Word: hos
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...chords and righteousness of “Time Is Now.”MURS also makes the case for love songs and chivalry. At the beginning of “Love and Appreciate II,” he and producer 9th Wonder bemoan rappers stereotyping women as shrews and hos as well as the lack of rap love songs. To keep a lady, MURS advocates, “Buy some flowers, open up some doors / She needs tampons, homie, go to the store.”But MURS spends too much time proving his worthiness at the expense...
...women and deeply respects them. After spitting “So get loose and slide off your damn garments / Show ’em who’s the boss, they take orders from the sergeant,” he gets sentimental at the end, reclining among his adoring hos. “I love y’all,” he says; “There’s not enough time.” Aw, Luda. How sweet...
Given real estate's penchant for shorthand (think condo, co-op, comps and COFI), we should add a term for friends who buy houses together. Let's call them communal homeowners. Co-hos...
...reared generation that is remaining single longer, being housemates makes perfect sense not just financially but socially too. "What are you going to do--come home to an empty house every night?" asks James Cartlidge, who in 2004 co-founded Share to Buy, a British firm that helps co-hos get mortgages. Erik Carter, 29, a law student in San Diego, is considering buying a house (and a spectacularly large house at that) with four other people: his girlfriend, another couple and a fifth friend. "It's like a reversion to the old extended family," he says...
...house prices cool--and more young people stop assuming that buying is out of reach--there will probably be more co-hos. "Once I started talking about it, I had people saying, 'Maybe I could go in with you,'" says Catesby Holmes, 26, a travel editor in New York City who is shopping for an apartment with two friends. "I thought, This is going to be a 10-person house. I had to say 'Maybe you should find your own.'" Or, rather, find one with a friend...