City Spud City Spud Lavell Webb (born August 31, 1975) known by his stage name City Spud, is an American rapper and record producer. He is a member of the American hip hop group St. Lunatics. He's featured on Nelly's hit single "Ride wit Me." In 1999, he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for armed robbery (prosecutors dismissed a first-degree assault charge). Nelly and the St. Lunatics campaigned for his release. They titled their group album "Free City" to support the release of City Spud from prison. He was released from prison, after serving 9 years, in 2008. He is now
Rhyming slang and truncated to "Aris". Ghil'ad Zuckermann, a linguist and revivalist, has proposed a distinction between rhyming slang based on sound only, and phono-semantic rhyming slang, which includes a semantic link between the slang expression and its referent (the thing it refers to). An example of rhyming slang based only on sound is the Cockney "tea leaf" (thief). An example of phono-semantic rhyming slang is the Cockney "sorrowful tale" ((three months in) jail), in which case the person coining the slang term sees a semantic link, sometimes jocular, between the Cockney expression and its referent. The use of rhyming slang has