Street cred
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Commanding a level of respect in an urban environment due to experience in or knowledge of issues affecting those environments
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A series of points you gain within the 12-30 [black] year old community in order to gain respect:
5 point- Born black
5 point- Born in a single parent home
10 points- Born poor
50 points- Sold Hard [drugs].. crack, cocaine, Heroin
65 points- Been shot and survived
75 points- Been shot multiple times and survived
70 points- Gang member of crips or bloods
65 points- Been to prison
40 points- Been to Jail
20 points- Have at least 10 tattoos
20 points- Kicked out of high school or dropped out
20 points- 16 years old and have a baby mama
-75 Points- Born rich
-50 Points- Speak proper English
-60 Points- Have white friends
-5 Points- Born white
-95 Points- Born in a safe neighborhood
-100 Points- No criminal record
-40 Points- Live with both parents
-35 Points- Smile when someone takes your photo
-60 Points- Straight A student
-2000 Points- Born in Utah, Maine, New Hampshire, Montana or Arizona. -
- your coolness factor
- imaginary points you get when you do something cool
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short for [street credibility]
(n)- repsect from [urban] communities. usually something essential for making it big in the [rap world]. it is wrongly percieved as being a [straight up gansta] or committing [crimes]. [street cred] is something one can [earn], even a [rich kid] or [suburb-dweller]. if you have went through a [tough childhood] or life but have worked hard to make something of yourself [(like me)], then you can [earn street cred], even if you are not from the [streets]. if [ghetto kids] like a [rap artist] who started out rich, but rapped about important things in life and is simply a good rapper, then that rapper has [street cred]. if you buy a [rap album] just because the rapper is [gansta], then you are [fucked up].
a funny thing is, most street rappers are not that great, some of the greatest [lyricists] of all time were not always from [tha ghetto] -
A term mainly used by whites to make them sound more black. Typically used to sound more thuggish, like they are from the streets when really they are most likely from a middle-class suburb family and have maybe smoked pot. Most likely the worst they have done is they got caught with a fake ID. Caution: people who claim to have street cred probably have not spent any time on the street other than doing shopping downtown.
Also, people who try to pretend like they know how to live on the streets to sound cool obviously have not lived on the streets and probably have some issues.
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NOT JESSICA
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Noun. A persons culmulative respect in the hood based upon several factors:
1.). Appearance and dress
2.). Personal experiences around Gs
3.). Ability to freak a [Black] or identify different types of alcohol
4.). Hard slang and hood talk
5.). Willingness not to [snitch].All these things together boost up your street cred.
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Word of mouth credibility. As opposed to ones FICO score, which is paper credibility.
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Someone who grew up in a non-sheltered white boy neighborhood who had to fight [claw] and scratch his way to [respectability] and therefore has the [credentials] to be a self-sufficient person in this tough world. And by the way, anybody can have street cred. Anybody who had a rough childhood and tough upbringing and still managed to make something respectable out of their lives - they have street cred because they know what it takes to be succesful in this tough world.
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