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Hip hop culture is characterized by the key elements of rapping [b], DJing and turntablism, and breakdancing; [9] [10] other elements include graffiti, beatboxing, street entrepreneurship, hip hop language, and hip hop fashion. [11] [12] From hip hop culture emerged a new genre of popular music, hip hop music .
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 1940s.
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wonky. Look up hyphy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term hyphy ( / ˈhaɪfiː / HY-fee) is an Oakland, California slang meaning "hyperactive". [1] More specifically, it is an adjective describing the hip hop music [1] [2] and the culture associated with the Oakland area. [3] The term was first coined by Oakland rapper Keak da Sneak.
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, fervour, or otherwise being ...
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]
Japanese hip hop is hip hop music from Japan. It is said to have begun when Hiroshi Fujiwara returned to Japan and started playing hip hop records in the early 1980s. [1] Japanese hip hop tends to be most directly influenced by old school hip hop, taking from the era's catchy beats, dance culture and overall fun and carefree nature and incorporating it into their music. As a result, hip hop ...
Among the four coasts, Southern hip-hop is one of the more recent genres compared to the other three coasts, meaning that the slang used in southern hip-hop is more recent than the slang in other coasts.