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 ...

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 ...