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Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, [1] [2] starting in the Bronx, New York City. [a] Pioneered from Black American street culture, [4] [5] that had been around for years prior to its more mainstream discovery, [6] it later reached other groups such as Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans.
Ratchet (slang) Ratchet is a slang term in American hip hop culture that, in its original sense, [1] was a derogatory term used to refer to an uncouth woman, and may be a Louisianan dialect form of the word "wretched". In the 2000s–2010s, the word became loosely connotative of denoting overt confidence, defiance, fervor, or otherwise being ...
Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip[1] is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" (jazz) was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the ...
Hip (slang) Hip. (slang) Hip is a slang for fashionably current[ 1] and in the know. To be hip is to have "an attitude, a stance" in opposition to the "unfree world", [ 2] or to what is square or prude. Being hip is also about being informed about the latest ideas, styles, and developments. [ 3]
Bae (/ beɪ / BAY) is a slang term of endearment, [1] primarily used among youth. It came into widespread use around 2013 and 2014 through social media and hip-hop and R&B lyrics. [2] The term originated as an abbreviation of the word baby or babe. [2][3][4][5] It has been suggested that the term originated as an acronym for "before anyone else ...
Many hip-hop listeners believe that a rapper's lyrics are enhanced by a complex vocabulary. Kool Moe Dee claims that he appealed to older audiences by using a complex vocabulary in his raps. [90] Rap is famous, however, for having its own vocabulary—from international hip-hop slang to regional slang.
As a result of reappropriation, today the word is used mostly by African-Americans in a largely non-pejorative sense as a slang term referring to another black person or to themselves, often in a neutral or friendly way. [1] [2] The word is commonly associated with hip hop culture and since the 1990s, with gangs (especially in popular culture ...
No homo. " No homo " is a slang phrase used at the end of a sentence to assert the statement or action by the speaker had no intentional homosexual implications. [1] The phrase is also "added to a statement in order to rid [oneself] of a possible homosexual double-entendre ". [1][2]