Meaning of hyphy | Babel Free

Definitions

A subgenre of hip-hop music and dancing associated with the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Examples

“It was Oakland rapper Keak Da Sneak who claims to have invented the term: upon being told by his mother that he was “hyperactive”, Keak repeated the term as “hyphy”. Since then, hyphy has come to refer to a complex group of cultural activities synonymous with Oakland: it is at once a sound, a behavior, a choice in recreational drugs.”

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