How to pronounce“hyphy”in English
Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, and John Muir, to name a few.
More recently, Oakland gave birth to the Hyphy Movement, the Scraper Bike movement, and turf dancing, while Mac Dre, E-40, and Keak da Sneak invented much of the hip-hop language
used internationally today. Several local news sources have sprung up in recent years to document this renaissance
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Definitions of “hyphy”
Rambunctious, loud, crazy, dangerous, irrational, and outrageous in behavior.
“She was so hyphy outside the club Saturday night, she nearly punched a cop!”
Of or relating to the hyphy music subgenre or culture.
“Oakland is the place to look for 'hyphy' (hyperactive) New Bay hip-hop, while SoCal is still riding the 'crunk' (crazy-drunk) drum and bass beats with […]”
A subgenre of hip-hop music and dancing associated with the San Francisco Bay Area.
“It was Oakland rapper Keak Da Sneak who claims to have invented the term: upon being told by his mother that he was “hyperactive”, Keak repeated the term as “hyphy”. Since then, hyphy has come to refer to a complex group of cultural activities synonymous with Oakland: it is at once a sound, a behavior, a choice in recreational drugs.”
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