Street Credibility
Often abbreviated street cred, whether someone's word on the street can be believed. Particularly important in the hip-hop and its sub-genre gangsta-rap scenes. Where credence commands a level of respect vis-à-vis issues affecting the inner cities, of which many of these artists were raised and received their starts.
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“If you would learn to write, ‘t is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer’s home.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)