Family — Street Talk Designs
In hip-hop and urban street culture, Family is the foundation. It's the core. The root. The reason. Everything the culture has ever built, fought for and celebrated has always come back to Family. Not just blood — but the bonds forged on the block, in the neighborhood, through shared struggle and shared victory. In the culture Family isn't just who you're related to. It's who you ride with, who you trust and who you'd do anything for.
Urban street vernacular has always had a deep and powerful vocabulary for Family. Expressions that speak to loyalty, love, protection and the unbreakable bonds that hold people together through everything life throws at them. Words and phrases that honor mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, children and the chosen family that becomes just as important as the one you were born into. The culture has always known that without Family — none of it means anything.
At Street Talk Designs our Family collection captures those expressions. The statements that celebrate the bonds that matter most. The words that honor the people who shaped you, supported you and stood by you no matter what. Because in this culture Family is everything — and everything is for the Family.
Looking for more hip-hop slang dictionary entries rooted in family, loyalty and street culture? The Slang Academy is Street Talk Designs' official home of hip-hop and urban street vernacular — where every expression connected to the bonds that define us has a history, a culture and a meaning behind it. Explore thousands of urban slang definitions organized by collection and discover the language of family and loyalty 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.