Entry · catalog no. 1020
yadadamean
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phrase · Bay Area, West ·
✓ Verified
1.
"You know what I mean?" — a run-together tag dropped at the end of a thought to check that you're being followed. Also "yadadeezy," "yadada."
“It's about the movement, yadadamean?”
Origin & Attribution
Bay Area hyphy movement. Carried by rappers Keak da Sneak and E-40 and woven through the region's hip-hop in the 2000s, it compresses a whole sentence into one bouncing word — a signature of Bay Area speech.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
Bay Area, West ·
Spoken by
$YADADAThe Record · cultural traction
▲ 26 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
60/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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By region — how it actually sounds
@auntiereg
Atlanta, GA
@deltasoul
Memphis, TN
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Citations & Sources
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The FADER, "What Yaddadimean Means in the Bay Area" — article · 2016
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+ Cite a sourceKeak da Sneak / E-40, hyphy movement — Bay Area hip-hop · 2000s
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