Appendix:Hip hop slang

Hip hop is a musical genre from the United States with a background mostly in urban African-Americans. Terms mostly overlap (or ). Common includes making a word its own, such as "" meaning good.


 * – a self-antonym meaning good
 * – a fan of hip hop, associated with a particular style and usually in a posse of other b-boys
 * – a style of vocalization made to imitate instrumental breaks and beats in songs
 * – who would turn or scratch a record
 * – a sub-genre combining elements of and  rap
 * – a sub-genre glorifying and sometimes parodying illegal activity
 * – a self-antonym meaning superb
 * – who would rap on top of the DJ
 * – the second generation of hip hop musicians, beginning in the early 1980s (e.g. or )
 * – an offensive self-derogatory term for an
 * – the first generation of hip hop musicians, from the late 1970s (e.g. or )
 * – another name for hip-hop music
 * – a style of talk-singing
 * – a method of stopping and starting vinyl records as they play to produce music
 * – contraction for