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Today, a very nice expression.

It's a very casual expression, but you might hear it if you like, I don't know, music shows,

awards shows, those, you know, like the Oscars and the Grammys, those types of things. You definitely will hear it. Sometimes you'll hear it in interviews too. It is give props to. I'd like to give props

to. Every time I use this expression, I want to sound like a rapper, not a candy rapper, a, you know,

rap music rapper like Eminem, MC Hemmer. Give props to. Today I'd like to

give props to my mother. Love you, mom. Yeah. To give props to somebody means to give proper respect to somebody. Proper respect. It is the shortened version of

proper respect. It means to say thank you to somebody that you appreciate them, that you love them,

that you respect them. So you love them, that you respect them.

So if you're a religious person, you might want to say, first of all, I'd like to give props to God. If you're a Christian, I'd like to give props to Jesus. If you're, uh,

you know, whatever, just a regular person like me, I'd like to give props to my mom.

I'd like to give props to you.

I'd like to share my proper respect and tell everybody about my respect to somebody.

So if you are ever interviewed, this would be an expression you might want to use.

Now, me, once again, I'm an old guy. I probably won't ever use this expression. Maybe I will.

Maybe I will. Never say never. But once again, this is an expression that I hear on the radio when I'm listening to some radio DJ interview, some singer.

And he'll say, well, you got some great songs.

Tell us about your songwriting.

Well, first of all, I got to give props to my songwriter Brian.

So he's got a songwriter.

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