More recently, the hip-hop world has popularized "diss" as slang for insulting or disrespecting someone. This was popularized by the Roxanne Wars, a series of 1980s hip-hop rivalries in which rappers ...

Young people today don’t separate hip hop from sports. A high schooler wears Jordans to class, blasts Drake before basketball practice, and uses slang that bounced between rap lyrics and ESPN ...

A great deal of music-related terms stem from hip-hop, more specifically through the genre of rap. Because rap tends to draw heavily from Black culture, many rap-based slang terms have roots in ...

Slang, a term for the informal, non-standard lingo used in social settings, doesn't originate in a vacuum. The invented words we casually throw around come from the culture around us, particularly the ...