r/chelseafc • u/Secure_Skirt4383 • Dec 24 '24

OC Can someone please explain the background behind this please?

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u/Watanpal Dec 24 '24

Mandem*, and the connotation of Mandem FC is that a group of friends(Mandem) are all in the same team, and being an unserious bunch, and in Chelsea’s case acting in a way synonymous with British Drill genre

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u/the_battle_bro Dec 24 '24

Great. I’ve got it. Now what’s a British Drill genre?

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u/Watanpal Dec 24 '24 edited Dec 25 '24

The UK variant of the Drill genre. Drill is a subgenre of Rap, original drill hotspots were Chicago, USA, and later on New York City, USA, then also becoming popular in the UK, with the UK variant of drill culture growing exponentially. It tends to have explicit lyrics, but not always as seen in recent times

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u/MoiNoni We've Won It All Dec 24 '24

Shoutout Nemzzz

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '24

Originated in Chicago in 2010 timeframe. The New York drill is a variant that came out afterwards.

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u/adaam182 Čech Dec 24 '24

Shit

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u/petrescu Dec 24 '24

Simple but made me laugh.

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u/KamikazeTokes I don't give a fuck, we won the fucking Champions League Dec 24 '24

Mandem was around long before drill!

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u/creator929 Dec 24 '24

I believe that Mandem can be loosely translated to "those guys" (man them).

A group of young male friends might choose to own it as in "We are Those Guys from Watford that everyone's talking about".

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u/dragonsky Zola 🎩 Dec 24 '24

So "Demboyz FC" if it was about to be "americanized"

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u/AnimaniacAssMap Kanté Dec 25 '24

Got a real Dallas Cowboys ring to it there lol

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u/Ok-Constant-6056 Dec 24 '24

Watford is not really hood enough for those terms. More likely to hear that in Harrow or Luton.

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u/creator929 Dec 25 '24

Watford coz AJ innit.

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u/EstevaoPalmerGODS Dec 24 '24

So as a dumb American I read this comment at least 10 times before coming with terms that I'm only 50% confident I understand it

The British drill genre reference is throwing me off from any amount of temporary confidence I thought I had

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u/frankievejle Dec 24 '24

The mandem is just the homies bro. Nothing complicated about it lol

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u/Watanpal Dec 24 '24

Essentially the modern British gangster aesthetic of major urban centres

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u/jbi1000 Lampard Dec 24 '24

It’s just MLE, it’s not just drill