two for nine - Two $5 vials or bags of crack for $9
tweak mission - A person on a mission to find crack
beam me up scottie - Cocaine (powder or crack) combined with PCP
nebbies - Depressants
new jack swing - Heroin and morphine
coco rocks - Dark brown crack made by adding chocolate pudding
boo boo bama - Marijuana
tyler berry - LSD combined with gasoline (???)
squares - Cigarettes
maserati - Crack pipe made from a plastic rum bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover
fiend - Someone who smokes marijuana alone
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Only other time I've heard cigs referred to as "squares" was in the book Erasure by Percival Everett
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What is it with authors and using slang. Does nobody here remember 1984?
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Hilariously enough, "slang" is also kind of a slang term; it stands for "pseudo language" and refers to unofficial words and phrases that are part of a subculture's vernacular.
Or, I could be making all that up. We'll never know.
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Imma keep it real with you, I dont know about no slang. Im pretty r-slurred.
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The section of the book where he's using slang is done extremely purposefully. The rest of the book is written in the voice of a literature professor so it's flawless.
Fantastic book, Everett is a wonderful writer.
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The book is written in the voice of a literature professor who is a drug fiend addicted to slang? That seems right up my alley
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He's an unsuccessful author who writes a book filled with grotesque urban black stereotypes in an attempt to pander to the liberal publishing world who want something "real" and "street" from black authors. It's about way more than that though.
It was just adapted into a film called American Fiction but it was a weak adaption that largely missed the point. Jeffrey Wright is always excellent though.
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Omg a black author that is actually smart and talented and not full of stereotypically black stereotypes?
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