Here are some photos of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West leaving Paris and coming back to LA. That was a whirlwind trip – they were barely in Paris for a full 24 hours. They met with Karl Lagerfeld for some reason (probably a magazine editorial) and had dinner. I know I shouldn’t care, but I really like Kim’s beige coat here. I wouldn’t wear it in June, but I would wear it.
For the past few weeks, Kim has been posting slang tutorials on her subscription app. This week was “Part 3” of her slang tutorial, and while I knew what most of these slang terms meant, it’s not because the Kardashians invented them. The Kardashian-Jenners have merely appropriated a lot of urban slang and slang from #BlackTwitter and now Kim is putting the Kardashian stink on it. Here are some of Kim’s explanations for various slang terminology.
Facts. “The truth, the real deal, what really happened.”
Bloop. “Essentially meaningless, a ‘bloop’ is a space filler that can be used at any time, for any reason.”
Turbo thot. “An individual who is particularly fast, in the colloquial and sexual sense of the word… That girl is such a turbo thot; she’s literally hooked up with every guy I know.”
Wave, wavy. “The current trend, what’s cool right now; what all the cool kids are super into at the moment.”
Sus. “Someone acting shady as f—k.” It’s short for “suspect” or “suspicious.”
Vibes. “The general feelings that someone or something gives you. A vibe is not concrete, but rather a mood you feel from other people and your surroundings.”
Turnt. “Not to be confused with ‘lit,’ ‘turnt’ is used to describe the atmosphere of a party, event or group of individuals.”
Bible. Originating from the fact that we swear on the Bible in court, crying out the word “Bible!” is expressing something you really mean.
Damn, Gina. Originating from the ’90s sitcom Martin, “Damn, Gina!” is used regularly by Khloé to express shock and awe, in a good way – like, “Damn, Gina, you are looking fine!”
Ratchet. “Ghetto AF. Beyond ‘ghetto,’ it’s used to describe any person, situation or event that is a complete hot mess and beyond saving. However, ‘ratchet’ can also be used in a positive sense—to describe an ambiance as being so busted that it ends up being fun.”
Lit. “The state of being so intoxicated, turned up or generally in an amazing mood.”
Bitch Bye. “A phrase used when you are just totally done listening to another person and have nothing more to say to her.”
[From People & the Daily Mail]
I think most of us knew what most of these terms meant before now, right? This might be a good slang primer for our moms, but most of us heard about thots, bitch bye, damn Gina, ratchet, facts and lit YEARS ago. Facts: if Kim is giving a slang primer, it probably means that no one but the Kardashian-Jenners are using these terms at this point.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Kim’s a turbo thot, then. Takes one to know one. 😉
Isn’t she all against slut shaming? Girl, don’t encourage the use of thot.
Exactly! F*ck that empower women talk she tries to spew. Like her husband, it’s only an issue when you’re offending HER. Ugh, I’m annoyed and possibly in labor let me take my ass to the hospital.
Regardless of slut shaming or other judgment I have a very unfavorable opinion of Kim. I’ve used worse to refer to her. We all do, we just don’t post it.
@Tiffany27
Girl, congrats! And gogogogogo! I hope your labor and delivery are smooth and you and your new baby are healthy!
Haha 😀 BIBLE, as she would say!
LoL I must be a big loser because I didn’t know a lot of them. I mean, “Facts, Bible and Bitch Bye” are obvious, but the rest? No clue. Ah well. I’m actually quite ok with that 🙂
Knew a couple, so I’ll join you in not knowing what they meant. I knew “ratchet”, “facts”, “lit” – not a new word, “Bitch Bye” – all pretty obvious as to what they mean.
Facts? Vibes? Wow, Kim, get some new words.
ha ha ya forgot to add vibes to my list 🙂
I think you forgot “lit” which has meant “drunk” literally for 100 years.
so dumb they’re dumbing down the language they speak.
nice.
She’s a bloop.
Hahahaha! She is!
Her fetishization of all things typically considered black America (along with the rest of her family for that matter) is gross.
She gets all the recognition and money without ever giving credit to where credit’s due….
Ugh.
I’ve never seen a family want to be black so bad, then turn around and not give two s**ts about black issues. They want the “coolness” and none of the responsibility.
Yep
While I think cultural appropriation is something that we all do to some extent, I find it sad that they all want to be someone other then themselves.
Kylie wants to be a 36 year old Armenian/Black women.
@Marty- I think they specifically want to be light skinned black girls since that’s the look they’re going for when they use 3 cans of bronzer.
It just upsets me that there are young black/brown women out there struggling in a world where their style, physical attributes, even speech is constantly viewed in a negative way, but it’s acceptable for the Kardashians because they are tan white women.
@Guest — I’m 100% Armenian and I don’t think I’ve met a black Armenian. That said, Kyle has no Armenian blood. She’s not a Kartrashian.
Too bad black people don’t call them out on this. I wish someone would ask them why they want so badly to be black.
@meme, I was basically trying to say Kylie wants to be Kim even though she’s whiter then wonder bread.
Also I meant and black.
I never said Kylie was Armenian
I know she is white, but she doesn’t want to look it.
???
Black people DO call them out on this all the time.
As they should.
@Kitten- Right?! I’m sitting here like……
And the way they’re so insensitive to black people. Every time they get called out, they basically say fuck you and appropriate even more, or the whole family gets on it(like they all started wearing braids).
The ones I hate the most are those black friends that give them ideas. Because this is not even how kim speaks.
I don’t understand why more black women aren’t dismissive or publicly critical of them.
Also, they are able to take the parts of black culture that they want- the guys, the slang, etc. and then leave the parts that are more difficult.
I agree. And does anybody find it really crass that she’s throwing around words like “ghetto”? You’re an incredibly wealthy non-black woman born into incredible wealth. What right do you have to toss around a word that has been used as a coded term for poor black people for years?
It’s so gross, and I hate that the media doesn’t call them out on it.
Bitch bye.
Bitch……… Stop. Just stop. Go post naked selfies and raise your kids and sit down somewhere.
People are actually PAYING for this content?
I cannot wait until Black Twitter finds out about this so she can be roasted all over timeline. First they think they invented braids, then wigs, and now the slang black kids have been using for years?
Yep!
Hasn’t ‘vibe’ been used since the 1960s (if not longer)?
#pippatips
Yes. Very popular with hippies.
From the Beach Boys hit – Good Vibrations
Also “lit”.
Yeah, we totally said ‘lit’ with that exact meaning when I was in college. Which was not recent.
I’m also laughing at how ‘facts’ is basically just the dictionary definition.
Kim must be getting really bored if this is what she choses to do.
How is this news? Kim is reaching.
Also, I may be wrong…in fact I’m wrong I will admit that.
But Kim tweeted about the tragedy in Orlando, and I thought, “I hope she donates or does something to help, besides just a tweet, since she has the money and influence to at least ask people to donate”
But the other day, she asked fans “what bakery should I go to, me and my family are looking for a new barkery?”
I don’t know. It pissed me off.
But then again, I’m probably wrong.
Also, how she took a picture in orange , for gun awareness but in the same breath advertised her husband’s clothes.
Khloe especially likes to use phrases and sounds appropriated from the drag community. That ‘Okeeee’ with a click shes being saying recently is a black drag queen term thats moved into the more general drag community over time. Its used on drag race these days too.
A 35 year old wannabe…. girl grow up!
Kim really needs to get a hobby besides taking selfies
What a turbo thot
Not today y’all. I can’t even. I’m out.
Me too !
LMAO, yeah this covers it for me.
Hooked-on-Ebonics and her whole crew can get lost.
It’s always a fail when white people try to appropriate black culture. It’s never cool and it’s always embarrassing and cringeworthy to behold.
Also, the only people that don’t see through the transparency of this family is their fan base.
And all of the black men they date.
My eyes are stuck in the roll position….
F*ck this Columbusing Spicy White attention starved chicks and highest and lowest of keys a big side eye to white folks and white publications lapping this up and giving these vapid ass Black Culture Vultures cook and take credit and money for things they didnt live/create
Yes. Thank you. I needed someone to go in.
Reviving terms that were dead since 2008. Bye Felicia.
I will say something nice, i like her entire outfit here.
Girl needs new material/slang.
I like using slang from the ’60’s because I’m hip and far out that way.
I’m not a fan of jeans that are bought with the tears and holes already in them, I’d rather wear them enough to do that myself, but I do like her outfit. Love the suede coat, but it looks ridiculous dragging the ground.
Had a pair of white jeans I stole from my older brother and wore them until they were so short they were indecent. Put my own holes in those pants!
Yesterday I was alone at the house and vaguely bored as I was cleaning. For some unknown reason, I flipped on the TV for background and it wound up on a Keeping Up marathon. So that was my background for 2-3 hours. This am….after reading my usual “go to” morning reading (CNN, Facebook, Celebitchy, People) ….I am over both hate , depression and vapid stupidity. Not today, not for the rest of today. My mind deserves Better than this. I am doing mental break self care, and finding a comfortable chair, a pot of iced tea, and a novel that is about anything but ISIS, politicians, Kardashians or discussions of same.
Or maybe today is th day I break the seal on that Rosetta Stone package and learn a few words of Italian.
Or both. But none of this pablum for the rest of the day. I’m even going to resist one of the above slang phrases so eloquently defined by Kim in signing off.
(Shuts the door quietly and exits the Internet ).
Still trying to establish herself as some kind of authority. She has that in common with Trump.
Love the coat (ashamed to say I love anything she wears) but with it dragging on the ground like that it’s screaming “bed bug collector”
…I wonder if she thinks bed bugs can’t possible exist on planes or in Paris?
I’ll give Kim a pass on the cost because it’s cool in Paris at the moment. Maybe not heavy suede cool but everyone’s wearing jackets. It’s like 60 and that day she was here it was raining so
Most of the words she posted are old. You would think being the wife of one of the biggest rappers shed have fresher words.
“On trend”
…. ten years later. Bitch bye.
…she has looked so different the past two posts. What is it? Is her face a little pointier? She def looks… not so much thinner but less bulky.
all these terms she got from Black people…. especially Black gay men …ughhhh to her trying to make it a thing WHEN IT ALREADY IS…
im convinced Kim and the KARDNOTHINGS are the White People Whispers…. like they do cornrows and then its boxer braids fanatics, they say ratchet or ‘on fleek’ and it’s in vogue mag or something….. just stop it please
sorry but she is little late i am 17 and since middle school we have been saying ratchet but a little happy she know other word than like . Since she has all these fan why are rating only 1 million
I wish I had that coat and Kim a bloop in her loop.
Since someone must have steered her to Urban Dictionary recently, perhaps she should look up the many meanings of Kardashian while she’s there. Kardashian Commitment, Kardash Rash, Kardashian Quick Trim and Kardashian Minute are my favorites!
Australians have been calling people “sus” for ever. Next thing she’ll be talking about going over Dave-o’s in the arvo for a bit of grog and a barby – gotta go past the servo though.
She looks 100 times better (and thinner) when she’s not trying to be all sex-kitten and when she wears clothes that she’s not bursting out of…
This is cracking me up so much! Kim Kardashian: educator!
And it’s making me wonder if she’s planning to release some sort of “Kimctionary”.
Please you are not black never be black and can’t even be cool anymore. The middle schoolers use those words. Your a mother now grow the feck up and learn a real word like provincial vulgar and benighted.
Why didn’t “Beard” make the list?
How on earth is “lit” something she thinks needed to be explained? That one has been around forever. At least ten years in popular slang.