homeboy
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If a friend put me in a situation that nearly destroyed my career, I’d stay as far away from homeboy as possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
“I remembered my homeboy that lived in the neighborhood. I had to go through some woods to his house with the album,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
"Where your homeboy work, the one that gets $190k a year?"
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2022
“Looks like homeboy is doing a little too good,” Tolbert said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2021
Turns out not using the number is harder than Jus anticipates, especially when he’s alone with nothing but memories of his homeboy.
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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My homeboys would wear they sisters’ shirts and they sisters’ jeans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
But Black Twitter, combined with the people I followed from the bar, my homeboys from around the way I convinced to join, and Eastside-Westside Baltimore Twitta, made my experience complete.
From Salon ● May 6, 2022
“I just remember me and my homeboys getting in the car and going to down to Canal Street,” Mathieu said.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2022
When white hot-rodders were jacking up their cars to go fast, homeboys were dropping their rides low, and slowing things down — a quintessentially countercultural move if ever there was one.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
They were all his homeboys, you know, the kids he hung out with just a couple of years ago.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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