--- title: "How to pronounce \"top boy\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"top boy\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/4C7aWQ0aSU8/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/top-boy" --- # How to pronounce "top boy" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/tɒpbɔɪ/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **top·boy** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (8 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "top boy" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "your business to the next level today and let me know how you get on that shopify. com Bartlett let me know how you get on thank you top boy yeah crazy it's crazy how that all played out yeah yeah it's um it's been an amazing journey you know" - **Watch at 78:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C7aWQ0aSU8&t=4699s) ### Example 2 > "started to follow in their footsteps I'm still paying the price for those years now but once I get in front of a camera it's not that Ashley anymore top boy top boy top boy the greatest show that's ever come out of the UK let him up it's crazy you know it changed my life but filming the last season me and Kane we didn't have the greatest time people don't understand we go hard for that show we go hard to make sure characters are being represented in the way they" - **Watch at 0:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C7aWQ0aSU8&t=34s) ### Example 3 > "want to do life. And they could teach me the lessons, but I didn't I was struggling to kind of find that at age. It reminds me of my conversation with Ashley Walters and from Top Boy. Yeah. Said pretty much the exact same thing. His father wasn't around." - **Watch at 16:18**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbdQPmjPHhg&t=978s) ### Example 4 > "um of London and young black men and and crime and all of that stuff they didn't translate well globally um they didn't cross over to like different audiences and in the same way that for some reason top boy just crossed over and maybe it's because of that complexity and that how thought through the the plots and storylines and characters are and it wasn't just surface level like yeah a lot of the other stuff was like stereotypical" - **Watch at 85:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C7aWQ0aSU8&t=5153s) ### Example 5 > "like I want to be um and she she made me know she was like look you may not get any work for a while that means like no money no this and that and I was like so be it so that kind of that situation came about but then the top boy script came I remember not too long after having that conversation and for the first time for me reading that script I was like wow" - **Watch at 80:46**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C7aWQ0aSU8&t=4846s) ### Example 6 > "here we should push on into telling black stories um that don't necessarily have to be from the same world as top boy you know they should be black detectives there should be black superheroes they should be black you know we can the boundaries are you know they're endless but I think that it's open it's really opened the door internationally for like people" - **Watch at 97:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C7aWQ0aSU8&t=5845s) ### Example 7 > "moment I know you've been working very very hard on those things um that's a conversation for another time but if it's anything like a lot of the art you've created in your life and it has that perspective that integrity and that personality I think it's going to have equal impact on the world that top boy and all of the other projects you've been involved in over the last two and a half decades have had on people that is a really really special thing and as I say I'm I'm I couldn't it couldn't have" - **Watch at 100:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C7aWQ0aSU8&t=6002s) ### Example 8 > "had a lot of trauma and it made me angry with the world my dad was in prison you know so much childhood the local bad boys they became dead to me and I started to follow in their footsteps I'm still paying the price for those years now but once I get in front of a camera it's not that Ashley anymore top boy top boy top boy the greatest show that's ever come out of the UK let him up it's crazy you know it changed my life but filming the last season me and Kane we" - **Watch at 0:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C7aWQ0aSU8&t=25s) ## How to Pronounce "top boy" - **Syllables**: top · boy - **IPA**: `/tɒpbɔɪ/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [top](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/top), [boy](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/boy) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “top boy”? “top boy” is pronounced /tɒpbɔɪ/ (top · boy). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “top boy”? “top boy” has 2 syllables: top · boy. ### How can I hear “top boy” used in real sentences? This page has 8 real-world video examples of “top boy” with synchronized subtitles. 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