Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(W.I./UK black teen) from the neighbourhood.

1984		Whodini ‘Friends’ 🎵 Some you grew up with around the way.
1993		Source Dec. 80: I love Run-DMC. They was cool from around the way.
1995		S. Moore In The Cut 122: around the way, in the neighborhood.
1999		J. Ridley Everybody Smokes in Hell 49: He had stayed in school past the tenth grade. For around the way, he was a goddam genius.
2005		B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 195: [A] local pimp named Hot Lips who they knew from around the way.
2013		A$AP Rocky ‘Jodye’ 🎵 Call my homies from around the way.