“Woo Wap Da Bam“ - Saba - The Slang Show Episode 11

One of my favorite parts of Chance The Rapper’s beautiful “Ultralight Beam“ verse took me a while to decipher. I been this way since Arthur was anteater/ Now they wanna hit me with the woo wap da bam, he raps. Turns out “woo wap da bam“ is a common saying in Chicago. When fellow Windy City native Saba visited The FADER a while back, he explained what the tongue-twister of a phrase, and its counterpart “woo this,“ means in his hometown. “It’s the natural progression of a sentence or sentences describing dial