Is it considered proper English to say "You best be..." or "You'd best..."?

"Had best" is correct, but "had better" is more common. "Has best" is usually associated with dialects, such as in the American South. Source

One can think of them as forms of:

It would be better if you did that.

It would be best if you did that.

"You best" is slang, omitting the 'had', and not correct.


Sentences such as You'd best be going and You'd better be going are fairly common in British English and You best . . . might occur as an elided form of You'd best . . . They are perhaps most frequently found in speech, but I wouldn't be surprised to find even in some academic writing something like I had better set out my position now to avoid misunderstanding later on.