List of Common Terms in Hip-Hop

Over many years, rap artists have created slang terms which have become popular in a multitude of other works.

Clothes, Jewelery, or Money

1. Bling
2. Stacks
3. Racks
4. Steelo
5. Swagger

Females or Sex

1. Hats - condom/s
2. Nuttin' - ejaculating
3. Dime - an attractive female
4. Deuce - an ugly female; literally means the number 2.
5. Chicken head - a female who gives oral sex
6. Skeet - The ejaculation of sperm.

States of Mind

1. Heated - very angry
2. 730 - a state of insanity or instability
3. Shook - to be scared. Made popular by Mobb Deep in his song, "Shook Ones."
4. Rock bottom - to be severely depressed

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Locations

1. Telly - a hotel; commonly refers to parties at a hotel.
2. Lab - recording studio
3. Sweat box - a small club
4. Pad - apartment
5. Crib - house

Violence

1. Glock - refers to guns, most commonly pistols.
2. Mark - a victim who has been targetted
3. Bull scare - a strong bluff
4. 187 - homicide
5. Nine - a pistol or handgun

Drug Related

1. Bubbly - champaigne
2. Square - a cigarette
3. Grit - a cigarette
4. Onion - an ounce of cocaine
5. 420 - relates to marijuana
6. White - cocaine
7. Nose candy - cocaine
8. Lifted - high (off marijuana)
9. Lye - the smoke exhaled from smoking marijuana
10. Spark - to ignite a joint or blunt of marijuana
11. Match - to share the cost of a drug, usually marijuana
12. Bud - marijuana, usually a nug of marijuana

Body Parts or Bodily Functions

1. Nuttin' - ejaculating
2. Food box - your belly/stomach
3. Tick - the heart, or beating of the heart
4. Dome - head
5. Lollipop - guy's wang (oral sex)

Other

1. Old man - father
2. Creepin' - having an affair with someone while in a relationship
3. Floss - to show off
4. Getty - a get-together of friends.
5. Grub - food
6. Whip - a car
7. Deuce - the action of throwing up a hand sign, usually between friends saying bye.
8. Shorty - an adult female or a child.
9. 98 Oldsmobile - The Oldsmobile 98 model, this model was the largest and most luxurious of the Oldsmobile models, making it a hood status symbol.
10. Coon - For an African American, to play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
11. Pimp(Noun) - A man who can easily attract women.
12. Pimp(Verb) - To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards.
13. Pimping - Consisting of or having the qualities of a pimp.
14. Hood Rich -
15. Ghetto Fabulous - "Authentic, keeping it real" or "Wealthy, but of ghetto roots and ethic".
16. Shuck - "A fraud; a scam" or "A phony".
17. Dukes - Parents

Phrases

1. "Get blowed" - to get high off marijuana.
2. "Got the germ" - have received HIV/AIDS.
3. "Got the dragon" - having bad breath
4. "Hit me on the hip" - to contact by pager
5. "Getting brain" - receiving oral sex
6. "Dancing with the devil" - doing something very risky
7. "Got 5 on it" - willing to share the cost of a ten-piece ($10) of marijuana
8. "No vaseline" - to attack an enemy with no mercy. Made popular by Ice Cube in his song "No Vaseline."

Slang Phrases use in Rap Culture that is not just in the music

1. Off the chain - “I saw the ring (Tuesday), and it was just unbelievable. That it was my turn to be one of those select few to achieve the ultimate success. It is, what we say, ‘off the chain.’ So it was really an enjoyable moment.”

Videos about Terms in Rap

DNA -EBONICS REMIX

Joell Ortiz - Rican Ebonics

See Also

• List of Verbs
• List of Adjectives
• List of Interjections
• List of Nouns
• Money and Hip-Hop