OG Maco Shares His Favorite Atlanta Slang

And it’s not “fuc-12.”

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If you’re an avid listener of Atlanta trap/hip-hop music and are not from that environment, you’ve probably encountered a lot of new vocabularies that you weren’t familiar with. ATL resident OG Maco reveals in a new video with The FADER‘s Slang Show that his favorite slang is not common ones like “dab,” “12,” “bando,” or “jug,” but a much lesser-known word — “dub.” The “U Guessed It” mastermind reveals that the word — which constitutes as a noun, pronoun, adjective and verb — originates from New York and can have a plethora of meanings. Watch it above to learn a little something about it.

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