A fork of Rural Dictionary
An amount of marijuana worth twenty dollars. Twenty being two tens, two tens being two dimes, and 'dub' being short for 'double' a dime.
Give me a dub. Lemme get a dub
In Oakland, referring to the neighborhood and region in the twenties (20th-29th Street).
Back when ah used ta live in the dubs, we be poppin' !
it means "20" as in rims or money.
That kid's mercerdes is sitting on dubs and he owes me a dub too.
Short for 'dubplates', a type of record used originally by dj's and producers of Jamaican music. They're softer than normal vinyl discs and don't last as long before the needle wears them out. The idea is to 'test' a track on the dancefloor using cheaply made dubplates, before having a more expensive vinyl press of the record made. Now used by producers of hip-hop, garage, drum'n'bass, trance, house, basically any kind of electronic music that people want to dance to, and craved by geeky DJ wannabes of said genres, to impress their eqally geeky non-DJ friends.
Dub reggae is one of the only musics in the world, were the "programmer" or "mixer" is a part of the music.
Dub is a mysteric, special, poetic music genre.
Dub works like this:
A mixer gets a track, a song that others have made. (roots reggae). He uses his mixers, moduls and programming stuff to "dub" or "re-mix" the track with echos, reverb and instruments dropping in and out. Dub is allmost always instrumental, there can be like 3 or 5 words in a dub song normally.
Oh, King Tubby made a great dub out of that track!...