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There are several different english subs up on opensubtitles.org. I’d love any advice on which have the most accurate slang.

tropa de elite on imdb
tropa de elite on pirate bay - including some subtitle discussion in the comments

* Thanks to C-Budz for advice and a quick response. I guess SOMEONE’S got their RSS poppin […]

Learned these over dranks last night with a dude visiting for FoE2. I have no idea how to spell these words so I am going to write them phonetically.

Plindado (adj) - bullet proof
Perder la linha - Literally, to lose the line. It means GO CRAZY!
Hebola - Shake that ass. I always hear […]

New plan for future pop stars:
0. Sorta win American Idol.
1. Upstage Beyoncé.
Since seeing Dreamgirls, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role that payola plays in both the narrative of the film and the history of popular music. As depicted in the film’s 1950s, an independent label could leverage the widespread payola network to […]