Appendix:Hip hop slang
Hip hop is a musical genre from the United States with a background mostly in urban African-Americans. Terms mostly overlap African American Vernacular English (or Ebonics). Common word play includes making a word its own antonym, such as "bad" meaning good.
- bad – a self-antonym meaning good
- B-boy – a fan of hip hop, associated with a particular style and usually in a posse of other b-boys
- beatboxing – a style of vocalization made to imitate instrumental breaks and beats in songs
- DJ – disc jockey who would turn or scratch a record
- g-funk – a sub-genre combining elements of funk and gangsta rap
- gangsta – a sub-genre glorifying and sometimes parodying illegal activity
- ill – a self-antonym meaning superb
- MC – master of ceremonies who would rap on top of the DJ
- New School – the second generation of hip hop musicians, beginning in the early 1980s (e.g. Beastie Boys or Run-D.M.C.)
- nigga – an offensive self-derogatory term for an African-American
- Old School – the first generation of hip hop musicians, from the late 1970s (e.g. Sugar Hill Gang or Afrika Bambaataa)
- rap – another name for hip-hop music
- rapping – a style of talk-singing
- scratching – a method of stopping and starting vinyl records as they play to produce music
- sucka – contraction for sucker