DonKnutts: great post! bobrek: classic reply! everyone else needs to lighten up. it was just a little slang/ebonics talk ( you know the "other language") between friends and it was all in fun. ------------------
Hilarious. ------------------ Ceo of the Walt Williams and Lisa Malosky fan club. atheistalliance.org
D Knutts, I have nothing against the slang. I grew up talking it and being around it, but trying to read it all the way through damn near made me black out. The part I hated was that they never really talked about anything. Mention a few names, drop a few points, etc. Anyway, props to Bobrek for taking me up on my "Airplane jive-translation prompt". LOL! I'm still laughing. ------------------ Yugo grills, Yugo mills, Check out the oil my Yugo spills...
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... by fellow Philly native and rapper Beanie Sigel. The interview is below (from June issue w/ Foxy Brown on cover): Cat: I see you doing your thing, man. I love it. Beans: I see you doing your thing, man. You came to Philly and gave the Sixers their worst loss. Cat: We gave them boys some work. I had to, though. I gave them boys 25. I love playing at home. I love to go home and play in the summertime, especially when we do that thing to 'em. Beans: Yeah, you talking big-time sh*t, cat. I feel you! Cat: If we're 1-81, as long as we beat the Sixers at home, I'm sweet. What's up with your new record, Reasons?" Beans: Aww, man! I should give you that sh*t. You'll probably drop 40! Cat: I listen to all your sh*t now. I got The Best Of tape. That joint from way back. Beans: You'll probably hit a triple double when you hear this sh*t. Yo, this album... I'm a tell you, right... yo, it's like.. like back to the concrete for real. It's like you can play ball on the wood all day -- on the hardwood with the glass backboards. But this album, it's like back to the cement with the chain nets. Cat: I love it. I love it. Beans: Back to the chain nets with the half-moon backboard. Cat: Yeah, the half joint. You got to have the real touch to put that b**** off the glass on that one. Beans: Yeah, that's what I'm sayin'. Cat: Ask Face. You know Scarface be down here with me. We be listening to your sh*t all the time. Beans: That's my man. He's coming up here soon. He's gonna be on the album. Cat: Yeah. I'm a see him tonight. I got him some courtside seats for the game tonight. That's my dog. Beans: Who do y'all play tonight? Cat: We got Seattle. Beans: How many are you gonna drop? Cat: I'ma tell you like this: I'ma give these n***as work. It's gonna be something on SportsCenter with me involved. Watch. I think sometimes these teams be asleep before they play us. And then by the time they play us, they try to wake up, but it's already f**ked up. You gotta prepare yourself a couple days before you f**k with us. Me and Steve are too ready for these cats. Beans: I wanna see the Dynasty sign up tonight. Cat: Yo, we be putting that joint up! You ain't see it? Beans: Naw, I ain't see it. Cat: Yo, the boy from the paper asked us what it was. We be doing it so much. Beans: I wanna check you out. Do y'all come to the East Coast anymore this season? Cat: We did them boys dirty already. Game-winner against New York... Philly, I had 25. We blew them out. [Allen Iverson], that's my man. I mean, put it this way, if it was on the other hand, him and Blue [Aaron McKie] would have did me dirty. I had to come home and swell. Beans: When you was at Rhode Island, I saw you come to Temple and drop 25 on them. Cat: Yeah, I had 30 that game. But when you come back home, you've got to. See everybody else was at home. Aaron McKie was at Temple. Arthur "Ya" Davis was at St. Joe's, Alvin Williams and Jason Lawson was at Villanova. All of them was at home and I was coming home. So all of them got to swell everyday. I only got to swell when we played St. Joe's, LaSalle, Villanova, Temple. So you know when I come home, I'm gonna load my clips up to about a good 20. I've got to. I can't be getting talked about. END ------------------
Can anyone translate it for us? ------------------ Yugo grills, Yugo mills, Check out the oil my Yugo spills...
This is my favorite part- Didnt they lose that game ------------------ I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
You know, straight up, I don't have a clue what they just said. ------------------ See the three, be the three.
what do you mean by that? it's just an impromptu convo between a rapper and a ball player. It's not a dead serious one-on-one with Bob Costas. lighten up. ------------------
I never really thought there was this much of a cultural gap b/w players and fans. But that's interesting, I guess. What, specifically, do you not understand? ------------------
Barney! Scintillating.... ------------------ Time is a great teacher-- only problem is it kills all its pupils. PowerbizOnline.com
I hope this is not how they argue with the refs... I can see why would not get the calls if this incoherent babbling is their method of convincing the officials that their calls were bad. Cat: I'm a tell you like this, you done me dirty on that call, man. Ref: I call them as I see them, son. Cat: I'm a see you to see them better, yo. You be asleep when you be calling that foul, man. I'm a can't be talking about. My man just be slam dunkin in transition on the other side. I gotta be go tellin' him he ain't bein' ****. ------------------ Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Sign up for season 2 of the CC.net NBA Sim League! http://bbs.clutchcity.net/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000328.html
lol bobrek...that was one of the funniest posts ive read on this board. Thanks for breaking it down for the jive impaired. (which doesnt include me...I speak jive) ------------------
ROTFLMAO!!!! oh my freakin lord, bobrek that is absolutely hilarious! The Knickerbockers? Oh, man, that translation is soooooooooooooo funny! I'm sorrry, I can't stop LAUGHING! Whew, was THAT the high point of my day or what!?!? By the way, does anyone else notice how completely different Cat and Chise are? I mean, one's a foul-mouthed, outspokened Philly cat and the other's a poster boy for the L who (as far as I know) never cusses in his interviews. Ah, do opposites attract. I hate when people, black or white, use the term "ni**a." It offends some people, like me. I grew up with my black friends dubbing me, "China ni**a." They got a kick out of it. I didn't. I'm not chinese. Hey, I can't help it that my mom is japanese-american and my dad's african american. Cuttino sure lays his feelings out. I appreciate that, but the word sh-t got kinda old in the slam interview. ------------------ "They couldn't shoot, rebound, or pass, but other than that, they played great!" -Bill Walton
THat is the the actual name of the organization. They were called the knickerbockers long before this translation. ------------------ right on [This message has been edited by across110thstreet (edited May 01, 2001).]
Yeah...I know. I mean, I don't want to sound like a smart ass, but I know that's the Knick's real name. It just sounded really funny when Bobrek had to say their formal name in the translation. I don't want anyone to think that I'm an idiot for not knowing a little background info on one of the most popular NBA franchises. ------------------ "They couldn't shoot, rebound, or pass, but other than that, they played great!" -Bill Walton
riiiiiight. i hear it used more often in the news i guess, it is not that uncommon for me but he (brobek)also said Philadelphia 76'ers and Seattle Supersonics. Plus you separated your thought on the Knicks with a ? i guess thats how words are misread on the net. ------------------ right on
across110thstreet, "Knickerbockers" is extremely old-school. I'm 17. It just sounded weird. ------------------ "They couldn't shoot, rebound, or pass, but other than that, they played great!" -Bill Walton
