"You know how I roll" = whatever

[Emily G. Cunningham]

It's also something like, a sarcastic "'Well, yeah" or "Of course", like
the person is stating the obvious.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=how+I+roll

Emily Cunningham
Houston, TX (i.e., the Dirty South)

On 12/14/06, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: "You know how I roll" = whatever
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> See also MC Hammer's "This is the Way We Roll" track from the 1991 album
> _Too Legit to Quit_.
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> > "How I roll" is roughly equivalent to "how I am" or "how I
> > live my life." Maybe "how I be"?
> >
> > Dates back at least as far as 1995 in The Barrio Boyzz' "How We Roll":
> >
> > This is how we roll
> > And were rolling like that
> > So honey's come in
> > Kick off your shoes and lay back
> > (Champagne, caviar, and bubble bath)
> >
> > hb
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