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Welcome to Part One of the Hyphy show, or actually, the hyphy tour! Your tour guide is 20-year-old Laquoia Simmons, hyphy aficionado and native of the San Francisco Bay Area, where hyphy was born. Laquoia invites you to join five fellow travelers on our little excursion. There’s a lot on the itinerary…first, a local music […]

This week: Our first “imported” term of teen slang… DAYTIME, n. What Chicago kids call a party during the day. Synonym : ditch party We start our show in Chicago, where this week's word comes from, and hear about what goes down when kids are supposed to be at school in Chi-Town! Next, our local […]

This week’s word – “crib” – slang for the place you call home, your shelter.  This hour you’re going to be touring the broadest range of cribs we could think of… For example, one of our gang-involved correspondents goes on the road with a local realtor to hear about the challenges of buying a house […]

Hood – just an abbreviation for neighborhood? or something else entirely? This question is at the heart of this week’s audio dictionary entry. In this hour – our local California kids join Chicago teens to describe the drama of their hoods. Plus we get on the line with Mr. Kevin Eps, who, as the maker […]

This week on Voice of Youth – Where every week we take a different term of teen slang and define it as only youth can – The word, “Transformer”, slang for someone who “defects” from one gang to its rival. But that definition is just the beginning of this audio dictionary entry. Kids tell stories […]

Every week we take a different word or phrase of teen slang and define it as only youth can. This week’s word – Beef.  In this next hour – writer, editor, and director Pete Alton gives us the skinny on the scandalous beef between rappers… A famous actor advises one of our producers to squash […]