Culture — Street Talk Designs
In hip-hop and urban street life, Culture is everything. It's the foundation that everything else is built on. The music, the art, the fashion, the language, the values, the community — all of it flows from a culture that was created by people who had nothing but their creativity, their resilience and their voice. Hip-hop didn't just create a genre of music. It created a whole way of life that has influenced every corner of the globe.
Urban street vernacular is the living proof of that culture. The language that the culture created is so powerful, so creative and so expansive that it has infiltrated mainstream America and spread across the world. Words and phrases born on the blocks of New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago are now spoken in cities and countries that have never seen an American street. That's the power of the culture.
At Street Talk Designs our Culture collection captures those expressions. The statements that celebrate where we come from, what we built and who we are. The words that remind the world that this culture didn't just influence everything — it created everything.
Looking for more hip-hop slang dictionary entries rooted in culture, identity and urban street life? The Slang Academy is Street Talk Designs' official home of hip-hop and urban street vernacular — where every expression that defines the culture has a history, a movement and a meaning behind it. Explore thousands of urban slang definitions organized by collection and discover the language of hip-hop culture documented by OG Randy, author of Street Talk: Da Official Guide To Hip-Hop and Urban Slanguage — the most comprehensive hip-hop slang dictionary ever written.