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The Portable Promised Land choose

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[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] The Five Percenters.
at 5% Nation, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] The 411. A 187. I’m 730. Audi 5000.
at Audi (5000), phr.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Ai-ight. Right on. No doubt. Step off! Stay up.
at a-ight, phr.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 160: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Amen corner.
at amen corner (n.) under amen, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 159: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] I and I. Sooky, sooky, now.
at I and I, pron.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 159: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Shuckin n’ jivin. Handle your bidness.
at shuck and jive, v.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 251: Sistuhgirl’s desire [...] to see that oily, ashy, greasy, eight-ball black boy kept clean.
at ashy, adj.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Sho nuff. Bust this. Ass out. Break out. Bug out. Kick it.
at ass out under ass, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 158: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Where ya at? Whatdedeal? What’s goin on? What’s the dilly-o?
at where you at?, phr.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 160: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Niggerati.
at -ati, sfx
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 151: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Homeboy. Homegirl. B-Boy. B-Girl. Brotherman. Sistuhgirl. Soul brother. Soul sister.
at B-girl, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 151: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Buppie. Bougie. BAP. Boho. Big Baller. Bougie. Bamma.
at b.a.p., n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] TLC. TCB. CPT. PHD. OPP. BMOC. HNIC.
at b.m.o.c., n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Tar baby. Trick daddy. Mack daddy.
at tar baby, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 159: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Lay it on me. Layin in the cut. Let’s get it on.
at lay (back) in the cut (v.) under lay back, v.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 156: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Pig. 5-0. Bacon.
at bacon, n.2
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 151: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Buppie. Bougie. BAP. Boho. Big Baller. Bougie. Bamma.
at Bama, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 156: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Colorstruck. Babylon. Bananas.
at banana, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 19: He liked that quickfast heat, that fast food, that slambang dunk.
at slam-bang, adj.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 155: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Dope fiend. Speedfreak. Basehead. Beaming up. Lifted. Nod.
at basehead (n.) under base, n.1
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] The breaks. The beast. The blues. The vapors.
at beast, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 155: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Ghetto blaster. Boomin system. Human beatbox.
at beatbox, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 151: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] My people, my people... Yes, yes, y’all. Eight-ball-black. Brown. Bronze. Beige. Ebony.
at beige, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 182: Flying down Manhattan’s West Side Highway at 95 miles an hour, slaloming around Fords and Benzos as if they’re little orange cones.
at benzo, n.1
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 161: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Booshit. Summbitch. Beeatch. Shimit. Gotdamn.
at biatch, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Souped up. Straight up. Step up. Big up.
at big up, v.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 55: Here they are: the dialect’s heavyweight champeens. The soul semiotics HNICs. The vernacular’s Big Willies.
at big willie, n.
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 64: Biscuits. A word for an essential bit of soul food became a word for a woman’s ass, an essential part of Black womanliness.
at biscuit, n.1
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 64: Biscuit [...] a weak man who can be robbed easily.
at biscuit, n.3
[US] ‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 156: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Biter. Butta.
at biter, n.4
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