Hip-hop music uses a varied accumulation of slang terms that have changed as hip-hop itself has evolved and changed. Much of its lexicon is drawn from African American Vernacular English. Hip-Hop music slang makes use of alternative pronunciations (mostly drawn from AAVE); ordinary words given new meanings; new coinages and portmanteau words; as well as vernacular phrases. The slang used in a hip-hop record can often date it to a certain era and/or school of hip-hop. As the Hip-Hop culture has expanded worldwide, it should be noted that non-Americans and even non-English speakers have increasingly borrowed from and contributed to the slang of Hip-Hop, often modifying meanings to their own uses.
Translation in music
Harlem rapper, Lamont Coleman, stage name Big L, released a song on his posthumous album "The Big Picture" entitled "Ebonics". In this song, 'L' (As he's called for short) goes through various hip hop slang terms and gives their proper meanings.
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Yo, yoA burglary is a jook, a wolf's a crookMobb Deep already explained the meanin' of shookIf you caught a felony, you caught a FIf you got killed, you got leftIf you got the dragon, you got bad breathIf you 7:30, that mean you crazyHit me on the hip means page meAngel dust is sherm, if you got AIDS, you got the germIf a chick gave you a disease, then you got burned
-Excerpt from Big L's "Ebonics"
Changed meaning
All words under this section will be found with the same spelling in the average English dictionary, but they usually won't have these meanings listed. No phrases under this section. All words must also be used in a released Hip-Hop record in the sense listed.
- bail - v.- leave- "Let's bail."--'Let's leave'/'Let's go'. Common slang, meaning basically the same as in "Let's bail out" (Common in English usage).
- bent - adj.- intoxicated
- bird - n.- girl
- biscuit - n.- gun, pistol
- bitch - n.- besides the usual meanings, "My Bitch" can simply mean "my girl." When applied to males, it is an insult meaning 'coward, sissy, punk', etc. ("You's a bitch").
- blunt - n.- a cigar used as a joint, filled with marijuana instead of tobacco.
- blunted - adj.- same meaning as 'stoned', but specifically the intoxication from smoking a blunt or blunts (plural of blunt).
- boo -n.- affectionate term for one's significant other
- bounce - v.- leave, go- "Let's bounce."--'Let's leave/go'.
- bugged out - adj.- "He's bugged out." Acting weird, unorthodox, upset, etc.
- buggin'- v.- "Why you buggin'?" Why are you acting upset, or weird, etc. Also annoying.
- bumpin'- adj.- cool, pleasurable, to one's liking- "That shit is bumpin'." Also as a verb, "It's bumpin'."---meaning, the beat of the music is bumping in a pleasurable manner.
- burner-n.-gun, also back-"burner" is the memory.
- bust -v.- perform, do. "Bust a rhyme."--'Say a rhyme.' "Bust a move."--'Make a move/perform a move.'
- busted -adj.- ugly, caught doing a crime; "Nigga, yo' girl is BUSTED!".
- cap - n.- bullet
- capped -tr.v.- shot. "He got capped in the knee"--"He got shot with a bullet in the knee".
- cheese - n.- money
- chill - v.- relax, keep cool
- chill - adj.- relaxed, alright. "He's chill."---meaning, "He's alright/relaxed."
- chillin' - v.- relaxing
- cold-adj.- tight, good, nice, sometimes mean. If a guy cheats on his girl, a response might be "That's cold."
- coolin' - v.- relaxing, being comfortable
- crab -n.- A derogatory term (Used mostly by factions of the Blood gang groups) for Crip Gang members. A shorting of the "cr" in crip and "a" in gang, and "b" in members.
- crib -n.- place of residence (One of MTV's shows is called MTV's Cribs)
- dime - n.- a very attractive woman; A "ten" on a scale of one-to-ten. Henche; A dime (ten dollars).
- dip - v.- leave. "Let's dip."--'Let's go.' "I'm a dip if I see one-time pop up."
- dog (also dogg and "dawg") -n.- 1. A close & trusted friend.
- dawgy (also doggi) -n.- close friend
- dope - adj.- cool, appealing, etc.
- down - adj.- 'I'm down to do it' meaning 'I'm up for it'. 'I'm down' meaning 'I'm up for it' or alternatively, 'I'm hardcore'. 'That fool thinks he's down...' meaning 'that guy thinks he's hardcore'.
- fat - adj.- cool, appealing, and so on. When spelled (outside of the music), it is almost always intentionally spelled 'phat'.
- fire-adj.-tight,nice,coo also refers to marijuana
- flow - v.- to rap with beat; can also be used as a noun, " ...listen to my flow." Means primarily to show how well you can "ride" a text to a beat, flowing like a wave, in perfect rhythm.
- fly - adj.- cool, appealing, etc.
- folk - n.- friends, acquaintances, or at least temporary partners.
- front - v.- pretend to be that which you are not; Act tough. Also short for confronting.
- game - n.- knowledge, skill, expertise, knack, mack-skills, techniques, etc. "He got game."-He has the technique, the skill, the knack, the pull, etc.
- ghost - to leave, leave quietly, quickly. "He got ghost."--He left quickly, or got kidnapped. "It's time to get ghost."---It's time to evacuate from the scene.
- gully - adj. from the hood, ghetto.
- gurp - adj. Very drunk.. so faded you cant see straight.. Also see FUCKED UP.
- hate - v.- aside from its usual meaning, has different shades of meaning such as "criticizing", or "disrupting" someone's game. "Why you gotta hate on me?"
- hating (hatin') - v.- same meaning as 'hate' (see above). "Why you hatin' on a nigga?"
- heat or heater - n.- any type of firearm
- heat - n.- police, FBI, law enforcement in general (Used especially in the film, Heat).
- herb - n.- especially marijuana but can be any sort of drug.
- hood - n.- neighborhood, usually, it's not necessarily a living area, just the turf of thugs - could also be a restaurant.
- ice -usually as a plural noun- diamonds. "That nigga got shit loads'a ice on his wrist."--meaning, 'That guy is wearing a multi-diamond-studded bracelet'.
- ill -adj.- 1. cool, appealing, far-out ("That's ill.") 2. crazy, rowdy, mean ("Act ill").
- jet- to leave, to leave quickly- "C'mon, let's jet."
- iron -n.- firearm
- kickin'- adj.- appealing; "Those rims are kickin'."
- lamp- v.- chill, relax
- murk (Also mirk) -v.- leave. "I'm finna murk. PEACE."
- murk (Also mirk) -v.- murder, kill. "Pass me the strap, I'm 'bout to murk this foo."
- piece -n.- 1. firearm 2.pipe 3.a tagging
- piff 1. -n.- cocaine 2. -adj.- something is cool ex.1 "pass the piff!" ex.2 "my style is strait up piff!"
- pig -n.- police officer
- player (playa)- n.- 1. Someone who knows how to manipulate women (towards sex, etc.). 2. Someone who knows how to manipulate things in general. 3. Someone who cheats on his girlfriend or wife (or if a woman: boyfriend, husband). 4. Less correctly applied to a 'baller' (see 'baller').
- popes - n. - the police, an abbreviation of po-po. "Look out for the popes!";
- punk - n.- 'a coward'; alternatively, 'an asshole' (not anatomical reference);
- punk- 'Don't punk out on me', i.e., don't get cowardly
- punked- intimidated; 'he got punked by that fool', he got intimidated/bullied by that person.
- pussy- n.- a coward, a sissy. Used as a put-down usually against males.
- scratch- n.- money
- scrillah- n. - money
- shorty- n.- a girl; a woman; a child; a young man, or just a short person (dwarf, midget).
- spit- v.- "He can spit."--meaning, "He can rap." Less often used as a noun.
- steel -n.- firearm
- straight- adj.- 'fine', 'okay'- Example: Not related to sexuality. A person asks "You want some Henny?", the other person replies "No. I'm straight."---meaning, "No. I'm fine."
- strapped -adj.- bearing a firearm
- stuntin- showing your best (cars, jewelry, etc.) or to act out of the ordinary
- tight- adj.- cool, high-quality, appealing.
- toaster -n.- firearm
- trippin'-v.- high on drugs, kidding, or being crazy; "You must be trippin'"
- tweak -n.- to do crystal meth; Can also be altering something
- tweaking -v.- under the influence of crystal meth
- whip -n.- car, automobile
Under this section, neither these forms or these meanings will be found in the average dictionary, but these words are used in Hip-hop music. No phrases under this section either, but compound words included. Though used and popularized by M.C.'s, most of these words were not coined by any M.C., they were taken from local street slang.
- baby mama -n.- The mother of an unmarried man's child, who himself is referred to as a "baby daddy".
- baller -n.- a high-roller, a money-maker. Hence also the verb ballin' ('balling'), which refers to someone who is doing very well for himself, livin' it up, in terms of money, etc.
- Bee-yotch -n. see bitch - bling-bling -n.- See article for definition and origin of term.
- boy-boy -n.- a friend with benefits
- crunk -adj.- having a good time; or 'high and drunk at the same time'. Reportedly derives from 'crazy' and 'drunk' being combined (='crunk') or from 'crazy' and 'funk' being combined. Doesn't date back to the 1980's, and is a somewhat recent term in hip-hop music, used especially by Southern rappers.
- buttaface -n.- A girl with a nice body but with an ugly face; taken from "but her face". Ex: "Jermaine's girl is a buttaface, yo."
- def -adj.- cool, appealing, fly, ill. Said to be abbreviated from definitive. Used often by M.C.'s in the mid to late 1980's. Not used by M.C.'s anymore unless they are being intentionally 'old school'. Also not used in general slang anymore, though still used in some circles.
- dimepiece -n.-same meaning as dime, i.e., a very attractive woman, a ten on a one-to-ten scale.
- diss (or dis)-v.- to criticize someone, disrespect someone. "He dissed that bitch."
- gank -v.- steal
- ganked -tr.v.- robbed; swindled "He got ganked."--'He got robbed.'
- gat -n.- a gun; less generally, an automatic firearm, especially a machine gun. The term is originally an abbreviation of Gatling gun.
- ghettobird, pork chopper -n.- police helicopter
- growns, grown men-22"rims or bigger
- hella -adv.- very. Formed from hell + of. Common slang, not used much by M.C.'s anymore.
- homeboy
- homie (or homey) n.- a good friend, a guy
- hoodrat -n.- neighborhood girl with loose morals; neighborhood slut
- hooptie -n.- an old car, a beater.
- Jakes -pl. n.- police officers. Used especially by New York M.C.'s.
- (Get) jumped (on) v.- to get beaten up, physically abused by others;" You jus' another punk in the club, aboutta get jumped!"
- Mo' Fo'- n. Motherfucker
- one-time -n.- police.
- peeps -n.- people, "my peeps", "my people"
- player-hater (playa-hata) -n.- Specifically, one who hates a playa/player (see above); generally, one who hates someone who is doing well. The term is usually abbreviated to "hater"
- popo -n.- police. The 'po-' in 'police' was duplicated (po-po), the rest of the word dropped.
- pork chopper -n.- police helicopter; pork as in pig
- scrilla -n.- money- Used especially by West coast M.C.'s (Mack 10, E-40, etc.).
- slab -n.- pre-1980 fullsize GM luxury vehicles, primarily Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillacs. Term originated in the South Park section of Houston, Texas. Usually refers to old school GM sedans.
- slob- an obligatory name for bloods (used by the crips their rival gang) took the S for sucCer, L ("Lobster" but crips call it "Slobster") Ob for original Bitches continued with a K for slob or blood killa.
- swangas -n.- wire rims optioned on 1983 and 1984 Cadillacs, usually sought after.
- tweaker -n.-
- wack -adj.- awful, cheap, stupid, weak, etc. Usually spelled 'wack' when spelled, rarely spelled 'whack'.
- T's - police car
Frankie Smith; Snoop Dogg Talk Slang
Usually the ending of a word is removed, and replaced with the -izzle suffix as a substitute, much like Pig Latin. This particular style was originated by funk musician Frankie Smith with his 1982 nonsense single "The Double-Dutch Bus". Rapper Snoop Dogg has popularized this form of slang from when he used it on Dr. Dre's The Chronic album in 1992. In other cases, -izz- is added in the middle of a word (house>hizzouse).
- bizzle - bitch - fizzle - can be female, fuck, flatulate or any number of words starting with F
- gizzle - gay
- hizouse - house
- hizzle(1) - house
- hizzle(2) - hook, as in "Off the hook"
- nizzle - nigga
- rizzle - real
- shiznit - shit (usually in a general positive sense); used especially in the phrase "Tha Shiznit!"
- shizzle - sure
- skizzle- a drip of any sort of intoxicating liquids.
- tizzle - tizzy, a state of agitation or nervousness.
- wizzle - wigga
tweaker - hoe
- Boi,Smack,Brown-heroin
- dub - a twenty dollar bag (also refers to twenty inch rims) - Hard,Gizz,Butter,Rocks,Cookies-crack cocaine
- indo - Marijuana from Indonesia, Marijuana grown indoors [from [http://www.rapdict.org/Indo http://www.rapdict.org/Indo]]
- nick, nickel, nickelbag, nickelsack - five dollar "bag" of illicit drugs
- Primo-a joint laced with angel dust or crack cocaine
- buddha, shwag, mota, bud, dodo, green, fire, smoke, chronic, doja, ganja, dank, sticky icky, indo, limb(popularized by Florida)- marijuana
- dime, dimebag, dimesack - ten dollar "bag" of illicit drugs
- Hydro, 'Dro - Marijuana grown using a hydroponic grow set-up
- Reggie Miller-"regular killer" commercial weed usually from mexico
- Sherm,- A marijuana cigarette that has been dipped in embalming fluid
- Soft,Yayo,Powder, Piff, White-cocaine
Gang terms
- BG - Baby Gangsta (Gangster), an adolescent gangster. Sometimes refers to 'Blood Gang'.
- bluh- n.- Slurred pronunciation of 'Blood'. Generally means 'friend', 'homie'; specifically can mean, 'fellow Bloods member'. Usually used in phrases such as "What up bluh?", meaning 'What's up Blood'. Generally used to refer to a Blood gang member, sometimes used by Bloods towards non-Bloods gang members to provoke confrontation. Although sometimes still used in this manner it is mostly archaic and rarely used as a term of recognition and respect between African-American males.
- Cuzz/Cuzzo - (Cuzzin/Cousin) Crip. Sometimes pronounced 'Cuh'. After fading out of popularity for awhile, it has started to make a resurgence in use as a term of recognition and respect between African-American males, and occasionally manifesting itself in other races as well. It can also be used in a confrontational manner from a Crip gang member towards a non-Crip.
- G- a gangsta, in Eastcoast or 'oldschool' Hip Hop can mean simply 'Guy' or 'Girl'.
- gangsta - (gangster) member of a street gang. Also refers to an attitude or style and can be used towards objects, actions or ideas. I.E. - "That Caddy is gangsta!".
- OG - Original Gangster, initially refered to the founder of a street gang now commonly refers to any older gang member. Usually common to gangbangers (or those outside street gangs) who live up to their notoriety, reputation, and never sold out. Also has been adopted outside of the gang culture for general use in HipHop to refer to any originator of something or older person involved in that something. I.E. -"Mr. Wiggles is an O.G. B-Boy." meaning that Wiggles has been involved in Breakdancing since the early days of the artform. Synonymous with 'oldschool'. Sometimes, but not as often, can refer to a thing instead of a person.
- loc (pronounced Loke) - Derived from the Spanish word 'loco', meaning 'crazy'. Can also mean 'cool' as in its slang usage. Also slang for dark sunglasses. That nigga is a loced out gangsta - slob - Derogatory term towards a Blood gangster
- overhoe - Derogatory term towards a Ova Solider gangster
- suwitchboy - Derogatory term towards a D.T.B ganster
- 187 - Homicide
- 24/7 - all day hustle
- 411 - information, from 4-1-1, the number for directory assistance in the US
- 420 - Number-Code for Marijuana. Also refers to April 20th (A.K.A. Marijuana Day)
- 5-0 - In reference to the police (as in the television show Hawaii Five-O) or the 5 liter Ford Mustang\
- 1096 - police code for mentally ill suspect (from the film The Sugarland Express); commonly used in the State of Texas
- 5150 - code for mentally ill (from the California Welfare and Institutions Code); also the name of a Van Halen and Eazy-E album
- 730 - the code for crazy, according to some New York City rappers the term "730" originated from mental healthpatients receiving their medication at 7:30am/pm.
- 808 - In reference to the Roland TR-808 drum machine.
- 211 - (two eleven) robbery.
- 20- location- ex: "What's yo' 20, fool, y'all sold me some shit crack, now I got Dimples on my ass!(Bitch)
Phrases
- bum rush- crash into a show hoping to see it for free, to arrive in force,to ambush from behind
- bust a cap- shoot a bullet
- bust a move- to act first in an altercation,to perform a dance step. Popularized by Young M.C.'s hit single, Bust A Move (1989).
- bust out- leave or exit quickly. "He busted out of the club."
- bust out- show or bring out something- "He busted out a fat dubsack from his coat pocket."
- cappin-lying; saying you were going to do something and dont(popularized by Tampa) "I thought you was gone put 22's on the Lac this week? Nigga, you cappin!!
- clap iron- shoot a firearm
- coolin' it- relaxing
- da bomb - the bomb, i.e. cool, appealing, or popular
- da shiznit- "the shit" - cool, appealing, etc. (also tha shiznit, the shiznit). Popularized by Snoop Dogg.
- dead presidents - money (U.S. currency has a picture of a former President of the United States)
- fo shizzle my nizzle - literally, "for sure my nigga". Popularized by Snoop Dogg.
- keep it trill - keep it true and real (true + real = trill)
- kickin' it - relaxing
- my bad - my mistake or I'm sorry
- off the chain-unbelievable, outrageous, wild, etc.
- off the hook- unbelievable, outrageous, wild, etc. from telephone hook (Could also mean "fresh", as in "right off the (meat) hook"
- open up shop- sell drugs, establish a drug-selling spot
- peace out - good bye (also, "PEACE!")
- peep game -take note to someone's game. Observe someone's game in action, etc.
- roll out- leave. Specifically, to get in your vehicle leave the scene.
- spit game/spittin' game- speak game. See the definition of game above.
- to the beat-acceptable,on top of things
- what's goin' down? - what are we doing tonight? teach a lesson, win a confrontation
- what tha dilly yo/dealio? - whats the deal yo?, what is going on?. This phrase is not used by M.C.'s much.
- what up? - hello, how are you? or what is going on?
- wigity-wack- adj.- very disturbing (up to the present day, the "wigity" is dropped and now use just "wack")
- word up - you got that straight, that's right or how's it going (up to the present day, the "up" is dropped and now use just "word")
- oh fo sure - thanks, no problem
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