Street Talk Da Official Guide to Hip-Hop & Urban Slanguage Street Talk is not so much a hiphop dictionary, but more a phrase book for American slang. I guess this means it has two uses, attempting to decipher your favourite rap lyrics and acting as a means of communication if you land yourself up in the Bronx. In honesty, this is only useful as a dictionary, as trying to locate phrases is close to impossible due to the subtle differences in the way everyone says them. This means unless you fancy reading through it entirely like a nerd, then you’ll see little benefit. Still, a flick through does throw up some jokes, mainly from the expletives, for example “Don Dada - ex “Here comes the don dada right now”. Fundamentally though, this has little use other than being a daft reference book. God forbid any UK emcee gets their hands on it and decides to write lyrics around it. Now that would be jokes! a flick through does throw up some jokes, mainly from the expletives - 2Hip | profile © ukhh.com 1999 - 2005