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Lil Wayne revealed to Billboard what his three favorite New Orleans phrases are last week (August 8th) while in attendance at their R&B Hip-Hop Power Players & Live event. Before being inducted into Billboard’s Hip-Hop Hall Of Fame, Weezy explained backstage why “Ya Heard Me”, “Wodie” and...

Is that a term that the black community should retire?

I'm 30 and growing up I remember alot of my older relatives and other blacks refer to each other as brother or sister. I mean people were still using the term nikka as a term of endearment but people were still calling each other brother or sister as well. If you listen to a lot of Hiphop...

Yes :flabbynsick: But when the hell did dub - which once meant win, $20, 20 sack, and of course those GS Warriors - become a loss/wack? Cap was a weird flip going from once meaning to clown/diss to lie, but how do you take a word meaning win and make it the complete opposite?

Let's see something. How many positive terms can we list that affirm positive qualities of black people? I ask cuz I realize I can't really think of any words that would be the opposite of: nikka c00n Bedbuck/bedwench Sambo Mammy Uncle Tom

Am I late on seeing this cac going ham for hams ? :gucci: Watch too much 40oz Bounce porns in your day OC (Original Cac) :picard:

@3:33 :wtf: I know people have been saying nikka since the 1800s but I find sorta funny that Curtis said baddest bytches in a time before hip hop.

When did people start saying this? I hear a lot of NBA broadcasters saying it this year, I'd bet a tenfold increase over last year-- if the term was used at all. I don't recall hearing it until a couple of months ago and now it is suddenly the dominant way of saying cash. The currency of...

I spent most of my twenties there :ehh: but I haven't been back since 2010 :snoop: anyways, so Philly folks use the word "jawn" but I distinctly remember DC cats using their own variation of it that was pronounced "joan" or "jone" but it basically means the same thing, a descriptor for...