never saying "bro" again after this video...

[TraceOneInfinite]

90's hip-hop never really had the word "bro" as part of it's lexicon.  So why did I start using it??

We had "homie", "dawg", "loc", "cuzzin" in West Coast hip-hop.  In the white suburbs we had the word "man" and "dude".  Any one of those words is better than "bro".  I'd even rather say, "my guy", or make up my own phrase, or no phrase at all. This word crept into our vocabulary in the 2000's somehow, and I picked it up by accident.  After seeing this video, I can never use it again.  They got another version of it in the UK with "bruv".  The word sounds lazy, obnoxious, and it has lost it's meaning.  If you say "brother" it is somewhat endearing.  If you shorten it to "bro" then it sounds horrible.

After this video I feel embarrassed that I ever used the word, hearing how bad and classless it can sound...

[HighEyeCue]

a lot of 90's slang we used here I've grown out of, for instance "son" which was the OG version of "bro" or "bruh" as it's now used...another one is saying "mad" in front of every word, it's "mad" hot or whatever...if you have seen the classic 90's cult classic "Kids" it was a pretty on point portrayal of NYC in the 90's

[Sccit]

back n the day it was brobro then brodie .... eventually it was just shortened to bro ... keep it classy with brother if u must


no answer is wrong

[Sccit]

damn the bitch in that video is insufferable

almost made me wana stop saying bro too

 

[HighEyeCue]

one thing I have to stop saying irl is "cringe"...saying that in itself is cringe lol

[BJV]

So which words are we using in 2026?

[TraceOneInfinite]

damn the bitch in that video is insufferable

almost made me wana stop saying bro too

 

Told u man... just watch the video and you'll never wanna say it again