It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.
"Ok you're a goon but what's a goon to a goblin"
You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
I got lots of love for my crew, that is; No love for them other crews and rival kids. All them out-of-town niggas know what time it is, And if they don't? They need to buy a watch, word up.
I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.'
Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?' They surround me and make a big fuss
My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack
Drop it like it's hot.
Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull
Snoop Doggy Dogg paged, that must mean more hoes.
There ain't no "baby mama drama" up in this Vortex, homie!
I heard about crack on the news and I was like, "Oh, that's what the niggas must be doing." And when I kept coming outside, I was doing my own little jostlin' to get my money.
Gotta go let me get the car key You don't want it wit the Harajuku Barbie
What's up, gangstas? It's the M-I-Double-Tizzle.
As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.
Y'all niggas ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.
Me, my niggas and some Madonna hoes that look just like virgins but trust they down to go.
I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
Way to rock lil' homie. Much Love.
Now I am in to fat chains, sex and techs, fly new chicks, new kicks, I love you like a fat kid love cake.
'Ratchet' has a lot of meanings. You can be a bad ratchet or a good ratchet. You can have fun, be ghetto, and get ratchet.
'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the way that 'recreational' sounds - I don't like to say I do a lot of 'recreational' reading. I like to say that I read 'recreatively.' I do a lot of 'recreative' reading.
In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.
