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  • What's up guys, hope you're doing well.

  • And welcome to Ghetto Vocab.

  • A show where we attempt to define

  • the latest ghetto phrases

  • and expressions

  • based off your suggestions.

  • The first word is curved.

  • Curved?

  • Curved??

  • Like a nice curvy figure. That's what I'm going to say.

  • Is it another abbreviation?

  • Does it mean you were rejected?

  • I turned a curve?

  • You're going somewhere and you see someone you don't like you're like: ohh curve!

  • You're out. You're trying to look fresh...

  • Somebody that is doing things wrong all the time.

  • ...the shower's just not cutting it. So what do you grab? So what do you grab? Some curve.

  • If you're curved your body's like.

  • Hmmmmmm....Ha!

  • Curved basically means to get rejected.

  • Oh!

  • Why!?

  • You like a girl. You ask her out to Chipotle and then you know she's like "no...I have

  • a boyfriend" and she doesn't.

  • Have I ever been curved? Oh yeah.

  • Yes, I've been curved.

  • I'm a guy, so definitely I've been curved plenty of times.

  • I smiled at a guy and he didn't smile back.

  • My cousin suggested that I tell a girl I like her by drawing her a picture.

  • So he definitely curved me. He did one of these:

  • Whooo...she throws it. I was like daaaaaaaaang! It was so sad. The curve. But that's never

  • happened ever again!

  • How does if feel when you get curved?

  • It's humiliating.

  • Not good.

  • When you're playing Mario and there you are...there's the flag pole...

  • If you're a dude, you should be used to getting curved.

  • ...and you're like "yes" and then the power goes out.

  • If you're a female and you're getting curved, you need to seriously re-evaluate your life.

  • The appropriate time to curve someone is when someone has stank breath.

  • If you start getting a weird vibe.

  • She's taken and she wants to play games with you.

  • When someone comes too strong. You know what I mean?

  • The breath is too strong.

  • Maybe the breath is too strong.

  • When I curve someone I say "no thank you."

  • Yea umm..I don't...this this..I don't think this is going to work.

  • Ohh, I'm so sorry I have plans.

  • So, yeah. You might have to leave.

  • Maybe some other time I'd like to.

  • And I didn't buy them their dinner. You know. It was expensive. I just, I had to. I was

  • like "Ehh, I don't want to buy this cause you got the shrimp scampi. Ahh! And here we

  • are at Ale House. No one orders that at Ale House."

  • Have a good day.

  • Uhh, but you wanted to anyways and we're all eating burgers here. Guess what, you're getting

  • curved!

  • The next word is turn up.

  • Turn up!

  • Turn up?

  • That's a hard one to define.

  • You're raising the roof. You're turning things up. It's getting crazy.

  • Why can't we think of the...

  • ...adjective!

  • Turn up just means get hype.

  • I'm so off base on that one.

  • Get wild.

  • I thought it was 100% drunk.

  • On a scale of 1-10, turn up is anywhere between 8-10 section.

  • Oh, get riled up! Get riled up.

  • The appropriate time to turn up.

  • Anytime is an appropriate time to turn up.

  • I'll tell ya a really appropriate time...

  • When you're out with your girlfriends having a good time ole time...

  • Right before child birth.

  • ...but you need to make sure you stay close because if you're getting too turned up then

  • that attracts a whole bunch of guys over and then they try to grind on you.

  • Ohhh, when should you not turn up? Church?

  • No, cause people get turned up at church. Funerals!

  • Funerals.

  • Funeral.

  • In the grocery store.

  • If you're walking by the casket...

  • During a test!

  • ...and then you just start breaking it down and then you start Dougieing.

  • Yoga class.

  • When you're being handcuffed by the police officer, do not turn up.

  • Do not get turnt up.

  • The last time I turned up...

  • I was at my buddies at a bar.

  • ...probably during the Super Bowl and I was eating Mexican food.

  • I don't get turnt.

  • ...and I was so turned up I was lifting up girls, putting them on my shoulder.

  • The last time I was turned up was three weeks ago.

  • ...and I grabbed one that was a little bit heavy and I made her drop.

  • I don't want to talk about it.

  • When I turn up, I tend to dance a lot.

  • I'm all about that left shark.

  • You feel it the next day.

  • What kind of dancing are you doing?

  • I'm turned up over this shark.

  • The last word is basic.

  • Hmm.

  • Basic.

  • Hmmmmmmm.

  • I think basic means you're nothing.

  • Somebody who's not taking care of themselves.

  • Something that is regular.

  • Basic is just anyone or anything that is unsophisticated or unrefined.

  • Ohh.

  • Ok. Kinda close.

  • In pop culture, it's associated with white girls who drink Starbucks.

  • Someone or something who is basic?

  • If your favorite album is the U2 album that came on your iPhone, you are basic.

  • French vanilla ice cream.

  • Selfies.

  • Anyone who takes Iggy Azalea serious.

  • Regular vanilla ice cream is good. French vanilla that is garbage.

  • How can someone tell if their basic?

  • If you keep getting curved, most likely you're basic.

  • I would imagine most people who are basic have no clue that they're basic.

  • If on your iPod who have Miley Cyrus...

  • A basic person is a white person cause they have no culture.

  • Ohhhhh! Burn!

  • ...followed by John Mayer...

  • Hahaha oh my God!

  • It's true though, right?

  • ...followed by Owl City.

  • That's racist! That's racist man.

  • I feel like people don't know that they're basic until it's too late. It's like obesity.

  • It just happens slowly over time.

  • Is there a cure?

  • Yeah, self-respect.

  • There's scholars trying to figure that out right now.

  • There's absolutely no cure for being basic.

  • 1 out of 16 basic people stay that way their whole lives.

  • Be yourself. Embrace the things that make you unique...that make you you!

  • That's all we have for this week.

  • Did we mess up?

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  • with your definition

  • and which words you'd like to see

  • on the next episode.

  • New videos every Sunday.

  • No Jugamos Juegos.

  • Throw me the alley.

  • Did you see that?

  • You got the chocolate people over here. That's not a reference.

  • I fee like turn up is one of those words...

  • Hahahaha

  • You got the strawberry people over here. Again, not a reference.

  • My example of someone basic:

  • Yes Jesus!

  • Thank you for my life and my blessings every day.

  • Scooter Magruder.

  • They're doing their own thing. They're living life and you're basic french vanilla.

  • And stop.

  • I'm a grown man.

What's up guys, hope you're doing well.

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