История развития афро-американского языка и культуры

E.I.

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

figga

(n) Figure.

flick

(n) Movie.

forty dog

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

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.

fresh

1)(adj)New 
2) (adj) Very good.

furilla

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

gang

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

gasface

1) (n) To show someone a sign of disrespect. 
2) (n) Make stupid face towards someone you don't like.

gatt

1) (n) Refers to any gun. It originates from Gattling, the name of the man who invented the machine gun (the Gattling gun). 2) 
2) (n) Hip-Hop Clothing Co. 
3) (v) To shoot someone.

get burned

(v) To catch a sexually transmitted disease.

ghetto bird

(n) Police helicopter.

gift of gab

(n) The ability to talk anyone into anything.

grass

(n) See marijuana.

hash

(n) See marijuana

hawk

1) (v) To look at something. 
2) (v) To stare down someone. 
3) (n) The wind, especially when it is blowing hard.

head

(n) Someone who earned respect.

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.

hold the fort down

(v) To represent where you are from.

homeboy

(n) Close friend.

homegirl

(n) Female equivalent of homeboy. "

homey

(n) See homeboy.

honey

(n) Female, generally attractive.

hood

(n) The neighbourhood, usually a poor community.

hops

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

housenigger

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

ice

1) (n) Diamonds or jewelry with diamonds in it.   
2) (n) On ice - at the morgue. 
3) (n) Ice or ice cream: drugs, or cocaine in particular.

in check

1) (n) Under control by someone else. Probably from a game of chess. 
2) (adv) Under control, due to skills.

in foe deep

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

in the house

(n) Present, here.

in [full] effect

(adv) Present and taking place.

Indo

(n) Marijuana from Indonesia.

jack

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

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.

Jakes

(n) The police. 

janky

1) (adj) Bad, flawed (northern California) 
2) (adj) Good, smooth (souther California).

jawn

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

jet

(v) To leave in a hurry.

Jheri-curls

(n) Wetlook, curly hairstyle.

jiggy

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

JPT

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

Kakalaka

(n) North Carolina

key

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

khakis

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

'lac

(n) Short for Cadillac.

L-train

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

leg pull

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

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.

live

(adv) Great. "Is it live?"

llello

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

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. " 3) (n) Lock or locks, as in Jheri-curls, but always pronounced with the long o as in "go". 
4) (v) To "go loc" means to get ready for a drive-by or to shoot someone. This means putting on dark glasses, skullies, caps and generally getting hard to identify. 
5) (n) To get high.

lunch

(v) To act stupid or crazy.

mad

(adj) Extremely, very, a large quantity.

madhatter

(n) Someone who sells drugs.

mail

(n) Money.

making ends

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

marijuana

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

max

(v) To have great fun.

MC

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

meth, method

(n) See marijuana.

MLK

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

money

(n) See brother, nigga.

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"

nathan

1) (adj) Nothing; nobody. "  
2) (n) "Nathan's" is a brand of hot dog. 
3) (n) Natural born pimp. 
 
 

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"

no diggety

(interj) No doubt, no question.

nucker

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

nuttin'

(n) Nothing.

O

(n) An ounce of marijuana.

O.G.

1) (n) Original gangster, which you become when you 'advertise' a gang. People should talk about you and link your name with the things you done in the past. This includes killings, driveby shootings, spending time in jail, and living up to your name2)(adj)True;original. 
3) (n) Someone who is true to the game, who never sold out.

one love

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

one-time

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

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.

ox piece

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

P-Dog

(n) Paris.

pad

(n) House, home, place where you live

paddle

(n) Gun.

parlaying

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

peace

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

peckerwood

(n) Derogatory term for a white person.

peep

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

peeps

(n) People.

Penelope

(n) Police

phat pocket

(n) A person who has a lot of money

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 and reappear in common usage around 1960.

PJ's

(n) The Projects. 

play

1) (v) To go along with.  
2) (v) To fool. "You can't buy no relationship. You played yourself."  
3) (n) Action.

play ball

(v) To play basketball

play yourself

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

played out

(n) Old.

player

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

pop

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

popping collars

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

pot

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

potna

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

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.

punk

1) (n) A person related to the Punk movement or the Punk music. 
2) (n) A stupid, usually irritating person

rat

(v) To betray.

raw

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

really doe

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

red rum

(n) Murder spelled backwards.

reefer

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

reel to reel

1)(n)Really real. 
2)(n)Reality. 
3) (n) The big tape used for studio recording and the machine that runs it.

represent

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

ricket

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

ride

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

rift

(v) See step to.

rip

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

road dog

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

rock

1) (n) Crack. 
2) (v) To have sexual intercourse. 
3) (n) Biblical. Alcatraz, Jamaica... 
4) (v) To wear, "I was rocking my brand new Nikes". 
5) (n) Diamond. "And them rings you wearin' look like they got a few rocks on 'em"

rock star

(n) Crack addict

rocket

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

roll

1) (v) To hang with a given person or crowd. " 2) (v) To roll on someone means to beat someone up. 
3) (v) To roll a joint. 
4) (v) To drive one's car in the neighborhood with a certain style or finesse.

roll up

(v) To arrive on a scene.