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Title: Hip Hoptionary: The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology by Alonzo Westbrook ISBN: 0-7679-0924-0 Publisher: Harlem Moon Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Stupid Gooks/Chinks and Porch Monkeys/Coons
Comment: They defined asians as "nips". They were supposed to define them as "gooks". Black people weren't even mentioned as "Porch Monkeys" or "Coons" like they should have been. I am extremely disappointed, because this book failed to translate poor grammar used in ebonics. It also failed to mention how asians act black, which by the way, is very stupid. Gooks should get a reality check and act like gooks, because that's how god made them. The gooks start playing the violin when they are 3 years old, and soon the gooks will take over the world. We hit them hard at Hiroshima, but they got payback on us with Pokemon cards, rice burners and Dragonball Z. Now they are stealing our country with their sneakiness, and their entrepreneurship skills.
Rating: 1
Summary: Racist Book. Get a life.
Comment: This book "translates" supposed hip hop lingo into middle American English and vice versa. But there were several racist slang terms included in this book simply for the sake of including them. Asian is defined as "Nip." Arabs are defined as "Camel Jocky." Whites are "Crackers, honkeys," etc. First of all, why are these racist terms included? Second, no one in hip hop even calls Asians "nips." Biggie Smalls (Notorious B.I.G.) called us "chink" and the word "chinky-eyed" is used, but "nips" is not used, even by the loud racist rappers who would spit on us.
The Hiphoptionary reveals its intrinsic racism when it defines Black as "nigger (offensive)" The parenthetical was added to the definition to tell people that this word is offensive. Why wasn't the same parenthetical added to the definition of "Asian?" "Nip," after all, is a terribly offensive term, and so are some of the other words used in this racist book.
Hip hop is not about racism. I love hip hop, but I hate racism. You should [not buy this book].
Irwin Tang, writer.
Rating: 2
Summary: not fresh
Comment: Like most "slang" dictionaries, this one was out-of-date before it hit the presses. Hip-hop terminology evolves quickly, so many of the newer definitions for terms like "tripping" and "fronted" are not included. So unfortunately, this is more of a historical document.
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Title: The Nu Naybahood Funetic Ebonic Dictionary by D. Munyungo Jackson, Darryl ""Wolf"" Jackson ISBN: 1881524396 Publisher: Milligan Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Hip-Hop Rhyming Dictionary by Kevin Mitchell, Alfred Publishing Company ISBN: 0739033336 Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Hip Hop America by Nelson George ISBN: 0140280227 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner by Geneva Smitherman ISBN: 0395969190 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Vibe History of Hip Hop by Alan Light ISBN: 0609805037 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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