Tag: hip-hop
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My Favourite Rap Term: Swayze
“Swayze,” as in Roadhouse actor Patrick Swayze, is one of the weirdest terms in hip-hop. Hip-hop is a genre very well known for slang: known and popular or otherwise. Like half of the English language’s slang terms come from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), which is obviously very strongly tied with rap, then dig one step…
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The Worst Live Show I’ve Ever Been To: Rock The Bells, Toronto, 2006
Every now and then I’ll stumble across a Reddit thread along the lines of “What was the worst concert you’ve ever been to?” which will spark a memory of the travesty of a show that was the Rock The Bells Tour’s stop in Toronto in 2006. It was such a shitshow it’s not even listed…