Word: slanging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Doxy: “Cockney slang for a female...
...about foul language. The young generation gets the lyrics because they've had the same experience." Twenty-nine-year-old lyricist and rapper Chan Kwong-yan, a.k.a. M.C. Yan, wants to make music that reflects the way people really talk. "We use a lot of Cantonese street slang in our songs. Canto-pop love songs use written Chinese," says Yan, sliding his hand through the horse's tail of hair that he sometimes wears in his two long signature braids: "We created Canto...
...Nile delta, Mohamed was the son of a lawyer and a homemaker. As a kid, his father says, he liked to play chess and disliked violent games. He was a scrawny youth--only 5 ft. 7 in. and until recently quite thin. (His dad called him "Bolbol," Arabic slang for a little singing bird.) Atta seemed overshadowed by his two sisters, who rose to become a zoology professor and a medical doctor. Atta graduated from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering and was an average student, according to his peers...
...with her girly, high-pitched delivery ripened into a strong-woman wail, Fassie has entered a new phase of her career. The kids call her the Queen of Kwaito, a pulsating pop style that exploded out of the townships in the early '90s and that Fassie quickly adopted. Kwaito (slang for "these guys are hot") fuses slowed American house and hip-hop, British garage and Jamaican reggae, held together with laid-back bass lines and percussion from traditional African chants. Like hip-hop, kwaito has become a cultural movement that incorporates lifestyle and fashion. And like hip-hop, it sells...
...quite happy about rhyming greasy with Assisi. Happiness is in the details. An indolent man awakes in the morning and thinks, "Wow. A shower with shampoo with aloe in it. Then orange juice not made from concentrate. Seven-grain toast with butter. Jamaican coffee. One Across: A waitress (slang)," and he gets all giddy and happy...