#music

Impressive, tough, or excellent — especially music or a look.

Your home or place — where you live and chill.

Stylish, attractive, and effortlessly cool — looking good and knowing it.

Patois pronunciation of 'tune' — a track, especially a banger.

Jamaican word for feeling good, at peace, and everything being alright.

The messy, flash-photo, hipster party aesthetic of the late 2000s — American Apparel, eyeliner, and disco-grime.

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To disrespect or insult someone — a put-down, often in a song.

Excellent, cool, and top-quality — a hip-hop term of high praise.

Excellent, amazing, or extremely good.

"Let's get it" — a hype ad-lib popularized by Lil Uzi Vert.

A K-pop group's new release era — not a return from a break, just the next drop.

Curvy, attractive, and fabulous — coined by Destiny's Child.

To praise, hype up, or give respect to someone — a shout-out, Jamaican style.

The catchy, repeated part of a song — usually the chorus — that hooks you and gets stuck in your head.

Impressive, hard, or sick — high praise for skill, especially in music.

The guys, especially musicians and people who are hip to the scene.

The mood, feeling, or atmosphere of a person, place, or thing — "good vibes" means good energy.

An expression of agreement or 'I hear you' from 80s hip-hop culture.

A subgenre of hip-hop, or slang for a place where hustling happens.

Wild, exciting, and amazing — so good it's out of control.

The slime-green, messy-confident party aesthetic from Charli XCX's 2024 album — chaotic, hedonistic, unbothered cool.

A large dance party with electronic music, often running all night.

A composed, stylish, in-the-know man — the very picture of beatnik cool.

A big dancehall party or rave — also a term for dancehall music itself.

Loud, lively, and full of energy — usually about music or a scene.

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Flashy, expensive jewelry — the sparkle of chains, rings, and diamonds.

Overreacting, acting irrational, or saying something wild.

A ghost or spirit in Caribbean folklore — also slang for ending someone's career.

Feels uniquely better or more impactful — something that lands in a special way.

The synchronized shout fans do during a song — usually the members' names in order.

Cockney for a piano — 'Joanna' rhymes with the Cockney pronunciation 'pianna'.

Patois for home or Jamaica itself — 'back a yard' means back home.

To release new music — and as a noun, the moment a beat kicks in and the song explodes.

Patois for 'dirty' — can mean filthy, an insult, or a sick beat that goes hard.

Underrated or overlooked — not getting the attention it deserves.

Patois pronunciation of 'girl' — a girl, woman, or someone's girlfriend.

To celebrate loudly — and the upward two-palm gesture that goes with it.

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Overly sweet, dainty, and quaint to the point of being almost too cute — cardigans, ukuleles, and whimsy.

So deeply into the music or moment that you've left ordinary reality behind — totally absorbed and excellent.

Cool and excellent — or, flipped, annoyed and mad.

To dance, especially loose and free to funky music — or to head out fast.

An all-purpose 'I agree, for real, truth' — agreement and acknowledgment in one syllable.

To destroy, break, or wreck something — or to absolutely smash a performance.

Hits even better in a certain context — a comparative form of something that "slaps."

Bad, lame, or low-quality — the opposite of dope.

A genuinely great, catchy song — if a track is a bop, it goes hard and you can't stop playing it.