a (v) Going to. "I'm a do it like this" afro

(v) Going to. "I'm a do it like this"

1) (n) Hairstyle like the Jackson Five had, much hair and round like a ball.

(adj) in possession of all good qualities.

(n) The morning, as in A.M.

(n) From the neighbourhood.

(v) Ask. "Gave her ten dollars, then she axed me for some more"

(interj) Phrase to seek attention, compare "Check this out".

(n) From "break boy"; one who breakdances.

1) (v) To laugh real hard at something.

(v) Run away for someone.

1) (n) Ballplayer, someone who is good at playing basketball, and has moved up to earning a lot of money and getting a lot of girls from that.

(v) Having it all.

(n) Person who cannot dress, a loser. Short for Alabama, meaning a person from the country, backwards unsophisticated.

(v) To fight to kill

1) (n) someone associated with gangs and murder.

(n) Money.

(interj) To leave. "Yo we be geese"

(n) Head or brain.

(v) Favouring something, thinking the same way.

(n) Money. From the one hundred dollar bill, which has Benjamin Franklin on the front.

(n) A police car. The red lights on old cop cars looked like a berry on top of an ice cream

1) (v) To copy lyrics from other people. 2) (v) To steal

1) (n) A small book carried by graffiti artists for others to do work in.

(n) Jewelry, derived from the sound it makes.

(n) Drunk.

1) (n) Man of the same group; friend. In the Bible you will read "brethern", which is used in the same meaning.

(n) Money. Acronym for Cash Rules Everything Around Me.

1) (v) To stare at a woman/man with sexual intentions.

(n) A white person. Derived from the theory that early white man lived in caves.

(n) You. "I'm comin' to getcha"

(n) money; material wealth. "Big pimpin' spendin' cheese" -- Jay Z (Big Pimpin')

1) (n) Any dumb person (usually refers to women unfortunately) who clucks (speaks) alot, and walks around aimlessly or without purpose (like a chicken with its head cut off).

1) (n) Relax. "Why don't you just chill" 2) (adj) Mellow.

1) (adj) Intensely. 2) (adj) Mean, not nice.

(v) To represent the real, to do something the way it should be done.

(adj) Okay as in "good" or "good idea".

(v) Open a beer.

1) (adj) Besides meaning insane or extremely daring, it is kind of synonymous with mad.

1) (v) To sneak up on someone.

(v) Driving around, preferably showing off your car.

(v) Playing a game of basketball.

(n) Money. Most American dollarbills have a former president of the United States on them. "I'm out for dead presidents to represent me"

1) (adj) Really good, the bomb. The word has been officially buried by BET. "But you still think our music is def, right?" 2) (adj) the standard of excellence.

(n) an enemy, usually white people.

1) (v) To understand; "can you dig it?"

1)(n) Hairdo.

1) (v) To tear something up like a dog would do.

1) (n) Narcotics.

(n) Seller of narcotics.

(adv) To be down with: to be sympathetic to something, or to be friends with someone.

(n) Fat gold chain.

(v) To act stupid, from the english "dumb". "Ya dummin'"

1) (n) Used like the word son. "What up, dun?" 2) (adj) Very dark, used in a negative setting as in dark and ugly. "They always let the dun nigger hold the cash."

(interj) Short for "yes, bring it on".

(n) Figure.

(n) Movie.

(n) 40 ounce bottle of Olde English 800 malt liquor.

(v) Freestyling is when an MC flows with lyrics right of the top of his or her head. It is inpromptu and spontaneous and only the most creative rhymers can do it well. It is also a kind of competition between MC's because you have to be good to bust a good freestyle. It helps to keep MCs on their toes too, because its is like practice.

1)(adj)New

(adj) Contraction of the phrase "for real"; something known to be true.

(n) Group of organised criminals. The main gangs in Northern California are (in random order): 1. Bloods 2. Norte 3. Surenos 4. Crips

1) (n) To show someone a sign of disrespect.

1) (n) Refers to any gun. It originates from Gattling, the name of the man who invented the machine gun (the Gattling gun). 2)

(v) To catch a sexually transmitted disease.

(n) Police helicopter.

(n) The ability to talk anyone into anything.

(n) See marijuana.

(n) See marijuana

1) (v) To look at something.

(n) Someone who earned respect.

(n) Greeting where you slap hands together in the air, as opposed to low-five, where you slap hands at waist height.

(v) To ignore or disrespect someone by not acknowledging their presence.

(v) To represent where you are from.

(n) Close friend.

(n) Female equivalent of homeboy. "

(n) See homeboy.

(n) Female, generally attractive.

(n) The neighbourhood, usually a poor community.

(n) Vertical jump, usually related to basketball. "He's got mad hops"

(n) Person who blindly follows simple-minded people, the term was used by Malcolm X. In slavery days, you had house slaves and field slaves. The house slaves were "well behaved" and were "rewarded" by being allowed to work in the "big house" close to the master. The field slaves were "rough" and only suited for field work. Thus the people were divided and pitted against themselves, instead of the common enemy.

1) (n) Diamonds or jewelry with diamonds in it.

1) (n) Under control by someone else. Probably from a game of chess.

(n) A term used to refer to a car that contains four people at once.

(n) Present, here.

(adv) Present and taking place.

(n) Marijuana from Indonesia.

1) (v) To rob someone face to face. 2) (n) Nothing, "I ain't got jack to give you".

(n) Anybody who is at least five years younger than you are. The word is from old taxi drivers who date young high school girls and when high school guys go out with junior high school students.

(n) The police.

1) (adj) Bad, flawed (northern California)

1) (n) Another word for joint, a marijuana cigarette. 2) (n) Any type of thing, as in "Yo, check this jawn out".

(v) To leave in a hurry.

(n) Wetlook, curly hairstyle.

(n) To have a lot of money or riches.

(n) Japanese People Time; being early or on time.

(n) North Carolina

(n) Kilo, often used in conjuction with cocaine.

(n) Hip-hop clothing, brown/tan colored pants.

(n) Short for Cadillac.

1) (n) The late train. 2) (n) Elevated trains in Chicago or NYC.

(n) From: to pull someones leg, to make a joke. No leg pulls means no jokes; speak the truth

1) (v) Hanging around with friends of family.

(n) A line of cocaine. From the spanish "una lina" which translates to one line.

(adv) Great. "Is it live?"

(n) Cocaine, crack; it is a Spanish word, and the double l's are pronounced as "y"'s.

1) (n) Term used for local person.

(v) To act stupid or crazy.

(adj) Extremely, very, a large quantity.

(n) Someone who sells drugs.

(n) Money.

1) (v) Dominoes term, you win when you make ends. 2) (n) To make money.

(n) Dried leaves and flowering tops of the pistillate hemp plant that yield THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the physiologically active chemical C₂₁H₃₀O₂ that is the chief intoxicant in marijuana) and are smoked in cigarettes for their intoxicating effect. Other reported words for it are: bammer, bionic, bomb, brown, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, chronic, dank, doubage, ganja, grass, green, groove weed, hash, herb, home-grown, ill, Indo, iszm, Lebanon, Mary Jane (mj), maui wowy, method, pot, sess, shake, shit, skunk, stress, tabacci, Thai, wacky and weed.

(v) To have great fun.

(n) Probably Jamaican, in which case it comes from the TV game shows, Master of Ceremonies (although the term existed before TV). It was the only person at a gathering that was allowed to use the microphone. Could also stand for Microphone Controller, Mic Checka.

(n) See marijuana.

(n) Martin Luther King, civil rights leader, shot april 4th, 1968. He represented the largely rural South.

(n) See brother, nigga.

1) (n) Respectless person with no attitude.

1) (adj) Nothing; nobody. "

(n) Curseword used originally by white people, taken over by black people as a name to show their proudness, and take off the edge; positive: "my nigga": my friend. I don't want to be called yo nigga"

(interj) No doubt, no question.

1) (n) A stupid person. Possible a combination of Numb Skull/Fucker, or maybe derived from knuckle head.

(n) Nothing.

(n) An ounce of marijuana.

1) (n) Original gangster, which you become when you 'advertise' a gang. People should talk about you and link your name with the things you done in the past. This includes killings, driveby shootings, spending time in jail, and living up to your name2)(adj)True;original.

(n) (interj.) Farewell bidding, like "peace".

(n) Police officer. Refered to as one-time as you have one time or one chance to get out of the situation alive. "

(n) Black person who wants to be white, or people of mixed race. An oreo is a type of cookie black on the outside with white cream filling inside.

(n) Home-made type of gun that people make in the prisons.

(n) Paris.

(n) House, home, place where you live

(n) Gun.

(v) West coast slang for partying or having a good time. Comes from the French word "parler", which means talking.

1) (n) That's what rap is all about for all you mentally challenged.

(n) Derogatory term for a white person.

(v) Check this out (as in peep this).

(n) People.

(n) Police

(n) A person who has a lot of money

(n) Police officer. "pig" as a synonym for policeman" has been around for about two hundred years (according to "Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English"). It did, however, disappear in the late nineteenth century and reappear in common usage around 1960.

(n) The Projects.

1) (v) To go along with.

(v) To play basketball

(v) To reveal a weakness, as in poker when you played your cards too early.

(n) Old.

(n) Someone who is "true to the game", ie. someone who never sold out.

(v) To shoot someone. "I'm a pop a cap in him" -- Jules in the movie "Pulp Fiction"

(v) To really show off and signify their importance to others, people pop the collar of their shirt.

(n) See marijuana. "Must have been drinking, 'cause this ain't pot"

(n) Term to address a person, compare partner. "What's now up potna"

(n) Huge gold hoop earrings.

(n) An abbreviation of "propers" or proper respects. A show sits on physical and non-physical props. At an award ceremony the winner gives props: "And I would like to thank...".

(n) Wine that inmates make in prison.

1) (n) A person related to the Punk movement or the Punk music.

(v) To betray.

(adj) Showing the pure essence of pure hip hop.

(interj) Wrong spelling of "Really though", used to emphasize a point.

(n) Murder spelled backwards.

(n) See marijuana. (1920s-1960s) Marijuana wrapped in cigarette paper, may be a variant of Mexican "grefa" (Juba to Jive, pg. 380).

1)(n)Really real.

(v) New big hip-hop word. Means just what you think it means.

(n) Derogatory term for a member of the Crips, an L.A. gang.

(n) A vehicle. "So we rode in his ride"

(v) See step to.

(v) Old street slang - to steal, stolen, to take agressively.

(n) A good friend, someone who you always hang out with.

1) (n) Crack.

(n) Crack addict

1) (n) A joint (see marijuana).

1) (v) To hang with a given person or crowd. " 2) (v) To roll on someone means to beat someone up.

(v) To arrive on a scene.

(n) Wrist watch of the expensive brand Rolex.

(n) A round the way guy that keeps it real and knows the streets.

1) (v) Bogard, physically assault.

1) (adj) Tough, hard, stopping at nothing.

(n) The Security of the First World; the military dancers on stage with Public Enemy at their concerts.

(n) Woman using a man for money.

(n) Sacramento, California.

(n) A lowered Cadillac car.

(v) To plan to do something to get someones money, most often by cheating.

(n) A specific era in hiphop history. There have been many discussions about the difference between the "Old School" and the New School".

1) (v) Look at something. 2) (v) Stare down someone.

(v) As in "can't scrap a lick", meaning, can't put up a fight, has a poor fighting ability.

(n) Money, loot.

(v) To play a hip-hop record at a slower speed, said to accentuate the bass and facilitate mixes with ballads. Also screw mixes, get my screw on. Originated in the late 80's, when Fresh Records released 12" singles at 45 rpm. Many DJ's missed the speed designation and mistakenly played it at the slower 33 rpm speed. Many listeners began to intentionally request those records (esp. Mantronix's "Fresh is the Word") at the slow speed. Now done with CD players with variable pitch (or vinyl).

(n) Money, loot.

(n) Seattle.

(n) Doing something purely for the financial gain, Selling your soul.

(n) An abbreviation of the word "sinsemellia", which is a form o marijuana that has no seeds, because it is isolated from male pollen during te blooming process. Instead of making seeds, the marijuana plant makes more THC, hence this "sense" is more potent, and generally better than standard ganja.

1) (v) To defeat an opponent with skill.

1) (n) A denomination of one of the larger gangs, a set is not necessarily friendly with other sets in the same gang. "Baby girl asked me what set am I claiming" 2) (n) The group of songs in a concert by a specific performer.

(v) Killing someone in your own gang, but who is in a different set. i.e. a different street but in the same gang.

(n) A custom made knife as used in prisons, made from whatever materials are available.

(n) Shaton or Shaitan is an Arabic word meaning "devil".

(n) New York, from Shea stadium.

(n) Under the influence of drugs.

(n) Marijuana dipped in embalming fluid.

(interj) Surer than sure.

(n) Individual who acts like he is tough, but when things get hectic or tense, he gets scared and acts like the punk he really is. They have been shook up by the reality and are labeled shook ones.

(n) Vehicle.

1) (n) Little person. " 2) (n) Female, like baby or honey.

(n) Shotgun.

(v) Demonstrate.

(v) To carry out a fraud.

(n) A person who acts two-faced.

(n) Woman of the same group; friend.

(n) A scandalous woman.

(n) General ability; ability on the microphone.

(n) A female.

(v) Acting bizarre or crazy, from schizophrenic.

(n) A medium grade and smelly form of marijuana.

1)(adj)Dynamic.

(v) The act of selling drugs.

(v) Ignore. (v) To be unaware or unprepared. You can creep up on someone while they are "sleeping" (even if they are awake).

(n) Derogatory name for a member of the Bloods, an L.A. gang, used by members of the Crips, another L.A. gang.

(interj) Slow down whatever you are doing.

(adj) Under the influence of drugs.

1) (v) Killing someone.

(n) a form of verbal jestering. Also French and English speaking Africans especially in Dakar and Paris say 'oh snap' in two contexts. 1) 'oh snap' if you get bagged on (snapped on) and 2) meaning 'oh shit' as in 'I didn't know' or 'I forgot something'.

(n) Money.

(n) Sportswear shoes.

(n) Cocaine.

(n) Non-OG gangbanger.

(n) Jamaican marijuana cigarette, see marijuana.

(v) Firing a round of bullets.

(n) Shortened form of "to squabble"; to fight, physicallly confront.

(v) To end, Squash that beef.

(v) To shoot a gun.

(v) To leave.

(v) Making money, often used in conjunction with paper.

(n) Style.

(v) Back away from a confrontation.

(v) Engage a confrontation.

(v) See step to.

(n) Pronounced as "steelo", is a term that like a lot of other hip-hop terms originated in New York City. It is Spanish, and it means style.

1)(n)Okay.

(n) A gun.

(adj) Strapped in: armed.

1(adj)Creative.

(n) San Francisco.

(adj) Cool, dope, fresh.

(n) Car.

(n) To have sexual intercourse

1) (n) A persons graffiti nickname.

(v) To rob

(n) See marijuana.

(n) Thing; "your own thang": your own way.

(n) Drunk or high to the point of almost being unconscious.

1) (adj) A state of mind, feeling really good at the moment. Straight, legitimate, all-good.

1) (n) A poor or beginner graffiti artist.

(v) to sell drugs.

1) (v) Literally making a misstep, figuratively doing something wrong.

(n) big gold jewelry.

(interj) See word is bond.

(n) Drunk.

(v) To be intoxicated by a drug of somekind. Reported other terms for it are: blazed, blunted, bombed, charged, juiced, skunked, stressed, toked. "I want to get high, so high" -- Cypress Hill (I want to get high [1993]).

1) (n) A black man who wants to be white. From the book Uncle Tom's Cabin.

(v) Very angry.

1) (adj) Negative: crazy or weird. Mostly this is meant

(n) Person who pretends to be a gangster without being one. Contraction of "wannabe gangsta".

1) (v) Kill someone. As in wet from blood when someone is sprayed.

(n) A nice looking car.

(n) Used to address someone as a friend, as in "What's up whodie", in the same way as words like "homey", "money", "playa" or "dogg".

(n) A derogatory term usually used by white people for white people that use black slang and that primarily socialize with black people.

1) (n) Biblical (John1:1). "logos": truth.

(interj) Saying this means that what you are saying is absolutely correct, and you do not have to put up money to prove it, you just say it. The term originates from the financial markets where hirstorically traders woul tell each other "my word is bond", i.e. my word is good enough, you don't need it in writing

(n) (interj.) A question like "What's up?", or "What's the word?".

(n) Short for "you all". Also sometimes used for "you", singular.

1)(n)You.

(adj) Smoked out on weed.