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Westsiders: Stories of the Boys in the Hood choose

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[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 87: The Nation of Islam and its less disciplinarian, new-age offshoot the Five Percent Nation.
at 5% Nation, n.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 337: I’ve heard that you can buy an Uzi or an AK for as little as $200.
at a.k., n.3
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 290: Master P is performing at some little stupid-ass show. [Ibid.] 344: I had friends who had a mother and father at home. They had a cool-assed life.
at -ass, sfx
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 211: He has driven here [...] along Sunset and up through Beverly Hills looking at all the ‘big ass’ houses.
at big-ass, adj.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 13: A bitch-ass company of pencil-whippin’ motherfuckers.
at bitch-ass, adj.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 155: Khop’s delivery is so much cooler than Herman’s. His voice drips with attitude.
at attitude, n.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 49: Shut out of the clubs, the new ‘b-boys’ — the ‘Bronx boys’ — who made up Herc’s fans embraced the beat-down sneakers that kept them off the glitterballed disco floors.
at B-boy, n.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 56: The only cool female right now on my team is my baby momma.
at baby-mother (n.) under baby, n.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 56: White America doesn’t yet have an equivalent of this simple piece of kinship terminology, baby momma, baby poppa.
at baby-father (n.) under baby, n.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 55: Khop’s style is laid-back, but his delivery is confident.
at laid-back, adj.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 269: The trouble is, Sneak has been a bad boy for too long.
at bad boy, n.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 350: All the stuff that you’re doin’ that’s bad? Rap about it. Make something positive of it.
at bad, adj.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 75: Babyboy has a verse [...] about dealing bags of grass to party-goers.
at bag, n.1
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 96: We got to make sure we don’t drop the ball.
at drop the ball (v.) under ball, n.1
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 329: It would be hard for Mike to continue banging, in this neighbourhood, anyway.
at bang, v.5
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 32: Another myth about gang-banging was that members were supposed to support each other when they were in trouble.
at gang-banging, n.2
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 21: More words seem to be invented each week, faster than any Webster’s could keep track: ‘G’, ‘grip’, ‘bank’, ‘mail’ [...] It is the fecund vocabulary of desire.
at bank, n.1
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 12: On the dub [...] we barbecue maybe four or five times a week.
at barbecue, v.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 50: Instead of a band it [i.e. hip-hop] substituted a beatbox and two turntables.
at beatbox, n.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 251: Jayo’s beefs with the police these days are less serious than they were.
at beef, n.2
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 18: The independent label that was going to release his CD belly-flopped.
at bellyflop, v.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 21: ‘Dead presidents’, ‘Franklins’ [...] all mean paper money.
at Ben Franklin, n.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 31: My brother was on some big shit. Crips. Real, real shit.
at big shit, n.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 243: I’m in this bitch. Whoop whoop whoop. I’m maxing.
at bitch, n.1
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 385: A bitch is prison slang for a gay submissive, or, equally shameful to a macho culture, a gay rape victim.
at bitch, n.1
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 55: Fuck the bitches. Find one cool one. Kick it with her.
at bitch, n.1
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 68: Accusing him of [...] ‘biting’ his rap style.
at bite, v.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 161: ‘Blaze it up,’ Big Duke orders his son.
at blaze, v.2
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 22: ‘That was the bomb,’ he says enthusiastically.
at bomb, n.
[US] W. Shaw Westsiders 49: Disco was fake, phoney and, worse, ‘bougie’ — bourgeois.
at bougie, adj.
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