Last Updated：2022/12/24
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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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.
