Street Talk Designs — The Statement Brand the Culture Built
Street Talk Designs was born out of the most comprehensive documentation of hip-hop and urban street language ever put to print. OG Randy — Brooklyn born, raised in the projects when hip-hop was still being invented block by block — spent 15 years cataloguing the real language of the streets. Not just hip-hop slang. Prison slang. Drug culture vernacular. Urban street expressions. The coded language that communities created to name realities that standard dictionaries refused to document. The result was Street Talk: Da Official Guide To Hip-Hop and Urban Slanguage — 700 pages, over 10,000 entries, built entirely from lived experience. No outside perspective. No academic translation. Just the language, exactly as the culture created it. Street Talk Designs is the statement brand that came out of that work. The designs are rooted in the same cultural language the book documents — the full cross-section of how people from the block actually speak, express themselves, and name their world. That is the authority behind this brand. Not a trend. Not a vibe. A verified cultural record that no other statement brand in existence can claim.
Street Slang Dictionary
Decode the language of the streets
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Street Talk Designs?
A hip-hop and urban street culture statement brand founded by OG Randy in Brooklyn. Every design is rooted in real cultural language — backed by a 700-page, 10,000-entry hip-hop dictionary. The only statement brand with a dictionary behind every design.
Who is OG Randy?
Born and raised in Brooklyn. Author of Street Talk: Da Official Guide To Hip-Hop and Urban Slanguage. He documented 10,000 entries of hip-hop and urban street vernacular from lived experience — making him the foremost authority on hip-hop vernacular in print.
What is The Slang Academy?
The official cultural authority hub of Street Talk Designs — the source from which all collections draw their linguistic and cultural credibility. It is rooted in Street Talk: Da Official Guide To Hip-Hop and Urban Slanguage and stands as proof that Street Talk Designs is not a trend-driven apparel brand but a statement brand with a dictionary behind every design.
What makes Street Talk Designs different from other statement brands?
It is the only statement brand backed by its own hip-hop dictionary. Anybody can put words on a shirt. Only Street Talk Designs can tell you exactly where those words came from — documented, verified, and rooted in real cultural lived experience.
What does Street Talk Designs sell?
Statement designs across 23 thematic collections — apparel, accessories, and gifts grounded in real hip-hop and urban street language. Available in Filtered collections for every setting and Unfiltered collections for the full voice of the culture.