chic that came over was interested in the series after seeing the 1st two eps w/ me...hadn’t heard of it prior to that...she asked if it was “snowfall”
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chic that came over was interested in the series after seeing the 1st two eps w/ me...hadn’t heard of it prior to that...she asked if it was “snowfall”
I’m about to put my barber on it.
I was picking up my man’s bookbag from this house where a few dudes slang tree. I saw a couple dudes watching the show so it seems like it’s catching on.
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TheBrehdrenMovement
Accurate. This season was great. Interesting to see where Season 4 goes with certain characters.
MillionMills
Superstar
Randomly binged watched this
Jaime on my all time favorite characters list
Jaime on my all time favorite characters list
This! Mods stop fukking around!
Yeah definitely. I put on at least like 5 people. Told them it was like the English version of the wire or City of God. Also said put on subtitles.
Subtitles? Really?
I understood brehs fine, but I do have fam in London and I’ve been to LDN bunch of times so I guess I have a “trained” ear to their accents. Also exposed to a lot British culture because of soccer and music so that may be part of it.
On the final episode right now and man this show is crack. Amazing cinematography and amazing visuals of London.
But my favorite aspects are the visuals, acting and pacing.
Black hollywood has definitely lost a step in the acting department. Kane Robinson deserves a nod for his potrayal of Sully.
But my favorite aspects are the visuals, acting and pacing.
Black hollywood has definitely lost a step in the acting department. Kane Robinson deserves a nod for his potrayal of Sully.
Real
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Wished Lizzie would have died
I have recommended that people put subtitles on the help catch some of the nuances and such. Some of the characters like Cam have a strong accent and speak quickly. Plus some of the slang is not familiar to Americans. Saying things like “bare”, “you lot”, “allow it” are terms we don’t use.
True thing on the slang.
They can be picked up easily though. Context clues helps.
Funny thing is a lot of British slang has made it’s way to Nigerian slang so I was able to pick up on “man dem”, “bare”, “allow it” and “wasteman”.
I think one aspect of the show that was briefly mentioned by posters but not reflected on enough was how brilliantly gentrification is shown throughout the series. It almost exists as a background character of sorts. You can go all the way back to Ra’nells mom working at the hair salon. You have the investors walking in the shop pointing around and saying when the building is torn down where all the new structures will be. Then you get another scene where the hair salon owner is talking about the landlord doubling the rent and how unfair it is. Gem’s dad and the hair salon owner are eventually forced to close up their shops because of the high rent. You also had Dushanes lawyer trying to put him onto a real estate investor looking for liquid cash, since banks were tight with credit. She literally told him “what if I could introduce you to somebody who knew where the next big thing was? Who knew where the next slum would be a high rise”. She told him his life as a drug dealer would be short lived and he would be able to quadruple his money by investing in real estate. Fast forward to the new season and you have Dushane broke as shyt, buying coffee in a gentrified area, which I believe is the same area the investors were looking at and the same area the lawyer wanted him to invest in.
Such a weird dichotomy to me, since both Dushane and the investors are destroyers of communities. One through gentrification and the other through drugs. The people who are most affected by this destruction are the shop owners and regular people. They both destroy the fabric of communities.
Such a weird dichotomy to me, since both Dushane and the investors are destroyers of communities. One through gentrification and the other through drugs. The people who are most affected by this destruction are the shop owners and regular people. They both destroy the fabric of communities.
The more interesting thing is how most of that slang comes from Jamaican slang. Except for wasteman. Hell they even say “wah gwan”.
DaRealness
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LOL a few people in a FB group said they needed the subtitles because they didn't understand our lingo at all and was expecting us to sound proper and clear.
Bare = a lot
You lot = Y'all
Allow it = Forget about it, leave it alone.
Innit = Isn't it
P's = Money
Mandem = nikkas, your crew, dudes etc
It's because all the dudes on the show are Jamaican, except Ats and his mum