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proper

adverb

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

appropriately, to a suitable degree

Categories Accolades

Collocates break off³, blunt², drop², hip-hopper², roll², bitch, break off, cane, chopper, cock-blocker, cook, deuce deuce, dope, fade, game, knock boots, propers, punk, roll, serve, shit, shot, spray

Related concepts props, respect

1991-07-23 Main Source "Lookin At The Front Door" [Breaking Atoms]
They speak proper while my speech is from a garbage can
1992-09-08 Willie D "U Still A Aggin" [I'm Goin' Out Lika Soldier]
But if I wasn't black, and I talked all proper
1993-09-28 Spice 1 "Rip" [187 He Wrote]
Ready to spray, do a nigga up proper

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Origins of Cited Artists

LL Cool J

proper

adjective

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

excellent;

respectable

Categories Accolades

Collocates -ass³, hella³, flow², game², hoochie², weed², 84's, bitch, bopper, bread, break off, clock, cock-blocker, def, dro, fit, grip, guap, hood, ill, player, props, rap, rhyme, rock, scrill, shit, skeeze, skeeze, son, tip, whip

Domains Everyday

Synonyms def, dope, ill, phat, tight

Related concepts props, respect

Related words propers, props

1987-07-22 LL Cool J "Kanday" [Bigger & Deffer]
I'm in love with the pizznoot, it's proper as hell
1989-11-13 Def Jef "God Made Me Funky" [Just A Poet With Soul]
Rhyme stays proper, get ill, I be a doctor
1990-05-22 Eric B. & Rakim "Untouchables" [Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em]
Takin my props, Rakim is still proper

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