A set of attitudes and behaviors originating in the stark, deprived inner-city ghettos and inexplicably adopted by middle-class suburban teens. Hip-hop represents resourcefulness and ingenuity in the face of unspeakable material and intellectual poverty:
1. Graffiti: Can't afford real art supplies? Spray paint someone else's property! Dat shit be da bomb!
2. Break dancing: Can't afford a place to dance? Flatten a cardboard box and flop around on the sidewalk! Dem pedestrians be laughing wit you, not at you homie!
3. Rapping/Mcing: Can't afford a musical instrument or too lazy to learn how play? Shout some rapid-fire rhymes. Extra points awarded for butchering the english language. Yo yo dem badass rhymes gots da Man afeard of da revolution!
4. DJing: Can't afford to put together a band or too lazy to write your own music? Find someone else's work on vinyl and move it back and forth on a fancy turntable. Dat skritch-skratch be musical genius!
Your hip-hop credibility will be enhanced by rejecting the strides made in your behalf by the civil rights movement. Don't apply for scholarships; drop out of school. Fail to learn proper English, thereby ensuring that you'll never qualify for a decent job. Try never to read any books. Reject any activity that requires hard work or discipline.
Show the world you're a hip-hopper by wearing garish, impractical, cheap-knock-off clothing and jewelry that mimics rap stars and basketball players. Make sure you look like a complete fool when you're out in general society.
Finally, don't bother to learn about anything the world has to offer outside your neighborhood. Dat shit all be plastic, an you gots ta keep it real!
1. Graffiti: Can't afford real art supplies? Spray paint someone else's property! Dat shit be da bomb!
2. Break dancing: Can't afford a place to dance? Flatten a cardboard box and flop around on the sidewalk! Dem pedestrians be laughing wit you, not at you homie!
3. Rapping/Mcing: Can't afford a musical instrument or too lazy to learn how play? Shout some rapid-fire rhymes. Extra points awarded for butchering the english language. Yo yo dem badass rhymes gots da Man afeard of da revolution!
4. DJing: Can't afford to put together a band or too lazy to write your own music? Find someone else's work on vinyl and move it back and forth on a fancy turntable. Dat skritch-skratch be musical genius!
Your hip-hop credibility will be enhanced by rejecting the strides made in your behalf by the civil rights movement. Don't apply for scholarships; drop out of school. Fail to learn proper English, thereby ensuring that you'll never qualify for a decent job. Try never to read any books. Reject any activity that requires hard work or discipline.
Show the world you're a hip-hopper by wearing garish, impractical, cheap-knock-off clothing and jewelry that mimics rap stars and basketball players. Make sure you look like a complete fool when you're out in general society.
Finally, don't bother to learn about anything the world has to offer outside your neighborhood. Dat shit all be plastic, an you gots ta keep it real!
Le'Rhonda don't need no education. She don't need no job. She be keepin it real. Hip-hop be her life.
by Alan Keyes August 18, 2004
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Its followers can be seen posturing around British and Irish town centres, usually in gangs as they are shite at one-on-one confrontation, and too cowardly to walk alone. The hip-hop aficionado can be identified by its mangled, locally-accented appropriations of what they have heard on MTV Base. They are also almost entirely white.
Some people have had the temerity to suggest hip-hop has had credibility in music. These people, from their angled caps to their MF Doom Nikes, are liars, and, like all of hip-hop, are trying to sell you a lifestyle that you don't relate to, yet vaguely want because your life sucks, or so they'd have you believe.
Even more shameful is the claim that hip-hop sprang from reggae. This is punishable by enforced self-flagellation in civilised society.
Its followers can be seen posturing around British and Irish town centres, usually in gangs as they are shite at one-on-one confrontation, and too cowardly to walk alone. The hip-hop aficionado can be identified by its mangled, locally-accented appropriations of what they have heard on MTV Base. They are also almost entirely white.
Some people have had the temerity to suggest hip-hop has had credibility in music. These people, from their angled caps to their MF Doom Nikes, are liars, and, like all of hip-hop, are trying to sell you a lifestyle that you don't relate to, yet vaguely want because your life sucks, or so they'd have you believe.
Even more shameful is the claim that hip-hop sprang from reggae. This is punishable by enforced self-flagellation in civilised society.
by Mike McGrath-Bryan January 13, 2009
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Get the HIP-HOP mug.Hip Hop is a sorry excuse for music. Whatever happened to singing about emotion, rather than endorsements? And now you've gone and inspired a bunch of white kids with their EXCO and FUBU and $700 shoes to go get shot... no one likes a wigger. Often the people that listen to it dress like thugs. The white kids(I mean kids, because no respectable adult would buy into such shit) all of a sudden learn ebonics and talk poorly. They all think that people respect them. They don't, people just think they're fucking criminals.
I got shot nine times, and now I'm endorsed by McDonalds! Also, I like to talk about the bad shape of the "hood" and giving hope to the kids, but really, I'm overcharging them on CDs, and making millions! PIMP PIMP!!! Hip-hop...
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cool punk rocker: no, you stupid pouser hip-hop sux!
cool punk rocker: no, you stupid pouser hip-hop sux!
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hip-hop is a deep and incredible culture/movement. rap is commercial corporate garbage only built on making money.
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