Several reports have suggested that the men who assaulted women there chanted hip-hop lyrics while doing it.

Baby mother and baby mama had entered wide use in American hip-hop lyrics by the mid-1990s.

Kiki Greene writes hip-hop lyrics in his spare time and adds them to music.

Even a word-perfect transcription of hip-hop lyrics could be, somehow, misleading, or at any rate imperfect, the way translations always are.

The most influential mashup this year wasn't a Beatles tune remixed with hip-hop lyrics.

Outside 5-D, the booming throb of hip-hop lyrics was almost deafening.

In the front row, deaf children guided by a sign-language interpreter sang the rap and hip-hop lyrics with their hands.

Twenty-four-inch wheels are now, according to many hip-hop lyrics, the standard size for "big boys" to put on their trucks.

Readers are simply warned that when it comes to hip-hop lyrics "obfuscation is often the point, suggesting coded meanings worth puzzling over."

Happily, readers looking for a more carefully annotated collection of hip-hop lyrics can turn to an unlikely source: a rapper.