Is your teen 'a gangsta from the hood'?!?!

[Robertsmithdoesmyhair]

My 14 year old son speaks in rap and I have no clue what he is talking about most of the time. Lots of 'blud' 'bruva' and sucking his teeth. Funnily enough, he is neither from the hood nor a gangsta and we are a fairly normal family! We don't live in The Bronx and we don't wear soverign rings!
When oh when will he return to normal? Anyone else's teen doing this?

Just my son then...i feared as much!

Nope ..... but if he did, I'd be laughing every time he opened his mouth! I think it would be hilarious to watch him pretend to be a gangster!!

Maybe it's just a phase

Yes. Or rather ‘Yea fam’. It’s mortifying! I find if you do it back or ask innocently what it means it loses its appeal somewhat.

Haha mine kind of drssses like he does as does one of his friends. He doesn’t talk like it though thank god

It isn’t just your son. They have their own language. Occasionally my (lovely) teen DD forgets to click into parent mode and speaks to me in Nadsat.

Mine does this "ironically"

Everything is done ironically, even playing minecraft or listening to rao

This made me My 14 year old doesn't speak like this but does have his own language along with his peer group. It consists of so much 'like', 'wait' and 'yeah?' that it takes him half an hour to tell me he's missed the bus!

My 11 yr old has a friend who insists on being called “Ghetto”. His name is actually Spencer. His family lives in a five bedroom home with a salt water pool.

This is like when the son in Paddington 2 insists on being called J-Dog

I regularly have to tell the boys in my my Year 10 that they are not "Gs" but little white boys from a small northern city.

PMSL at Ghetto

I remember when DS was just born, 3lbs 12, lying in nicu with wires sticking out of him... I used to comfort myself by thinking one day he would probably call himself Da F-Man on social media and wear gratuitous gang symbols.

Needless to say, we live in a white MC area of Devon

Dd2 (11) is very Street. She gets some odd looks in the village shop when she calls the gentle older lady behind the counter 'cuz'.
She is white but she longs to be black as being white is 'boring'. She listens to grime. She has made herself an expert on Afro hair and how to keep it in good condition (she learned from you tube) as she feels this is knowledge she will need in the future. She speaks in a sort of East London gangsta Patwa, which is weird because we live in the Home Counties and both me and her Dad are from the North.
Each to their own I suppose. I've grown to find it quite endearing.

@TheLastNigel
Gosh that's not endearing, that's quite offensive.

Mine was for about 3 years and then stopped for whatever reason. I can make her squirm now repeating things she said then!!

Legit op

Oh my Dayz! I ent had this yet, but nah fam i'll be ripping her if dis happens yano!

A few weeks ago she said something, I can't actually remember what it was. I did tell her that if she wanted to talk like a wally then I shall talk like it to her friends. Suddenly it wasn't that 'cool'

Not my own kids, but I teach a fair few "roadmen" as they call themselves. I wouldn't mind if I was still teaching in a rough part of inner London, but it's a leafy comp in Hertfordshire, where half the kids come from million pound houses.

TheLastNigel

Reminds me of my time teaching in a college in Luton. It was the weirdest mix of gangsta, Asian and Bedfordshire! The greatest accolade was being treated with "true say" if any of them agreed.
Truly entertaining though was doing mock job interviews with them. They all spoke normally to me!

I am from Belfast where my life was reasonably socially mixed and no one was really pretending to be anything... then I went to uni with what I thought were typical casual English types.

Except they were all like this (90s version) so like, wicked man, just getting my decks out to deeeejayyyyy some drum n bass in my halls room man and smoke some like, wicked skunk* etc.

*on one occasion this turned out to be dried lavender from the I Saw You Coming school of drug dealing.

It took me sooooooo long to figure out that I was in a really posh hall full of kids from really lovely private London day schools/ boarding / major public schools and that most of them had the home life of spencer bless them one and all.

This thread reminds me of when we were teenagers; my sister had a boyfriend who thought he was 'street'. He introduced himself to my parents as 'J-man'. My Dad gave him a Look and asked what his real name was. He insisted on J-man. My sister, who knows not to push it with Dad, said his real name was Joseph. 'Nice to meet you, Joseph' said my Dad and the boy muttered something back.

My DGD is exactly the same OP.
I asked how her exams were going
R: Loooong and dry
She often points at good looking lads and tells me they are 'Peng tings'

It's another language fam. true true.
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Ya get me bro ! 😂😂

@J-man

Apparently DS2 does this on the school bus and sometimes in school. DD says it's really embarrassing and people ask her if they're from the same family, why don't they speak the same. Her explanation is; "Because I'm not a dick"

I won't tell you the name he's had printed on his leavers hoody.