说唱＝无脑粗口？浅谈嘻哈文化

Hip Hop                         嘻哈

African American        非裔美国人

Innercity        内城区（通常是美国市中心收入较低治安较乱的贫民区）

Suburbs         市郊，近郊（通常为美国中产居住区）

Ghetto     城市里的少数族裔聚集区（有“贫民区”的暗示）

Rapping (MCing)    说唱

Breakdancing       霹雳舞

DJing               DJ打碟       

Beatboxing      节奏口技（人声模拟敲击乐音效）

Graffiti              涂鸦

Old School Hip hop 老派嘻哈

Those shoes are soold school!   这鞋子很复古呀。

He is a veryold-schoolteacher.   他是个很老派／传统的老师。

Rap  说唱

a musical form of vocaldelivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and streetvernacular"

Gangsta Rap  匪帮说唱 

Gangster – Gangsta   帮派成员  

Progressive        激进的

Controversial    具有争议的

Freestyle        即兴（编词）说唱

(Rap) battle      两位说唱歌手的说唱对决（一般为即兴）

Diss  ＝disrespect/disparage  类似于”撕”

1992 hit single “Keep Ya Head Up”     1992年热门单曲 

2pac      被誉为说唱之神的一位说唱歌手

Little somethin' for my godson Elijah

And a little girl named Corinne

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice

I say the darker the flesh then, the deeper the roots

I give a holler to my sisters on welfare

Tupac cares, if don't nobody else care

And uhh, I know they like to beat ya down a lot

When you come around the block, brothas clown a lot

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up

Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up

And when he tells you you ain't nuttin', don't believehim

And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him

'cause sista you don't need him

And I ain't tryin' to gas ya up, I just call em how I see'em

You know what makes me unhappy, (what's that)

When brothas make babies

And leave a young mother to be a pappy

And since we all came from a woman

Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman

I wonder why we take from our women

Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?

I think it's time to kill for our women

Time to heal our women, be real to our women

And if we don't, we'll have a race of babies

That will hate the ladies, that make the babies

And since a man can't make one

He has no right to tell a woman when and where to createone!

So will the real men get up

I know you're fed up ladies,

But keep your head up

(Keep ya head up) Oooh, child things are gonna get easier

(Keep ya head up) Oooh, child things'll get brighter

(Keep ya head up) Oooh, child things are gonna get easier

(Keep ya head up) Oooh, child things'll get brighter