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Top 5 Lamest Music Slangs

Reading recent Fan Speak posts on some of our articles here, I noticed just how much the hip-hop culture has filtered over into the mainstream. That could be a good or bad thing depending on your opinion of hip-hop and the lifestyle and values it promotes but one thing is certain, hip-hop has provided popular culture with some pretty lame slang terms. Not since the Valley Girl, "like Oh My Gawd," trend in the early 80's have we had a subculture infect the mainstream with so many lame terms.

That's the focus of this Top 5 list, to take a look at five of the lamest music slangs brought to us courtesy of hip-hop. A few terms like "def" "bootylicious" and "phat" are left out because they are too obvious but there are plenty more to work with. So let's get to it.

Top 5 Lamest Music Slangs

5. Yo! � This term has single handedly provided Missy Elliot with a career. Without an abundance of "Yo's" her songs wouldn't have any lyrics. For that reason alone, this term lands on the list.

4. Dope � As in "That be dope, yo!" meaning excellent however it might also mean that's it so bad you have to be on dope to like it.

3. Ill or Sick � "That's ill, Yo!" Ok it's supposed to mean something is really cool, however it might also be interpreted to mean it will make you sick. So when someone tells you Limp Bizkit's new CD is gonna be sick. They may really mean it's going to make you sick.

2. Bling-Bling � This is the "gag me with a spoon" slang of hip-hop. It just couldn't get any lamer. Do we really need a term to describe someone flashing their gaudy jewelry?

And the Lamest Music Slang is:

Hater: This has got to be the lamest slang term ever. The term was originally used by people like Fred Durst and Missy Elliot to "dis" people who called them on being hacks. It's the oldest psychological trick in the book, when someone criticizes you; you turn the focus around on them. But we have co-opted it here at antiMUSIC to actually be a positive thing, a fan with enough taste not to buy into the contrived crap these people are peddling. (see definition)

I'm sure you have music slang terms that get under your skin; here is your chance to sound off on them. But before we get to that, I must spell this out for those who are always looking for an excuse to yell racism. This list has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with lame. It could just as well be country music slang under attack here but it just happens that the "bling-bling" crowd are the biggest offenders when it comes to lame slang. (Ok I'll admit Snoop is pretty funny with his slang; "the fizzle dizzle mizzle my brizzle", but the mainsteam hip-hoppers and posers - think of the one red baseball hat, the "yo" mamma, the guy with the woman's name that rhymes with belly, the d.dippy and the shiort dude with the wrong throng have gotta come up with something more creative than the lame slang they have been throwin down!)