Hip-Hop Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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backpacker n. See, y’all aren’t even an MC, so how can you go and make a judgement like that? Some of y’all geek asses on here don’t know shit, and all ya do is listen to them whiteboy backpacker cats. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. Searched for your skills, but if you got ‘em, you kept them hid/Voice and flow suck, so you’re the hero of backpackers. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. Don’t think underground its so much better and because you know some people from it your a pro, you seem like a backpacker, loser. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. I love hip-hop…and No…I’m about as FAR from a backpacker as there is, however I absolutely detest the garbage that supposed “fans” of this aesthetic are touting as “dope.” [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. Much or most of what i really like these days would be considered “backpacker” stuff anyway. but i wouldn’t call the stuff i don’t like not hip-hop. it’s all hip-hop. pop fans saying atmosphere isn’t hip-hop bothers me as much as backpackers saying that chingy isn’t hip-hop. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. 50 is tight because he is authentic and keeps it real and ignant…thats how gangsta rap is supposed to be…I don’t expect nerd backpackers to like 50 because he doesn’t use a lot of cutesy complex word play…Or isn’t all depressing and introspective. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. This is the main thing i detest about these corny, revisionist backpackers : they’re all newjacks who started listening to rap in the 1993 when “36 chambers” came out and have no concept or understanding of early 80s rap or Kid Capri or D.J Ron G blends tapes and how r&b and disco are just as important to rap as funk and soul.…Gay “real hip hop” jansport wearers like NeilNice are what’s ruined hip hop, not rap tracks…that sample r&b classics and have sung hooks. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

bamma n. With all the studio gangstas, haters, and bammas that populate the feds, dudes be lunching. Like they say, “if it ain’t rough, it ain’t right.” [English Hip-Hop Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 10, 2006)

boo-ya n. Ok, I almost got the analogy…Here’s a hint for ya’ll: the plastic bag is a jim hat. Buildings is the boo-ya (my roomie’s term for “it") But I can’t figure out how pink cookies is supposed to look like a jimmy. Can some one explain that? [English Hip-Hop] [full cite] (Dec. 9, 2004)

booya interj. Awaiting trial on grand theft charges, Thomas allegedly flashed a gang hand sign at the deputy and said, “It’s the last thing you’ll see in the back window of your car before you hear ‘booya, booya.‘“ “Booya” is gang slang for gunfire. [English Hip-Hop] [full cite] (Dec. 9, 2004)

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