Spitting game, a way to describe flirting or making a romantic pitch, blends two strands of African-American English slang. Game in the sense of someone’s strategy, hustle, or practiced line goes back at least to the 1960s and may be older. By the...
In this week's episode, we go from hip-hop to a public television show about the intra- and inter-class conflicts in a British manor house. We also talk about "flupgrades," what you might call it when a software update hurts more than...
Eric B and Rakim n.— «One of the more bizarre terms has to be Eric B and Rakim, which means a “zero balance fee note.” The phrase ironically comes from the rappers” hip-hop classic Paid in Full.» —“Revealed: how to chat up a senior clerk” by Nina...
hip-hope n.— «For the time being, Williams will “spit” knowledge on the mic and on his CD, with the intention of teaching young people a new way of thinking and living. “That’s part of my overall mission and that’s to revolutionize the hip-hop...
guap
n.— «I doubt fab needs to steal a chain. That nigga got guap.» —“Boxden Slum: Rapper Fabolous gets shot…then gets arrested” by rmemo Urban Boxden Oct. 18, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
