2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 87: The Nation of Islam and its less disciplinarian, new-age offshoot the Five Percent Nation.at 5% Nation, n.
2000 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
2000 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
2000 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.
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 155: Khop’s delivery is so much cooler than Herman’s. His voice drips with attitude.at attitude, n.
2000 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.
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 56: The only cool female right now on my team is my baby momma.at baby-mother (n.) under baby, n.
2000 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.
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 55: Khop’s style is laid-back, but his delivery is confident.at laid-back, adj.
2000 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.
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 75: Babyboy has a verse [...] about dealing bags of grass to party-goers.at bag, n.1
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 96: We got to make sure we don’t drop the ball.at drop the ball (v.) under ball, n.1
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 329: It would be hard for Mike to continue banging, in this neighbourhood, anyway.at bang, v.5
2000 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
2000 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
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 12: On the dub [...] we barbecue maybe four or five times a week.at barbecue, v.
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 50: Instead of a band it [i.e. hip-hop] substituted a beatbox and two turntables.at beatbox, n.
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 251: Jayo’s beefs with the police these days are less serious than they were.at beef, n.2
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 18: The independent label that was going to release his CD belly-flopped.at bellyflop, v.
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 21: ‘Dead presidents’, ‘Franklins’ [...] all mean paper money.at Ben Franklin, n.
2000 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