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| 5-O | Slang for police. Derived form the television series Hawaii 5-O. |
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| All-City | When a writer or crew bombs all major subway lines. |
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| Beatbox | This art form involves having the ability to create sounds with the mouth that often sound like music, vocal percussion. At one point, beatboxing was an essential part of one's act. Beatboxing can be very simplistic where one creates rhythmic patterns or if done by a master like, Rhazel {the Godfather of Noise} from the Roots, the person beatboxing can reproduce entire songs with his mouth. |
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| Beats | Many MC's call the music they perform to beats. Their producers "make beats". |
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| Beef | Disagreement or conflict. |
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| Bench | (n) Subway station where writers congregate and watch trains. Benching (v) The act of watching trains. |
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| Bite | Plagiarism. |
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| Biting | Although some may consider this word to be dead, those within hip-hop still use it to describe one who steals styles, concepts or lyrics from someone else. |
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| Block Buster | Wide lettered piece stretching from end to end done below window level on subway car. |
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| Bmt | NYC subway division called Brooklyn Mass Transit. Includes J, L, M, N, Q, R, Z subway lines. |
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