Bred, where me scrilla? Ain’t no ting… 1 Day is the brilliant urban drama (and musical!) that director Penny Woolcock has bounced hard from the mean streets of Birmingham. Starring a non-professional cast, it’s funny, frightening and maybe the most authentic portrait of Brit gangland-culture ever made. It’s also bloody hard to understand. Here, then, is our guide to the word on the street…
Bouncing = leaving
Bumba = ass
Bang = shoot
Blast = fire
Bull = fucked
Hydro = hydroponically grown marijuana
Dump = to shoot
Nitro = nitroglycerine
Darts = rhymes
Devil’s pie = what you get if you sell your soul to the devil
Ends = our area
Pumps = pump action
Bred > bredren = brethren
Ting = thing, a move, a deal
Blud = blood, a friend, also B.
500 bags = 500 thousand
Taking bare food out of Man’s mouth = you would be stealing from the Boss Man
Dog = man
Big men = older and more important men
What’s gwanning = what’s going on
My soldiers = one of my team
Cuzzie = mate
Boom = cool!
Scrilla, P’s > paper > paperwork = money
Papers = money
A ghost under your belt = you killed a man
