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The structure is uniquely Brazilian. In Portugal, you would never hear this. But in the urban zones of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, code-switching between English honorifics ("Big") and Portuguese adjectives ("Grande") is a marker of hip-hop identity.

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Havia algo de afetuoso na frase. “Grande” podia significar robusto, imponente, exagerado — mas também generoso, expansivo, abundante. Big Macky carregava as três coisas: um corpo que ocupava espaço, um riso que se espalhava e um saco de histórias que nunca cabia no bolso. The structure is uniquely Brazilian