The Hyphy Show, Part 1

The Hyphy Show, Part 1

From: KRCB Voice of Youth
Length: 00:53:56

Don't know what hyphy means? Well, how about the terms "thizz", "riding the yellow bus", and "ghost ride the whip"? Even more stumped? Jump on board the "hyphy" train...we're taking you on journey into the heart of a local rap culture that's making headlines. Read the full description.

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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 shop, a store that has a very hyphy clientele...then you tune into a music theory expert who breaks down this brand of Hip-Hop...and another expert gives some straight talk on thizz, hyphy slang for the drug ecstacy...but don't get too distracted by the talking heads...there's a bigger mission at hand...you're searching for the final resting place of Hyphy's Godfather, rapper Mac Dre. Will you find it?