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The term has been attributed mainly to African-American slang, in which it holds various meanings. [5] It most commonly refers to the verb phrase "to crank up". It is theorized that the use of the term came from a past-tense form of "crank", which was sometimes conjugated as "crunk" in the South, such that if a person, event, or party was hyped-up, i.e. energetic – "cranked" or "cranked up ...
Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words popularized from Black Twitter that have helped shape the internet. ... and enjoy a party. Think when rapper 2 Chainz says in his 2011 song "Turn Up," "I ...
The 1980s were hip-hop’s first full decade as a documented musical genre on record, and from ’80 to ’89, rap grew from single to albums, from party songs to social commentary, from simple ...
DJ Boy (DJボーイ) is a 1989 beat 'em up arcade video game developed and published in Japan by Kaneko and in North America by Sammy. DJ Boy, also known as DJ Kid, was partially based on the hip hop culture of the U.S. cities. Many of the characters ride around on roller skates rather than walking or running.
These two terms are just a taste of Gen Alpha slang words. Generation Alpha, AKA people who were born between 2010 and 2024, have grown up amid a digital revolution. Instagram launched, the word ...
Carpenter combined the hip hop slang term "def", which was used by artists such as LL Cool J and Public Enemy, with the suffix "-tones", which was a popular suffix among 1950s bands (e.g., Dick Dale and the Del-Tones, The Quin-Tones, The Monotones, The Cleftones, and The Harptones). Carpenter said the name is intentionally vague to reflect the ...