Hip Hop Slang Dictionary Download Pdf

Aug 31st, 2021

Hip hop is a genre that features many famous and witty sayings. It is one of the most talked-about forms of music today. Many people have compiled a list of famous hip-hop sayings that can be used as punch lines in everyday situations. These popular expressions can give you the power to pass up a specific conversation or make people around you laugh.

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There are several familiar but underused rhymes in hip hop. For example, you can hear people using the saying, "Who is the man now?" This phrase aims to highlight the dissimilarity between the man being pushed around and the man in charge. Rhyming is essential when you create lyrics for a rap song, but it needs to be placed into the entire song's context.

Hip-hop lyrics sometimes contain a variety of different types of sayings. One typical example is, "She likes the way I move." Rhyme schemes can also be found throughout a song in the chorus or verses.

An interesting thing to note about some of these words is that they are often used in place of other words in a sentence. It may be hard to imagine a conversation in which one of these examples would make sense, but it is a fact that is often used within hip-hop lyrics.

It might be interesting to look at this list of hip-hop words and incorporate them into a conversation. Here are a few examples of some of the most famous hip-hop sayings and words:

Aks - Another word for "ask". Hip-hop artists do not care to pronounce words correctly.
Bangin' - Extraordinary; attractive or desirable.
Big willie - Someone with lots of money and luxury goods, usually bought by hustling; one with an extravagant taste and a tendency to Flaunt their wealth.
Mo' money, mo' problems - Eternal conundrum of success; the more money you get, the more trouble you get.

The 'izzle' Slang
English words with different meanings
Invented terms
Drugs, gangs, and guns hip hop slang
Drug-related expressions
Gun-related terms
Hip-hop Slang for Brands and Trademarks
Meaning of hip-hop numbers
Hip hop slang sentences
East Coast Rap
West Coast Rap
Southern Rap
Midwest Rap

The 'izzle' Slang

Certain hip-hop artists have created this style of hip-hop slang. Originally by a funk musician, Frankie Smith, who used it in Dr Dre's The Chronic album of 1992, in 1982 with his ridiculous solo The Double-Dutch Bus. This style was popularised by rapper Snoop Dogg. The end of the word is therefore deleted and replaced by the suffix -izzle. In other cases, -izz- is added with a word in the middle, for instance, 'house' becomes 'hizzouse.'

Bizzle - bitch
Fizzle - Can be female, f*cked, or any number of words beginning with F.
Hizzle - Hook, as in "off the hook."
Rizzle - real
Nizzle - nigga
Fo'shizzle - for sure
Shiznit - Shit (generally in a positive sense); used in the phrase "That's Shiznit!"
Skizzle - drip of any intoxicating liquid.
Tizzle - tizzy, agitating, or nervous.
Wizzle - wigga

English words with different meanings

These words can indeed be found in any English dictionary with the same spelling. However, in hip-hop music, they are used as slang words and are given alternative meaning, creating their own lexicon.

Cap - bullet (e.g., "I'm a bust a cap in yo' ass." "I will shoot you.")
Who am is - Who am I?
Bent - intoxicated.
Biscuit - gun, pistol
Wat it do - Hello.
Cheese - money
Dog (also "dogg" and "dawg") - A close, trusted friend
Fly - cool, appealing.
Ghost - to leave, leave quietly, quickly. (e.g., "He got ghost." = "He left fast." or "It is time to get ghost." = "Time to vacate from the area.")
Hood - Neighborhood, usually, or gangs' turf
Ice - Diamonds are usually plural. ("That nigga got shit loads' ice on his wrist," = "That guy wears a bracelet with lots of diamonds.")
Marinate - relax, chill.
Pig - police officer
Popes - the police, an abbreviation of the po-po. (e.g., "Look out for the popes!")
Tight - high-quality, appealing, cool.

Invented terms

These words and meanings are found in hip hop music, not in an English dictionary. Although MCs used and popularised, many of these words. they were not invented by any MC. They were carried from the local street slang of each MC region. Many of these words have become mainstream with several trendy hip hop artists.

Kicks - sneakers
Wifey - lover
Big Face - 100 Dollar Bill
Chillax - relaxing. Combining "chill" and "relax.
Diss - to criticize or disrespect someone. (e.g., "He dissed that bitch.")
Baller - a high-roller, a money-maker
Hella - formed from the "hell" and "of," no longer used by MCs, common in the west coast.
Mo' Fo' - motherf*cker
Scrilla - money; used mainly by West Coast MCs.

Drugs, gangs, and guns hip hop slang

BG - Baby Gangsta; adolescent gangster
Bluh - A slurred Blood pronunciation. In general, it means friend, homie, a fellow member of Bloods. Usually used in sentences like "What's up, bluh? "Commonly used to refer to a Blood gang member, but sometimes used by Bloods to cause confrontation with non-Bloods.
Cuzz/Cuzzo - Crip. Sometimes spoken as "cuh." A commonly associated term between Crip gang members can also be used confrontative from a Crip gang member to a non-Crip.
G - a gangsta. (I am a G) hip-hop in East Coast or "old school" can simply mean a guy or girl.
OG - Original Gangster's. Originally referred to a street gang founder, but now typically called to any older gang member. Usually prevalent to bangers living up to their notoriety, reputation, and never "sold out". This term was used in hip-hop outside the gang culture to apply to any originator of something or older.
Overhoe - derogatory term towards an Ova Soldier gang member.
Suwitchboy - derogatory term towards a DTB gangster.

Drug-related expressions

Boi - heroin
White Lady - Cocaine
Primo - a joint laced with angel dust or crack cocaine
Papi - The drug connect.
Nick (also "nickel", "nickelbag", "nickelsack") - a five-dollar bag of illicit drug
Dope boy - Drug Dealer fire - marijuana or meaning a sex term towards oral sex.
Powdering his face - snorting cocaine
Cookies - crack cocaine
Dime (also "dimebag" or "dimesack") - ten-dollar bag of illicit drugs
Green - marijuana

Gun-related terms

.22 calibre gun - Deuce Deuce, Scooby-Doo
40-calibre gun - 4 pounda
44-calibre gun - 44, Fo' Fo.'
45-calibre gun - Fo'Five
Desert Eagle - Desert Eaze, Deagle
Glock handgun - nine, nina, Nina Ross
Shotgun - pump, "The Dimple-ator", shotty.

Hip-hop Slang for Brands and Trademarks

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Timbs - Timberland boots
Rolly (also Rolley) - Rolex, as used in Snoop Dogg's 2004 hit "Drop It Like It's Hot". Also, a Rolls Royce synonym.
Lex - Lexus, also short for Rolex watches
L dog - a Lincoln
Henny, Hen - a brand of cognac, Hennessy
Dom P. - a brand of champagne, Dom Perignon
Cad/Caddy/'Lac - a Cadillac
Benz/Benzo - short for Mercedes-Benz
Beamer - any model of BMW vehicle

Meaning of hip-hop numbers

5150 - The Caforningifornia Welfare and Institutions Code for Mental Illness. Also, Van Halen's name and Eazy-E album.
1096 - police code for a mentally ill suspect. Commonly used in the state of Texas.
730 - the code for a mentally ill person. According to some rappers in New York City, the term '730' came from patients who received their medication at 7:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
420 - Cannabis and cannabis-related number. It also refers to 20 April, which, because of the date, many people refer to as 'Marijuana Day.'
411 - Information. From 4-1-1, America's directory assistance number.
211 - robbery
20 - location, i.e. "What's yo' 20?" = "Where are you?"
5-0 - about the police, i.e., the television show Hawaii Five-O
24/7 - all day hustle
187 - homicide

Hip hop slang sentences

Word up - you got that straight, that is right, or how is it going. Many now simply use the word "word".
Wiggity-wack - very disturbing. Currently, the "wiggity" has been dropped, and those in hip-hop now use just "wack".
What is goin' down? - what are we doing tonight? Can refer to a fight.
What up? - what is going on? or hello, how are you?
What tha dilly yo? (also "...dealio?") - what is going on? Originated from "What the deal, yo?"
Open up shop - sell drugs, establish a drug-selling spot.
Off the hook - unbelievable, outrageous, wild, etc.
Keep it trill - keep it true and real (true + real = trill)
Da bomb - the bomb; cool, appealing, or popular
Coolin' it - relaxing
Bust a nut - ejaculate.
Bust a move - to act first in an altercation, to perform a dance step. Popularised by Young M.C.'s hit single, "Bust A Move" (1989).

East Coast Rap

East Coast rap, which we know to be born in the South Bronx and evolved from Queens to Virginia, is most famous for its NYC origins.

CREAM or Cash Rules Everything Around Me derived in NYC, particularly Staten Island.
Jiggy means cool or fly and originated in NYC, specifically Harlem.
Represent 'from' originally came from NYC, Brooklyn.
Jawn or joint are all-purpose nouns from Philadelphia.

West Coast Rap

Rap may have begun in New York, but California has taught how to chill and slow down. And there is no precise answer to whether the LA rap lingo is more inventive than the Bay Area.

Beotch is an insult often directed at a woman, originally from Oakland.
Ghostride the whip means letting a car drive by itself, and it came from Vallejo.
Gouda means cash originating in Vallejo.

Southern Rap

The South is often called the Dirty South or Rap's Third Coast. However, Houston, Memphis, Atlanta, and New Orleans have the richest and most highly regarded online record of their regional terms. As Southern hip hop is a reasonably recent genre compared with the coasts, their slang library is quite remarkable.

Crunk - Insane or drunk, originating in Memphis and Atlanta.
Flossin - Showing off and originated in Houston.
Lean - A sizzurp type (a Sprite-codeine-candy blend) or the heavy drinking effects. It was originally from Houston.
Trap house - S residence where drugs are traded, and it originated in Atlanta.
Ratchet - Crazy or off-the-hook. It is often used to refer to a woman. It originated in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Midwest Rap

The Midwest, which encompasses songs celebrating the most challenging aspects of gang life and the softer backpack rap of the Twin Cities, is quite diverse. That is because we are including everything that is not the South, Eastern Seaboard, and Cali in the Midwestern school of hip hop, which admittedly tends to be Chicago-dominated. Here are some Midwestern highlights.

Juke - To trick or steal or to grind. It originated in Chicago.
Thot - That ho over there and originated in Chicago.
Woo this or dis - So on and so forth, and it originated in Chicago.
Stan - An obsessive fan and originates in Detroit.
Juggalo or jugalette - An avid Insane Clown Posse fan (male or female). These originated in Detroit.

In Conclusion

Sometimes these words can be used in a positive manner as well as a negative one. Whatever the intent, it is interesting to see the evolution of language and how it affects spoken language.

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An excellent way to learn about some of these words is by listening to some hip-hop music. Listening to albums with sample lyrics can help to gain an understanding of how certain words are used. Sometimes a great artist will include an entire verse dedicated to a particular word. You have taken a whole song and placed it in the form of a word or a phrase.

Once you have learned a few words from your favourite hip-hop album, start looking for word combinations in other songs. Play the album over your sound system and pay close attention to the lyrics. Pay special attention to the beginning of a stanza. The lyrics often begin with a stanza pre-written, but you may have to put in your own spin. This is the perfect opportunity to practice your new knowledge.

Hip-hop is a great genre because there are so many possibilities. If you love to listen to hip-hop music, be sure to make a list of all the words and phrases you know. This is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.

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