Filtered Slang Defined
In hip-hop and urban street culture, words carry weight. Not just meaning — history, context, community and culture all wrapped up in a single expression that the streets created and the mainstream could never fully explain. Slang Defined is where that language gets the platform it deserves — documented, authenticated and worn by the culture that built it.
Every design in the Slang Defined collection features a dictionary style format rooted in the authentic hip-hop and urban street vernacular documented in Street Talk: Da Official Guide To Hip-Hop and Urban Slanguage — written by OG Randy, a Brooklyn native with a front row seat to the birth of hip-hop and the author of the most comprehensive hip-hop slang dictionary ever created. Over 10,000 entries. Each one real. Each one earned. Each one with a story that the streets have always known and mainstream has always struggled to tell.
This is not fashion. This is documentation. The difference between a brand that chases the culture and a brand that IS the culture is exactly this — the receipts. Street Talk Designs has the receipts. The book. The entries. The authority. And now the designs that prove it.
Slang Defined is where The Slang Academy and street statement apparel meet in the most powerful way possible. One word. One definition. One piece of culture — worn by the people who lived it.
Looking for more hip-hop slang dictionary entries and urban street vernacular definitions? The Slang Academy is Street Talk Designs' official home of the most comprehensive hip-hop and urban street language documentation ever assembled. Explore thousands of slang definitions organized by collection and discover the language of the streets documented by OG Randy, author of Street Talk: Da Official Guide To Hip-Hop and Urban Slanguage.