Rap Cat
Friday, July 13th, 2007(via schneider)
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British comic Adam Buxton does a live vocal edit of an NWA song for his young son. Fantastic.
Searchin’ my car, lookin’ for the biscuits, thinking every chap is selling bits of chocolate.
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Here’s a massive dictionary of prison slang.
Some interesting ones:
Blickey: AIDS, as in “He has the blickey.”
Cell Gangster: One who talks tough locked in his cell.
Escape Dust: Fog.
Gangster: HIV. “Be careful around him. He got that gangster.”
Ninja: AIDS
Viking: A slob who doesn’t keep his cell clean.
Wobble Head: Prisoners with mental health problems or on medication.
The week I moved to Brooklyn, there was a shooting on my block. It happened right in front of Club Rockwell, apparently brought on by one disgruntled ejectee shooting another. I came upon the scene that night at the end of my walk home from the subway, finding the entire street lit up by flashing emergency vehicle lights, and a large, mostly bored-looking crowd milling around in front of the club. “What happened?” I asked a lady (who still had her martini-glass cocktail in hand out on the sidewalk.) “Some fool shot some other fool,” she said. “Is the guy dead?” I asked. “Nah,” she said, “just shot.”
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