История развития афро-американского языка и культуры

Rollie

(n) Wrist watch of the expensive brand Rolex.

ruff neck

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

rush

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

ruthless

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

S1W

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

sack chaser

(n) Woman using a man for money.

Sactown

(n) Sacramento, California.

sagging deuce

(n) A lowered Cadillac car.

scheme

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

school

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

scope

1) (v) Look at something. 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.

scratch

(n) Money, loot.

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.

Seatown

(n) Seattle.

sell out

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

sense

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

serve

1) (v) To defeat an opponent with skill. 
2) (v) To deliver a subpoena

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" 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 custom made knife as used in prisons, made from whatever materials are available.

Shaton

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

Shea Town

(n) New York, from Shea stadium.

sherm

(n) Under the influence of drugs.

sherm stick

(n) Marijuana dipped in embalming fluid. 

sholda than show

(interj) Surer than sure.

shook one

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

short

(n) Vehicle.

shorty

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

sister

(n) Woman of the same group; friend.

skank

(n) A scandalous woman.

skill

(n) General ability; ability on the microphone.

skirt

(n) A female.

skitzing

(v) Acting bizarre or crazy, from schizophrenic.

skunk

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

slamming

1)(adj)Dynamic. 
2) (adj) Something really good/attractive.

slang

(v) The act of selling drugs.

sleep [on]

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

slob

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

slow your roll

(interj) Slow down whatever you are doing.

smacked

(adj) Under the influence of drugs.

smoke

1) (v) Killing someone.  
2) (v) To get smoked: to get under the influence of drugs.

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'.

snaps

(n) Money.

sneakers

(n) Sportswear shoes. 
 

snow

(n) Cocaine.

soldier

(n) Non-OG gangbanger.

spliff

(n) Jamaican marijuana cigarette, see marijuana.

spray

(v) Firing a round of bullets.

squab

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

squash

(v) To end, Squash that beef.

squeeze the trigger

(v) To shoot a gun.

stab out

(v) To leave.

stack up

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

steez

(n) Style.

step off

(v) Back away from a confrontation.

step to

(v) Engage a confrontation.

step up

(v) See step to. 

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.

straight

1)(n)Okay. 
2) (n) Short for stright up, truly, used for emphasis. "Straight booty" or "straight wack".

strap

(n) A gun.

strapped

(adj) Strapped in: armed.

stupid

1(adj)Creative. 
2) (adv) Very.

Sucka Free

(n) San Francisco.

sweet

(adj) Cool, dope, fresh.

swerver

(n) Car.

swing

(n) To have sexual intercourse

tag

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

tax

(v) To rob

thai stick

(n) See marijuana.

thang

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

through

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

tight

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

toy

1) (n) A poor or beginner graffiti artist. 
2) (v) To purposefully write over another graffiti artists work (toy someone out).

trap

(v) to sell drugs.

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.

true that

(interj) See word is bond.

twisted

(n) Drunk.

[to be] high

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

uncle tom

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

vexed

(v) Very angry.

wack

1) (adj) Negative: crazy or weird. Mostly this is meant 
2) (v) To kill someone

wanksta

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

wet

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

whip

(n) A nice looking car.

whodi

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

wigger

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

word

1) (n) Biblical (John1:1). "logos": truth. 
2) (interj) Exclamation or term of endearment.

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. The term originates from the financial markets where hirstorically traders woul tell each other "my word is bond", i.e. my word is good enough, you don't need it in writing

word up

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

y'all

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

yo

1)(n)You. 
2)(n)Your. 
3) (interj) To catch attention, as in "Yo! What's up?"

zooted

(adj) Smoked out on weed.

zootie

(n) A joint laced with crack.