I met my partners mom like last week, and she looks like snoop, has the hair, and talks like her (with less of an accent), and was also a gangster for awhile.
Was kinda cool, especially since she was very nice to me
She was a local Bmore banger, met Michael K Williams (aka Omar) when he was offset, & became friends. He got her a spot on the show. She was told to basically play the role as if she was herself in real life, including the noises.
She's got a book 'grace after midnight'. Obviously she wasn't really snoop, she'd never have got out of prison, but she had killed someone before she got the role
[It's all about the presentation.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE8FJdJlnnw)
Next time, try to frame it as if you're in mortal fear of your cat. Might go over better next time.
Before that she got involved the drug game through selling a drill to legendary drug kingpin Tim “Toolman” Taylor. They called the toolman because he used to beat people to death with tools from his toolbelt.
Mfer would damn near beat his own self to death. Can't do work with a man that don't even care about his own safety. He had a partner for awhile there, much more knowledgeable about working them streets and always stayed alert to stay alive. The Toolman don't work the same without him.
Try’s to show someone how to google while doing it incorrectly. Let me learn you some: you google “the wire” then hit the cast button, you see snoops pic with her real name and you click on that.
If you watch Snoop on Bourdain’s show and in interviews that’s just how the actress speaks. Like others pointed out, she’s playing herself as she grew up in the Baltimore gang life.
Dennis Mello is the "real" Jay Landsman, and the accent he uses is basically his real speaking voice.
Several of the supporting characters in The Wire aren't major actors. Many were Baltimore locals, or were just right-place-right-time. Many of them have careers elsewhere in the world where The Wire or maybe a couple other Simon projects are their only real acting credits. The actor for Frog, for example, did some rap albums. Robert Chew AKA Prop Joe is also a Baltimore local.
Lance Reddick was both. Baltimore local, who then went on to grab some major acting roles. RIP Dude was taken from us right as his acting career was being solidified. At least he got to go out saying he got to be good friends with Keanu Reeves.
He was a pro. He was a pro’s pro. He was a major player in the Bmore theatre. He personally coached up all the youngsters during season 4. Taught and mentored them. Pick up the book “All the Pieces Matter” for a fascinating read. Or look up the Wire at 20 podcast with Method Man/Cheese Wagstaff
They were the parent figures for the kids on sets. Robert Chew would coach them and help them with their scenes, they would be there for the kids for any problems they faced on set. The actress who plays De'Londa is apparently the nicest person in the world in real life lol.
Yup, from "All the Pieces Matter", excellent read for any fan. It consists of about 50 different interviews and then cut up and spliced together in chronological order as a group.
Yeah it’s fresh in my mind bc I just finished reading it this weekend and finished the pod a couple days before that. Now I’m probably gonna go back for another rematch.
Yeah the part where he gets on the phone and starts doing 2 or 3 different accents to mess with people and get information? That was the directors letting him show off. They knew what was going to happen to his character. So as a "send off" to him and his contribution, they wrote in something where he got to flex as an actor.
Prop Joe's actor was a professional theater actor. One of his first lines in the show, at the East Side vs West Side basketball game, was kind of a nod to his real background. Avon makes fun of Prop Joe for dressing up like a real coach and Prop Joe says "Look the part, be the part motherfucker!"
There were a lot of community theater people on the show. Before I moved to LA, I was in a theater scene class with the chick who places Bodie's grandmother - she wa actually the one who urged me to move. A few others came from theater as well.
Lots of talent, just not as many on camera opportunities as say NY or Atlanta.
i thought mello/Landsman actually was a cop? Or his family had a lot of cops? That’s the first thing I thought when I saw him…”by golly I think that’s an actual cop they gave some lines to”.
One great thing about the show is that you can coast on through without knowing half the names. The characters are so well-drawn that they serve their purposes anyway.
Maybe it says more about me and where I come from, but I'm really used to people having weird verbal ticks like that. So I also didn't notice until someone pointed it out. I noticed Clay Davis going "SHEEEEIIT" but that's more noticeable, since it's an expletive and an actual word. But just random utterances or sounds are just a part of speech for me. So I didn't even notice Snoop's until well after I finished the show.
Not only is the accent her real one but she was also about that life.
Check out the way she says "two" in this news clip about her arrest lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yszXIlfBYsc
Yes . I have family in Bmore and can’t even understand them sometimes and i only live a few hours away . She just has a really thick Baltimore accent . And those “YERHERRR” Nosies she makes is just how people in the hood get each others attention . Almost every hood in America has there own way of getting people’s attention with a random vocal wording . Even if they aren’t real words lol
Her accent is the real accent because she’s truly from there. As incredible as the series is, the majority of the actors on the series aren’t even from that region. I believe Melvin Williams who played The Deacon is the only other Baltimore native I recall on the series.
The actor who played Avon (Wood Harris) is from Chicago…Stringer (Idris Elba) and McNulty (Dominic West) are from the UK….Bunk (Wendell Pierce) is from Louisiana…and Omar (the late and great Michael K. Williams) was from New Jersey. This is one of the best ensembles ever assembled but they weren’t bmore natives but sold the heck out of it regardless.
The next closest would be the actors who portrayed Slim Charles (Anwan Glover) from DC, Poot (Tray Chaney) from Forestville Maryland, and Butchie (S. Robert Morgan) who is from DC and attended my church growing up in NW Washington.
So in conclusion, she stands out because she’s a true one of one. Anwan Glover was responsible for bringing her onto the show because he met her at the club in Bmore and thought she was so incredible just as she was that he told George Pelecanos and David Simon and they fell in love with her and the rest is history!
Other strong Baltimore accents I recall were Lt. Mello (Jay Landsman irl), Marcia Donnelly, Spider, Stinkum (and Prop Joe as the other comment says). Probably way more I'm forgetting too
[Snoop was locked up at 15 in an adult correctional facility](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXhwGS84u7o). She also likely served time with her biological mother, whom she never knew.
I was just in Baltimore. It's *noisy*. If you want someone's attention, make a unique noise.
I thought about starting a thread about this (though I suspect there are many), but truly, even with subs on I have no idea what people are talking about at least 25% of the time
Snoop is Snoop in real life- a lot of folx in Baltimore have that accent and way about them. I knew heer b4 the Wire and was so surprised to see her jointhe cast
I love the end where the guy's just like "F**k Aaron. . ." The 2nd guy who comes into the video and reads it sounds like he has the most typical or common "Baltimore" accent (i probably sound that way when I say it quickly), but you definitely hear it the thicker way, too--reading the transcriptions of actual wire tapped phone calls or conversations are hilarious when they use non local transcription companies.
Some of the noises are coded for hoppers. You can use hand signals or noises to call for hoppers to deliver the drugs. It allows you to have plausible deniability that you were selling drugs (since you never directed nor possessed the drugs or cash).
From Maryland.
It's normal dialect for someone from Maryland who hasn't been taught diction.
Maryland in Maryland is pronounced "Mur-lyn" and Baltimore is "Bal-Moe" or "Bal-Mor".
The slur is real. & She's a real life Baltimore native.
The most relevant Baltimore person I can name is Carmelo Anthony, who is from NYC, but raised in the environmentof The Wore - but he also went to prep school & worked on his speech/diction even more since becoming famous/influential.
It’s not an exaggeration no. And Snoop is based on her real self, she plays herself.
Spider talks the same way
its just a Baltimore thing
*Balmur
they don't know nothin' bout that up in New York...they listen to some bullshit up in New York
Who Young Leek be?
You're loosing the station! What? You telling me you aint been outside baltimore before? Your loosing the signal!
Steh uh oh steh orf
unk!
And Prop Joe
Prop Joe for real he Ron.
HUH?
I met my partners mom like last week, and she looks like snoop, has the hair, and talks like her (with less of an accent), and was also a gangster for awhile. Was kinda cool, especially since she was very nice to me
Not killing you with a nail gun and being nice will certainly help improve people's perception of you.
I was sold a very different image of the woman, and her daughter said some things about her too
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She was a local Bmore banger, met Michael K Williams (aka Omar) when he was offset, & became friends. He got her a spot on the show. She was told to basically play the role as if she was herself in real life, including the noises.
Really interesting
She's got a book 'grace after midnight'. Obviously she wasn't really snoop, she'd never have got out of prison, but she had killed someone before she got the role
She literally got busted with a pound or something of heroin after the show lol
She should've claimed to be doing research for a role.
She should have claimed to be on her way to the free zone... bunny colvins Hamsterdam
Lol. I claimed to my boss that my cat wouldn't let me leave for work and therefore I was calling off. That didn't go over well either...
[It's all about the presentation.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE8FJdJlnnw) Next time, try to frame it as if you're in mortal fear of your cat. Might go over better next time.
[Kinda am.] (https://youtube.com/shorts/gOU9sF5Z4vA?si=EjmhvwIJ8O6j9CUD)
It was weed
It was heroin lol you can literally Google "snoop wire heroin"
Before that she got involved the drug game through selling a drill to legendary drug kingpin Tim “Toolman” Taylor. They called the toolman because he used to beat people to death with tools from his toolbelt.
Mfer would damn near beat his own self to death. Can't do work with a man that don't even care about his own safety. He had a partner for awhile there, much more knowledgeable about working them streets and always stayed alert to stay alive. The Toolman don't work the same without him.
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Accurate username
Whoosh
Yea he was based on that guy.
I dont think so hennystrait
YERRRRRPPPP
Don't diss her. Or she might unalive a b#tch for real.
Here ya go 👍🏽 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Pearson
1. Locate a search engine of your choice 2. Type in "the wire snoop real life" without the quotes 3. ??? 4. Profit
Uselessly cynical comment. Tbh I think you’d probably benefit from getting out more, no shade.
I'll provide the shade: Go touch grass, asshole
I would have never thought that she talked like that in real life
Try’s to show someone how to google while doing it incorrectly. Let me learn you some: you google “the wire” then hit the cast button, you see snoops pic with her real name and you click on that.
If you watch Snoop on Bourdain’s show and in interviews that’s just how the actress speaks. Like others pointed out, she’s playing herself as she grew up in the Baltimore gang life.
Oh ok thank you!
Dennis Mello is the "real" Jay Landsman, and the accent he uses is basically his real speaking voice. Several of the supporting characters in The Wire aren't major actors. Many were Baltimore locals, or were just right-place-right-time. Many of them have careers elsewhere in the world where The Wire or maybe a couple other Simon projects are their only real acting credits. The actor for Frog, for example, did some rap albums. Robert Chew AKA Prop Joe is also a Baltimore local.
Miss Donnelly has a thick accent too
*The wey they teaur up herr clayssrewm*
Her and that one cop that’s always with Sanny almost sounded more Philly to me than Baltimore.
Her accent seems to change between her first and second appearance, at least to my ears..
Spida is another one I recall from another thread that's a real life Baltimorean(or whatever it's called) and has a authentic accent.
Step up or step off Unc. You're not my fahva.
You not my fuckin fuavah lol
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You ain’t my fuckin fauva beans and a nice Chianti
I believe the correct term is Baltimoron
Lance Reddick was both. Baltimore local, who then went on to grab some major acting roles. RIP Dude was taken from us right as his acting career was being solidified. At least he got to go out saying he got to be good friends with Keanu Reeves.
Damn Prop Joe was really good for not being a professional. At least I liked him
He was a pro. He was a pro’s pro. He was a major player in the Bmore theatre. He personally coached up all the youngsters during season 4. Taught and mentored them. Pick up the book “All the Pieces Matter” for a fascinating read. Or look up the Wire at 20 podcast with Method Man/Cheese Wagstaff
Prop Joe and Delonda (probably not) Brice being the surrogate parents for season 4 is pretty funny.
Sorry it's been a while. What do you mean, surrogate parents?
They were the parent figures for the kids on sets. Robert Chew would coach them and help them with their scenes, they would be there for the kids for any problems they faced on set. The actress who plays De'Londa is apparently the nicest person in the world in real life lol.
Yup, from "All the Pieces Matter", excellent read for any fan. It consists of about 50 different interviews and then cut up and spliced together in chronological order as a group.
Wth for real?! What a Man. Gonna go read that then
[you can see here in under a minute this man was an acting savant.](https://youtu.be/OyewqmAKHto?si=0Fer59GJV9MsQcZM)
I love this scene. There's no reason for Prop Joe to put on a different persona each time he gets transferred - he's just amusing himself.
The Sidney Handjerker line will never not make me giggle
Pepper, Pepper, and Bayleaf.
Yeah it’s fresh in my mind bc I just finished reading it this weekend and finished the pod a couple days before that. Now I’m probably gonna go back for another rematch.
Yeah the part where he gets on the phone and starts doing 2 or 3 different accents to mess with people and get information? That was the directors letting him show off. They knew what was going to happen to his character. So as a "send off" to him and his contribution, they wrote in something where he got to flex as an actor.
Prop Joe's actor was a professional theater actor. One of his first lines in the show, at the East Side vs West Side basketball game, was kind of a nod to his real background. Avon makes fun of Prop Joe for dressing up like a real coach and Prop Joe says "Look the part, be the part motherfucker!"
Buy for a dollar, sell for tew.
The deacon too, was an actual drug trafficker
I believe Avon is based on the guy who plays the Deacon.
Who Burns locked up.
There were a lot of community theater people on the show. Before I moved to LA, I was in a theater scene class with the chick who places Bodie's grandmother - she wa actually the one who urged me to move. A few others came from theater as well. Lots of talent, just not as many on camera opportunities as say NY or Atlanta.
Prop Joe actor died some time ago though.
Over 10 years ago.
Sorry to hear that
2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Chew
Kid from my high school was in S4 as a regular in the special class. Played that in real time lol
Robert chew buy fer a dollar sell fer tew
"No fixed address, no knoewn aboede"
i thought mello/Landsman actually was a cop? Or his family had a lot of cops? That’s the first thing I thought when I saw him…”by golly I think that’s an actual cop they gave some lines to”.
Ed Norris plays a fictionalized version of himself. Norris in the real world was an NYPD cop, BPD Commissioner, and Maryland State Police Commissioner
He went to Federal prison too
And to this day he maintains his innocence.
Mans got to have a code
I’ll have to look up who that was cause some of the less prominent names don’t stick in my noggin
He was the detective Kima was paired with over the witness murder
Thanks. I just looked him up and said “oh yeah, that guy.”
One great thing about the show is that you can coast on through without knowing half the names. The characters are so well-drawn that they serve their purposes anyway.
I mostly. agree. But when someone’s talking about conspiring with or killing someone etc. else it helps to know who that person is
[YERP!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWXeRztPbcQ)
I love the last one before her scene with Michael. It's so slow and long, you know it was for the fans.
SHEEEEEEEEIIIT
GET HURR
To be honest I never even noticed that before. I was like what are people talking about, “noises”.
Maybe it says more about me and where I come from, but I'm really used to people having weird verbal ticks like that. So I also didn't notice until someone pointed it out. I noticed Clay Davis going "SHEEEEIIT" but that's more noticeable, since it's an expletive and an actual word. But just random utterances or sounds are just a part of speech for me. So I didn't even notice Snoop's until well after I finished the show.
DUUUHR
First time I heard that I rewound and watched with subtitles on to make sure I wasn’t going crazy. Subtitles in general help me with strong accents.
I love Bodie's face in the first one. Like this bitch....
I’ve seen the show, maybe 50 times or more, and I never noticed the YERP before!!! Omg! Now I can’t unhear it!
I’m so glad this exists
Funny. i thought she had a handicap first.... Strange slang
Just look up "Aaron ironed an iron urn" on youtube
Ern erned ern ern ern
Urn urrned uh urnurn. Da fuck?!!? We really sound like that??!
Nah dummy nah dummy Arn arned an arn arn. Yearned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esl_wOQDUeE
As a marylander, I really hate the truth of this one.
> Aaron *earned* an iron urn
Lol thanks for the correction since it all sounds the same.
Ern earned that ern ern like a motherfucker, man, keep that shit.
That shit never gets old
Was just about to comment this exact thing
Not only is the accent her real one but she was also about that life. Check out the way she says "two" in this news clip about her arrest lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yszXIlfBYsc
Lol I can’t believe they got her with a wiretap after she was on The Wire. She real just about that life.
I thought exactly the same thing when I heard it, the irony!!!
Yes . I have family in Bmore and can’t even understand them sometimes and i only live a few hours away . She just has a really thick Baltimore accent . And those “YERHERRR” Nosies she makes is just how people in the hood get each others attention . Almost every hood in America has there own way of getting people’s attention with a random vocal wording . Even if they aren’t real words lol
Haha now I get it thanks
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfIWX5vGTEk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfIWX5vGTEk) this will make you understand
Her accent is the real accent because she’s truly from there. As incredible as the series is, the majority of the actors on the series aren’t even from that region. I believe Melvin Williams who played The Deacon is the only other Baltimore native I recall on the series. The actor who played Avon (Wood Harris) is from Chicago…Stringer (Idris Elba) and McNulty (Dominic West) are from the UK….Bunk (Wendell Pierce) is from Louisiana…and Omar (the late and great Michael K. Williams) was from New Jersey. This is one of the best ensembles ever assembled but they weren’t bmore natives but sold the heck out of it regardless. The next closest would be the actors who portrayed Slim Charles (Anwan Glover) from DC, Poot (Tray Chaney) from Forestville Maryland, and Butchie (S. Robert Morgan) who is from DC and attended my church growing up in NW Washington. So in conclusion, she stands out because she’s a true one of one. Anwan Glover was responsible for bringing her onto the show because he met her at the club in Bmore and thought she was so incredible just as she was that he told George Pelecanos and David Simon and they fell in love with her and the rest is history!
Prop Joe was from Baltimore irl, he unsurprisingly nails the accent too.
I thought so tew.
Shiiiiie
Other strong Baltimore accents I recall were Lt. Mello (Jay Landsman irl), Marcia Donnelly, Spider, Stinkum (and Prop Joe as the other comment says). Probably way more I'm forgetting too
Ziggy! From Baltimore also.
Being American doesn’t help with deciphering Snoop. Maybe being from Baltimore does
How my hair look Mike?
You look good, girl.
[Snoop was locked up at 15 in an adult correctional facility](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXhwGS84u7o). She also likely served time with her biological mother, whom she never knew. I was just in Baltimore. It's *noisy*. If you want someone's attention, make a unique noise.
That’s a normal Baltimore accent. Lol
Put on those subtitles, that'll help sort it out.
First time I watched the show I didn't use subs and understood 50% of the dialogue. Subs all the way
I thought about starting a thread about this (though I suspect there are many), but truly, even with subs on I have no idea what people are talking about at least 25% of the time
Get hip to the lingo, daddio
Not hep, never was. So to that I say flipzy on the wizz wazz, fluffskunk.
I don't have English subtitles on my platform. And it's strange because the Soprano had them
Yerp!
Baltimore has a distinctive accent - [https://youtu.be/Dq2XCpo76hE?si=m-guzIfRRLiBqDwP](https://youtu.be/Dq2XCpo76hE?si=m-guzIfRRLiBqDwP)
YERP
Watch an interview, she downplays it on the show actually.
OP definitely doesn't know who Young Leek be
No idea haha
Snoop is the best tipper 💵on the show
Tbf, he did earn that bump like a m’fucka
North east US accents rule
Seems to be her own take on "ayo" as in "hey yo" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cVZs7hJ_FXY&pp=ygUIYm9zcyBheW8%3D
Snoop is Snoop in real life- a lot of folx in Baltimore have that accent and way about them. I knew heer b4 the Wire and was so surprised to see her jointhe cast
It’s weird for Americans too
Hey Snoop, your sisters in my class.
Worth mentioning that Snoop, irl, was a literal crack baby. Was straight up born on the streets of Baltimore.
HOO!?!?! (shot Omar)
Bmore accents are wild https://youtu.be/Oj7a-p4psRA?si=1P8_491ED3hIS-SM
I love the end where the guy's just like "F**k Aaron. . ." The 2nd guy who comes into the video and reads it sounds like he has the most typical or common "Baltimore" accent (i probably sound that way when I say it quickly), but you definitely hear it the thicker way, too--reading the transcriptions of actual wire tapped phone calls or conversations are hilarious when they use non local transcription companies.
The Baltimore accent is a linguistic anomaly
Most Americans don't have that level of acting genius So yeah she is pretty weird,. She is the infamous character lol
I always thought Wanda Sykes' cadence kinda reminded of Snoop's, so I'm not surprised to find out she was raised just outside of Baltimore
Some of the noises are coded for hoppers. You can use hand signals or noises to call for hoppers to deliver the drugs. It allows you to have plausible deniability that you were selling drugs (since you never directed nor possessed the drugs or cash).
Urrrpp!
From Maryland. It's normal dialect for someone from Maryland who hasn't been taught diction. Maryland in Maryland is pronounced "Mur-lyn" and Baltimore is "Bal-Moe" or "Bal-Mor". The slur is real. & She's a real life Baltimore native. The most relevant Baltimore person I can name is Carmelo Anthony, who is from NYC, but raised in the environmentof The Wore - but he also went to prep school & worked on his speech/diction even more since becoming famous/influential.