Hip-hop slang

Two weeks ago, China's hip-hop ushered in a grand finale, in which two popular players, PG One and Gai, won the championship at the same time. No matter who you support more in your heart, Brother Zeng feels that this program has really popularized a Hip Hop, which seems to be an alternative music category.

Simply put, hip-hop music originated from African-Americans living in cities in the 1970s. Unlike China, where we like to settle in convenient cities, the middle class in the United States moved to the suburbs with mountains, good water and a large population and drove to and from work, leaving the old city to relatively poor ethnic minorities. Black people use rhythmic percussion and rhythmic speeches to vent their inner anguish, social injustice, kindness to their brothers and hatred of their enemies, and gradually become a unique musical form of rap. Later, the living conditions of blacks were greatly improved, and hedonism became popular. It is not difficult to understand why there are many straightforward descriptions of cars, houses, tickets, women and leaves in the new hip-hop music.

Hip-hop can be said to represent a sub-culture, among which rap MCing/ Rap, Disc Playing Djing/ Scratching with Turntable, hip-hop Break Dance and Graffiti Writing are regarded as four branches of hip-hop culture, all of which show young people's bold expression and maverick attitude. This is why people who love hip-hop culture always emphasize that hip-hop is a spirit in the bones, not only in clothes and words and deeds, but also in superficial form.

Understand the background of hip-hop culture, now let's talk about some of the most distinctive slang in hip-hop.

Acabella: Capella, there is a hip-hop audition in China, which is the form of deduction. I eat hot pot, you eat hot pot bottom material, which is also a famous sentence called in the program.

Alias: Also known as the abbreviation of. Rappers usually have more than one alias. For example, when introducing himself, PG One often says "This is PG One, also known as" Wan Ciwang ".

Beef: Beat. As for why the fight is called beef, there is an explanation that the face after the fight looks like ground beef, which is very tragic. The most famous beef in the history of hip-hop was the "East-West Coast War" provoked by 2pac, which eventually led to the shooting of two talented singers of hip-hop.

Diss: short for diss. Singers often Diss to diss, diss: don't respect this and that.

Dope: Although it means illegal drugs, young people now use this word more to describe things like cool, good and great.

Flow: refers to the grasp and control of rap elements such as pause, rereading, speed, breathing and rhyme. Every singer's traffic has its own characteristics, and people who imitate other people's traffic can't stand in the rap world.

Freestyle: impromptu rap, this knowledge point, I think everyone has been popularized by Mr. Wu for more than n times ~

Homie: My buddy, my brother, besides bro, you can also say Homie.

Hustle: make money desperately and make money by hook or by crook;

Gangster: Gangster, an idle punk. Many black communities, because of poverty, children don't like reading, and they surpass society at a young age. Many of the songs they sing are full of sighs about their own fate and longing for money and fame. Among them, N.W.A is the most famous gangster rap group on the West Coast. 15 The movie "Straight out of Compton" tells the history of this group's fame. Among them, Dr. Derry, the most famous doctor in the group, debuted with Snoopy dogs Doggy and Ramon Eminem, and the full name of the developed Beats headset is Beats by Dre. Really like a hip-hop godfather.

Mc: abbreviation of miccontroller, such as MC Hotdog and mcjin.

Mullah: Is it like talking about money? With an accent

Nigga: Nigga, the legendary terrible N word, can refer to the instructions on "that that" in Zeng Ge's previous dry goods, which can only be used by blacks to laugh at themselves, and people of other races say it is discriminatory;

Lil: short for Little, so the famous singer Lil Wayne Lil:Little Wayne. YoungMoney Entertainment, which he founded in 2003, has many famous rappers, such as Drake and Nicki Minaj Spicy Chicken.

Og: "Former gangster" or "old git", so is the old gun ~

Skrt Skrt: onomatopoeic word, repeated twice, refers to the friction sound made by wheels crossing the ground. It can also be spelled skrr, my skateboard shoe rub, my sneakers skrr? skrr~

Swag: It was meant to be free, but now it means cool.

Trap music: trap music, new school spirit? A form of music in Hip-hop, which means that one third of a song rap hip-hop? Hop, one third of EDM electronic dance music, one third of Dub reggae;

Some people say that the lyrics of hip-hop are too straightforward and violent, but it is the authenticity of hip-hop that makes its lyrics so direct and powerful and deeply rooted in people's hearts. Hip-hop music has become very mainstream in America. Grammy not only has rap category, but also many hip-hop singers like Jay Z, Eminem, Kanye West, Drake and Nicki Minaj are American and even global superstars. American young people are more obsessed with hip-hop music, just as we were obsessed with Jay Chou. Perhaps Asians are used to implicit expression, but now hip-hop music has gone underground, and Zeng Ge expects it to become the mainstream music in China in the future.