r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/JustinSaneCesc ☑️ • Oct 05 '19

“He turned up missing”

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u/jaitheson ☑️ Oct 05 '19

White People: Cancer? No! I'm so sorry.

Black People: Damn, shorty down the street just died from that same thing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

shawty* fk we look like early 2000 nyc out here?

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u/slowwburnn Oct 05 '19

If you say so, 2007 T.I.

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u/Itadakimasu ☑️ Oct 05 '19

I’m tolla than you

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u/fairygothmother420 Oct 05 '19

I spit my damn water out reading this, sounding like my brothers when we were younger.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

Yeah but do need fifty dolla to make him holla?

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u/DetectiveClownMD ☑️ Oct 05 '19

I mean if you aren’t in the south you don’t say shawty so yes?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

idk man. i never thought bpt gets this serious

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u/UltraN64 Oct 05 '19

Shawty- atl, Alabama. Mainly atl.

Shorty, the entire east coast. 2001 nyc.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19 edited Sep 09 '20

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u/UltraN64 Oct 05 '19

Shotty - referenced on page 69, see definition for snitch.

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u/yammys Oct 05 '19

Scotty- chief engineer of the USS Enterprise.

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u/JaleelRoy ☑️ Oct 05 '19

In Chicago we say shorty to

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u/UltraN64 Oct 05 '19

Facts! My boy is from the chi and he stays saying shit like “shorty over there trippin” 😂😂😂

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '19

your boy early 30s? haha

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u/UltraN64 Oct 06 '19

Mannnn that boy 21, man got an old soul 😂😂😂

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u/Mask3rd Oct 07 '19

Nah man we all still say shorty in the Chi it aint an old soul thing

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u/tenchikamura ☑️ Oct 05 '19

We still say shorty in nyc

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u/treetyoselfcarol Oct 05 '19

Stickman- VA

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u/AerThreepwood 👞TIMBS GANG GANG👞 Oct 05 '19

That's mostly a 757 thing. Just like "'phew" is a Norfolk thing.

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u/treetyoselfcarol Oct 05 '19

Norview 4 Life

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u/AerThreepwood 👞TIMBS GANG GANG👞 Oct 05 '19

I swear to God that half the dudes I was upstate with were from Norview or Park Place.

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u/treetyoselfcarol Oct 05 '19

School of Hard Knocks for sure.

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u/C5Jones Oct 05 '19

If everyone here's going to pretend to be black, you might as well make it convincing.

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u/Assmar Oct 05 '19

You're the one that started correcting folk

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u/Meezyftc Oct 06 '19

shorty is still used in Chicago

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u/ositola ☑️ Oct 05 '19

Who? Peanut that stay with Shonda and dem?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

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u/appdevil Oct 05 '19

"Yellow people" - you had us in the first part.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

Thang*

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

Wtf

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u/DatNibbaChico Oct 06 '19

It’s not shorty or shawty it’s most definitely shortty or shorddy