Hip Hop Culture

Aggressive Bay Area hip-hop and the wild, uninhibited behavior tied to it—where the music's energy demands you abandon all restraint.

A compressed affirmation where delivery determines meaning—enthusiastic for genuine agreement, flat for skeptical doubt.

An informal term for someone in your close circle—chosen family rather than blood, carrying warmth and trust.

An emphatic declaration of complete honesty, used to signal that what you're saying contains no exaggeration or lies.

French youth transformed "serious" into an intensifier meaning really or very — pure emphasis that marks you as inside contemporary spoken French.

Signals immediate future action — something is about to happen right now, not later, compressing urgency and intention into two syllables.

Toronto street slang for a close friend that signals belonging to the city's Caribbean-influenced youth culture.

Oakland's self-identifier asserting urban legitimacy separate from San Francisco — a nickname that transforms geographic proximity into cultural independence.

An oath invoking maternal respect to guarantee truthfulness — lying would dishonor the one relationship sacred enough to swear upon.

A greeting that flips authority into equality, though locals can always tell when the warmth is real versus strategically deployed.

Nairobi youth slang for father that signals urban identity and generational belonging—affectionate in some mouths, confrontational in others, possibly already fading among the youngest speakers.

Cannabis slang marking disappointing quality—weed that fails to deliver on appearance, potency, or value expectations.

A documented Berlin variant of 'billo' that exists primarily in dictionaries rather than actual conversation among young people.

Your inner circle in Kenyan youth culture — the crew you navigate the city with, carrying identity and belonging in a single word.

An attention-grabber that says "look at this"—casual, immediate, carrying the energy of something worth noticing right now.