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[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 140: Crews of break-dancers (called B-boys and B-girls) had developed acrobatic dance routines.
at B-boy, n.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 139: Flash was also one of the first hip hop djs to work with a beat box: a machine that produces an electronic drum beat.
at beatbox, n.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 137: He began dee-jaying at house parties.
at DJ, v.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 158: The burn is on now in JA not GB, he tells me.
at JA, n.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 147: The radio djs Toop refers to were the jive-talkers of the be-bop era.
at jive-talk, v.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 137: He would shout phrases like ‘Rock on my mellow! This is the joint!’.
at joint, n.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 110: It’s graceful but the grace is always ‘under pressure’. Fred Astaire on leapers.
at leaper, n.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 137: He would shout phrases like ‘Rock on my mellow! This is the joint!’.
at mellow, n.2
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 149: With the Saxon Posse now, we chat what’s happening here, not Jamaica, America or Timbuktu.
at posse, n.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 151: But he isn’t a rootsy Jamaican ‘yardy’ either.
at roots, adj.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 139: In the Zulu Nation he set out to replace ‘rumbles’ (fights) and drugs with rap, dance and hip hop style.
at rumble, n.2
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 125: The new Jamaican djs like Ringo and Lone Ranger soon followed Yellowman with copycat ‘slack’ tracks.
at slack, adj.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 125: It wasn’t long before ‘slackness’ was all the rage.
at slackness (n.) under slack, n.1
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 152: Soon the Rasta themes began to fall away, along with the booming bass and spacey drum work.
at spacey, adj.
[UK] (ref. to 1968) D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 92: At the Ram Jam in Brixton, the crowds ‘stepped’ to Sir Coxone’s sound.
at step, v.
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 141: Individual artists used magic markers and spray paint to scribble their ‘tags.’.
at tag, n.3
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 124: Yellowman [...] began to develop his famous pornographic slack toasts.
at toast, n.2
[UK] D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 151: But he isn’t a rootsy Jamaican ‘yardy’ either.
at yardie, n.
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