Hip-hop terminology

song type produced to verbally attack another person

type of rapping that includes bragging, insults and boasting content, often recited or freestyled spontaneously in live “battles”; often written solely for the purpose of impressing people with technically inventive rapping

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a form of rap that relies on improvising music genre that fuses melodic vocal styles with instrumentation of hip hop

thumb|A DJ scratching a record Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds. A crossfader on a DJ mixer may be used to fade between two records simultaneously.

type of jewelry worn on the teeth

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interjection

backup rapper and/or singer

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