How did benign neglect, planned shrinkage, white flight, racism, and public disinvestment shape the political and cultural roots of Hip Hop in the Bronx?

118 slang words and phrases for physical fighting, including hip hop slang, rap slang, street expressions, regional terms, and old-school ways to say fight.

Popping, locking and breaking are often grouped together as “breakdancing,” but they are three different street dance traditions. Here’s where each style came from, how they differ, and why movies and television helped blur the lines.

Slang words for friends come from regional dialects, Black American culture, hip-hop, immigrant communities, television, music, gaming, and the internet. Terms such as homie, homeboy, homegirl, dawg, and fam became widely recognized through Black culture and hip-hop, although some have histories that extend beyond the eras in which they became nationally popular. Once slang enters mainstream culture, people often use it without knowing where it originated.

Sex slang is a fascinating, ever-evolving part of language, and this list is a deep dive into the playful, raunchy, and sometimes shocking words people use to describe sexual activity. The terms included here come from a variety of sources: a heavy dose comes from hip hop culture, where lyricists and street vernacular have long shaped the way Americans talk about intimacy, pleasure, and desire.

On December 2, 1971, an event took place that would change The Bronx forever. The Ghetto Brothers mission of peace wasn’t getting through to

Cannabis slang evolves so quickly because it lives inside a moving cultural system, not a fixed dictionary. Hip Hop culture is one of the most powerful language engines in the modern world. It takes everyday words, bends them, compresses them, and turns them into coded expression. That’s why a single track can introduce a slang term that spreads across cities, then across countries, then across platforms like TikTok and Instagram.

Is Hip Hop really a culture? Explore what makes Hip Hop more than music, how the elements fit into its history, and why understanding culture matters.

Hip Hop has always had a way with words. For decades, the culture has created, borrowed, flipped, and reinvented language, turning ordinary words into colorful expressions with entirely new meanings. Some slang disappears almost as quickly as it arrives, while other terms cross over into everyday conversation and stick around for generations.

Today I'm giving you a list of more than 100 Hip Hop slang terms that mean "money." Some of these words were created from scratch. Some are borrowed from other cultures and languages. Others are everyday words that were repurposed and given entirely new meanings through use in rap music, urban communities, and street culture.