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My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
Approximate author period: c. 1987 AD · modern
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- Queen Latifah
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- Approximate author period: c. 1987 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Queen Latifah: documented activity in 1987. Wikidata Q1112005, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1112005 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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