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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]
List of Generation Z slang. Appearance. "If You Know You Know" redirects here. For the Pusha T song, see If You Know You Know (song). The following is a list of slang that is used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world.
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.
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 descriptive of ...
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" was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the 1940s.
Michael Petersen, 45, says his 9- and 11-year-old daughters leave him baffled with some of their slang. Michael Petersen and his daughters, Beryl, 11 and Marigold, 9. Michael Petersen says he's ...
Trap is a subgenre of hip hop music pioneered by Atlanta rappers T.I., Jeezy, and Gucci Mane, which originated in the Southern United States, with lyrical references to trap starting in 1991 but the modern sound of trap appearing in 1999. [1][3] The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang term "trap house", a house used exclusively to sell ...
Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...