Hip hop identity in a township reality. - Poppunt

Those guys that I was rolling with. (Mayja)
I’m rolling with jeeps. (El Nino)
- skill: ability on the microphone.
They very good in terms of the skill. (Crosby)
- to spit (spittin’): to rap.
Actually stand on stage hold the microphone tight and spit it to people to
hear. (Full Stop)
- tight: a state of mind, feeling really good at the moment; or straight,
legitimate, all-good; or cool, dope, fresh (=new, okay).
You also gonna feel that energy that yo this kid is tight hey. (Full Stop)
This guy’s tight, you gotta have his album. (Mayja)
That’s like a tight song for me. (Shaun)
The only problem that I have with those South African hip hop is that
everybody wants to show how tight he is. (Crosby)
- thug: someone who has gone through a lot of hardship in life and becomes a
thug.
Because they get that same attitude like thug life and all that. (Crosby)
- underground: non-mainstream hip hop, usually from unsigned artists.
Not so commercial, he’s underground. (Full Stop)
The type of hip hop that I listen to is underground. (Bad Luck)
But if you listen to the commercial stuff, there’s the Snoop Doggs, then
you get hungry for the underground. (Mayja)
- wack: rubbish; or not cool
I started writing my own rhymes, but they were wack. (Mayja)
4. Findings: Crossing in practice
We already stated in the theoretical part concerning this phenomenon that through
crossing people make use of another group’s language or code. Crossing is speaking
through the identity of somebody else. If we apply this information to the data that
have been collected, it becomes clear our interviewees do the same thing. By codeswitching
into hip hop slang, they actually make use of words that rather ‘belong’ to
African-American people, more specifically to African-Americans that are active