A
ACE
Best friend, main man, a person who has someone's back, or protection or who will go down for there friend or crew.
(exam. "Fabel and Crazy Legs are my aces")
AIGHT
Short for "all right", everything is cool, (exam. "every thing is aight".)
 or, a way of saying something is not great, and not  bad, but in the middle like (exam. "his moves are aight".)
AK
AK 47 gas-operated assault rifle.
AR- 15
AR-15 is a lightweight,magazine -fed, air-cooled, autoloading centerfire rifle.
ALL THAT
You think you hot, or the hottest, or the coolest.
(exam."he thinks he's all that" or "his beats are all that")
ASSED OUT
Lost out, lost out on something. or your fucked, meaning you blew it, or your doomed. (exam. "That kid got caught at the wrong place and the wrong time, he's assed out").
 B
B
An east coast term short  for brother, or bro. (exam. "wasup B")
BABY MAMA
BABY DADDY
A person you had a child with.
BACK/ BACK UP
1- Booty, but, nice looking round but. Remember the song "Baby got back".
2- Crew, people that will defend you and back you up in a situation.
BAIL
To Leave, or go. Short for out on bail. (eaxm. "We had fun at the party but now i gotta bail out")
BANGIN/ BANG
1- Short gang term  for "Gang Bangin"
2- Girl with a ghetto body, big booty, slim waist (exam. "girly over there is bangin, im'a talk to her".
3- Term for sexing a girl. (exam. " I wanna bang her")
BANGER
Knife or a sharp weapon.
BANK
Money, cash (exam. "that kid got bank")
BALLER
Ghetto term for money makers in the hood, be it by legal or illegal activities.
also a term for a street basketball player.
BEEF
 Serious trouble with an individual, or group, or gang. To have beef with someone is to have arguments or war. (exam. "I can't stand that dude me and him got beef over a girl")
BENJAMINS
 $100 bills , that has Benjamin Franklins face on it.
BENZ
Short for Mercedes Benz.
BISCUIT
BUN
BLEW IT UP/ BLEW UP THE SPOT
When a Hip Hop crew (MC's, BBOYS, WRITERS, DJ) gives a great performance that leaves the crowd or observers screaming.
BLUNTED
High Off of marijuana rolled in a Philly blunt (cigar).
BOLO/ BOLOS
Term used to describe a wild punch that was invented by famous boxer Kid Chocolate and used by Sugar Ray Leonard. (exam. "if me and that kid fight I'm throwin bolos")
BOMB
1- A graffiti rampage on trains and walls, where you try and flood as many tags and throw ups as possible.
2- When fighting to throw as many big punches as to end the fight quick.
BOOGIE DOWN / SOUTH BOOGIE
Slang for the BRONX. BOOGIE DOWN BRONX.
BOOYA
1- sound of a shot gun blast
2- Used as an exclamation point
3- Name of a west coast Samoan Gangsta rap group
BREAK
1-The percussive part of an  70's James Brown style record, where the drums play a funky beat. This we called the break, and is one of the key roots to Hip Hop music.
2- original NYC  gang term for getting violent on someone, or a situation. Stems from the word Breaking Point.
BREAK IT DOWN
1- To dissect a knowledge situation or concept, and explain it in a simple format
2- to get down in  any aspect of culture, especially dance. (exam. "at the zulu jam DJ AFRICA BAMBATTA played F 4000 and FABEL started breakin it down on the floor")
BUGGIN
Acting silly.
BUST / BUS
To take action or fight/hit/punch/shoot gun (exam.'I'm gonna bust that kid in the mouth" or "I'm gonna bus a cap in that foo")
Also can mean to dance, or get down (exam. "let me see you bus")
note: saying "bust a move" is incredibly corny and old now.
BUSTA
a person who is fake, phony, or a punk who can't fight, or snitches.
BUTTER
When someone, something, or someone's Hip Hop skills are great and smooth like butter.
BUCK/ BUCK WILD
1- To shoot someone, or at someone. short for Buck shots.
2- To get crazy one someone, or violent on someone. (SUNDANCE got buck wild on some punk at the last Zulu jam")
3- To get crazy with ones Hip Hop skills. (exam. KOOL MOE DEE was gettin buck wild on the mic at the negril club last night")
BUM RUSH
1- When a crew or group of people rush the door or gates of a party without paying. Bum meaning person with no cash, rush meaning forcing there way in.
2- A person getting jumped/ beat up by a group of people.
BUT/ BOOTY
1- When someone, someone's skills or something is not good or is lacking. (exam. "I liked the kids rhymes but his beast were booty")
2- Someone's ass (I think yall know that though)
 C
CHEESE/
CHEDDAR
Money, cash
CHILL
Relax, stay cool.
CHIN CHECK
Punch someone in the chin/ face, To test someone's chin with a punch to see if they can take it.
CHIPS
Referring to casino chips, money, cash.
CHROME
1- GUNS
2- CHROME CAR RIMS
CHUCKS
Short for Chuck Taylor Converse all stars sneakers, made popular in the 1970's and were heavily popular in East coast Hip Hop and West coast Gangs.
CIPHER
1- refers to a circle of people where Mc's battle, and freestyle, or BBoys battles and get down. The cipher is where BBOYS and MC's get there real training and work on there skills.
2- in 5% religion (an NYC based religion made popular by rap artists like Brand Nubian and Wu Tang) cipher and non cipher refers to the chosen and the non chosen,  5% and non 5%, and angels and devils..so forth.
CLOCK, CLOCKIN
1- Killin time
2- Punch someone in the head.
CLOWN WALKIN
New young Hip Hop dance style. Uses allot of footwork
COLD
1- Short for cold hearted. Not nice, that's not cool, what you did was cold.
2-  Great, nice, good. Young people now use it to mean when something is great.
3- a word that expresses an attribute of something. Cold chillin, cold knock you out, Cold gettin down.
COP
To buy, originally a term for buying drugs. (exam. "I'm going down to the spot and cop me a dime bag").
CRAB/ CRAB BITCH
1-A ghetto girl with nothing happening and too much additude. A slutty girl.
2- A person who has nothing to sho for him or herself, and still like s to talk sh&t.
CRACKIN/ WHATS CRACKIN/ CRACKALACKIN
Whats happening.
CREW
A group of people who work together for a common cause. Originally a slang used by the Mob for a crew of men who work to rob, steel and extort money.
In Hip Hop a crew can also be a group of MC's (rappers), BBOYS, WRITERS (graffiti artists).
CRIB
A persons home.
CROOKLYN
Slang for Brooklyn.
CUT UP/ CUTTIN THE RUG
Refers to gettin down, dancing, (exam. Poppin Pete was cuttin up last night)
 D
DEAD PRESIDENTS
paper money.
DEEP
1- A  wise person, a person who speaks with great knowledge.
2- A serious situation (exam. "that kid got shot in the head, shit was deep")
3- A large group of people traveling together to a party, or how a person rolls up to a club, or spot. (exam. "when we go to jams we roll 30 deep")
DEF
Old school term for something great.
DEUCE
Ghetto way of saying the number 2
22 caliber gun = deuce deuce
42nd street = forty deuce
DILLY/ DEALY/
WHAT THE DEALY?
Whats the deal?, whats going on?.
DIP
1- Time to go, to leave. "gotta dip".
2- Original Hip Hop rhyme started by members of the Furious 5.
Dip dive socialize
trying to make yall realize
that we are qualified
to rectify
to satisfy
to burn in desire, set them on fire
to boogie
DIGITS
Phone number
DIME
1- bag of weed
2- A snitch, a dime was the amount for a phone call in the 60's and 70's and that's what it took for a snitch to make a call.
3- a way to tell a female or male to call you. (exam. "wasup girl, drop a dime when you got the time")
4- referring to Bo Derrick's move TEN, a perfect woman with pretty face, and ghetto body (big but, slim waist).
DIS
Short for disrespect.
DOG/ DAWG
1- friend that you can count on in times of trouble. A person who watches your back.
2- Old school NYC word for beating someone up. "im's dog that kid", or "me and that kid had a fight and i i dogged him".
DOME / DOME PIECE
A persons head. Usually referring to fighting and punching someone in the head, or shooting someone in the head.
DON
Spanish and Italian word for God father, or person of great respect.
They will put the word Don before there real name.
DOPE/ DOPENES
1- Another word for someone or something great
2- Drugs, heroin
DO OR DIE
Slang for Bedstuy Brooklyn. Do or Die Bedstuy.
D.L./ DOWN LOW
To keep something quiet, to protect a secret, shhh don't tell anyone, or to lay low and not be seen for a while because of a situation.
DOWN BY LAW
An old school term for a person who is certified, or who has great credentials, great repoir in the streets.
DOZENS
A back and forth game of making fun of each others mothers, family, disabilities. This is no holds bar jokes where people get there feelings hurt, but you have suck it up.  Mama jokes seem to be the most common and popular.

-Your girlfriend is so stupid, the first time she used a vibrator she cracked her two front teeth.

-Your sister is so stupid, she went to the baker for a yeast infection.

-Your mother is so dumb, she couldn't pass a blood test.
Your mother is so ugly, when he sits in the sand the cat tries to bury her.
DROP SCIENCE
To teach street knowledge to other people, knowledge of self (meaning of ethnic groups and people of color).
 E
EASY, BE EASY
be smooth, take it easy.
ENDS
short for make ends meet, to have or keep money.
 F
FADE / FADED
1- refers to the Philly fade haircut where they fade the sides and the back to your skin
2- to be FADED is to be high on drugs or liquor
3- "We can't be faded" means "can't be messed with" or "f^cked with".
FAKIN JACKS
To be phony or acting phony.
A person telling lies.
FASHO
For sure.
FIEND
To be desperate for something, a crack fiend.
(exam. "Dude was fiendin for some booty from that girl")
FIFTH
A fifth of bacardi.
FLAVA
To have style, pizzazz (exam. "bgirl Renegade got mad flava")
FLEX
Referring to flexing muscle. To try and intimidate someone, or to prepare to fight someone
(exam. "I can't believe that kid tried to flex on me")
FLY/ FLY GIRL/ FLY GUY
A person who looks, dresses, and smells good. Always got there hair done, spends allot of time and money to make themselves look good.
FLOW
1- to have plenty of money/ income flowing in due to legal or illegal activities.
2- An MC or Dancer who can move or rhyme nonstop smoothly without breaking there flow.
FORTY
Referring to a forty ounce of beer.
FREESTYLE
1- Original term for a style of dance that came before house dance.
2- Off the top of the head, when an MC (rapper) rhymes with no pre written rhymes.
3- term for a form of Hip Hop dance that borrows from many styles of dance in and outside of Hip Hop and then freestyle's it off the top of the head with no routines.
FRESH
To be great, or brand new. To dance or rhyme, or do a great wild style graffiti piece. To dress nice and look good.
FRONT
To fake something your not. Pretending to be tuff. To not show up for a situation or a fight. (exam. "me and Juan was supposed to go to the train yards and do some pieces, but he fronted so I went by myself")
FUNK/ FUNKY
1- Funk refers to a music style that originated with drummers in New Orleans like earl Palmer describing the type of sound they want to play. So they said Funky like bad breath
2- Funk was a term also coined by James Brown referring to the music making people move and dance so much that  at the end of the night the club would be/ smell funky from all the sweating and perspiration. so James Brown would say "it's gettin kinda funky in here".
3- refers to a style of music originated by the African American community. heavy bass, syncopated drums, and funky grooves.
JAMES BROWN, PARLIAMENT FUNCADELIC, SLY STONE.
4- FAKIN THE FUNK means to be fake in music or Hip Hop or on the streets. Or not really funky.
FOREALLY, FOREALS, FORILLA, FOREALDO
Slang for "FOREAL"
 G
G
1- short for gangsta
2- short for grand, $1,000
GAME
1- To have rap or the words to talk to a fly girl. Or to have words to get out of trouble or a situation. (exam. "them police tried to grab me but talked them out of it, I got too much game for them")
2- To be down to do something, or ready to forward in a situation.
3- To be good at basketball, to always have a good game.
GEESE
To rob a house. And fly like geese.
GET DOWN, GET LOOSE, GET BUZY
they all mean to dance, jam, rock turntables, rock a graffiti piece.
GHETTO BIRD
Police helicopter.
GHOST
To disappear, to leave inconspicuously, without know one seeing you.
(exam. "At the party I felt like I was gonna get robed, so I was ghost")
GO OFF
1- To let off physical energy like a bomb. To let loose and fight or get violent on someone.
2- To get down and dance with massive energy.
GRILL/ GRILLIN
1- another word for face.
2- To be stared at by another person with a mean face (exam. "yo I'm gonna hit that kid if he keeps grillin me")
GRIND/ GRINDING
When a drug dealer is on the streets selling drugs, he's on the grind or grinding.
A person who is constantly hittin the streets to find ways to make money to survive in the hood legally or illegally.
GRITTY
Street, dirty, "get down to the nitty gritty", diggin deep.
GULLY
Ghetto tuff, gutter, raw, gangsta "keep it gully"
 H
HARD CORE
1- Real street raw. A person into street raw style Hip Hop music about street life, guns, murder, drugs. Hardcore Hip Hop, Not the party stuff.
2- when a person is into something, or an activity more than others, they are into it hardcore.
HARD ROCK
An old school term for a New York  thug or gangsta.
HAWK
To stare at or be stared at hard.
Originally this was from people of color who were stared at by store or shop owners/ workers who thought that you were gonna steel something. So the shop owner/ worker will follow you around the store and hawk you.
referring to a bird of prey with great vision.
HEART
To have courage, to be brave
HOLLA
to call someone out, or contact someone. (exam. "wasup girl, here's my number holla at me")
HERB
1- A punk, or someone who is soft. (exam. " thats kid's a herb, he ain't got no heart").
2- Marijuana, weed.
HOME SKILLET/ HOME BOY/ HOMEY
1- Close friend from around the way.
2- HOME BOY used to be a dis, when calling someone homely meant like a mamas boy, who never goes out.
HOOD
Short for neighborhood, but refers to ghetto neighborhood.
HOOD RAT
Refers to a girl from around the way (your block, hood) who has sex with every guy on your block/ hood.
HOT 110
And old school original graffiti term. When a writer (graffiti) writer or crosses out his enemies name, or a toy (week graffiti writer). He or she will write "hot 110" over there name.
HOTTIE
Mid eighties term for a fine young lady. meaning she's hot, She's a hottie.
HUMMIN
1- Rhymes with bummin so was used to call someone a bum.
2- Person with bad breath, meaning there breath was hummin.
HUSTLER
Person who is always on the grind trying to make money.
A person who never sits on his or her riches, but stays hustlin to make more money.
A person who does what ever it takes to make money legal or illegal.
HYPE/ HYPE MAN
1- To perform (Hip Hop)or play ball with great energy. To get hype with a burst of energy.
2- A hype man is an MC who backs up a main rapper (in a rap group) to keep the crowd/ audience hyper during the performance.
 I
I AIN'T THE ONE
Short for "I ain't the one to be messed with".
ICE
Jewelry covered with diamonds
ILL
Way of saying something is so great it is sickening.
IRON HORSE
Subway train.
 J
JACK
1- Term for robbing a person, or car jacking, steeling someone's car.
2- Also a word similar to dude. (exam. "wasup jack")
JAKE
A cop, police officer.
JAM
1- Name of an old school original Hip Hop party in the parks, school yards, small night clubs, youth centers, and so forth.
2- A term for a cool funky record that someone really likes. They will say "don't change the station, that's  my jam".
JAMMY
1- term for ones penus.
2- also a term for a gun.
JET
To leave in a hurry.
JIMMY  and JENNY
Terms for the male and female sex organs
The male organ is also known as "Jimbrowski". and a "Jimmy hat" is a condom.
JUICE
A persons street credibility. To have juice in the streets means to have what we called Pull. Meaning we can make something happen.
 K
KICKS
Sneakers, tennis shoes.
KICKIN
Good, appealing, great. (exam. "That girl's body is kickin").
KNOW THE LEDGE
To have knowledge or self and everything around you, to have street knowledge.
KRUMP/ KRUMPIN
New Hip Hop dance that just came out of the streets of LA, made popular by the movie "RISE". Affiliated with dances styles like clown walkin, the stripper dance.
KRUNK
1- To have a good time, and party hard
2- new style of Hip Hop music made popular in the Dirty South (Southern States) by artists like Lil John.
 L
L
1- Short for elevated train platforms. Outside train stations.
2- joint
LIFTED
a person who is high off drugs or liquor.
LEAKY LEAK
A NYC street term for Angel Dust, PCP.
 M
MC
Master of ceremonies. In Hip Hop an MC was the original term for Rapper. Mic Controller.
MACK
Ladies man, a guy who can get any girl he wants. Made popular by the blaxploitation movie "The Mack" in the 70's.
MAD
 A term used to explain when something is extra huge, or great. (exam. "Tony Touch got mad skills on the turntables")
MATH
Phone number
MISSION
1- Originally a graffiti term for bombing trains (tagging trains), or racking paint (steeling paint)
2- A crack head or drug fiend on a mission trying to get money to cop drugs.
MAMI
Spanish word pronounced MOMMY. A beautiful girl.
MONEY
Term used like a person, dude, brotha (exam. "wasup money")
MONEY MAKIN
Slang for Manhattan. MONEY MAKIN MANHATTAN.
MURK
1- To kill.
2- To leave.
MY BAD
My mistake.
 N
NATHAN
A term meaning nothing, or nobody. (exam. "cops tried to grab me, but they didn't have nathan on me")
NEWJACK
A person wet behind the ears, who has no street experience, a rookie.
NON STOP
Term takin from subway train terminology. Used to describe a party or situation or activity that won't end for a long time. made popular in early Hip Hop rhymes.
(exam. "we rock the mic nonstop")
 O
OFF
Shoot, Kill.
OLD SCHOOL/ OLD SCHOOLER
 a way of saying Back in the days in the streets, school of hard knocks. A person who was representing the streets back in the days. Early days of the streets.
ONE/ ONE LOVE
Street way of saying good bye. Bidding someone peace.
Latino people will say Uno.
ONION
A round booty. Round but, Round ass
OX
 A box cutter or razor blade
 P
PARLAYIN
Chillin, relaxing
P.C.
Punk City, a term for a special protective jail cell for inmates who are in danger within prison population. Usually meant for inmates who can't fight or have no pull in the prison (they don't know any one).
PAPER
Money
PEACE
Respectful way of saying goodbye in the streets. Inspired from the Islamic religion Asalamu Alaikum.
PEEPS
 short for peoples. used to describe a persons best friends, crew, or gang.
PHAT, FAT
When something is extra cool , we used the concept of how we like our laces, or girls booty, our bass sounds coming from our sound system. we like everything looking and sounding phat, thick, massive.
PEACE OUT
Short for "Peace i'm out". Good bye, I'm leaving.
PIECE
1- A gun
2- An outlined graffiti artwork with color  fill ins, and decorated on a train, wall, or black book (hardcover graffiti book)
PLAYED/
PLAY YOURSELF
1- To be discovered that your pretending your something your not, or to get caught in a lie.
2- when someone takes you for a fool. You usually get played by a so called friend or boyfriend/ girlfriend cheating on you.
PLAYA/
PLAYA HATER
1- a guy who has tons of girls and manages to play them all at the same time.
2- A person who can play the streets and system to get what he wants.
3- A player hater is a person who down plays another playas game.
PLAYED OUT
When a fad is over and old, and no one is doing it no more. It's played out.
POP/ POPED
1- To shoot someone
2- To get busted by the police and sent to jail.
POPO
Police
PROPS/ PROPERS
Short for proper respect.
 Q
QUEEN
Term from original Hip Hop organization ZULU NATION used to describe female Zulu's. Now adopted by many other gangs.
QUARTY/ QUART
A quart of Ol English malt liquor
 R
RACK
Original graffiti term for steeling.
RAP
1- How a street dude talks to a girl
2- How a person with street game talks his way in and out of situations.
3- Commercial term for the word MC (master of ceremony)
RECOGNIZE/ BETTER RECOGNIZE
Letting someone know that they better be aware who they are messing with. Used for a Hip Hop battle situation or a fight situation.
REPRESENT
GO ALL OUT FOR YOUR SELF OR CREW, OR ANYTHING YOUR DOWN WITH OR STAND FOR.
RIKERS ISLAND
A prison
ROCK/ ROCK THE HOUSE
"Rock" is a word that has been a main description of being the best at something or a situation in Hip Hop.
ROCK THE HOUSE
ROCK THE MIC
ROCK A PHAT WILD STYLE
ROCK THE FLOOR
BODY ROCK
Rock was such a main word that it could be a second name to the culture Hip Hop.
ROLL UP
To show up to a place/ event hard or with a crew.
RUN IT/ RUN YO SH*T/ RUN IT BACK
1-What a stick up kid (robber) would say to a victim, if it's for a bike, or a wallet or a chain, the stick up kid will say "run it".
2- Run It Back mean rewind, or try again, or bring it back.
 S
SAGGIN
Wearing you pants low and most of the time with no belt. This style of dress originated in the prison system because they confiscated belts and shoe laces so an inmate can't hang himself.
SAWED OFF
Sawed off shot gun.
SAZON
A type of Puerto Rican food seasoning that gives Spanish food it's flavor. The term is used by Puerto Ricans to describe someone with style and flavor.
SCHOOL/ SCHOOLEM
To teach someone in a lesson in  knowledge, a fight, a battle.  Mostly pertaining to street knowledge.
SCOOBY DOO
FAB 5 FREEDY used this slang in the movie "Wild Style" as an act of being surprised or flabbergasted. He just learned something that surprised him and he belted out "well scooby doo".
SCRATCH
DJ's scratching the records to the beat. Placing the turntable needle to the groove of a record, and the DJ moves the record back and forth to create a scratch sound, and manipulates it to make music.
SCRILLA
Money
SCRUB
1- Originally a sports term for a person who sucks at a particular sport.
2- A term used by material girls/ gold diggers to describe A dude with no money, no car, no class, but he fronts and tries to get material girls.
An artists or personality who compromises his or her craft  and artistic views for the sake of money or fame.
SERVE
To beat someone in a Hip Hop Battle. MC battle, BBOY battle, Graffiti battle, DJ battle. (exam. "I served that kid with flava at last nights jam")