Subject: The Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary (Part 1 of 2)
Date: 17 Apr 1996 23:12:46 GMT
Summary: The Dictionary contains words, names and places from the world

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        I N T E R N E T ' S   T O T A L L Y   U N O F F I C I A L

                        R A P   D I C T I O N A R Y

Hi,

This is the first part of the bi-weekly posting of the Totally Unofficial
Rap Dictionary to alt.rap. It is extracted from the WWW version accessible
at:

      http://www.sci.kun.nl/thalia/rapdict/dict_en.html

This Rap Dictionary is not intended to show the only correct spelling
of words; slang is mostly a spoken language an noone exactly knows how to
spell things. A word might mean something other to you than displayed
here; that is because all words and corresponding meanings have been
put in the list on a "goes until challenged by someone" basis.

I have followed the English rules, writing out words fully. Most verbs
are usually written differently, though. Take for example "cruising",
which will usually be spelled like "cruisin'", or "brother" which is
often seen as "brotha". Some starting with an "f" are often written
with "ph", like "phat" or "phunky". And what to think of a thing like
"Doowutchalike"?

Where possible I have added a source in the form

            "<line>" -- <artist> (<song> [year])

to show in what context the word can be used. Note the _a_, I don't
mean _the_ source, since that would take ages of debating. ;-)

Note that in slang or dialects the grammar is not strongly typed, so
nouns can be verbs etcetera. Slang for gun and penis is almost always
interchangable.

Wherever you encounter "(?)" I am not sure about whatever I am saying there.
"???" means that I don't have that particular piece of information. If you
know more than I, please let me know.

Please help making this list more complete. If it wasn't for the help of
the UseNet alt.rap community, this list wouldn't be one percent of its
current size. Feel free to use or to contribute to this list. I don't
want anyone (including myself) to use this list for financial gain, though.
Also I would like to thank Patrick 'Tricky' Atoon for starting this
dictionary. He has collected most of the words in this Totally Unofficial
Rap Dictionary!

-- Numbers --

1 and 2
        Turntables. "DJ behind the 1 and 2".

1-2 checker
    .1) Checking the MIC.
        2) Checking the scene.
 
10%
        See 5%. "Ten percent took a loss" -- Boots of The Coup.

107.5 
        (n) A NYC radio station that helped bring hip-hop to the radio.

1200
        (n) The Technics SL 1200 is regarded as the best turntable for
        DJ'ing. The reason for this is its very, very high torque. If
        you hit the start/stop button, the platter will reach top speed
        within a 1/4th revolution. Not many turntables can match that.
        "My DJ you know 1200's he's using, I don't!" -- Schoolly D.
        (I don't like rock 'n roll [??])

1555
        (n) The year the first slaveships arrived in America. "Sayin' 1555
        how I'm livin'" -- Public Enemy (Can't truss it [??]).

186
        (n) Be on the lookout for someone who is trying to kill you.

187
        (n) Californian penal code number for homicide. The police in
        California uses the penal code numbers as shorthand on the radio.
        Eg. in Oregon the code for homicide is "163.005", different
        from California. "Try to set me up for a 211, fuck around and get
        caught up in a 187" -- Dr. Dre (Let me ride [1992]).

2 to 4
        (n) The duration of a imprisonement sentence, two to four years in
        jail. "Hit with a 2 to 4 is difficult" -- Mobb Deep (Survival of
        the fittest [??]).

20
        (n) See twenty sack. "I'm an addict for sneakers,
        20's of buddah and bitches with beepers" -- NAS (New York state of
        mind [1994]).

21 Cerritos
        (n) Long Beach crip set. The Dogg Pound and Warren G have rumored 
        association with them. "But you don't really know about, you know, the 
        Cerritos silly ho" -- Daz (Who gotz some gangsta shit [1994]).

211
        (n) Police code for armed robbery. "Try to set me up for a 211, fuck
        around and get caught up in a 187" -- Dr. Dre (Let me ride [1992]).

213
        1) (n) The area code of Long Beach.
        2) (n) The name of a group with Snoop, Nate Dogg and Warren G.
        This group was separated when they all got big. "Way back
        then 213 was the clique" -- Warren G (This DJ [1994]).

22
        (n) 22 caliber gun. "Twentytwo automatic on my person"
        -- Beastie Boys (Rhymin' & stealin' [1986])

24/7, 24/7/365
        (n) All the time, from 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

25 with an izl
        (n) 25 years to life sentence. "25 with an izL" -- Snoop Doggy
        Dog (Murder was the case).

30
        (n) A firearm.

357
        (n) A .357 Magnum pistol. ".357 break it on down" -- LL Cool J.
        (.357 Break it on down [1987]).

36 chambers
        (n) The 36 chambers a warrior has to go through to become a Shaolin.
        Every chambers has a special task the warrior has to complete in
        order to be able to continue to the next chamber. The RZA said in
        an interview with Billboard Magazine that there are nine members in
        the Clan, and each member has four chambers in his heart, which
        makes 9x4 = 36 chambers.

38
        1) (n) 38 caliber pistol. 
        2) (n) "38 hot" means very angry.

380
        (n) A handgun. "Unpacked and I grabbed my three eighty cause where we
        stayin', niggaz look shady" -- Ice Cube (Summer Vacation [1991]).

4 pound
        (n) 45 caliber (1 caliber = 1/100th inch) gun.

40
        (n) A 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor. "Use to drink every day,
        straight 40's to the head" -- Ice-T. (Ed [1991]).

411
        (n) Information, from the US phone number for information.

4-9-3-11
        (n) The numbers represent letters of the alphabet; 4 is D, 9 is I,
        and so on. These numbers spell "dick". I be comin' through
        like the 4-9-3-11 tearing up the power-U" -- Method Man (Meth vs 
        Chef [1994]).

5% Nation
        5% Nation  -- A group which started as an offshoot of the NoI.  They
        teach that any large group of people, and more specifically, the
        African American nation, can be divided into three groups, the 85% =
        basically the ignorant masses which need to be led, the 5% = the
        people with true knowledge of self whose job it is to lead the masses
        and fight against the 10%, the 10% = people who have partial knowledge
        of self and use it to gain power and wealth by exploiting the 85, also
        referred to as "bloodsuckers of the poor".  The chosen percentages are
        what they feel that the percentages are within the black community.
        These numbers are neither universal (all though these groups do exist
        within any large group) nor unchangeable. "That'll be the day the
        five percent eat swine" -- Dred Scott (???).

5 on it
        Five dollars on a sac of marihuana. "I got five on it" -- The
        Luniz (I got five on it [1995]).

5 0
        1) (n) A police officer, from the series Hawaii Five-O. The word is
        used mainly in East LA. "Five-O said 'freeze', and I got numb"
        -- Public Enemy (Bring the Noise).
        2) (n) A 5.0 liter Ford Mustang, which is used as a police vehicle
        in some areas.

5000
        (interj) A farewell bidding, from "I'm outta here", which evolved
        to "I'm Audi", and to 5000 after the Audi 5000 car,
        which got recalled and is a rare sight nowadays. "Yo, we outta
        here, 5000, G!" -- Ice Cube and Flavor Flav (I'm only out for
        one thang [1990]).

502
        (n) California police code for drunk driving.

5150
        (n) Code of the California Legal Codes that stands for a mentally
        unstable person. Also the name of an old Van Halen album.

64
        1) (n) A 64-ounce bottle of malt liquor. "40's are no more because
        now I'm drinkin' 64s" -- Grand Puba (Three Men at Chung King)
        2) (n) A 1964 Chevrolet Impala. "Jumped in the 64 with the diamond
        in the back, sunroof top" -- N.W.A. (Gangsta, gangsta [1987]).

7-11
        1) (n) All-night convenience store, which was originally open from
        7am to 11pm when other stores were closed. "He always has me open
        like a 7-11" -- Salt 'n Pepa (What a man [??]).
        2) (n) From the dice game called craps, rolling a 7 and then 11 wins.
        "Shake em up, shake em, rollin with a couple of homies and watch me
        break em with a seven, seven-eleven" -- Ice Cube (Today was a good
        day [1992]).

8-ball
        1) (n) Old English 800, a popular beer in the hood.
        2) (n) An eightball is literally, in drug terms, an eight of an ounce.
        There are twenty-eight grams in an ounce, and hence, three and one half
        grams in an eightball. In places where an eightball is less than three
        and a half grams, the laws of supply and demand have constricted the
        quantity in favor of a popular price.
        3) (n) On to it. Ie: "on the 8-ball", up with the play.
        4) (n) The 8-ball is the last ball to pot in the billiards game of
        pool. If you accidentally pot it before the end of the game, you lose.
        So, the 8-ball also represents chance.

808
        1) (n) The bassdrum from a Roland TR-808 drum machine, which is now
        a popular sample.
        2) (n) The police code for disturbing the peace. Refers to the sound of
        bass from stereos.

85%
        See 5%. "Why? That's most asked by 85" -- Ladybug of Digable
        Planets (???).

86
        (v) To kill a plan or action. In the restaurant lingo it means that
        you want to cancel an order already placed with the kitchen or on the
        bill. "86 that spinach salad!".

9, 9mm
        (n) 9 mm gun. "My nine is easy to load" -- L.L. Cool J.
        (Mama said knock you out [1990])

9 to 5
        (n) A job where you work from 9:00 am till 5:00 pm. "While your
        were at your job working nine to five, the Beastie Boys were at
        the garden cold kickin' it live!" -- Beastie Boys (No sleep
        till Brooklyn [1986]).

911
        (n) The US phone number for emergencies. "Now I dialed 911 a long
        time ago" -- Public Enemy (911 is a joke).

950
        (n) The Akai S-950, a widely used rackmount sampler. A nice piece
        of equipment that allowed the producer to "stretch" the
        sound wave so that the sample could be sped up or slowed down
        without changing the pitch. It was made popular by the Bomb Squad
        who used them to stack samples thus giving their tracks the dope
        sound. From the Alkaholiks (The next level [1994]).

98 Oldsmobile
    
        (n) A very limited make of Oldsmobile, usually considered to be their
        best make of car, year after year. A real status symbol. "My 98 is
        tough to chase" -- Public Enemy (You gonna get yours [1987]).

97.1
        (n) HOT 97, A CHR-turned-hip hop station in New York.

98.7
        (n) WRKS KISS FM, a NYC radio station that helped bring hip-hop to
        the radio.

-- A -- 

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

Ac
        The Acura Legend, a brand car. "I'm the Mack in the Ac, all
        paneling" -- Notorious BIG (Unbelievable [1994]).

afro
        1) (n) Hairstyle like the Jackson Five had, much hair and round like
        a ball.
        2) (n) Person with an afro. "Don't laugh hoes, I'm down with The
        Afro's" -- Ice Cube (I gotta say what up!!! [1990]) (note that
        Cube refers to a rap group). 

AK/AK-47
        (n) Assault rifle of Russian origin, nowadays produced in China.
        The letters stand for Automatic Kalashnikov.  "My AK-47 is the
        tool" -- Da Lench Mob (Freedom got an AK [1993]) (originally 
        from NWA (Straight out of Compton)).

all that
        (adj) in possession of all good qualities.

alpine
        (n) Stereo set.

am
        (n) The morning, as in A.M. "Steppin' to the am" -- 3rd Bass 
        (The cactus album).

A&R
        (n) Refers to Artist and Repetoir execs in record companies they are
        hooked up with an artist to help put out an image and distribute the
        artists albums. "First of all, who's your A & R, a
        mountain climber who plays an electric guitar?" -- Wu Tang Clan
        (Protect ya neck [1994]).

around the way
        (n) From the neighbourhood. "From around the way"
        -- Beastie Boys (No sleep till Brooklyn [1986]).

axe
        (v) Ask. "Gave her ten dollars, then she axed me for some more"
        -- Schoolly D. (P.S.K. (what does it mean?) [??]).

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

-- B -- 

bag up
        1) (v) To laugh real hard at something.
        2) (v) To be caught or arrested by the police.

bawla
        (n) Someone who has established himself in the hood, who is making much
        money (beit illegitimate or not), and who is good with the ladies; it
        is a Blood term. The Crip version of this word is "highroller".

bamma'
        (n) Person who cannot dress. "Me and the rest of the bammers"
        -- Question Mark Asylum (Deriving from teh D.C. area [??]).

bang
        1) (v) To fight to kill
        2) (n) Banger: someone associated with gangs and murder.

battle
        (v) To compete, usually freestyle rapping, sometimes breakdancing.
        "You want to rap and you got no battle, it's like havin' a boat
        and you got no paddle" -- Public Enemy (??? [1987]).

b-boy
        (n) From breakdancing; one who breakdances. "B-boys in the front,
        back, side and middle, check out my b-boy rhyme and riddle" --
        Schoolly D. (B-boy rhyme [??]).

beam me up, Scotty
        (interj) Give me crack.

beamer
        (n) Expensive European car: BMW, status symbol. Used by Tribe Called
        Quest on Low End Theory.

bean
        (n) Also called a head.

beef
        (n) And argument or discrepancy with another individual or group
        of individuals. The following citation is from the book Juba to Jive:
        the dictionary of African-American slang, by Clarence Major. Beef n.
        (1930s-1940s; 1960s-1970s) an "old" word dating back to
        general criminal use in the thirties. For young black in the
        sixties and later it meant roughly the same as it had earlier: a
        complaint or argument; a disagreement in progress.

bend
        (n) A prostitute. "She was more than just a bend" -- Grand Puba

Benz
        (n) Expensive European car: Mercedes Benz, status symbol. 
        "I used to get no play, now she stays behind me, 'cause I said I 
        had a Benz 190" -- N.W.A. (I ain't the one).

Benzi-box
        1) (n) A pull out radio. "Here come the cops... put the Benzi-box 
        under the seat" -- Naughty by Nature (Strike a nerve [1991]).
        2) (n) A box full of Mercedes Benz emblems that were stolen off the
        cars.

being [down] with something
        (v) Favouring something, thinking the same way. "Howie Tee, are you
        with me?" -- The Real Roxanne and Howie Tee ((Bang zoom) let's
        gogo).

berry
        (n) Police officer. "Didn't even see a berry flashing those high
        beams" -- Ice Cube (Good day [1992]).

BG
        (n) Baby gangster, as opposed to OG. An OG has shot somebody, a BG
        has not shot anyone yet. "I quit school cuz of recess, you
        fuckin BG" -- Snoop Doggy Dogg (Pump Pump).

bill
        (n) A one hundred dollar banknote.

bima
        (n) See beamer. "Lex, coupe, bimaz, benz"
        -- Lost Boyz.

bird
        (n) Kilo. "A bird in the hand" -- Ice Cube (A bird in the hand
        [1991]).

bitch
        1) (n) Prostitute; girls call each other "What's up, bitch?"
        Doesn't necessarily have to be negative. Doesn't have to mean females
        either.  "Cause some of y'all niggas is bitches too" -- Ice T
        (Bitches 2 [1991]).
        2) (v) To curse or nag about something.

bite
        1) (v) To copy lyrics from other people. "I know you down south are
        biting my lines, and if I catch you boy, your ass is mine" --
        Schoolly D. (Gucci time)
        2) (v) To steal

bizzo
        (n) A girl. "My seven bizzo's" -- 2 Live crew (??? [??]).

black book
        1) A small book carried by graffiti artists for others to
        do work in.
        2) A book to carry phone numbers in.
        3) The Bible.

Black Panther movement
        (n) This movement was founded in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton,
        H.R. Brown and Bobby Seale. Fought for the rights of black to bear arms
        like white people in the late 1960's and the early 1970's.

blast
        (v) To smoke crack.

blend
        (n) See marihuana.

blunt
        (n) See marihuana. Marijuana cigarette, herb stuffed cigar,
        generally phillies.

blunted
        (v) Under influence of a blunt. "Made a little record for
        the blunted to chill with" -- Cypress Hill (Hand on the pump [1993])

bomb
        (n) Marijuana laced with heroin.

bone
        1) (v) To have sexual intercourse. "Your aim is to bone" --
        Tribe Called Quest (Classic example of a date rape).
        2) (n) Penis. "You can act like a doggy, and play with my bone"
        -- Schoolly D. (Another poem [??]).
        3) (n) One dollar.
        4) (n) Core, soul. "I'm a rock hard trooper to the bone"
        -- Public Enemy (Louder Than A Bomb)
        5) (v) To bone out, as in leaving. "I'm a bone outta here".

bong
        (n) A figure that marijauna is boiled in, which can be made out of
        practically anything.

boo
        (n) A cozy nickname. "I'll be in here, boo" -- Method Man
        (You're all I need [??]).

booster
        (n) A shoplifter.

booty
        1) (adj) Not good, lacking. "And them rhymes you were kickin were 
        quite bootylicious" -- Snoop Doggy Dogg (Dre Day [??]).
        2) (n) Bottom, ass. Or getting a piece of ass.
        3) (n) Biblical, as in pirates booty or treasure. Since booty is stolen
        treasure, it could be good or bad. Often used in the negative today.

boo-ya
        (n) Totally dope, incredibly fine. Probably orignated from the
        "Boo-ya Tribe". That shit was straight-up boo-ya -- ??.

bounce
        1) (v) To leave, to get up, to break. "You mean bounce... I'm with you,
        bounce right outta NYC" -- Raekwon (??? [??]).
        2) (n) Form of music from New Orleans. Check Mystikal's album for a
        song called "Neva gonna bounce".

boy
        (n) Friend, possibly short for homeboy.
        "That's my boy".

bozack, 'zack
        (n) Scrotum.

Brass Monkey
        1) (n) an alcoholic concoction available in liquor stores. "Drinking
        Brass Monkey" -- Beastie Boys (Brass Monkey [1986]).

break to
        1) Comes from the Biblical term "selah". Comes from music,
        "on the break", but for hip-hop refers to the break in the
        record that is created by the DJ. "Beats and breaks".
        2) (v) transport onesself to, often quickly.

break off
        (v) Marijuana is sometimes sold as little blocks. So, breaking off some
        means to share the good stuff with others. "Break ya off something"
        -- Cypress Hill (Insane in the brain [1993]).

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

doing a buck 50
        (v) To speed or get out of a bad situation. Derived from a "buck",
        or dollar. A buck fifty would then be 1.50, referring to doing 150
        miles per hour.

bucket
        (n) Old car in bad shape. "So I moved on an old car, it was a
        bucket, but fuck it, it had to do" -- Ice-T. (Midnight [1991]). 

buckwilding
        (v) To get buckwild means to have sex, see also wilding.
        A "buck" is a young, unbroken horse that cowboys try to master
        at a rodeo. "Get buckwild with the white freaks, show 'em how to
        really work the white sheets" -- Body Count (KKK Bitch [1991]).

buddah
        (n) See marihuana. "I'm an addict for sneakers,
        20's of buddah and bitches with beepers" -- NAS (New York state of
        mind [1994]).

buddy
        1) (n) At the start of De La soul's "Buddy" video, Prince Paul
        makes a statement to the effect that "Buddy means body."
        2) (n) Sexual partner. A bit more than a friend.
        3) (adj) Something that appears okay at first, but is actually a
        cheap imitation; a knockoff, ripoff or fake. Said to be from
        "Buddies" which are shoes that look cool but fall apart
        real quickly. "Get that buddy shit out of here" -- (???).

bug
        (v) To act strange, crazy, weird. See ill. "You
        don't have to take us seriously, we're only buggin'" -- Whistle
        (Only buggin' [1984]).

bumrush
        (n) Crash the gates of a show with a pack of people, in the hope to
        get in without having to pay. "Yo!Bum rush the show"
        -- Public Enemy.   (Yo!Bum rush the show) [1987].

bunk
        1) (adj) Unpleasant, bad.
        2) (n) A load of bunk: a lot of nonsense.

burner
        1) (n) A large piece of graffiti usually involving many colors.
        2) (n) A gun.

bust a nut
        (v) To ejaculate.

bust this
        (interj) Pay attention. "But bust this!" -- Ice-T (Bitches 2
        [1991]).

bust slugs
        (v) To fire bullets. "And bust some slugs for South Africa"
        -- Heather B. with BDP (Seven MC's)

busta
        1) (n) Fake person, weak individual. "Busta ass nigga talkin'
        bullshit" -- Dr. Dre (Rat-a-tat-tat).
        2) (n) A snitch, a person who tattle-tales.

butt
        1) (n) Bottom.
        2) (adj) Not good, lacking. "Get yourself some toilet paper 'cause
        your lyrics is butt" -- Tribe Called Quest (Low End Theory).

butter
        (adj) Well liked, smoothed out. "Phife Dog is on the mic and I'm
        smooth like butter. It's like butter, not no Parkay, not no margerine,
        strictly butter, baby" -- A Tribe Called Quest (Butter [??]).

buyaka
        (n) Jamaican, resembles the sound of gunshots.


-- C --
cap
        1) (n) Bullet. "I'm a pop a cap in him" -- Jules in the movie
        "Pulp Fiction"
        2) (n) Cranium, top of the skull. "Blood's on my gear, from caps
        I've peeled" -- Ice-T. (Mic contract [1991]).
        3) (n) Crack.

cat
        1) (n) Vagina. "Sprung on the Cat" -- Sir Mixalot (Sprung on the
        cat [1992]).
        2) (n) Person. Used in the 70s. "You cant take the jungle out of 
        the cat" -- Jeru Tha Damaja (Frustrated Nigger [1995]).
        3) (adv) When someone is being a pussy about something. "Why don't
        you ask the girl out and stop being so cat?"

cateye
        1) To stare at a woman/man with sexual intentions.
        2) A stud with many women.

cave bitch
        (n) Female version of "cave boy". Ice Cube (Cave bitch).

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

-cha
        You. "I'm comin' to getcha" -- Ice Cube (I'm gonna wetcha [1993])

cheese
        (n) money; material wealth (from Bone: Thugs & Harmony).

cheever
        (n) See marihuana. Might be spelled cheeba. "Some call it
        cheeba, some call it weed" -- Schoolly D. (Saturday night). Company
        inscriptions on pharmaceutical drugs read "ciba", pronounced "cheeba".

chickenhead
        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). "Give me all the chickenheads
        from Pasadena to Medina, let B.I.G. get in between ya" - Total 
        featuring the B.I.G. (Can't you see [??]).
        2) Crack addict. Repeatedly referred to in "Do or die", a book
        about the conflict between the Crips and the Bloods in South Central.

chill
        1) (n) Relax. "Why don't you just chill" -- L.L. Cool J. (Eat
        em up L chill [1990]).
        2) (adj) Mellow.

cholo
        (n) The word in Spanish directly translates to "pimp". In Spain the
        word means "cool". It is synonymous with bad ass or
        "bad guy". Vatos, chulos, call us what you will
        -- Kid Frost (La Raza [1990]).

chrome
        (n) Gun. "Now I gotta follow him home with the chrome" -- Ice 
        Cube (Robin hood).

chronic
        (n) See marihuana. Incredibly potent marihuana,
        it started out as weed laced with coke. "The Chronic" -- Dr. Dre
        (The Chronic [1992]).

cipher
        (n) A circle of brothers dropping science, showing and proving. 

claim
        1) (v) To say one allies oneself with a gang or set.
        2) (v) To claim membership in a gang.
        3) (v) To say something that is not necessarily true.

Clarks
        Clarks are an excellent English shoe brand.

clip
        (n) Gun or holder of bullets to load a gun with. "My AK-47 holdin'
        50 clips" -- Da Lench Mob (Freedom got an AK [1993]).

clique
        (n) the West Coast equivalent of "crew".

C-low
        (n) A dice game. "Like shootin' C-low, and always hittin' head
        cracks" -- A Tribe Called Quest (Low end theory [??]).

clock
        1) (v) To stay aware of what happens around you. "You're the one that
        I'm clocking" -- Ol' Dirty Bastard (Raw hide [1994])
        2) (v) To earn. "I clock ducats" -- Public Enemy (??? [??]).
        3) (v) To always watch, always have or to always be into something.
        "clockin' a grip" -- Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg (G-thang [??]).

clocking
        (adj) Disturbed.

cock
        1) (n) Penis.
        2) (n) Vagina. "She was giving up the cock" -- Ice Cube
        (Gangsta's Fairytale)
        3) (v) To pull the hammer of a gun. "Cock the hammer, it's time for
        action" -- Cypress Hill (Cock the hammer [1993])

cock block
        (v) To prevent someone from getting sexual intercourse.

coconut
        (n) A hispanic person trying to be white. Compare with oreo.

cold
        (adj) intensely. "Stone cold rhymin'" -- Young MC (Stone cold
        rhymin').

come correct
        (v) To represent the real, to do something the way it should be done.
        "When I'm on the mic, I come correct" -- Beastie Boys (Sure shot)

coochie
        (n) Vagina.

cool
        (adj) Okay.

coqui 900
        (n) A drink of some kind. ("Coqui 900" -- Schoolly D.)

county blues
        (n) Prison-issue clothes.

CPT
        (n) Compton in the phonebook. Call it CPT for ease of use. "Claimin'
        they are from the CPT" -- N.W.A. (Compton's in the house [1990])

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

cream
        Money. From: Cash Rules Everything Around Me, by the Wu-Tang Clan.

crib
        (n) Home. "Black Ceasar at the crib" -- Public Enemy (Burn
        Hollywood Burn [1990])

crack a brew
        (v) Open a beer. "Crack another 40, smoke some kill" --
        Schoolly D.  (Smoke some kill)

cracker
        (n) Originally a term from Reconstruction time (1870) to mean southern
        men. Now it means white bigot, from whip-cracker or slavedriver.
        "Got a little problem with the redneck cracker" -- Ice Cube 
        (The Predator).

crazy
        (adj) Besides meaning insane or extremely daring, it is kind of
        synonymous with mad.
        (adj) Extremely or very. "Crazy fly bitches" -- Ice-T (???).

Cronkite
        (n) News, after the newsreader Walter Cronkite. "Grand Puba and
        Studd Doogie droppin' Cronkite" -- Grand Puba (A little of this).

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

crunk
        (adj) Hype, phat. "Tonight is going to be crunk" -- ??.

creep
        (n) To sneak up on someone.

crew
        (n) Group, band.

cut
        1) (n) A record, the latest hit
        2) (n) A recently received haircut.
        3) (v) Cutting wax: scratching a record. "Rip the cut!" --
        Just Ice (Back to the old school) [198?]
        4) (n) Behind, or out of the way. "I glance in the cut and I see my
        homey Nate" -- Warren G (Regulate [??]).

cuz
        1) (n) homeboy or homegirl.
        2) (n) Cousin, apparently a Crip term.


-- D --
D's, Dayton's
        (n) An expensive brand of hubcaps. "Rollin' in my fo' on D's, hittin'
        the switches" Dr. Dre (Let me ride [1992]).

dank
        (n) See marihuana. "Go on and hit the dank"
        -- Too Short.


dap
        1) (n) Sort of high-five type of handshake. "Gimme a dap, I'll
        give you one back" -- Ice T. (Ziplock [1991])
        2) (n) Dignity and Pride, old slang (think 70's here).

dead presidents
        (n) Money. Most American dollarbills have a former president of the
        United States on them. "I'm all for dead presidents to represent me"
        -- NAS (The world is yours [1994]).

deal with
        (v) To take care of business.

deep
        1) (n) A unit of measure. "It was a crew four deep"
        -- D-Nice (??).
        2) (n) A hip hop clothing manufacturer (X-Large). 
        3) Heavy in the hippy sense of the word.

def
        1) (adj) Okay. The word has been officially buried by BET. "But you
        still think our music is def, right?" -- De La Soul (Brain washed
        follower [??]).
        2) (adj) the standard of excellence.
        3) Some more info on def: comes from the expression "Death O.J."
        but I think first used on record in "Rapper's Delight". As Nelson
        George defines it:"In "Rapper's Delight" the term "Death OJ" is used.
        In current slang "death" means something good, while "OJ" is a refer
        ence to a big car: Erstwhile football star and all-around adman O.J.
        Simpson does Hertz commercials featuring Ford and Lincoln Mercury
        cars. If we add "death" to Ford and Lincoln Mercury cars (leaving out
        any disrespectful reference to Pintos), we come up with the "Rapper's
        Delight" character driving off in a Lincoln Continental."
        From _Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture_
        by Nelson George.

Def Jam
        1) (n) A great record.
        2) (n) One of the first big labels for rap artists, founded by Rick
        Reuben, led by Russel Simmon.

delf
        (n) "Delf" was quoted for the first time by Parrish Smith when
        EPMD's last album was released in 1992. It was in a Source interview
        and it's about the same as "self" like going for delf (self).
        "Release yo delf" -- Da Method Man (Release yo delf).

deuce
        (n) Two. "About to get loose with the deuce deuce" -- Ice Cube
        (Gangsta fairytale II [1993]).

devil
        (n) an enemy, usually white people. "The devil made me do it" --
        Paris (the devil made me do it) [??].

dick
        (n) penis. "Mister Big Dick, who do you think you are?" --
        Schoolly D. (Mr. Big Dick).

dig out
        (v) To have sexual intercourse. "By 2 am. I was diggin' her out"
        -- Ice Cube (Ghetto bird).

dime
        1) (n) Ten dolar bag of marihuana. Due to
        price variations the price may actually be higher for the same bag.
        2) (n) "To drop a dime", to fink. The term has probably descended from
        the time when phone calls were 10 cents, and is related to the notion
        of moving gossip quickly, as one would drop a dime into the phone to
        make a call.

dip
        1) (v) Dipping is what a car with a hydraulic suspension does. "Set
        trippin', fo' dippin'" -- Ice Cube (Friday [??]).
        2) (v) To pay more attention to other people's business than to one's
        own.

dis
        (v) Insult or thwart in a social manner. "Challenge BDP, you'll get
        dissed, expect it" -- Boogie Down Productions (Part time sucker).

DJ
        (n) Disc Jockey. "My DJ Derek B is best" -- Derek B. (Get down).

DL
        See down low.

do
        1) (n) Hairdo.
        2) (v) Having sex.
        3) (v) Killing someone.

dog
        1) (v) To tear something up like a dog would do.
        2) (v) To insult someone in front of his friends.
        3) (v) To have sex the doggy way.
        4) (p) a form of addressing: "Whatup dog?", not meant to be
        offensive
        5) (n) a friend, "That's my Dog". Road ~: West Coast gangsta
        for friend.

dome
        (n) A person's big head, skull, gun against your head.

dope
        1) (n) Narcotics.
        2) (adj) Great, addictive.

dopeman
        (n) Seller of narcotics. "If you see somebody getting pussy for
        crack, he's the dopeman, dopeman" -- N.W.A. (Tha Dopeman)

double deuce juice
        1) (n) 22 oz of cold 45 ml beer.
        2) (n) Colt 45 (the Billy D. juice).

dough
        (n) Money. "Don't you know when the dough get low, the juice go"
        -- Mobb Deep (Survival of the fittest [??]).

down low
        (n) Covert, secret, "hush hush", derived from low profile.

dukey robe
        (n) Fat gold chain.

dumm
        (v) To act stupid. "Ya dummin'" -- Funkdoobiest (You're dummin').

dusting
        (adj) Too high or too drunk.

dutchmasta
        (n) Dutchmaster is a brand of cigars. Sometimes when rolling a serious
        blunt, the tobacco is removed from a cigar and replaced with marihuana.
        "Slit a nigga back like a Dutchmasta killa" -- Wu-Tang Clan
        (???).

drawers
        (n) Pants, underpants.

drive-by
        (n) A gang form of execution; armed with guns they drive by their
        victims, take a shot at them, and drive off. "With your 
        drive-by's it took time to getcha, but now I'm gonna wetcha"
        -- Ice Cube (I'm gonna wetcha [1993])

drop science, drop knowledge
        (v) To demonstrate wisdom or skill. "I'm droppin' science" -- 7a3
        (Coolin' in Cali) [1988]

Dropping a Dime
        (v) Informing.

DSL
        (n) Dick sucking lips; oral sex.

duckets
        (n) Money, from "ducats": coins. He's gettin' juiced for his
        duckets" -- N.W.A. (I ain't the one).

-- E --

Elijah Muhammad
        (n) Elijah Poole, a Georgia-born ex-factory worker who founded
        the black muslim movement Nation of Islam in Detroit in 1930, also
        known as Honorable Elijah Muhammad.   "Read the book how to eat
        to live, from Elijah Muhammad, it's a brown paperback" -- Boogie
        Down Productions (Beef [1990])

ese
        (n) Spanish word for homeboy.

-- F --

fade
        1) (n) the hairdo (see high top fade).
        2) (v) Means to not listen to, erase, or get rid of (exterminate). 
        Has mutated into various other meanings as well as has most
        other hiphop lingo.
        It (the phrase) started from actually pulling down the fader
        on a mixer, which of course, results in not listening to 
        whomever was on at the time. So Ice Cube wants you to listen 
        to him always and not fade him or turn him off... "You can't
        fade me" -- Ice Cube (You can't fade me).
        3) (n) Term frm from the dice-game craps, related to losing.

fag
        (n) Homosexual man, short for faggot. "...and I thought it was a gag,
        when I thought it was a girl, it was nothing but a fag"
        -- Schoolly D.  (Saturday night).

fat
        (adj) Rich like butter, really good, extremely well put together.
        "ATCQ be putting together some fat beats" -- ??? (???)

federal
        1) (adj) Refering to the federal government. "The reasons are several,
        most of the federal" -- Public Enemy (Black steel in the hour of
        chaos [1988]).
        2) (adj) Something of exceptional quality or of an extreme nature. Used
        throughout E-40 tapes, probably Bay Area in origin.
        3) (adj) Going federal: rising up in the game.

fiend
        (v) To be hostile to.

finger on the trigger
        (n) Someone with the ~: someone prepared to shoot if necessary. "I
        got my hand in my pocket and my finger's on the trigger" --
        Beastie Boys (Posse in effect [1986]).

fix
        (n) Heroine.

flava
        1) (n) Flavour
        2) (n) Flavor Flav, Chuck D's right hand man in Public Enemy.

Flavavision
        (n) The glasses of PE's Flavor. "Don't worry, Flavavision ain't
        blurry" -- Public Enemy (Don't believe the hype).

flay
        (v) "Flay on the mix", serious old school mixing and scratching.

flex
        1) (v) To show one's mettle, flexing one's muscles, showing one's
        arsenal and readiness to put it to use, letting one's pugilistic
        prowess be known. To strike someone, or to get up in someones face for
        intimidation. "I use my nine when suckas start to flex"
        -- Ice Cube (Man's best friend).
        2) (v) Scratching, from flexing of the wrist. Rakim used to talk
        about Eric B being on the flex.

floss
        (v) Move in and out of something. "Floss the NSX" -- DJ Quick
        (Dollars and sense).

flow
        1) (n) Money.
        2) (v) To rhyme continuously in the same rhyme scheme without stopping.

fly
        (adj) Attractive, beautiful. "Put on the Bally shoes and the fly
        green socks" -- Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh (Ladidadi). 

four
        (n) See '64.

forty dog
        (n) 40 ounce bottle of Olde English 800 malt liquor. "Forty dog,
        one love" -- Nas (One love [1994]).

freak
        1) (v) Dance in a provocative way.
        2) (v) Have sex.
        3) (n) Person who practices the above things; sexually aggressive
        female (never missing a beat).

free world
        (n) Free from incarceration; the world outside of prison. "I really
        miss my free world" -- Convicts (??? [1991]).

freestyle
        (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.
        "We gonna do a little freestyle for y'all, and it go like this"
        -- Schoolly D. (Cuttin' and scratchin')

fresh
        1) (adj) New
        2) (adj) Okay

front
        (v) Pretend to be that which you are not; act tough. "You can't
        front on that" -- Beastie Boys (So what'cha want [1992]).

fuck
        (n,v) This is the most powerful word in the American English language.
        It can be the very best or the very worst. You might enjoy
        getting your brains fucked out, but then again you might not.

funk
        1) (adj) Malodorous.
        2) (n) The essence of being, as in faking the funk.

funky drummer
        (n) Famous drumtrack by Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown's drummer.
        Often used in hiphop.

furilla
        (adj) Contraction of the phrase "for real"; something known to
        be true. "On the furilla, my nigga, just call me Scarface" --
        Geto Boys (Scarface [1989]).


-- G --

G
        1) (n) Anything that starts with a G. E.g. God, Gangsta, Girl, Guy.
        As in "Whatup, G?".
        2) (v) To have sexual intercourse. E.g. Sir Mix-a-Lot's self titled 
        EP has a song called "Let's G".
        3) (n) Money, from Grands or thousands. "I clock G's while you
        clock Z's" - EPMD (???).

G'd up
        (adv) Dressed to kill, like a bawla.
gaffle
        (n) To harass. Especially being "gaffled" by the police.

gaffled
        (adj) Past tense of "to gaffle". The state of being messed
        up; a misfortunate condition.

game
        1) (v) Wooing. "Cause I'm gamin' on a female that's gamin' on
        me" -- N.W.A. (I ain't the one).
        2) (v) In the game, whatever the game might be. A game is some way
        to make money or advance oneself, or just a game.

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

gangbang
        1) (v) To commit crimes in a gang.
        2) (v) To to have sex in groups.

gangsta
        1) (n) A gangster or criminal.
        2) (adj) In the way of a gangster.
        3) (adj) A style of rap that evolved in South Central, Los Angeles.

gangsta lean
        1) (n) The way a person drives where they lean over to the passenger
        seat and get really low. "Digging the scene with a gangsta lean"
        -- N.W.A. (Gangsta, gangsta [1987]).
        2) (n) The heaven where gangsters end up, when a homie dies, you pour
        out a little liquor or lean the bottle over to spill liquor. "This
        is for my homies kickin' it in the Gangsta Lean" -- DRS (Gangsta
        Lean [1992]).

ganja
        (n) See marihuana. "My medicine is the ganja"
        -- Nas (??? [1994]).

gank
        (v) Same as skank, ie. to hurt, steal from, or diss in some way. "I
        guess that's what I get, for trying to gank the little homies for their
        grip" -- Dr. Dre (Lil' ghetto boy [??]).

gasface
        1) To show someone a sign of disrespect.
        2) Make stupid face towards someone you don't like. "The same people
        that got gasfaced last year" -- 3rd Bass (No master plan, no master
        race [1991])

gat
        1) (n) A very small, easily concealed gun used by government spies and,
        of course, gangsters.
        2) (n) Hip-Hop Clothing Co.

get burned
        (v) To catch a sexually transmitted disease. "Stay in the microwave
        too long you'll get burned" -- Kool Moe Dee (Go see the doctor [??]).

get busy
        1) (v) Have sex.
        2) (v) eat  "Ya mama is so big and fat that she can get busy with
        22 burritoes, but times are rough, I seen her in the
        back'a taco bell with handcuffs" -- Pharcyde (Ya Mama)

get/give head/skull
        (v) Receive/give fellatio.

get/give props
        (v) See props.

G-funk
        (n) Gangsta funk. Examples: Snoop Doggy Dogg, Warren G & Nate Dog.

ghetto bird
        (n) Helicopter. "Motherfuck you and your punk ass ghetto bird."
        -- Ice Cube (Ghetto Bird) [1993].

glock
        (n) Manufacturer of guns. People usually mean the 9mm glock, which can
        hold up to 20 rounds, plus one in the chamber. With an extended clip
        they can hold up to 33 rounds. The gun is made of plastic and ceramic,
        so it has a futuristic `feel' to it. The plastic cannot be detected by
        metal detectors.

grill
        1) "Guard your grill": protect yourself, grill stands 
        for your teeth, protect your face from getting punched. "I got the
        skill, I'll bust ya in the grill" -- House of Pain (Shamrocks and
        Shenanigans [??]).
        2) Front of a car.

grip
        1) (n) Ability on the microphone.
        2) (n) Money. "Where's my grip nigga?" -- ??
        3) (n) Gun. "I guess that's what I get, for trying to gank the
        little homies for their grip" -- Dr. Dre (Lil' ghetto boy [??]).

GT
        (n) Ferrari GT model, one of the rarest and therefore most expensive
        Ferrari's around.

GTA
        (n) Grand theft auto, legalese for stealing a car. "It's all about
        makin' that GTA" -- Eazy-E (Boyz in the hood).


-- H --
hard
        1) (adv) Tough. "Cause I'm too hard to lift" -- Dr. Dre (Let me
        ride [??]).
        2) (adv) Erected. "Ya dicks on hard" -- Dr. Dre (In your own
        dogs [??]).

hawk
        1) (v) To look at something.
        2) (v) To stare down someone.

hella
        (adv) A hell of a lot. "I got hella scrilla" -- ??? (??? [??]).

Hennessey
        (n) Brand of Cognac. "Take this Hennessey!" NAS -- (The Genesis
        [1994]).

herbalz
        1) (n) Marijuana, comes from herbs. "Herbalz in my mouth"
        -- 3rd Bass (Herbalz in my mouth).
        2) (n) Semen (mentioned in an interview once by 3rd Bass).

[to be] high
        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]).

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

highside
        (v) To ignore or disrespect someone by not acknowledging their
        presence. "Bitches get mad cause we highside" -- Big Mike
        (Smoke 'em and & choke 'em [??]).

high top fade
        (n) Haircut high on the top, fading down to close cut on the sides
        "Livin' in fear of my shade or my high top fade" -- Public Enemy

hip-hop
        (n) In Jamaican ska era, 60's, a DJ would spin and cut the wax and a
        MC would sing or shout or dub poetry over it. That's the roots of
        hiphop which were brought to New York City by Kool DJ Herc, but
        hip-hop or rap was created in New York City.

ho
        1) (n) Hooker, prostitute, from whore. "She ain't nothing but
        another ho, according to the system" -- KRS-One (Exhibit D.
        [1990]).
        2) (v) To sell out.

ho cake
        (n) Vagina.

hold the fort down
        (v) To represent where you are from. "If so hold the fort down
        and represent to the fullest" -- Nas (One Love [1994]).

homeboy
        (n) Close friend.

homegirl
        (n) Female equivalent of homeboy. "Homegirls, see a guy
        you like? Just grab him in the biscuits... and doowutchalike" --
        Digital Underground (Doowutchalike [??]).

homey
        (n) See homeboy. "But I wish he could have said it to my dead
        homey" -- Ice Cube (Dead Homiez [1990]).

honey
        (n) Person, generally attractive.

Honey Dip
        (n) pretty young ladies with golden brown complexions.

hood
        (n) The neighbourhood, usually a poor community.

hoodie
        (n) T-shirt with hood attached to it.

hoodlum
        (n) A criminal; drugdealer, car thief, stick up kid. "Hoodlums and
        hustlers and bangers with Jheri-curls" -- Ice T. (Lifestyles of the
        rich and infamous [1991])

hoodrat
        (n) female, generally sexually promiscuous, and not upwardly mobile
        "Homies in the hood labeled her as a hoodrat" -- Domino
        (ghetto jam)

hook
        (n) A hook, used in load of songs, is an aspect of popular or
        commercial music that "grabs" people and makes it easy to like
        like or remember the song.  For example, the riff from "Son of a
        Preacher Man" used in Cypress Hill's "Hits from the Bong is
        an example of a hook. "Check out the hook while I drop crazy
        rhymes" -- ??? (???).

hooptie
        (n) Old car in bad shape.

hop on the side
        (v) To get on the passenger side of a car.

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

hottie
        (n)  A very attractive female. "This hottie got a body and I wanna
        get naughty" -- Sir Mixalot (Sprung on the Cat [1992]).

housenigger
        (n) Person who blindly follows simple-minded people. 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.

Huey P. Newton
        (n) Founder of the Black Panther movement along with H. R. Brown and
        Bobby Seale. Mentioned in a few PE songs.

hydro
        See marihuana. "Hydro, me just can't let
        me, high go " - Bone Thugs 'n Harmony (Buddah lovas [1995]).

hype
        1) (n) Statements made about something before that thing comes out,
        especially wild statements guessing about the things nature (whether
        positive or negative). For example, record companies will often put
        many advertisements out before a record comes out. Before Public
        Enemy's album came out there was much negative hype in the media.
        "Yo Harry! You're a writer; are we that type? Don't believe the
        hype..." -- Public Enemy (Don't believe the hype).
        2) (adj) Cool. "Too damn hype" -- Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
        (??? [1988]).

-- I --

IBWC
        The Intelligent Black Womens Coalition, a group that Yo-Yo is
        the founder(?) of.

ice
        1) (n) Diamonds or jewelry with diamonds in it. "Hands smothered
        in ice." -- Ice-T (Bitches 2 [1991]).
        2) (n) On ice - at the morgue.
        3) (n) Ice or ice cream: drugs.

ill
        1) (v) To be obnoxious, or to act weird, as in eating dogfood. "You
        be illin'" -- RUN-DMC (You be illin' [1986]).
        2) (adj) negative.

Impala
        (n) Type of popular low-cost car made by Chevrolet in the seventies.
        The car is popular with low riders, especially the 1964 model. '63,
        '62 and '65 models are also sometimes used. 64's seem to be a Mexican
        thang, and 63's a black thang, but this is of course just a
        generalisation. Ice Cube's car in "Boyz 'n the hood" was an
        Impala. "Knew her from the back of my homeys Impala"
        -- Ice Cube (You can't fade me [1990]).

in [full] effect
        Present and taking place.

in the house
        Present, here. "Compton's in tha house" -- N.W.A. (Compton's
        in tha house)

Indo
        (n) Marijuana from Indonesia. "Indo smoke up in your
        lungs like that" -- Dr. Dre (Rat-tat-tat-tat [??]).


-- J --
jack
        (v) To rob someone face to face. "Lets see who the fuck ima jack
        today" -- Ice Cube (Robin hood).

jack roll
        (v) To rob the helpless.

jailbait
        (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.

jam
        1) (n) song, cut, track. "This is the dope Jam!" -- Public Enemy
        (night the living baseheads) [1989].
        2) (n) The sweet stuff - like honey.

jammy
        1) (n) Penis. "All the fly ladies are on my jammy" -- Beastie
        Boys (The new style [1986]).
        2) (n) Gun. "Pulled out the jammy aimed it at the sky" -- Beastie
        Boys (Paul Revere [1986]).

James Brown
        (n) the funkiest and most sampled man alive.

janky
        1) (adj) Bad, flawed (northern California)
        2) (adj) Good, smooth (souther California). "Dub C, nigga, still
        janky as fuck!" -- W.C. and the Maad Circle (Intro [1995]).

jawn
        (n) Another word for joint, a marihuana cigarette. "Back in
        Philly, they call me da jawn" -- Bahamadia (Total Wreck [??]).

jenny
        (n) Vagina.

jet
        (v) Leave.

Jheri-curls
        (n) Wetlook, curly hairstyle. "Hoodlums and hustlers and bangers
        with Jheri-curls" -- Ice T. (Lifestyles of the rich and infamous
        [1991])

jiggy
        (n) To have a lot of money or riches. "DKNY, oh my I'm jiggy"
        -- Junior M.A.F.I.A. (Player's Anthem [??]).

jimbrowsky
        (n) See Jimmy.

Jimmy
        (n) Penis. "Never sleep alone because Jimmy is a magnet" --
        Beastie Boys (3 Minute rule [1989]).

Jimmy hat/cap
        (n) Condom.

jock
        1) (n) Crotch. Being on someone's jock means trying to get involved
        with someone for his money or his status etc. The best definition can
        be found on Ice Cube's "Kill at will" in the full version of
        the song "Get off my dick and tell yo bitch to come here".
        2) (v) To sweat someone.

jone
        (v) To taunt or to make fun, see snap.

Jones
        (n) A craving for something. It is said to come from Jones Alley in
        Manhattan where junkies used to live. E.g.: "Baseball Jones":
        needing baseball, "love Jones": a dire craving for someone,
        "Jonesing for some MJ": wanting some marihuana. I got a love
        Jones for your body and shin tone" -- Method Man & Mary J. Blidge
        (You are all I need [1994]).

juice
        1) (n) Having hydraulics.
        2) (v) To squeeze the juice out of something. "You can't juice Ice
        Cube, girl" -- N.W.A. (I ain't the one).
        3) (n) "To have juice means you kiss and lick a lot of booty" --
        KRS-One (Blackman in effect [1990]).
        4) (n) Respect.
        5) (n) Alcohol, as in "being juiced up" or get juice for the
        party".

-- K --

kani
        (n) Oversized hip-hop clothing.

kangol
        (n) A brand of hat. LL Cool J used to wear this along with other east
        coast rappers. It has a kangaroo on the side, but brothers wore them
        with the 'roo in front. "Went back in, I forgot my Kangol" -- 
        Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh (Ladidadi).

KDAY
        (n) Radio station that broadcasted from Crenshaw in South Central LA,
        and was devoted to local underground Hip Hop. The musical director of
        KDAY was Greg Mack, and he single handedly turned NWA from an unknown
        group to superstars. It signed Dr. Dre and DJ Yella in 1983 to
        broadcast their own Mix Show, as the Wreckin' Crew.  "It (KDAY) was
        percieved as a Rap station cause we played rap no one else would"
        (Greg Mack, as interviewed by Brian Cross in the book "It's not
        about a salarie"). KDAY was sold in 1990, and was turned into a
        business network. The defunct radio station symbolizes to a lot of
        rappers coming out of LA area the shutting down of black voice in
        America. "This is K-Eazy E, wassup y'all this is Greg Mack, Mack
        Attack" -- Eazy-E (Radio [1988]).

key
        (n) Kilo, often used in conjuction with cocaine. "Dope, like a pound
        or a key" -- N.W.A. (Tell 'em what your name is).

khakis
        (n) Hip-hop clothing, brown/tan colored pants. "Wearin ghackis,
        mob while ya ryhme, little fag tried to sag" -- Eazy-E
        (Real Motherphuckkin' G's).

kicks
        (n) See sneakers.

kill
        (n) See marihuana. "Crack another 40, smoke some kill"
        -- Schoolly D. (Smoke some kill).

[kitty] cat
        (n) Vagina.

knocka
        (n) A pest. "Leave Flavor Flav alone, knocka" -- Public Enemy
        (Cold lampin' with Flavor [1988]).

knocking boots
        (v) To have sexual intercourse. When two people are in a horizontal
        position their feet will bang together. "Bring your friend, I
        likes you two's I'll knock the boots, the sneakers and the house
        shoes." -- Digital Underground (Flowing on the D-line).

knuckle up
        (v) Prepare to fight.

-- L --

L
        (n) Another name for blunt.

L-train
        1) (n) The late train. "I'm on the L train going insane" -- The Roots
        (Silent treatment).
        2) (n) Elevated trains in Chicago or NYC.

'lac
        (n) Short for Cadillac. "Macks drive 'lacs" -- Big Mello [1993].

lamp
        1) (v) To hang out next to a streetlamp. "I'm on the street, cold
        lampin'" -- Public Enemy (Cold lampin' with Flavor).
        2) (v) To relax while others panic.

lay pipe
        (v) Having sexual intercourse. "Cause a nigga like me'll lay plenty
        of pipe" -- Ice Cube (I'm only out for one thang).

leather Tuscadero
        (n) Female equivalent of The Fonz that appeared on Happy Days.
        "Now he's zipped up like leather Tuscadero" -- Ice Cube
        (We had to tear this motherfucker up).

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

lime
        1) (v) Hanging around with friends of family.
        2) (n) A casual gathering of friends and family. "This lime has
        no juice", this gathering is dull.

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

llello
        (n) Cocaine, crack; it is a Spanish word, and the double l's are
        pronounced as "y"'s.  The bitch came back with a bag of
        llello" -- Ice Cube (Once upon a time in the projects)

loc
        1) (n) Term used for local person.
        2) (n) Crazy one, from the Spanish "loco", often used for friends
        or locals in a positive way. "Don't you know I'm loco?" -- Cypress
        Hill (Insane in the brain [1993])
        3) (n) Lock or locks, as in Jheri-curls, but always pronounced with
        the long o as in "go".
        4) (n) Sunglasses. Inside Ice Cube's "Kill at will" album he
        advertizes locs as sunglasses, in the inside cover.

Long Beach
        (n) City south of Compton. "Rollin' from the East Side south of 
        Compton, see a big ass, and I say 'word', took a look
        at the face, and the bitch was to the curb!" -- N.W.A. 
        (8 ball (remix) [1988])

lowriding
        (v) Adjusting the suspension of a car to get it closer to the
        ground. Since it is illegal to drive that way, people have hydraulic
        systems to adjust the height of the car while driving, making it
        bounce.

Louies
        (n) Louis Vuitton gear.

-- M --

Mac 10
        (n) A gun. "The Mac 10 is in the grass and I run like a cheetah with
        thoughts of an assassin" -- Nas (??? [1994]).

Mack
        1) (n) Pimp.
        2) (v) Being a pimp. "Mackin' is a game and everybody's playing
        it" -- Ice Cube (Who's the mack)
        3) (n) The Mack, an early 70's Blacksploitation film shot in Oakland, 
        CA.
        4) (n) Ladies Man "I love the ladies and they love me right back,
        now who's the Mack" Ice T.
        5) (v) To steal.

mad
        (adj) Extremely, very, a large quantity. "His jeep was pumpin' mad
        bass" -- ??? (???).

madhatter
        (n) Someone who sells drugs.

making ends
        (v) Dominoes term, you win when you make ends. "So make all the ends
        you can make, cuz when you're broke you break" -- Dr. Dre (Lil'
        ghetto boy [??])

Malcolm
        (n) Malcolm X, civil rights activist leader, gunned down at the age
        of 35 at the Audubon Ballroom on the north edge of Harlem in New York
        in 1965 as he spoke to hundreds of followers. He represented the 
        largely urban North. Member of Nation of Islam until 1964. Wrote many
        texts, interviews, notes and speeches from 1950-1963, of which some
        can be considered racist. Renounced these points of view in his last
        year.

marihuana
        (n) Dried leaves and flowering tops of the pistillate hemp plant that
        are smoked in cigarettes for their intoxicating effect. Other reported
        words for it are: bammer, blow, bomb, brown, bud, buddha, cannabis,
        cheeba, chronic, dank, doubage, ganja, grass, green, groove weed, hash,
        herb, ill, Indo, iszm, Lebanon, Mary Jane (mj), pot, sess, shake, shit,
        skunk, stress, tabacci, Thai, wacky and weed.

mark
        1) (n) A sucker, a target for gaffling and crime. "You mark-ass busta,
        you betta raise up" -- Dr Dre (Dre [??].)
        2) (n) Someone who is claiming a set (subset of a Crip or Blood gang)
        to which he does not belong.

MC
        (n) Probably Jamaican, in which case it comes from the TV game shows,
        Master of Ceremonies (although the term existed before TV). Could
        also stand for Microphone Controller, Mic Checka. "The term,
        MC, stand for Master of Ceremonies" --- A Tribe Called Quest
        (Midnight Marauders).

medina
        1) (n) Said to be an aphrodisiac. "Funky col' medina" -- Tone
        Loc (Funky cold medina [1989])
        2) (n) Nickname for Brooklyn.

megablast
        (n) Large breath of crack. "Oh please, oh please, oh please, just
        gimme just one more blast" -- Public Enemy (Megablast).

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

money
        (n) See brother, nigga.

Moschino
        (n) Clothing label. "Moschino on my misstres" -- Notorious B.I.G.
        (??? [??]).

Mossberg
        (n) Popular brand of twelge gauge shotgun. "And I grabbed my 12
        gauge Mossberg pump" -- Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (??? [??]).

motherfucker
        1) (n) Respectless person with no attitude.
        2) (n) Also used to express a form of respect for someone. "My
        motherfuckin' nigga Afrika Islam" -- Ice-T (??? [??]).

move on
        (v) To mess with. "You move on the Ice and you're going to sleep"
        -- Ice T (Ziplock).

MPV
        (n) The Mazda Multi Purpose Vehicle, favored by groups because of
        their large seating and cargo capacity. "Dedicated to MPV's, phat"
        -- Wu-Tang Clan (Can it be all so simple [??]).

MVP
        (1) Most Valuable Poet (on the mic), compare Most Valuable Player in 
        team sports.

-- N --

nappy dugout
        (n) Vagina. The dugout is the dug-in bench at the side of a baseball 
        field where players wait until they are up to play. Nappy comes from
        hair napping up, sort of the way it it on the way to dreading.
        The nappy dugout would be the dugout (small enclave a few steps off the
        main field) that has nappy hair (pubic hair). "Giving up the nappy
        dugout" -- Ice Cube (Giving up the nappy dugout [??]).

nappy head
        (n) A person who is not yet fully awake. "Keep your heads nappy"
        -- Fugees (Nappy Heads [1994]).

nathan
        1) (adj) Nothing; nobody. "I ain't heard shit, I ain't heard 
        nathan" -- The Coup (Genocide & Juice [??]).
        2) (n) "Nathan's" is a brand of hot dog.

Neighbourhood Family
        (n) South Central Blood set associated with Cypress Hill.

newjack
        (adj) New. When referring to an idividual, implies that he hasn't
        proven himself. "He was a newjack hustler" -- Ice-T (Newjack
        hustler [??]).

nickel
        (n) Five, as in 1995. "Everybody get in where ya fit in for tha nine
        five, tha nine nickel" -- Method Man with Capleton (Wings of the
        morning [??]).

nigga
        (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" -- Public Enemy (Yo nigga).

nina
        1) (n) [neenyah] Spanish for girl of 5 years or less. Chica is a 
        teenage girl.
        2) (n) [neenah] 9mm. Mixture of correct Spanish pronounciation of the i
        and NYC or Southern dialect ponounciation of the final -er as -ah of the
        word "niner". Cuz if  I got my nina then you know I'm straight
        trippin'" -- Dr. Dre (The Chronic [1992]).

nino
        (n) Spanish term for godfather, as in Nino Brown.From the movie
        "The Godfather". Also Nino Brown in New Jack City.

NOI
        (n) Nation Of Islam. "Elijah is alive, Louis Farrakhan, NOI" --
        Ice Cube (Enemy [1993]).

nucker
        (n) A stupid person.  Possible a combination of Numb Skull/Fucker,
        or maybe derived from knuckle head.
        "You call your nigger nucker" -- Digital Underground
        (if it wasn't for the rapping).

nutt
        Good sex. "Gimme that nutt" -- Eazy-E (It's on Dr. Dre 187
        um killa [1993]).

nuttin'
        (n) Nothing. "Nine times outta ten, she's givin' up nuttin'"
        -- N.W.A.  (???)

Nyquil
        (n) Cold medicine that basically puts you to sleep, so you won't
        stay up all night coughing. "Knock ya out like Nyquil" --
        Ice Cube(?)

-- O --

O-1-2
        (n) The O stands for Oakland, the 1-2 for a left-right combination
        punch. "Up in Oakland you might get the O-1-2" -- Father Dom
        (??? [??]).

O.E.
        (n) Short for Old English, a kind of malt liquor. "Coolin' on the
        corner with a bottle of O.E." -- Beastie Boys (Time to get ill
        [1986]).

O.G.
        1) (n) Original gangster, which you are considered to be when you have
        killed someone. "O.G. Original Gangster" -- Ice T. (Original
        Gangster).
        2) (adj) True; original.
        3) (n) Someone who is true to the game, who never sold out.

O'Malley
        (n) An Irish name, pointing to the traditionally strong represented
        Irish in the LAPD. "Gonna put a slug in captain O'Malley"
        -- Cypress Hill (We ain't goin' out like that [1993]).

one-time
        (n) Police officer. "One-time tried to come in my home..."
        -- Cypress Hill (How could I just kill a man [1993]).

oowop
    (n) Two Philly blunts rolled together. From Nas (One Love [1994]).

O.P.P.
        1) (n) Other people's pussy.
        2) (n) Other people's penis.
        3) (n) Other people's property.

oreo
        (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. "A message to the oreo cookie" -- Ice Cube (Turn off the
        radio [1990]).

other level
        (n) A higher degree of consciousness satisfaction; beyond the average.
        "Grip it on that other level" -- Geto Boys (On that other
        level [1992]).

ox piece
        (n) Home-made type of gun that people make in the prisons.
        "I heared you blew a nigga with an ox for the phone piece"
        -- Nas (One love)

-- P --

P
        1) (n) Partner, friend.
        2) (n) Pussy. "The P is free" -- BDP (The P is free)
        3) (n) Posse.

pad
        (n) House, home, place where you live. "It's like that and its like 
        this I took her to the pad and we started to kiss..." -- Eazy-E 
        (Gimme that nutt [??]).

paddle
        (n) Gun.

pancake
        (v) Hydraulics maneuver where a car goes from all wheels high to
        all wheels low. "Pancake, front-to-back, side-to-side, and all that
        shit" -- Dr. Dre (Let me ride [1992]).

papes/papers
        (n) Money. "...and we're getting papers, three months later we run
        our own caper" -- Boogie Down Productions (Love's gonna getcha).

parlaying
        (v) West coast slang for partying or having a good time.

Pat Duke
        1) (n) Patty Duke, an old sitcom television show. "On the stoop doing
        the Pat Duke" -- Ol' Dirty Bastard (Don't you know [1994]).
        2) (n) A popular dance style from the late 80's.

P-Dog
        (n) Paris. "P-Dog comin' up, I'm staying low" -- Paris (The
        devil made me do it).

P-funk
        (n) Music of the George Clinton time period. Examples: Parliament,
        Funkadelic.

peace
        1) (n) That's what rap is all about for all you mentally challenged.
        2) (interj) Farewell bidding.

P.E.
        (n) Public Enemy.

peeling
        (n) What comes off when peeling a cap. "The bigger the cap,
        the bigger the peelin'" -- Ice Cube (Steady mobbin' [1991])
        Note that Cube is paraphrasing a Parliament line, where GC says 
        "The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill", but the way he
        says it, "pill" comes out sounding like peel.

peeling caps
        (v) Killing someone by shooting him, shots to the head often 
        disfigure it in such a way that the cranium is "peeled back".
        "One wrong move and your cap's peeled" -- Ice T. (O.G.
        original gangster).

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

peeps
        (n) People. "To all my peeps who didn't make it" -- Nas
        (The world is yours [1994]).

pen
        (n) Penitentiary, jail. "To all of my peoples in the pens, keep ya 
        head up" -- Lost Boyz (Lex Coupes, Beamaz and Benz's [??]).

Penelope
        (n) Police -- E-40 (???).

pep
        (v) To beat someone up. "I'm ready to pep ya".

phat
        1) (adj) Great, addictive.
        2) (adj) If a girl was phat, she had Plenty o' Hips And Thighs,
        in other words PHysically ATtractive; old slang. Think 60's or
        early 70's here.

phat pocket
        (n) A person who has a lot of money

pie
        (n) Vagina.

piece
        1) (n) A firearm.
        2) (n) A work of graffiti art (short for masterpiece).

pig
        (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 (or, as the dictionary says "go underground" though
        I'm not sure what they mean by that) and reappear in common usage
        around 1960. I know that during Prohibition speakeasies who had
        bribed the local police to not bother them were called "blind
        pigs" (The Blind Pig bar here in Ann Arbor actually used to be
        such a place). I suspect that the term has been used to mean any
        kind of unpleasant person since humans started domesticating
        the things....

play
        1) (v) To go along with. "I don't think so. Homey don't play that"
        -- Homey the Clown in "In Living Colour".
        2) (v) To fool. "You can't buy no relationship. You played yourself."
        -- Ice-T (You played yourself [??]).

play ball
        (v) To play basketball. "Got a pair that I wear when I'm playin'
        ball" -- RUN-DMC (My Adidas).

player
        1) (n) Someone who is "true to the game", ie. someone who never sold
        out. "To Chuck, Flava and Griff... You're true players" -- Ice-T
        (M.V.P.'s).
        2) (n) A kind of playboy, so a player is good at picking up honeys.
        3) (n) "Players" is a black-oriented adult men's magazine.
 
player hater
        (n) One who despises or speaks ill of another because he does not have
        any game of his own.

play yourself
        (v) To reveal a weakness, as in poker when you played your cards
        too early. "No friends 'cause you dissed 'em too, no money,
        no crew, you're through. You played yourself" -- Ice T. (You played
        yourself)

PO
        1) (n) Police officer, parole officer or probation officer.
        2) (adj) Piece out.
        3) (v) Pissed off, angry.

point blank
        1) (adj) At close range.
        2) (adj) Right now, right here, in your face. Used when someone is
        trying to prove a point or something.

po-po
        (n) The Police.

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

posse
        (n) A group of followers or fans. This doesn't necessarily mean a
        gang. "They got too, too, too much posse" -- Public Enemy
        (Too much posse)

pot
        (n) See marihuana. "Must have been drinking,
        'cause this ain't pot" -- Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth (Mary Jane).

power U
        (n) Vagina. "I got the good power U" -- Method Man & Mary J. Blige 
        (You're all I need [1994]).

primo
        (n) A joint laced with crack, west coast term. The east coast equivalent
        is "turbo". See also marihuana.

project gold
        (n) Huge gold hoop earrings.

props
        (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...".

pruno
        (n) Wine that inmates make in prison.

P.S.K.
        (n) Park Side Killers, Philadelphia gang of which Schoolly D. used to
        be a member. "P.S.K., we're makin' that green" -- Schoolly D.
        (P.S.K. (what does it mean?)).

psych
        1) (n) Dupe. Check out 70's basketball commentary. Dr. J and
        especially Nate Archibald used to do dribbling moves to psych out
        opponents. Psych as in psychological head trips they threw.
        2) (interj) I duped you.

puff lye
        (v) To smoke a medicinal herb, i.e. marihuana. "Life's a bitch and
        then you die, that's why we puff lye" -- NAS (Life's a bitch and
        then you die [1994])

pump
        (n) Pump of a pump-action shotgun "Sawed off shotgun, hand 
        on the pump" -- Cypress Hill (Hand on the pump [1993])

punani
        1) (n) Vagina.
        2) (n) Sex, this is used more commonly.

punk
        (n) A stupid, usually irritating person.

pussy
        (n) Vagina.

-- Q --

Q Vo
        (interj) Shout out, Chicano slang. "Q Vo, a qui'stoy MC Kid Frost"
        -- Kid Frost (La Raza [1991]).


-- R --

rab
        (n) Short for rabbi. "Told a rab get off the rag" -- Public Enemy
        (Welcome to the Terrordome[1991])

rat pack
        (n) A bum rush. "Like some pussy, or in fact, a bum rush, but we call
        it rat pack, on a nigga for nothing at all" -- N.W.A. (Gangsta,
        gangsta [1987]).

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

real McCoy
        (n) The orignal, not a fake. One real McCoy was a late 19th century
        boxer who fought under the name Kid McCoy and was so good that other
        fighters adopted the name, whereupon he had to bill himself as
        "the real McCoy". Or, it was Scotch whisky, made by A. & M.
        MacKay of Glasgow. In the UK the saying is "the real MacKay".
        Another idea is that the expression came from heroin originating
        from Macao (Dictionary of Cliches, pg.215). Yet another explanation
        is the American scientist Eligah McCoy, who had several inventions
        well known throughout the African American community in America. If
        you owned anything during those days, you wanted it to be "the real
        McCoy".

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

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

Remy Martin
        (n) A brand of cognac. "I've got to get the chronic, some Remy Martin,
        and my soda pop" -- Dr. Dre (Let me ride [1992]).

represent
        (v) New big hip-hop word.  Means just what you think it means.
        "Represent!" -- NAS (Represent [1994])

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

ride
        (n) A vehicle. "So we rode in his ride" -- Ice-T (Bitches 2 [??]).

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

rock
        1) (n) Crack.
        2) (v) To have sexual intercourse.
        3) (n) Biblical. Alcatraz, Jamaica...

rock star
        (n) Crack addict

rocket
        1) (n) A joint (see marihuana).
        2) (v) To blast off into a high when smoking a joint.

Rodney King
        1) (n) Rodney King was beaten up by police when he was placed under
        arrest. The whole incident was videotaped, leading to the infamous
        "Rodney King trials", where the police officers were under
        trial for assault and battering. The outcome of the trial was not
        satisfactory to many people in LA, leading to the LA riots of 1992.
        2) (n) To pull a Rodney King: To initiate police brutality. "He'll
        probably pull me over and I laugh, pull a Rodney King and I'll blast at
        his punk ass" -- Tupac (Souljah's Revenge [1993]).

roll
        1) (v) To hang with a given person or crowd. "I'm rollin' with the new
        jack crew" -- Ice-T (Newjack hustler [1991]).
        2) (v) To roll someone means to beat someone up.
        3) (v) To deal drugs.

roll up
        1) (v) To gang up on a given person.
        2) (v) arriving on a scene.

rollie
        (n) Rolling papers.

Rolling 60's
        (n)  Notorious South Central Blood set.

R.T.D.
        Rough, tough and dangerous: a bus that travels in the ghetto is called
        because people are getting robbed or mugged on a regular basis. The
        former name for the Los Angeles County Mass Transit (Bus) was Rapid
        Transit District.

rush
        1) (v) Bogard, physically assault.
        2) (v) After taking drugs , one often gets a rush

ruthless
        1) (adj) Tough, hard, stopping at nothing. "Drop him in his tracks
        so hip that I am ruthless" - Eazy-E (It's on Dr. Dre 187 um killa
        [1993])
        2) (n) Ruthless Records is Eazy-E's record company.

-- S --

SA
        (n) Wrong spelling of the Mexican word ese, which means dude.
        "SA's cool, don't fuck with them boys" - Ice Cube (Really Doe).

sack chaser
        (n) Woman using a man for money.

sagging deuce
        (n) A lowered Cadillac car.

scarface
        (n) Incarcerated person. "Scarfaces" -- Genius/GZA (Liquid swords
        [1995]).

scheme
        (v) To plan to do something to get someones money, most often by
        cheating. "And the girls that been scheming, gonna get creamed 
        when I" -- The Gravediggaz (Tonite is a special nite [1995]).

school
        (n) A specific era in hiphop history. There have been many discussions
        about the difference between the "Old School" and the New
        School". One accepted view was put to words in alt.rap by Charles
        L. Isbell:

        All of time can be divided pretty easily this way:

        - Everything before "Run DMC" (Run DMC)
        - Everything before "It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back"
          (Public Enemy)

        It gets harder after that, but *maybe* you'd have to label
        parallel movements with stuff like:

        - Everything before "Straight Outta Compton" (NWA) and Amerikkka's
          Most Wanted" (Ice Cube) for the West Coast Gangsta Movement
        - Everything before "3 Feet High And Rising" (De La Soul) and Low End
          Theory" (A Tribe Called Quest) for the Jazz/Bohemian Movement

        Others seem to think we're about to enter the Everything
        before "93 'Til Infinity" (Souls of Mischief) era for the
        Ascendency of Hieroglyphics, but I'll reserve judgement on
        that.

        There are also several dark moments: MC Hammer ushered in
        the HipPop Era and Vanilla "No I really used to be rich;
        May I take your order?" Ice ushered in something
        unspeakable (Snow, if nothing else).

        Hmmmmm, here's a way to pass the time: what are the key
        moments/movements and what albums/artists best represent
        them?  How have they influenced the direction of rap?
        Making no value judgements, I'd have to say that the four
        most influential hiphop moments/movements are the ones I
        listed above and for obvious reasons.

Scooby Doo
        1) (n) The cartoon character.
        2) (n) A blunt. "Scooby Doo, where the fuck are you?" --
        Cypress Hill (???).
        3) The B-side on Lick a Shot (US).

scope
        1) (v) Look at something.  "Scope that bitch"
        2) (v) Stare down someone.

scrap a lick
        (v) As in "can't scrap a lick", meaning, can't put up a fight,
        has a poor fighting ability. From Dr. Dre (Fuck wit Dre day).

scratch
        (n) Money, loot.  "Scrilla scratch paper" -- E-40 (One love [??]).

screw
        (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).

scrilla
        (n) Money, loot.  "Scrilla scratch paper" -- E-40 (One love [??]).

sell out
        (n) Doing something purely for the financial gain, Selling your soul.
        "Should Ice Cube sell out? You say hell no!" -- Ice Cube
        (When will they shoot? [??]).

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

set
        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" - Sir MixaLot 
        (Rapper's Reputation)
        2) (n) The group of songs in a concert by a specific performer.

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

shank
       (n) A knife. "You better grab your shank, cuz ain't no fistfight"
       -- Dr. Dre (Lil' ghetto boy [??]).

shife
        (adj) See mark or newjack. A rookie or one who
        purports to be more than he is. "And he knew he was shife, he knew
        he was hype" -- Bust Down (Nasty bitch (intro) [1993]).

shimmy
        (n) See booty. "Shimmy shimmy ya!" - Ol' Dirty Bastard (Shimmy 
        shimmy ya [1995]).

sholda than show
        Surer than sure.

shookone
        (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 shookones.

shorty
        1) (n) Little person.
        2) (n) Female, like baby or honey. "I got myself a shorty, I got
        myself a forty" -- Wu-Tang Clan (Method Man).
        3) (n) A seven ounce bottle of beer.

shotty
        (n) Shotgun.

show and prove
        (v) Demonstrate.

show case
        (v) To carry out a fraud.

siamese
        (n) A person who acts two-faced.

sike
        See psych.

simp
        1) (n) Derived from simpleton, used for rhyming with pimp. "Short
        baby I ain't no simp, but the nigga in the suit ain't nothin' but a
        pimp" -- Too $hort (Cocktales [??]).
        2) (v) To sing and pimp. From Boyz II Men (Simpin' ain't easy).

sister
        (n) Woman of the same group; friend.

skirt
        (n) A female.

skitzing
        (v) Acting bizarre or crazy, from schizophrenic.

skunk
        (n) See marihuana.

skeezer
        (n) See freak.  "If you wanna know what a skeezer is, it's a girl
        who's on my jock cause I'm in showbiz" -- LL Cool J. (??? [??]).

skill
        (n) General ability; ability on the microphone.

skins
        1) (n) The wall of the vagina. "She likes to bend over and then
        she spreads the skins" -- Brand Nubian (Slow down [1990]).
        2) (n) Condom.

slab
        1) (n) The ground; to lower a car to the slab: to lower down.
        "I'm breaking em down to the slab" -- Rage (The chronic [1992]).
        2) (n) Crack.

slamming
        1) (adj) Dynamic.
        2) (adj) Something really good/attractive. "And may I say, may I
        say, that, that outfit you got on is slammin'" -- L.L. Cool J
        (MrGoodbar).

slang
        (v) The act of selling drugs.

slanted-back
        (n) A Caddillac Seville, because of the slanted trunk of the earlier
        models.

slap skins
        1) (v) Slapping hands together.
        2) (v) Having sex. Slapping skins, hitting skins, getting skins, etc.
        Skins being the skin of the opposite sex.

sleep [on]
        (v) Ignore.

slipping
        1) (adj) On the downward trend, losing the edge. "Cause you're
        slipping!" -- Boogie Down Productions (You're slipping).
        2) (v) Not paying attention "Yeah I caught that fool slippin' and  
        I smoked him" -- ??

slow your roll
        (interj) Slow down whatever you are doing. "Slow ya roll like your
        leg was broken" -- Kurupt (For my niggaz and my bitches [1993]).

smashing
        (v) See slapping skins.

smoke
        (v) Killing someone. "Right then, I knew I had to smoke his ass"
        -- N.W.A. (Gangsta gangsta [1987]).

snap
        (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'.

sneakers
        (n) Sportswear shoes. "I wear my sneakers but I'm not a sneak"
        -- RUN-DMC (My Adidas).

soggy indo
        (n) A joint (see marihuana) that has been dipped in
        PCP or something.

SP-12
        (n) The E-MU SP-12 (or SP-1200), a high-end sampling drum machine for
        rap music production. These pieces of equipment came out around 1985
        and 87 respectively. The SP-12 did not have an internal disk drive,
        but EMU saw the problems since it only worked with a Commodore
        diskdrive. So they made the next model with an internal drive.
        Incidentally Ced-Gee of Ultra-Magnetics was the first person in
        hip-hop to use this machine which has become one of the most sought
        after pieces of equipment to date. So much that EMU has reissued the
        SP-1200. "Just me, a mic, and an SP-12" -- Young MC (Album
        Filler).

spliff
        (n) See marihuana. Jamaican marihuana cigarette.

spray
        (v) Firing a round of bullets. "Pulled out the uzi, cruised by and
        sprayed him" -- Ice Cube (Gangsta's Fairytale).

squab
        (n) Shortened form of "to squabble"; to fight, physicallly
        confront. "Quick to squab, always down for the job" -- E-40
        featuring Suga T (Sprinkle me [??]).

squeeze the trigger
        (v) To shoot a gun. "Yo homeboy,squeeze the trigger!" -- Ice T. 
        (squeeze the trigger) [198?]

stake
        (v) Making money, often used in conjunction with paper, i.e.
        "stakin' paper".

steel
        (n) Pistol. "Finger on the trigger with my hand upon the steel"
        --Cypress Hill (Hand on the pump [1993])

step off
        (v) Back away from a confrontation.

step to
        (v) Engage a confrontation. "So don't step to me 'cause you boys
        'll get wacked" -- Ice-T (Power).

step up
        (v) See step to.

St. Ides
        (n) Alcoholic beverage. "Gotta get tha S-T-I-D-E-S, first of tha
        month" -- Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (??? [??]).

stilo
        (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.

stupid
        1) (adj) Creative.
        2) (adv) Very. "Evil's got the funky beat, a stupid dope loop"
        -- Ice-T (Fried chicken [1991]).

straight
        (n) Okay.

strapped
        1) (adj) Strapped in: armed.
        2) (adj) Rich.

stroll
        (v) To be out on parole. "27 years old, out on parole, stroll."
        -- Dr. Dre (Lil' ghetto boy [??]).

stunt
        1) (n) Sexual act.
        2) (n) A person who performs stunts.
        3) (n) To pull a stunt, to try something difficult.

sucka
        (n) person easily duped.

Swayze
        (n) I'm out of here, I'm ghost. From the movie "Ghost" which
        features the actor Patrick Swayze, used for example in a cut by EPMD..

sweat
        1) (vt) over-patronize.
        2) (v) Worry, as in "don't sweat it".
        3) (v) Harrass or scrutinize. "There's one or two narcs in the area
        that's sweatin' me" -- Digital Underground (Sex packets).

swerver
        (n) Car.

swing
        (n) To have sexual intercourse (Grand Puba).

swing low
        (n) To have oral sex (Kool Moe Dee).

switch
        (n) Your average toggle switch. Low-riding drivers use them to
        control the hydrolics or any other electrical device in their
        cars.  "Rollin' in my fo' with sixteen switches"
        Dr. Dre -- (Let Me Ride).

-- T --

tag
        1) (n) A persons graffiti nickname.
        2) (v) The act of writing graffiti on an object (tagging up).

Tanqueray
        (n) A brand of distilled English Gin, used to make cocktail drinks. It
        was recently popularized by several rap and also by a very creative
        advertising campaign in the US, featuring and elderly white man named
        Mr. Jenkins: "Mr. Jenkins doesn't understand all the Hip-hop lyrics
        at his friend's record release party, but he understands gin and juice
        very clearly." is the line that was used. "My homey Dr. Dre came
        through with a gang of Tanqueray" -- Snoop Doggy Dogg (Gin and
        Juice [??]).

tastey
        (n) A fly honey.

tax
        1)  (vt) Beat up or down physically.
        2) (v) to take away something after you kick a sucka's ass."and Ima
        tax that ass like the government" -- BDK (Pimpin ain't easy).

Tech 9
        A gun. "Every kid's got a Tech 9 or a handgrenade" -- Ice-T
        (??? [??]).

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

thai stick
        (n) See marihuana.

three-wheel motion
        (n) Ride upon three wheels with a low rider car. You can see it in
        videos for "Ain't nuthin but a G thang" and Today was a
        good day" [1992]. One of the back corners of the car is really close
        to the ground and the opposite corner is picked up off the road.

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

throw-up
        1) (n) A non-complex piece of graffiti usually involving only
        two colors.
        2) (n) To tag your graffiti on something ("Watch my back as I
        throw up this tag").

thump
        (v) To engage in a fistfight. "Remember they used to thump, but now
        they blast, right?" -- Dr. Dre (Lil' ghetto boy [??]).

tical
        1) (n) Emphasis, like an exclamation point at the end of a sentence.
        The Method Man used to be called `Method Man the Methodtical', see
        the cover of his album. "Let's go uptown and hit the spot kid,
        tical"
        2) (n) See marihuana. "Smoke a bag of tical" -- Method Man (???).

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

tip
        1) (n) Penis (Get off my tip).
        2) (n) Q-Tip from a Tribe Called Quest
        3) (n) The end, the fullest. "To the tip!" -- Schoolly D.
        (Mr. Big Dick).

Tipper Gore
        Tipper has become a synonym for narrowmindedness. She had to do with
        the committee that decides which CD's get the "Parental advisory"
        stickers. "You gotta be high to believe that you can change the
        world with a sticker on a record sleeve" -- Bodycount (Freedom
        of speech [1991]).

toy
        1) (n) A poor or beginner graffiti artist.
        2) (v) To purposefully write over another graffiti artists work
        (toy someone out).
        3) (n) A sucker.
        4) (n) Short for Trouble On Your System.

Tragniew Park Crips
        (n) Compton crip set, associated with MC Eiht. "Tragniew Park you
        say..." -- DJ Quik (Dollaz & Sense [1994]).

trap
        (v) to sell drugs.

trill
        (adj) Rough, street-wise person; "Trill ass nigga"
        -- Underground Kingz (The Southern way [1992], also on Too hard to
           swallow [1994]).

tripping
        1) (v) Literally making a misstep, figuratively doing something
        wrong.
        2) (v) Responding to the effects of narcotics.
        3) (v) Freak for any reason. "Don't start tripping, or we'll go
        toe to toe" -- ??

truck jewelry
        (n) big gold jewelry.

TTP
        (n) Tree Top Piru, a notorious Compton Blood set, associated with DJ 
        Quik (addressed to MC Eiht) "Westside Trees sprayin' all tha 
        fleas" -- DJ Quik (Dollaz+Sense [1995]).

turbo
        (n) A joint laced with crack, east coast term. The west coast equivalent
        is "primo". See also marihuana.


turn (it) out
        1) (v) To make records.
        2) (v) To have sexual intercourse with.

twenty sack
        (n) An eight of an ounce of marihuana. See marihuana.
        From Nas (NY state of mind).


-- U --

uncle L.
        (n) L.L. Cool J. "Like uncle L. said, I'm rippin' up shows"
        -- Public Enemy (Shut 'em down).

uncle tom
        1) (n) A black man who wants to be white. From the book Uncle Tom's
        Cabin.
        2) A tattle-taler; a person who befriends another only to deceive
        him, usually in the workplace.

USG
        (n) United States Ghettos (Onyx).

uzi
        (n) Israeli semi-automatic gun. "Hold it, rock! Miuzi weighs a
        ton" -- Public Enemy (Miuzi weighs a ton).

-- V --

vacuum lungs
        (n) Taking a deep smoke. "Cause fools be havin' them vacuum lungs"
         -- The Luniz (???).


vato
        (n) East LA hispanic slang, meaning homeboy. "Vato, cholo, call us
        what you will" -- Kid Frost (La Raza [1990]).

Versacci
        (n) Clothing label. "I stay laced cuz my body got versacci taste"
        -- ??? (??? [??]).

vexed
        (v) Very angry.

vmb
        (n) Video Music Box, a NYC hip-hop video music show.

-- W --

wack
        1) (adj) Negative: crazy or weird. Mostly this is meant
        2) (adj) Positive: extremely good.
        3) (v) To kill someone. "So don't step to me 'cause you boys'll get
        wacked" -- Ice-T (Power).

watching Andy Griffith
        (v) refers to masturbating. Martin Lawrence (You so crazy). 

wax
        1) (n) Record album(s). "And we put it on wax, it's the new
        style" -- Beastie Boys (The New Style [1986]).
        2) (v) Synonym to tax as in "wax his ass" from the black popular
        "mop up the floor with your ass".
        3) (adj) Describing refinement as in 'waxed, buffed and simonized'
        from the Mister Magic radio show.

wet
        1) (v) Kill someone. As in wet from blood when someone is sprayed.
        "Now I gotta wetcha" -- Ice Cube (I'm gonna wetcha)
        2) (v) Excite a female.

WHBI-FM (105.9)
        (n) The first radio station in New York that had a hip-hop show
        (Mr. Magic, the Awesome Two, Afrika Izlam). The station later
        changed its call letters to WNWK-FM.

wheels of steel
        (n) Turntables. "My DJ Code Money on the wheels of steel"
        -- Schoolly D. (Gucci time).

who ride
        1) (v) To get buckwild. "The darkside where the real G's
        who ride" -- Macadoshish from Thug Life (Don't get twisted [1994])
        2) (n) The who ride is the act of getting wild and crazy, like a riot
        or an assassination, or any wild activity.

wigga
        (n) A white man who wants to be black, from "wannabe nigga".

wilding
        (adj) Acting recklessly.

wild thing
        (n) Sexual intercourse. "Hey you two, I was once like you and I
        loved to do the wild thing" -- Tone Loc (Wild thing).

willy
        (n) Penis.

wood
        (n) Erected penis. "Delivering the wood" stands for having
        sexual intercourse.

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

word is bond
        (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. "Cause I'm frontin' in my ride, and my word is bond"
        -- LL Cool J (The boomin' system [1990]).

wreck
        1) (v) To accomplish something.
        2) (v) To destroy or break up. "All they wanted to do is wreck
        and flex" Public Enemy (Burn Hollywood, burn [1990]).


 -- Y -- 

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

yo
        (interj) the shout that gets the most attention.

-- Z -- 
zig zags
        Rolling papers. "send some gin and a pack of zig zags" -- Snoop 
        Doggy Dogg (Pump pump)


zooted
        (adj) Smoked out on weed. "I want to get zooted, nigga" -- Total
        Devastation (??? [1993]).

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