A chill, laid-back AAVE greeting that asks 'what's going on?' without really needing an answer. It's less a question and more a vibe-check — the kind of thing you say when you roll up on your crew and want everyone to know you're in a good mood. 'What it be' carries that same easy energy as 'what's good' or 'what's poppin', just with a slightly older-school flavor that gives it undeniable cool.
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Slang from Black American Vernacular English (AAVE), hip-hop, drag and ballroom culture, the Caribbean, and NYC street vocabulary. The single largest source of new mainstream English slang in living memory.
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(AAVE, uncommon) What's up? What's going on?.
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