Archive for January 20th, 2007

Doin’ What Comes Naturally - Rose Royce
A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays - De La Soul
Friend Or Foe - Jay-Z
Time’s A Wastin’ - Erykah Badu
Well You Needn’t - Miles Davis
Christopher Columbus - Flip Wilson
Tramp - Otis Redding
Da Funk - Redman
Fly Girl - The Boogie Boys
Mary - Take 6
Held Down - De La Soul
Promises - India Arie
If It Don’t Turn You On - BT Express
Eat ‘Em Up L Chill - LL Cool J
Super Soul Sister - Heatwave
Whispering - Benny Carter With Oscar Peterson

Talking to some of the kids today after school, I was asked about some of the slang terms I used to use when I was in high school.  In particular, they wanted to know what I used to say when referring to a person when not using that person’s given name.  For instance, they call everybody moe, young, or son.  As in, “Iono, son…” or “Be easy, Moe.”  At first, I really couldn’t remember anything, then I realized.  We didn’t use names, we used letters.  “Whassup, B?”  What the ‘B’ stood for, I never knew.

At any rate, that made me try to recall a lot of my high school slang with the intention of trying to get them to appropriate it.  Obviously, this would be a strictly after-school activity, but I think it might be fairly interesting.  Now I just need to figure out which words I’m gonna spring on ‘em.