Oh, it's like 'whoop your feet'.
From LA.
- What the (beep).
- You never heard that?
- Never in my life.
- Like, whoop your feet.
Like, 'bro you tired'.
Or like, 'dang I'm tired'.
Like, 'dang that really kicked my butt today'.
- Like you about to bust somebody upside they head.
You about to pow, pow, pow.
- Saying that to like my AT&T customer service.
- How you gonna say it? Put it in a sentence.
- I be like,
'If you don't (beep) pay my bill, I'ma splityowig.
I'ma find out where the call center is.'
- Aight, so the meaning of splityowig is basically like,
'Don't make me go upside your head.'
Like, splityowig.
Like, you know,
'We have some problems,
I'm gonna have to splityowig one time'.
Like, basically just go upside your head.
- You was right.
- Good job. - You was right.
- Dang.
No, because I said LA too and it,
I swear it's who you, it has like multiple meanings.
- The word is awready.
A W R E A D Y.
- Yeah, baby.
- [Both] Awready.
- I think it might be like, you're ready to go
or something like that?
- I'm gonna say it's basically shorthand for already.
Like, we're ready to go.
Like, let's do this.
- Awready is like, bet.
And like yeah, awready.
Like 'Yeah, we gonna do that'.
Awready. It's cool.
- It's like, awready.
(laughing)
- You don't even know.
She don't know.
See, that's my problem with Jenna.
She be talking like she knows, but she has no idea.
- The meaning of awready could be a congratulations.
It could be a salutation.
It really just depends on the context of the user,
as well as the situation.
- He said a salutation.
(laughing)
Awready.
I mean he's not wrong, but like he said,
it could be used in so many different ways.
Like, awready.
Like 'Cool, that's a bet'.
Like, that's awready.
- Oh, so she's like
'Oh okay, great'.
- Awready.
- It's a confirmation, more than anything.
- Oh, okay.
- The word is candy.
C A N D Y.
- Beyonce got a song named Candy.
I thought that song was about sex.
- It sounds like drugs.
Am I wrong? - Mm.
- I feel like candy is like 'Oh, that's sweet'.
- The song that's popping in my head,
- [Both] Tastes like candy, candy.
- Candy. My guess would be just like,
the colors, sweet colors, bright colors.
Candy paint.
- Candy like 'Oh, she's sweet'.
Like she cute, she look good.
(munching)
(exclaiming)
Okay, let's see what it means.
- Candy actually refers to the type of paint that is on a
very stylish, very invested into vehicle.
So, the paint actually has flakes or sparkles.
- This man really love his cars.
- This man and cars, that's all he care about.
- You are a very specific slang car guy.
- He's the kind of guy who like,
you go on a date with him,
and he talk about his cars.
- It's like a nice gloss.
It's like candy paint.
You know? It's cool.
- Sounds like a great nail polish.
- The word is boppers.
B O P P E R S.
Boppers.
- Now we getting a little,
we getting some good slang up in here.
- Bop is like, you know,
you ever call somebody a bop
'Oh, you a bopper'
That means you be sucking a whole lot of peen.
- Boppers are like, like stupid people.
Like, just, they do dumb (beep).
- So, you know in the Beyonce song?
She said she saw the boppers in the corner,
so people were just, giving fellatio.
Damn.
- Boppers is like, they going from one homie to another.
I mean a guy could be a hopper too.
A bopper too. - Oh.
So, boppers like homie hoppers.
- Boppers have two different meanings.
So, the first meaning for a bopper could be like,
basically like a female that's on a guy
because he has money.
So she trying to bop off of this,
she trying to bop off a man because he has money.
And another meaning to bopper for me
is just like somebody that's like a copycat.
Like you have somebody over
that's just trying to bop off you,
that's trying to copy your style,
and things that you do.
- Well now we know that Beyonce did not go to an orgy.
She was talking about the girls
that wanted to be with her man.
- Bopper does have multiple meanings.
Like a bopper could be a person who's bopping,
but it could also be, like he said at the beginning-
- You're with someone for money.
- Yeah
- The word is dippin'.
D I P P I N '.
- Dippin', like dipping dots.
- Stop it. Stop it, Vivian.
- I feel like, it's like when your car got hydraulics.
And it be dippin', you know,
you bouncing down the street.
- 'Oh, your car is dippin''.
- I'm figuring he talking about cars,
'cause that's all we were talking about this whole time.
- That is true.
- Dip. Like he about to dip.
'Yeah, I'm finna, yeah, I'm finna dip'.
- He's probably talking about a car.
- Let's see, let's see. - Let's see.
- The meaning of dippin' is cutting someone off
either to return that cutoff,
or to get in front of that person
while you're on your way to where you have to go.
- I love how he has these, like,
detailed explanations of each one.
- All of his stuff was related to cars.
- He probably has a really nice car.
- He probably, his car is probably crazy.
- And it's probably like spotless,
and it probably smells like patchouli.
- He sounds like an aggressive driver,
but like polite, but like aggressive.
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- People from Texas really love their cars.
- Specifically Houston.
- Now I know that if I ever a date a man from Texas,
I'm gonna be sitting in his car a lot.
- I think it was very regional based, and car based.
But, they are still slang.
- I did not call my car a car, it's a slab.
- It's a slab.
- So, if you didn't know any of this,
this is definitely an educational video.
- I like Texas slang, though.
It's cute. - Me too, me too.
- I likey, I likey.
- The southern accent, moi bien.
- I just learned a bunch of words
I don't wanna be called.
I don't wanna be a bopper.
- Don't come at us too hard in the comments, you know.
- Shout out to Houston, Texas.
Shout out to Texas in general.
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