Few groups have contributed more to universal vernacular than Hip Hop. Having originated in New York City and expanded to other metropolitan areas across the globe, the culture's linguistic phenomenon ...

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 ...

And I'm Melissa Block. And I'm going to try and keep this next intro short so we can hit the post, fit in the web back and avoid busting the segment. You may not be able to decipher that radio slang ...

Everything evolves with time or goes in and out of style; this is especially true for our vernacular. The way the youth communicate now is significantly different from how they communicated back in ...

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 ...

Because rap tends to draw heavily from Black culture, many rap-based slang terms have roots in African American Vernacular English (AAVE), a dialect of English commonly spoken in Black communities.