I'm from New Zealand and over here, all the younger generation use it, kind of in the same way as "bro", it's mainly the Polynesian and Maori youth that use it but often their mannerisms seep their way into mainstream NZ English. Also for some reason we can spell it like "g" but also "ghee" or "gh". Here are some examples of how we would use it: "ghee, wanna hokas" (bro, do you want to fight), "ghee, f*ck up" (bro, be quiet). However no one would ever say "He's a g" or call anyone "my g" unless as a joke.
So i was wondering, is it still commonly used in America amongst the youth?
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Ironically perhaps, but not common anymore.
The youth commonly speak in tongues. Their elders rarely understand their slang.
More evidence that we really are speaking another language. G was generally just slang for gangster. But that was a long time ago. I can’t say I’ve heard anyone using it in a while.
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As a Black American I can say not so much anymore lol TBH I don’t know wtf y’all using it as either 😂That sentence don’t make a lick of sense.
It was vaguely popular like 20-30 years ago but even then it wasn’t as common as bro is now.
As a rep of gen z with a younger sister, no. Maybe being funny, but not normally.
Nah, g
I’ll use it.
Gno
Not really, g.
Yeah I use it. I go what up g, hey bruh, hey brotha, hey g.
No, it was really prevalent when gangsters were cool back in the 80s and it died down around the late 90s early 2000s in the U.S.
I don fink we evah did g
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“He’s a G” maybe but it means “He’s a gangster”
Not much in common conversation
Some of you don’t know about the G thang, baby.
It’s the smooth gangsta shit that be driving ya crazy.
Only when I’m talking about Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Is there a Polynesian or Maori word that the kids are abbreviating to “ghee” instead? The way it’s being spelled and (not) used in certain contexts makes it seem like it’s derived from an entirely different base word than the word “gangster” used in American slang.
Lmao G is such an old term like a solid 20-30 years at least. Also ”ghee wanna hokas (bro, do you want to fight)”is the most Polynesian sentence you could’ve possibly come up with lol
it’s not like in the public lexicon like it used to be. it’s sort of like a bell curve. at first a small amount of people said it, it became cool and then a bunch of people said it, and now as time has passed it’s lost popularity and the only people who still say it were saying it before it became popular all over the country.
Idk what people are talking about in the comments it’s very common I hear it all the time
maybe 20 years ago. does stuff move that slowly in New Zealand?
Word.
Ain’t nothin but a g thang baby
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I’m like 40. I remember this kinda being a thing. Not something I personally ever used to refer to my friends, but I’d definately understand what you meant.
Sure, but to my knowledge it’s done as a throwback to hip-hop slang, like calling your friend dawg.
Of course g 🙂
The youth, no. Old heads, yes.
From NZ and can confirm I say g all the time.
Sort of ironically. You see an old friend you haven’t seen in years: “Whaddup G?!”
No one I know uses it with a serious tone.