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Ok, now you're just writing random strings of letters...
Mandem's basically in American English as well, we just say it a little different. It's a shortening of man and them, as in your boys. As Vince Staples says "know a change gone come like Obama 'n them say, but they're shooting every day round my mama 'n them way".
I need to re-read this when I wake up tomorrow, after coffee.
Right now my brain just shut off in the middle of the quote.
Here's the song, to go with the coffee tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb6Jc4juSF8